Nimrod smoke

[Brian Franklin]

Now that we've got the yaw problem out of the way I'd like to tackle the issue of some simmers not seeing the built-in smoke.

If you can't see the smoke please respond to this email letting me know your exact set up, ie:

Windows version, CPU, RAM, Graphics card & driver, DX version, FSX version, FSX display settings

Brian

[GHD]

Hi Brian,

I see no smoke

XP SP3
AMD Phenom II X4 940 3.0GHz
8GB RAM
896MB GeForce GTX 260, Driver 197.13
DX9
FSXA

All settings maxed except water mid 2x

I also have an I7 930 at 4.3GHz but I haven't yet loaded the Nimrod

[Noddy]

Me neither,
Windows 7 64 bit Ultimate

Intel QX6850 3.67ghz

8GB Ram

DX9

FSXA

Scenery Very dense and the others maxed out.

[Brian Franklin]

Noddy, whats your graphics card please

[GHD]

W7 64
i7 930 @ 4.2GHz
6GB RAM
GTX 480 1536MB, Driver 171.26
DX9
FSXA
All settings maxed except water mid 2x

Note. I put the gauges

SimIcons.cab
SimIcons1024.cab
TrafficRadar.gau

in the panel directory and not in the FSX\Gauges directory.

[Lewis - a2a]

FSX SP2

Win7 Pro (64)
E6750
4GB
GTX460 1GB

(Worth noting the smoke on all other models plus our own dev stuff works fine, so I cant see how it wouldnt display smoke as the smoke render within the game is working, from thick black to subtle opacity on other models. Problem must lie within gauge code itself not functioning on certain PC's?)

Even without smoke, flew her waddington to malta in real time, love her! I even just about figured out the AP for the flight so I can go get a cuppa over Paris

[DaveB]

Hi Lewis

Tks for that The smoke gauge on the Nimrod should give 3 degrees of smoke.. Full throttle - Gazzoolians (new word) of smoke.. reduced throttle (climb setting e t c) less smoke and finally cruise.. no smoke. I can't remember the exact cutoffs but you get the idea It's been a pain in the butt from the word go! I didn't get smoke on the first beta and I think Brian had already seen a possible problem before I did. I got it in the second beta.. overwrote the files with the 3rd and lost it again and on it went. Fortunately, the last 4 or 5 have kept smoke but not with everyone. It's an odd one and no mistakin' Fingers crossed Brian/Jim can find a common denominator

ATB

DaveB

[Noddy]

Whoops sorry,

Dual GTX460 1gb with 260.99 Driver.

[airboatr]

perhaps there aren't enough mirrors in some computers Dave ..

..

I've got smoke,

Pentium D820 (800mhz fsb) 4 gig of DDr2 ram (533)
Nvidia GT220
XP sp3

oh wait shite it's my computer that's smoking!!

[Brian Franklin]

Well so far what I am seeing is that they are all using GT or GTX cards