CoolDude

Mandatory Airbus Sharklet advertisement:

Much appreciated. Are you also working on seated passengers support for the Fenix A321?

I do appreciate how photogrammetry shows off what real parked cars look like from a distance. I notice every other addon maker has the same strange variety of plasticky bright lime green, yellow and red cars and trucks that look like childrens' toys in every airport parking lot - maybe an SDK default?

MSFS starts now for me but it's asking me to reset all my settings. I'll try again later and hopefully my old settings will be restored.

Amazing work. Will be great to see this integrated into the other top tier addons. So glad the boarding sounds have also been revisited, it was repetitive and immersion breaking. A potential future step for immersion is having every passenger have a carryon suitcase / briefcase / backpack etc.

Fortunately, more than 5,000 people live in Chicago, IL so it doesn't require addon scenery. In fact it even used to be the MSFS default city.Also it's meaningful to me because the next President of the United States lives there. ;)

Yes, that makes perfect sense. I uninstalled FSWC because the installer didn't automatically create a new FSWC directory after I had changed the install path when installing. Thus, the uninstaller thought that the partition FSWC had been installed on was all FSWC content, which it deleted when uninstalled :(

Edit: sorry, wrong thread, ignore please

hmmm seems like it happened to me too, but I wasn't sure if FSWC was responsible. I installed FSWC into a directory that I didn't want it in, then I uninstalled it, and then when I tried to install it into the right place it said that it couldn't find FSX, and when I navigated to my FSX partition, the entire partition was empty. I've since reinstalled FSX and FSWC and it's working fine.I'm running Vista 32 bit with FSX Deluxe. FSX was/is installed on my G: partition, my OS is on my C: partition.

I'm not sure I'm completely understanding this then... I thought that the conveyor belt was like a treadmill, and that it would match the aircraft's speed precisely. If the plane was going at 150 knots at it's undercarriage, the belt would be going at 150 knots in the opposite direction, resulting in zero forward motion on the part of the plane overall. Zero forward motion wound result in no air over the wings, and no liftoff.

I have trouble believing that the test holds sway over the debate. Why was the aircraft in the test moving forward (the camera had to pan) if the conveyor belt was "matching" the plane's speed? If it was matching the plane's speed, then the plane should not have moved, no matter how much it accelerated. Zero movement would have meant zero airflow over the wings, resulting in no takeoff.

Use the Firefox web browser, keep Windows updated, and be intelligent in what you d/l and what files you open. If you do that, you don't really need a system-slowing antivirus. (this is, though, coming from a self-described computer geek...)

Did you botch the installation of the FSX water tweak? That's what my water looked like when I misspelled the name of the new water file.

Excellent work gentlemen, these shader hacks are doing some great things for the Flight Sim. I'll try out these new RGB values.

I'm running the same card and drivers, and have the same problem. It's pretty annoying.Until it's fixed, I'm not flying in rain or snow.

Hmmm I think that something is wrong with the new Water40.fx, because when I put it in I lose all my water. (there's no colour to it). When I use the original Water40.fx it all works. (running in DX10 mode)Apart from that, great job on the Water20.fxh! It looks awesome.

I see very little reason to believe that there would be any harmful effects for installing Acceleration over SP2. You can, after all, install Acceleration over SP1...

Is it possible to "fix" the default FSX models to make them VC-raindrop ready? Clearly, the FSX engine can support the animated bitmaps that are necessary for the VC raindrops...

>so its not so that they increase their sales for a relatively>sub-par addon - with those that don't want to wait for SP2>....>>Mark.For $20-$30, Acceleration cannot be considered a "sub-par" addon. The F-18 and the carrier ops by themselves make it worth it, let alone the missions, the P-51 and the EH-101.

Didn't work for me, in fact my 8800GTS really didn't like these drivers, FSX wouldn't load with these drivers, had to revert to 169.01 beta.

The Nvidia 8800GT, launched yesterday, is by far the best deal out right now. It has better performance than the 8800GTS 640mb, for half the price of the 8800GTX. It's based on the new 65nm processes, so it consumes less energy and runs cooler too. The performance difference does not justify the price difference between the 8800GT and GTX.

>If you only play FS and have a low expectation you will be>happy. When you compare it to what other studios like Crytek,>Namco etc are doing, it makes FS look ancient. Things like HDR>lighting are a basic standard these days. Yet after a long>struggle with their own technology, MS couldn't even figure>that out. On their current path, its going to take 20-30 years>just to catch up to what games like Crysis can do TODAY.I don't think that Microsoft is behind in the times, find me another flight simulator that looks better that covers the entire globe. First person shooter are much easier to make as there is a much smaller area of land involved, and sight ranges are correspondingly lower at 6 feet agl than 6000 feet agl.

wow, this is awesome, can't wait for a release!

>Elephants were a priority so rain drops had to go Don't be hard on ACES, the better looking virtual cockpits more likely required the change to the system that doesn't support the animated raindrops. It's very likely that the raindrops effect will return in FS11.

http://www.enterra-soft.com/download.shtmlEnterra icon keeper. Just download the freeware version. I used to use it all the time. It's lightweight and handy.