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I use CH Yoke and Pedals. I can place the usb-sticks in my PC and it will function. Next time I start my Yoke wont work. I have to take out the usb-stick and place it again. This was not an issue in FS9. Anybody have a solution?Best regardsLars

I'm thingking of adding a second hard drive and am wondering how to transfer all my flight sim stuff to it:Uninstall/Reinstall . . . or . . . Transfer Everything Directly SomehowI use lots of add-on stuff with FS9, so with all the settings required, I'd rather not have to uninstall/reinstall everything.Also, I don't know if reinstalling FS9 etc. to a different drive means I have to re-register or whatever is required when you install stuff for the first time.Thanks in advance,Slugger

I presently have 3 IDE devices - DVD, and two 80gb hard drives. Can I add one or more SATA drives to this mix or must I toss out the IDEs to go to SATA? ASrock Dual VSTA Core2Due board.Regards,Dick BoleyA PC, an LCD, speakers, CH yoke

FINALLY!!! I let my ATI control panel override my refresh rate from the standard 60 to 75, now I'm getting smoother flying. The stutters dont seems to be there. Im going to keep playing with the settings a bit more. Wish me luck. I want to thank everone for helping me out with the many postings I have posted here in the hardware forum since Nov 07.Happy siminBill

For defragging XP . . .Thanks Bunches,NoelPS: I have a copy, but Sam has suggested I think Ult Defrag, but not sure how they might differ.

Hello,Are Saitek pro yoke USB and CH pro pedal game port compatible with FS9 or FSX ?ThanksChristian

My dad was considering a Radeon 3870 in the beginning, but in the end, thanks to me, he ended up buying an 8800 GT. According to benchmarks over at ExtremeTech, the 8800 GT beats the 3870. However, DX10 gives me flickering taxiways, DX9 and 10 gives me flickering buildings, and I'm getting shimmers all over the place, even with nHancer. I'm having second thoughts. This may have been asked many times before, but I never got a clear answer:Does the 3870/3870 X2 series get rid of these flickering/shimmering issues, and does DX10 Preview work perfectly?

Wow is all I can say. As a few who have read my ramblings over the years might recall, I had been planning an upgrade to Penryn sometime after the first and voila, it's arrived. Wow, what a difference and what an amazing sim! Now how is that, 5 years of service on this product and it keeps improving. I had always been able to have very acceptable performance, but now, nothing can stop it.It is a true pleasure to fire up the Queen O' the Skies it all it's full glory, and land at LAX at sunset with puffy clouds and nice flowing liquid smooth performance no matter what the situation. That is a true first for me, ever.I bought FSX to dabble in sometime, but I tell you I …

I noticed that nZone, 3DMark06, and System Requirements Lab all report my 8800 GT as having 480.5 MB GDDR3 video RAM. What happened to the other 31.5 MB? Isn't this a 512 MB video card?Apologies if this is a dumb question and the answer is quite obvious.Thanks,BoeingGuy

Hi,Well, the video board arrived today. I just got done with the install and took a quick look inside FS9/FS2004. So far my black screen and lockups are gone. I also noticed that I no longer have flickering clouds, I glad thats fixed, those flickering clouds in the distance were annoying.Now I'll run it through its paces and see what I find. I'll also take a look at what this board does to FSX.So far I like what I see, but its still very early.

I am having trouble with new computer and FS9 and would appreciate any assistance. (FSX seems to work fine the short time that I have spent with it.) For example the Alt key will not bring up menu but slowly fades the sound instead, cycling through views usually, but not always, causes loss of cockpit view. Can get gauges back most of the time but not full panel. Flaps (F keys)ignore any partial extension-only respond to all the way down or up. Lot of little quirky issues like this. I'm not overly computer literate but very familar with FS9 from previous computers, so it's not me.System is an HP quad Core with Nvidia 8500 and LG 22" flat screen.Thanks.Mark

Will either of these run FS9 well? Which is best? They are both

I have put together a new system mainly for FS9 and it is as follows:C2D E6750 @ 3.6 Ghz (450 x 8) very stableAbit IP35Pro2Gb Crucial Ballstix 8500 @ 1:1 (900Mhz)XFX 8800GT 512MbXP Pro on 250Gb Seagate SATAFS9 on 150Gb Raptor 10.000rpmSb Audigy 2It's a clean install and I've added FSGlobal 2008, Ultimate Terrain Europe & USA, Ultimate Traffic, Active Sky, GE Pro plus various other scenery and PMDG 737.I upgraded from an AMD64 3700+, 1Gb RAM, X800XT PE.The improvment in FPS is great but here comes the weird part...I HAVE to lock my FPS to 60 (same as my Samsung 225BW LCD), othwerwiseI get massive stutters. Not so bad if I set it to unlimited, but if I lock it to 30, it…

This weekend I was checking for XP updates for my system and on the Microsoft Update page it listed some new Windows drivers for my Saitek X45 snd Pedals that I had not seen before?I had also downloaded the Demo of FSX. So it may be that it had something different for Saitek for FSX? Dont know?Anyhow, after loading it the X45 and pedals would no longer recognize the .dat files of my various profiles !After spending a bunch of time trying to figure it out I finally unistalled all the Saitek drivers and got their latest drivers and software from the Saitek site. I reinstalled, but then had to create new profiles, even though i saved my dat files from my profiles, it didnt l…

