TyrianRed

Title kind of says it all. It's a cool feature of XPX and I'd like to make more use of it.

I know KSEA has some pretty dramatic slopes to its runways, but most of the other airports I seem to fly out of are very flat and boring, so I'm looking for more places to try!

(Of course there's TFFJ, but I don't seem to have a very good scenery mod for that one.)

Edit: Solved by installing AMD chipset drivers, which updated the SATA AHCI drivers.

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Installed a new SSD (Samsung Evo 250GB). No HDD plugged in.

Motherboard is a Gigabyte 890gpa-ud3h (3 years old?).

SSD plugged into SATA 3.0 port #0.

First set BIOS to AHCI mode (although ports 5-6, which has DVD drive, is set to "as type IDE". otherwise it wouldn't recognize the windows install disc).

Installed Windows 7 SP1.

Installed Samsung Magician: it claims AHCI Mode is Deactivated. Also, "SATA Interface: N/A - unable to detect SATA interface details". Uh oh.

Checked Device Mange

Edit: Solution so far has been to modify the Standard/Viewpoints/View/Screen-Centers/"view center Y,panel view" value in PlaneMaker (down from 0,600 to 0,400 for the Cessna). I admit I have no idea what that does.

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Apologies for the stupid question, but I'm having difficulty seeing in the 3D cockpit view.

TL;DR: the panel is taking up too much of the valuable viewing real-estate, and my attempts to change the view keep getting reset after I use the view joystick.

Firstly, I'm using a xbox360 controller (no snark please) which works surprisingly well. The left stick is used for controls, and the right stick is used for viewing (a poor man's TrackIR if you will

Hi all! There's a guide to getting started with FSX, but I couldn't find a similar guide for XPX. Any advice for a newcomer?

What are the must-haves?

Textures?

Meshes?

Scenery?

Performance mods?

Freeware airplanes?

Payware airplanes?

I intend to use XPX for VFR flying and IFR on VATSIM. I don't have much money to throw at payware, except maybe a quality IFR plane or two for VATSIM.

TL;DR: Picture (There's suppose to be a command module in this picture).

I've orbited the Mun, I've crashed into the Mun, I've even landed and taken off from the Mun. But I've never returned a single Kerbal back to mother Kerbin... and that still hasn't changed. D:

But this time, I made a lander with a wider base, more fuel for the return trip, and the great Engineering Redux mod... and after setting course for the Kerbal Space Center, how hard could I fuck up a parachute landing?

Turns out, I had two goes at it.

Pucker Moment One. Who knew I'd fall faster?

And well, suddenly [this](http

... apparently. Hell if I know. I was looking at my graveyard and noticed the corpse of - not one - but two forgotten beasts.

Well that wasn't what I was expecting!

So what are your stories of killing FBs?

(Also, I just killed my 3rd, mostly just using a single fisher dwarf. You'd think the FB would be immune to its own cloud of FB boiling extract, but apparently not?).

Hey all, I've become addicted to DF after reading the NYT article on the game, and I've been doing "decent" so far (although I still have tons of questions). One thing that completely eludes me is the whole tamed animal industry. Here goes:

I want cows/horses/etc. for their meat/hides/bones, so I set them to a pasture outside and occasionally butcher one at a sustainable rate. So far, so good.

Goblins arrive and butcher everything outside. Damn it.

Is there a better way to have a tamed animal industry? Can I put pastures underground? Can I stuff all my animals in cages an

I just bought a 955 BE + 890gx motherboard (this one) for a cheap, but future proof-ish, gaming computer.

But now I need to pick out RAM for it, and I had some questions I was hoping you guys could help clear up. I want 4GB at ~$100-110.

#1) DDR3 1600 or DDR3 1300? My mobo lists DDR3 1866 (OC)/1333/ 1066. Does this matter? Would I have to force 1600 to be slower, or could I make the mobo faster? Should I get 1333 over buying a 1600 and making it ru

First time computer builder here and I want to use USB3, SATA3, and a Phenom x4, which (I think) means using either a 890fx or a 890gx (also I'm gonna use a 5770 GPU).

I realize that the 890gx has an on-board GPU which is the "real" difference, but I'm confused why it's ~$60 cheaper!

Here are the newegg links:

890fx.

890gx.

The 890fx tends to have more PCI slots. Is that a $60+ difference?

Some more questions: most of the gx bo

TL,DR: Title explains it all.

I'm looking to buy a monitor in the next few days for gaming/internet video purposes and I wanted to find a site or two whose reviews I could trust (since I am nowhere near a store I can visit). Something of the quality of jonnyguru. My price range is low-ish ($200-300) and I realize that quality can really fluctuate at that design point.

Thanks.