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  1. Of course , nothing is wrong with using DVDs, I personally found them a hassle. It seemed no matter how careful I was that they'd get scratched! This was my biggest gripe! I always held them from the middle and the edge, never touching the surface. But the scratch gremlins came anyway.! Same with my music CDs, sold all of them since I can find them all free on YT, all uploaded in high rez. On another note you can play FSX on Steam even if the net is down. Steam will start in Offline Mode. Why would Steam block you like that? Did you contact them?
  2. I held on to the FSX disks for ages but had all my other games on Steam. When FSX:SE appeared I jumped on it and tossed the discs. That was my last game with DVDs and I cant imagine how I tolerated those fragile shiny things!
  3. I feel something has gone wrong in your setup or you have the settings dialled down really low (just a guess). I sense that by now you will have fixed the graphics side of things! As much as I loved beloved FS9, FSX and X-Plane 11 - none of them can come close visually to this title. I just took these shots. Finals at Kansai Departing Manila
  4. I game on my 60 inch TV and theres no wash out. Did you check the Picture mode settings on your TV? There will be some presets like Movie, Photos, Gaming, Dynamic etc. Also play with the sliders like brightness, contrast, color, gamma etc.
  5. Is yours the case that hinges open? Looks like a big white TicTac? That is a great spec for a replacement, one of those odd situations where a failure resulted in a win! The game will run awesomely. Even more significant is that you snagged a good gfx card in this day & age of global GPU silicon shortages. I need to get on the case, this old PC is 13.1 years old. Enjoy the virtual flying! :)
  6. Where did you buy the game from? Steam or MS Store? If you got it from Steam just use its Move feature. Instructions here: https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-8327 I am not familiar with the MS Store version. I guess you could try just moving the files over to the new drive and then firing up the MS Store to verify them. However if you have a high speed uncapped internet connection just download and install a fresh copy. Fire up the download at your bedtime and let it go all night. You'll wake up to a new install. Joystick prefs are saved in the cloud. As long as you use the same account on the new install you will see all your stick prefs there.
  7. 1. Go to the MSFS folder 2. Right-click on FlightSimulator.exe 3. In the Details tab you'll see the version #
  8. Try the volume mixer control in Windows. Start the game and then: 1. Right click speaker icon in the system tray 2. Select "Open volume mixer" 3. Adjust the slider for MSFS
  9. Give this video a watch. Its made by a real life A320 pilot One thing to remember with the Airbus autopilot knobs is that they are push-pull. You push to give control to the airplane You pull to take control of the airplane
  10. Just an idea to think about hope its okay to suggest. You can get monitors for dirt cheap these days, even a basic 1080p one. I got a cheap and happy Dell one exclusively to display LNM on while I fly on the main screen. Once you go multi monitor theres no looking back. Can enjoy fullscreen LNM leaving main one clutter free. The monitors dont have to match in rez. Your main can be 2k or 4k and the 2nd 1080 for example.
  11. Need more details 1. Did you set up the MSFS database as inky160 said? 2. Did you export the plan as MSFS format 3. Does the plan show properly in LNP? 4. What happens when you load the plan from the game?
  12. There is no escape. It has to be done. I recall reading on the official forums a post that this one guy made that involved disabling internet before launching MSFS, letting it do the checks and then reconnecting the net only when you're in the airplane. He said it works but I have not confirmed and neither have others. I'm sure MS will find a way around this too. I might however try it just for a laugh before the next update.
  13. This can be caused by scratches or dirt on the disc or a fault in the DVD drive (perhaps theres dirt on the lens, a laser fault, mechanism fault etc). Carefully clean the disk using chamois or you can buy a disk cleaning kit. If you have a portable DVD drive test it using that. Can also test it on another computer to see if Windows can see it on there. You also get drive-cleaning discs that have a row of very soft bristles or other material on the playing side to gently clean the drive lens.
  14. Have you played less than 2 hours? If so you can refund the game on Steam. Check your playtime and if its under 2hr immediately submit the refund request.
  15. We need to know your system specs. Its best to put them in your forum sig, that way you wont have to keep posting them when you need to, see my sig for example. You should not have any problems running any of those titles on a modern system. I was running FSX Steam Edition until April this year (I got MSFS in May) on this Win10 Pro computer. I had zero issues installing and running MSFS. If you have tried everything then a totally fresh Windows install will fix things. Heres the steps I followed if you're interested: Backup your data using free software like Macrium Reflect (excellent program) Download the Windows Media Creation Tool, you need a USB stick with 8GB or more See point #1 Boot from the USB stick and do a fresh windows install (not upgrade) it will wipe everything. Once done update Windows till you have all updates Restore your data (you can mount Macrium as a virtual drive. It will appear in file explorer and you can just copy your documents, photos etc.) Log into MS account, begin the MSFS download and go to bed You will wake up to a fully installed game ready to roll. On another note - you have 40 years of real world flying experience. If its something that would interest you - you could make yourself known to 3rd party addon devs because you would be able to greatly assist and advise them :) No doubt you use the Zibo 737 mod in XP11 which is amazing for freeware.
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