Misha_K

Thanks Airline2Sim. That's helpful.

Thanks, Andy. Those are all very persuaive reasons (and the current $25 price point isn't too bad either). (I vaguely remember highmemfix. Having flashbacks here. Uh oh)

Frank, Sure. The system will be this: AMD FX 6300 3.50Ghz (6-core) 8GB DDR3 Windows 7 NVIDIA GeForce 750 Ti 2GB Certainly not as high end as might be desirable, but will have to do.

Thanks. Can you expand on what the bug fixes and under the hood improvements are? Trying to gauge whether this is worth the investment.

Hi guys, Thanks everyone for the feedback and the kind words. And sorry for my tardy reply. I have a limited budget, so my thought was to use the FSX I have and for which I already have a ton of addons (mostly FSX versions of FS9 addons that I prevoiusly purchased), rather than going the P3D route which would also likely require much more expensive hardware. And, yes, I am not a student, so the pricetag for P3D looks rather steep for me. For those of us who have been living under a rock - i.e. me - what is FSX Steam Edition? What about it is different from the regular FSX? Thanks again! Misha

Hi guys, It's been a very long time.... Some of you may remember me as an avid contributor here in the FS2004 days, made some repaints, beta tested for Aerosoft, etc.... Had a kid in 2010 then my HD crashed and with it my custom FS2004 install. No simming at all since. I would like to return to FSX soon. It never ran well on my old rig, but would like to give it a try now. I found some tips on hardware in the hardware forum. What I would like to know here is what are the must-have add-ons these days for FSX? I would mostly like to fly short airliner hops (1-2hrs) in aircraft with the best visual detail and systems simulation available. Mostly, I plan to fly in Western Europe and the US. So my questions: - What's the best A320? Aerosoft? - What's the best 737NG? PMDG still? - please name the best European and US airport add-ons - any good freeware mesh? - a good basic GA aircraft would be lovely too. Any great freeware? - what's the best weather program these days? - any other basic must-haves? - recommended tweaks and config imrpovements? - is WOAI still the gold standard in up to date AI addons? - is AES still a thing? A lot of questions, I know. Any ones you can answer I would be greatly appreciative. Good to be back. Misha (da Mine - as edetroit used to call me - is that guy still around?)

OK guys, now I understand that some of the "advanced" stuff like all the ECAM messages and ADIRS and that kind of stuff is really hardcore and there will be only a handful of simmers who will really care. But PROG, ToD, CI, CLB/RCZ/DES? Come on guys! That is basic! PSS had that nearly ten years ago. I've been really looking forward to replacing that with something more current.

Thanks. That's what I thought. I'll have to go back to the drawing board and figure out why they aren't showing.

Scott, Thanks for the creative brainstorming. But if I did that wouldn't it cause the churches to disappear all over the globe wherever that landclass is used? Wouldn't this make installation and deinstallation for any users of my scenery once I release it rather cumbersome? I think I will just create individual excludes for the worst offenders. It's a reasonably small scenery area after all. Misha

Hi there, Excuse the newbie question, can powerlines be placed using VTP lines or does that only place the green grass swath beneath the power line? Or do I have to place each utility pole as an individual scenery object? There seem to be two indistinguishable "utility" choices among the VTP lines menu in SBuilder but neither of them seems to place any utility poles. Thanks in advance. Misha

Thanks Gary, But the net result seems to be that I would have to create special excludes for each and every church I want to exclude within my scenery area (one entire LOD 9 square) rather than one big exclude for the whole scenery which is entirely more work than I am willing to invest. I might do it for a couple of the most obnoxious offenders but that's it.Misha

Can this fix be used in 2.06 as well?

Sorry if I'm asking a potential newbie question but I couldn't find an answer for this in any of the manuals I looked at. One of the "improvements" of FS9 over FS2002 was that it added special objects like churches, transformer stations, malls, fast food outlets etc. to teh autogen mix. I am presently working on a VFR scenery for the Belgrade area and have to contend with an inordinate number of MS Autogen gothic cathedrals that are way too large and culturally wholly inappropriate for the region. Is there a way of excluding only those special objects without excluding the rest of the autogen trees and buildings and without eliminating them from the rest of the world? Thanks in advance. Misha

Luis, I'm afraid I have considerably moved on with the project and am no longer in a position to replicate that problem as the scenery has been significantly expanded and even the macros have changed. Sorry.Misha

Problem solved. I compiled each object into an individual bgl and now they all show. Selecting all and compiling into a single bgl didn't work.

