Harry, problems have been reported and the information has been available on Steve's blog since september 10

 

I regularily checked this blog and became not aware that FT airports might be incompatible. Also right now I could not find it on the blog. Sorry, may be I am to stupid to find it. Anyway, no need to continue with complaints, let's hope it can get fixed in near future.

 

Harry

So a fixer is different than a patch?

 

Jim, why are you so negative? A patch is issued by the developer and yes, should be free of charge. This product really is quite different and I cannot for the life of me understand why you cannot see this. Steve has developed a product to enhance FSX, much like any other 3rd party developer sells a product to enhance FSX. Remember Active Sky?

 

Now I mean this in a humorous way rather than a personal attack, but continue down this path and I will be left with the personal opinion that if your IQ was any lower, you would need watering!

Thank you matey, appreciate that.

 

Heading over to pull the trigger now, so will see how it goes.   I'm still expecting to need to use Radeon Pro for a couple of things, so it's no show stopper, it's just that one extra thing to run, set up (I usually have to start it before each flight, or else I don't get vsynx in DX10 with my ATI 7850 2GB).  I'm always looking to be able to run less programs! :lol:

 

Cheers.

 

I'm still running radeonpro with the fixer. Instead of setting the aa filter in cc, I do it in RP and other tweaks like vsync and a mip map. BTW there is a new driver 13.9 on amd's website

 

 

Here's the manual, guys. :wink:

 

Thanks Paul.  That helps a lot!

 

Looks like Steve does a great job of describing what the tool does and does not do.  Especially helpful for those of us who've only sporadically followed his blog.

 

Scott

 

 

Now I mean this in a humorous way rather than a personal attack, but continue down this path and I will be left with the personal opinion that if your IQ was any lower, you would need watering!

LOL

Jim, why are you so negative? A patch is issued by the developer and yes, should be free of charge. This product really is quite different and I cannot for the life of me understand why you cannot see this. Steve has developed a product to enhance FSX, much like any other 3rd party developer sells a product to enhance FSX. Remember Active Sky?

 

Now I mean this in a humorous way rather than a personal attack, but continue down this path and I will be left with the personal opinion that if your IQ was any lower, you would need watering!

:He He:

Maybe I accused him too quickly of being a troll then.

Alan. Yes, easy to install and uninstall. The tool makes backups of files it modifies.

 

Also, it makes it easy to switch between Dx10 and 9.

 

Many thanks - I appreciate the info.  I guess I'll give it a try, then!

No, my first post about my OPINION about it's value to ME was sincere.

 

Then I returned tonight, read the rest of this thread and then that "patch" question popped up.

 

I have also since read some intelligent, well thought out posts, that I have replied to.

 

Long, drawn out letters are not my posting style, so my one liners are just the way it is, but will usually reply if the situation warrants.

Ok, I understand where your coming from now.

 

The fixer, patch or whatever anyone chooses to call it, does fix FSX and brings it closer to what the developers, ACES would have envisaged. I don't believe that is in much doubt.

 

But lets deal with your next point; why buy it when theirs free stuff available? Firstly, everything is in one place, and is simple to use. Their were many issues with textures and legacy textures, and even recently released software by ORBX which are now largely resolved. The DX10 water rain and snow have been improved. Lights, towers, invisible bridges at night and cockpit shadows together with large jet cockpit shadows to name but a few. In addition, Steve has shared some knowledge and included a comprehensive manual and a toolkit for those users who are are knowledgable or who wish to experiment and fix other issues which the scenery fixer programme cannot do yet. Perhaps new knowledge as its discovered will result in service packs, who knows. The software interface also allows you to have control over what's changed and how so for the customer all you have to do is click a few buttons and move some sliders.

 

So if you choose to use DX10 because reducing OOM's and having a smoother sim where you can actually increase sliders, is appealing, then DX10 is for you. We all fly FSX in a different way and use a huge range of add ons that we have grown to love but because they were written a long time ago and maybe not always conforming to the standards and now cannot be corrected then why move?

 

So is it worth it? To some Yes because you can make FSX more complex within limits and have a few more complex add ons loaded but as always, it depends what you want from FSX.

Jim, why are you so negative? A patch is issued by the developer and yes, should be free of charge. This product really is quite different and I cannot for the life of me understand why you cannot see this. Steve has developed a product to enhance FSX, much like any other 3rd party developer sells a product to enhance FSX. Remember Active Sky?

 

Now I mean this in a humorous way rather than a personal attack, but continue down this path and I will be left with the personal opinion that if your IQ was any lower, you would need watering!

 

Because he work with DX9 and not DX10.

Not noticed any weird things with this disabled

Does this fix the no lights on apron issue with Fly Tampa scenery? What exactly is this fixing with the FT stuff?

 

Sent from Samsung Galaxy Note 2

 

 

This might have the info your looking for Jim

 

http://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/2013/09/20/dx10-situation-check/

 

As the "Fixer" comes with Developer tools, I am guessing, in the future, addon scenery will go towards DX10.

 

Thanks for that read.

 

So would it be fair to say that there are very few FIX differences between the Free patch and the Fixer program?

Some of Steve's notes here, guys, that you might be interested in:- here's the Word doc and here's a pdf. I hope it promotes a better understanding of the issues - it certainly did for me!

 

 

Remember Active Sky?

 

Remember that ALL patches/fixes and even some UPGRADES were FREE? Guess not.

Ok, I understand where your coming from now.

The fixer, patch or whatever anyone chooses to call it, does fix FSX and brings it closer to what the developers, ACES would have envisaged. I don't believe that is in much doubt.

But lets deal with your next point; why buy it when theirs free stuff available? Firstly, everything is in one place, and is simple to use. Their were many issues with textures and legacy textures, and even recently released software by ORBX which are now largely resolved. The DX10 water rain and snow have been improved. Lights, towers, invisible bridges at night and cockpit shadows together with large jet cockpit shadows to name but a few. In addition, Steve has shared some knowledge and included a comprehensive manual and a toolkit for those users who are are knowledgable or who wish to experiment and fix other issues which the scenery fixer programme cannot do yet. Perhaps new knowledge as its discovered will result in service packs, who knows. The software interface also allows you to have control over what's changed and how so for the customer all you have to do is click a few buttons and move some sliders.

So if you choose to use DX10 because reducing OOM's and having a smoother sim where you can actually increase sliders, is appealing, then DX10 is for you. We all fly FSX in a different way and use a huge range of add ons that we have grown to love but because they were written a long time ago and maybe not always conforming to the standards and now cannot be corrected then why move?

So is it worth it? To some Yes because you can make FSX more complex within limits and have a few more complex add ons loaded but as always, it depends what you want from FSX.

 

 

OK thanks!

Does this fix the no lights on apron issue with Fly Tampa scenery? What exactly is this fixing with the FT stuff?

 

Sent from Samsung Galaxy Note 2

No, just the lake forming on the ground during dusk n dawn

Get over the price guy's if you want it buy it, steve's spent a lot of time on this and for sure you would spend $32 in the pub in an hr and have nothing to show for it but a headache, this way you have something to show for it and it with you forever and can only get better.

 

Cheers Rod.