I have tried to find a solution before a found this post.I have switched the momentumeffect in the camera.cfg and the aircraft.cfg at different positions to NO.At first what is the momentumeffect, same as Dynamic Head Movement?I am not sure anymore which ones I have changed, has it any negative influence if I let it and insert the text of GaryGB?

I'll tell you one thing..............this guy never touched the cfg file.I used to hv 3 drives,C,D & E. My E was a raptor,cost me over 200 bucks. This guy said the first thing that's going is your D & E drives.Microsoft never made FSX to install on any other drive but the default which is "C" you'll note when you place your install disk in.That's why he said your other drives go.Only a Large "C"(terrabyte) Is part of the smoothness of FSX.Tim

Tim, my friend - you're going to have to give us some better description than "I hv a problem with my picture shaking."In twenty-six years I have never seen a "picture shaking", and by the guesses above nobody else understands "shaking", either, so try and describe exactly what you're seeing, when does it happen; what aircraft you're flying; how high are you; do you use TrackIR;I note one thing: you're using a 42" monitor - I assume you're hooked up to your TV. How are you feeding it? What is its native resolution and what do you have FSX set at?

I guess I used the wrong word by "Shsking". Term is shimmer or flicker.By your above question I don't hv the problem anymore if you'll read this whole post.My "shimmer" "Used" to do it at lower altitutesI do not use Trackerir tho I do hv it.I'm feeding the LCD with a DVI cableTim

I'll tell you one thing..............this guy never touched the cfg file.I used to hv 3 drives,C,D & E. My E was a raptor,cost me over 200 bucks. This guy said the first thing that's going is your D & E drives.Microsoft never made FSX to install on any other drive but the default which is "C" you'll note when you place your install disk in.That's why he said your other drives go.Only a Large "C"(terrabyte) Is part of the smoothness of FSX.

What?! Some explanation on this one please! This guy knows something we don't or he's full of it. Since I put FSX on it's own drive and defrag (basicaly followed ALL the NickN's recommendations) I have constant 30FPC (locked@30) and smooth ride all the time. Before I did that I got terrible stutters. So, what's this one drive thing all about?

What?! Some explanation on this one please! This guy knows something we don't or he's full of it. Since I put FSX on it's own drive and defrag (basicaly followed ALL the NickN's recommendations) I have constant 30FPC (locked@30) and smooth ride all the time. Before I did that I got terrible stutters. So, what's this one drive thing all about?

He's full of it. We have plenty of evidence of the problems that occur from having FSX and the OS on the same drive - not the least of which is the defragmentation issue, the access rights to the read/write head, the problems with Windows 7 of actually editing files within FS thanks to the over-the-top security built into the Program Files folder set, and the increased loading times caused by combining sim and OS on the same drive. That's before we start discussing Virtual Memory. MS ACES did NOT write FSX for installation into no other drive than C:. That is FACT: 1: the basic installation specifically ASKS where you want to install to, merely offering the C:\ Program Files\ Flight Simulator X as a suggestion. FACT2: ACES themselves had FSX on `other than` C: drives during and post-development. Also, beta testers were specifically asked which drive they used and this was used to gather any problems for troubleshooting prior to release. FACT...now the question is, if what the Tech/Engineer told TMond about FSX is total garbage, what price the rest of his `service`..?Tell you what TMond, just ask your Tech Guru to pop in and explain himself, will you? If he can justify and quantify his claims in the face of the contrary advice of recognised specialists and the ACES team themselves, there will be a flock of enquiries on his phone line within hours. Otherwise I hope your service included a moneyback guarantee if your flight sim install gets hosed, because if everything is now installed on one drive, and the OS drive at that, a hosed FSX installation means the possibility of a complete Windows reinstallation and the loss of personal data. what worries me mostly is the combining of everything on one drive only. Do you mean a single physical hard drive that was partitioned? Or a number of different hard drives all bar one of which is now defunct? If the former, then partitioning is one area where todays advice is NOT to partition modern large hard drives is sound. If the latter, then frankly that kind of palpable BS should be a major warning to everyone to steer well clear of this particular `expert`.Meanwhile, back at the ranch. I assume our original poster is referring to image shimmer, the problem caused by mipmap levels or anti-aliasing levels on autogen. Please provide full setup specs for your flight sim installation and whether you are setting AA and Anisotropic Filtering (AF) from within the sim or from outside using graphic card settings on NHancer.

