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Ok, I know there must be a way to do this. I am running WinXP pro, CH pro prdals, and a CH flight yoke. All are gameport. The problem is that when I want to use my MS Sidewinder, there is no way to disable the twist rudder and enable the CH pedals. I have tried deleting the rudder assignment from within FS2002, but I can't get any response from the CH pedals. It seems like a lot of people are using stick/pedal configurations without problems, but I'll be damned if I can figure out how to get these to work together. :-zhelp Any help will be appreciated.Thanks.

Good evening all, I am building a new system consisting of an Asus A7N8X Deluxe mobo,A pair of kingston 512 DDR PC 2700 Ram,Athlon 3000 cpu and Radion 9700 or maybe 9800 when it comes on the market. What would be the best OS? Also I was thinking of dual Maxtor 7200 hard drives with the OS on one , And MSFS 2002 and accessories on the other. I already have the MOBO and the RAM so I am locked into those components. Any advice would be great! Thank's from Jim

Good evening all! I have the ASUS A7N8X deluxe, Athlon 2800,Elsa 64 meg GF3 Vidio card and 2 sticks of Kingston KVR333X64C25/512 PC 2700 DDR ram. Running on Win-XP Pro. My problem is, either stick will work alone, but not together! I have tried different slot combinations on the motherboard. Also different cas timings, and user defined settings. When I used the aggressive setting, that was the only time the DDR mode was displayed on the startup screen. All to no avail.I am out of ideas! I have heard of other brand names having problems, but not Kingston. What should I do? Thanks From Jim! P.S., I get 14 FPS with the PICPOSKY 767 in the default London to Paris flight with …

I just bought a new motherboard with an AMD CPU. My older motherboard has a Celeron processor. Back in the old days of Win 98 I would have been able to just swap out the motherboards without too much trouble changing from Intel to AMD. I

Hi All, I recently got a Dell 8250 PIV with a Redeon 9700 TX video card (this makes Flyer Ken a happy, happy boy!). The system rocks, but... When I run FS full screen and then alt-tab out of it, and then try to go back into FS by pressing the icon on the taskbar, I get the blue sceen of death (no text).I'm using the default Dell drivers. My question is, would upgrading to the latest Catalyst drivers help, and has anyone with a system like mine done the upgrade successfully? Thanks in advance,

Hello folks I am new here, great website and super library. anyway, I currently have a PIII 550 with 192M PC133 and an ASUS GF2 GTS, and needless to say, i get a horrible framerate on FS2002. Not only the framerate, but the game's jerky too, guess because of the CPU. with medium and even low settings i get about 10-15fps @800-600. Now i'm going to upgrade to an AMD 2200+ and get an ASUS A7N8X (with nF2) and perhaps 2x256M DDR 333 (since the a7n8x is dual-channel). Folks, do you think that i will see quite a significant improvement? If anyone has a similar rig what fps does he get a maximum sliders and 1024*768? I am going to remain with the same GF2 however, as unfortunat…

Hi, I am planning to purchase and ASUS A7V133-C motherboard. The requirements and specifications I have read says that it supports a Model 7 AMD Duron 900MHz processor. I am not sure what they mean buy Model 7. What does it mean? I do have an AMD Duron 900MHz processor but am not sur if it is going to be supported by this motherboard. Please help. Thanks. Asad.

Does anybody have personal experience of the Apple 17" Widescreen TFT monitor (shipped with the 1GHz IMAC SUPERDRIVE)? What are the advantages (over a 19" CRT for instance) and drawbacks (TFT response times?). Would a Widescreen monitor be a better choice for the MS Flight Simulator 2002? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Hi!I have a good setup, I think; a 2.53 P4, good mainboard,GF 4 video card and 512 DDR 333 RAM.Is there any point in getting more RAM and would that affect performance??Grateful for tipsHans HermanssonSWEDEN

Hi all,I have an Asus V8420 128 MB with dual out, and two Visionmaster Pro 450 19" monitors. My system is an Asus A7v333 with 512 MB.Nvidia reference drivers 40.72 are on my system, as is DirectX 8.1I have been trying to display FS2002 on both monitors, but i can't figure out how to do it. It works fine in XP, i can spread windows over two monitors but in FS it won't work.I did see the post from Georgi55, and the shots look great, i would like to have that too, but he does not point out EXACTLY how he got it to work. Do you have to work windowed, or full screen etc. etc.Can anyone give me detailed instructions how to set up Nview and FS2002? (maybe Georgi55 himself...)Grt…

Whats the best overall joystick out there? I dont really have anything specific that I'm looking for... just for the best one available.

I have XP with SP1 (I'm not sure what version of DX this represents). I see that DX 9.0a is available, and have a question about the validity of a restore point. If it all goes bad after DX 9.0a is installed, does restoring from a pre-set restore point bring it all back again?Of course, I don't expect any great improvement with DX 9.0a and FS2002, and using a G3 Ti200 card (I think I'll wait for FS2004 before buying another card). Thanks,Bruce.P4 1.8G1G PC2700G3 Ti200.

I was fortunate enough to pick up an ATI Radeon 9700 pro video card. Is there a post somewhere that describes the ideal settings for this card for use with MSFS 2k2? I am looking for settings both within the game itself, as well as settings for the video card. I have an Athlon XP 2100, 512 Ram. I run the game in 32 bit, at 1024x768. Windows XP. Thanks in advance. Looking for the right combination of eye candy and framerate!

