Running FSX off an ancient WD 1TB external drive on a partition via e-sata, makes a !!!nice!!! disk read access sound when I load up FSX (im sure its gonna die soon) been going strong for 3 yrs+ the location

is H:/Microsoft Flight Simulator X. Have all my addons on this drive along with FSX total size 291GB. If it aint broke dont..go for an SSD

 

 

At the time that was what was available for the Sabertooth

 

Great board though, best I have ever had

E:\FSX

 

Yes humans can tell the difference between 30 FPS and 60 FPS.

 

Yes programs love it when UAC is turned off. They install themselves with a user even knowing it,

I do apologise.. I read that the max fps is equal to your PC monitors refresh rate. Movies were filmed at 24 fps. Most are now filmed at 48.

 

I keep my PC clean, so no UAC problems. Windows XP did not have it, and all it does is nag. As I said, never a problem in 3 odd years.

 

Anyhow, that's just my opinion & my experience.

Moving on..

Mine is on D:\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator X, on a seperate 250GB Samsung EVO SSD drive which happens to be full sooner or later. That's why I am thinking those days about moving it to a 512GB SSD Drive...

 

To the FPS story: you can not compare movies with pc games. And yes, theoretically, the maximum would be the refresh rate of the pc monitor. Just be aware that nowadays you can buy gamer monitors with 144Hz... and the fact, that you never get absolutely constant FPS, therefore, it can be beneficial to have more than 60FPS even on a classic 60Hz monitor.

Mines in G:\FSX, I run all flight sims off an SSD (DCS, X-Plane etc.)

 

But...

[snip]high frame setting are a bit of a waste, as we cannot detect more than 30 fps, so 100 frames gives bragging rights, no much more. [snip]

Wobbie, please don't take this as a personal attack, I've seen many of your other posts and you seem a straight up guy, but I keep seeing this 'humans can't detect above 30fps' constantly and it simply isn't true.

 

I think confusion arises over the fact that 24FPS is generally considered the point where the human eye has trouble distinguishing between a series of still images and a 'moving' image. Below this number and things start to look like a 'slideshow' (see the iFly 737 in Prepar3D for a good example ) but 60fps compared to 30fps is a clear difference. As you rightly pointed out, it's limited by your monitor's refresh rate.

Phew! In any case,at my age, I probably cannot tell any difference anyway. Thanks for clarifying for me.

Much appreciated,

Robin

Mine's on a 4Tb RAID10 volume, which is pretty damned fast, and installed in the default Program Files location. I don't have to run as admin and I don't get any problems with any addons. Before installing and operating addons, I have added Write and Modify permissions to the Users group on that Program Files folder. Why muck around pointing addons to a custom location, running as Admin, and playing with UAC for the entire life of the sim, when it takes only seconds to set the proper permissions, once.

Why muck around pointing addons to a custom location, running as Admin, and playing with UAC for the entire life of the sim, when it takes only seconds to set the proper permissions, once.

I have FSX in a custom location, never have to mess with UAC (it's on), never have to mess with assigning permissions (which can get novice users into trouble) and never worry about running anything as Admin.

 

So I have to point some, not all, installers to the custom location. To me it seems simpler than doing all that other stuff and what is a few mouse clicks in the course of a day?

 

Some people like Pepsi, some like Coke.

 

I drink water.

 

regards,

Joe

To me it seems simpler than doing all that other stuff and what is a few mouse clicks in the course of a day?

"all that other stuff "?

 

 

I'm not knocking your custom location, but I wouldn't recommend it. Custom locations came about because simply setting two permissions wasn't understood by those making the recommendations. It's history.