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Christmas came early Small joy for others, compared to say getting a new pc, but I just found the missing picture showing the side of my most-wanted livery - S-01, the pre-production BK117. Now I can actually see the sides, I can finally create the livery. Yes, I could've asked Eurocopter but I don't like to pester them. So I'm glad that trawling the internet has finally paid off after all these months. I feel like my Christmas just came early.

Unfortunately I don't know all of what privileges have been adjusted during your OS upgrade. I'll investigate this a bit and get back to you soon...

Thirty-one years later, the S-01 lives again....

I've been enjoying looking at all the screenshots. I thought I'd add a few of my own.

What does that mean? As in it works in X-Plane 9, but not 10, or starts to work but then stops, or what?

I have only just read this thread, and I was delighted that you found the solution in just over 24 hours. It's fascinating to have such a clear demonstration of the difference a powerful graphics card makes. A couple of questions came up: The demo is exactly the same as the full version, except that flying time is limited, and you are only given a tiny puddle of scenery to play in. In other words, what you've bought is the ability to go wherever you like ... X-Plane 10 is changing very fast, with new versions ready for download quite frequently. When you install from the DVDs, you might find it's an older version than the demo you downloaded. Just run the updater, and keep running it every so often, or whenever you read a good review about the latest version. X-Plane 10 has so many new graphics-bending features that it will be a couple of years before the average, off-the-shelf computer and graphics cards can run it with every option ticked or set to maximum. You will just have to fiddle about until you find a compromise between cosmetic realism and frames per second. There's no hard rule because some people need the aircraft to be as responsive as possible, while others like to see lots of detail on the ground. The switch from FSX to X-Plane will take getting used to. If you have any questions, don't be embarrassed to ask. Samaritans outnumber trolls here. Welcome to X-Plane! I hope you enjoy it! Guy.

Dear Cameron: Please accept my apologies for my faulty logic and assumptions about how the complex X-plane should work on my conputer. When you mentioned the little amount of vram, it alerted me that, in my rebuild of this computer, I had neglected to install my NVIDIA video card. This morning I installed it with the latest drivers downloaded from NVIDIA and, what do you know, X-plane runs perfectly fine. So, thanks to you, I now have the correct video card installed, the computer runs great, and I just ordered the global X-Plane 10 along with the Bombardier 300 Captain's edition and cannot wait for those to arrive so I can get out of the 74 and see my home scenery. Thank you so much for your patience! mGN

System hog or not, your onboard vram is not utilized anywhere near to what X-Plane would require.

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