CRJ_simpilot Posted June 11, 2018 Share Posted June 11, 2018 Here's mine. I actually got a fantastic deal on the CH Products yoke and pedals. I was at a yard sale and they were sitting there for $25 for both. LOL!!! Said you have a deal! thought perhaps they wouldn't work, but I plugged them in and sure enough they worked! I couldn't believe my luck. I saved a ton of money. The curved screen which is a Samsung something or other I got for Christmas. I don't even remember what size it is now. The other screen is a Dell and I've had that for years. One day I'll buy the same curved screen to replace the Dell. Desktop is to the right. You can barely see it. And under the desk is a brand new 500 watt Cyberpower UPS. Works great. I killed the power to the power strip and my computer, two monitors and speakers stayed on like nothing ever changed. It said had about 15 minutes of run time which is fine. Enough time to safely shut down. If I win the lotto, I've seen some full fledged 737 cockpits on eBay I wouldn't mined owning. The last one I saw was going for the low rate of about 55k. Tell you the truth, I'd either build my own or have someone come out and do it all for me. BTW- That's not a huge crack pipe on the shelf. It's a boiling flask and next to that is a beaker. I have a few other pieces of glassware there two including a few Erlenmeyer flasks. No, I don't make meth. LMAO I'm a scientific minded person. They're decoration. I have a very large Erlenmeyer flask on my bookshelf for all my change. Geiger counter and thermal imager is in the cabinet. LOL Got an EMF meter too. Didn't find any ghosts in the house. :( OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger2k2 Posted June 12, 2018 Share Posted June 12, 2018 Here's mine. All home built to the tune of approx £1500. It took a year to build mainly due to my slow programming skills ! Lol.The co-pilots G1000 is a dummy as this all runs off one PC and I only have 4 graphics card ports to play with and also didn't want to push my system to the point of ruining my frame rates. Intel i5 @3.4Ghz,Gefore 1070GTX, 8Gb Ram .FSX. Cheers Stinger Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 12, 2018 Author Share Posted June 12, 2018 Not too shabby. :D OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger2k2 Posted June 13, 2018 Share Posted June 13, 2018 Not too shabby. :DI'd have preferred to pick it up for $25 like yours ! Cheers Stinger Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 13, 2018 Author Share Posted June 13, 2018 Yeah, that was lucky. I was always complaining while flying the PMDG 737 in FS2004 that I couldn't crab the plane for crap with my game pad. I could, but it just wasn't very easy or real. So I wished I had a real yoke and pedals. A few years latter at a yard sale I saw both sitting there. Dude said something to his wife like, "glad those are gone." I was like great they probably don't work. But I plugged them in and configured the button assignments and they worked. No problems at all. I don't know why he was selling them for so cheap. They go for a pretty penny on eBay. I have dual monitors, but I'm thinking about going VR. But to tell you the truth I've always wanted a drone (quad copter) and the one I'd like is a DJI Mavic Pro. You can combine virtual reality with the drone as well. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel.T Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 A little late on the topic but, here's mine. As I am flying only GA planes, mostly in the Pacific Coast area(with all Orbx basics & all FTX regions) and using Track IR, the little panel is perfect for my needs. I'd like to win the lottery and add a motion platform under.. ;-) Dan i7-4790K @4400 on Gigabyte Z97X (16gb), GeForce GTX 970 OC, Corsair Spec case Win7 Ult(64) on Samsung850 SSD(256), FSX+Accell on Samsung850 SSD(256), Track IR5 Saitek yoke/rudder radio/multi/switch panels, Logitech G13, GMap on Samsung tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stinger2k2 Posted June 14, 2018 Share Posted June 14, 2018 A little late on the topic but, here's mine. As I am flying only GA planes, mostly in the Pacific Coast area(with all Orbx basics & all FTX regions) and using Track IR, the little panel is perfect for my needs. I'd like to win the lottery and add a motion platform under.. ;-) [ATTACH=CONFIG]203553[/ATTACH] DanNicely lit up ! Sent from my SM-G935F using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Daniel.T Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 Thanks Stinger but it's nothing compare to your very nice "glass-cockpit" panel. Very impressive, really. i7-4790K @4400 on Gigabyte Z97X (16gb), GeForce GTX 970 OC, Corsair Spec case Win7 Ult(64) on Samsung850 SSD(256), FSX+Accell on Samsung850 SSD(256), Track IR5 Saitek yoke/rudder radio/multi/switch panels, Logitech G13, GMap