Hi,

Just want to know, who discovered FSX tweaks ? and how ? How can we guess that there is a config named "bufferpools" and "highmemfix" for example ?

Was it released by ACES team ?

Combination of a lot of people, including Aces, Phil Taylor who was the FSX Product Manager at MS, NickN, Bojote, Word Not Allowed to name a few. Much work was done by Pete Dowson with FSUIPC altho you might not call hat a 'tweak'. Some of the tweaks were created for beta testers and ultimately found their way to the general public.

 

 

Vic

Tweaks find their way to the public from the coders. Only they can know what works. Phil Taylor of ACES even blogged about most of them in an effort to help those struggeling with performance. His blog is still out there in cyberspace.

HIGHMEMFIX was ******* Altuve (aka "bojote" here). He used a hex editor and searched for text strings throughout the renderer dlls based on the already known fsx.cfg entries. He found a bunch of things no one knew about including HIGHMEMFIX, the ForceFullscreenVSync and ForceWindowedVSync commands and a few other more obscure renderer settings. HIGHMEMFIX was huge though - it's the only reason some of the higher end aircraft and sceneries even work - without it they corrupt and appear as skeletons etc.

Yes, Bojote did some groundbreaking research for sure. Microsoft should have paid him for essentially making FSX SP3 by enabeling it to run more complex scenery and addons and taking better advantage of modern hardware.

HIGHMEMFIX was ******* Altuve (aka "bojote" here). He used a hex editor and searched for text strings throughout the renderer dlls based on the already known fsx.cfg entries. He found a bunch of things no one knew about including HIGHMEMFIX, the ForceFullscreenVSync and ForceWindowedVSync commands and a few other more obscure renderer settings. HIGHMEMFIX was huge though - it's the only reason some of the higher end aircraft and sceneries even work - without it they corrupt and appear as skeletons etc.

 

Yep, ******* really came through with the highmemfix tweak.

 

I wonder what he is up to these days since we dont see him post much anymore?

 

Yep, ******* really came through with the highmemfix tweak.

 

I wonder what he is up to these days since we dont see him post much anymore?

 

He might not post much anymore, but trust me, he is always around... ******* will return some day but no one knows when. ;-)

He might not post much anymore, but trust me, he is always around... ******* will return some day but no one knows when. ;-)

 

:lol:

 

Same *******? :smile:

 

Yes, a lot of people are credited as Gods, but the true game changers are those that actually discovered the tweaks, like ******* Bojote.

:lol:

 

Same *******? :smile:

 

Yes, a lot of people are credited as Gods, but the true game changers are those that actually discovered the tweaks, like ******* Bojote.

 

Interesting thread. I wonder what his profession is.

 

 

Interesting thread. I wonder what his profession is.

 

FSX Prophet

He's a computer consultant in Miami Florida.

 

Vic