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1. Open Notepad with right-click Run as administrator 2. Go to File > Open drop down list 3. Change from Text Documents (*.txt) to All Files (*.*) 4. Navigate to whatever your trying to edit 5. Edit You should now be able to Save

I have three motherboards trying on (Gigabyte X99 G1 Gaming, Gigabyte G1 Assassin2, and XFX nForce 790i Ultra) In the BIOS on all mobo's, I'm seeing all 5 fans detected and showing RPM readings just fine. Everything seems to detect/work OK on HWMonitor or SpeedFan EXCEPT in the fan department. HWMonitor only displays 3 fans and RPM instead of the 5 connected. SpeedFan shows 5 fans but two show 0 RPM. On the X99 G1 Gaming below, SpeedFan had a option to Enable fan 4 and 5 and this caused the motherboard to power off! :mad: So I removed it and installed Gigabyte APP Center & System Information Viewer and it works perfectly. Any assistance would be appreciated on the two remaining mobo's if you know of another monitoring software that works.

Your probably thinking of "Nick's Massive Crash". I installed it to FSX and it still works.

With WD VelociRaptor 10K RPM mechanical HDD's... 5 minutes, 17 seconds With WD SN750 NVMe drives... 2 minutes, 42 seconds I'm satisfied with my processor performance, so not ready for a MB, CPU, memory swap. However seduced by the NVME performance I've seen. Before the upgrade changed the SHOW_OPENING_SCREEN=1 to 0. Measured times are clicking the FSX icon to when airport pops up on the screen. Have FSX Gold, ORBX Global, Ultimate Traffic Live, booting to NL2000 Netherlands Schiphol with a QW 757, both times. My motherboard has one M.2 slot however it only runs off the chipset at 10 Gigabits per second. So I found this beauty... It plugs directly into a PCIe slot and NVMe drives run directly through the CPU at x4 instead of slower SATA 3 speed. Card is a 8x and has a bifurcation chip onboard since my motherboard/BIOS does not support bifurcation. I went this route so I can keep Windows 7 and all my games on the single board. When FS2020 comes out will be able to swap in and out with another board/NVMe drive setup with Windows 10 and FS2020 with only one screw. Had a 250GB and 1TB VelociRaptor HDD so chose 250GB and 1TB WD SN750 NVMe drives. Updated my BIOS to support for "Future NVMe drives." Windows 7 does not natively support NVMe, so had to install a KB2990941 update (Microsoft has removed probably to force Windows 10 and can be downloaded else ware.) Cloned my HDD's to the NVMe drives, removed them, then changed the NVMe drive letters to C: (Windows 7) and D: (FSX) Cloning made everything a snap. Windows worked as before, FSX as before, ORBX as before, etc. (only faster). The only issues I had were Flight1 products that only needed license refreshes and then they all worked again. The NVMe board I got was expensive, however I've seen single NVMe PCIe slot boards for around $20 and the prices for PCIe v3 NVMe drives are falling I think because PCIe v4 is driving them down. Of course everything else now snaps open as well :)

AFAIK, TDS NEVER released "Native" FSX base packages, only FS9. What they DID do is port them over to FSX with the above mentioned model folder updates. You can also find ported aircraft.cfg and .air files. This does have the advantage of being able to use any FS9 repaint with FSX simply by replacing the model folder files. You will find a few user provided FSX repaints that they updated with the FSX model files themselves.

Missing something here...If you reformatted your computer (Wipe the drive clean), why would it not install on a fresh install of Windows 10? Unless you mean to say your attempting to install it again after a failed install. Microsoft Activating it is another matter

Agreed...Do like the two Boeings Regarding the 787, rumor is the -10 variant should be released soon (Free upgrade for current owners) and QW has said they will increase the price after they do. On the other hand a port over to FSX 2020 will not be a free upgrade.

You gotta watch those QW guys. I got a update for the 787 and they left non-existent aircraft [fltsim.x]'s in the aircraft.cfg. I mentioned it to them and they re-posted the corrected update. Also regarding the repaints. You can always install them manually. The repaints are actually just .zip files, just rename the repaint.qwl to repaint.zip then extract and move the files just like adding ANY FSX repaint. Also glad they got rid of the Add-On Manager crap for Flight1 on the 757

Here's something from ORBX to help your understand FSX layers... I doubt it's a mesh issue. If you lower the mesh near the edge of water, it does not run into it like real water would. There are some spots in FSX where the water appears to run up the side of a cliff! FSX has many airports placed erroneously on bodies of water.

Very insightful and thank you for that. You perfectly captured the sentiment of probably thousands of new members who have come and gone.

Do what he suggests and avoid the constipation ;), get MS Steam version.

