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My Holy Grail "Tweak"

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:18:24 -0500

My holy grail tweak... 2 CFGs. One I was using to eliminate the black screens/invisible textures I was getting with light bloom and stuff (With 4xAA, and Adaptive AA (Supersampling)), and one is just a CFG from FSX that only has one tweak.

Yesterday I deleted my CFG and just let FSX do its thing and its running great, FPS is also great. I have not entered in the WideAspectView=True because it seems like it decreases your overall FPS and it would be very easy to just zoom out when its set to false. I have no more invisible textures/black screens so far as well. I was getting really great performance then I found that if I set the FSX affinity mask to run on the last two cores (Core 2 and 3) on my quad-core it is a whole lot smoother, and it seems like it keeps the other cores free for add-ons that may have complex avionics, use GDI+ or have processes/threads/fibers outside of FSX. Also believe it or not using a Fiber_Frame tweak I was able to get FSX to load smoothly on the two cores and it actually increased my FPS in some areas. So lets do an overview before I move on.

*Deleted FSX.CFG
*Ran FSX and set the settings I prefer.
*Opened CFG and entered FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.66 AND AffinityMask=12 (Google both tweaks to find out how to enter them in the CFG)

This next tweak was an old one I was using to eliminate the black screens/invisible textures and you can find it here.

http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtopic=271292

...and I do not recommend setting Bufferpools to 0. It will cause graphical anomalies on many systems, even though in rare cases it may not for some, but if you want to test it, go ahead and try and swivel your view around outside very fast and see what happens. You will soon see trees and buildings and whatnot stretching into the sky for split seconds but will soon disappear. This causes my FPS to jump around erratically. Also if you set your bufferpools to 0 if your FPS is high, it will not be smooth at all, you will experience jumping when swiveling views and will also experience dropped frames.

So in the end I recommend doing what I did at the top of the post and deleting the CFG and if you have a Quad Core, try the affinity mask tweak. Dual cores should only try the fiber_frame tweak.

I apologize if this is not clear, or has an grammar/spelling errors, I typed it very fast.

Ariane 737 900ER X2 GPU/APU wont connect or start

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 12:06:39 -0500

Hi can anyone help.

I have seen this thread that was posted recently about the same problem as mine but didn't find the answer there;
http://forums1.avsim.net/index.php?showtop...startup+trouble

I can not comment on Araine's product support as i only purchased the plane yesterday and recieved the activation the same day which i understand has been a problem for some.

What i do know is that it seems that the answer might be on their forum but despite registering an account with them yesterady morning they have still not emailed me confirming that it is active. and thus find myself unable to login as of yet!

When i load the plane up all the displays are black and i am unable to request the GPU ground connection, jetway or start the APU not matter how long i leave it in the start postion. All other drop down menu options work such as request fuel truck, open cargo doors, etc...

The master battery is on but i also have no power to the overhead panel. The GPU switches also dont work for me but i'm sure that they are suppossed too?

I have followed all the steps outlined on their support page about installing to windows 7 and their checklist for black displays and still nothing. See below

FSX. Displays are all black.
Q
When I have activated the FSX aircraft, I go to the aircraft to load it and the displays are all black. How do I get them to show the colour displays?

A
Operation One. The displays need to be brought 'online' via the systems. There is a procedure for turning on the displays that is explained in detail in the Training Manual (this is located in the FSX directory inside the ARIANE/MANUALS folder). The first process is to enable the systems using the APU or Ground Power APU. After doing so the IRS alignment procedure must be carried out before the displays will be enabled (and look like they do in photographs of flying aircraft). Unless the procedure is followed corretly the displays will not show.

Operation Two. If there are no dsiplays showing at all, check the following:

ESSENTIAL INFORMATION
PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS
When installing our product for FSX make sure that you have the following installed correctly:

1 Microsoft FSX Update SP2
(or FSX Accelerator). Without this our simulation software will not work at all. The software has been designed to work with Microsoft's FSX SP2 only. Having MS FSX SP1 will not enable the product - you MUST have SP2 installed or you will have black screens showing and no displays or gauges functioning. Importance Level: 10

2 Redistributable C++ Pack
See this improtant pack from the Microsoft web site:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=enhttp://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=32BC1BEE-A3F9-4C13-9C99-220B62A191EE&displaylang=en
Importance Level: 10

2a .NET Distributable
.NET Framework v1.1 (or later) is required. http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com Importance Level: 10

