FSX Ques?

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 21 Mar 2007, 18:59

Here you go:
http://130.94.74.217/multimon/forum/mes ... l=UltraMon

Or Pete Dowson's wideview utility....

Post by **DaveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 20:17

Tks Dan,

Having read through those problems/suggestions.. I'm none the wiser. :roll: I did manage to get Flight Commander to remain open on the second monitor (eventually) but like a number of the guy's who responded on that thread, the framerate drop was intollerable. Most of those guys run multi-monitor setups for views.. eg 3 to 5 additional monitors/views and all I really want to do is open a nav program as I do in FS9.

Seems that FSX is far from sorted in this respect doesn't it :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

DanKH · Post by **DanKH** » 21 Mar 2007, 20:19

Agreed. Luckily I don't have that problem ;-)

Post by **TSR2** » 21 Mar 2007, 22:50

DaveB wrote:
Ben.. that reformatting to a larger cluster size would have been handy on sunday.. when I installed a new 500gb drive formatted to 4k

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Thats what got me thinking Dave... I had forgotten that I had that setup on my old system, so borrowed a friends ecternal USB disk to back up my FS drive then re did it last nigh.... Sorry matey.

Post by **DaveB** » 21 Mar 2007, 22:54

Well.. as good luck would have it, I have a 320gb external USB drive arriving tomorrow :shock: I may test it by backing up my current F drive

ATB

DaveB :tab:

ianhind · Post by **ianhind** » 22 Mar 2007, 00:34

Or Pete Dowson's wideview utility....

That is useful for running FS utilities on another PC (the way I use Radar Contact).

FSNav runs within FS and hence doesn't work on another PC.

Post by **TSR2** » 22 Mar 2007, 01:26

Dave ... Just triek it again with a 64k block size.. I'm finding it v fast. If this 500G drive is only for FS maybe try 32k?

Just a though.

Post by **DaveB** » 22 Mar 2007, 01:39

Hi Ben,

Well.. the only reason I got the drive was for FSX so yes.. that's all it's only ever going to do. Even at 4k, the drive loses some 35gig with formatting pulling it down to a usable 465gig (which I thought excessive until I checked my 160 which formats to 149) but.. I'm open to suggestions. Is 64k markedly quicker than 32k?? :think:

ATB

DaveB :tab:

Post by **TSR2** » 22 Mar 2007, 01:47

Hi Dave,

16k is much quicker than 4k... 64k is as large a block size as you can go, but it is faster on my system. Wat type of hard drive is your 500G?

Post by **TSR2** » 22 Mar 2007, 01:49

*bouce*
Just read your other thread... I'd stick with 16GB and see what you think. What Graphics card do you have in that system?