PANEL ROTATION for PMDG

[Michael Carter]

In many video card programs it's called 'portrait' and 'landscape' views,

Sounds like you want portrait.

[Geremy Britton]

will give it a go - will let you know the results in a bit

[Geremy Britton]

Found it! screen rotation can be turned 90 and 180 degrees then turns fine 90 degrees but then i start flight simulator and it opens portrait ways as expected (90*) but when i create a flight it does it but then when it is loading the flight a windows message comes up saying flight simulator has to close.

If anyone needs anymore details from the windows message let me know i realy could do with sorting it out

??

[Geremy Britton]

is it to do with the resolution of the monitor, because when flight sim loads up it only covers half of the rotated screen.

Will continue to have a fiddle around with FS and windows.

[Geremy Britton]

I have just had a thought: the problem still shows when starting MSFS when rotated 90* (works fine when rotated back to normal) on the windows has to close message you get when there is a problem it says (amoungst other things) :

Mod Name: Panels.Dll

I did a search for this folder and this was the only one that came up and it was in the Fs9 folder. It has a 400 KB size i dont know if this is big or small?

I was thinking; From the windows message i seem to think this is the problem - and if it is a small meaningless item i will delete it and then the windows message (in theory) will not appear. i have done this successfully in the past.

I just need to know what realtive size is 400 Kb and does anyone else have this folder if knowone else does then i will delete it as it isn't a major part of flight sim.


Thanks in advance!

[mpl330]

Hi,
Just done a check, my panels.dll is 392k
Its registered as a microsoft module so I guess it wouldnt be a good idea to delete it - although I suppose you could rename it try and then rename back if all doesnt work out as expected...
Do you have any CLS products? Did a quick search on the net and a lot of posts about panels.dll seem to mention they have adjusted that module...
Cheers
Mike

[Geremy Britton]

sorry, but what are CLS products?

[Geremy Britton]

just found on google, no i dont have any of that. Ch products yoke and peddles, couple of desktop aviator modules, homemade throttle quad, and MS joystick.

i will try out what you said by renaming the file etc.
thanks

[Geremy Britton]

renamed the file but then i couldn't find it under the new name. did loads of searches no luck. then even more windows messages came up saying all different files were the cause. so i decided to uninstall it and reinstall now works fine - havn't dared to try the screen rotation again yet though may wait until i get another monitor connected because my current one may not be the one i use anyway