Phil, is it true FS11 is being designed for the Blue Gene?

I guess this is a question for Phil. Phil, I apologize but now, with all this talk of SP2 (for DirectX10) I'm a bit confused. At the end of the day will folks still running FSX under DirectX9 see any benefit in upgrading to SP2? Thanks for your time.Gianluca

yes, as I have said before SP2(DX10) will have fixes for DX9 (XP and Vista ) as well as the DX10 support for Vista only.

Great video. It's interesting to note how long FS has been around - it has actually been around longer than Windows itself. :) Out of the conversation in the video, I was most pleased to hear that more components of FS will be shifted to other cores, such as the AI and physics. It's great to hear the commitment to maximizing multi-core capability. This by itself will inject a lot of excitement in the simming community regarding the development of future versions. We are all keen to see ACES staying on top of and taking full advantage of the potential of the latest technological trends.Thank you Phil for your very informative dialogue with us. :)

>Phil, is it true FS11 is being designed for the Blue Gene?Where did you hear that?I am sure you already know, Blue Gene are research setups.RhettAMD 3700+ (@2585 mhz), eVGA 7800GT 256 (Guru3D 93.71), ASUS A8N-E, PC Power 510 SLI, 2gb Corsair XMS 3-3-3-8 (1T), WD 150 gig 10000rpm Raptor, WD 250gig 7200rpm SATA2, Seagate 120gb 5400 rpm external HD, CoolerMaster Praetorian

given its still early days, anything like that is premature speculation.

as I am currently playing around with a Penryn/Asus setup soon to hit the market, I can tell you that it is SIGNIFICANTLY faster than just +10%. ==Marten:Weber==P-D920 oc3.64MHz 2GB RAM WinXP ATI X1900+1024MB 2xSATA250 2xVIEWSONIC 19"Need AI? Get AI: www.world-of-ai.com

>>Phil, is it true FS11 is being designed for the Blue Gene?>>Where did you hear that?>>I am sure you already know, Blue Gene are research setups.>>RhettI take it you must have missed his tongue being firmly inserted into his cheek :-)Chris Porter:-outtaPerthWestern AustraliaCheck out my 5th Around the World flight with MS FSX at http://members.iinet.com.au/~portercbp/fly...W_05/index.html

50%? That's a little wishful thinking methinks.I'd be happy with 15 - 20%. You've got to remember there's overhead in everything. You might see a 50% increase in texture loading time or something, but there are too many things going on such that making one thing or a couple of things a little faster does not have a huge effect on the system (the system being all the things going on in FSX). Noticeable effect, yes, 50% increase per core, I don't think so.Remember all those people expecting an 8X increase in speed because of an incremental development of DX. Please, who would EVER believe such a thing. If it was that easy, we would have seen great improvements a long time ago.Thomas[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180