No No son, Roger Wilco. 10-4 is a trucker reply on a CB if asked if it had been 6mo. since he bathed. :)

 

Actually in real life flying I have never heard anyone say roger or roger wilco, at least not since the pre -80's era. Anytime atc give you a command its always followed by you, the pilot repeating the instructions back to the controller, rather than just saying wilco. This just verifies what atc said in case you misunderstood the instructions. If atc gave you a vector and you misheard the heading and just said roger, you might end up flying the wrong heading.

 

Not sure when they did away with roger or roger wilco as response, but you dont hear that in the US anyway.

Just to chime in with one thing: my guide, as good as it is and as it helped many people, be careful with it with your low-ish specs (which are low-ish in FSX world). The guide is optimized for high specs, SB CPUs or higher and medium-high Nvidia cards 560Ti or better. Anything lower, you must be careful with using BP=0 or lower FFTF numbers.

 

Concerning addons, many payware addons seriously rock, but they are often also big FPS hogs, so watch out there. I suggest you start heaps of reading here on AVSIM... or just get a high-spec'd machine and load it up :lol:

Actually in real life flying I have never heard anyone say roger or roger wilco, at least not since the pre -80's era. Anytime atc give you a command its always followed by you, the pilot repeating the instructions back to the controller, rather than just saying wilco. This just verifies what atc said in case you misunderstood the instructions. If atc gave you a vector and you misheard the heading and just said roger, you might end up flying the wrong heading.

 

Not sure when they did away with roger or roger wilco as response, but you dont hear that in the US anyway.

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Adding any kind of phototextures...or photo sceneries like Mega scenery would actually improve performance and enhance your FSX

 

I'm new to FSX also...computer couldn't handle it at the time it came out, so I stuck with FS9 until real life got in the way! Anyway, MS Flight got me interested in flight simming again, so built a new computer...but got tired of waiting for a helicopter to be released, so downloaded FSX.

 

Now that introductions are out of the way - how would adding sceneries IMPROVE performance? I've been thinking of upgrading scenery, but I thought "other than default" would add to the computing burden, not ease it...

 

and - yet another question - Manny mentioned MegaScenery - looks good on the website, how do those of you who have used it rate it?

I have Mega Scenery New York and the fps is good for such a lot of detail. But almost all addon aircraft, and sceneries especially airports will require more cpu bandwidth for the higher detail textures, and their programs running instruments in aircraft or ground vehicles at airports.

how would adding sceneries IMPROVE performance

 

Because they are better "done" than default scenery. GEX always has gave me better performance than defualt. Not alot but some. Airports and specifics are a different story as far as performance.

Hi, welcome to the forums. I'd consider FS9 before FSX. Your system isn't powerful enough to handle FSX. It could probably run the game, but you won't find much enjoyment with the visual settings.

 

If you do want to try it check out this guide... should help you get the most out of your install:

http://forum.avsim.net/topic/370594-read-before-posting-software-hardware-guide-for-fsx/

If you do want to try it check out this guide... should help you get the most out of your install:

 

I believe Word Not Allowed stated this tweak may not be the best for his lowish end sytem. perhaps Bujotes would be better.

Now that introductions are out of the way - how would adding sceneries IMPROVE performance? I've been thinking of upgrading scenery, but I thought "other than default" would add to the computing burden, not ease it...

 

Photo sceneries typically have less "fluff" than default ground textures. There's less for the CPU to work on, so frame rates can improve. Some people prefer ground textures with a lot of things and some prefer a photo based scenery that can better represent an area.

 

Another area where more recent scenery add-ons can help is with LODs (level of detail built into the models). FSX SP2 generally improves performance, but it broke LODs. What should happen is that models get simpler and vanish as the visual range increases. Older models and default FSX models don't do that under SP2 so the CPU is trying to draw objects 30 miles away when you may not even be able to see them yet. Seattle is a good example.

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Install FSX, how to do that properly is a story in itself. Set framerates a 30FPS. Load the default Lear 45 at KSEA Seattle. Fly @ FL210 and land at KPDX Portland. Check back on your performance or how you feel it performed.

 

Sorry I've been busy the last few days. I'm going to do this today and let you guys know how it ran.

Ok. I didn;t change any settings except FPS to 30, it ran fantastic, no chop or stutter.

Nothing? lol