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If you have been putting off buying Tower3D or any of its' add-ons, now looks like a good time to buy. Everything looks to be 25-35% off. You can buy KSAN and Real Color for KSAN for less than the price of just what KSAN was. But you have to go to feelther.com and not atcsuite.com Happy Valentines Day everybody, RickyJ

Okay, I get it, it is a February 29th release :) RickyJ

Vic, You're welcome, a pleasure to be of assistance. It's my old CISSP certification kicking in again and 42 years of IT. RickyJ

Is port 22222 a good choice? Seems like a lot of bad stuff uses this port. RickyJ P.S. I may be a little paranoid, or is that a pair of noids? How about port 22022? http://www.auditmypc.com/tcp-port-22222.asp http://www.speedguide.net/port.php?port=22222 http://www.adminsub.net/tcp-udp-port-finder/22222 Port 22222 Details known port assignments and vulnerabilities threat/application/port search: search Port(s) Protocol Service Details Source 22222 tcp trojans Some trojans/backdoors use this port: Donald Dick, G.R.O.B, Prosiak, Ruler, RUX The TIc.K Viasat (Swedish TV provider) routes traffic to digital boxes for digital TV through this port. EasyEngine is CLI tool to manage WordPress Sites on Nginx server [rtCamp_Solutions_Private_Limited] (IANA official) SG 22222 tcp trojan Donald Dick, G.R.O.B., Prosiak, Ruler, RUX The TIc.K Trojans 22222 tcp DonaldDick [trojan] Donald Dick SANS 22222 tcp Prosiak [trojan] Prosiak SANS 22222 tcp Ruler [trojan] Ruler SANS 22222 tcp RUXTheTIc.K [trojan] RUX The TIc.K SANS 22006-22272 tcp,udp Unassigned IANA 7 records found SG security scan: port 22222

Dave, A simpler thing you can do is load a program like "FRAPS" and see what kind of frame rate you get to see if your hardware is able to handle the program. http://www.howtogeek.com/209710/4-quick-ways-to-see-a-pc-game’s-fps-frames-per-second/ RickyJ

One other thing you can do, but it is not going to be pretty, and it won't really be ugly, it will be somewhere in the middle, lets call it pretty ugly. Thank you Abbott and Costello. There is always "Process Monitor", procmon.exe (https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/processmonitor.aspx). I ran it and captured over 4,000 events when filtering on tower3d.exe as it opened KLAX. Here are a couple screenshots when selecting "START" for KLAX till when it finally opened. 5:19:27 to 5:19:36, a little over 9 seconds. Hopefully I did not capture and display any confidential or proprietary details. At any rate, in those 9 seconds are a whole bunch of CreateFile, CloseFile, ReadFile entries along with registry queries and the result. Anything taking a long time to complete (more than a second) or not having a "SUCCESS" result would be suspicious, but I would refrain from uploading any saved log files from the trace, there may be lurkers out there and your registration key may be embedded in the trace file. May the force be with you, RickyJ

I am not a good negotiator, that is why I take my friend with me when I have to buy a car. So as far as Tower3D Pro is concerned, when it is released, I admit it, I'm a wimp, I gotta have it!!!!! But not a penny over $499.99 USD or I might have to wait for the FeelThere Summer Sale. RickyJ

Dave, It could be disk activity. If you want to dig deeper into CPU, Memory and disk, you can open "Resource Manager" at the bottom of the "Performance" tab in "Task Manager". You should be able to see what processes may be causing the problem. RickyJ

I used to get crashes all the time when I would run the Steam version of Tower!3D. But then purchased the version from the developer site, due to Dovetail not releasing updates in what I would consider a timely fashion. Since then I have not had a crash in over six months. This is part of my last crash report. Are you running the Steam version or the developer version? May or may not make a difference. RickyJ Unity Player [version: Unity 5.3.4p6_9eb825cf2ca3] nvwgf2umx.dll caused an Access Violation (0xc0000005) in module nvwgf2umx.dll at 0033:365ddb7f. Error occurred at 2016-06-17_161456. C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tower 3D\tower3d.exe, run by rick. 47% memory in use. 8111 MB physical memory [4256 MB free]. 9391 MB paging file [3614 MB free]. 134217728 MB user address space [134215991 MB free]. Read from location 00000028 caused an access violation. Context: RDI: 0x0612d090 RSI: 0x0e5434e0 RAX: 0x00000000 RBX: 0x070c4710 RCX: 0x2c9705b0 RDX: 0x2c9705b0 RIP: 0x365ddb7f RBP: 0x0a10e780 SegCs: 0x00000033 EFlags: 0x00010202 RSP: 0x0a10e5c0 SegSs: 0x0000002b R8: 0x061232c0 R9: 0x72ecef20 R10: 0x2c53e290 R11: 0x0a10e590 R12: 0x068d9c50 R13: 0x00000000 R14: 0x00000000 R15: 0x00000000 Bytes at CS:EIP: ff 50 28 84 c0 0f 84 d8 00 00 00 48 8b 74 24 58

I figured as much. It probably won't be in next version of Tower! (Tower!VR), but I think the fourth generation of Tower! (Tower!HoloGram) will have a real-time live video/satellite feed of the airport. RickyJ

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/flights/todayinthesky/2017/01/05/better-jfk-airport-ny-gov-unveils-10-billion-upgrade-plan/96214812/ Will periodic updates to KJFK for Tower!3D include new visuals as the new construction progresses? Construction equipment moving amongst the aircraft and service vehicles, way too cool. RickyJ

Only a couple days too late, but here is my favorite poem to celebrate the Winter Solstice. RickyJ Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening BY ROBERT FROST Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound’s the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.

