I like the 'new' terrain detailing given by the mesh upgrades to this patch!! :)My part of the world; East Anglia, UK, is known for being pretty flat, and in the original sim, and with FS Genesis add-on mesh, it was flat as a board...the whole area...you could play a gigantic game of pool on it!! :) Now, flying into RAF Mildenhall from Belguim, as you cross the south east coast over Felixstowe and cross over Ipswich and then level out at 4000ft crossing into Suffolk, the whole landscape is 'undulating'...loads of small peaks and dips -rising gently and then falling away again! Very realistic! Yes it's still flat in the broad sense, but at least it looks now as though you'd very quickly get knackered riding a bicycle, just as it is in reality!! Very subtle, and very good!Thanks Microsoft...no issues installing: took all of 3 mins, and has worked fine! And I guess, due to many small changes in the FS9.cfg file, the graphics look a little sharper too, without any extra performance cost :)

After reading this thread, I do not think that I will bother with the patch. I appreciate MS' effort, but personally think that I will leave my smooth functioning installation alone. I have too much 3rd party scenery, too many aircraft, and enough addons that I really don't feel like a re-install of all of my applications.Luck to all.Ed GreenKCLThttp://www.panelshop.com/DEV.jpghttp://www.globecargo.org/images/VAA_Sen_captain.jpg

Hi guys,I've installed the patch, only display.cfg was out of order (NVidia thing), and everything is smooth. I USE the CD4 on my harddrive!I notice a small perfomance improvement. Is smoother changing views, and a little faster loading textures.What I'm concerned, is that in 2 FS9 sessions, it "ctd" once in each session, when I was on flightplanner!! The first was as soon I run FS9 patched for the 1st time. The second, after a flight, and when I was starting up the second flight in a row!!Anyone experienced that too?I'll do some more testing...Cheers,Miguel

Orest:The second patch for Active Camera 2004 seems to have taken care of the problem, no more CTD.Thanks againBob D.

Hello everybody,I am a bit affraid of installing the new patch as I did a complete reinstall of fs9 few weeks ago and I surely don

I too tried the patch with my eyes shut and fingers crossed last nite. It hic-upped on the display.cfg. file. I had made a change to the original as FS9 doesn't fully recognize my ATI radeon 9800 pro card to acchieve optimum performance. So I put the original cfg file in place and tried the patch again . This time it worked no problem except that I was surprised to see that it took 1 1/2 hrs to completely install and process the various dll files in the module folder. I have a fast system and at times thought that it had froze but no, whatever it does, it takes its sweet time doing it with the DLL files. I have tons of add on scenery,planes,panels, airports, mesh etc and so far they have not been effected. I did notice that twice during the install it went to the fs9.exe file to update it So i will have to agree that the nocd fix may start the program but the jury is still out as to whether it takes advantages of the changes that were made by the update. So far on the performance end it does seem smoother and a ctd Ive been experiencing lately flying from Boston to Montreal has suddenly disappeared.So far Im a Happy Camper Thanks Microsoft. Don:-)

Thanks for all you replies!Just some minutes after my post I discovered a topic with plenty of posts that cover many of my concerns. If it is really completely reversible I will give it a try ;-)Thanks ;-)

Bet ya a buck that your fs.exe is not 9.1!Hope this helps,JimActiveSky Supporthttp://www.hifisim.com/images/as2004proudsupporter.jpg

AdditionallyThe dropdown MENU says the the version is 9.1

Tooohip, did the same as you Bob McDuff

>My part of the world; East Anglia, UK, is known for being>pretty flat, and in the original sim, and with FS Genesis>add-on mesh, it was flat as a board...the whole area...you>could play a gigantic game of pool on it!! :) Now, flying>into RAF Mildenhall from Belguim, as you cross the south east>coast over Felixstowe and cross over Ipswich and then level>out at 4000ft crossing into Suffolk, the whole landscape is>'undulating'...loads of small peaks and dips -rising gently>and then falling away again! Very realistic! Yes it's still>flat in the broad sense, but at least it looks now as though>you'd very quickly get knackered riding a bicycle, just as it>is in reality!! Very subtle, and very good!I've got the FS Genesis mesh for that area, too. I'm puzzled, though, as to why the patch should make any difference: unless I'm missing something, the interval for elevation points in the FSG mesh is 76m -- which FS9 could handle before the patch. Where we ought to be seeing improvements is with mesh resolutions of less than 38m (the maximum that FS9 could display before the patch).

Colin:What you found remaining in your aircraft and scenery folders is actually one of the nice things about uninstalling and reinstalling FS9: that all the time money and effort you've spent on add-ons, freeware or payware, is not lost in the reinstallation. FS only removes default files. I personnally think people are crazy to risk all of that for a patch, the benefit of which seems, at least from what I'm reading in this thread, to be very subjective at this point. The only thing I'm afraid I'll miss is the ability to see what the wonderful scenery gurus like Justin Tyme at FS Genesis do with the capability to render scenery down to 39 or 29 meters or whatever FS9 can now accomplish. http://www.2decker.com/media/solent1-2.JPGAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD

Costas:great thanks for the info. Costas..sounds greek to me, so tikanis! Do you live there?http://www.2decker.com/media/solent1-2.JPGAlex ChristoffN562ZBaltimore, MD

Hi, After installing the new FS9 patch, which installed fine with no popup problems, I could go to any flight or airport with any aircraft but could not change views using buttons on CH products yoke or Saitek Rumble force stick which are both installed and worked fine before the patch. Then I tried using ANY buttons to do anything and FS crashed each time! More bother to me so uninstalled the patch. Now my hardware works fine as before. Why would the patch disrupt my hardware? I use regular FS9, CD 4 in drive, many addons both scenery and aircraft, both payware and free. ??

Since you didn't say in your mail I would recommend checking your FSUIPC and Active Camera versions, if you use these. The behavior you describe sounds exactly like what you'd get if you didn't update these add-ons...like the info on the web page said to do.