Windows & and Wilco 737

[ZKIWI]

Well i have loved the upgrade to Windows 7 and it had gone without a hitch and with a noticably more enjoyable experience on the PC. Even FSX seems to have sucked some extra juice from somewhere and is running well. I was very happy up until i jumped in the 737PIC B737-300 from Wilco Publishing ( Just Flight). Although everything is shown and looks good i am unable to use the mouse to activate any of the click points to do such mundane things like turn on the battery and start the APU or engines etc. In fact it doesn't work in any window in that aircraft. ( All others are fine ( A320 and C130).

Has anyone else had this problem with Win7 or any OS and the 737PIC?

I have emailed the tech support and received a prompt and i am guessing automated email saying try these things. All of which i have tried as the instructions are on their support website also. Not much good there.

I loved the B737 and was starting to really enjoy it but now it looks like i am going to have to go to the Dark side and fly an Airbus.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (ZKIWI @ Oct 27 2009, 11:47 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well i have loved the upgrade to Windows 7 and it had gone without a hitch and with a noticably more enjoyable experience on the PC. Even FSX seems to have sucked some extra juice from somewhere and is running well. I was very happy up until i jumped in the 737PIC B737-300 from Wilco Publishing ( Just Flight). Although everything is shown and looks good i am unable to use the mouse to activate any of the click points to do such mundane things like turn on the battery and start the APU or engines etc. In fact it doesn't work in any window in that aircraft. ( All others are fine ( A320 and C130).

Has anyone else had this problem with Win7 or any OS and the 737PIC?

I have emailed the tech support and received a prompt and i am guessing automated email saying try these things. All of which i have tried as the instructions are on their support website also. Not much good there.

I loved the B737 and was starting to really enjoy it but now it looks like i am going to have to go to the Dark side and fly an Airbus.

I also have the Wilco 737 (love it as well!) - and have emailed technical support a few times. After the initial (canned) response, enquiries are passed on to the devs, who take a few days to reply. Their replies were pretty "concise" but they did respond.

As to Win7 ... I haven't bought it yet, so can't help on that score. I do have a new drive with the old Win7 RC (64-bit) on it though - I could try installing into that. Is yours 32 or 64 bit?

I spotted a tiny bug: The right hand altimeter barometer strip has a mistake. Step down from 2991 and you'll find 2990 displays as 2980! Both 2991 and 2989 either side display correctly.

[ZKIWI]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Oct 28 2009, 11:37 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I also have the Wilco 737 (love it as well!) - and have emailed technical support a few times. After the initial (canned) response, enquiries are passed on to the devs, who take a few days to reply. Their replies were pretty "concise" but they did respond.

As to Win7 ... I haven't bought it yet, so can't help on that score. I do have a new drive with the old Win7 RC (64-bit) on it though - I could try installing into that. Is yours 32 or 64 bit?

I spotted a tiny bug: The right hand altimeter barometer strip has a mistake. Step down from 2991 and you'll find 2990 displays as 2980! Both 2991 and 2989 either side display correctly.

Fixed...... It was a problem with FSINN... dleeted that and all good now. IN fact runs better in Win7 than it did in vista for some reason. Click spots in the VC that didn't work before now work.

[Adamski]

QUOTE (ZKIWI @ Oct 28 2009, 07:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Fixed...... It was a problem with FSINN... deleted that and all good now. IN fact runs better in Win7 than it did in vista for some reason. Click spots in the VC that didn't work before now work.

Intrigued ... did you have to uninstall FSINN completely?

Have you finished installing all your add-ons? I can't really compare my current Vista/FSX with my test Win7 RC as I have a gazillion add-ons installed on the Vista one, whereas the Win7 is pretty clean.

[ZKIWI]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Oct 28 2009, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Intrigued ... did you have to uninstall FSINN completely?

Have you finished installing all your add-ons? I can't really compare my current Vista/FSX with my test Win7 RC as I have a gazillion add-ons installed on the Vista one, whereas the Win7 is pretty clean.

Yeah all addons are on there. I didn't have to reinstall FSX as i did an upgade and it worked fine....

Wanted to try that before a clean install on a new HDD.

QUOTE (Adamski @ Oct 28 2009, 08:22 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Intrigued ... did you have to uninstall FSINN completely?

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Oh and yes completely had to take FSINN off and tried reinstalling it but it wouldn't reinstall. Now using SB which means i have to run it on the same machine cos i can't get my transmit button on the yoke to work with SB when it is on the network machine.

