surrodox2001

3 minutes ago, Steverino said:

Thanks, JSMR - I must have added or modified something that is causing this because previously, flying in this area has not generated a problem.  Sorry if this is a silly question, but when trying to isolate a scenery issue, is it sufficient to uncheck/deactivate in the Scenery Library, or must it be actually deleted/removed?  

I think you can just disable the problematic scenery in the settings and it'd be fine.

Interesting...

I've never had OOM issues with FS2004, with no enhancement patches (eg extended RAM caps) added...

Hope you'll get the issue fixed.

I wonder how TDS did the 'protection' that makes the aircraft disappear when you change any of the 'don't change' bits if there isn't AFAIK, any executable code inside the aircraft cfg and air files?

Also, agreed on the addon aircraft should have its real life manufacturer as its ui manufacturer, its much easier to search for the aircraft you want if you have lots of aircraft/lots of aircraft from the same developer.

Looking at your specs, your CPU is quite underpowered for FSX (RAM and GPU is fine though), if you wanna do FSX, you probably need to set your settings to low or tune it to your likings.

Yeah, you probably better served with FS9.

Yes, FSX Steam is the best version of FSX you can get right now with FSX Gold features and some improvements for modern systems.

But keep in mind that some addons designed for FSX Gold won't work well/doesn't work with FSX Steam, FS Recorder 2.x is one, which just crashes FSX Steam on startup with it just refuses the current version of FSX (simconnect to be exact). For that, you've to use FS Recorder v1.331, but even that has warnings for incompatibility at startup.

Looks like the installer did something with fs9.cfg to make the default flight to be the concorde one.

For me, I'd install the addon into a clean sandbox (i use sandboxie), and then zipped the files into an archive that i can install without an installer. That way, i can install the addon without the reliance of installers and the related registry/miscellaneous stuff and also makes the addon files smaller by zipping them in a better compression algorithm (rar and 7z are my favorites, i use either one of them depending on the situation)

I'm not sure about this, but it depends on whether the texture developer wants to implement the shiny thing into their textures.

I vaguely remember that the American Airlines DC-10 livery provided by HJG has the shiny thing built in, so yes, it is possible.

18. Been simming since I was 13 or so. Have my PPL and working on instrument in the real world

I think we have a record here for the youngest FS2004 flight simmers... Although I'm not too deviated from that age either...

As everyone here may or may not know, tooltips in FS9 are set by Windows' desktop settings in windowed mode, and resized according to your resolution in fullscreen mode.

Tooltips in windowed mode:

Tooltips in fullscreen mode:

But sometimes the tooltips' text might be too long to fit in the screen, causing the text to chopped off like in HJG DC-10 panel's vertical speed selection roller.

I wonder can you change the text's size without changing the resolution in fullscreen mode?

And thank you for all the superb Historic Jetliners Group aircraft. I almost feel HJG is a part of FS9 itself as it's played such a critical and long term role together with FS9. California Classics you could suggest the same. Invaluable add-ons and sites for what really was and still is the pinnacle of flight simulation, Flight Simulator 2004.

Agreed. Planes like the HJG DC-10 and DC-8 is one of the best freewares you can get out there for FS2004

I remember a FS9 stock DC3 with Santaair livery modded with turboprops does exist in the file library. Dont sure about it is now.

Also, if you're adventurous enough to edit FS9 aircraft extensively, here's some discussion of how to modify an aircraft .cfg/.air files to accept a different engine type:

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?219130-How-do-you-change-the-engine-type-of-an-existing-aircraft-and-modify-the-air-file

And i found the file now: https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/fslib.php?do=search&fsec=0&fname=dc3turb.zip

Hello,

I hope someone can step back a bit from FS2020 to answer a question.

What is the difference between FS2k and FS Pro 2K.

Is there a work around so Pro planes can be used in FS9.

Thank you,

Here's my attempt to answer this properly:

What is the difference between FS2k and FS Pro 2K.

The difference can be flattened down to FS2000 Pro has Mooney Bravo and King Air in the default planes' list and FS2000 don't.

There's also addons for 2000/2002 that requires the Pro version because they uses resources from these 2.

Is there a work around so Pro planes can be used in FS9.

You don't need a workaround as these planes work on FS9 but you have to click No when prompted to disable certain features when choosing the aircraft to make show properly.

Although they do work, problems with the aircraft model may occur.

Basler BT67

https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?258338-Basler-BT67-Freeware

Does that work properly with FS2004? Because i see that its for FSX and have files that didn't work properly on FS2004. Do you any alternatives that work with FS2004.

And exactly thats what happened last friday! :-) Activation problem seems to be solved :-)

 

Solution: had to make ticket, got an e-mail from PMDG with message ticket was >>>honoured with reset of number of activations

 

keith (holland)

How do you tell them?

And yeah I think EU law trumps others when you're in the EU.

Well, it's like a 'for fun' experiment to see how older sims runs on newer systems.

I suspect this might be a recent driver problem as I couldn't find any threads about this.

So yeah, FS98 is broke on Nvidia Windows 7/10!

And now I found this: https://old.reddit.com/r/worldnews/comments/vz4pk/european_court_declares_resale_of_used_software/ and its source: http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,16069323,00.html

So yeah, if you in the EU, you're allowed to resale software there as long you delete the original copy.

So that's why they can do that in the Netherlands.

I do not sure about other regions though.

From what I recall talking with RSR (PMDG) head guy, reselling aircraft discs or transferring downloads is against their policy. You may have been considered a "bad guy" for buying it used.

Well I can understand for digital downloads, but why do that to a physical product?

Posted here for visibility.

I tried running FS98 with Nvidia cards on their latest drivers on Windows 7 and gets broken graphics, and you can't switch views without the view going blank and occasionally cause a CTD.

What's happening here? Does that could be solved?

There is one organization that does not respond to multiple contact form messages and continues to have it on offer. The site goes by the name of Allflightmods.com: The biggest all flight simulator mods website. The uploader hides behind the name Treyeastland, on another upload it was somebody named Zach Gloss.

Maybe you could try a DMCA takedown to the website? But it seems doesn't have an option for contact other than the contact form.

Since you're posting on the FSX forum, I'm gonna ask this:

How are severe weather (hurricanes,tornadoes) simulated in real world weather in FSX? Both external programs and FSX builtin real world weather function.

Sorry I misread your original post. I've never seen such a gauge and the .cfg and .air files only have a single specification for the engine, no matter how many there may be. Looks like you'll have to upgrade all three engines!

Aww, that's sad. Probably I've to make do of the limitation and go with higher power on the center engine... Thanks

Well, I probably have to explain more about this...

I'm asking about does a gauge to specifically cap the throttle of individual engines (NOT all engines), making a engine's thrust lower the others exists?

Searching for "throttle gauge" in the file library yields nothing like that above.

Or it's just impossible and you've to throttle down the engine you need manually?