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  1. Ebay is probably your best bet, certainly for the Saitek. The Boeing is more of a problem. I'd suggest an aircraft breakers but "CHEAP" could be another story. Have a read up on Hall Effect sensors, they're more reliable and more accurate than pots.
  2. Thanks for that Jazz, it helps enormously. Now I just need to figure out how to get three 27 inch monitors into a wardrobe!
  3. Hi All, I read recently (Don't ask me where...) that a single monitor doesn't show as much as a multi-monitor setup. In other words If I use a single large monitor the standard screen picture will just stretch to fill the single screen whereas a multi setup will extend the edges of the picture giving you a wider vista. Is this correct? TIA Paul.
  4. Sorry if I'm too late to help but great if you've fixed it. I'm no expert but a lot of the hassle with installing stuff into Win10 seems to be the oversensitive security settings. Try switching off your virus protection and running the driver install as administrator, if possible. Otherwise I thought XP11 was already set up for Saitek/Logitech gear. (I'm an XP10 user, I've only seen the XP11 demo briefly.) Paul.
  5. It's OK, I've found a couple of things on Youtube.
  6. Has anybody ever tried to swap out the rotary encoders on the Saitek radio panel and multi panel for a better quality item, or at least tried to swap the knobs for something a bit nicer looking?
  7. Well, it's a partial success. I haven't upgraded to x64 yet but I've installed the SSD with FS9 and FSX+Acceleration on it and everything is running better than before, including FSIUPC and SPAD, neither of which have been successful in the past. Frame rate is good and loading speed is very quick so I'm a very happy bunny for now. I'll still upgrade to X64 in the future as I still want to increase my RAM but that can wait.
  8. I'm sorry, I think you're confusing me with someone who knows what they're doing! I know nothing of DPI compatibility and override, I'm just a mere mortal doing his best.
  9. Right, I've sprung for a small (128GB) SSD just to try it out. I'll eventually go full SSD but in the meantime I'll be keeping the OS on the hard drive and loading FSX and all its accessories onto the SSD. It'll be a few days coming but I'll report back when I've completed everything.
  10. Definitely looks like SSD's the way to go. I've just been looking at the prices on the bay and they're much cheaper than I thought.
  11. I feel your pain Nikolai, I've got a huge stash that I'll probably never get around to building but I've had them so long I can't bear to part with them. Good luck with your memory upgrade. I assume you're using a 64-bit OS.
  12. How very dare you! Seriously, I'm fine with that. I'm going back to Windows XP because it's tried and trusted and my FSX add-ons are designed for XP, besides I've had no end of hassle trying to get FSX to run with Windows 10 so I'm chucking the towel in as far as that's concerned. A bottom end performance will suit me fine! (Quiet at the back!!) A good point, well presented. Meanwhile I've got two 500GB drives ready and waiting so I'll be using one to prove my point. Thanks for your comments Mark. Paul.
  13. I've had enough of trying to load FSX into Windows 10 so I'm going to come at it from a different angle by upgrading my XP pc. I've had to upgrade the power supply since it died so rather than bin it, I decided to make some canny purchases on our favourite auction site and came up with a new (to me) motherboard with an Intel Core Duo 3.16Ghz CPU and 4GB RAM, 8GB extra Ram and a 500GB hard drive. Once this is in I'll be installing XP 64bit so I can increase the RAM to 8GB. I don't intend connecting this PC to the internet, instead I'll be using the Windows 10 machine for downloads etc.; in the meantime I'm getting used to X-Plane 10 which, at the moment, seems to be behaving very well with all of my Saitek gear although the controls are a bit sensitive, so I might pull the trigger on X-Plane 11 at a later time. So once I've dragged myself kicking and screaming into 2010 I hope to be flying my FSX/XP Canberra, Lancaster, Tiger Moth, Mosquito and Vulcan. Happy days.:)
  14. Well that was short-lived! It seems I can't dual-boot an older OS onto a newer one, it has to be the other way around. I downloaded VirtualBox but I didn't find it intuitive and the 300+ page manual seems a bit OTT for my purposes. Looks like I'll just have to fix my old XP machine. Thanks Microshaft!:mad:
  15. Thanks PAULCRAIG but I've been there, done it and bought the t-shirt. To be honest the 1603 method is a little above my confidence level. To be honest I'll probably get hold of a "new" old machine to run Windows XP and find another use for the Windows 10 machine. Or I might explore dual booting.
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