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Jude Bradley, the joystick issue must be just with particular joysticks or something. I'm using the Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick and it's never failed yet. I've done over 500 hours of flights with it on Windows 8.1 with no problem.

I have the Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick and have none of the issues people here are discussing. I've never had the joystick not work properly.

mrgeeunit, I just bought this new PC in early December. It's a Dell 8700 XP, 16 GB RAM, and an nvidia GeForce GTX 745 with 4 GB VRAM. I installed FSX Gold, and left all the settings and fsx.cfg at the default settings. The installation automatically set everything to "Ultra High", and it is working great. Even in the busiest airports (I have all the World of AI packages installed so there is a huge amount of aircraft at all the major airports) there is no lag. My old PC had Windows Vista, 4 GB RAM, and 512 MB VRAM. I was hoping FSX would perform better, but I didn't know it would work this well. If your system performs anywhere like mine, you shouldn't need to adjust anything in the cfg file. I've not had any items spawning or anything of that sort.

I am using the Microsoft Sidewinder Precision Pro joystick with FSX Gold on Windows 8.1 and it works fine.

PDN, I'm using Windows 8.1 and have no issues with FSX crashing. I have FSX Gold. One thing though, EditVoicepack 4 doesn't work. I am able to install it, even open the program. But when I click "File" to add another callsign EditVoicepack gives an error message. So until I find a fix (without buying the new pay version of EditVoicepack) most callsigns aren't recognized by FSX.

I see in the library there are two new World of AI packages, but I am wondering if they are legit or if they may be a virus as happened here on the AVSIM site a year or two ago. According to the world-of-ai.com website, they are stopping the World of AI site and they do not show these two new updates (KLM CityHopper and Transavia). That's making me wonder whether these two may have been posted by an imposter and/or may contain a virus.

Is it somehow possible for someone to correct new uploads that are put in the wrong section? There's several repaints for payware planes in the 'Original Aircraft' section rather than in the repaint section. Also, I'd like it if there were a section for people to post repaints of payware separate from freeware planes. There's nothing like seeing the name of an airline I'd like to have, click the link to view the zipdrive, and find that it's for a payware plane. Many of the people posting paints for payware are adding the name in the author section after their name, but there are lots who aren't. Some aren't even noting in the description of the upload that it's for a payware plane, you don't find that out until reading the 'readme' file in the zipdrive. Thanks!