Agent00729

Anyone have any recommendations for global landclass? I know that there is MyWorld 2004 and the freeware GIS. Anyone have any suggestions for a solution for good coverage on a global scale?

Thank you all! I am trying to do it using real world weather, but I think I will have to settle with reducing the visibility via FSUIPC during overcast metars to simulate the effect.

Great! Do you use in conjunction with the registered FSUIPC winds, visibility, and cloud settings?

Anyone know how to get overcast skies in fs2004? It always seems to be more like broken clouds for me, or doesn’t load properly in the air and goes from broken to something closer to overcast when I’m on the ground. Thanks!

Does anyone know if Active Sky Evolution still works in FS2004 or is still using it? Are the weather servers still running?

For the visual aspect, I use the following: Active Sky Evolution HDE clouds Envtex Sky+Sun+Water GE Pro ground textures AIFP/AIG AI Flight Plans But am also interested in learning what others use.

Interesting, was this the Orbx landclass or just the textures?

I saw something about how people were able to convert Orbx global textures to work in FS2004. My question is, would it be possible to also use Orbx or FSX landclass in fs2004? I know that the textures landclass calls for would depend on the sim, but would it work if the textures can be converted for fs2004? Thanks!

What’s the reason to not run as admin? I’ve always run as admin ever since I can remember. I always heard that if you don’t, certain addons won’t work properly. Same thing with running installers as admin. I just always thought it was best practice.

It runs without compatibility mode, I haven’t tried without running as admin. And yeah, I know. It’s an older laptop and I think the build quality isn’t that great. Definitely not holding up as well as my even older Alienware Windows 7 laptop that I was using before. Not sure there’s too much that I can do, although it could be that I messed up something when I ran throttlestop. I played around with the turbo multiplier, maybe it’s set too high.

Sure, not at the computer now but off the top of my head: I7 4910 MQ (2.9 GHz to 3.9 GHz) GTX 860M 16 GB ram Windows 10 64bit I had this laptop for a while, but never thought to put flight simulator on it. Big improvement in specs from my Windows 7 computer, still not good enough for P3d/xplane/FS2020 though (been using fs2020 on Xbox and loving it). Although I am a bit worried about doing a long haul on this laptop, as the CPU temps are hitting 100 degrees in my initial tests.

Yikes, I copied the instructions exactly to get FS9 up and running on my Windows 10 PC from my Windows 7 one. Hopefully that was the right thing to do. Seemed so simple to copy/paste the install from one computer to the next.

Got it. But doesn’t this thread advise to run as administrator and in compatibility mode (first post)?

Thanks! What’s the issue with running as admin? I’ve been running fs2004 (and pretty much everything else) as admin all this time.

Any opinions on which compatibility mode to run? Does it affect performance? I recently copied my fs9 to a Windows 10 system and noticed that many of the aircraft (Ifly 737, pmdg 747) don’t have any screens on the PFDs, just all black. I wasn’t running in compatibility mode, was this the solution? Or perhaps I should reinstall those aircraft?