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Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Starting up with FSX
DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 28 2005
Globetrotter
Everett 1500 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
Eight Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Come Fly with me!....."
Álvaro Obregón, D.f. México

2,341 legs, 17,108.1 hours
1,784 legs, 12,885.8 hours online
1,396 legs, 10,143.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 28 2010 22:14 ET by Isidoro Attie
Hi everyone.

First of all, happy hollidays and a great new 2011!!!!

The thing is, as my christmas gift, I gave myself a new system. All with the purpose to start flying FSX. Its an I7 870 at 2.93 G. 6GB or RAM and running Windows 7 64 Pro.

I used to fly FS9 with activesky, squakbox for online flying, and practically the whole 9 yards. I hear FSX is a little different in online flying and settings. My question is.....where should I start? Any notorious changes in programming from FS9 to FSX in terms of online flying? or anything I should now?

Any system tweaks to get a better performance out of FSX? I remember one had to tweak quite some things with the system to get FS9 to fly appropriatly such as a patch to use more memory, or Autostart to eliminate programs that just gave the CPU a headeach and caused FS9 to CTD....any way, things such as this.


Thank you again and enjoy your last 2010 week

ISI


DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 28 2005
Globetrotter
Everett 1500 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
Eight Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Come Fly with me!....."
Álvaro Obregón, D.f. México

2,341 legs, 17,108.1 hours
1,784 legs, 12,885.8 hours online
1,396 legs, 10,143.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 00:14 ET by Isidoro Attie
Two questions....

How do I set up Windows 7 64 so that I can run FSX on one monitor and the other monitor leave it for other programs such as FSBuild, Squawkbox, DVA ACARS....etc

How do I configure the mouse so that I can use the middle button to move the view from within the VC?

These two came up as I start install...

Cheers


DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 07:56 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
Mouse - SHIFT + O to set the mouse - same to turn it off

Your display settings - same as FS9


DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 28 2005
Globetrotter
Everett 1500 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
Eight Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Come Fly with me!....."
Álvaro Obregón, D.f. México

2,341 legs, 17,108.1 hours
1,784 legs, 12,885.8 hours online
1,396 legs, 10,143.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 09:39 ET by Isidoro Attie
Thnaks Andrew.

Shift + O moves the head around, but how can I change possition in the VC, moving up, down, forward or backward.

On the monitors, as soon as I launch FSX, I get my secondary monitor to turn black, and I cant move any of the other programs there (Squawkbox or any of the programs Im running in windows) Ive tryed pressing ALT + enter, but that only exits full screen.


DVA7577
First Officer, B777-200
OLP

Joined on July 18 2009
50 State Club
Triple Century Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

Buffalo, NY USA

334 legs, 637.3 hours
29 legs, 47.8 hours online
332 legs, 629.7 hours ACARS
5 legs, 9.4 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 11:25 ET by Jesse Kovacs
Isidoro Attie wrote:

Thnaks Andrew.

Shift + O moves the head around, but how can I change possition in the VC, moving up, down, forward or backward.


Holding the space bar while moving the mouse should make you look around. If you're talking about changing your vantage point, then use SHIFT+Backspace to move down, SHIFT+Enter to move up, CTRL+SHIFT+Backspace = Left, CTRL+SHIFT+Enter = Right. Forward is CTRL+Backspace and Backwards is CTRL+Enter.

If you go to Options->Settings->Controls menu, you should be able to find out all the controls, and re-assign as needed.

HTH!

Jesse Kovacs

First Officer, B777-200
DVA3794
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on December 03 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
Events Quadruple Century
US Mountaineer Club
Everett Bi-Millennium Club
Tri-Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Three Million Mile Club
Online Thirty Century

"volando libero......."
Antarctica

3,459 legs, 8,141.9 hours
3,131 legs, 7,039.5 hours online
3,251 legs, 7,332.7 hours ACARS
478 legs, 964.8 hours event
65 legs dispatched, 72.4 hours
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 11:26 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci
Right click the mouse and undock the window of your interest and drag it to the other monitor!

P.S. also make sure that the extended monitor box is ticked from Control Panel >Display



DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 15:01 ET by Andrew Kaufmann
Youre in full screen mode. Alt-enter to get into windowed mode and you should be good to go


DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 28 2005
Globetrotter
Everett 1500 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
Eight Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Come Fly with me!....."
Álvaro Obregón, D.f. México

2,341 legs, 17,108.1 hours
1,784 legs, 12,885.8 hours online
1,396 legs, 10,143.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on December 29 2010 22:30 ET by Isidoro Attie
Ok, and can one save a current view position and switch between view like with Active Camera?


DVA3794
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on December 03 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
US Coastal Club
Events Quadruple Century
US Mountaineer Club
Everett Bi-Millennium Club
Tri-Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Three Million Mile Club
Online Thirty Century

"volando libero......."
Antarctica

3,459 legs, 8,141.9 hours
3,131 legs, 7,039.5 hours online
3,251 legs, 7,332.7 hours ACARS
478 legs, 964.8 hours event
65 legs dispatched, 72.4 hours
 Posted onPost created on December 30 2010 07:36 ET by Vincenzo Musumeci
I use my yoke to switch views, also from the FSX taskbar if you click on help you have the option to scroll all the keyboard keys!


DVA9193
First Officer, B757-200

Joined on November 14 2010
50 State Club
Century Club

Western United States

144 legs, 268.9 hours
133 legs, 244.7 hours ACARS
 Posted onPost created on December 30 2010 21:20 ET by Joel Robinson
Andrew Kaufmann wrote:

Youre in full screen mode. Alt-enter to get into windowed mode and you should be good to go

On my computer I have to be in full screen to use the other monitor otherwise it just moves the window to the edge of the screen.


Joel Robinson

First Officer, B757-200
DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

Joined on March 28 2005
Globetrotter
Everett 1500 Club
Online Fifteen Century
Bi-Millennium Club
Eight Million Mile Club
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary

"Come Fly with me!....."
Álvaro Obregón, D.f. México

2,341 legs, 17,108.1 hours
1,784 legs, 12,885.8 hours online
1,396 legs, 10,143.9 hours ACARS
1 legs, 11.7 hours event
 Posted onPost created on January 01 2011 15:03 ET by Isidoro Attie
Guys.

In FS9, I used ActiveCam to save different VC views and assign them a specific view (ctrl+alt+1, ctrl+alt+....and so on) so that I could switch between two views during a flight, say If I wanted to switch between approach view and instruments view during a landing without having to use my keyboard numbers or arrows to move again.

Can I do this as well with DBS?



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