on Samsung tab Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmatt569 Posted June 15, 2018 Share Posted June 15, 2018 You guys are a mazing! I'm totally ashamed to even think about my little laptop and joystick setup. You guys do give me something to aspire to though. Thanks for the pics. Bill Mattson [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Airspeed, altitude and ideas, bad to run out of all three at the same time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywatcher12 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 You guys are a mazing! I'm totally ashamed to even think about my little laptop and joystick setup. You guys do give me something to aspire to though. Thanks for the pics. No offense to anyone (all fun pics) but I much prefer to just see the everyday setups. Desk, joystick, the environment. CRJ_simpilot's setup is my fav here. The Southwest model, Trump, poster, that he uses a yoke over joystick, prefers two screens, all more of interest to me than full on cockpit setups. Hope some people will post more "typical" pics. You got a laptop Bill, I would love to see where you normally set it up and use FS. Mark Daniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 I don't really care what kind of setup one has. I created the thread for all to share their desktop flight Sims. So it's no biggie. I did an 18 minute long video with me rambling about all the crap on my desk, but the video caught a pic of my crappy bed and I didn't want that in the public domain. HAHAHA So I'll have to redo it, and this time I'll make it shorter. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 No offense to anyone (all fun pics) but I much prefer to just see the everyday setups. Desk, joystick, the environment. CRJ_simpilot's setup is my fav here. The Southwest model, Trump, poster, that he uses a yoke over joystick, prefers two screens, all more of interest to me than full on cockpit setups. Hope some people will post more "typical" pics. You got a laptop Bill, I would love to see where you normally set it up and use FS. Well, this is as ordinary as it gets: Apart from the bottle-conditioned Marston's Pedigree (I NEVER flightsim without it!) what we have here is: CH Yoke & Pedals Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 Intel i5-7600k 3.80GHz OC'd to 4.2GHz with NZXT X62 Kraken liquid cooler 16Gb Ram 1TB Samsung Hybrid SSD (C:\ drive) 2TB Samsung Hybrid SSD (D:\ drive) LG DVD/CDRW Gigabyte NVidia GTX1050Ti 4Gb Phanteks Enthoo Pro M case Alba L26M1 HDMI TV (Monitor) BTC Voice Command Smart Keyboard Logitech USB Mouse Windows 7 x64 with wufuc patch for Kaby Lake/Ryzen CPU's FS2004 v9.1 FSX sp2 Amazon Echo Spot (try: "Alexa, play PLANET ROCK" Oh, yeah!) Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 Apart from the bottle-conditioned Marston's Pedigree (I NEVER flightsim without it!) Care to share another one with you buddy?;);) Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 You're more than welcome! I owe a pint to quite a few guys here at Flightsim.com... Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 16, 2018 Author Share Posted June 16, 2018 Well, this is as ordinary as it gets: [ATTACH=CONFIG]203615[/ATTACH] Apart from the bottle-conditioned Marston's Pedigree (I NEVER flightsim without it!) what we have here is: CH Yoke & Pedals Gigabyte Aorus GA-Z270X-Gaming 7 Intel i5-7600k 3.80GHz OC'd to 4.2GHz with NZXT X62 Kraken liquid cooler 16Gb Ram 1TB Samsung Hybrid SSD (C:\ drive) 2TB Samsung Hybrid SSD (D:\ drive) LG DVD/CDRW Gigabyte NVidia GTX1050Ti 4Gb Phanteks Enthoo Pro M case Alba L26M1 HDMI TV (Monitor) BTC Voice Command Smart Keyboard Logitech USB Mouse Windows 7 x64 with wufuc patch for Kaby Lake/Ryzen CPU's FS2004 v9.1 FSX sp2 Amazon Echo Spot (try: "Alexa, play PLANET ROCK" Oh, yeah!) Wow, I didn't think a Kaby would work in 7. I don't care about updates myself, so no hack needed, but the fact it runs is impressive. Have you gotten any BSODs or any other abnormalities? I wouldn't mind a 7700k myself. It looks like it has a slight bump in single threaded ability vs my Skylake i5 6600k. Nice setup. I have the GIGABYTE AORUS GA-Z270X-Gaming K7. