GNS 480 Simulator

[dave]

I'm looking at an airplane, Beech M35, that has a 480 already installed.
I downloaded the manual and the simulator. The simulator crashes. I
also noticed that it pushes my CPU up to 100% usage. My computer is a
newer 1.8GHz with more than 2G of ram. I can't find any instructions
on the simulator. I searched for some leads but I can't find anything.
Any ideas?

thanks
Dave

[Paul Tomblin]

In a previous article, dave > said:
>I'm looking at an airplane, Beech M35, that has a 480 already installed.
> I downloaded the manual and the simulator. The simulator crashes. I
>also noticed that it pushes my CPU up to 100% usage. My computer is a

Yup, it's buggy as hell. That's one reason why I couldn't convince the
rest of our club to buy it instead of the 530 - nobody could try it out
without the sim crashing.


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[Mike Adams[_1_]]

dave > wrote:

> I'm looking at an airplane, Beech M35, that has a 480 already installed.
> I downloaded the manual and the simulator. The simulator crashes. I
> also noticed that it pushes my CPU up to 100% usage. My computer is a
> newer 1.8GHz with more than 2G of ram. I can't find any instructions
> on the simulator. I searched for some leads but I can't find anything.
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> Dave

I have it running on two different PC's. One using Windows 2000 and the
other on XP. I agree that it is a resource hog - slows down everything
else, and will occasionally lock up if the screen saver kicks in while it's
running. I don't have any suggestions on how to make it run better. I like
the 430 simulator better, with its additional controls and indicators.

Mike

[Ron Natalie]

dave wrote:
> I'm looking at an airplane, Beech M35, that has a 480 already installed.
> I downloaded the manual and the simulator. The simulator crashes. I
> also noticed that it pushes my CPU up to 100% usage. My computer is a
> newer 1.8GHz with more than 2G of ram. I can't find any instructions
> on the simulator. I searched for some leads but I can't find anything.
> Any ideas?
>
> thanks
> Dave

The simulator is not multiprocessor safe. Shut off multiple processors
or hyperthreading if you want it to work.

[dave]

Thanks Ron. That did it.
Dave

>
> The simulator is not multiprocessor safe. Shut off multiple processors
> or hyperthreading if you want it to work.