tunnelcat

Yeah, I remember "Tex" Johnston's little stunt. None of the people on the ground, nor the Beoing officials, knew he was going to do it beforehand. He got a dressing down for it too when he landed. Years later, the test pilot for the Boeing 777, John Cashman, was specifically told: "No rolls". I guess they still remembered Tex's stunt. https://youtu.be/AaA7kPfC5Hk

WOW! It's not a fully vertical takeoff, but the position of the camera makes it look that way. That quick level off was a little thrilling too. I bet for an instant, there was some zero gee weeeeeeeeee going on. https://youtu.be/pxvwGppH4zg

There another reason for using disks. Some of us lowlifes that live in little towns only have a 1.5 Mb/s connection, or worse. The telecoms haven't seen fit to upgrade my area....yet. That's why I buy the disks, which by the way, are getting harder and harder to purchase these days as these lazy software developers begin to rely on downloading just to sell their software. Waiting a week or more for some of these huge downloads is just not feasible, especially for scenery and terrain downloads. I'd rather watch paint dry. I've already had to leave my system on for days because many of these new games are essentially released as beta, which then requires the buyer to download a huge patch(s) just to fix the unfinished software. :angry: In reference to the original thread, I just cloned my OS drive to install it to a SSD. My FSX installation is still on my D: drive, which is an HHD. Some changes were made in the BIOS to do this of course. I'm almost afraid to fire up FSX after reading this. Am I going to scream when I do and have to reinstall all of FSX just because of the DRM of my addons?

That sure looks like a driver issue. If you let Microsoft update your video drivers, it may have corrupted something. I NEVER let Microsoft update an Nvidia video driver, after I "accidentally" didn't see one listed in the important updates sections and let it install one. What a mistake. No more. I always do manual updates and I always "hide" the video driver updates so they don't pester me anymore. What driver version did you finally end up with? Also, you may want to read through this very detailed post about updating Nvidia's drivers. You may be able to recover things with his instructions. It's either that, or go back to the driver you were using before things epically failed. http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?m=1776353&mpage=1

Hmmmmm. I'm also using 310.90 at the moment. I was going to migrate up to the next WHQL because 310.90 had issues with SLI configurations, which I don't have anyway. I haven't been flying since I installed it on my GTX 680 a few weeks ago. I'll give it a whirl with FSX before I change drivers.

I'm about 2 driver revs back from the most recent and Microsoft tried to bozo anther one on me this time, AGAIN. I'm "guessing" they want to make things work better for Win8, which I don't have nor do I ever want. I finally got tired of it and "HID" the update. fppilot, what Nvidia driver version did you find worked best for FSX? By the way, to all Nvidia GPU users, Nvidia changed the way they update drivers. Driver updates from the Device Manager no longer work and driver rollbacks no longer work. I really messed up my system doing just that. Here is the "approved" way to either update or go back to an earlier driver. Read this guy's instructions to the letter. Also, MAKE SURE you do a "custom install" so that you can choose the specific items you want. Nvidia loves to install a bunch of crapware most users don't need. And most people only want the graphics driver, and if you have other games, PhsyX. If you ARE NOT using the graphics card's built in sound chip via HDMI, in other words, you have a separate sound card or motherboard-based sound chip, DO NOT INSTALL THE NVIDIA SOUND DRIVER. It will save you an airplane load of headaches and black screens. http://www.evga.com/forums/tm.aspx?high=&m=1776353&mpage=1#1776353

If she hates Win7, she would just looooooove Win8.....NOT! All you XP users are going to be out of luck come 4/8/2014. Microsoft is ending their support for it next year. And if you want something remotely close in appearance and function, Win7 is still being sold, for now. My husband is still using an XP machine, but he's now thinking of getting a Win7 rig before Microsoft nixxes that deal and forces everyone to Win8. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/end-support-help I also do not allow automatic updates. I still got burned one time because I didn't scan the list of updates very thoroughly before hitting "install" and I didn't notice that Microsoft had put a graphics driver for my Nvidia card in the mix. When that installed, what a mess, since I had PrecisionX running to control my card's fan. Really borked up my system. Had to go do an uninstall Microsoft's video driver, PhysX and PrecisionX, clear out the registry of left over junk, then reinstall the new drivers and software. I was not a happy camper. What's scary is that Microsoft is still sticking video drivers in "Important updates", so watch out. An I uninstalled that update on all of my Win7 rigs. I'll wait for Microsoft to fix the mess.