He's full of it. We have plenty of evidence of the problems that occur from having FSX and the OS on the same drive - not the least of which is the defragmentation issue, the access rights to the read/write head, the problems with Windows 7 of actually editing files within FS thanks to the over-the-top security built into the Program Files folder set, and the increased loading times caused by combining sim and OS on the same drive. That's before we start discussing Virtual Memory. MS ACES did NOT write FSX for installation into no other drive than C:. That is FACT: 1: the basic installation specifically ASKS where you want to install to, merely offering the C:\ Program Files\ Flight Simulator X as a suggestion. FACT2: ACES themselves had FSX on `other than` C: drives during and post-development. Also, beta testers were specifically asked which drive they used and this was used to gather any problems for troubleshooting prior to release. FACT...now the question is, if what the Tech/Engineer told TMond about FSX is total garbage, what price the rest of his `service`..?Tell you what TMond, just ask your Tech Guru to pop in and explain himself, will you? If he can justify and quantify his claims in the face of the contrary advice of recognised specialists and the ACES team themselves, there will be a flock of enquiries on his phone line within hours. Otherwise I hope your service included a moneyback guarantee if your flight sim install gets hosed, because if everything is now installed on one drive, and the OS drive at that, a hosed FSX installation means the possibility of a complete Windows reinstallation and the loss of personal data. what worries me mostly is the combining of everything on one drive only. Do you mean a single physical hard drive that was partitioned? Or a number of different hard drives all bar one of which is now defunct? If the former, then partitioning is one area where todays advice is NOT to partition modern large hard drives is sound. If the latter, then frankly that kind of palpable BS should be a major warning to everyone to steer well clear of this particular `expert`.Meanwhile, back at the ranch. I assume our original poster is referring to image shimmer, the problem caused by mipmap levels or anti-aliasing levels on autogen. Please provide full setup specs for your flight sim installation and whether you are setting AA and Anisotropic Filtering (AF) from within the sim or from outside using graphic card settings on NHancer.

Hey.I'm not full of BS.Of course this guy's no guru.I was referred to him buy a guy in another forum who used him 3 years ago and his result explained to me was that since this guy toyed with his system he's got no problems and a great picture ever since. And further more I hv better things to do than what you ask of me"ask your tech to pop in and explain himself"He's a business man that's licenced and intellegent. What's your problem anyway?You feel threated?Tim Diamond,Canada & proud of it !!!!

If you have problem getting your system and FSX tuned and tweaked, any help is good. Some of us manage to learn a lot about the hardware, BIOS and the OS. We manage to get our systems and FSX running with good performance. But if I wouldn't manage to help myself I would be happy to be able to get expert help, even if I had to pay for it. I've followed some of Tim's threads on another site and I'm happy that he finally has got his system and FSX tuned and tweaked. Tim is happy. I'm happy. Why can't we all be happy?

If you have problem getting your system and FSX tuned and tweaked, any help is good. Some of us manage to learn a lot about the hardware, BIOS and the OS. We manage to get our systems and FSX running with good performance. But if I wouldn't manage to help myself I would be happy to be able to get expert help, even if I had to pay for it. I've followed some of Tim's threads on another site and I'm happy that he finally has got his system and FSX tuned and tweaked. Tim is happy. I'm happy. Why can't we all be happy?

True, it is better to be dumb and happy than intelligent and aware of just how sad the happy people are. However as to whether any help is better than no help, it would depend on the quality of that help, surely? To validate your own argument: You deliberately seek out dumb help rather than intelligent? Obviously not. You instead set out to educate yourself. Which is a good way of being happy AND intelligent at the same time. As the advice given to the earlier poster flies directly in the face of the understanding of many other flight sim experts who have investigated, reported AND had their findings justified by the experiences of others I think it quite right to question the ability of the tech engineer but, as the expression goes, it's not my sausage. I don't know the poster, no care about whether his system is optimised and no concern about the abilities of the tech as he's not getting anywhere near my system.My only question is, Tim, if your system is so properly tuned and you trust this guru so much, why are you here asking for our advice?Think about it.

My only question is, Tim, if your system is so properly tuned and you trust this guru so much, why are you here asking for our advice?

The thread was created in July, the way I read it is that he got the help setting his system up after that. I have to admit though that I haven't read this thread very carefully, so he may have asked another question later that I didn't see.

If you have problem getting your system and FSX tuned and tweaked, any help is good. Some of us manage to learn a lot about the hardware, BIOS and the OS. We manage to get our systems and FSX running with good performance. But if I wouldn't manage to help myself I would be happy to be able to get expert help, even if I had to pay for it. I've followed some of Tim's threads on another site and I'm happy that he finally has got his system and FSX tuned and tweaked. Tim is happy. I'm happy. Why can't we all be happy?

