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Are you using FSX ?Unfortunately FS-Repaint doesn't work with FSX

On discussing a forthcoming performance patch, on November 30th, Phil Taylor said:"One additional comment, this is not the DX10 update, that is later next year as a separate release."To read the sentence in context, goto:http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/default.aspxFrom the tone of the blog I doubt he meant early or 1Q 2007.

NeilI would be cautious using a win-xp driver in vista-32bit anyway.

I just ordered "Fate is the Hunter" from Amazon. They have stock of both hardcover and softcover editions. The softcover edition is currently on special at $9,90 if I remember correctly. They also have second-hand editions for less than $5here's the link:http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_/102-3709717...=0&Go.y=0&Go=Go

Hmmm, pity...You really had me going there for a while :( But I suspected that that was just too good to be true.

Greg,Do I understand you correctly that if you put your money down for, say, Vista Ultimate, you will get BOTH 32 and 64-bit versions ?

Ozzie,You said: " It seems a little odd to me that you should 1st ask a question and THEN challenge the answer that you are given "If you look at the original question, you will see that it wasn't actually answered :- instead the thread digressed elsewhere :-)

Thank you, Mike, for your well thought-out reply.So is my understanding correct that from a flight-simmer's point of view Vista-64 will suffer the same fate as XP-64 and won't be supported with proper drivers by add-on software developers?I agree that the situation with drivers could become an unacceptable problem if the state of affairs remains similar to what happened with XP-64.However, there was a noticeable IMPROVEMENT in FS-9 smoothness on my system when I upgraded from XP-32 to XP-64 a while ago. And this, despite WOW.Anyone else care to comment?

Has anyone found an official recommendation from MS as to whether Vista 64-bit would run FSX better than Vista 32-bit.Assuming that one has sufficient hardware, now that Vista is about to be released to the public next month, which Vista should one buy?The simplistic knee-jerk answer is that if you have a 64-bit CPU and enough RAM, the 64-bit Vista is the way to go. But is this in fact so? and will FSX in fact benefit at all from a 64-bit OS?For the purposes of this question, let us assume that we are talking about a dedicated FSX machine running nothing else.Perhaps Bill Leaming or another developer boffin might care to comment, or perhaps even ACES' Phil Taylor might whisper a word in our ears.Since this is not a Hardware question, but a software one, I presume this is the correct forum, Mr Moderator ? ...

Mine was shrinkwrapped so securely that it took quite an effort to get it open. Then there was a seal with a barcode on the side which prevents you accessing the DVDs without breaking it. Inside a single orange product key was securely stuck on the plastic "Jewel-Case". No Certificate of authenticity.I would strongly suspect that your package had either previously been sold and then returned, or the shop staff used it as a demo. It has probably been activated at least once before you got it.

Hello fb,I am very familiar with AI Aircraft from AIA, EvolveAI etc. I have also studied quite a number of the MyTraffic-X models because I enjoy repainting AI models. I can assure you that they are definitely not even vaguely similar to those "mainstream" downloadable FS9 AI aircraft on AVSIM that I have come across.Please, can you do me a favour and post some AVSIM filenames here of those AI Models that are the same as the MyTraffic-X models that you mention which are freely available for download. I sure haven't come across any - but then I suppose I'm just getting old :-) Maybe there are some paintkits available for those models that can save repainters of MyTraffic models a boatload of time.

Thank you fb, but you don't quite understand my question.If I may quote from the MyTraffic X advertising:... " 154+ Aircraft Models - From Boeing to Yakolevs and Cessnas to Embraers, MyTraffic includes them all. All models are created with GMAX optimized for high frame rates even at very busy airports. Most of these aircrafts have been overworked in GMAX specially for FSX, to remove display errors as well as to increase performance beyond the one offered by Microsoft stock planes. Bringing realistic AI traffic to all parts of the world, MyTraffic can be oftenly observed to provide better performance even with more aircrafts around you than FSX stock AI traffic. " ...There is obviously something different if models which were FS9 compliant had to be "overworked especially for FSX".My question is not about the MyTraffic aircraft per se, but rather a more general question as to what makes an FSX-compliant AI aircraft different from an FS9-compliant AI Aircraft? As a side comment about MyTraffic-X, while the actual aircraft are not as beautiful as some of the later FSP or Aardvark FS9 models, the MyTraffic aircraft have been so well optimized for minimal system resource usage that one can have a VERY busy airport in FSX with very little impact on frame rates. Burkhard Renk has done a superb job balancing optical quality with performance.And please, I don't have any connections with the MyTraffic people and I don't have shares in their business ;-)

Could some knowledgeable person please explain the difference between an AI aircraft which is FSX compliant and an FS9 Aircraft which is FSX compatible i.e., one which seems to run fine in FSX but was built for FS9. For example, WOAI aircraft are mainly FSX Compatible (please correct me if I'm wrong) but which are supplied with an FSX compliant installer.Then one periodically comes across the claim that an AI aircraft has been updated for FSX i.e., it appears to have something different about it which qualifies it to be FSX compliant.Can anyone shed any light here ? Has anyone ever come across an AI Aircraft with textures in dds format? (apart from those used by MS in the base FSX package)

Hello JimI had the same idea, but no such luck. FS-Repaint in its present version refuses to load the default FSX aircraft (installed or not).BTW, FS-Repaint will, however, read in the aircraft supplied in the MyTraffic X package which have all been modified to make them fully FSX compatible. GreetingsDave BritziusCape Town

Call me old and nostalgic, but I would give my back teeth for a Vickers Viscount. If Paul Golding's team at Dreamfleet built it, that would be first prize.Don't all you oldies remember the Rolls Royce Dart engines spooling up while gazing through nothing more than a chicken wire fence? :-)Those were the days before people started playing terrorists with Aircraft!