Windows 10 - Toshiba Qosmio X875 - 64 bit - Intel i7 - 16GB Ram - Nvidia GTX 620M
FlightGear 2017.3.1 Downloaded from /Flightgear.org
I’m a total newbee to flight sims, and cannot run this programme. When I originally installed the programme it worked for a few days. Being new I started with the tutorials. Managed a couple OK although the plane appeared to be standing in water. Was using a mouse which I now realise is impossible so will use a joy stick in future, if I ever get FlightGear working properly again. Then getting into the scenery side of things attempted to download scenery etc, not very successfully though. After reading comments now will use Portree-Kids site for this. Anyway next time I used the programme went back into tutorials and now find scenery is downloading for hours and getting nowhere.
I uninstalled the programme, reinstalled it but same story. This time I don’t change anything just try to run the first tutorial using all the default settings. I presume the default scenery Prague and airplane Cessna are already loaded into the programme itself and that I’m not trying to download these from the internet. This would be impossible for me on a very slow internet speed and also a metred one.
When I reinstalled the programme I just used the previously downloaded Flightgear.exe, I’ve read as much as I can to see if I can work out what’s wrong, how one day it works and the next not, or why the reinstalled copy doesn’t work now either. Any advice please or any more information needed? As mentioned before I’m new to flight sims and not too technical, so would FlightGear be beyond me I wonder.