Thank you for your comments. At this time I would like to say a few words about the comments the other gentleman wrote that seems irrate.First of all I know that Nick is a wonderful very intellegent man that has promptly come to my aid when I needed it.....just as Tim Fuchs another whiz. The man I hired versus Nick just do things in a different way that they believe in. Over all the years I've been simming I spent more time trying to get a good picture than flying.At last I got what I finally wanted. The man I hired only changed one thing in my FSX.cfg & that was clouds from 1024 to 4096.He never made adjustments to any onther cfg file other than that.I know because I was watching him work in my computer.I get smooth 30FRS.I can lift off a runway with a A380 like a feather.I'm tickled pink.Tim

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The thread was created in July, the way I read it is that he got the help setting his system up after that. I have to admit though that I haven't read this thread very carefully, so he may have asked another question later that I didn't see.

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Well I agree with snave in that having FSX and the OS on the same drive has been shown to be a 'performance' no-no but, bottom line, if Tim is happy with his system - it's his system and his eyes.BTW, Tim - re the 4096 clouds - yes they look better but at a performance cost - unless your system is equipped to handle it. Also - FSX will reset that to 1024 almost at a whim so periodically check the setting.As they say - whatever works for you - glad you got it sorted to your satisfaction.BTW#2 - NickN's guides are designed to get the best compromise of IQ and performance out of a system, they are NOT designed to get the best IQ out of a system and if I read your post(s) correctly - you are more interested in visuals than performance.Enjoy!

Just another 2 cents, but I also support Snave. (huh??) I do think, though that what happened was that Tim was a bystander to an aggessive tech, he can remember only some of what transpired, and he misunderstood or misinterpreted what was said and what was actually done to his machine. I've been "an electronics guy" since 1960 and I've seen this happen many times. It happens with customers/clients who don't fully understand what they're being told. They will go away with half a story. I say this because it is highly unlikely that a Microsoft certified tech would ever suggest what Tim has told us, and we're not ever going to find out, so it doesn't matter, it's old history, and Tim is happy with his pc - and is enjoying FSX. ... just like I'm enjoying my new P6T mobo, an i7-950 oc'd at 4.2gig. :( :( 'Nuff said. :(

Well I agree with snave in that having FSX and the OS on the same drive has been shown to be a 'performance' no-no but, bottom line, if Tim is happy with his system - it's his system and his eyes.BTW, Tim - re the 4096 clouds - yes they look better but at a performance cost - unless your system is equipped to handle it. Also - FSX will reset that to 1024 almost at a whim so periodically check the setting.As they say - whatever works for you - glad you got it sorted to your satisfaction.BTW#2 - NickN's guides are designed to get the best compromise of IQ and performance out of a system, they are NOT designed to get the best IQ out of a system and if I read your post(s) correctly - you are more interested in visuals than performance.Enjoy!

I never yet got hit back to 1024 in periodic checks. I run a strat 30 frame rate with no problem.I would not settle for anything less than good performance.Your sure correct about your sentence..."BTW#2(Whom you mention)Why do you people bring up peoples names?I am enjoying very much thank you!Tim

Just another 2 cents, but I also support Snave. (huh??) I do think, though that what happened was that Tim was a bystander to an aggessive tech, he can remember only some of what transpired, and he misunderstood or misinterpreted what was said and what was actually done to his machine. I've been "an electronics guy" since 1960 and I've seen this happen many times. It happens with customers/clients who don't fully understand what they're being told. They will go away with half a story. I say this because it is highly unlikely that a Microsoft certified tech would ever suggest what Tim has told us, and we're not ever going to find out, so it doesn't matter, it's old history, and Tim is happy with his pc - and is enjoying FSX. ... just like I'm enjoying my new P6T mobo, an i7-950 oc'd at 4.2gig. :( :( 'Nuff said. :(

You underestimate me.I know when I'm being pushed or sold by agressiveness. At 18 years old I was top VIP in Canada for sales for a large company. I bn around the block and retired now. On the contrary I had to push this guy to work for me & I have a good memory and watched him as to what he was doing in my computer.I have also built a good relationship with this individual whereas hardly a day goes by that we don't talk on windows.Ya...............dead subject now. OH...................................................."I'M NOT A BYSTANDER"................Smile,Tim