Dear Vic and company, There are still a lot of holidays left in January http://www.officeholidays.com/2017/01.php and I am sure just as many in February and March, so your statement that T3DPro will be released by the holidays still has a ring of truth. "Like your work, love your wife." Del Griffith - Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987) RickyJ

Personally I would not mind buying an early release product, even if it did not have multi-player or multi-monitor. After all these years (16 that I can remember, the pre Tower days) I think you can trust these people to not leave us stranded without a hot-fix or update. However, I can also see the hesitancy in releasing an un-finished product, there tends to be a lot of whining at times and I do not mean the fermented grape juice kind. Maybe special non-disclosure statements with invitations could be sent to a select few. At any rate, I hope the following covers our global community. RickyJ

Now that the Tower controller has been revamped to include "pull down" commands has there been any thoughts into re-doing Tracon with the "pull down" commands? After a four year hiatus of trying to play Tracon!2012 I realized how awkward and exasperating it was trying to do typing and mouse clicks at the same time and re-affirmed why I stopped so long ago. Especially after logging 00 00 00 80 99 65 50 3F hours and 12,457 arrivals and departures with Tower!3D. Everything else seems so laborious and I am not a big fan of voice control. Here is to hoping for a favorable marketing research study to update Tracon. The Curious Cat, RickyJ

No, thank you. Your work is very much appreciated. I hope the sales figures reflect that so the new products continue to flow. Also, I am just trying to display some of the fruits of your labors since you tend to be really modest with your advertising. Especially Nyerges Design, like not mentioning that Real Traffic for Tower!3D includes updates of real traffic for each new airport released and Real Color for Tower!3D having detailed paintings for sparse airlines like Avianca and China Cargo and Volaris, not just the main airlines. Besides it makes the forum feel less like a complaint department :) Thanks again for your work, RickyJ

It may help others in the future to let us know what corrected the problem, unless of course it may cause some embarrassment :) RickyJ.

Do you have this directory? C:\Program Files (x86)\FeelThere\Tower 3D\Extensions\Airplanes\Texturepacks And do you have files in it like these? The exact name and number of files you have in he directory may vary. RickyJ

Which version of Tower!3D are you running. The Steam version or the BMT Micro version? The Steam version Real Color files are located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Tower 3D\Extensions\Airplanes\Texturepacks And The BMT Micro Real Color files are located in: C:\Program Files (x86)\FeelThere\Tower 3D\Extensions\Airplanes\Texturepacks RickyJ

I prefer the GeForce family of graphics cards, ever since Radeon was sold to AMD. Plus I am not a big fan of integrated graphics processors. Otherwise, the rest looks good. RickyJ Intel Core i7-4800MQ 8GB RAM GTX 870 Running on a laptop, so I could care less about multi-monitor support :)

You can try specifying an alternate directory when installing Real Traffic, compare that the new file sizes are larger, then manually move the files to their correct location, over writing the files that are there.

Here is a screenshot of my C:\Program Files (x86)\FeelThere\Tower! 2011\Databases directory before and after installing Real Traffic. Before: After: Notice the size of the airlines.txt and airplanes.txt files are a lot larger. RickyJ

If you edit your: C:\Program Files (x86)\FeelThere\Tower! 2011\Databases\schedule.txt file do you see: AAB, AAA, JT1, LW, 2995, 09:00, 21:30, 450, LW AAE, ALG, TRP, TG, 6001, 12:20, 11:00, 80, TG AAE, LYS, JT1, TG, 1156, 16:15, 13:25, 110, TG AAE, MRS, JT1, TG, 1150, 10:30, 08:00, 90, TG AAL, CPH, RJ1, CB, 1210, 16:50, 16:05, 45, CB AAL, CPH, RJ1, CB, 1214, 14:15, 13:30, 45, CB Where in the third column the aircraft type is JT1, TRP, RJ1, etc. "default aircraft" or: AAB, AAA, TU3, SU, 2995, 09:00, 21:30, 450, SU AAE, ALG, ATR, AH, 6001, 12:20, 11:00, 80, AH AAE, ALG, 736, AH, 6009, 20:15, 19:15, 60, AH AAE, LYS, 738, AH, 1156, 16:15, 13:25, 110, AH AAL, CPH, 321, SK, 1202, 07:55, 07:05, 50, SK AAL, CPH, CR9, SK, 1204, 19:25, 18:40, 45, SK AAL, CPH, M82, SK, 1228, 07:05, 06:20, 45, SK Where the third column indicates, TU3, ATR, 736, 738,321, etc. "Real Traffic" RickyJ P.S. I also have to run Tower!2011 as administrator. P.P.S. Try running the Real Traffic executable as administrator.