OK... the "good news / Bad news" scenario:

The good news is that the XP machine that now has the Linked Layer stuff installed now shows up on the network "Map" in Win 7.

The bad nesw is that the gsuges still don't work.

On now to check the other potential issues above ........ sigh.

But one part of the networking mess is clearly now "down".  So that is good.  THANKS.

best,

....................john

So it takes a simpit builder to get your help now, Nick?  There goes my budget!  And my patience!  And what little hair I have left!  Sigh...

LOL...

John and Nick,

This thread helped me with my network connection issues.  I was recently given a copy of Win7 Ultimate by my brother-in-law.  He got it thru his employer when they bought a bunch extra and needed to unload them.  Got it cheap, loaded it, hated it and passed it down to me.

I loaded it (64bit) on my machine, an ASUS P5-KE, Intel Q8400, four gig Ram, all Vrap drives main PC and loved it immediately.  Once got it set up with Nick's Win7 tweak, I got a 5-12 fps FSX boost depending on where I was flying.  Hubs went from having to set traffic and scenery just so to getting VERY acceptable and smooth performance around them while leaving settings same as country flying.  "Out in the country" is smoother and better than ever.  I can now use some of those hd clouds.

But the fly in the butter was the networking issues.  I am running Vista x32 Home on my laptop, a second PC with XP Pro x32 and an old Gateway with Win98 SE for some of my legacy games and software that still entertain me or have some utility.  I used the laptop and XP pc to run stuff a weather radar addon and to run Saitek control panels and gauges.  Til this thread, I couldnt get the laptop or 2nd pc to talk to the big machine after loading it with Win7.  They all work together now.

Thanks guys...Lurking can pay off.

Good luck with you problems, John and thanks for still hanging around Nick.

Nick?  What makes Win7 as configured by your tweak run FSX so much better?  I notice 25-30% less memory usage at idle and about 20% less usage when simming with the extra stuff off-machined to the laptop and 2nd PC.  That it?  Better memory utilization and less crap running in backround?  Just courioser and courioser...

UnkieDude wrote on May 25^th, 2010 at 8:35pm:



What I posted in that list (just like with XP) is a methodology in which each step has defined goal and works in concert with each the steps after it. When people skip items they are breaking the chain and that includes the defrag operations on mechanical hard drives in which step 1 in using the reg edits right down to using the boot optimize tools defines how well the defrag program (with must be O&O exactly as I posted) works

Flight Sim uses a alphanumerical file system in calling files. The goal is to optimize the system so the file calls on the mechanical drives are read into physical memory as quickly as possible and with the least CPU time possible. Since FSX and scenery typically uses alphanumerical name system, O&O is placing your files in a perfect alphanumerical order meaning the head of the drive is hardly moving when it locates a chain of files O&O has placed in name order

As CPUs and video cards and memory amounts/types get better the less impact that aspect of a computer has and of course with SSD you do not deal with mechanical hard drive latency or the CPU it consumes, but most people are not using SSD and therefore the less time a system spends locating and calling files up, the more system time goes directly to the application in use for render.



Read this post about how hard drives work with RANDOM READ performance and how the CPU is effected

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_posts.asp?TID=34799&PID=202329#202329


And yes, we care cleaning the system of the fat, removing the ridiculous overbearing preload of applications that are not needed and giving those resources back to the application in use



I helped John start the build on his new system by getting him set up on the right parts and agreed to try help the transition from his old rig, to the new one as much as I could. John and I go way back and if anyone around here deserved my direct attention before I fade into oblivion, it is him.

NickN wrote on May 26^th, 2010 at 12:38pm:



Awww gawrsh, Nick  .  Thanks for the kind words as well as for all the help.

The main development guy for the gauges in question is on vacation.  But he and I have been conversing (he's on a beach  somewhere ) and he suddenly hit on a thought.  He it suddenly hit hime the state of the gauges looks like it is thinking that the Avionics buss in the aircraft is not turned on.  That would be the "normal" display for that situation. 

In the aircraft I originally tried, which were multiple differnt ones just to prevent a single aircraft incompatibility, all of the avionics were on and functioning.  SO that is not it.  But it is likely a very good clue toward what might be happening.  He hasn't gotten back to me yet, but I am again thinking it is a network traffic issue.

Good to know it is a simple click away to restore it.  Makes me more willing to try it just to see  . 

Still plugging away when I can.  "Life" is in the way so far today.

best,

....................john