Hi

 

I just wanted to say that I know the gentleman in question, he has been remotely connected to my rig but not by way of the offered service, as soon as my new rig is built and I have everything installed, then I would quite happily pay the £20 for the service which he offers.

 

Why would I do this ?

 

Most of the tweaks/advices given here seem to be offered for those that would easily understand the jargon and depth offered and assuming I could get my head around that I would be terrified of making the situation worse by applying something in the wrong way. That's why !

 

 

For those who would worry about security I wouldn't give it a second thought as you are sitting right there in front of your monitor watching everything as it happens, if you have any questions at all you can simply ask at that time,

 

I doubt that anything else other than FSX on your machine would be of any interest to him in the first place, and if you're still worried you can see that he is not looking anywhere else as you will watch your own curser working.

 

Let's not forget there was another person who offered this very same service and many thought he was the best thing since sliced bread. Sadly, he has passed away and his services are no longer available.

Same idea

 

I think the main point is that if you're good enough to tweak your own system to your satisfaction then it's not an issue for you, if you don't have time or can't quite get it right technically speaking then here's a service you might be interested in.

 

Finally this chap actually works fulltime, he gives up his spare time to help others so if in doubt then visit his face book page and ask the people on his list of friends now that have seen remarkable results for only £20, as somebody said if you can't make a pie go by a pie.

 

Thanks and regards

 

Guss.

I can sympathise with FSX Genius. I can almost 'see' how it all started. Beginning with some friends who call for help in fixing problems with their PC or even FSX. Now, imagine being this specialist with a non-specialist on the other end of the telephone line. He has to find out what is ( really ) wrong with the user's PC ( as opposed to what he/she says it is ). Sooner or later, each of these specialists will look for a means to access his friend's PC directly. The best method since several years IMHO is TeamViewer.

Now, imagine: After several such telephone calls, there is this friend who has FSX as well and wants help. Is it not very probable that the specialist at a certain time in his 'diagnosis conversation' asks if he can access his friend's PC via TV? and he can help quickly and efficiently. This gets around in ever widening circles...

Now, it is one thing to help a friend ( via TV ) and it is quite another to spend your free time sitting in front of your PC correcting settings in PCs of people you do not know. It can get to become a burden! That is the moment when you have to decide how to proceed: either politely decline such requests from then on, or to make a profession out of it, i.e. ask for a refund/ honorarium.

It has been said here that there are hundreds of people helping all the time without asking for money. That is true but it is also tue ( in my experience ) that these people sometimes are obviously 'overloaded'; I can sense it from the way they answer. They tend to be very curt...

Now, if you do this for money, you can neither be curt nor impatient nor cryptic nor inefficient whatever frame of mind you are in. That is a very good aspect for the average user!!!

All this hinges on that this specialist delivers, that he is not a fraud, of course.

And as regards the aspect of letting a stranger enter your PC: I believe that most of us have a dedicated PC for our flight simulator. I would not know how my normal work would have suffered if I had installed FSX, and now P3D, in my office computer! Horror! So, access to a dedicated FS PC via TV is of small risk. And do not forget, the access is controlled by a password ( in TV ) that changes daily! Without the user's knowledge and assent, there is no access to his PC after the session to deal with the sick FSX/P3D!!!

I am going to try him/it. Will let you know about my experiences.

Volker

Here we go again

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_sZ0GSCUA

 

Didn't watched the whole video (I'm at work), but reading the comments this is serious apparently.

Here we go again

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3j_sZ0GSCUA

 

Didn't watched the whole video (I'm at work), but reading the comments this is serious apparently.

 

It seems someone was naive (foolish) enough to pay FSXGenius a considerable sum of money for a PC, which never then materialized.  

 

You'd have to wonder how anyone who was supposedly so knowledgeable and genius-like with FSX, was not a known presence here on AVSIM ?? ............

 

Wouldn't you expect someone who was being put up there in the realm of so-called FSX geniuses, that includes NickN, Word Not Allowed, Froogle and all the other (mainly self promoting) "celebrities" of the FS world..... wouldn't you expect them to have a known presence here in AVSIM ??

 

(which FSXGenius apparantly doesn't).

 

that would set alarm bells ringing for me.     But then again, I would never ever buy a PC from someone via a YouTube channel any way!

 

I hope the guy get's his money back, and that the people in this thread who championed "FSX Genius" and his "services" reflect on what this guy was really about.

 

If it seems too good to be true ........... it usually is.

If someone calls himself "genius", this person seems to have serious issues with his ego and/or mental health! ;-)

Greets,

XPXBoywonder

Finally this chap actually works fulltime, he gives up his spare time to help others so if in doubt then visit his face book page and ask the people on his list of friends now that have seen remarkable results for only £20......

 

Thanks and regards

 

Guss.

 

However little £20 may SEEM to you, it's catagorically NOT "giving up his spare time".  He's charging for it prior to delivering any goods.

