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Hey,
Sorry to post back late. But I play FS2004 quite a lot but thrown
away my Logitech Wingman Digital when the rudder twist broke
.
Now I don't have a hat switch on the usb joystick and don't want to
invest in another joystick until I get my hands on a 6600GT video
card.
I want to know, with say, only keyboard, how can you look around in
the virtual cockpit view? I don't mean zooming and panning, but
actually twisting looking around? I used to do it with the hat
switch. Thanks.
BTW, I had the crackling even with the SBLive! which I think has to do
more with Windows Media Codecs. I find that if I run it in windowed
mode, the spot view crackles. That was before I do the p4p800 upgrade
and was in the CUSL2-C.
After recent 2 formats due to silly SP2 (long story), the crackle's
gone, but yesterday it happened again in windowed mode, and only in
windowed mode when I look left/right. Just FYI.
Man I can't wait till I get the new video card cuz I got another 17"
CRT waiting to be plugged in
"outtapng@vz.com" <PiingLough> wrote in message news:<mi03j095eu8fmi9pnn8a02eb0b31ed8p21@4ax.com>...
> On Sun, 29 Aug 2004 01:53:59 -0400, Elly <Elly@helpdesk.com> wrote:
>
> >I had never known that the sound on P4P800 can drag CPU performance
> >until I read your post. Mine is a P4P800 Deluxe bought one year ago. I
> >never bother with the sound since it sounded okay to me. I'll add a PCI
> >sound card to check it out.
>
> If using the MB soundchip for lighter games/sims, It's not that bad,
> but really struggles with newer games, etc.
>
> The main problem I had was with FS-2004 flight sim, which really
> pushes the whole computer, because of the heavy graphics and sound.
>
> Disabling the MB soundchip and installing an SB Live helped in the
> following ways (with FS2004).
>
> 1. Fixed 'crackling' sound-static for aircraft-sounds and ATC/pilot
> voices.
> Before getting the PCI-card, for some unknown reason, if I changed
> graphic resolution (to any other setting, then back again), the
> static-pops went away. With the SB-Live I don't have to do this
> anymore. It used to be really big headache changing resolutions every
> single time.
>
> 2. FS2004 ATC voice-chatter, when 'extremely' busy, used to really
> ruin frame-rate (down to 1fps! with a 3.3GHz CPU). I think it was
> overloading the MB soundchip; It doesn't happen anymore.
>
> 3. Aircraft views (panning left, right, back, up) from inside plane,
> used to pause the sim for about .75-seconds. Now panning is almost
> instantaneous.
>
> 4. When ground/aircraft scenery got very complex, every time an
> ATC/pilot voice spoke, there was a small and jerky 'stutter'. That's
> almost completely eliminated.
>
> The PCI card just sounds better too. Much more bass and treble to
> work with too. I found a good prices at pricwatch.com, searching for
> 'sb live digital'.
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