Last weekend I discovered that I have the cursor bug: when the cursor comes onscreen in FSX with for instance the 737 NGX the fps drops significantly. For a long time I thought the drop had to do with scenery or some wrong setting or the 737NGX being a heavy plane, but after reading about it by coincidence I now know I have this bug. It is a known FSX bug for which there is no solution.

 

That surprised me... Is there REALLY no solution? Didn't someone figure out how to get a 'hardware cursor' in FSX by now...? Since I know what is causing those frequent fps drops, it's annoying me a lot... So just to be sure I'd like to know if there REALLY is no solution! ^_^

 

As it is now I feel like using key commands as much as possible, only to not having that cursor on my screen... but I do like using the mouse a lot more.

One strange thing about it Jeroen, is some don't have the problem, like my self. Some aircraft I believe are worse than others, like the iFly 737.

Most developers will tell you there is no fix. I use input director to leave my cursor on my networked laptop, so it is only on my FSX screen when needed. I don't get any FPS drop whatsoever, with my mouse cursor on or off my fsx screen

 

You could try that if you have a network set up. http://www.inputdirector.com/

 

 

Edit: I use a Logitech USB cordless mouse, plugged in to my USB 2.0 port.

Why are you supprised, when FSX has stopped being developed?

One strange thing about it Jeroen, is some don't have the problem, like my self. Some aircraft I believe are worse than others, like the iFly 737.

Most developers will tell you there is no fix. I use input director to leave my cursor on my networked laptop, so it is only on my FSX screen when needed. I don't get any FPS drop whatsoever, with my mouse cursor on or off my fsx screen

 

You could try that if you have a network set up. http://www.inputdirector.com/

 

 

Edit: I use a Logitech USB corless mouse, plugged in to my USB 2.0 port.

 

Yes, it's odd... I don't use a network yet, but I will remember this if I ever do.

 

Why are you supprised, when FSX has stopped being developed?

 

Obviously (I'd say) I don't expect MS to fix this. ^_^ I was thinking about 'the community'. So much has been fixed over the years by addon developers and brilliant souls like you can find on this forum so I it surprises me this hasn't been fixed yet by one of them. Maybe it didn't happen because this isn't something everyone has problems with. Only the unlucky ones. ^_^

 

BTW Imho the development of FSX hasn't stopped at all. It only got better and better after MS dropped it. ^_^

Jeroen, do you have a cordless mouse?

 

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No, wired. Is that good or bad? ^_^

wired. Is that good or bad?

 

Bad... because someone else discovered that replacing the batteries in his cordless mouse seemed to have solved the problem.

 

Hook

From an old PMDG post

 

"We've known about this for a while and I've posted about it in the past in our forum - what you're seeing there is FS calculating the mouse clickspots, which for some reason takes up a ridiculous amount of CPU compared to virtually any other game engine I've ever seen. You can see it really easily in windowed mode - just pull up the FPS counter (or FRAPS etc) and then click the Windows taskbar, which pulls FS away from being the active window. This apparently stops the calculations for the mouse clickspots and you'll see the FPS spike way up. As soon as you click in the FS window, it regains focus and you take a big FPS hit again. At one point during the J41's development we had this process doing completely ridiculous things, like spiking to 100+ FPS when the window wasn't focused. We're convinced mouse clickspots are the primary cause of low performance, not geometry, textures or anything else that's commonly cited."

 

 

Bad... because someone else discovered that replacing the batteries in his cordless mouse seemed to have solved the problem.

 

Hook

Interesting. That would be why I don't have the problem then. Thanks for the info.

Bad... because someone else discovered that replacing the batteries in his cordless mouse seemed to have solved the problem.

 

Ah, ok... I find that hard to believe btw. ^_^

I find that hard to believe btw.

 

So do I, but I'm a programmer. What do *I* know about hardware? Besides, hang around computers long enough and you'll see many bizarre things that will make this one look normal. Hm. I guess I'm already there.

 

Hook

 

Definitely not a solution here: G700 here. I have the best rechargeable batteries out there, Sanyo Eneloop High Capacity for professional use.

Do you get much of a drop in frame rate Word Not Allowed, regarding mouse cursor ? I don't, but I should plug in a wired one to see.

Since only MS have the source-code, only they can fix it, unless you're talking about P3D

I got a few frame increase using Logitech's new mouse driver on my wireless mouse. Not a fix, but hit wasn't as severe.