Ferry_vO
Retired SOH Administrator
Never thought this would ever happen!
I bought a new rig last weekend, and made the switch from XP 32-bit to Vista 64-bit. That meant two days of getting updated drivers, software, compatibility issues and more than a few BSOD's. This week I finally got round to reinstalling Fs9 (FsX was the first thing I installed!) and just for laughs I tried to run the Captain Sim Yak-3 installer, but much to my surprise it worked!
On my old system the activation process woud go fine, but after finishing the installer would tell me the Yak wasn't actived and I couldn't fly it.
I started Fs9 and jumped in the Yak. The modern version with the glass panel would work fine, but the WW2 ones looked like this: (Fs9 needed some tweaking too at this point!
)
In the texture folders (All but one) most files were empty. The files were there, but almost all had a 0 bytes filesize.
I uninstalled the Yak, redownloaded the installer from Simmarket and tried again, but with the same results. Then I remembered that Bomber_12th once did a repaint of this aircraft so I downloaded that one and copied the necessary files from that repaint to all the other default paints. Now it looks and works like it should! I really missed that plane!!
I also installed Silver Wings, the High def clouds and Cees Donker's beta Valkenburg/Katwyk scenery (Which is wonderful and visible in the screenshots) and with max detail and very high AA and AF settings I'm getting a steady 60 fps. Not bad!
I bought a new rig last weekend, and made the switch from XP 32-bit to Vista 64-bit. That meant two days of getting updated drivers, software, compatibility issues and more than a few BSOD's. This week I finally got round to reinstalling Fs9 (FsX was the first thing I installed!) and just for laughs I tried to run the Captain Sim Yak-3 installer, but much to my surprise it worked!
On my old system the activation process woud go fine, but after finishing the installer would tell me the Yak wasn't actived and I couldn't fly it.
I started Fs9 and jumped in the Yak. The modern version with the glass panel would work fine, but the WW2 ones looked like this: (Fs9 needed some tweaking too at this point!
)
In the texture folders (All but one) most files were empty. The files were there, but almost all had a 0 bytes filesize.
I uninstalled the Yak, redownloaded the installer from Simmarket and tried again, but with the same results. Then I remembered that Bomber_12th once did a repaint of this aircraft so I downloaded that one and copied the necessary files from that repaint to all the other default paints. Now it looks and works like it should! I really missed that plane!!
I also installed Silver Wings, the High def clouds and Cees Donker's beta Valkenburg/Katwyk scenery (Which is wonderful and visible in the screenshots) and with max detail and very high AA and AF settings I'm getting a steady 60 fps. Not bad!
