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WayneHinton1
Hi Andre,
I hope you can help me with a recent, very puzzling, problem.
I currently have FSX installed on my Win 7 and Win 10 (Cyberpower gaming) desk top computers, with SP 1 installed. The former has been installed with numerous aircraft and scenery addons and working properly for many years, although I have not played with it for a year or more as I have become involved in combat flight sims. I recently decided to see if they were still playing okay after the long dormant period. I started the game using my desktop icon and it appeared to be loading normally, first going to the FSX splash screen but after a minute or two I got two error messages concerning third party addons (FSUIP DLL and Active Sky Next) both of which had been working the last time I played the game. I clicked No to the option to run the programs as this was not recommended. I then progressed on for a minute or two then got a Fatal Error message and the loading stopped and I had to exit. I tried this two or three times with the same result. I finally gave up and exited the game. I tried again the next day and after one or two tries I got to the setup page and tried a free flight scenario, using my standard setup of Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick, Saitek rudder pedals and Saitek throttle quadrant. The only change was that sometime over the past year the throttle slider on my joystick had broken off so I was now using the throttle lever on my throttle quadrant for power changes, and had changed the axis in the Settings/Controls section to reflect this. When I first tried FSX on my Win 7 desktop, where it had worked perfectly before, I now found that, after selecting my F6F5 Hellcat (a Vertigo add on from years ago), when the screen finished loading (I left the default Friday's Harbor location in as I wanted an air start) I saw that the extended landing gear (the default screen loading) was cycling up and down in a stuttering motion between partially raised and partially extended. No amount of toggling with the G key produced a fully up or down position. When going into the VC I noticed that the landing gear handle was moving up and down by itself and would not reset. Trying to drag it manually up or down with the mouse produced no result. I tried selecting other planes, including those from different third party addons and at least one from the default library, but they all now have this problem, where before it did not exist. I then noticed that when I tried to fly the plane in spite of the cycling gear, the throttle handle on my quadrant, which had worked fine before in Il-46 and still does, would now, in the fully forward and aft positions, not actually produce full or idle power, but instead only about 76%-27%. The same with other aircraft. I next tried FSX on my Win 10 Cyberpower gaming desk top, using the same aircraft. I found that now the gear will retract and extend normally, but I still have the problem with the throttle. I can drag the throttle to full or idle power with the mouse or by using the f4 and f1 keys after using the throttle lever, but this is not intuitive and does not allow for incremental increases/decreases especially if the throttle has been cut on approach but only a little power is needed. I exited again and tried to load th game the next day and this time could not get in. I tried uninstalling the two programs which were producing the original error messages and when I had done this I no longer saw them when loading the game but I continue to get the Fatal Error Messages. Do you have any thoughts on this?
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I hope you can help me with a recent, very puzzling, problem.
I currently have FSX installed on my Win 7 and Win 10 (Cyberpower gaming) desk top computers, with SP 1 installed. The former has been installed with numerous aircraft and scenery addons and working properly for many years, although I have not played with it for a year or more as I have become involved in combat flight sims. I recently decided to see if they were still playing okay after the long dormant period. I started the game using my desktop icon and it appeared to be loading normally, first going to the FSX splash screen but after a minute or two I got two error messages concerning third party addons (FSUIP DLL and Active Sky Next) both of which had been working the last time I played the game. I clicked No to the option to run the programs as this was not recommended. I then progressed on for a minute or two then got a Fatal Error message and the loading stopped and I had to exit. I tried this two or three times with the same result. I finally gave up and exited the game. I tried again the next day and after one or two tries I got to the setup page and tried a free flight scenario, using my standard setup of Thrustmaster T.16000M joystick, Saitek rudder pedals and Saitek throttle quadrant. The only change was that sometime over the past year the throttle slider on my joystick had broken off so I was now using the throttle lever on my throttle quadrant for power changes, and had changed the axis in the Settings/Controls section to reflect this. When I first tried FSX on my Win 7 desktop, where it had worked perfectly before, I now found that, after selecting my F6F5 Hellcat (a Vertigo add on from years ago), when the screen finished loading (I left the default Friday's Harbor location in as I wanted an air start) I saw that the extended landing gear (the default screen loading) was cycling up and down in a stuttering motion between partially raised and partially extended. No amount of toggling with the G key produced a fully up or down position. When going into the VC I noticed that the landing gear handle was moving up and down by itself and would not reset. Trying to drag it manually up or down with the mouse produced no result. I tried selecting other planes, including those from different third party addons and at least one from the default library, but they all now have this problem, where before it did not exist. I then noticed that when I tried to fly the plane in spite of the cycling gear, the throttle handle on my quadrant, which had worked fine before in Il-46 and still does, would now, in the fully forward and aft positions, not actually produce full or idle power, but instead only about 76%-27%. The same with other aircraft. I next tried FSX on my Win 10 Cyberpower gaming desk top, using the same aircraft. I found that now the gear will retract and extend normally, but I still have the problem with the throttle. I can drag the throttle to full or idle power with the mouse or by using the f4 and f1 keys after using the throttle lever, but this is not intuitive and does not allow for incremental increases/decreases especially if the throttle has been cut on approach but only a little power is needed. I exited again and tried to load th game the next day and this time could not get in. I tried uninstalling the two programs which were producing the original error messages and when I had done this I no longer saw them when loading the game but I continue to get the Fatal Error Messages. Do you have any thoughts on this?
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