Classic British Flight Sim

Hi Brian,

Intial trial flight, as I mentioned on the other thread, I had smoke. After applying patch, no smoke, WHAT!? (Except start-up smoke) Not a lot of sense in that
By the way what was in the patch, config file?
Un-installed the a/c and re-installed, no patch, hoping for smoke, no smoke (Except start-up smoke):(
W7 64, i7, 6GB, ATI4870.

Great a/c.

I did an early morning flight with my system and saw smoke once I took off, but I still would have thought I could see the really dense smoke during takeoff even with the lower light conditions. Before I say I'm having a problem, can someone say if they can see the darkening of the screen where the smoke is during such conditions? For reference, it was RAF Kinloss @ 7:30am this morning (real time) that I did the test.

My system -

Windows XP SP3
AMD Athlon XP3500+ (think.... I can never remember)
nVidia GeForce 7800GT
4GB DDR2
Flight Simulator X: Acceleration

Hi Tom,

No there was nothing in the patch which would affect smoke at all, just a redistribution of fuel loads and swap-over of NAV1 / NAV2 overhead panels as they were on the wrong sides.

Chris - just recreated your flight and yes it's dark.. the smoke was there for me but very very hard to see. I could only pick it up as it crossed other objects

Brian

Thanks for checking Brian.

Hi George. You should have run the installer.

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

I'm using a 460 GTX & smoke works fine for me

Win 7, 64bit, FSXA.

George..

Picking up on the comment Dennis made.. the 3 gauges you list should go into the main gauges folder PLUS.. there should be a folder in the gauges folder named simshed which contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml. I know folk are dubious about using installers.. especially with older software. Can you check to see if there's a simshed folder in the main gauges folder and that it contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml

ATB

DaveB

Not sure if it is the problem but I have had things not appearing in games, car bodies in a racing game mod (rFactor) for 1971 season F1 cars and the sides of wagons in Railworks. The cause of these were down to the settings I used on my gfx card not in the game itself. I have an ATi card so I use the Catalyst Control Centre but there must be an equivalent for nVidia cards.

The issue was AA and AF settings, if i had them too high (x24 AA, x16 AF) the cars and wagon sides didn't show. But if I turned the AA down to x16 they appeared. The settings I am using for the smoke appearing on the Nimrod are the full x24 AA and x16 AF.

It might be worth you guys not getting smoke to have a look at your card settings for AA and AF first and turn up or down to test it, if anything to discount that idea if it makes no difference.

DaveB wrote:George..

Picking up on the comment Dennis made.. the 3 gauges you list should go into the main gauges folder PLUS.. there should be a folder in the gauges folder named simshed which contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml. I know folk are dubious about using installers.. especially with older software. Can you check to see if there's a simshed folder in the main gauges folder and that it contains the file Nimrod_smoke.xml

ATB

DaveB

Now that interesting as I don't have a simshed folder, or a nimrod_smoke.xml & the smoke works OK

Hmm.. in which case, I wonder if it's a leftover from a beta I guess it must be if you used the installer and have smoke I can't remember ever putting it there but over the course of a year.. one tends to forget where everything has gone.. I do anyway
A quick check shows the file was created 23 April and the file inside dates from 19 Apr so yes.. it is an artifact of an old beta so disregard my comment above Tks for that Dave

ATB

DaveB