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It has been awhile and I am a little rusty... (Read 1559 times)

Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:00pm

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Goodly evening all...

FSX and Windows 7
ORBX.........USA CANADA
            -Pacific Northwest
            -Pacific Fjords
REX2
Aircraft:    Awesome4some Douglas DC3...C-ANDY
Livery:       By Andy190 a fine outstanding member here on
               the forums
               Available here on the Simviation Forums along
               with N190A without skis is C-ANDY with skis..
Departure: Ketchican "PAKT"
Season:    Spring
Time:       Midmorning

Notice the FRAPs...set to unlimited...

Departing "PAKT"

Gear-Up...nice gentle climb out

Bit of Spring Weather

Level Flight...Time to light the pipe and have a spot of tea..

Plodding along in a mixture of April precipitation

Front Office

Comments and Advice most welcome... Wink

Wink

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #1 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:10pm

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Looks like you shook the rust off rather quick Smiley

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Reply #2 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:17pm

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Thanks Justin...much appreciated... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #3 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:41pm

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Great shots Doug. Wink

Wink

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By Andy190 a fine outstanding member here on the forums

You sure you've got the right person? Roll Eyes

Roll Eyes

Grin

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Reply #4 - Apr 24^th, 2012 at 8:43pm

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Thanks for the comments Andy...much appreciated... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #5 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 4:28am

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nicely done. with those frame rates, am i right in thinking this is no Commodore 64 your running Shocked

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Reply #6 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 8:09am

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todayshorse thanks for looking...

Windows 7 Home Premium (x64) service pack 1
3.30 gigahertz Intel Core i5-2500K
1024 kilobyte secondary memory cache
6144 kilobyte tertiary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (4 total)

3320.52 gigabytes Usable Hard Drive Capacity
3174.87 gigabytes Hard Drive Free Space

8174 Megabytes Usable Installed Memory

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 580 (Display Adapter)

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #7 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 9:08am

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Been looking forward to seeing your work. Nicely done! Don't forget to sweep up the rust. Wouldn't want to damage the computer Wink

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Mike

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Reply #8 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 9:58am

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Thanks Mike...much appreciated... Wink

Wink

Still trying to figure out this REX and the tail wheel steering for the Beech 18... Grin

Grin

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #9 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 10:05am

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Liking the shots a lot!! not too rusty at all

Stang

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Reply #10 - Apr 25^th, 2012 at 10:09am

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Thanks Stang...much appreciated...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #11 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 12:38am

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Welcome back Cheesy

Cheesy

Excellent shots Cool

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The only advice I could think of is, don't bet on the horses. Wink

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jime

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Reply #12 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 12:50am

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Wow

Shocked

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Lookin' good, Doug.......#5 is outstanding Cool

Cool

Cool

"Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth and danced the skies on laughter silvered wings. Sunward I've climbed and joined the tumbling mirth of sun split clouds.....and done a hundred things you have never dreamed of.....wheeled and soared and swung high in the sunlit silence. Hovering there, I've chased the shouting wind along and flung my eager craft through footless halls of air.

Up, up the long, delerious, burning blue I've topped the wind swept heights with easy grace where never Lark, nor even Eagle flew. While with silent lifting of mind I've trod the high untrespassed sanctity of space, put out my hand and touched the face of god"

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Reply #13 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 12:56am

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Doug, why are you using Fraps to take your screenshots? FSX has a built-in screenshot taker that has better results.

Also you could have posted this in Simviation Screenshots Showcase because the main focus is on freeware. Wink

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Reply #14 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 5:59am

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Nice shots.

Rich

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Reply #15 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:00am

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Thanks "jime"...much appreciated...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #16 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:02am

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Thanks Chuck much appreciated and glad to see your electronic gizmo back up and running... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #17 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:03am

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Thanks RSorochak...much appreciated...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #18 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 9:06am

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Hi Andy...

To take the screenshots I used the "V" Key on my keyboard.

FRAPS was only to check what Frame Rates I was getting as I had the slider set to unlimited and this was the first time I used these new add-ons...

I thought if you used any kind of Payware it had to go in the Payware Screenshot Showcase?

Thanks for the info on that one Andy... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #19 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 5:03pm

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Ah I understand.

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I thought if you used any kind of Payware it had to go in the Payware Screenshot Showcase?

It used to be that way a few years ago but the Mods changed the rules because they thought it was impossible to take a screenshot without some type of payware being in the shot.

Now it only has to go in Payware if it is “Promoting” a Payware Product.

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Reply #20 - Apr 26^th, 2012 at 6:47pm

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Thanks Andy...much appreciated... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #21 - Apr 27^th, 2012 at 8:10pm

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You know, reading this thread made me wonder - my imacs specs arent far behind your PC flying trucker,(i5, quad core, etc etc), and yet ive never seen frame rates anything near what you are getting - yeah FSX is flyable but its like fs2004 on my old mac, looked great, but maybe struggled a little. Ive always been baffled as to why.Now its finally clicked....

When i got this new iMac, i bootcamped her right into windows 7 - indeed. Bootcamped into WINDOWS 7 32 BIT! Silly boy, my macs a 64 bit thingy, so ive just done a full partition delete and full re-install with Win 7 64 bit.....Now its using ALL my gigs of RAM whereas before it used about 2...sigh, how could i have missed this!!

Initial impressions are very good. I can run it with all the silders full on (without add-ons) and its smooth and much joy was had Cheesy

Cheesy

Now to re-install all i had on the initial install of FSX Undecided

Undecided

oh well!!

Many thanks Wink

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Reply #22 - Apr 28^th, 2012 at 9:53am

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Hey I am happy my thread was of some help to someone... Wink

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Take your time with the install...don't rush it... Grin

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Looking forward to your changes... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #23 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 7:32pm

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Oh and one quick question folks...

After each and every flight I heard several times a person should do a Disc Defrag.

Does it cut down on the service life of the computer to do that.

This unit is set up to do a Disc Defrag once a week and I thought that was too much.

Comments and advice would be most appreciated... Wink

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Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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Reply #24 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 8:54pm

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Hi Doug this is what I found in Windows Help & Support:

Quote:

1: To defragment your hard disk open Disk Defragmenter.

2: Under Current status, select the disk you want to defragment.

3: To determine if the disk needs to be defragmented or not, click Analyse disk. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Once Windows is finished analysing the disk, you can check the percentage of fragmentation on the disk in the Last Run column. If the number is above 10%, you should defragment the disk.

4: Click Defragment disk. If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Disk Defragmenter might take from several minutes to a few hours to finish, depending on the size and degree of fragmentation of your hard disk. You can still use your computer during the defragmentation process.

So the Computer won't Defrag unless the Computer is more than 10% Fragmented.

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Reply #25 - Apr 30^th, 2012 at 9:02pm

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Hi Andy...

I have been doing a Defrag after every flight as was suggested and sometimes it is only 2% but Windows 7 will still do a Defrag back to 0%.

I am just wondering if we really need to do a Defrag even at 30 or 40%?

Sent the specks to you in the other post... Wink

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"Still Tweaking" in this section...

Cheers...Happy Landings...Doug

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