Does anybody know of any good VA's for XPX? Preferably a single company like United or American. Thanks!

I fly with austrian virtual. They operate with both fsx and XPX via XACARS.

I fly with austrian virtual. They operate with both fsx and XPX via XACARS.

Thanks ill keep that in mind.

I'll give it a try thanks

 

I'll give it a try thanks

 

And negative... still get the blank PFD and MFD then eventually oom...  

Having switched to XP10 over a year ago, I've never looked back at FSX.   X-plane has a few warts, but still gives me more of what I want out of a Flight simulator than FSX did. Not that FSX was bad. In fact I thoroughly enjoyed it for 7 years and bought tons of Add-ons for FSX, but it was time to move on and try something new.

 

As for the question on GPU importance, Both the CPU and GPU are important in XP10.  In FSX, a very expensive GPU would not do a whole lot for performance unless you’re making a major jump (like going from a 10 year old video card to a top of the line current card). In XPX, the GPU plays a much more important role. You will want something with a decent size amount of VRAM (AT least 2GB VRAM but better to get 4GB). Now that we have a 64 bit version of XP, don't skimp on the Ram either.

 

Take your time with X-plane and download lots of Freeware add-on airports and stuff from AVSIM, X-pilot.com, X-Plane.org and Simheaven. Don't forget Aipilotx's mesh. All of this will take X-plane X to a new level. You can also recycle some of your FSX stuff using FS2XP although only some stuff converts well.

 

I have bought and downloaded so much stuff (both freeware & Payware) over the last year, It’s hard to find an airport without airport building’s on it, and the autogen looks amazing especially with simheavens OSM stuff. Here are some examples.

 

Play around with the settings, Set everything to low and work up from there until you find what works best for your system.

 

Rob 

 

 

 

 

 

hi, i like your screenshots and your comments are encouraging so i am tempted to give xpx a try myself, but before i do i'd like to know if xpx supports a setup with 3 monitors via matrox triple head. if not, then it is a no go for me for the time being. do you know this?

likewise if it has no ezdok camera support or anything similar

hi, i like your screenshots and your comments are encouraging so i am tempted to give xpx a try myself, but before i do i'd like to know if xpx supports a setup with 3 monitors via matrox triple head. if not, then it is a no go for me for the time being. do you know this?

likewise if it has no ezdok camera support or anything similar

It does support triple head, you just set the game to your total resolution as you would in anything else.

 

   There is an equivalent thing to ezdok but I think it required more effort to configure.   I only played with it for a short while so I cant comment too much or tell you the name off hand.  It was free so you can try it without any commitment.

I've switched to XP10 after years of frustration and low framerate on FSX and couldn't be happier. This is really a great simulator, and the best part is that it's getting better and better.

 

Nowadays I spend 95% of my time flying (at 40-100fps on almost every situation) and 5% downloading (mostly free) add-ons and plugins. Some of them are amazing (CRJ, 777, Simheaven tiles and OSM...).

 

Back when I was using FSX, it was 75% reading forums to improve my framerate and 25% flying.

 

You won't regret making the switch, and I'm pretty sure you won't be the last FSXer to do that.

I've switched to XP10 after years of frustration and low framerate on FSX and couldn't be happier. This is really a great simulator, and the best part is that it's getting better and better.

 

Nowadays I spend 95% of my time flying (at 40-100fps on almost every situation) and 5% downloading (mostly free) add-ons and plugins. Some of them are amazing (CRJ, 777, Simheaven tiles and OSM...).

 

Back when I was using FSX, it was 75% reading forums to improve my framerate and 25% flying.

 

You won't regret making the switch, and I'm pretty sure you won't be the last FSXer to do that.

 

 

+1

I thought the same, however I switched back to FSX and can't really get myself to like X-Plane. Things just look bad in general no matter what I do. Performance is about the same to me as my tweaked FSX. I had a lot of faith in X-Plane but now that I have things almost perfect in FSX, I'm enjoying it much more. The graphics on FSX feel a lot nicer in terms of overall visuals. I am not happy with the awful looking clouds, horizon, and water, and lets not forget the awful looking colors during daytime flight. It just doesn't look or feel right, this is just my opinion though. The only thing I like in X-Plane is the night lighting, that's about the only decent thing as far as visuals go.

