Saying hi from the cold north

[Dionysus]

Howdy y'all.

I had an unfortunate easter present of chickenpox (co-workers kids came in for the day, and suprise, i've never had it) So I've now got at least 2 weeks of time where I cant see anyone..

So I went looking for something interesting to spend my time, and came across this! Awesome beyond belief - how did i never find it before!

Anyway. I just deleted my first installation and am getting a careful list of addons, and learning about how to install everything before I (again) corrupt my install

Does anyone have any tips about addons or compatibility issues for win7?

 

[N_Molson]

to the forums !

 

[Stevodoran]

Hey their to the O-F!! As far as i know, their is no issues with win7

 

[Fabri91]

Welcome to the forums!

 

[deltawing777]

Welcome to the forums. Reguarding Win7 The only thing I might recommend would be when you start orbiter and get to the launchpad goto the video tab and put a checkmark in the box where it says "Disable hardware Pageflip" This will keep your win7 screen from a blinking/flashing effect. Other then that no issues other then maybe a addon conflict. (installing more then one addon at a time) Which is more or less something you just have to experiment with.

 

[Rtyh-12]

to the forums!

Running Orbiter on Windows 7? Hum, you will get low framerates. Try Vistaboost (it works on 7 as well, don't worry ) Here's the link.

 

[PhantomCruiser]

Greetings! And welcome to the forum!
I've been very impressed with the Jones Soft Generic Mod Enabler (easy enough to find).
It'll let you add and drop add-ons with a mouseclick, it only takes a few minutes to figure out how to use it. It really helps me 'manage' my Orbiter installation.

 

[SiberianTiger]

and have a good stay!

 

[Izack]

Hello, and

I've heard of a common Win7 problem with the screen flickering, that can be fixed by checking 'disable hardware pageflip' in the Video tab of the launchpad.

Edit: :ninja:

 

[Jarvitä]

Anyway. I just deleted my first installation and am getting a careful list of addons, and learning about how to install everything before I (again) corrupt my install

Does anyone have any tips about addons or compatibility issues for win7?

You might want to use a revision control system like git or mercurial to manage your addons. Makes it much easier to only load what you want and disable/remove incompatible addons.

 

[HAL9001]

:tiphat:

 

[garyw]

You might want to use a revision control system like git or mercurial to manage your addons. Makes it much easier to only load what you want and disable/remove incompatible addons.

Good suggestion. I'm using a Windows version of Subversion for quite a few different things and it makes keeping Orbiter backups so much easier.

 

[Dionysus]

Oh wow. Thanks for the pageflip setting - made me able to run in fullscreen mode!. Even more awesome!.

Now I'm installing the sound and other "required" mods from The Add-on page

 

[diogom]

to the Forum!