Post by connieguy on Feb 25, 2024 9:47:15 GMT -5
I have recently had to reinstall Windows 10 - with which I have had considerable problems - and shortly afterwards decided I had nothing to lose by going for Windows 11, as it was free. None of the problems have been with FS - like others I have tended to find that FS 9 runs better on the later systems than the earlier ones. However, after an installation or re-installation I always have to sort out the joystick settings in FS9 and FSUIPC. I use an ancient (at least 20 years old) CH 568 Combatstick, the CH rudder pedals, a CH throttle quadrant (but not for the throttles) and a VirtualFly TQ6 quadrant with dual levers for both throttle and rpm and a further pair which I use for the cowl flaps and the mixture.
Recently the mixture developed strange problems when using manual mixture (not automixture), and specifically with the Connie Team's L-049, one of my favourite aircraft. I set the mixture to AutoRich for take off and as I climbed the rpm needles began to oscillate slightly and then as I climbed higher increasingly wildly. The BMEP gauges, of course, did the same. Various alterations to the assignment and calibration of the levers in FSUIPC did no good at all, but I discovered that if I reduced the mixture strenth as I climbed the oscillations could be controlled. Fair enough, except that things aren't supposed to work like that. Another feature was that the keyboard controls for altering mixture strength no longer worked, and nor did mouse clicking on the levers on the flight engineer's panel. In the past I have always used both of them and the lever on the TQ6 to get a fuel to air ratio of 0.064.
Having almost reached my wits' end with this, my wits eventually came up with another option. Thinking that my FSUIPC dll might have got corrupted, I copied in the one from an entire FS 9 back up I made on an external hard drive in 2022. And normality has been restored. Only FS9 keeps me with Windows. Otherwise I would install Linux Mint like a shot.
Ken
