Post by stumpy on Mar 8, 2014 9:01:06 GMT -5
Hi FOLKS
After a long absence from FS for professional reasons, i'm now with more free time to dedicate again to this hobby...
But... today i'm feeling very hunhappy and miserable... [
My desktop computer where i had my fs instaled died, my powersource short-circuited and killed the motherboard, graphic card, etc... well... it's a new computer...
So... i decided to give it a try instaling Fs2004 on my laptop...a SAMSUNG SERIES 9 with windows 8.1 .
Well, my nightmare stated here... after installing FS2004, the airplanes didn't appear in the selection window... but... they flew... so... i didn't care...
Then i went o install my SAITEK Yoke, and double throttle quadrant (for 4 engined aircraft, with flaps and prop lever) and the pedals, got to saitek website, got the lastest drivers for Windows 8.1 tested... calibrated... everything seemed fine... But when i loaded the FS2004... everything went wrong...
Whe rudder works fine, but the breaking pedals don't... the aircraft is breaking fully all time (with the breaks inverted or non-inverted... it's the same) the trottles only go to 70% maximum and 20% minimum... the rest of the sistem works fine.
I troubleshooted all hipoteses... but i'm no tired... after 2 days fighting the computer... trying everything...
My conclusion is that perhaps is a problem of compatibility of FS2004 and Windows 8.1 . Also the simulator became very unstable crashing quite often lately...
What's your opinion? What Opertative System do you use? FS9? FSX? Should i buy the FSX Golden edition? But in the forums, they say it's the same rubbish...
Flying on FS with this old propliners was a good and cheap way to put away my working stress, as project director, when my wheels left the ground my problems seemed to go away for a while... till touching down again...
All i want is my FS back... are you running windows XP in your machines to get the FS2004 working? Or running the FSX on later versions (7 or 8)?
Any fix or something for FS2004?
In the negative case to both questions... and with the end of Microsft simulation division... what should be the simulator do move to? X-plane?
Cheers...
LUis
After a long absence from FS for professional reasons, i'm now with more free time to dedicate again to this hobby...
But... today i'm feeling very hunhappy and miserable... [
My desktop computer where i had my fs instaled died, my powersource short-circuited and killed the motherboard, graphic card, etc... well... it's a new computer...
So... i decided to give it a try instaling Fs2004 on my laptop...a SAMSUNG SERIES 9 with windows 8.1 .
Well, my nightmare stated here... after installing FS2004, the airplanes didn't appear in the selection window... but... they flew... so... i didn't care...
Then i went o install my SAITEK Yoke, and double throttle quadrant (for 4 engined aircraft, with flaps and prop lever) and the pedals, got to saitek website, got the lastest drivers for Windows 8.1 tested... calibrated... everything seemed fine... But when i loaded the FS2004... everything went wrong...
Whe rudder works fine, but the breaking pedals don't... the aircraft is breaking fully all time (with the breaks inverted or non-inverted... it's the same) the trottles only go to 70% maximum and 20% minimum... the rest of the sistem works fine.
I troubleshooted all hipoteses... but i'm no tired... after 2 days fighting the computer... trying everything...
My conclusion is that perhaps is a problem of compatibility of FS2004 and Windows 8.1 . Also the simulator became very unstable crashing quite often lately...
What's your opinion? What Opertative System do you use? FS9? FSX? Should i buy the FSX Golden edition? But in the forums, they say it's the same rubbish...
Flying on FS with this old propliners was a good and cheap way to put away my working stress, as project director, when my wheels left the ground my problems seemed to go away for a while... till touching down again...
All i want is my FS back... are you running windows XP in your machines to get the FS2004 working? Or running the FSX on later versions (7 or 8)?
Any fix or something for FS2004?
In the negative case to both questions... and with the end of Microsft simulation division... what should be the simulator do move to? X-plane?
Cheers...
LUis