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Well, I managed to get the sim loaded. Just took the Mooney for a short takeoff, and landing.

First problem I am encountering, is although the sim recognizes I have my CH pedals hooked up, it isn't allowing me to assign rudder access to it, and the brakes aren't working either.

NC
 
Navy Chief said:
Well, I managed to get the sim loaded. Just took the Mooney for a short takeoff, and landing.

First problem I am encountering, is although the sim recognizes I have my CH pedals hooked up, it isn't allowing me to assign rudder access to it, and the brakes aren't working either.

NC
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Congrats on getting it running!

You'll get it all tuned and working. I had to up-click my brakes a notch to get them working. My Saitek was on the first notch, needed to be on second notch setting in Controls/Assignments
 
Since I got this damnable Logitech 940 FCS, the only way I have been able to get a satisfactory setup was to assign most of the inputs via FSUIPC. I think you have to have the licenced i.e. paid version to be able to do this. It is a godsend, thank you Pete Dowson. The worst were the pedals which I could never get properly calibrated.
Took a bit of time but worth it in the end.
 
Naismith said:
Since I got this damnable Logitech 940 FCS, the only way I have been able to get a satisfactory setup was to assign most of the inputs via FSUIPC. I think you have to have the licenced i.e. paid version to be able to do this. It is a godsend, thank you Pete Dowson. The worst were the pedals which I could never get properly calibrated.
Took a bit of time but worth it in the end.
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Just let the team know. I think they need some input, a bit of help, to iron things out. Getting a sim running these days, I can imagine, is a huge task. All these new joysticks coming out, etc...



Bill
 
Aerospool Dynamic WT9

Hi guys (Hi Bill, in particular:wavey:)
I've just re-installed the Dynamic from Lionheart in my P3D v. 1.4 and I'm not able to start the engine !! :isadizzy:
And what puzzles me is that everything was working properly in the previous v.1.3 ....
Any suggestions ? (BTW nothing else changed in my Windows 7 64K)
Italo
 
Hey Italoc,


I wager a bet that you are starting with another planes cold and dark adn trying to start with this plane. They Dynamic must have a switch that your other plane doesnt have.

To prove this, open the saved FLT file with Notepad and roam down through it. Electrical section will show 'something' that is 'False'. Change that to True and it should start.

Using other planes to set up a cold and dark with will almost always cause this. Some planes do not have master battery switches, Avionics switches, firewall fuel cut-off levers, etc. Also custom L:Var codes that manage aircraft controls will also sometimes cause things to go wrong.


Another thing to do is go back into that other plane, start it all up, all switches running, then go back into the Dynamic (in that flight) and shut it all down again, but this time in the Dynamic, save, reboot the scene, and now it should start.



Bill
 
Thanks Bill
You won your bet: I owe you a beer !!!:applause:
Everything back to normal :salute:
Ciao
Italo
 
Yes, it is working now.

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George
 
Preparing 4 Prepar3D

I've been flying FS9 ever since God created it but I've also been watching the way that the wind has been blowing for the last few years. I dabbled in FSX for a short while and found it to be, well, let's just call it unsatisfactory.

I am currently on the cusp of deciding to invest myself, both emotionally and financially, in Prepar3D. My current rig runs FS9 just fine. I want to make some upgrades so that it will also perform adequately while running P3D. What are the minimum hardware requirements needed to make this happen? I have read the basic information in what's needed, but I would like the opinion(s) of people who actually use the sim and have found what works well for them. I have a few ducats to invest in this so I want, at least, a little more than a "bare bones" rig.

Looking forward to your input.

LA

Actually, the real reason I want to do all of this is so that I can fly Bill's Pace & Tri-Pacer.:icon_lol::icon_lol::icon_lol:
 
To get P3D to run as well as possible, you need same specs for the computer as for FSX. Of course everything depends on the addons you are going to use and using only default P3D isn't that big of a problem, but when you start to add complex planes, AI traffic, heavy scenery and HD texutres, you can literally bring down on its knees every single normal desktop PC there is available even with top of the line hardware costing thusands of bucks. So, limitations are also the same, and the software is really CPU bound because of the poor multithreading. Many FSX tweaks are also usable for P3D, some aren't needed anymore. P3D still works, at least for me, a lot better than FSX.

If upgrading solely for P3D, I'd probably go with Intel 3550K or 3770K, get good enough cooling so I could take the CPU to or over 4.5GHz. P3D is 32-bit program, so it can't utilize VAS more than 4GB, but of course other programs in the backround use memory also. Memory is cheap, so at least 8GB and that should do just fine. SSDs are also getting quite cheap, so I'd consider perhaps one ~250GB SSD for it, depending on the amount of addons. SSD mainly shortens the loading times. With the CPU, graphics card is the most important component. If on tight budget, you could find for a fairly cheap price GTX480, 570 or 580 card, which are still good for P3D/FSX. If looking for a new card, then I'd go with GTX660ti at minimum all the way to new Geforce Titan, which is 1000 bucks, but the best you can get for P3D now.
 
