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I have used several game controllers with FS 2002 and seem to keep one problem. The thing is that my rudder keeps pulling the aircraft to one direction all the time. I used a Logitech Wing Man with twist rudder which was lockable but I kept getting that problem. I figured it was because of the difficult twist system which was very difficult to properly calibrate and even if locked it still kept shaking the rudder axis back and forth. I did disable the axis in FS but kept the problem. This is NOT a wind issue, I have tested this, so even in perfect conditions with no wind at all the plane gets pushed slightly to the right or left while taxiing. This is just slight and per…

I'm having some problems with my computer and my new zip drive. Perhaps someone can shed some light on the subject, because im clueless right now. I tried everything almost and still no good.Ok, I got a parallel port 250MB zip drive for christmas. I requested parallel port because I have both my USB slots filled. I installed it the way the instructions said (install software first, then hook up the drive). Drive installed successfully, it reads my disk. Ok the problem is that my computer is EXTREMELY jumpy when i install the drivers on my machine (See pic 1 of me turning zip drive on and off). I hooked it into my older K6-400 machine the exact same way, and theres no issu…

I should have got involved in this forum before, lemme tell you all why. I got a new Dell. P4 2.0 256RM 30GB. One issue. its a laptop. Great mobility, but the graphics need help! Is there any reasonable card for one? are they made for good graphics. My planes anll got jagged edges. FRAMES ARE SUPER! cant argue that. Any suggestions?

Hi guysI am going to be upgrading my computer this spring to a...Aopen AK77-333 Socket AAMD Athlon 2400+512 PC2700 DDRMAXTOR 60GB 7,200 ATA133I am wondering will the Geforce FX plug into this board?.... this board is 1X,2X,4X, AGP.

To all,Any suggestions on a good sound card for FS2002. Also, will a soundcard help with performance or slow things down. I would also like to know if there is a difference in performance between internal and external sound cards. (I don't if I have an empty PCI slot)Thanks,Scott2.53 Gg HPwin XP512 DDRRadeon9700

AMD 1.4 Mhz ProcessorASUS MBNVidia GeForce 3- 40.xx drivers512 MB 133 memoryWin XP & 98 (Different Drives)On Board Sound (C-Media)- DisabledI have had frequent but random FREEZE/LOCKUP problems for a long time now and am trying to narrow it down. I say "not related" to FS2002 in the title because it freezes on desktop, in FS2002, or just about any other program.*I have tried different drivers (NVidia, to no avail. I got so frustrated months ago that I F-Disked and erased both my C & D drives and re-installed O/S's (run 98 on C/Win XP on D). It EVEN froze up NUMEROUS times while trying to install the O/S's! So that kinda takes the display driver out of the loop see…

I did a clean install of win xp home, loaded my chipset drivers, then the CAT 2.5's. Now I changed the AA AF in the ATI control panel and took off Application Pref and set it myself. When I run 3dmark, no problems what so ever. When I run FS and Load Simflyers KIAD and PSS a320 to test it out, my computer will randomly reboot?!? After it reboots I try to load up FS and it will freeze at the start up screen. So I have to Uninstall fs and try again. This time I left the AA & AF to Appication Pref and it seems to work, but haven't tested enough. Going to try UT2003, but i think it is driver issue with FS more than anything else. Would the CAT's 2.4 be better?Than…

Hello all and Happy Holidays,I would like to know if there is a maximum length for digital audio cables (coax or optical). I would like to connect my computer to my stereo system which is in another room. I would need 15-20 feet for cable to make a connection (under the floor)thank in advance-DSN

Hi, Ken. Here is what the Calibration looks like fo the SunCom Dual. TV3e077a1246f11163.jpg

I run Win98SE which I understand does not support ACPI but it is enabled on my mo/bo. I wish to remove or disable it as at the moment the graphics card is sharing an IRQ which I understand is not a good thing.I did read some time back how it is done and I remember it is not straight forward, however I have done a search on this forum and did not find anything about removing ACPI.TIA

Opinions needed. I got an 2600+ CPU @333 as an early present today from a show. Good price. Had upgraded my Abit kx7-333 bios to accept...put it in, no go. My board is only running100/133 double rate...so only 266 bus speed. So I would have to find a 2600+ @266 instead.... What a great excuse to up the mobo!!!!. How stupid....so after the first of the year(another show), I want to get a new Mobo with 333mhz FSB, and might as well get the 8x agp. Have 2700DDR, which should be no problem. I've had ASUS, and Abit..not familiar with anything else. At least I was able to take the CPU out and in and out and in without much problems. Love this oversized server case!!! Thanks in …

I just discovered that if you right click on the drive directory one of the options in the dialogue box is "format". I have two hard drives, c & d. Drive d which is were FS2002 is has file stucture ntfs, while c, which is where Windows XP is has FAT32. I have no clue as to how this happened. After clicking on the ntfs option to change drive c to ntfs it says all data will be erased, indicating this will reformat the drive. I have a minor texture loading problem in FS, after about 10 minutes when changing to spot plane view the textures begin to load slowly, Could this be the reason? JamesJ