WOW! These are looking really nice. Looking forward to seeing this in the sim. My office used to be in the Hyatt Center.

Two more notes:The API macros show just fine in FS9 when I use EOD Preview. It is when I insert them using SBuilder that they don't want to show any more after initially showing up properly.Secondly, I just tried installing SBuilderX but it won't start up properly because it cannot find FSX on my system, which I don't have installed. HOw can I use SBuilderX without FSX?Misha

Hi Luis,Scenery is registered in the library. Scasm is where it should be and the bgl file does get generated. But nothing shows. I will give SBuilderX a try. If I don't get it figured out in the next couple of hours I might send you a PM with the files. Thanks again. Misha

Hi guys, Have been working on an FS9 VFR scenery of Belgrade, given the glaring absence of anything useable for that area. I have created a fair number of custom objects with EOD, textured them and tested them and saved them as API Macros. I then tried placing them with SBuilder 2.05. In a first test only two the buildings showed but with wrong altitudes. In subsequent tests none of them showed. The bgl files are where they should be and my test scenery has the highest priority level. I'm at a loss as to why nothing is visible. Please help. Thanks in advance. Misha

>Might be worth checking your AI textures for flights>operating out of LAX - some are supplied with 32-bit textures>which will slow things up, especially if LAX is a hub for a>particular airline which may have these. You can convert them>to DXT3 either using a batch converter, or using a program>like DXTBmp.>>Regarding framerates: my experience is that I run FS9 on a>desktop and a laptop (both XP), both of which are roughly the>same spec - except the laptop is dual-core, and the rates are>noticeably better on it.>>;)Thanks for the reminder. I do usually take care to use only DXT3 textures. But I did do a lot of AI reinstalling recently, so I really should do a batch conversion. http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg

Shez, thanks for the great support!http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg

I don't get it. If you can already tell from the released information that a given product doesn't do it for you, you have a simple choice: DON'T BUY IT! What's the big deal? If you want the 175/195 and Feelthere doesn't deliver it, just don't buy it. Personally, I have been waiting for a good 190 forever and won't pass this release up. One would think that none of us here are a) wealthy enough and :( have enough free time on our hands to seriously fly all of the available higher end payware aircraft AND actually gain an understanding of the systems modeling. I have only a handful of payware airliner addons and still don't get enough time at the controls of each to really be proficient. That being said, unless and until you have a certain proficiency with the aircraft systems you're hardly in a position to seriously criticize the designers. Rule No.1 is still: RTFM! I don't have the Wilco/Feelthere A32X series (PSS/Overland merge is just fine for my purposes), but given Eric's contributions to this hobby over the years, he deserves much better treatment than what some have been dishing out here. http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg

OK, after a bit of experimentation it turns out thus:1. The framerate problem seems to be entirely caused by AI. Without AI, I get 55-75fps in the area. I guess I never experienced such a hit just due to AI anywhere else I fly. Strange.2. The stray gate is caused by Shez's KHOU scenery. It's gone if I deactivate that. I have emailed him about the problem and await his response. http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg

>Ref the frame rate issue, beleive it or not, thinnk that this>is down to the fact that FS9 was never designed ir optimised>for Dual or Quad-core machines. I run FS9 on a dual-core>laptop with 2GB of RAM, and although my frame rates are not as>slow as yours i still not a distint frame rate slow down.Why only in LA, though? I have no framerate problems elsewhere. >I assume from your text that you arn't running any photo>scenery such as mega scenery, however the problem here is one>of a trade off on the Display settings. If you have the>Autogen full up this WILL make a marked diffrence in frame>rates when approaching Detialed citys such as LA. what you>might need to do is turn the Autogen density down slightly to>acheive a compromise.Again. It's only in LA, not NY, not London, etc. >Also do you have the addon scenery in the addon scenery>folder???>or is it on second hard drive or in another folder? as this>can somtimes make a diffrence.I have Shez's sceneries on a different hard drive. Will check out if it makes any difference putting it back on the same HD as FS9. >As for the floating jetway, you could download AFCAD221 and>use this to browse to the folder where the KSNA addon is and>see if the mystry jetway appears.I have AFCAD. How would AFCAD show random scenery objects?Thanks.http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg

Same here. On the ground it steers like a cow on ice. Any help appreciated.http://www.commerciallevel.com/base/suppor...46supporter.jpg