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Eliminating what I have as a weather engine, AI and scenery, for airports themselves I use an add-on called Taxi Signs I think it's called to really make the taxi signs pop and light up. I also use use REX World Wide Airports as well. With REX World Wide Airports it also has the option to improve the asphalt, etc. Edit- Okay, It's called TaxiSigns HD http://www.flightsimtools.com/taxisigns/ I also have Helitraffic 2009. https://www.flight1.com/products.asp?product=helitraffic As far as FSDT, I have KLAS, PHNL, and KLAX. Then I have Flightbeam's KDEN. There are others too from various third-party airport developers like LatinVFR, etc.

That looks like a mesh issue. You monkey with mesh add-ons? That's one reason why I don't use mesh. I kept having to edit airport elevations.

What's the cockpit look like?

The biggest factor in FS load times are how many planes you have installed. Whether that be AI or flyable. The CPU is your bottle neck and no matter how much money you throw at it the CPU load times will not improve due to the fact FS2004 and FSX are single threaded games. Meaning only one CPU core will be used in the processing of the planes for the game to load. Correct. That one CPU core is doing all the work. Now if you don't have a ton of planes installed then I chalk this up to Winblows 10. For the Sim you really are better with Windows 7. But, it's the latest OS now and we're stuck with it.

Download the zip file. Right click that zip file and chose to extract. Inside that new extracted folder are the files for your aircraft or what ever you downloaded. Look inside there are there should be a readme text file that if the creator was smart enough will include instructions on how to install what you downloaded.

I think it seems to happen with different aircraft models. If you have something like the PMDG 737, I highly doubt you'll encounter the issue at all. In my F-22 it's not the auto throttle that's the issue, but the altitude hold switch. Sometimes depending on what you're doing the plane will climb and climb surpassing the altitude I set. So it seems it all is in how the model was created and maybe the air file. I have no idea.

Indeed. My Bro put two of his desktops together on his bed of all places. LOL When I built my current PC I went to retrieve my anti-static wrist strap I purchased long ago. I picked it up and the cheap thing actually fell apart in my hand when I went to stick it on. So I there was no way in hell I was going to wait a day and go to the nearby PC shop to buy an anti-static strap. So while I was putting the PC together I kept my hand on the chassis as much as I could and exercised caution handling the motherboard, etc. I still remember the day. During the late hours of May 5th to the early morning hours of May 6th 2017 was when I toiled for ten long hours carefully putting my baby together. It was in fact my very first PC build and I wanted to make damn sure everything was done right with absolute precision and careful attention to detail. And then I rechecked everything twice it not three times. Prior to that I've always had OEM desktops that I upgraded over time. I had a Dell Dimension 4600 that I upgraded the living crap out of except the motherboard. I upgraded the CPU, RAM, GPU, PSU, DVD/RW, 5.1 sound card and hard drives. It was my little beast back then and it was capable of playing Call Of Duty Modern Warfare. Although, in certain modded levels I would sometimes get some frame lag. But the PC held its own for a very long time with everything I did with it. Referring to the header connector. My Gigabyte motherboard has a G-connector or something like that. You actually placed all of your tiny connectors in this one connector block and that connector block just plugged into the motherboard. It was fairly easy to use and pretty innovative. I'm thinking ASUS has the same thing and perhaps other motherboards as well. It makes building a PC much more easier.

Whether your USB hub is powered or not may make a difference. And at that you would need a good quality powered hub. Also, there's a finite bandwidth for the USB root hub in the computer. You may be trying to pass more data then the motherboard can handle.

And I for one will happily install 10 providing I use Pfsense in a thin client for a hardware-based firewall blocking all of M$'s ASNs and anything else that shouldn't be there viewing SNMP. LOL I hardly ever use an "update" anyway. The term update is a fallacy. It's an upsidedown with serious lack of QC. Anyway, yeah, XP was a great OS back then. But as the Internet progresses forward with new web-based technologies, XP and the browser you can run on it won't be able to use those technologies.

