I voted no. The forum is already cut up and divided far too much already. This is a community, and as a community we need to experience and discuss things openly. We should not be jammed into separate tiny little rooms so that we don't hear and see what else, and who else, is going on around us. Tweaking is another fundamental part of what most of us do in FSX to a greater or lesser degree, so leave it alone. Let's not try to "manage" activities and topics like traffic cops so much, and give everyone some room to breathe! Take the flipper away from whoever wants us to keep changing the channels!Kind regards,

" there isn't much of a black and white arrangement of people flying and others just tweaking all the time."Correct, CoolIP. Many of our tweaky posts here will ring bells for some folks, and barely raise an eyebrow for others. How can one differentiate what is relevant for each individual. It's whatever sparks our interest at any particular time. Many tweaks don't apply to everyone: many tweaks cause CTD's: some tweaks stop CTD's, so which tweak goes where? As many people know - and few use - there is already a "MS Flight Simulator Tips and Tricks" as a subforum of the FSX forum. Go and look at it: The main, pinned post is "Compilation of popular tweaks" and consists of 39 posts, beginning, and mostly during 2003, the last post but one, in 2006, with the last post by FSP532 in June 2010, which he deleted. There are 9 out of 16 posts on tweaking. Post #7 - Someone advertising a new TrackNoIR system.... tweak?? post #11 - Sids and Stars.. Tweak?? #12 - Where can I download a Weather radar.. tweak?? #13 - What runway for landing??... tweak? #17 Throttle doesn't work on the screen.. tweak?? and so on - and so on. My point is - in spite of the sub-forum being about "Tweaks and Tips" - it's about anything. There are general questions - there are tip questions; there are hardware questions - all in spite of the fact that there is a pinned warning about posting questions!!!! What's the point of having this "Tweaks and Tips" forum? Most of those questions would get better and faster response if the questions were asked right here in the main FSX forum! Suppose for a minute Bojote decided to put his tweaking posts in that sub-forum. (Why weren't they all pushed to that sub-forum, as some of the hardware questions usually are?). My new home page would suddenly become "Avsim Tips and Tricks", with the Library, SimForums, DoDoSim and YouTube, etc., on other FireFox tabs, and I would rarely or not even bother to look at the other forums. "Tweaking" - whether FSX or FS9 - is a major part of the hobby: it might not have been this way had the Sim and the available hardware been in sync with each other over the years, but that's the way it has evolved... and Avsim with it's FS9 forum was the place to come for advice, along with some general chit-chat. This "style" has continued with the advent of FSX, and it's still a great place to come to. Here one can browse posts about the best tube-liner; the last airport; whether to buy a 480 or a 470; new pay or free-ware releases; sound problems; one can get answers - by some very smart people - to almost any question, because this is the forum where it all happens. This is the place to be. This is the community. And tweaking is a very large part of that.

I voted no. The forum is already cut up and divided far too much already. This is a community, and as a community we need to experience and discuss things openly. We should not be jammed into separate tiny little rooms so that we don't hear and see what else, and who else, is going on around us. Tweaking is another fundamental part of what most of us do in FSX to a greater or lesser degree, so leave it alone. Let's not try to "manage" activities and topics like traffic cops so much, and give everyone some room to breathe! Take the flipper away from whoever wants us to keep changing the channels!Kind regards,

Amen to that. I voted no too. Crystal clear!! And let me add that this could be more confusing to those who starts in Avsim. We all read everyday people posting in the wrong section. Do you see Tips and Tricks? You must not post questions, and the first post you can read what is? A QUESTION!!I encourage those who has the brains/time (or/and both) keep helping and discovering new tweaks but in the main section!!SalutiIgnacio :(

I voted yes. It seems that the FSX Forum is being overrun by tweaking threads which I find of limited usefulness. I prefer to fly rather than tweak, well fly and develop scenery actually.I will be the first to acknowledge that this is because my FSX is very smooth which considering that I am running Orbx PNW with 30% air traffic and 10% ship traffic on an AMD 5000+ with 2GB ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT has me very pleased.I realize that I seem to be the exception rather then the rule so I definitely see the validity of tweaking, but would prefer it had its own forum so those of us not needing to tweak can find more appropriate threads easier.Regards, Mike Mann

I voted no. The forum is already cut up and divided far too much already. This is a community, and as a community we need to experience and discuss things openly. We should not be jammed into separate tiny little rooms so that we don't hear and see what else, and who else, is going on around us. Tweaking is another fundamental part of what most of us do in FSX to a greater or lesser degree, so leave it alone. Let's not try to "manage" activities and topics like traffic cops so much, and give everyone some room to breathe! Take the flipper away from whoever wants us to keep changing the channels!Kind regards,

+1 :(

We should not be jammed into separate tiny little rooms so that we don't hear and see what else, and who else, is going on around us.

Very true.

AMD 5000+ with 2GB ram and a NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT has me very pleased.

Every person level of 'satisfaction' and how 'pleased' they feel is different. If I had your hardware I could never achieve my 'desired' level of 'satisfaction' no matter what I did. So, I decided to 'share' my findings with the community so they tweak less and fly more. Since 'satisfaction levels' are subjective, I try to use videos as 'reference' as to what my 'personal preferences' are. That way, I can share what my experience (with performance) is instead of talking about it, after all this IS a forum, so anyone can come in here, say they have a Pentium III and Voodoo card and say they are pleased. Great for them! My personal 'satisfaction level'? well... see the video.

Every person level of 'satisfaction' and how 'pleased' they feel is different. If I had your hardware I could never achieve my 'desired' level of 'satisfaction' no matter what I did. So, I decided to 'share' my findings with the community so they tweak less and fly more. Since 'satisfaction levels' are subjective, I try to use videos as 'reference' as to what my 'personal preferences' are. That way, I can share what my experience (with performance) is instead of talking about it, after all this IS a forum, so anyone can come in here, say they have a Pentium III and Voodoo card and say they are pleased. Great for them! My personal 'satisfaction level'? well... see the video.

Thanks God your skills in computer sciences are much better than your flying "talent"! :(

Thanks God your skills in computer sciences are much better than your flying "talent"! :(

LOL!! it was a test!!! come'on

This should clear it up.

Thanks for the link. I've removed them, I merely used the provided info in the area where I created the sig and still don't understand why it is there if it's almost the opposite of that in the link you provided. No big deal to me but I would expect that others will make the same mistake. Now back on topic........Looks like it's over 2:1 in favor so far and some good points on both sides. Personally I think having more choices on how you want to view the FSX forum is a good thing. However, I can see the points others have made and respect their opinions. Afterall, the forum is NOT a democracy and in the end the admins will make a decision based on what they think is best for THEIR forum. Thanks to all that have participated so far.Steve

I think we should keep it on the main forum! The reason for this being obvious - tweaking requires most of people reading it and also taking part. Having another forum on this just minimizes that option. So, no.

I support support!