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That seems like a pretty crappy thing to post about someone who is reportedly recovering from a heart attack.

For when Tom gets in here, I just wanted to point out that it only took two posts from me before someone accused me of having a hidden agenda. :( I'll make it easy, my agenda is crystal clear. I don't care what you say about any products, as long as it's civil and doesn't suggest that piracy is acceptable or "clever". Take a look at the thread again. Nobody has said anything about your comments about the product other than me suggesting that you might need more data to support your hypothesis. I don't even know anything about the add-on you're talking about.That line I quoted above is the only thing David or I are commenting on, and it's not the sort of thing you get to say if you want to post here, because it is read as an explicit promotion of piracy.EDIT: By the way, my name is Brian. It used to be in my sig, I'll put it back in there.

1. This is not America. This is an international forum of flight sim enthusiasts and we have rules for conducting yourself in the community. One of those rules is not to promote the act of piracy. It is up to the administrators and moderators to determine what that means.2. Bashing anyone based on nationality is absolutely uncalled for and should not be tolerated in any civilized community.3. Political statements are off topic and should be confined to the proper forum.I'd hope that David is willing to just consider a warning here, because the Terms of Service is very clear about the one strike rule.

Then I'll second it.Don't promote piracy. It's a slippery slope that's best to stay away from. Those are just the rules.

While you are viewing the FSUIPC log and not seeing activity, it might be that the PMDG bird is sending more of it's stuff direct through SimConnect and not through FSUIPC.I'm not up to date on FSUIPC's integration with SimConnect, especially with regard to logging, but this might be an issue of apples to oranges.

I might have to work more on my little project.

Tell this too the guys in the Train Sim hobby who were still trying to get more life out of a ten year old product.

Don't be ridiculous. You are the exception to the rule.

I've been trying to contact people but this is just awful.They've basically ripped the heart out of ACES.

To clarify this point from the best of my understanding, FSX uses a software technique for terrain triangulation. At some point, the engine has to take the flat land, made up of a big mesh, and use the terrain data push that mesh into the shape of the terrain. Most games today use vertex shaders on the 3D card to do this. It's referred to sometimes as "hardware transform and lighting". But to maintain the highest level of compatibility, this is done on the CPU with software algorithms. The concept that is being discussed in this thread is that they might take a lot of these algorithms and move them to the GPU where they can be done faster with shaders.

Giraffe Simulator would be fun.

I'm glad you feel like this is some place you can come and just vent and wish ill-will on others just because without adding anything constructive to the forum.

Steve Heijster from ACES is a fantastic guy to play Guitar Hero II with.

I'm relatively sure that SimConnect doesn't have access to those performance metrics.In fact, on a quick glance I'm not sure that there's any tools that show the graphics information in Direct X unless you have access to the internal debugging tools they used to make it.

It's late and I haven't thought this through much, but there is this:AI WAYPOINT LIST List of waypoints that an AI controlled object should follow.When you create an AI plane and give it places to go, FS flies the aircraft, so if you pull the LLA values from the GPS tracking and create a waypoint structure:struct SIMCONNECT_DATA_WAYPOINT{ double Latitude; double Longitude; double Altitude; unsigned long Flags; double ktsSpeed; double percentThrottle;};Then the AI plane will fly there. Obviously you'd have to write something to figure out speed, either via actual tracking or by taking the distance between waypoints and the time it took to travel between them.If you put that info in correctly, I think you'll find that the AI plane flies a reasonable approximation of the path.

>Mike,>>That was a very well written and cogent post, your thoughts>were well organized and very coherent.>>Aside from "chagrin" being mispelled a few times, the essay>receives a well deserved 4.0... ;)>>Thanks for a great read!>>My favorite two sentences:>>"Expecting one to sit quietly and politely as one would when>disagreeing with the Queen over high tea? Sure, as long as you>are having that tea in a world where pink elves make cookies>in hollow logs." :-beerchug Seriously?He compared being vocal about product complaints to beating people to death.He said our community is an unruly mob completely incapable of managing itself or being civil.I guess I had different expectations of the standards of people I was dealing with when I signed up.

>How do sales numbers help me know who is happy with their>purchase vs who is unhappy?>>All the bashers theoretically are contained in those sales>numbers.>>BobMy point was more that it wasn't a failure from Microsoft's perspective. Or at least I don't think it should be considered one by them. They advanced the platform, used the experience to better construct their organization, and sold a ton of copies.If it were me, I'd consider it a success.