You should just be able to go into the Sim's control settings and assign a button to brakes. Is your game pad driver installed properly? I got a Mad Catz Xbox controller for GTA V and it was a real PITA to get the driver to work. Prior to me using a yoke and pedals I used a generic PS2 game pad to fly. It had dual joy sticks. The left joy stick was elevator and aileron and the right joy stick was rudder. Got pretty good with that thing making a cross wind landings. The yoke and pedals are a dream.

Start turning the autogen sliders down one notch at a time until hopefully the crash goes away. I had this same issue time and time again just flying into certain areas. All other areas were fine, but on approach there, BAM! instant CTD. So I started turning the sliders down one notch at a time and it fixed my issue. Keep in mind that if this is the source of your issue it's just a local thing. So if you fly somewhere else you should be able to crank the sliders back up. That is until you hit another area where the Sim will crash. I just leave my sliders to medium I think it is. Somewhere around there. I have to get on my desktop to check. Read my Sig on OOM errors as well. I had a VAS issue after I installed a giant New York add-on. On approach the Sim used all 4 GB of RAM and an instant CTD. So I ran the Scenery Config tool and disabled a handful of areas I wasn't using and then I was able to fly into NY without a crash. It's because the Sim loads all areas whether you fly there or not and so your RAM can be taxed in no time. So for me, I keep the NY scenery deactivated until I fly there, and if I do, I then enable it and disable other areas so I don't surpass the 4 GB hard coded limit for a Sim coded in a 32 bit environment. This isn't the case with Prepar3d since I guess they coded it for 64 bit. I guess there's a utility out there that can allow you to use more than 4 GB, but I can't remember its name now. I have to search for it. For right now just try lowering your autogen sliders down one notch at a time and see if that crash goes away. If not, you're probably surpassing the 4 GB limit. Verify while simming and watching Task Manager. Preferably on a second screen. There's no better way to fly. My second screen runs LittleNavMap.

What are your auto gen sliders set to?

Just to be sure, you did install outside of the programs folder to the root of C drive?

FS is a CPU oriented game, not GPU oriented. No matter what you do GPU wise, your CPU will be the engine that drives the Sim. As mentioned, Lockheed Martin's Prepar3d has code that takes advantage of the GPU more than FS2004 and FSX.

So I mostly fly in the F-22 Raptor and so I fly at an unrealistic cruise speed of mach 2.35 at the capable in real life 50,000 feet. The jet can reach 65,000 feet, but I seldom venture up that high. So one day I wanted to know just how far one could hear a sonic boom. A little Googling told me that you can hear a sonic boom 1 mile for every thousand miles in altitude. So if you're at 30,000 feet and are mach 1 you can hear the sonic boom for 30 miles. Consequently, if you're at 30,000 feet and are at mach 2 you can hear two sonic booms for 30 miles. Keep in mind this is in all directions of the aircraft for 30 miles. I got the opportunity to hear two consecutive sonic booms myself. While living in Riverside, California my dad took me to Edwards Air Force Base (KEDW) to watch the space shuttle land. All of a sudden using binoculars you can see this little white dot way up there doing circles and then two sonic booms bounced off the desert dry lake bed. It was pretty cool. The place reminded me of how it must be like if one were to be at Area-51 which turns out that KEDW is an extension of Area-51 (KXTA). Now the ICAO more than likely didn't give "Area-51" that airport code, but I've read that's what it may be. Perhaps in documentation or something. I don't know. Where have I been in my F-22? Around the world four times to many, many, many countries up to and including out in the middle of nowhere Mongolia, and touched all seven continents. :D And did I care if I broke the sound barrier over land? Nope! LOL :pilot:

Having used FS2004 and now FSX, I don't have this issue, though I don't fly the DC3. I find that in FSX the scenery is better than FS2004, though I'm using Orbx Global as well. I also have upgraded street lights and what have you. Perhaps what ever edits you may have used from gathering around the Internet is why you have this issue. Though, the default aircraft by in large in both FS2004 and FSX really suck. You're better off with a good payware or good model that was created and offered here in the library for free.