Today I noticed a strange sound coming from inside my computer... Thinking it was a cooling fan going bad on me I removed the cover and noticed that this unusual sound came from inside my Seagate Barracuda hard-drive! This hard-drive has about a year... The sound is as if there

I heard the nVidia FX with full antiliasining is MUCH slower than ATI 9700 pro!.. ATI 9800 pro is due for release and is DDR 256 bit, while fx is DDR2 128 bit. I also heard that another verison of ATI 9800 Pro with 256 bit, 256mb of DDR2 will be comming out in april..So it seems the nVidia FX bottle necks with the 128 bit bus vs. the 256 bit bus ATI has, even though fx has DDR2 and much higher clock speed is is no help since it severly bottle necks, thus, ATI 9700 pro is much faster!!!!!please help!!! me make up my mind!!! I'm tempted to wait for the ATI 9800 pro 256mb DDR2 in april.I'm mainly getting this upgrade for FS 2004 and LOCK-ON MAC!!!!! which are not due out unt…

Anyone have this problem? For some reason, I cannot use a joystick with a USB on Flight Simulator 2002...the joystick stops responding about 10 minutes into a flight. I built my own computer...SOYO P4VDA motherboard, Pentium 4, 512 RAM, Windows 98SE (did the same with Windows 2000), Soundblaster LIVE Soundcard. When I called Microsoft, they told me to disable the sound...great advice...(even though when I did, the joystick worked fine....duh). I am using a Logitek Wingman Digital joystick, but using it in the motherboard's gameport.I'd sure like to upgrade to a better joystick, and be able to use the USB inputs...any advice? THANKS!Chris

I didn't think serial ATA was available yet?I haven't heard much about it. Can anyone linkme to an article on serial ATA.All I've heard is,... that it's faster and youcan have more than 4 Hard drives in a system.

Hi allFirstly - I have to apologise because I already posted this in the FS2002 forum before realising that this forum existed.I built my P3/1000 machine around 18 months ago and only put a Geforce2Mx video card into it.Actually, I am quite pleased with its' performance. The only places that the system doesn't like much is city areas such as London . Flying around the UK , I get quite good and useable framerates until I hit London .But, at this stage, I can't really justify upgrading to a P4 and also believe that replacing the Geforce2Mx with a Geforce4 TI is probably not warranted either.I do believe that a Geforce 3 TI "would" have been the ideal match for the P3/1000 a…

I'm upgrading my P3 within the next few days. Would FS 2002 be better served with a P4, 2.66, 1 GB RAM or a P4, 2.8, 512MB RAM?? I'll be using a GeForce 4, TI 4200, 64 MB card and XP. Thanks

Any advantage of the new dual channel boards (was looking at the Gigabyte 8INXP) in respect to running FS2K2? I was getting ready to purchase a Gigabyte 667Ultra2/Intel 3.06 combo, but now I'm wondering. Already have the CPU, but am baffled about the MB (my first build!)

For the most part am unable to upgrade from the lowest rsolution and color. I've followed help menus and updraded nvidia drivers from their site. Also, the Dell 992 monitor is not listed in device manager. Im wondering if nvidia 32 mg card is just shot after almost 3 years. Another thing I dont understand, I was sure this is a AGP card, however when reviewing description in properties it indicates PCI bus ?Any assistance is appreciated.

My system specs:P4 1.7 GHz, 256 MB RDRAM (just ordered another 256 MB), 60 GB HDD, and a GeForce 2 ProI'm going to get a new video card, and I've reached the conclusion that a GeForce 4 Ti4200 is the "lower limit" for the range of cards I'm looking at, and I think the upper limit goes somewhere "below" a Radeon 9700 Pro, because it seems a little too expensive for me, at least with the prices here in Sweden (it seems you can't get one for less than about

My current system is as follows:XP1800+Abit KR7A-133GF3 Ti500 64MB512MB PC2100 DDR RAMSBLiveIBM Deskstar 75GXP 30GBWinXP ProI'm planning to upgrade the hard disk, graphics card and possibly the CPU. I've settled on one of the following:Option 1:Western Digital 80GB ATA100/7200 w/ 8MB cache, XP2100, GF4 Ti4800SEOR....Option 2:Stick with the existing XP1800, get the new Western Digital HD, and a Radeon 9700 ProThe difference in price between these two options is minimal (only

FELL OFF!!!What can I use to put it back on? Should I take it to a computer shop or is it something I can do myself? I know its more complicated than applying thermal grease to the processor/heatsink, so any help would be GREATLY appreciated.EDIT: These are the heatsinks off of the memory (I'm assuming), not the actual GPU.

I have been working with MS on my sound (ATC stutter) problem, and MS Online Support asked for me to continue my support thread saying - "interesting case - they want to resolve issue"...... I've had 4-5 back & forth's on this one......Problem I've encountered: MS asked that I remove & reinstall "Audio Compression Drivers". Procedure fairly simple - via C.Panel-Settings - Add/Rem. - Windows Setup - Multimedia - Details.Removed fine - but now - can't reeinstall fro my Win98SE disk. ( Figures ! )I get to the point of selecting the "Audio Compression File" to reinstall - direct the window to my "E" drive - the Win98SE disk - and the next screen just freezes - comes u…