Any ideas when the link might be reposted?

Nope. It's only by convention. The OS could care one whit where you put it.

Thanks for that. It's always been on my mind to find out

Just for the record, a lot of the shimmering in the distance appears to have been due to legacy code objects that were not being displayed correctly (they looked fine up close). I corrected this (to a large extent) by moving the LEGACY shader slider all the way to the left. This also dramatically reduced the shimmering that I was seeing at UK2000 Xtreme airports.

 

Now all I need is to get my AI plane navigation and strobe lights back, and I am set for an exclusive DX10 future in FSX.

 

By the way, I suffered an OOM in DX10 mode today during a short low level VFR flight in the PMDG 737NGX between UK2000 Birmingham Xtreme and UK2000 Bristol Xtreme, so it can still happen. I guess that flying this super detailed aircraft at low level with all scenery sliders at maximum, and AI @ 100% will still stress FSX to the limit. The weather was set to "calm and clear".

I was one of the lucky ones that first installed DX10 Fixer in the FSX main folder. I have now installed the fixer in "programs file (86)"as per instructions. Can the DX10 folder in my FSX main now be deleted? Also when I reinstalled the Fixer I did get the question to repair the MSFT visual C+ or delete. I repaired the file, which I assume was correct rather than deleting the file.

 

Did I make another mistake?

 

Thanks,

 

Just for the record, a lot of the shimmering in the distance appears to have been due to legacy code objects that were not being displayed correctly (they looked fine up close). I corrected this (to a large extent) by moving the LEGACY shader slider all the way to the left. This also dramatically reduced the shimmering that I was seeing at UK2000 Xtreme airports.

 

Now all I need is to get my AI plane navigation and strobe lights back, and I am set for an exclusive DX10 future in FSX.

 

By the way, I suffered an OOM in DX10 mode today during a short low level VFR flight in the PMDG 737NGX between UK2000 Birmingham Xtreme and UK2000 Bristol Xtreme, so it can still happen. I guess that flying this super detailed aircraft at low level with all scenery sliders at maximum, and AI @ 100% will still stress FSX to the limit. The weather was set to "calm and clear".

 

Christopher, I had a similar problem concerning shimmering at FSDT KLAX and KFJK. Moving the legacy all the way left and disabled "light Bloom" the shimmering stopped. Also at KPHL I had very little lighting on RWY but moving the legacy to the left I now have lighting.

So whens the downloading going to be back up (payware). 

Carl repair is fine and delete that folder out of your main fsx folder - thats it.

Thanks for that. It's always been on my mind to find out

 

more? :}} If the app is a 32bit app and installer is a 32bit app and it installs on a 64bit o/s and the app is designed to install to a system folder called <Program Files>, it's the o/s that places the installation under "C:\Program Files (x86)\". The program does not store the name of the program files folder in a constant.

So whens the downloading going to be back up (payware). 

Looks like it's back.

Perhaps you're right and it is all based on the individual aircraft being used; it's complexity, modelling, texturing, effects etc.

 

Unfortunately the tests I would be interesting in seeing from others are all with complex heavy resource airliners, which you've said aren't your thing.

 

Here's a quick and dirty comparison of all of the add-on aircraft I have tested so far.  All tests at FlyTampa Vienna, with like for like settings:-

 

PMDG NGX             DX9 performs better by a significant margin.

PMDG 777              DX9 performs better by a significant margin.

PMDG MD-11          DX9 performs better by a small margin.

PMDG 747              DX9 performs better by a significant margin.

Aerosoft AXE           DX9 performs better by a small margin.

Coolsky DC-9          DX9 performs better by a significant margin.

QA 146s                  DX10 performs better by a small margin

Aerosoft T,OtterX    DX10 performs better by a small margin

A2A C172                DX10 performs better by a small margin

MilViz 732                DX9 performs better by a significant margin

Eaglesoft CX 2.0     DX9 performs better by a small margin

Carenado C208      DX10 performs better by a significant margin

That pushed me away from the fix thank god haven't spent on it yet. Thanks for the note! Greatly appreciated.

That pushed me away from the fix thank god haven't spent on it yet. Thanks for the note! Greatly appreciated.

Not sure you should make your decision on how the fixer performs based on one users findings.

I can tell you in my experience that all PMDG aircraft ( I have them all) perform smoother in DX10  I also have tested my GA  (Carenado & RealAir) and Dash 8 MQ and perform fantastic in DX10 as well. Everybody's system is different.

How can I test it out?

That pushed me away from the fix thank god haven't spent on it yet. Thanks for the note! Greatly appreciated.

 

Those observations are relevant to his rig and may, or may not, pertain to all other users. Unfortionately the only way to really know, is to give it a shot.

Those observations are relevant to his rig and may, or may not, pertain to all other users. Unfortionately the only way to really know, is to give it a shot.

Understandable, but I'm kind of skeptical about throwing 35 bucks away into the air. I could spend that money on some scenery that works, rather than praying that something might or might not work.

Badfinger, on 30 Sept 2013 - 5:10 PM, said:

I can tell you in my experience that all PMDG aircraft ( I have them all) perform smoother in DX10

*Smoother* it definitely is ... no micro stutters etc. Framerates aren't the Holy Grail. What's the point of high framerates when your scenery looks like porridge? DX10 gives us the best of both worlds, IMHO.

 

Adam.

skwaL, on 01 Oct 2013 - 01:28 AM, said:

Understandable, but I'm kind of skeptical about throwing 35 bucks away into the air. I could spend that money on some scenery that works, rather than praying that something might or might not work.

You can easily try all of Steve's earlier freeware fixes.

 

Adam.