3 FSX Display Settings.
Make sure your settings are set as we recommend in the install manual. Open your copy of FSX and make sure that the slider settings match EXACTLY or, are set HIGHER than our settings as shown. If you do not set them this way then we cannot be held responsible for your panels looking blurred or being of poor quality. We run our simulator as high as 2500 x 1600 resolution to test it and know that the quality is very high even set as low as 1280 x 1024. Importance Level: 10

4 Memory.
Make sure that you have enough memory for FSX. The base setting of memory should be 4gb. 2gb may not be enough. Importance Level: 9

5 Drivers.
Make sure that you have the latest drivers from Nvidea or ATi Radeon. The latest drivers will give you the best setting. Importance Level: 8

6 DX10.
If you experience problems with any loading of our products in FSX, go to the FSX DISPLAY menu and locate tbe PREVIEW DIRECTX 10 setting. Untick the box (turn it off). Some graphics cards are not yet ready to run a preview of FSX DX10. Some drivers cannot run DSX10 in FSX at all. Importance Level: 10

If you still have problems with running the product then it could be that you have some software that is interfereing with it[i] (some strange effects have been reported with some high density PC Aviator Scenery products such as the North West Area of the USA for example and where master FSX files have been replaced ith developers own, then it is likely that FSX may crash repeatedly. If this is the case then re-install FSX and check with each developer of the produtcts you wish to load, asking them if they change default FSX files and if they do, do not install their product/.
FYI: Ariane or its developers do not change any default files in FSX whatsoever).[/i] Remove the problem software or disable it to see if this improves the situation. If not then locate other software and remove it or disable it.

FSX is on its own hard drive so this morning i unstalled all add-ons, accleration and fsx. Cleaned the registery and formatted the drive. So now all that is insatlled is aclean copy of fsx, acceleration and the Ariane 737-900ER as it was mentioned that other products could be a cause for this due to conflicts.

I am a little frustrated to say the least. And at �90 for the plane and upgraded you think there would be a little more help from them on this matter as it seems its not an uncommon problem.

Any ideas? Please help

Approach FMC Question

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:57:43 -0500

I am flying from KPIT to KATL in my Level-D 767.... I am using Radar Contact 4 for ATC.

When I am setting up the flight in the FMC, I enter my departure runway, and SID as directed by ATC. I enter the flight plan that I have put together using flightaware.com.

KPIT > BURGS > HVQ > KONGO > ODF

ODF is the last waypoint before I need to enter a STAR. However, when I arrive at ODF I am not close enough to the airport (KATL) to receive instructions on which runway I am to use. So therefore, I cannot enter a STAR.

What am I missing? Should I put another waypoint into the flight plan that gets me closer the airport?

Thank you in advance for your help!

AI traffic map

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 06:31:41 -0500

Is there any application which can be used to see FSX AI traffic in the air (like a map and all FSX generated AI traffic on it)?

Payware Runways vs REX Runways.

Tue, 09 Feb 2010 00:59:27 -0500

I have some Payware Airports that have custom runways, they are outdated and look awaful. Is there anyway I can do something so that I can see my REX 2.0 Runways instead of these ugly old payware runways? Thanks,.

Who is trying out this utility program 'DPC Latency Checker'?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:52:47 -0500

While running FSX (sp2) with REX and bunch of other stuff I average around 155.

What is considered a good value?

Anyone have a mini-review for the CLS 767 ?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:22:34 -0500

I found another thread asking for opinions and it quickly turned into a discusssion of the LD767. I'm interested in the CLS version. Anyone have it and can offer an opinion?

thanks,

Thaellar,

Carenado 185 Float?

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:16:09 -0500

Has anyone yet come up with a float/amphib modification for the Carenado 185F...Thanks...

FSCommander

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 16:03:36 -0500

Hi,

Trying to forget good old FSNavigator, I switched to FSCommander for FSX. Fine looking tool with many similar options.
When using it standalone, I have great performance, but when using it when FSX is loaded, it�s performance really goes down the drain.
Graphics really need time to build.

Also, the GPS window can only been seen in FSX when in windowed mode. When turning back to full screen it is gone.

Any ideas?

I have a i7, 4 Gb RAM, nVidia GTX240, 2048x1152 machine running W7.

Thanks,

Menno C. Robert

PC Aviator ... Deal of the Day, Today's Link Please ....

Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:42:26 -0500

Friends ...

Might anyone have today's PC Aviator "Deal of the Day" link? Its the one for the Megascenery Earth Grand Canyon for only $7.

Forgot to copy it before I left home and it ends at midnight tonight. If you want, just e-mail me at scbrown@mw.net.

Thanks so much,
Steve