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Post by rodders1947 on Apr 25, 2018 1:06:47 GMT 2
Hi, Just had my first flight with this setup and all worked fine, just a couple of gauges that need re calibrating. I am using a 32" Samsung curved screen as main display, a 19" asus Monitor for instrument display and a 7" android tablet for the checklist and a 10" tablet for the GPS which is driven by a prog. called FLIGHT MAP by vine ripe software, a great prog. The Saitek panels are used with Spad.next and all work fine    |
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Post by rodders1947 on May 8, 2018 9:40:27 GMT 2
an update on my Simulator :- Finally got my simple simulator up and running reliably now. Using "Spad.Next" opened as "ADMINISTRATOR" to drive the 3 Saitek Panels. Using 2 Powered USB hubs, a 19" monitor for the gauges (Panel Builder on a separate laptop), dismantled the CH Yoke TPM and mounted under the bench and made a pull system using old car Radio Aerials and knobs I machined up out of alloy. Mounted the 2 grey knobs from the yoke, extended the leads, into the panel, all programmed with paid FSUIPC. Main screen is a 32" curved samsung. Gps screen is a Lenovo Tablet using Flight Map, by Vine Ripe Software and the Checklist screen is a 7" tablet. Main computer is a Gigabyte Sabre 15 laptop with a i7-7700HQ and GTX 1050Ti vid card with 8g on 2400 ddr4-2400 ram. It is not the greatest of setups but suits my kind of flying being mainly GA or small twins. Both laptop computers and the 2 tablets are running within a home wireless network.
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Post by AlbEagle on May 8, 2018 23:18:51 GMT 2
Looks great  I'm currently without a PC (actually with a pentium 4 LOL) I'm saving for a good gaming PC. |
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Post by rodders1947 on May 9, 2018 7:24:55 GMT 2
Hi Alb eagle, yeah the vid card seems to be the main requirement. I went for a medium type laptop as I regularly go overseas that was I can still have a fly but I should have gone for a higher GTX card than the GTX 1050 Ti I have now, everything else seems to work fine just in Xplane the scren does have problems keeping up.
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Post by AlbEagle on May 9, 2018 22:52:01 GMT 2
Laptops require better hardware than desktops to run the same software (game). Until now I have had an Asus Rog Strix RX480 graphics card and was quite happy with it getting good fps even with settings set almost all to high (x-plane) but i'm aiming at a GTX 1080 from Gigabyte now. With all these crypto currency minings the price of graphics cards has doubled and RAM isn't getting cheaper either.
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Post by rodders1947 on May 11, 2018 0:55:15 GMT 2
I am using a "Gigabyte Sabre 15" with i7-7700HQ cpu, DDR4-2400 8 gb ram and 128gb ssd drive + 1TB 7200 drive and the GTX 1050Ti vid card, all works great in FSX and P3d but does slow up in X-plane.
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Post by rodders1947 on May 23, 2018 6:52:48 GMT 2
Just had my first flight using Plan G, a free prog. for making flight plans. I have Plan G open on my laptop screen and FSX on a monitor attached to the laptop. Works wonderful and if you connect Plan G to live internet then all the aircraft around you are visible in FSX and also the standard fsx atc advises you. What a wonderful program and for FREE !!!
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Post by AlbEagle on May 24, 2018 1:11:02 GMT 2
I am going to check it out, sounds interesting 👍😉
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I'm currently without a PC (actually with a pentium 4 LOL) I'm saving for a good gaming PC.