Ok, well how about some outside data.Currently FSX standard edition is second on Amazon's bestseller's list in the Video Games > PC Games > Simulation > Flight category, only behind the Deluxe version.The better selling Deluxe version is #178 out of all Video Games, not just PC, but including console games AND hardware accessories, which make up most of the top of the list. Tuning that down to just PC Games, it places #16, ahead of the World of Warcraft expansion, the oft-mentioned Crysis, and the latest Sims 2 iteration.And this is all quite a bit after it's been released.How that compares to 2004 numbers, who knows, but just based on the rest of the market, it certainly doesn't seem like a bust for sales.But that's just Amazon, and it's not inclusive of all versions, that #16 is just the Deluxe version, doesn't include the Standard version numbers.So I dig deeper and find that massive online marketing firm NPD put together numbers for the top retail PC sales of 2007. Here's what they look like:World of Warcraft: The Burning Crusade

thanks for the link, Nick

>I think ACES have really let the community down. It's like>they just don't care about fixing any remaining problems with>FSX. The developers should send ACES one giant complaint.>>That tell???? email address to ACES probably goes right into a>trash can. lolIt's been said quite a few times that ACES has moved on to FSNext.

>I think that the MS flightsim fans that now use FS-9 are>firstmost fans of the brand. Most of those guys posting their>miscontent here believe that the series did something wrong.>They came to that believe after paying their money trying the>new version and somehow they don't feel its an improvement.>>Where would you post your FS-X misgivings if you had them.>They certainly don't belong in the FS-9 forum. Its after all>their experience with FS-X they want to talk about. And up>till SP2 there was a point in posting problems with FS-X. I>happen to believe that some of the response in this forum has>been used as input to improve FS-X.>>Like ot or not FS-X is the forum where we will most likely>come to post whats wrong with the series (that includes FS9>obviously) uptil now and what we'd like in the future. Maybe >a rethink and stringent moderating coupled with a new>structure (only)FS-9 forum, (only)FS-X forum, (free for all)FS>caf

Scott, this is a great idea, thanks for putting this together.

Love the P51 from Acceleration, of course, but my favorite third party aircraft is the gorgeous Dr.I by neoqbhttp://www.neoqb.com/fokker/Feels absolutely bouyant when you fly it.

>>Pat,>>>>Specifically the problem is that some people are enjoying>FSX,>>or want to enjoy it. >>>>However, those who are unhappy with FSX hasn't been just>>expressing disappointment. If that were the case, I could>>ignore it and go about my business.>>>>But they are yelling it, and yelling it and yelling it. >They>>are bursting into my polite conversations to yell it. They>>are yelling at MS, they are yelling at Phil, they are>yelling>>at people who actually enjoy flying the sim. >>>>The problem exists because the people who don't like it>seemed>>resolved to drown out all other voices with their screaming,>>so when it becomes too hard to talk over the din, the rest>of>>the community decides, like Phil, that is just isn't worth>>it.>>>>That is how the community is going off course.>>In my opinion FS-X caused a split. We are split between those>that converted to FS-X and those that stayed with FS-9. The>extremist on the FS-X side 'hates' the nay sayers and the>extremist on the FS-9 side 'hates' the everything is great in>FS-X side.>>Its both sides 'fault' that the community is going off course.>Only time will tell if was FS-X or FS-9 that was a splinter>movement in the FS franchise. Before FS-X Avsim had a MS FS>forum that discussed generally the most current version of MS>flightsim. Now we are divided in a FS-X and a FS-9 forum. I>find that very telling about the FS community here. Maybe we>should al withdraw into the forums that discuss our favourite>FS version and only meet in the bar to discuss the FS future.That theory seems sound until you look at it in practice, and there haven't been raiding attempts over into the FS9 forum to claim that FS9 is terrible and people are fooling themselves to believe that there is ever any way that it will be as good as FSX.However, there's plenty of cases of people coming in here to bash FSX. I could be wrong about it, but what I saw was even very vocal people about FSX saying they still enjoyed FS9 from time to time, or at least looked back on it fondly. Now, supposedly I'm some kind of agenda-pushing apologist, so maybe I don't have the right perspective on it.

Obviously, like with most systems, there will be a "your mileage may vary" caveat on there. Every setup is a bit different.I'm glad it worked out for you. What sort of increases are you seeing? Just a reduction in stutters?