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tiger1962 Posted June 16, 2018 Share Posted June 16, 2018 Microsoft don't WANT you to get Windows 7 running on a Kaby! They want you to use Windows 10 instead... Which I did for 5 months until I got fed up of my favourite add-ons not working... So back to Windows 7. I had to work out how to load my mainboard drivers by keyboard commands only, because Win7 doesn't support Intel USB 3.0 or 3.1 extensible chipset - thank heavens I don't have a USB keyboard! I was getting constant 'Unsupported Hardware' warnings and Windows Update kept failing on 8 or 9 updates... so I googled the error and found this fix: https://github.com/zeffy/wufuc This removes the 'Unsupported Hardware' warnings and re-sets Windows Update - which DOES support the 'unsupported' hardware after all! No BSOD's or other crashes to report, but the CH Yoke & pedals don't wake up after putting the PC to Sleep or Hibernate. I launch the CH Control Manager on wake-up and go to Test/Calibrate, then click Rescan, which wakes up the Yoke and Pedals again. It's not THAT much hassle and well worth it! Tim Wright "The older I get, the better I was..." Xbox Series X, Asus Prime H510M-K, Intel Core i5-11400F 4.40GHz, 16Gb DDR4 3200, 2TB WD Black NVME SSD, 1TB Samsung SATA SSD NVidia RTX3060 Ti 8Gb, Logitech Flight Yoke System, CH Pro Pedals, Acer K272HL 27", Windows 11 Home x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted June 17, 2018 Author Share Posted June 17, 2018 Yeah, I have Windows 7 64 and 3.0 USB ports as well. When I installed my OS I could not use the keyboard or mouse due to the absence of the driver. Even USB 2.0 wouldn't work. So I had to burn the driver to CD with my laptop and use a PS/2 mouse (luckily this MOBO has a PS/2 port) and open the driver from there. Once the USB 3.0 driver was installed I had access to all USB ports. I don't use the control manager for my yoke and pedals. I found that FSX IDs them fine and can map the buttons. I should let you know I have read about numerous problems with PCs using hibernation or sleep mode. You really should just shut down the computer. I never use those low power settings. I'd rather have a fresh boot up without any issues. I think I'll slip stream the USB driver into my OS disk instead. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted August 15, 2018 Author Share Posted August 15, 2018 Upgrade. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
airkevin Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 Okay, but only because you asked. Captain Kevin Air Kevin 124 heavy, wind calm, runway four left, cleared for take-off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgf Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 I am utterly astounded by these photos. It would take a half hour's diligent work to get my desk anywhere near that clean. (My last professional job they would close my office door before bringing visitors through the area.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptrcam Posted March 11, 2019 Share Posted March 11, 2019 As ordinary as it gets.... part deaux. Unfortunately I can't drink and fly. Win 7 HP 64 bit, Zalman Z9 Plus case Asus P8Z77-V LX Mobo ,i7 3770 3.4ghz CPU 16GB DDR3 1600mhz ,GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 OC 1TB Seagate Hybrid SSHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRJ_simpilot Posted March 12, 2019 Author Share Posted March 12, 2019 Simple yet effective. OOM errors? Read this. What the squawk? An awesome weather website with oodles of Info. and options. Wile E. Coyote would be impressed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywatcher12 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 As ordinary as it gets.... part deaux. Unfortunately I can't drink and fly. Tis good! Have to ask, what happened to the X-52 joystick? Mark Daniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ptrcam Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 The X52 stick was OK at first then it got very 'notchy' especially in pitch up. I tried all the suggestions I could find regarding lubrication none of which made any difference. I also tried the trick of reducing spring pressure using cable ties to compress the spring, that turned the stick into a piece of floppy rubbish.... it now resides in a local landfill site. So , back to the Microsoft FF2, I've owned it for getting on 19 years, the best piece of sim hardware I've ever had. Oddly the trigger switch failed a couple of days ago so I had to move the function to a spare button on the X52. If the FF2 ever fails completely I may find it hard to find a replacement of such robustness and quality. Win 7 HP 64 bit, Zalman Z9 Plus case Asus P8Z77-V LX Mobo ,i7 3770 3.4ghz CPU 16GB DDR3 1600mhz ,GeForce GTX 660 2GB GDDR5 OC 1TB Seagate Hybrid SSHD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skywatcher12 Posted March 12, 2019 Share Posted March 12, 2019 If the FF2 ever fails completely I may find it hard to find a replacement of such robustness and quality. I have the same X-52 as well. Still going strong from release 15 years ago. If your FF2 fails, maybe consider the X-52 again. With Logitech buying out Saitek, they've been replacing some of the so-so aspects of the Saitek hardware. I'm a Logitech fan and have confidence in them so for me, it'll be another X-52 when the time comes. The FF2 has certainly done you well. Mark Daniels Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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