Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Help with Win 7, FS2004 and FSX

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Help with Win 7, FS2004 and FSX

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Captain, B757-200
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Posted onPost created on June 24 2013 16:42 ET by William Coburn

Installed Windows 7 a couple months back. AMD 2 Athlon dual core 3.2 GH, 16 Gig ram, NVidia GeForce 520 video card with tow monitors and two 500 Gig hard drives and a 1TB drive. Both processor and GPU are overclocked but not to the maximum. Lately, in FS2004, the B767 quit showing flap movement on the gauge but has voice saying flaps are where they are to be but do a visual, no flaps. In FSX, same plane, flaps work just great but now, after a couple test flights, have no autopilot, alt hold, nav, and appr. quit trying when the f/d switch refused to work. Deleted the aircraft, shut down and rebooted then re-installed, rebooted and still the same trouble. Both flight simulators are on a separate hard drive that's dedicated to flight simulator programs. At a loss now, the only thing I can think of is to reformat the hard drive and start over. Any suggestions before I go that far?

William Coburn

Captain, B757-200

DVA11563
First Officer, MD-88

Joined on June 17 2013

Weißwasser, Saxony Germany

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2 legs, 4.8 hours online
4 legs, 7.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 24 2013 17:03 ET by Zeljko Budovic

What windows 7 you have, 64bit? It should be 64bit. Video card is weak for FSX, and overclocking video card will not help FSX/FS9. Anyway, try this troubleshooting steps before you start from the scratch:

- Update FSUIPC to latest version: http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/

- check / update Direct X: http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=35
+ Dirext X SP1 http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=5582

- check / install "ENU (vcredist_x86.exe)" here: http://archive.msdn.microsoft.com/KB961894/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=2067

- for your GPU, install one older NVIDIA Driver, try with 301.42

- for fs9 and Level D issues, install this: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bzvpr4a4f72pdm8/dx7vb.rar

Zeljko Budovic

First Officer, MD-88

Posted onPost created on June 24 2013 18:46 ET by William Coburn

Thanks for the assistance Zeljko, but things went from bad to worse. Now getting a fatal error when trying to access FSX and still having the same trouble with the B767 fleet on FS2004. Looks like it is time to start all over again.

William Coburn

Captain, B757-200

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