Hi i always kept thinking what would happen if microsoft were to release SP3 for FSX . What do you think might happen for future payware. Does it increases the chance for developers to develop good payware. How will pmdg an other developers react to this . I mean they are good with SP2 for fsx they have done a incredible job with each of there payware. But if SP3 were to be release this may cause a big impact in fsx. What do you guys think ?

That's a lot of questions and what ifs for something that will not happen.

There will not be an SP3. Microsoft has moved on.

Its called p3D! :Peace:

pH

There will not be an SP3. Microsoft has moved on.

 

Yea it looks like Microsoft just created FSX an that is it . They haven't done much of all i think correct me if am wrong . But the real credit goes to the developers for payware add on . If it won't for them i don't think fsx would have progress that much. Because like you said Microsoft has move on. They never did that much for fsx. Just SP1 an 2 . But they did create FSX thats the only credit i can give them .

 

Its called p3D! :Peace:

pH

 

Mmm I think i bought i license for that on ReX Essential. I hope that the same thing that you mean when you say p3d

Mmm I think i bought i license for that on ReX Essential. I hope that the same thing that you mean when you say p3d

 

You didn't know what you were buying?

You didn't know what you were buying?

 

To be honest no i since it was part of rex i thought it was a must buy kind of thing to get the texture for rex essential looking HD .

Its called p3D! :Peace:

pH

 

Came here to say this and see it was taken care of already. :Nerd:

We would see lots of flying pigs.

Thanks a lot for pointing out SP3 for FSX,

 

As far as I remember, Microsoft sold fsx and moved on, so it's no longer under their custody.

 

If SP3 were released, it would have addressed the following problems in FSX:

 

1. Bloom effect eating lots of Frames,

2. Defficiency of the FPS locking issue, when you lock at 30 for instance, it just does not achieve that no matter what are your Autogen sliders set at unless you tweak your cfg file somwhat.

3. HyperThreading Support.

4. Vsync Enhancement in both FULL and windowed Mode,

5. adjusting BufferPools to match Modern/Powerful Graphics cards.

6. Optimizations of Shaders and distant Fog.

7. Modifying the Hard-Coded engineering to maximize the Graphics Card GPU utilization and play les intenssive towards CPU.

 

to be Frank, if we were given the permission to obtain FSX source-code, we would have done something probably better for FSX (This is imagination only)

This is one of the more surreal threads I've read in quite some time. The OP must be on some controlled substance, and the replies are not much better.

Wow!

The absolute biggest issue that was slated to be fixed in SP3 is the lack of a hardware mouse cursor - adding this would have ended the framerate drop you see in complex VCs when the cursor is on-screen.

 

I would have hoped for a compiled 64-bit version of FSX.exe too that would have ended the address space exhaustion stuff once and for all.

The absolute biggest issue that was slated to be fixed in SP3 is the lack of a hardware mouse cursor - adding this would have ended the framerate drop you see in complex VCs when the cursor is on-screen.

 

I would have hoped for a compiled 64-bit version of FSX.exe too that would have ended the address space exhaustion stuff once and for all.

 

Wawo i do agree in the vc sometimes i get low frame rates for the ngx 737 . An my computer has 32Gb ram memory . But if fsx was 64 bites it would have been amazing. PMDG an other developers would have less problems when it comes to creating an people complaining about low FPS

First off, i would faint, then I would look at the calendar to make sure it was not april fools day, then i would do a retake and make sure it was actuall yMS$ and if it was i would probably faint all over again, than I might do something I dont do, Hav a stff drink to calm my nerves.

They said they had to rush DX10 out as preview for SP2, so i would guess they'd release full DX10 support with SP3, and judging by the preview it is quite nice FPS increase.

 

Would've been nice if MS had continued supporting FSX, but oh well. Or i would've preferred them taking more time and developing a completely new up-to-date engine instead of band-aiding the engine dating back to like 90'