• There seems to be an uptick in Political comments in recent months. Those of us who are long time members of the site know that Political and Religious content has been banned for years. Nothing has changed. Please leave all political and religious comments out of the forums.

    If you recently joined the forums you were not presented with this restriction in the terms of service. This was due to a conversion error when we went from vBulletin to Xenforo. We have updated our terms of service to reflect these corrections.

    Please note any post refering to a politician will be considered political even if it is intended to be humor. Our experience is these topics have a way of dividing the forums and causing deep resentment among members. It is a poison to the community. We appreciate compliance with the rules.

    The Staff of SOH

  • Server side Maintenance is done. We still have an update to the forum software to run but that one will have to wait for a better time.

Merry Christmas - Sibwings Birddog is Ready to Go!!!!

Had a sim-free xmas until lunchtime today, then found that this is out from this here thread. Couldn't wait to download it (well, we were told initially Mar 09!!) and I echo all the comments above.. very, very purty.

Unfortunately I can also echo the comments above re FSX crashing/ locking up after flying this gem, and locking up when trying to select a different model. Had the same problems with the Safir (and that was a gem too..) but put up with it until an upgrade to a faster pc and Vista - couldn't get it to run at all then (the Safir - not Vista, although I would have settled for the latter in hindsight!!). Going to post this at the sibwings forum, but I can live with it for the moment.

I was one of those who had the same problem exiting FSX after using the PMDG J41, but its ok now and still one of the best add-ons out there. Here's hoping the sibwings team can do the same for the Bird Dog.
 
Well, on the whole I'm very happy with this addon. The prop disc seems a bit too distracting from the VC for my taste and I'm not too sure about the sound either but that could be because my sound levels are set up specifically for the A2A Cub. Unfortunately the A2A Cub is so brilliant especially with the Urs Burkhardt repaints that I measure every other addon released against it which probably isn't fair but I am glad I bought this and I look forward to some quality repaints. She is certainly a powerful little thing isn't she!


No lock ups for me though. I did have similar issues with the Safir but so far so good with this one.


edit - I'm sorry but I had to swap the O1_prop.dds for a prop by BananaBob. A very personal choice I know but to my eyes it looks much, much better now :kilroy:
 
Hey folks, with respect to the lockups...

I did experience these during beta testing. I am now on Win7 and the "funnies" only started happening after I went to Win7. There was one small driver issue (nVidia is now on to version 195.62). I hasten to add, that my issues were in the beta only. The release worked fine for me.

Win7 has DX11 built in and this may also cause "tremors"

I appear to be cured right now - drivers all up to date and checked the Microsoft site for hints and tips. The cure was, in my case, a patient de-install, system scan, re-install - with EVERYTHING off, i.e. all background programs, virus scanners, internet connections... the lot. The main possible issue might be installers and Win7 64bit conflicts.

MIGHT be... I am not sure. The release version worked OK. Tell Sibwings Alex and Andrey. The more information they can gather, the more they will learn. Basically I reckon Microsoft has made our lives more difficult and not the aircraft devs. Win7 is an improvement in many ways, but both Vista and 7 in 64 bit mode cause heartburn.
 
SGTMAJOR said:
Fireball...... I've had the same problem as you discribed..... Also..... saving the flight with the bird dog, then exiting FSX, it appears to exit, but coming back later I get the message, "FSX is already running." Going to the task manager it doesn't show it's running, however under "Processes" it's still there.

I've defragged my dedictated FSX drive last evening, however, it appears the problem will still exist if I try to save the flight in the OE-1.

For the time being, I'll have to make sure I save to a default aircraft I suppose.

Cheers,
Click to expand...


Thats the same here - I have try out to change back to the default Cessna 172 before I close the sim - that give me a black screen and I need to start the taskmanager to be able to close the sim.

The Problem-Manager told it was an APPCRASH - FSX.exe

However - all other addon`s runing well - so i will have a look at the sibwings forum and give them the infos.

Dirk
kPfRLewAJVEQ0AAAAASUVORK5CYII%3D
 
I'd really like to see that reddish, orange paint that Cbris was working on...that was my favorite for Massimo's Bird dog.:engel016:
 
Sibwing has added a few more paints to their site

Very Nice... This bird seems to bring out the best in painter


Sorry but my screen shots don't do them justice...
 
Really looking forward to a paint featuring the old O.D. with the big white ARMY logo on the fuselage sides, and maybe a later Army version with the UNITED STATES ARMY on the sides.. This is a very fun, and historical aircraft for FS.:medals::icon29::guinness::jump::applause:
 
Well, there goes the Track IR. This and A2A's now old Cat have been on my wish list, ditto the IRIS Storch.

Happy New Year.

Caz
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top