My advice to you is, try it for 30 days. Only $10.00. Sign up for the one month only plan for Developers. This gives you 30 days to see if it runs on your machine.

I had an old 2 core computer and it ran FS9 awesome! I couldnt run FSX on it. I ran P3D on it just before quitting all FSX development and going fully to X-Plane, and found that P3 ran awesome on my computer (16+ FPS).

I found that getting a super fast computer with 16 Gigs of RAM, high output quad core, fast GC with 2 gigs of RAM didnt help much. I am up to 36 FPS now, but still dips down to 15FPS and sometimes lower, and thats in P3D and thats in ORBX sceneries, which in FSX on my old rig, it could not run it. And P3 even stumbled on ORBX scenery with alot of settings lowered. But.............! I didnt have to buy a new computer to run P3D.



So.... I urge you, if you cannot afford a new computer like I couldnt, then try P3D. Let us know what you think. See if you like it. Try those tuning tricks for it after you get it running, the AVSIM famous tuning tricks, and that will speed it up even more.

I was so amazed at how much was in the FSX world that P3D offers. P3D is so dang amazing. It is so far advanced over FS9. Sadly, I never knew this as it (my computer) could just not run FSX.


Note that FSX and P3D are presently only 32bit programs, and they really need to be 64bit. This is why super computers make very little different in performance. Very few people can run FSX or P3D at 100 FPS. Very very very few....
 
Lionheart said:
Note that FSX and P3D are presently only 32bit programs, and they really need to be 64bit. This is why super computers make very little different in performance. Very few people can run FSX or P3D at 100 FPS. Very very very few....
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Whether program is 32-bit or 64-bit, it doesn't in many cases (like games and most other end user or consumer programs) get one bit of extra power being 64-bit. What it gains, is it can handle 64-bit registers, thus having 8TB of theoretical memory space versus 4GB of 32-bits. That's about it. 64-bit isn't magical game changer which is changing everything to fluid, fast and smooth experience. It really isn't.

One can clearly get more performance with FSX, P3D or pretty much any software if the computational power improves. There is no question about it. Question is, how much one is willing to invest in it and in the end it gets very expensive at some point and gains start to be small. Hardware I mentioned is something that people tend to buy for their simming or gaming rigs. Of course you can do with less, too and Lionheart is right that many people use these sims with lesser hardware happily.

Also, one can also use computer for some other purposes too, which may weigh the choices differently. Benefits of top-of-the line hardware also depend on your settings in P3D and addons you run. For example, I got noticable improvment when I changed from i7 920@3,9GHz to i7 3930K@4.6GHz. Improvement was lesser when changing from overclocked GTX480 to GTX670, but still noticable and it is pretty impossible to get any graphics errors with GTX670 even with BP=0 setting. But I didn't change my hardware just for FSX or P3D, so choices may vary.
 
Okay, so here's the deal. My current FS9 rig is pretty basic:

DELL XPS 630

Intel Core Duo (2.6ghz)

4gb RAM

nvidia GT9800 graphics card

40gb SSD (O/S)

2tb WD HD (FS +)

As I said before, this rig runs FS9 just fine (ie to my satisfaction).

What I am looking for are recommendations as to how I can upgrade this (current) system so that it will run both FS9 AND P3D. My MAX budget is $1000.

I am NOT a tech guy. Due to my disabilities I have to have my computer work done by someone else.

Thanks, in advance, for your guidance. I greatly appreciate everything you all have said to this point. :salute:

LA
 
What is your current OS and might want to step up on the Graphics card into say the GTX220 1gig range. Your specs are similar to my backup computer which runs FS9 and Prepar3D excellent.
 
CG_1976 said:
What is your current OS and might want to step up on the Graphics card into say the GTX220 1gig range. Your specs are similar to my backup computer which runs FS9 and Prepar3D excellent.
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My O/S is Windows 7 Home Premium. Will that make a difference?
 
My 9800 didn't 'pull' FSX 6 years ago, so I think that's your main bottleneck. And those Dell chips of course...... hard to 'upgrade' anything on Dell's .... YMMV.

Windows 7 is not a problem.
 
I am having some upgrades done to my FS rig this week.

New MOBO
i5 quad core CPU
8gb DDR3 RAM
Nvidia GTX 640 GPU w/4gb memory

Replacing the 80gb ssd with a new 500mb WD HD.

It is certainly not the mega-Beast that Matt is having built, but given what I've been told by you guys, it should run FS9 and P3D without problems.

Any comments and/or advice?

LA
 
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