alanmerry

I had and still have this same problem with FSdreamteam's KJFK. I contacted FSdreamteam who admitted there was a problem with the Key/License number. While it is OK for developers not to continue to support older systems and/or versions of FS, this needs to be clear in their advertising. When I bought this add-on it did say that it was for FS9 and worked in Windows 7. I checked! I don't buy payware that isn't compatible with my system!

Yes, I've spent many an hour searching through AI aircraft and flight plans to solve FS9 carashing! The clue is that the crash happens in the same place and at the same time. But the aircraft/flight can be anywhere within probabaly 40 miles. As you have done, the first thing to check is recently installed aircraft and/or flight plans. If that doesn't find it then its a long haul through your flight plans! Try removing half of them. If the fault continues then you know which half the fault is in. Half this again and repeat until the fault is found. Not a quick process!

It seems the way of all software nowadays, not just simulators. You don't buy the software, you just 'rent' it. Anytime you load it, the first thing it does is go to the software's website (which you may not be aware of) and installs updates and anything else the writers care to throw in, whether you want it or not! And there's always the possibility that it just disappears ! It can be quite difficult to find the option switches to stop this happening. You may also need to go into your control panel to stop 'scheduled updates' to stop software from updating at obscure times and frequencies. So not only is the software not your own, your computer may not be either! Hence I have stuck with Windows7 and FS2004, (not to mention other ancient software). I am in control of MY computer. And thanks to plenty of quality add-ons in flightsim, and elsewhere, FS2004 looks good to me!

Further to previous post, I have found the model on flightsim. Search for bevpt1.zip It was actually built for FS2002, but it's not a bad model considering its age.

I have the Beverley by Ralph Pegram, Brian Horsey and Bob Hazeldine. It flies well, but very slowly! Let me know if you like me to pass it on.

Thanks for your thoughtful and extensive analysis. When FS2020 was announced I had thought of buying it. But due to the apparent "in development" state of it and my extensive collection of add-ons for FS2004, I'll hold off, as least for the time being. There are a lot of excellent add-ons for FS2004, including the Historic Jetliners Group planes that you mention and as for scenery, the ground textures of the Netherlands by NL2000 and Don Muang airport by Thai Flight Simulator (both freeware) show what can be done with FS2004.

Not sure about the gforce gt710. I run FS9 in Windows7 with an Nvidia GeForce GTX960 and that's fine even around dense scenery around airports. You should be able find comparisons of the two somewhere on the web. But I would suggest a SSD rather than the hard drive, unless you need 1TB of storage for something else. The SSD is faster. My masses of scenery and hundreds of aircraft half fill a 240GB SSD with Windows7 on a different SSD. You might like to consider a SSD for FS9 and a HDD for everything else depending on how much storage you need. I hope this helps, rather than adding to the confusion!

I think this has to be a hardware fault, probably the E key on your keyboard is sticking. The fact it works as it should when you use shift-X seems to back this up. So its either a serious clean or a new keyboard!

A quick search of Amazon (expensive) or ebay shows plenty are available. No doubt other suppliers are also out there.

I am building an overhead panel for FS2004. I have a zero delay arcade USB encoder, connected 12 on/off switches and plugged in the USB. The switches work straight away both through options-controls-assignments or through FSUIPC. No problem, except, for example: To switch on the landing lights I switch the allocated switch on. So far so good. But to switch the lights off I have to switch the switch off then on again to send the necessary signal to the sim. Obviously I would like that when the switch was on the lights are on and off when the switch is off. I think I could place two switches close together, one upside down to the other and some sort of handle across the two to make one switch to achieve the required result. But does anyone have any experience, suggestions, ideas? Thanks.

Judging by visitors to FS exhibitions at Cosford and Lleystad, most simmers are in the grey-haired age range. Noticeably, the professional developers are usually somewhat younger.

I had this problem for some time. I would click on the icon for FS9 and apparently nothing would happen, then clicking on the icon again and FS9 would run without any problem. Looking at task manager (Shift-Ctrl-Esc) there would be 2 instances of FS9 one of which would show 0 under CPU. This could be ended or not with no effect on the operating FS9. Like you, any subsequent loading of FS( during the same session would be no problem. I found the following solution somewhere on the internet, which has worked for me: Run regedit. Delete this entry S-1-5-21-1380981980-2726883197-928252028-1000 under: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\GameUX\ Your registry entry may have a different number, but delete it and just leave the Games and MachineSettings subfolders in the GameUX folder As always when in regedit, be careful!

There are plenty of flight plan files, for a vast variety of airlines, on flightsim.com The default stock AI flight plan that CRJ_simpilot refers to is FS9/scenery/World/scenery/traffic030528.bgl Delete this and put any number of flightplan folders into the same location. You will need the appropriate AI aircraft in your aircraft folder, but the flightplan downloads will usually tell you where to find them. Although there are some more recent programs, I still use Lee Swordy's Traffic Tools (ttool202.zip) to compile flight plans which I have put together using Wordpad. Basically, you need a flight plan file, an aircraft file and an airport file. You can see the format of these by opening downloaded flightplans with Wordpad. Two things to note, the aircraft name in the Aircraft file must exactly match the 'title' in the aircraft.cfg file and all times in the Flightplans folder must be GMT/zulu. Not too difficult to get into and you can make your AI flights as accurate (or fanciful ?) as you like and appropriate to the area that you fly in.

You may find that the dds file is 2048x2048 pixels when your aircraft requires a 1024x1024 file, so you will need to use picture editing software to reduce the size before using DXTBMP to save the file as a dxt3 file. The L.bmp file is just used to apply night time lighting. You may find that you can just copy the equivalent file from another texture folder for the same aircraft. If there is no L.bmp file you will still get the aircraft, but with no lights through the windows.

Impressive scenery and aircraft. But I notice that you are using a HDD. When I switched from two hard drives (1 for scenery + 1 for the rest of FS2004) I noticed a frame rate improvement when I put all of FS2004 on a SSD.

May I add my fourpenoth? I ran FS2004 under XP for several years with two hard disks. I found that putting all of the scenery folders on one disk and the rest of FS9 on the other gave a small improvement in frame rates. Since then I have installed all of FS9, including scenery, onto a SSD and the performance is improved further. And for the last couple of years, the same SSD but under Windows7 (64-bit) and again slightly improved.