 

 

The graphics on FSX feel a lot nicer in terms of overall visuals. I am not happy with the awful looking clouds, horizon, and water, and lets not forget the awful looking colors during daytime flight. It just doesn't look or feel right, this is just my opinion though

 

It is different after years of FSX but I can't agree that it's not realistic. For me FSX looks too vivid and 2D (a world with no shadows is a strange place). The clouds do need work but tone down the puff percentage and they look good. The horizon is a problem, although the visibility limiter plugin does help. As for water? No way, much better in XP10 and with reflections and shadows working together, the overall effect is very realistic, even in the daytime.

I dust off and fired up FSX this weekend for the first time in 5 months and I must say, I don't miss it one bit. Well! other than usage of my PMDG collection, which I can't enjoy anyway because of the OOM, CTD and configurations. Back to basic for me, I now exclusively fly GA "patterns" and "cross country" in XPX, when I'm not flying professionally. I'll enjoy any sim platform so long I'm not at my wits end dealing with CTD and OOM which can be really frustrating and takes the joy out of sim flying, at which point I grab the wife and we go down to the local airport to do a few patterns.

Saying all that to say this; flying should always be a joy of gravity liberation, and whichever sim platform brings you that joy whether its XPX, Aerofly fs or FSX just enjoy it for what it offers.

I thought the same, however I switched back to FSX and can't really get myself to like X-Plane. Things just look bad in general no matter what I do. Performance is about the same to me as my tweaked FSX. I had a lot of faith in X-Plane but now that I have things almost perfect in FSX, I'm enjoying it much more. The graphics on FSX feel a lot nicer in terms of overall visuals. I am not happy with the awful looking clouds, horizon, and water, and lets not forget the awful looking colors during daytime flight. It just doesn't look or feel right, this is just my opinion though. The only thing I like in X-Plane is the night lighting, that's about the only decent thing as far as visuals go.

FSX 32bit is old and has a lot of Devs making payware for it AND XP10 64bit is new with Devs coming slowly and faster onboard once the beta cycle is over.  

I thought the same, however I switched back to FSX and can't really get myself to like X-Plane. Things just look bad in general no matter what I do. Performance is about the same to me as my tweaked FSX. I had a lot of faith in X-Plane but now that I have things almost perfect in FSX, I'm enjoying it much more. The graphics on FSX feel a lot nicer in terms of overall visuals. I am not happy with the awful looking clouds, horizon, and water, and lets not forget the awful looking colors during daytime flight. It just doesn't look or feel right, this is just my opinion though. The only thing I like in X-Plane is the night lighting, that's about the only decent thing as far as visuals go.

 

The only reason FSX looks good is because you are spending a 25-100 dollars a month on ADDONS !  FSX is a cash cow for ORBX....

 

I reinstalled PD3 a couple of months ago to see what all the hype was about, 1 minute into my flight and I get OOM error, no kidding. I reinstalled PNW and REX clouds ! Those clouds are sweet ! until you fly into them and they turn into a swirling vortex. The ORBX scenery looks good high up, when you are flying low it looks like a dog, it looks cartoonish. I have my PPL, when I fly in XPX I get the feeling of flight and when I am flying in PD3 it feels like I am flying on rails.      

 

Don't get me wrong XPX has it's warts but it gets better by the month and it doesn't cost me fortune in ADDONS !

 

That's my two cents...

I understand, but I've fixed all those CTD and OOM errors now, so I'm actually getting to spend time enjoying the sim. Which makes it entirely different. I just like the visual appearance of FSX and that's just my preference. XPX still looks very dull and bland to me. I know FSX is old technolgy and 32 bit platform, but it still amazes me how amazing what the developers can do for such an old platform. Once XPX changed up their game and I see a big change in overall terms of graphical improvements, then I will probably go back. I'm just enjoying my time with FSX now. I've been back and forth and this time I can finally say I'm satisfied with FSX.

Captain420

In all seriousness, can you point me to the fixes you are speaking of?  I get CTD's about 8 times out of 10 with FSX.

If you get NO CTD's and OOM's at all, I'm sure there are plenty of other people out there who could benefit from what you are doing to get these kinds of results.