Bob Scott

The most important piece of missing info above is the type of GPU in the laptop. To run *any* flight sim acceptably, you need a discrete graphics processor, e.g. RTX3070, 4060 etc. An Intel "integrated" GPU (e.g. one built into the CPU chip) is not going to be powerful enough. Many laptops have both. As to installing FSX add-on software, provided you didn't already have FSX Gold installed on the laptop when you installed FSX:SE on the computer, it should look just like FSX to most applications. If FSX is already there when FSX:SE is installed, the registry settings are changed and things get more complicated. If it's not already there, it uses the same registry settings as FSX Classic and is (mostly) indistinguishable. Some add-on installers are written to install to either FSX:SE or FSX "Classic", and will ask which you have....however if you don't have both installed, it's usually more straightforward to install as FSX and not FSX:SE.

That sorta reminds me of a 1986 lecture at the US Air Force Squadron Officers School given by the late Rear Admiral Grace Hopper, one of the early pioneers in digital computation--she'd start out by handing out "nanoseconds" (0.3m lengths of fiber optic strands that were the length light would travel in one nanosecond) to the audience. Definitely easier than lugging around a punched-card megabyte... She was an impressive and captivating speaker, especially if you were a computer geek in the days before everyone had a computer.

Actually, modern armor--aka ERA, or "explosive reactive armor", is considerably more impressive, as it incorporates an explosive layer that detonates to counteract the force of shaped charges and penetrating projectiles. You wouldn't be making a video like this with that stuff, though!

If, by MSFS you mean the latest (2020) version of MSFS, I think you'll find running that on all but the most powerful laptops a real challenge. And with that version of the sim, you are correct that most of your existing add-on software will not work. That said, from reading your original post closely, I am wondering if, by "MSFS" you are really referring to FSX? In addition to the Steam version of MSFS (often referred to as MSFS 2020), there is also a Steam-based version of FSX, and it will run your FSX add-ons just as FSX Gold did in nearly all cases. FSX:SE (Steam Edition) was released in 2014 under a contract with Dovetail Games, 5 years after ACES Studios was closed by Microsoft, and has since been taken back under Microsoft's wing after the contract with Dovetail expired. FSX:SE was recompiled for the final 32-bit Windows platforms (Win 7 & 8), repackaged to incorporate all of the FSX service packs, and eliminates some of the config tweaking we had to do in the old days. It installs directly from Steam online without disks. Even a modest modern gaming laptop with a discrete GPU should be able to run FSX:SE quite well.

I think he's going for runway zero tree...

My first suspicion would be a bad/incompatible cable or (if modular) a bad cable connector on the PSU. Did you use a cable provided with the PSU/computer, or with the GPU? The modular plugs on different PSUs are not standardized, so a cable from a source other than the PSU manufacturer may have a different pinout on the PSU end than the socket on the PSU. If the cable is from the PSU manufacturer (or the computer OEM), then I'd try swapping cables (most of my PSUs come with four) and/or using different socket(s) on the PSU. Also, make sure connectors on the PSU are firmly and completely seated in the socket. And as mentioned above, if there are multiple GPU power connectors, do *not* use a single cable with two connectors daisy-chained on the end. Use two separate cables.

What a bunch of bull

Since this wandering food fight has had nothing to do with MSFS2024 for some time, much less being a "FAQ", I'm going to close it and let it fade away.

If you go into the downloads section of the iniBuilds forum on their new site ( https://forum.inibuilds.com/files/ ), there's a "Freeware Hub" category with sections for their dynamic lighting mods and another one for GSX profiles. The P3Dv5 compatilibty files are on the old legacy site I linked above.

The PacSim RPLL add-on does work in P3Dv5 with the iniBuilds v5 compatibility mod ( https://old.inibuilds.com/p3d-v5-scenery-compatibility-files ) added as a separate layer below the scenery. There's also a GSX profile and dynamic lighting mod on the iniBuilds site.

In P3Dv5 you have RDShade and EnvShade. I'm not aware of any add-on shader enhancements in existence or in development for v6.

Yeah, I wish I could find a large-format G-Sync display. Biggest I see anywhere now is 32"...I'd love to find something like the 55" TV I use on my P3D machine, but with a G-Sync module in it.

When sitting in front of the curved display, the curve is not really noticeable...no perception of distortion due to the curve. Works just fine with VCs.

According to the nvidia G-Sync monitor list at https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/products/g-sync-monitors/specs/ this 2021 C1 4K series TV is G-Sync compatible (as opposed to having true hardware G-Sync capability).

Your search criteria is nearly an empty set...only thing I see out there is the 32" ASUS PG32UQX (4K), on sale now at the ASUS site for a whopping $2000. There are a couple 21:9 curved ultrawide options like the Alienware AW3423UW (34" 3440 x 1440) and AW3821WW (38" 3840 x 1600), which are both curved G-Sync Ultimate monitors. Not sure that Ultimate does much for simming, as I believe that frame generation does not work with HDR10, which seems to be the real advantage of Ultimate. Anyway, they both cost around half of the aforementioned ASUS 4K display. I have a two year old AW3420DW (34" 3440 x 1440 curved-screen G-Sync) on my MSFS/XPlane box, and it's a solid performer with an 4090FE.

Let's get back to the topic, please.

Well, in that case it sounds like either the fan controller on the card, or possibly a fan going bad and triggering the overcurrent protection on the fan controller. In the slim chance that something got corrupted in your Afterburner profile or driver, it might be worth a clean uninstall of Afterburner and the drivers (using DDU or similar) and reinstalling. Windows Update can install changes to the low-level driver platform that affects drivers. All that said, I strongly doubt it's software...sounds more like a developing hardware issue to me. I'd open the case and watch the fans to see if they all stop, or if it's just one, as well as monitoring the GPU temp (to rule out a faulty temp sensor).

OK, might be a different card. But I'd still suspect that the PWM impulse at such a low setting might be so low as to not keep the fan spinning, which I believe is why the EVGA Precision software (an analog to MSI Afterburner) has a 40% floor on the fan speed. Also, what's the significance of the dashed yellow line at 28% fan speed in your screenshot?

IIRC, my (eVGA) 2080Ti card has a minimum 40% fan speed. You can probably alleviate the start/stop behavior by setting up a custom fan curve that keeps the fans at 40% and then ramps up from there as the temp increases.

I have seen the rectangular block cloud issue once with 12.06b7...it looked like a ridiculous giant white Gumby floating in the sky. If it had more of a rounded Sta-Puf marshmallow man form, I could have maybe tried to attribute it to some kind of Ghostbusters Easter egg. Did it kill the immersion? Well...yeah. I tried to re-create it, as I was using a reproducible ASXP12 saved weather snapshot, and after restarting with the same starting conditions, it wasn't present. The scenario was at KMEM spot 260, FlightFactor B767, the date/time was 28 Aug 2023 @ 1600Z using a weather snapshot from the same date/time obtained from ASXP's historical weather feature, saved to a file, and then re-loaded as custom wx.

With dual HSIs and RMIs, that compass card (present in the XP Lear 25, and missing in the FSW Lear 35) is redundant to a fault--you already have dual heading systems on both sides. It would be an unnecessary expense to install it and/or keep it installed/calibrated etc.

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