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Two Problems
EHM-2383 Ian:
Thanks Alexander. Am sticking with FS9 for the moment as it is familiar. Intend to start on FSX later on when I get fully to grips with new PC.
EHM-2383 Ian:
Success didn't last very long, did it?
With my previous computer I used World of AI for AI aircraft and quite liked this for ease of installing and uninstalling. However I had no sucess in installing aircraft tonight. It said they had been installed but were not. I note that the installer needs a Microsoft download .NET Framework 2.0 but when I tried to install this I got the message that it was not compatible with a 64 bit system! Stuck again!
Any advice on this or an alternative eg. Project PAI packages?
If these are not going to be possible maybe I have to go for the payware option?
Ian
EHM-2383 Ian:
PS Any views - positive or negative - on Ultimate Traffic - for FS9?
EHM-1465 Dominic:
Hi Ian,
As a non-techie I'm guessing that Microsoft .NET framework 2 has been updated, I think it's on version 3.something now. As such if you get the latest 64 bit compatible version for your system, I think this should do what the World of AI Installer needs it to do from the earlier version. I'd like to think so anyway :D Then try and reinstall.
The other thing to check is that the WOAI installer might well be installing everything where FS would normally be (unless you pointed it to new FS location during install) so check Microsoft Games/Flight Simulator 9 location for all the necessary files and transplant them into your new FS location as I'm guessing from ealrier threads this is different?
I use WOAI myself so I can't offer opinion on any payware version, always found freeware to be great ;)
EHM-1242 Stef:
Hi Ian,
Running a Samsung 24" widescreen here (albeit on fsx nowadays, but shouldn't make a difference). 2D panels are made for certain resolutions only (say 1280x1024, which is 4:3 format). If you display this on a (in my case) 1920x1080 resolution monitor (16:9 format) ofcours this will cause stretching in full-screen. Luckily lot's of clever people have over the past years created modified panel bitmaps (and panel.cfg's) for the most common panel/aircraft packages for them to be able to be correctly displayed in 2D cockpit. Avsim.com, Flightsim.com and also the panel/aircraft-developers and their respective forums (read: other users) are your friends in this! ;)
Regarding your dotNet framework: let Windows update run and it will normally include the latest dotNet version updates for your system (check though!). By the way, if i am not mistaken, Win7 (any version) already comes with MS dotNet framework pre-installed. Considering that latest version is 3.5 something-and-a-bunch-of-updates which is already in Win7, dotNet version 2 is not required for you to be installed. It's all there already. Am running Vista 64 bit (ultimate) myself and have no problems whatsoever with dotNet, therefore doubt if your problem is specifically 64bit related, but rather that your errormessage is the M$-way of telling you you already have a higher version installed and therefore don't need to install this one.
When pointed at the correct location of FS during install (basically what Dominic also mentioned already) WoAI packages always worked fine on my FS9 system. Don't know, perhaps running the Flight1 utility may help again here? And also (just making sure here) make sure to select the correct FS-version in the WoAI installer because the folder structures in FS9 and FSX are rather diffent when it comes to installs within the FS-folder (should your FS9 folder now happen to have a sub-folder 'SimObjects' then this might very well have been the problem...)
On FS9 used to use WoAI to complement and/or update my Ultimate Traffic installed. (Payware) UT schedules were rarely renewed and therefore the (newer) WoAI packages were over-time and where applicable replacing the respective UT schedules in my system, however UT was kept to fill the gap for the airlines for which WoAI was not offering any packages. Bit of a puzzle at times but always worked nice for me for filling my virtual skies.
Presently on FSX am now using Ultimate Traffic 2 (FSX only!) because it's the only package which offers scheduled flights modelled after real world flightschedules (the other alternatives, well, don't), plus since UT2 is injecting their traffic through FSX own SimConnect the AI traffic can also be controlled route-wise, and so about 2/3rd of the UT2 AI traffic follows (albeit default FSX) jet airways! Really cool to watch and looks much more life-like! ;D
Hope the above helps you out, at least a little bit.
Cheers,
Stef
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