Jabo

The game is available as a download from Ubisoft for $9.95. Check the link here. ~S~ Jabo

Unlikely, m8, that copy of XP will have a licence key attached to the laptop, and will probably have been modified to refuse to install on non-HP hardware. You could pick up a copy of XP Pro without spending too much, although you need to bear in mind that only the 64 bit version will be able to use all of that 6Gb of RAM you're proposing. ~S~ Jabo

Thanks for the suggestions chaps. OK, all working again now, it appears that the power switch connection was already faulty as five minutes with a soldering iron this evening and hey presto! And now for the apology part - I, Jabo, wish to apologise to all the DDz who were online last night and witnessed my outburst. All I can offer in my defence is that I was under significant duress so if I offended anybody, I'm sorry. ~S~ Jabo

Here's the thing. Yesterday (Wednesday) the PC was working great, no problems, everything ticketyboo. Today, nothing, zip, nada...well, you get the picture. Blasted machine won't even POST. I've checked the power to the PSU, PSU connections to mainboard, removed/reseated the memory and the graphics card. Removed every non-essential component, still nothing. HEEEEELP! Not possible to fly tonight as a result - seriously not happy. ~S~ Miffed of Yorkshire# PS. Now, as result of having the case in bits, the front of the case has fallen over and yanked both wires from the power switch AAAARRGGGHHHH. Question, if I short the two wires from the power switch, does that fool the system into thinking that the switch has been operated? PPS. Stuff it. I'm going to bed. Any suggestions for tomorrow gratefully received.

Careful Jim, you'll harm your reputation for omnipotence... Nice bit of software though... ~S~ Jabo

Oh, you're using reflectors, didn't take that into consideration.

How are you getting on Mike? I can hop onto TS early if you need more help? ~S~ Jabo

Hang in there Mike. Just as an addendum to Roger's post above, I've now tested my 'fixed' patch in XP (32 & 64 bit) and Vista Home Premium (32 bit) without problems, so hopefully it'll help you out. ~S~ Jabo

Not entirely sure that's going to work for you m8, surely the LEDs have to be attached to either your headset or cap to register the movement of your head? I've used a vx1000 with a couple of small squares of floppy disk placed in front of the CCD (had to remove the IR filter too). Then built a 'track clip' with 3 IR LEDs which is attached to my headset. The camera only 'sees' the LEDs (because of the floppy disk material), and the movement of the LEDs relative to each other is translated by the FreeTrack software into view slewing in the game. Oh, and I've powered this via a spare USB port (had to place a small resistor in series with the LEDs to ensure the voltage was dropped down a little, but otherwise no problems). ~S~ Jabo

You can tell it's not an airshow over here. In the UK it would be a) raining and there would be a cluster of DDz under the wing trying to keep dry.

Not sure this is correct, but would you not be using only half the bus width under 32 bit? ~S~ Jabo

Not in the UK m8, most of the high street retailers ship Vista 32 bit as standard. ~S~ Jabo

Nice one Smash - now get that 'DD_' on the front of your callsign! ~S~ Jabo

Sid, would it be possible on the x52 to map the three modes to takeoff/general/landing? If so, presumably you would be able to give yourself a suite of general settings for each part of the flight, which could then be modified if necessary? ~S~ Jabo

Yep, found that after googling another forum. Although I have installed the game in Program Files, that is where I'm keeping the vanilla install. I then copied the game folder to c:\ and updated that copy with the mods. Oh, I've turned off the UAC too. ~S~ Jabo

Yeah, I'm hearing good things about Windows 7, in fairness, I only went for Vista because I managed to buy a copy of Home Premium upg (produced before MS changed the package so you couldn't do a clean install

Here's an interesting problem. Having just installed and updated Vista, I'd quite like to be able to install the game now, but the blasted thing won't autorun, and clicking setup.exe doesn't seem to help either. I've had this problem in XP before, but by clicking various things in the root folder of the disk always managed to get the thing to run. These tricks don't seem to work in Vista, so can someone suggest a solution? Hope so!!! ~S~ Jabo Never mind, got it sorted. Looks like I have a lot to learn about Vista.

LOL m8, but anyway, Vista seems to be working out OK at present. Getting an Experience Index of 5.2 and a PassMark of 806 so I'm pretty happy with that. Once I've got the game installed, I'll do a fps check on the Black Death track... ~S~ Jabo Oh, and Linksys have sorted the drivers for my WMP300N - no more trailing wires!

You can do this m8, just find any post from Rico and click 'Salute' (just below where it says his name). ~S~ Jabo P.S. I'd like to add my own thanks to Rico for assisting me in getting started with developing some of my own skins for the planes here...

Well, just found the show-stopper I was worried about. Thanks to Bill and co. there's no support for Windows Live in XP64, which means I can't play some of the newer games which need it (GTA IV for example). So I'm either going back to the 32-bit version of XP or switching to Vista, not sure which yet. ~S~ Jabo

I've tried the belkin one m8 and it works well, the fact that you have three in-game switchable modes on it means you can use it in the same way as the X52. ~S~ Jabo

Wouldn't suggest it otherwise m8