Hi all. Returning to Orbiter after many years away, and I'm having difficulty getting it running. I have a brand new Acer laptop with 12th gen Intel Core I5-12500H 3.10 Ghz, 8G RAM, Win 11 Home 64 bit, with Nvidia Geforce RTX video. I let it do all its updates. I downloaded Orbiter 2016 zip file from the Orbiter site(and tried from here as well), wasn't able to download hi-rez scenery from there or here(I'm not a computer whiz, and didn't figure out Torrent yet), tried D3D9 and XRsound add-on. It's installed in C:/Orbiter folder, not in Program Files.
At first I'd get the opening Launchpad, choose a scenario, such as the Welcome one, and it would freeze and I'd have to stop it with a warning about it not responding. Somehow I got it to go to now it goes to a full screen Orbiter 2016 image of the Earth, then it all just closes. I've tried with & without D3D9, various Video settings and resolutions, other things I can't even remember, so now I'm resorting to posting here. Left XRsound disabled.
The most common thing I see in the Orbiter.txt file after each occasion is:
000000.000: ---------------------------------------------------------------
000000.000: >>> WARNING: Obsolete API function used: VESSEL::CreateVariableDragElement
000000.000: At least one active module is accessing an obsolete interface function.
000000.000: Addons which rely on obsolete functions may not be compatible with
000000.000: future versions of Orbiter.
Any clues on what I'm missing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
At first I'd get the opening Launchpad, choose a scenario, such as the Welcome one, and it would freeze and I'd have to stop it with a warning about it not responding. Somehow I got it to go to now it goes to a full screen Orbiter 2016 image of the Earth, then it all just closes. I've tried with & without D3D9, various Video settings and resolutions, other things I can't even remember, so now I'm resorting to posting here. Left XRsound disabled.
The most common thing I see in the Orbiter.txt file after each occasion is:
000000.000: ---------------------------------------------------------------
000000.000: >>> WARNING: Obsolete API function used: VESSEL::CreateVariableDragElement
000000.000: At least one active module is accessing an obsolete interface function.
000000.000: Addons which rely on obsolete functions may not be compatible with
000000.000: future versions of Orbiter.
Any clues on what I'm missing would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!