Hello Lads.......!

Saturday....FSX Time...Woo-Hoo...!!

I rushed out this morning to my local GAME shop and happily thrust £60 into the GAME man's eager hand for a copy of Uncle Bill's FSX Flight Simulator; Deluxe Version...!
Rushed back home, (as you do), popped the DVD onto my DVD Rom tray and installed the program....
....now, as you would expect, this takes rather a long time. Indeed it seems to take forever...and ever...and ever....ZZZZzzzzz....

Anyway, having got it all loaded, the next step is to un-tick everything that I don't think I need, like birds, animals, vehicles, aeroplane traffic, fancy water and luxury clouds, etc, etc....
...concentrating only upon the good "stuff", like Autogen, buildings, trees, ground scenery and textures, etc, and winding the sliders up as much as possible, (as you do) to make it look good......!

Now that's when the trouble sets in......!

To be able to see the beautiful trees, and all the buildings, and the nice ground scenery and textures I really need to be parked on the ground with my engines switched off in my trusty Cessna 172, and sat in the FBO drinking tea and eating cream cakes, 'cos taking to the air and flying around is a bit of a no-no...!!

All my lovely add-on airfield scenery (care of LAGO and EZ-Scenery), my lovely buildings (care of Koorbygen), my lovely ground textures (care of VOZ), my lovely trees (care of Gerrish Grey), my lovely water textures (care of Flight Water Pro), etc, etc, all running at 30 FPS, are no longer there... ...!
...instead, my aerial flight judders along at 1 point 5 Frames Per Hour...(approximately).......!

So what do I do......?

Forget all about this FSX malarky for a while, and load up my FAB FS 2004 with its lovely add-on airfield scenery, lovely buildings, etc, etc.....(you know how it goes)....and fly around smoothly at high speed (30FPS+) like I used to....before FSX Deluxe modified my brain.....!

So...its joy time again, FS 2004 is now enhancing my monitor screen, even though my bank balance has been reduced to the tune of £60......!

Moral: We live and learn (often the painful, expensive way)......!

Paul...(It's story time again)... 8)...!

P.S....Sorry, Bill....   ...!

Quote:



...'trubble is, Gunny...

...looking decent in FSX is not quite the same as looking and running FANTASTIC! in FS 2004... ...!
LOL...!

Paul...My scenery in FS 2004 is really nice after spending years upgrading it, without affecting the frame rates or smoothness...... ...!

My FSX is very disappointing by comparison... ...!

Paul... 8)...!

Poor old Paul...
your expieriences do not make me feel comfortable.
I received my copy yesterday,and just decided to get Vista RC1 before i install FSX.But of course im not doing these "experiments" on my main FS9 drive!

Arni...(feeling a bit like a mad Professor)  

gunny are you sure your rudders set to rudder and not aileron?

my rudder pedals were defaulted as aileron when I started flying

Paul!

So you decided to install SP2 so you could load FSX? (Sorry if I missed it - I've been travelling for weeks).

I was thinking about it and then thought better of it - looks like I was right. FS9 rules.

(But then I said the same thing about FS2002! As did you, I seem to recall ... )

on landing? I finally managed, but almost tipped it.... I just bumped the throttle by mistake when landing and then had to do a little Swirving on the runway like a drunk until it stopped..... I dont think its right, I have a twist stick.... and this is the only plane so far that does it! hmmm

Cheers, Gunny

I agreee with you foz.....I'm in two minds whether to remove FSX and get my 15Gbs of HDD space back until i buy a new computer. I prefer flying in my FS9 even if it isnt as detailed....I prefer 30fps to 5.

.Mic

(Still trying to optomise it for the best performance)

wow......3 years....thats when ill be buying a new PC if this one lasts as long as the old one did 

Why did i even bother buying FSX?

.Mic