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Hi, I was incredibly lucky and scored an AMD 6700 xt. Reading into it, it looks like the newer AMD cards sometimes have issues with DirectX 9 games. I was wondering if anybody out there had experience with running orbiter on the newer AMD cards and could provide insight? I plan on using the...

Hi all, I'm working on an atmospheric autopilot, and I need to be able to somewhat accurately predict the induced moments on a vessel from control surface deflections so I can tune the autopilot. I'm working with the as-included Delta Glider. For sum of forces and moments with no control...

Hi all, In an MFD I'm working on, I'm trying to allow the user to input a target base via oapiOpenInputBox, though I'm getting some strange behavior. The goal in this simple case is to simply open a dialog box, have the user input a string, and then print the string to the MFD. I have the...

Hi, I'm trying to draw a triangle on an MFD. After a few hours of searching google, the forum, and the API documentation, I can't seem to find any examples of implementation of the Polygon function in a sketchpad. virtual void Polygon (const IVECTOR2 *pt, int npt) // function definition from...

Hi all, It’s been a while, due to real life responsibilities, but I’m back, and am starting to get into coding my own vessels. I’m specifically interested in extending the ability of OrbConnect to my vessel in the same manner that it has been extended to XR vessels, so that I can command...

So after 10 years, it's time for a new joystick. I was looking at the Saitek X52, but I've tried it before, and my only concern is that it's not very stiff (my old logitech is pretty stiff, and I prefer it that way). Also, can you program the MFD on the throttle that comes with the X52? And I...

Hi all. I feel like this would be pretty easy to code...if a vessel touches down at faster than a certain speed, a puff of tire smoke appears. Since I know no C++ whatsoever, does anybody think they'd be able to do it?

So I defragged my HDD, and after it ran for several hours, I finally decided to cancel it. And then I looked at my hard drive space, and I lost about 8 GB of space!! The size is the same (298 GB), but 8 more GB had been converted from free to used space. My question is, what is this? I read...

Hi. A few years ago, Computerex released Orbiter Reentry Stream. One of the many great things about this addon is that it allowed reentry flames to be seen from inside the virtual cockpit. As we know, the XR2 MKII is coming out in the near future, so I was wondering, is anybody able and...

So, just wondering. Do you think computers will be able to run FSX with all settings max and 60 fps in 5-10 years?

Hello to all. I hope over the past 8 or so months, everybody has been able to use IMFD. It's time for an update, however. IMFD full manual version 2.0, cowritten by me and Tommy, will be released sometime in mid-May hopefully. Some changes: New Playbacks: Earth to Titan: slingshot around...

Hi. So my friend had a physics question: A satellite of 1000 kg in orbit around earth is at 5.6E6 meters in altitude and 7100 m/s at perigee (so Rp=11971000 and Vp=7100). His task was to use conservation of energy and conservation of angular momentum to find radial distance and velocity at...

Hi. I just accidentally installed OAVE by endeavourcmdr directly into my C:\ drive, because I forgot to specify the orbiter path :beathead: Can this screw anything up in my system files/windows etc.?

Hi everybody. This summer, I'm planning on building a computer to run orbiter. The specs I am looking at are: Intel duo core 3.0 GHz 4 GB RAM 500 GB HDD GeForce GTX 280 Windows XP If anybody has done this, or if anybody has built a computer, my questions are: Where/what motherboard do I get...

Hi, does anybody know how to change the angle of the ILS glideslope in the base config file?

On my laptop playing orbiter, I get decent framerates--for Vista. In the VC of the XR1 orbiting over Seth Eden's level 10 textures, with 16x anistropic and 16xQ antialiasing, I get around 50--sometimes as high as 60, sometimes as low as 40. I understand this is very good for a laptop with...

So I'm headed off to Georgia Tech tomorrow as a Freshman. I was wondering, is anybody on this forum at Georgia Tech? Maybe we could meet each other?

IMFD Full Manual just released at Orbithangar. Hope you all like it. Mark

PreludeII Pack has been released. There are PreludeII bases for 15 moons, and a scenario with a DGIV and a scenario with an XR2 Ravenstar for each base has been included. This will be one of the required addons for IMFD full manual, coming very soon.

Hi. I have the new Asus G51Vx, with an Intel 2.0 duo core, 4GB 800MHz DDR2 RAM, and a GeForce GTX 260M with 1GB. And Windows Vista home premium. I have the outer planets installed, and in a scenario when I'm on, say Titania (moon of Uranus), the framerate is 60, but when I turn the camera...