[Adamski]

Well ... I bought the bullet, so to speak, and installed Win7 x64 onto a fresh, new HD leaving my old Vista HD + FSX intact.

Install was completely painless (and suprisingly quick). So far, I'm very impressed. Once I'd done a few taskbar tweaks etc., Win7 just stays out of the way - as any good O/S should.

Then the painstaking install of FSX. After all my RealNZ scenery and WOAI, the first add-on I installed was the Wilco 737 with the AirNZ repaint. What a treat! I may hold off a while with all my VATSIM stuff ... offline VANZ flights will do me for a while yet.

So far, so good. With no other crud, FSX seems to be flying along - even without any .cfg tweaking.

If anyone has any reservations about going to Win7 (from Vista), then I'd say *go for it*. Stable XP users could save their money for a while yet ... until they really *need* to upgrade.

[Ian Warren]

Win7 - 64 Bit swimming ..swimming .. i mean simming simming (i cant swim) , installing scenery appears to be a little tricky , i finally got HamX installed , now that looks so different without the Orbx addons , doubled the RAM using 8Gb now it s just time to install the addons

[dbcunnz]

QUOTE (Ian Warren @ Nov 14 2009, 02:41 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Win7 - 64 Bit swimming ..swimming .. i mean simming simming (i cant swim) , installing scenery appears to be a little tricky , i finally got HamX installed , now that looks so different without the Orbx addons , doubled the RAM using 8Gb now it s just time to install the addons

It must be must be Win 7 x64 FSX installing day I have just finished installing Acceleration and about to start on all the add-ons

[Ian Warren]

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Nov 14 2009, 03:06 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

It must be must be Win 7 x64 FSX installing day I have just finished installing Acceleration and about to start on all the add-ons

Doug , hope you got yourself a cheap Mic along with your Win 7 , and join us in a multiplay

[wairoaboy]

QUOTE (Adamski @ Nov 14 2009, 01:44 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Well ... I bought the bullet, so to speak, and installed Win7 x64 onto a fresh, new HD leaving my old Vista HD + FSX intact.

Install was completely painless (and suprisingly quick). So far, I'm very impressed. Once I'd done a few taskbar tweaks etc., Win7 just stays out of the way - as any good O/S should.

Then the painstaking install of FSX. After all my RealNZ scenery and WOAI, the first add-on I installed was the Wilco 737 with the AirNZ repaint. What a treat! I may hold off a while with all my VATSIM stuff ... offline VANZ flights will do me for a while yet.

So far, so good. With no other crud, FSX seems to be flying along - even without any .cfg tweaking.

If anyone has any reservations about going to Win7 (from Vista), then I'd say *go for it*. Stable XP users could save their money for a while yet ... until they really *need* to upgrade.

Yes I agree...its a real beaut having windows 7. Vista 32bit wasnt too bad on this Toshiba running 4gbRam and ATI X11 1gb dedicated but windows 7 has increased Windows Performance rating from 5.0 to 5.4! Would recomend to anyone contemplating upgrade

[Adamski]

QUOTE (wairoaboy @ Nov 18 2009, 11:47 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Yes I agree...its a real beaut having windows 7. Vista 32bit wasnt too bad on this Toshiba running 4gbRam and ATI X11 1gb dedicated but windows 7 has increased Windows Performance rating from 5.0 to 5.4! Would recomend to anyone contemplating upgrade

I'm a week or so further down the line - and have gradually re-introduced some of my payware stuff. Much of my experimental freeware add-ons I'll leave off, I think - as things seem to be so *smooth* at the moment.

As far as Win7 goes, it just seems to inspire confidence. Not a very "scientific" assessment, but I think most people will know what I mean. I have mine on a separate HD (to my old Vista system) and select it via the BIOS at boot-up time. At one stage, the PC got into some crazy loop and kept restarting (I think I'd pressed the power down button half way through a boot up by mistake) and I got one of these awful "Windows is trying to recover your data" messages. With my heart in my mouth, I watched it trundle through its procedure. At one stage, I got a message along the lines of "all your personal data will remain untouched", so I felt a lot better.

After a restart, the system came up in exactly the decent state I thought I'd left it in (phew!). I was back in my B737 within minutes! No fretting or Googling around for solutions ... Win7 may even give Apple a bit of a run-round (well, seeing as MS copied most of it ).