Ted Striker

I remember that audio channel and miss it. Occasionally the pilot messed up, which I suspect is why they ended it. I always thought it would be great to have a forward looking camera in the nose that the passengers could view on the seat-back screens. It seems like it would be inexpensive to implement with the camera technology we have today. Ted

When a doctor tells me I have a month to live I'll call you. I think I'd still jump off the snow covered side. Ted

Glad to hear you are well and enjoying your new location Noel. Ted

I'm looking forward to the stories about you showing your flight simulator to those women. 😁 Ted

The fact that it is asking you to press F1 to go into your bios before starting is a pretty good indication that the bios is not able to store your settings due to a dead battery. That is exactly what mine did. Having to reset your date and clock every time you start the computer is another symptom. Ted

I have the same motherboard and its been rock solid since I bought it but I also lost my overclock a few months ago. The reason was because the CMOS battery was old and couldn't maintain the proper voltage. I replaced the battery on the motherboard and it is fine now. The batteries are only a few dollars. I suggest you check your battery as it is probably just as old as mine was. Ted

I kept wondering while reading through this thread, what takes longer to start up from cold and dark, your simulation system or the 737NG you are simulating with it? I can sense your excitement about receiving the computers and am looking forward to your first test flight report. Ted

If Eaglesoft is willing to issue patches, make available for P3D, and add more functionality to an aircraft that has been on the market this long for free, the least I could do is help test it. It was my pleasure Ron. I just wish I had more time available to test it. Ted

I have the same priorities and I have found this aircraft addicting. Like flying a real plane, it seems like I learn something new about it on many flights. I would just like to add that all the issues I had in this thread: http://www.avsim.com/topic/490303-need-help-from-other-eaglesoft-citation-x-pilots/?hl=+citation have been resolved with the latest updates. I have the one purchase installed in FSX boxed, P3Dv2, and P3dv3 on the same computer and it works fine in all three. The only issue I am having is I get an FSX crash when exiting the sim after using this plane. I suspect that it is due to something with my FSX install as this does not occur with both P3D versions and no one else has reported the issue. Happy to be able to fly it again and with the added functionality. Really looking forward to the next version. Ted

You'll definitely want to contact Justin at Toposim if you have a life time membership. That admirable man is honoring the old life time memberships. Ted

You might have a lot of dust and lint in your cooling airflow passages. If you like the laptop it might be worth it to open her and inspect it. I have three W7 Lenovo T410 laptops that I am trying to decide whether I want to migrate to W10 to extend their life. They are working so well now I hate to mess with whats working good. Ted

Thanks for the responses guys. I thought that the ORBX regions and some airports had a lot of photoscenery and once enabled in the scenery library it was loaded at full resolution and remained in memory until the sim session was ended. I assume with the new ORBX system having all of the regions loaded simultaneously is not a problem anymore. It sounds like ORBX is working well for most now so I will give it a try. Ted

I was in the process of rebuilding my sim installations when these migrations issues started. As a result I have not reinstalled my rather extensive ORBX scenery. It does appear that the bugs with the wrong textures and blurries have been resolved, however I have the same concerns as Bruce B above. My understanding is that one of the reasons for the FTX region switching and ability to only load the regions you needed was to reduce your VAS load and improve the sim performance. With the new "migration" FTX Central I would think loading up all of the ORBX regions at once would have a significant impact on performance and VAS. How has this been addressed if at all? Stew mentioned using another third party software, Simstarter, to manage what could previously be done in FTX Central. How is this progress? I have read all I could find at the ORBX forums but have not seen this addressed. I understand that something had to be changed to allow the new NA landclass to work, but why eliminate the previous region activation options to reduce VAS and improve performance? Was the intent of ORBX that all this should be done now in the scenery library or with a third party scenery manager? Has the new post migration system improved the performance of FTX regions and airports so much that you can load everything up at once and it doesn't impact performance? These concerns are keeping me from reinstalling ORBX. That and having to block an addon from accessing the internet to keep my Sim the way I like it. I would like to reinstall my ORBX scenery and would appreciate any knowledgable feedback on this. I realize I should ask this on the FTX forums but I am afraid a question like this, no matter how sincere, would result in an instant removal and ban. Ted

This is good news. Not knowing what the future holds with this migration thing, the Flightsim Store, and the ORBX store I spent of good portion of the 4rth downloading the latest versions of all my ORBX products. Palm Springs, Anacortes, and Felts Field were the 3 that weren't available at all, even with the old installers. Ted

Ankh, I have the same CPU, overclock, and RAM speed as you. Differences are I have a 780gtx, 8 gb Ram, HT off, and a 3960 x 1024 triple monitor setup. My performance is similar to what you are experiencing. I run at 30 FPS locked in the sim as this is the smoothest for me, I just need to adjust sliders to keep it above 30 FPS locked. As Sethos stated, if I run unlimited FPS my FPS is higher, but not as smooth. The single largest framerate killer for me is AI traffic. Next is complex aircraft cockpits. After that is heavy weather, scenery and autogen density. I do not use NI or SGSSAA and just put up with the shimmering. After awhile I get used to it.....until I go back and take a flight in FSX with DX9. I adjust the scenery density and traffic levels to depending on the weather and aircraft I am flying. Fortunately, the more clouds you have the less you notice turning down the scenery density and traffic until you arrive at the terminal. Reducing my sim window to one monitor gives me a good boost in FPS. However I prefer to reduce the graphic detail than loose my peripheral vision. Do to the heavy performance hit of ORBX scenery and complex aircraft I keep them separate. I run my GA aircraft and ORBX in P3dv2. I use P3Dv3 for complex aircraft with GEP3D/UTX. One last thing. If I load the default baron and put all of my sliders to minimum my FPS goes to 300. So unless those posting unbelievable high performance post all of their settings, I would take it with a grain of salt. Ted