Considering Microsoft released, what 11 flight simulator titles?, who cares what it is called. For are intent and purpose, with the "2020"' moniker, and you know which version is being discussed. Besides version 1 was simply called "Microsoft Flight Simulator" released in November 1982. Of course if it gets delayed until 2021, Microsoft might call it Flight Simulator 2020 PLUS

Would probably be a good time to check how many negative marks a seller has to check his/her character. I got burned one time buying Windows 7 advertised as NEW. When I got it it even looked un-opened. Had to call Microsoft the first time to activate it (should have taken the hint). Then I tried reinstalling it a year later and could not activate it. Spoke to Microsoft and they told me it had been installed 88 times! 1. Check the sellers negatives. 2. Don't buy any opened software or your taking your chances.

Back on topic... It does seem FS2020 will need on-line streaming. Just hope perhaps that it will have a OFF-LINE mode maybe using the streamed data cached (1 terabyte buffer?) from your last flight so you could at least do a 1 hour off-line flight.

I would wait until Intel responds to the AMD threat for a PCIe 5.0, DDR5 PC with lots of NVMe storage for quick load ups.

A-A-A-A-H-H-H-H... I couldn't do it. I have so MANY favorite POSKY models and a few Carenado payware models installed to FS9. Didn't see any reason not to keep them BOTH. Hell, I even keep Flight Simulator 2000 Professional Edition installed for nostalgia.

No reg on the wing texture? If there is a texture.cfg in the texture folder it might point to a common texture folder where it's picking up a wing with a reg number painted on. OR Possibly the model reads the reg from the aircraft.cfg and prints it on the wing OR The panel.cfg has a gauge that puts it on the wing like some gauges put it on the instrument panel.

For those who missed it... https://fsi.microsoftstudios.com/

I had ATC fly me right past my intended airport once. I deleted all the saved flight plans in the Windows Document folder and it seemed to fix the issue.

Motion blur is a option in the graphics settings of some games I have. I usually leave it off. Will just have to wait and see if it is a switchable option or a flaw in FS2020. But it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me when you consider how fuzzy some of the graphics can be in FSX until you add ORBX.

Depends on the motherboard and processor. In my case I have a 40 PCIe lane CPU, some have less. I pulled out my manual and found out slot 1 is a switchable 16/8x, slot 2 is 16x, slot 3 if populated shares bandwidth with slot 1, slot 4 is 8x. So I put my GPU in the recommended slot 1. I'm reserving slot 2 for a 2nd GPU for SLI. Slot 3 is useless unless you have a x3 GPU SLI so won't use it, otherwise it would drop slot 1 to 8x. So the best slot in my case is to put the PCIe adapter (which is a 4x adapter, 8x for a dual NVMe adapter) in slot 4. If you have Windows 10, you have a native NVMe driver, Windows 7 requires a update, KB2990941 which Microsoft has now pulled (And tells you to get Windows 10) but you can get at https://www.win-raid.com/t29f25-Recommended-AHCI-RAID-and-NVMe-Drivers.html Also your BIOS might need a update to support NVMe drives.

I guess were all in agreement about the numerous files FSX moves while loading which is why I mentioned the "brute strength" method of file transfer at the beginning of this thread. A 7200 RPM SATA hard drive manages around 100MB/s depending on age, condition, and level of fragmentation. Most SATA connected SSDs will provide Read/Write speeds in the neighborhood of 530/500 MB/s. For comparison, NVMe drives, on the other hand, provide write speeds as high as 3500MB/s. That's 7x over SATA SSDs That's with current PCIe 3.0 standard max of 8GB transfer speeds. AMD's latest X570 chipsets support PCIe 4.0 16GB transfers. I have a feeling Intel will leap frog over to the PCIe 5.0 standard with 32GB transfer speeds. These will all no doubt be expensive propositions involving new motherboard, CPU upgrades. In the meantime you could place FSX on a PCIe 3.0 NVMe m.2 SSD. My motherboard has a SATA Express M.2 slot, however it is limited to about 1000MB transfers. Which is why I want to get a PCIe M.2 NVMe adapter which you can find a cheap single drive one for about $10.00 and a Samsung or Western Digital 250GB m.2 NVMe around $80.00. Then the next bottle neck would be how quickly your processor can handle the transfers.

Hi Mark, I guess I don't have a trained eye :o What is the flaw your pointing out? And I hope the management at Microsoft sees this thread and considers the single most biggest objection would be subscription service. EDIT: Maybe fuzzy due to motion blur?

Yeah, the rare dual NVMe adapters are about $200.00 right now (besides two NVMe drives), but if you can get by with just one NVMe, the single PCIe adapters can be had for around $25.00 So you would only need to sell a kidney :)

If you want faster load times, you would need to bypass the relatively slower SATA3 bus (6 gigabits max) with standard SSD's and run directory from the PCIe bus with NVMe drives (up to 6.5 gigabytes max). Then there would be a noticeable difference! My next upgrade with harddrives as backup...