johnwillimas

Not "all analog" by any means but I'm finding the Inibuilds A310 a good compromise with a sort of halfway house between the old analog days and the modern flight computer driven style... but I'd welcome a 707 for sure.

Apparently the different prices are a result of a discount for DeLuxe and Premium Deluxe users, Jorg spoke about it in the Dev Live Stream. I'm on the basic version and it cost me £12.49 : still a real bargain, though!

There's a discussion about it here with links to the various files... http://www.sim-outhouse.com/sohforums/showthread.php?86929-Flying-Supersonic-Tu-144-Charger-v3-5

OK this looks like a target to aim for....there's a big variation is in the "load aircraft choice" screen and I'm not sure why there should be such a difference there. With the "free-flight to sitting in the cockpit" I'm going to a relatively small freeware GA field sitting on top of FTX-UK but I've also timed it virtually the same to one of the FTX GA fields (Shoreham) and a bigger FTX regional field (Cardiff) and got roughly the same numbers (i.e.1 min 25 secs.) Aircraft in all cases is a simple, freeware, single engine prop (Auster J1 Autocrat by Dave Garwood) . I have got other stuff on the OS drive which I could move off to a spinning SATA drive, I'll check around some more and see what I can do to improve. I probably should have gone for a 500G SSD in retrospect which would have made the whole exercise easier. Thanks for the top on defrag - yes, I knew that but I wouldn't be surprised if others don't.

Yepp, that's it. John

Kattz - this is just about what I have got now and is the bold set of figures above. Noel - I started off with just one SSD which I put my FS-X on and is the first set of SSD figures. Then I added a second SSD about a month later which is the bold set of figures.

I've just fitted SSD's to hold my FS-X installation and thought I would share the experience. First of all I put in one 240G SSD to hold my FS-X system then later installed a second SSD in to take the OS and other software. The final figures after installing both SSD's are in bold. Starting the program to appearance of the free flight menu: was 45 secs, with one SSD 22 secs, with 2xSSD : 26 secs Loading the aircraft choice screen from the free flight menu: was 25 secs, with one SSD 13 secs, with 2xSSD : 11 secs Loading a flight from the free flight menu to sitting in the cockpit: was 4 minutes 30 secs, with one SSD 3 minutes, with 2xSSD : 1minute 24 secs Certainly a big improvement in load to cockpit. Also I've noticed that the time to switch views seems to have dramatically improved and is now virtually instantaneous. The horrid pauses I use to get while textures for aircraft loaded when I switched views seem to have gone too I wasn't expecting a frame-rate improvement so I didn't note what I had before - maybe 30fps peak, unlimited - but I do seem to have got a jump to around 50fps (if I leave it unlimited). Throttle back to 26fps and its beautifully smooth. The other heads-up on this was that cloning the C drive was really easy with the Kingston kit and the Acronis software.

Hurrah! Fixed it.....I found a listing of what the scenery/eure directory was supposed to look like and discovered that although the installation file appeared to have renamed the .bgl's it was replacing correctly, the original files were still there somehow.I deleted them and now all is well..Hope this helps someone else with the same problem...

Thanks for the thoughts but I'm pretty sure I followed the instructions correctly; trouble is there are so many scenery addons in my FS now I may have klunked something in the process. Where I've seen problems like this before - in the FreeFlow scenery specifically its been a problem with the original FS BGL's not being correctly replaced by the new scenery but for HSP its done with a Batch file and that seems to have worked properly. Regrettably not - with his money I'd be able to afford to fly the Greek islands for real.... :(

I've just been trying out some flights around Greece and just noticed the problems in the attached image.Image 1 is at LGKF. There seems to be a mesh / scenery problem at the end of the runway plus there are these odd "fringes" around the coast line - but around Corfu, for example, the coastline is perfect.Image 2 is between Athens and Corinth - you can see the same sort of fringing effect there.Image 3 shows Santorini with a similar problem.I've got the latest version of the HSP scenery installed and most of the GAP stuff too. I have left out LGAV.Any suggestions as to how to cure this would be welcomed.Thanks

You mean this ISN'T real???? :( Thank heavens! The numbers of PAX I thought I'd killed...... :( Seriously though: marketing in IT - using an unproven science to sell things that aren't needed to people who can't work them (possibly a bit too cynical :( )

Thanks for all the suggestions, folks.Plenty here for me to try out.Thanks again.John

Is there anyway to discover which BGL is responsible for which AI traffic, apart from turning them off one at a time by renaming them?I have duplicate flights somewhere in my (way too complicated, I know) FS9 system. So that, for example, two dakotas turn up in horrifically close formation. I'd really like to tidy things up somehow. Does anyone know of, say, a utility that would add the originating BGL filename to the on-screen traffic label? Or a traffic viewer that does similar?

It was all nothing to do with the monitor!!!Finally diagnosed it to overheating CPU - cleaned the fins of the heat sink from all the dust there was on it and reseated with some new thermal paste and now all is well...(FS9 running at twicee the FPS now!!!)

Here's an update - reinstalled old monitor : same problem at the lower 1280x1024 resolution.Went back to 163.25 drivers, same problem.AAAArGh!!! Now pulling out what little hair I had left.... :(