Hello, I,m the mutt

[themutt]

I am new to the forum but am on my 5th copy of cfs.
I am having trouble remembering how to get FS 98 scenery into CFS. I saw it on the site once. but cannot find it. can anyone help? I had taken it from fs 98 and put it in once using Doug Attrell's install guide which I have printed out. I have the airport and vod textures installed. is it possable to run fs 98 scenery without using the disk. I have both CFS and FS 98 they work best for me. 2000 2002 worked ok but cfs 98 better.

another question? I also have the MS sidewinder precision 2. works great except on thing. I have adjusted and tweeked in every way possable. but when I am flying it seems to want to climb all the time. am constantlly adjusting it with the 2 and 8 on the keyboard. is this a common problem? cannot tell if it is in the software or the joystick. any help there would be great. Mutt

[Hagar]

I had taken it from fs 98 and put it in once using Doug Attrell's install guide which I have printed out.

Hi Mutt. I have to own up to being the author of that tute.

You would need a full install of FS98 to your HD to use the default scenery in CFS. If you don't wish to use FS98 the default areas you wish to use in CFS, like the Oceania & Asia folders, can be copied to another location. I suggest pasting them in with your 3rd party scenery (the Addon folder in my tute)  & activating from there before uninstalling FS98. It's been a while & I'm not sure if it would be possible to copy these folders direct from the FS98 CD. If so, this would save time.

The other problem might not be caused by your joystick. Providing it's calibrated correctly it's more likely the aircraft. I use an old M$ Sidewinder Pro myself & find that many 3rd party aircraft are not set up correctly. I always suspected this was caused by the authors not having a decent joystick. As you probably know, trim is also affected by airspeed & things like flaps. One trim setting would not be used throughout the flight envelope. I dislike the push buttons myself & prefer a joystick with rotary trim controls. I miss my old Saitek X-36 terribly.

Doug

[themutt]

Thank You, That jogged my memory, I have plenty of room. I have the 20 gig hard drive I origionally got with the pc. and have an 80 gig I just installed. finley saved enough for 128 meg Nvida video card also. works pretty well with 512 megs of ram.

well the only one I've used is the one I have. haven't found another joystick I like the looks of. I have downloaded a couple of mods. and can see the difference. only I don't care for them much. to fast and to powerfull. I did find one that works pretty well as far as flying speed and control. not to fast but just fast enough to work good. but guns are two powerfull.
thanks for the info. Mutt