[vic365]

Vic,

This is not going to help you but I too have the C130 exp pac bit it is not installed right now. I can't answer your question but feel the same way about CS as you do. I'm always let down. I got the CS 757 for the WCT and ended up kicking myself for "going back to CS". Anyhow, I have been putting a lot of time into FSX and tuneing my system for it with very good results. I am very close to sitting down and writing a quide for this forum on everything I have learned about tuning your system and a proper way to tune FSX. Once I'm done with that I would be more than happy to play with the c130 and help fiqure it out if you are still having probs with it. On an FSX note I have gotten it to where I'm getting FPM in the high 30's on the ground with high settings....more to come with that. Maybe if you still are having probs try to uninstall the CS product. Run a defrag of your drive and if you are running vista check out vista optimizer 09....great tool and then reinstall and defrag again. Kind of a pain but will work wonders. This kind of goes back to what I ment when I said "tuning my system". More to come on that also

Good luck.

Brett, after some more research, the C-130 problems are not my own...but yet another example of a company which CAN NOT complete a product before moving on to the next. After digging in their forums I have learned that the C-130 "Extra Pack" does not, and apparently never will, work with the ACE utility. There is no way to use the ACE utility for the "Extra Pak" aircraft...and never will be. CS admits this, OUT LOUD, once you dig deep enough. I will never be able to set "no VC", "2Dviews" payload or fuel using the ACE utility, for any of the "Extra Pack" aircraft. The answer to the entire problem, from the mouth of CS, is they "have stopped development of the Legendary C-130 and offer no support. Consider purchasing the C-130 for FSX". I'm not kidding. I cannot believe a company with this outlandish reputation continues to exist.

After having made that statement, I realize why they are still around. I SWORE I would never buy another CS product...and I wanted the C-130 bad enough that I did, anyway. I am, right now, bruised and battered from kicking myself in the #@$. I feel like a complete moron for not following my gut instincts...and I've developed good ones after all these years. What in the world made me think CaptainSim had changed??

I will say it, as a 3 time loser...NEVER BUY ANY CAPTAINSIM PRODUCT!!!
S-I-G-H! I feel only slightly better after that.

As far as your work on FSX, that's going to be very helpful to many, so keep up the research! I, however, think I have the last MSFS I will ever use...FS9...and that you are working with the last MSFS version we will ever see...FSX. I hope I'm wrong...but if I am I hope they (MS) realize that we are flight SIMULATION enthusiasts...not game eye candy enthusiasts. Don't give me prettier clouds...give me better performance!

OK...rant ended.

Vic

PS. NEVER BUY A CAPTAINSIM PRODUCT!!!!!!!!