I'm not sure about XML and gauge code, but I'm pretty sure the aircraft.cfg can't parse XML. Oh wait, you want to create a gauge that edits the aircraft.cfg file in flight. That I don't know. It may not be possible since I'm sure the game reads it just once, or it could be done and the game is forced to read it on a change. I know that with Active Sky 2016 and Active Sky Cloud Art, it injects clouds on the go so it seems like the Sim can use refreshed stuff on the fly. Though that's just weather.

Something else is going on here and I think it may have been a coincidence that the Sim stopped responding after you made an AI change. Especially since it seems like you have corrupt FS files. Do you use a program to create AI flight plans though? Perhaps it messed up your AI flight plans and some other things. Are you using Win 10 and was there an update? What type of hard drive are you using?

Just to let everyone know, I bought the Helitraffic add-on some months back and it's been great thus far. You can create flight plans for them, but by default you don't have to. The add-on will use the helicopters in your Sim and you'll see them all around you land and take off providing there's a helipad at the airport.

In the Sim you can just cheat and press the B key and the altimeter will be automatically set to local pressure. I just do this myself, but as you are coming in closer to your airport, at about every 15 miles or so hit the B key again. It will constantly change by a few millibars. Absent of that you either tune to an AWOS/ATIS and list to the local airport near by announce its local altimeter. Or when you are below 18,000 in the U.S or maybe even Canada or Mexico, ATC will tell you the altimeter during instruction. 18,000 is the transition altitude, above that it's always 29.92. In the UK and other areas the transition altitude is different and you can see that if you use LittleNavMap on a second monitor. However, in the Sim the world-wide transition altitude is 18,000. Keep in mind that in the U.S we use inches of mercury where is in the UK, etc they use millibar. And above their transition altitude it's not 29.92 but 1013.

Yeah, VOR names don't really change if at all so that will no doubt match what's in the FMC. As to the Netherlands, perhaps you don't have updated Navigraph FMC data so the intersections in FSX match those in the Netherlands or in the Netherlands the intersections don't change all the time. You see, there's the data in the FMC and there's the data in the Sim its self and both won't match unless you also update what's in the Sim to match what's in the FMC.

Now that I didn't know. Will have to try that.

I fly around the world all the time as well. I'll often go on Google Street View and see the place I flew to in real life. Sometimes I may go to Wikipedia and read about the airport I flew to as well. Been around the world now five times and touched all seven continents. There is an add-on here in the library for postcards so when you fly and touch down at a certain area, and providing there's a postcard, it will show up in your awards screen. https://www.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?311908-Your-awards

Just want to add that if you are VFR with no flight plan and you open the ATC window to request tower or announce position, base, final, etc, you can access that airport when you are exactly 30 miles from the runway. Or approximate it with your GPS to the airport. If your 30 miles or so from the airport you will then see the airport in the long list of airports to chose from. Right there and then perform your ATC stuff because you're gonna have to setup for the approach, etc. How do I know that the Sim uses 30 miles to show you the airport in the list? Because I have a WAAS gauge in my F-22 and it shows EXACTLY the distance to the runway I select. As soon as it hits 30 miles on the mark that airport is available in the ATC airport list to communicate to. Now sometimes there are so many airports small and large all around you that no matter how deep into the ATC airport list you go that airport just won't show up. But as you get closer and closer that airport should show up. If it still doesn't (and this has happened to me) just pretend like you are squawk 7600 (radio comms down) and setup approach and just land. FS's ATC in the game is pretty mundane and generic. If you really want good ATC, I'd check out VATSIM. But I'd advise you to first know and understand ATC lingo and know your aircraft before you jump in.

I'm sorry. I was sitting on the patio and it has an overhang and I never got up to look past that to see the aircraft in question. I must have heard the sputter for about 5 to 8 seconds or so. There are a lot of Cessna's that fly around here since KFNL is about 3 miles or so East of me. I see them all the time so I'm only taking a wild guess it was a Cessna. Could have even been a Piper. But my money is on a Cessna. They may have been in cruise since the plane prop sound fainted away into the distance and not in circles or anything like that.