georgetyrrell

Have bought 8 now so choices are those two. Although I know you're entitled to downgrade your OS legally from Microsoft, it's s pain in the hoop to do it I think.

And there's good enough gains still using modern processors, graphics cards, drives on XP 64 bit? It will allow me to use all of the 6gb of ram I've had for ages and never been able to take advantage of because I've still XP 32bit on my PC! I could never move on from it! Brilliant to hear that. Thanks A32xx

Hello, Building up my rig etc at the moment having been away, I'm going to upgrade to a latest ish processor and board, ram and keep my 660ti , I'll run both FSX in time but stick with fs9 as pretty much my main sim. So I bought a CD version of windows 8 this week, and my plan is to upgrade to 10 and run FSX. I didn't fsncy the idea of an OEM version of win7 so I just bit the bullet on it. I'll be purchasing two sandisk decently sized Ssd drives and it'll be a fairly decent setup. So, I've a chance to come upon a copy of XP pro 64 bit, and having discovered recently that you can run two operating systems on the same PC, would I better running fs9 on the XP pro 64 bit , and having Win10 for everything else ? What's the ideal OS for fs9? Would the later Operating system run the modern hardware better than the XP pro would run the sim if you get me? Regards George

That TNT is a work of art

Wow Robin, regressed??? Have you photos? So is the texturemaxload=x entry no longer needed as an addition? George

And yes, it seems I no longer know how to use these forums!!

Hello, Have just turned on my PC for the first time in about five years. Had all intentions on jumping into FSX but from browsing again there's no way I'm going to now for a while having seen the new lease of life fs9 has. I used to know every tweak in the book for XP and for fs9 and now it's all had to be researched again. Can anyone have a quick look at what I've done and see if I've missed any major update or improvement that's glaring or that I havent caught up with? I'm upgrading everything in the new year but from now till Christmas I'm sticking with my old (which was once proudly state of the art !!) Rig of an i7 920 stock everything, 660ti and 6 gigs of 1600 ram on XP pro. So, here's what I've done 1. Cleaned out any unnecessary programs on my PC. 2. Created a gaming profile and turned off every service I don't need from memory on that profile. 3. Defragged intensively and placed my pagefile on a separate partition to my fs9 install. 4. Installed the 3gb switch 5. Installed clean nvidia drivers as per Nick N 6. Installed clean fs9, fs9.1 and no crack patch, and used ntcore to make fs9 large address aware. 7. Used Nick N guide to nvidia inspector and fs9 internal and cfg settings (I presume he's still the most definitive?) I'll be using alacrity PC to turn off any non essential services etc. Have I omitted anything vital? Going to install my usual base of fsgenesis world mesh, followed by UT world and GE pro all continents. Another question would be , I used to use Active Sky for weather programming but subbed out Real Env textures , is that still most peoples go to setup? Is the Real Env weather engine still inferior to ASE? Is this HDE that I've read about now superior to this? I'm fine for airports and aircraft, I'm trying to keep it simple and restrain myself from pulling everything I owned and installing it! I feel as excited about fs9 right now as the day 10 years ago when a buddy said to me 'you know you can download and buy aircraft for that flight thing don't you?'! I can't see myself getting involved in sweet fx or enb series. I'm too eager to fly. Thanks for looking George

Nope have a DVD copy of Acceleration but I will probably go the way of steam just because. Okay I will go the way of Win10 64 bit as its a new install and see how I go. Thanks for the contributions, George

Yes should have stated all new hardware is being purchased it'll be the latest ish stuff so its only an operating system vs FSX opinion needed George

Hello (again) Firstly, let me just quickly explain that this isnt a 'how do I do flight sim' or 'what's the best ever thing for me without knowing anything about my system etc' type of question. There's a reason for it! I haven't turned on the PC in about 5 years I think, I fell out of FS just as it looked like Fs9 was dying, and I never really embraced FSX. I haven't posted here in that long and I simply can't believe the place. Fs9 isnt dead and FSX seems to have eventually made it! I'm in need of new pants regarding the new aircraft , scenery etc I've just seen. Anyway my question is regarding operating systems. Won't post in the OS forums because I'd have to post in each one, and a general Google search is being too vague. I have still have XP pro by the way! And once upon a time I could take an operating system apart , set it up a sim with such specific settings, but alas no more. It's all gone from my head. So point of this is I have an opportunity to purchase a new operating system today, and my question is this. What are people using for FSX? The good people who care to go through every detail like I'm going to over the next few months. I had heard the Win8 is a no go, and I'm figuring Windows 7 64bit is working the best? My choice is that or Windows 10. Is it a case of future proofing by getting Win10 and maybe suck up the tweaking and work arounds for a while or will Win7 provide more than enough compatibility for the next few years as I set about rebuilding a modern PC again. What would you do if you were a nrewbie again? Sorry for the long post, time today has prevented me from searching the forums and comparing opinions and weighing up pros and cons. Regards George.

Not being smart, but maybe do a bit of googling of Msfs and add ons that work inside the simulator. I know this seems simplistic but it saves someone having to type out the reply you'll need here which could take a lot of column inches. It's a programme developed by third parties for payment to run in Msfs

Seconded for Simcheck a300 it's mega. And will eventually have an upgrade with an fmc in it

XP planning on Win7 as soon as money allows.

It's as6.5 if you read the op Understood. Tomorrow it'll be purchased. Still use REX cloud textures?

Thanks Tim and all