Hi there!Well I just wanted to know if any of you knew what my PC is suffering from?Well my PC runs for a while and then totally shuts down! Sometimes it then automatically turns on again and sometimes off after that?!Sometimes it will shut down upon starting of the PC...!It doesn't only do this when I am using the CPU on 100%, no it did this file I only had Outlook open!At rare times it turns itself on again?!The first strange thing that happened was when I was sitting editing my AI flightplans, when the PC suddenly went into hibernation (I have XP)and I was supprised but worried, it then began to sometimes go on stby, sometimes shut down and one night I woke up 4 times …

I'm planning an upgrade..new MB and CPU and reformatting an older hard drive which is the one with Windows XP on it. Would it be better to reformat in advance, or after install? JamesJ

Hello all,I need some help on a question regarding memory upgrade.Currently I have my sim running on a PC with the following spec.Athlon XP 1700+512 MB DDR RAMATI Radeon 7500 64MB DDRMy sim is running quite well but I still believe that it is possible to get better results on the graphics.I have tried to tweek my system in accordance to advices from other forum members. But when I take a look on some of the posted screenshots I think my system should be able to do better.I have tought about upgrading my main memory to 1G. On the other hand I could also upgrade my video memory to get better performance.I would like to hear from other serious simmer wich also likes a optimu…

well, that's what I have...just upgraded my graphics card and new install of windows, and I had the same problem before, so could it be the ram or hard drives?anyone else ever have this problem?

I have a question. I am currently running an Athlon XP2000+ CPU ON an ASUS A7V333 MBO. I have two sticks or 256MB DDR RAM 2700. There is one remaining slot for an addition stick of RAM. I would like to add another 256 MB. HOWEVER, according to ASUS. If the third slot is used, all the RAM on the MBO drops from 2700 to 2100! So, instead of 512MB@2700 I would have 768MB@2100. I am not sure whether this would be an upgrade or a downgrade!! Any suggestions??John-PaulToronto

Hello all- I am lucky enough that the wife has signed off on upgrading my system (currently a Dell Dmension T700r) PIII 700mHz, 256mb ram, Diamond Ultra V770 32meg 2x AGP video card and a generic 13 gig hard drive with about 8 gigs full running windows 98SE.) The following is what I have spec'd out at mwave.com (anybody had any problems with them?) from some of the reading of the forums and some other sites...- Pentium 4 either 2.4 or 2.53 with 533FSB- ASUS P4S8X SIS648 chipset ultra ATA1- MS Windows XP Home edition (OEM)- Thermaltake dragon 478 full copper cooling fan- ANTEC True 550W power supply- 512MB RAM- Western Digital 40GB EIDE Ultra-ATA/66-100 7200RPM Har…

Hi, I wanted to know if FS2002 scenery appears faster and if image appearance is faster even with a very nice airplane such as Posky's planes? Does it improve. I am adding PNY 256MB RAM memory PC133. Thank you. Asad.

I know of many nice sticks for the right handed but I can not find any good for the left handed. can anyone help?

Does anyone know if there are any issues with the CH Pro Pedals USB and Win XP Pro? I'm probably going to upgrade my OS soon and am trying to find out what will give me grief in the upgrade process. In fact, is there any known USB joystick issues in XP? Thanks for any input! BTW, I tried searching the forum, but the topic isn't general enough. . .and since I only got 4 hours of sleep (thanks to PSS's dash 8!) I seem "slower than average" right now. (-: drew :-wave

Hi! I'm currently looking forward to plug-in a second monitor into my GeForce Ti4600 w/128 mb (Visiontek). However, I do not know how to do it.Do you guys have any idea?Any info would be much appreciate,Thank you!Bruno Francescoli.

Hi.On some ocassions I get a complete system crash whilst using FS2002. The problem only exists with FS2002 and no other program. I will get a blue screen flash up with loads of writing on it, but then my system shuts down so quickly I can't read what it says. When I reboot the system I get this error message pictured below. I have seen a slider for the minidump settings somewhere on my system before but I can't find them again.My system specs are as follows.Windows XP Pro with SP1 installed / 1200mhz Amd Athlon / 320mb ram PC100 / Geforce2 Mx400 32mb 40.72 drivers / DirectX 8.1 / FSUIPC 2.93 / 40gig Hd 30gig remaining.Any help appreciated.Lee.

HiI have the following problem:I installed a new system using WinXP.I installed the new 40.xx drivers from NVIDIA for my Geforce 2MX400 and the Monitor drivers for my Sony monitor.FS2K2 runs perfect in the window mode, but as soon as I switch to fullscreen the monitor refresh rate drops to 60hz.Some other games are fully unplayable, as the monitor keeps lack when switched to fullscreen.Did I missed to install some drivers? I'm using a VIA mainboard, everything worked perfect with my old System (Win98). Did I missed to install some VXD graphic drivers??Or is there any "Monitor Hz refresh rate tool" that always keeps the rate at 85Hz and prevents it from droping?Any help is…

I have a bit of a unique problem here, a smoking comp problem...My dad was going to use the family comp (a K6-400), and he presses the power button to turn it on. Normal same old thing right? Nottttt today! My dad said that the instant he pressed the power button, the whole comp let off a lot of smoke and died making clicking sounds (suspecting mobo failure). It would not even show any sign of life after that. I wasnt there to witness this...but I am hoping that its the power supply. But what about the smoke??? (I smelt it, it smells like something caught fire!) I know THAT never happened before when a power supply failed.Ok help me out here, nobody touched the internals…