Shalom and greetings all my pals!!!!!

 

This is my new laptop's first successful flight on FSX SP2!!!! I am not sure about water textures as I seem to forget graphic, weather, and scenery settings from FSX in my old laptop. All of you can judge to see if water looks good or bad to you.

 

Here is world's most exclusive thirteenth part of exciting and educational continuing education of history of Caribbean commercial aviation!!! The official topic of thirteenth part is British Caledonian and the role that the airline played in Caribbean!!!!

 

This airline flew non stop using DC-10s or 747s from England to Barbados and Puerto Rico. The former was regular service and the latter was combo of regular route and refueling stopover. The airline usually used San Juan as DC-10's refueling stop over for continuing flights to South America and return from South America to England.

 

 

Look how shiny the bottom of the plane is!! I wish it can be on SGA DC-10-30!!

 

 

Allow me to present a nice British Calenodian DC-10-30 flight from MBPV Providenciales International Airport on the island of Providenciales of the Turks and Caicos Islands to TJSJ Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in Carolina three miles (five kilometers) southeast of San Juan, Puerto Rico

 

Taxiing on runway 28 for backtracking and take off

 

 

 

Airborne on climb to FL350 to TJSJ

 

 

Making right turn toward GTK

 

 

 

What do all of you think of water as the plane continued climbing to FL350 to GTK and then cruised along A555???

 

 

 

 

Because of regulations of the forums not allowing more than 10 screenshots per post, please go to this hyperlink to view rest of the exciting flight as seen below:

 

http://vatil.org.il/...php?f=6&t=40881

 

Thank you for viewing!!! Stay tuned for next exciting flight!!!

 

Regards,

 

Aharon

Very nice screen shots, I would say your new lap top runs FSX very well.

Yeah nice, this is tempting me to get a laptop instead of a desktop for FSX. Maybe modern laptops are now 'good enough' to run FSX with add ons?

Looking good Aharon!!

Thanks all for kind words. Does water texture in my screenshots using new rig make sense to you or does it look like I am using wrong settings?

 

Aharon

 

Yeah nice, this is tempting me to get a laptop instead of a desktop for FSX. Maybe modern laptops are now 'good enough' to run FSX with add ons?

 

Foxbat,

 

I have been using laptops to fly FSX for seven years and you can look at my screenshot samples past 7 years here and other aviation forums to the point you will be amazed that laptops can handle FSX:):):)

 

Aharon

Lovely screens. Water looks great; no complaints from me.

 

I run FSX Acceleration from a laptop, too. Runs nicely, but framerates drop when there are a lot of clouds.

Runs nicely, but framerates drop when there are a lot of clouds.

 

really? strange that has never affected my old or new laptop. What graphic, weather, and scenery tab settings are you using for your laptop, please?

 

Aharon

BCAL and its a 3-holer! :smile:

Foxbat,

 

I have been using laptops to fly FSX for seven years and you can look at my screenshot samples past 7 years here and other aviation forums to the point you will be amazed that laptops can handle FSX:):):)

 

Aharon

 

Thanks Aharon - your screen shots are quite good, I was wondering if you mean that laptops are capable of achieving 25 FPS smoothly or more, when running the usual addons (payware aircraft, scenery, weather (REX + Orbx)? Reading the hardware section I didn't think this was possible unless one had a overclocked 4.2+ Ghz desktop. I would rather have one laptop for work, home and FSX rather than a separate computer - which I am planning to purchase.

really? strange that has never affected my old or new laptop. What graphic, weather, and scenery tab settings are you using for your laptop, please?

 

From the top of my head I have most sliders maxed out but I'll have details for you tonight.

 

I'm not that experienced yet and only have applied the tweaks from Word Not Allowed's post. Could be my system / videocard.

Can you try the FSX Mission "Dutch Harbour Approach?" You'll start just above the clouds and descending. My fps drops to as low as 6.

 

Scenery sliders all max, land detail textures checked on, ground scenery shadows off.

Weather cloud draw distande 91mi, Cloud coverage density max.

 

My laptop is over a year old now so it could very well be your GPU is faster. What GPU do you have?

 

No addons, just vanilla FSX.

I was wondering if you mean that laptops are capable of achieving 25 FPS smoothly or more, when running the usual addons (payware aircraft, scenery, weather (REX + Orbx)? Reading the hardware section I didn't think this was possible unless one had a overclocked 4.2+ Ghz desktop. I would rather have one laptop for work, home and FSX rather than a separate computer - which I am planning to purchase.

 

Foxbat,

 

I set my laptop to 25fps. Although I do not use payware add-on planes or REX or ORBX, I do have payware Tropical Sim MBPV scenery and many serious freeware airport sceneries at payware quality. So far no problem.

 

Aharon

 

enuffsaid,

 

well missions can be memory resource intensive. I never use missions as I prefer free flights. I do not set all maxed out. Try reducing settings and see if it works for you. I am using i7 quad core with 2.20 that can be powered up to 3.10.

 

Aharon

I am using i7 quad core with 2.20 that can be powered up to 3.10.

 

I realize I should lower my settings. I'm just mentioning the Dutch Harbour Approach as it's pretty hard on the fps; a good spot to test your graphics card.

 

Sorry, when I said GPU, I meant your Graphics Processing Unit, not your CPU. ;-)

 

I have a ATI 6550m.

enuffsaid,

 

I am using NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640M LE with 2GB dedicated video ram.

 

Aharon

Wow. Nice one, Aharon. Nice little beast you bought yourself.