Classic British Flight Sim

Anytime fella.....

Well....when i am not legally killing people....Sorry...Paramedic humour....

Tony

Techy111 wrote:Anytime fella.....

Well....when i am not legally killing people....Sorry...Paramedic humour....

Tony

Nice one. I'll loo forward to it!

I've just re-installed FSX, after many troubles with it.
The Microsoft demo, ran like a dog (actually, dogs run quite well, but FSX Demo didn't).
When I learned that FSX SP1 was released, allowing multicore capability, I went out and bought it.
FSX - utter rubbish.
FSX + SP1 - a revelation!!!!
On this success, I purchased 'Acceleration' - everything ground to a halt :-(
I then lost interest in FSX, and concentrated on FS9.
Later, I added a second hard drive and installed FS9b - all sweetness and light!
Finally, I decided to uninstall FSX, along with all of it's files. This showed me to have several installations of Just Flights Pa-28 Warrior (I have never got it to work with FSX SP2).
After re-installing FSX, + SP1, + Acceleration (on second hard drive), FSX ran significantly better.
It's as good as FS9, until I add AI - then frame rates drop below my critical 35 FPS.
For me, FS9 remains a true sim. FSX is currently a plaything (perhaps, it will grow on me).

System

- Athlon 64 X2 6400 AM2 CPU with 2 x 512KB cache, 3.2GHz!
- Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe nForce 5 Motherboard
- NVIDIA Geforce 8800GT 512MB PCI Express Graphics with TV-Out and DVI
- 2GB Gskill PC2-6400 DDR2 Memory

Incedently, I'm sure I'm one of the VC-10's at the end of Tony's video

Regards

Kevin

Yup you sure are Kevin......

Strange mate......with your specs you should be getting something workable with FSX...?

We will have to get you on Skype and see if we can sort anything out for you..... :think:

Let me know fella....?

Tony

Techy111 wrote:Yup you sure are Kevin......

Strange mate......with your specs you should be getting something workable with FSX...?

We will have to get you on Skype and see if we can sort anything out for you..... :think:

Let me know fella....?

Tony

Cheers, Tony

Most of the time, FSX runs very well. E.g. default Cessna at Princess Julianna Intl (TNCM) will give 60+ FPS, with most sliders set high.
I copied across all of my AI flights from FS9 and then the frame rates dropped to the 20 - 30 range. I find FSX at 25 FPS is much smoother than FS9 at the same rate.
I have since added FS Global 2008 and removed the AI aircraft. I will re-install them bit by bit.
I do have Skype on my PC, but have not got round to trying it yet.

Thanks

Kevin

I have FSX, but don't run it at the moment and haven't since the first week of purchase, I'm not saying it's bad, it's just my heavily modified FS9 works for me at the moment

Kind regards

John

I have both, and if I want to do a flight where the AC is available for FSX I will use it, but most of the AC I use are for FS9 and upgrades for them have not been produced.

I think that pretty much sums it up Joe. Scenery is one thing.. the bit you sit in is something else. It has been said here before that for many.. FS9 is THE sim for the aircraft that most of us fly.. the reason why we're here in the first place. There has never been the amount of models available at such a high standard that fit the 'Classic British Flight Sim' tag as there are now and I honestly can't see the majority of them being remade. FS9 has hit a plateau for those of a certain age. FSX and beyond belongs to a new breed. Nowt wrong with that at all but for the fact that as soon as we leave our PC's.. we are back in the real world which, for most of us could be a darned site better. If to move onwards and upwards leaves you feeling less than fulfilled.. why move ;-)

ATB

DaveB :tab:

I copied across all of my AI flights from FS9 and then the frame rates dropped to the 20 - 30 range

I think the two are related, not sure as I have approximately 1% add on AI and it's FSX native, but FS9 AI disables FSX AI as I understand it, and then bad things happen.

note 'bad things happen' is not a technical term endorsed by the Microsoft Corporation.

As a simmer then FS9 is my prefered platform, as a modeller then I have to grudgingly admit that FSx looks much better, I say looks as I've yet to get even the test cube into the sim LOL, but the penny will drop, it always does and its always long after everyone else .

I see lots of people, here especially, saying theat FSx runs great and then I see their screen shots and it shows photo real scenery, does photo real scenery have autogen ?, if not then that could be why it runs great ?, I like lots of trees sadly ( no I'm not a tree hugger LOL ) in my sim as most fun flying is below 2000' AGL but then I do like the occasional 100min regional jet/tube liner ATC flight in Euroland somewhere on occasion and then FS9 does still win for immersion.

Skippy, I deduce from your projects and Avatar that your RN linked ?, is that a Mk8 in your Avatar image ?, if so whats the connection, pilot, service engineer ?, just curious as the dark side has its modelling moments and complex compound curve modeling rendering happens to be one of them

Best

Michael