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Count me in for the 737-200. Steam gauges and the early avionic computing devices are exciting to me. I'm always expecting LCD displays to freeze up, demand payment or show an ad. Airliner glass cockpits are OK but I can't stand GA glass. Another issue is VOR's are disappearing. It's hard(er) to go VORwhoring now.

I make a program that makes FS scenery destructable* and presents scenarios. Here's the F100D intercepting some anti-ship missiles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqcIwTN_7mk Yes if the missiles reach the cruise liner the scenario is failed. The Bug is incredible but I like 50-60's style jet fighters. *Destructable means they get covered in debris and counted for scoring, but I know of no way to remove the scenery items in FS.

I quit using the MD80 years ago because of the memory leak. I was hoping a fixed version would be out by now, plus native P3D support!

What finally fixed me was OOM's. I could never let go of "must have highest visual quality." So I would put up with stutters so paused screens would look incredible. Well the OOMs started in P3D. So I tried lowering all my settings. It worked. If I looked closely I can see the difference but the smoothness and reliablity more than made up for it. Virtual cockpit still looks good and terrain looks good. I just wish I had let myself figure this out before. BTW I also did the same thing to FSX and now I don't need all those tweak utilities AND get 30fps. Eye candy is a hard addiction to beat. PC i7 3770 8GB 3.2-3.8 turbo Ghz, 970GTX

Ok thanks. Because the stability of the fps is something people sometimes forget to mention. I tried your settings exactly and it's off to a good start. I'll read your guide.

Dave, I see you have the frames locked at 30. How steady does it stay there? I came here looking for advice on the 777 because I get 18fps. I'm going to try your settings and see what I get. Thanks!

The Q400 with it's beta mode and tiller makes it much more immersive. The J41 engine fires are talked about like it's a bug - it's more accurate simulation. It was fun to learn about the prop locks and how they work. The Q400 is newer so I say Q. However, the Q400 is incompatible with alot of addons, check first. Get both if possible.

I uninstalled 1.2 and went back to 1.1. Yes, the blurries get really bad. The way it works for me is my framerate and smoothness stays high, and scenery gets drawn well if possible. That works for me. Most of the time however everything is good, terrain looks good, fps is good. Please give me a feature in 1.3 that makes it work like 1.1, thanks!

My understanding is that it's not like a mouse wheel, but will turn only a certain amount each way. I'm guessing this means the wheel indicates an absolute position? Say the wheel is full up, and the autopilot has trimmed full down. Does that mean once you move the wheel a tiny bit (after ap off) the plane goes from full down trim to full up? (Typical autopilot/trim wheel problems) I'd be curious to hear what you think, thanks!

Use FSRecorder. It records all the animations and has much better control etc.

Ok I tried the new drivers, fsx framelock, and nvidia inspector vsync divider. I really thinks it's alot smoother. I was too fast on approach today and marvelled at the smoothness as I was doing energy waste turns. Normally I have my scenery off for jets but I turned it all the way up and locked at 15 fps. It was a trip seeing the little houses get bigger in the 737. Looks good so far, I'm going to test more.

I love Saitek but had a bad experience with them on the yoke. I got the yoke and loaded it up with the instrument panels. Flying became more of a battle with the yoke that anything else. Finally, I discovered the instrument panels were causing stutters. Right now the yoke is gutted so I can use it's throttle quadrant. The instrument panels are collecting dust but when I have time I'm going to take another look at them.I tried the CH ones at the flight training lab at my college and they er, have good vacuum if you know what I mean :)Next time I'm going with those fancy $500 special made ones. Precision flight? Don't remember who makes them but they really look good.

I think it's more a matter of whether you like turboprops. If you do, the JS4100 is certainly the best one out there.Tim D.

I start with a batch file that copies the config in each time I start FSX. Also I copy pretty much every other config file, so I can mess around all I want without worrying about making a bad setting stick.Also I use the F1 DLL loading program too. I'll bet someone has made a FSX launcher that handles this nicely. Tim D.

Another interesting thing I did once was take a helicopter shaft horsepower and max hover weight. Turns out it's a close relation to the horse power required by a winch (theoretical winch that is ) to heft that weight at 1 G.It's been a while but I know there was an issue with converting SHP to watts etc. Tim Dobrowolsky.