I am in the process of building a brand new computer and would like specs on what will make FS9 sizzle. At this point, I will not be using Vista and because I fly in the real world, I have no interest in completely throwing out all my add-ons and upgrading to FSX. I'd rather just stay with FS9 for a while longer. BTW, this will also be an XP machine.Because I am starting from scratch, I want to build a rig that will not stutter and give me frame rates under 20 fps. So, I need recommendations on processor, RAM size, video card and anything else you think I should know. I already know that a quad core processor will not work very well for my needs. How about a duo cor…

I have been searching through the forum but can't seem to find an answer for my problem. I have 2 monitors right now and a 3rd on it's way. The 2 are hooked up to a single video card, but I have a second video card installed for the 3rd monitor. I can't get the dual monitors to work in FSX. They work just fine as an extended desktop. When I run FSX, the panel (2d) only shows up on one monitor and the other one is all black. I can undock windows in windowed mode and move them from monitor to monitor. What I am looking to do is stretch the entire front view across the monitors. I'm sure this can be done, but I just can't seem to figure it out. Can anyone help me wi…

Hi again, With the eminent release of Nvidia's latest VC's there seems to be some downward movement in prices and availibility of the 8800GT's and I am getting ready to buy. I am also leaning toward the 8800GTS 512 G92, which I can have for about 40 bucks more (now about 285 shipped).Right now, my x800xt (other specs listed in 1st sig)doesn't run FSX all that poorly with dual monitors, high resolution, 60% WOAI-10% vehicles, scenery complexity and LOD radius and global texture maxed, dense autogen, 1m textures and 1x water. In the air I'm fine, at the majors I drop to 13-17 (just departed KTEB and avg'd about 14-15 on the ground). What I'm wondering is whether you all s…

Hello. I have a severe problem. Whenever I start FS9 by itself, it runs fine. However, whenever I start a third party application with it (ie. Squawkbox or FS Passengers or Radar Contact), it runs fine for a while, but if that program overloads (like people transmitting voice frequently on Squawkbox, and many other things requiring FSP or Radar Contact to use more of its features), my whole system freezes and forces me to restart manually. I can't finish my flights online anymore.. :( I'm guessing that it's a video card problem but I have downloaded the latest drivers for it. I tried the Catalyst and Omega drivers, but they didn't help. If someone can suggest something th…

First post so be gentle with me :-) I have a new pc specs are,- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 GO 2.40GHz Quad Core CPU Overclocked too a minimum of 3.30GHz and beyond. (8/9 x 400MHz - 1600MHz FSB) - Tuniq Tower 120 Pro Blue LED Intel approved cooler - Arctic Silver 5 Heatsink compound - Abit IP35-Pro Intel P35 (Socket LGA775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard - Award winning Crucial 4GB Ballistix Tracer PC2-8500 CAS5 (4x1GB) Dual Channel Kit (Overclocked at 1000MHz+) - 2x 150GB RaptorX Western Digital 16MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drives (Configured in RAID 0 and main boot drive) - 500GB Seagate 32MB Cache SATA-2 Hard Drive (Configured as Slave Drive) - NVIDIA 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dua…

Hi, I did a quick test and set everything in display to minimum and the stutters were still there....anyone have any advise on how to get rid of these stutters. I never had them on my old machine. Plus the frames are high around 30+ I have them locked at 30. I tried unlimited but i can still tell the stutters are there mildly with unlimited too. Now, the stutters Im talking about are annoying microstutters that happen when I bank in the air or turn on the ground during taxi.Thanks all,Bill

Hi all,I recently noticed that my cpu fan noise increased while running FSX. I cleaned out my pc case with help of a hoover and a can of compressed air. A lot of dusting down of cpu, graphics card, memory sticks, chipset coolers and such. Now I've got a silent pc once again.Don't underestimate the power of a hoover and a can of compressed air ;-)Ulf B

I have one on order, and user opinions would be welcome...

hi alli am currently using 3 x 19" 1024 x 3840 resolutions, im just wondering if anyone is using the Analogue TripleHead2Go on 2 x 24 at 1200 x 3840?

On NTune, the GPU checkbox is greyed out for custom tuning. I want to try to push the GPU even more. Why is this? Could nHancer be conflicting with it?Thanks,BoeingGuy

Plzzz...can anyone help me, in FSX I have all noises ( engine, airplane, weather noise etc), except ATC noise, I cant hear any ATC messeges, there is ATC text, but no voice, sometimes it says one word 10 times! I have SP1 and SP2 also!I have tried 3 times reinstal FSX, I've tried reinstall sound card, I've tried to change fsx.cgf file, in FSX I put audio and voice sound device similar, but no result.....I have SoundMax as default soundcard, in FSX audio column shows that there is default primelary device, in Voice column shows just default device, I changed both to show SoundMax device, but no voices!I heard that its because FSX voice and sound need different sound driver…