SquidgyB

Hello Atelophobia, I think I can help somewhat, as I have quite a similar setup to yours, though it's been, erm, augmented a bit! Firstly I have my PC setup with Vista 64, I haven't tried Windows 7 yet, I'm not entirely sure I will to be honest. I'm having (relatively) low framerates considering my PC as well: a QX9650 running at 3.6Ghz, memory at 1600-7-7-7 and a GTX 260 at 685/1455/1100 with the screen at 1800x1440, admittedly at max settings, but I'd still expect a higher framerate than 20-30 in the cockpit. Anyhow, back to the controllers; I too have the MS FFB2. This works with no drivers at all in Vista, and for me at least is set up pretty much perfectly as it is. There's no auto centering in game other than the centering applied by BS, so trimming works well (or at least it will once I get my head around it!). My x35t was a very old version, without USB support. so I gave it USB functionality using one of these: http://www.leobodnar.com/products/BU0836X/ Basically I ripped out all the wiring and electronics, replaced the pots and switches and wired them all up to the BU0836X. So really I can't help you with the x35t as mine works quite differently to yours. I like the idea of fitting a different stick to the FFB2, I've been looking at picking up a second hand saitek stick for that purpose (the x35t came from ebay as just the throttle unit). The BU0836X might have been a little expensive considering a whole HOTAS unit might have been just as cheap in some places, but I had the FFB2 already, and using another ebay find and some ingenuity I've made a set of rudder pedals from an excercise stepper (!) and a potentiometer wired up to the BU0836X, so that's saved me a fair bit.

Hope you do well with the Q9650. I got the QX9650 7-8 months ago, and you're certainly right about one thing... It'll sh*t over the P4 from a GREAT height! When I got mine, I got the highest end Asus board at the time, a P5E3 Premium (if I remember right) and had nothing but problems with it. Apparently a lot of the other boards are fine, but many, many people were having issues with this one, even at stock speeds. Anyhow, I have a DFI X48-T3RS now, and though it's not exactly the most intuitive to overclock (for quads in any case), it's certainly stable at stock, and does a marvellous job with a GTX260 in tow. I've been put off Asus from the experience I had with that board, in particular the customer support, lack of BIOS updates, and the quality of the updates when they did arrive. Don't let me put you off, mind, it's entirely possible that other boards are worth getting. I hear the workstation boards in particular are fantastic overclockers, and are rock solid. Add to that the fact that you have the next revision/stepping of CPU from mine, and I'm sure a lot of little creases have been ironed out by now. G'luck, and fly safe :)

Hmmm, I just reverted back to the original russian files now that I know where in the menus to go to start a mission, and it works fine. I guess it was my over enthusiastic replacement of the russian game files that caused the problem. I'll try replacing russian files directory by directory to try and find out where the problem lies... This might not be the place nor the time to ask, considering I've already gone and done it, but what are the legalities behind turning the russian version into english? I've seen very little about the issue on any forums, and I *have* purchased the russian version legitemately... I'm certainly not bypassing the copy protection or anything untoward like that. If it's dubious, or downright illegal then I'll purchase the english version, it's just that I saw the opportunity so I took it, I didn't have the time to ask around to check if it was "the done thing"... *mods, feel free to edit/delete this post if necessary, I don't want to cause offence or break any rules, I'd just like to know where I stand, that's all*

'lo, first post and all. :pilotfly: What did you do to fix this? I've got exactly the same problem, I have the Russian version, and I just can't unpause at the start, no matter what I map/remap. I've tried renaming/playing about with these lines in InputEvents.lua: inputEvents['Pause'] = KEY_PAUSE -- return "Pause"; and; inputEvents['PlayPause'] = KEY_PLAYPAUSE -- return "PlayPause"; To no avail. :joystick: Thanks in advance for any help! PS; I'd never have guessed you were from Newcastle by your language, honest :lol: e: I've tried remapping the Pause function to a different key and to a joystick button, with no success. It's funny, because Ctrl-Break/Pause does work to some extent: it cycles through a FPS counter and debug overlay in the top left corner of the screen, and Escape still works to bring up the menu to exit the sim.