It seems someone was naive (foolish) enough to pay FSXGenius a considerable sum of money for a PC, which never then materialized.  

 

You'd have to wonder how anyone who was supposedly so knowledgeable and genius-like with FSX, was not a known presence here on AVSIM ?? ............

 

Wouldn't you expect someone who was being put up there in the realm of so-called FSX geniuses, that includes NickN, Word Not Allowed, Froogle and all the other (mainly self promoting) "celebrities" of the FS world..... wouldn't you expect them to have a known presence here in AVSIM ??

 

(which FSXGenius apparantly doesn't).

 

that would set alarm bells ringing for me.     But then again, I would never ever buy a PC from someone via a YouTube channel any way!

 

I hope the guy get's his money back, and that the people in this thread who championed "FSX Genius" and his "services" reflect on what this guy was really about.

 

If it seems too good to be true ........... it usually is.

 

First of all, all those FSX Geniuses love to bash AVSIM. That is the first example of their big ego in most cases. It is strange that few of those flight sim "celebrities" doesn't have an account here, but that's their choice, they have their own reasons. Also, I don't tend to look at thing generally - not on AVSIM = FSX user under the question.

 

By the way, maybe that PC is lost during the transport? (just a thought)

Hmmmm...not sure what this thread has to do with anyone OTHER than the individual the OP and Matt's video were referencing...namely "FSX Genius". As to the other persons named in the post 3 or 4 posts above mine, while they may not have active accounts here on AVSIM, so what? They still have provided legitimate advice that's been of value to many of us in the "community". No need to bash them just because they aren't here.

Wait, when I said "those FSX Geniuses", I didn't thought of guys that Dave is referring in his last post. Just thought of guys that are calling themselves FSX guru's and geniuses, and their ego are just too big to be here on AVSIM and share their opinions and experiences, or just hang with us. No harm done, you can only earn bigger respect. But that's only my point of view.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-jAcWAVqZWU

 

Froogle brings down the details of this scam, and it's quite lame how FSXGenious guy did it. It seems he had an idea how to build up respect by simmers tweaking their systems for $$, ad posting useful videos on YT. When he gain proper amount of respect, he decided to start a little different campaign. Awful, really.

Yeah, that saga has been running a while now, this guy Belynz did a vlog about it a while ago. Buyer beware indeed!

I guess the main reason Froogle is not on here is that he does not do tech support.

At first, I was a little skeptical when reading the OP's opening post, so I went and looked at this person's you tube vids.  He's smart, he seems legit, but I'll note that he's covering more ground than the great people who've put up the FSX tweaking guides.  Jim, Paul J, xxxxx, and so many others have put their hard work into these kinds of things, so kudos to them for doing it for us!

 

Granted, if my machine had a bunch of stuff on it I'd be afraid of people seeing, then I wouldn't want them on it - banking passwords, site info, personal info, 50 gigs of porn in some cases :blink: , I'd be nervous.  However, my sim machine also is my gaming platform and as such, is exposed to unknown servers for MP gaming as it were, so it is plain-Jane vanilla.  I think the only thing they could steal there is my Steam account info.  For so many others whose personal PC is also their sim platform, yes, I'd be a little nervous.

 

However, I've a machine that gives me a consistent 25+ fps in all situations, no OOM's ever, and just performs so smoothly that I won't even consider XP or P3D at this point, so I've achieved my goals, mostly through hardware and less through tweaking. 

 

I guess this is my point - If you're struggling with OOM's, BSODs, CTD's, crappy performance, etc, and the guides, advice, research, and tutelage of the tweaking sages in the community haven't done it for you, then this person's services might just work for you.  Couldn't hurt, right? 

 

Here's the other thing to consider for those having FSX problems - I realize I'll probably get a thousand "dislikes" and "disagrees" for this one.  Some people out there might be reading the sage advice of the user guides, postings, etc., and either just don't understand what to do or how to do tweaks, or are afraid to do them for fear of messing up their systems, or are trying their best to make a system work that can probably push basic FSX but is physically incapable of running a full-on loaded-up config with scenery, meshes, vector graphics, add-ons, etc.  That's the crowd this person on you tube would be helpful for IMO.

 

Now if we could just get a DX11 setup for our FSX world, I would give that person $. :wub:

Have you been victimized by FSX Genius?  Have you lost money to him?  If so,  New Scotland Yard National Fraud Intelligence Bureau (NFIB) would like to hear from you.

For more information on how to file a report go to:

http://content.met.police.uk/Site/reportingfraud


or to file a report:


http://www.actionfraud.police.uk/report_fraud

You'll have to pay attention to every step he makes in your system, using TeamViewer, and you'll have to thoroughly check all installed applications and security settings after he's left the session.

 

Is that, by any means, worth it?

 

If someone is remotely controlling your PC, I'd think you'd stick around the entire time to make sure they aren't doing anything they shouldn't. I also believe TeamViewer will prioritize mouse access to the host PC's mouse if they start moving it.