radhat

Found it! During the process of getting log.txt ready to send to you, I looked at (good idea). It was complaining about the Gizmo plugin not being found, but of course the folder was right where it was supposed to be. I did some further research and to make a long story short, it came out being the pThreads dll file. I registered it (by going to folder I installed it to and double clicking on it), I also copied a version to my windows/system32 folder. restarted xplane, the activation screen showed. entered info, and the screens went dark. ??? Restarted X-Plane once more, and the screens stayed on. Yes, it may technially be a Authentication issue, but if people are not seeing the dialog to authenticate/activate because the Pthreads dll didn't register, than there is likely going to be some confusion.

It said installation complete. Screens remain blank (after reboot).

Yes. XP.

So, how do you force the plane to attempt to "re-activate"?

Windows XP SP3 256MB ATI Radeon 2.0.5885 Dual Core 3GB RAM I get 19 FPS regardless of what I turn on or off, graphically. Other planes run in the mid 30s. with middle of road graphically. Lack of VRAM hurts me, I know this. Cold and dark starts at around 70 fps and drops slowly to 19 as systems come on line. I spent ALL of yesterday getting this plane to even load (conflicting plugin), so I guess I should be happy to at least get to see this. I did note that if I turned off the Avionics plugin and left the Embeded VasCore plugin on, framerates jumped into Mid 30s. The other way around with Avionics on and VasCore off resulted in bottomed out frame rates. So if you want to explore the cabin of this pretty thing, turn OFF the plugins and crank up the graphics, because although I can afford to own her, I can't afford to fly her. Pretty to look at, but no fun in the sack. I look forward to flying this when you figure out what's taking all the framerates in your plugins and patch it. Until than, like some of the other guys in this forum, I'll just have to wait for a new video card, and go back to the other planes and fly them. They, at least, I can have some fun with..