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  1. Im having issues downloading MYPRODUCT(s) using the Orbx Desktop software (Central) ? 

    Takes for ever then - never finishes . . . seems to be working then got ERROR - tried to Complete - Verify and Cancel, nothing seems to make progress.

    I want to start over and move the download to a different Drive into a library.

    Thanks for any feedback

     

    MNW

  2. On 4/28/2022 at 6:49 AM, John Dow said:

    Sounds like you might have a bad RAM stick?  Firstly, use the Windows Memory Diagnostic tool, and if it doesn't show any errors,  download a RAM test program like Memtest86.

     

    See this page for more detail:  https://www.tomshardware.com/how-to/how-to-test-ram

    Hmmm . . . beware of programmers with a tool belt.  Its almost never hardware and if it is you will see it everywhere.

  3. On 8/3/2022 at 4:00 AM, paulb said:

    Just posting to let off some steam :rolleyes:

     

    I have been using FSX, P3Dv4 and XP11 over the past decade and more - so I am now familiar them.

    Last year I purchased a new pc for MSFS. Because of family health issues and deaths I have been away from simming for a while.

    This last month I have found myself with free time to get back into simming. I started setting up P3D and XP first and even bought new add-ons for the new pc.

    This past week I have focused on MSFS. It is doing my head in! Trying to set up the different controls (especially camera view :unsure:) has become very frustrating.

    It is all very new and different.

     

    Despite having used pc's and sims since the early/mid eighties, I am starting to wonder if I am getting too old for trying something new.

    I seem to take ages setting up the basics or sometimes instead do it too quickly and then have to go back and correct things :(.

    No doubt MSFS is a great sim, and I will persevere for now, but I am starting to feel my age.............

     

    I have the same experience and I am a programmer... also a looong term flyer in DCS (SU27). 

    This is the definition of wanting to know the time and having to learn how to build a watch.

    Gotta lover the camera views, when did "translate" become a verb for movement.  Its hard to find good script writers.

    Im pretty sure there very easily found standard words for all of the camera movement text... move turn rotate forward back spin matriculate ... 90' 180 ' 360 '

    Zoom Focus etc.

     

    The process of creating most software seems to include designers from many separate countries and backgrounds all working separately (from Upwork ?) with various vocabularies and ways to interpret.  Some even read from right to left ... its no wonder the logic escapes some of us.  It never quite comes together.  MSFS has such goofy button assignment issues and some not included at all ... No WIPERS, No TOGA, No Take Off TRIM.  But they have "SET CABIN lights" . . . whisky Tango F... what does set mean. . . what exactly does Toggle mean.  To all of this as in the Princes Bride " I don thin dat mees wah u think id mees."  etc.  Perhaps they could define it.  Selecting Engine Reverse doesnt reverse the engines but Throttle Decrease does ! 

    But hey its only $60 gotta love that.

    I would suggest a heavy review prior to release by USERS !  ITs a management issue all the way.  Currently I am fighting with Orbx to run with XPLANE and MSFS not to

    crash for no reason,  and Assetto Corsa no longer loads from STeam, Why is there STEAM,  A spy in the sky a Tickitron for the SIM industry.

     

    The worst of it is I cant login to the MSFS FOrums because of a continual "OOPS... screen"  how embarassing for them.

    Every SIM has a platform and eco system that has spawned an industry for APP addons and 3D printer devices.  Hardware is always better than new software 

    All these Sims have a devious long term Con in mind unfortunately . . . All but XPLANE it would appear.  At least we are flying and driving ( some of the time).

    I think the best answer is there are so many people who enjoy this process due to bad habits they are trying shake.  The more time consuming the better. 

     

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