Oops, you're right. AMD does not support hyperthreading. I've been using Intel too long. :huh: I've noticed that Process Monitor has been recomended. It's a wonderful tool, but the learning curve is very steep. It logs everything unless you know how to set the filters and I've had some difficulty because of the overwhelming information. It can be done with a little persistance. I was using it to find out which service or program was not unhooking from my registry and causing a temporary account problem when I logged off and back on. There is another tool called Process Explorer, from Windows Sysinternals as well, that may help you too. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx This tool shows you everything that's loaded in the background and when it starts and if it's running. You can then go to this guy's link and see which Microsoft services are safe to disable for your OS. http://www.blackviper.com/

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Isn't this the FSX hyperthreading issue? If you have a computer with mulitple hyperthreaded cores, doesn't this stuttering problem occur specifically with FSX? I sure notice it on my system when I have it enabled. I've taken to turning it off whenever I run FSX to smooth things out. I've looked into getting Process Lasso to make this easier to do, but I'm unsure of how to use it, so right now, I turn hyperthreading off in my BIOS whenever I want to do a long stint of FSX.

I'm running Ultimate Defrag and it's working fine. It is a very complicated program to use though and it took me awhile to get a system going I like. What options do you have set? In the "Settings" section, I'm using the High Performance Option with Custom [select Files], sorted in the order I want them on the drive and then I make sure select Strict Placement, Sorted by [DEFAULT]. This will make sure the folders are sorted in the way you actually listed them. In the "Options" section next to the Defragment Mode, I checked "Respect High Performance" and "Respect Archive" (which places all my preselected rarely used files to the center of the drive to get them out of the way) and "Put Directories Close to the MFT" (for faster file table lookups). My only caveat with this program is that it really stresses the drive because of all the file moving around. I've heard of people complaining that this program trashed their drive. So what I did was have one drive specifically dedicated for FSX because it's so huge of a program. I sorted the folders to put the textures and other scenery and weather at the top of the list and the first part of the drive. Then I put FSX after that. Once I get everything defragged, I rarely run the full job again. What I usually do is then run "Fragmented Files Only" and that's very quick and doesn't do a lot of moving of files around.

Thanks, I'll take a look at 'process lasso'. Pardon my ignorance, but does RW3 mean?Also, should I be using the affinity mask setting in my FSX .cfg file as well? It seems from reading around that this and turning off HT, are 2 of the most important tweaks for getting FSX to run at it's best.

Just another question here. I have quite a few other games on the same rig that has FSX on it. Would turning off HT impact the performance of those as well? I too have noticed those irritating stutters while flying in FSX and I would like to try turning off HT to see if that solves the problem, but I don't want to negatively impact my other games in the process.

Remember a few years back when Avsim was unfortunately compromised and everyone started getting loads of email spam? Well, the Feds and Microsoft solved the problem for us. They brought down the Rustock Botnet and all, and I mean ALL the spam I was getting in that one particular email account (the one I'd been using for Avsim) disappeared and vanished completely THE NEXT DAY! I know the spam originated from the Avsim attack because I'd never gotten spam in that account before that incident. I am soooooo grateful. Anybody else notice a drop in their spam load?http://krebsonsecurity.com/2011/03/rustock-botnet-flatlined-spam-volumes-plummet/

Ok everyone, I've got things working with the new settings. Looks pretty good too! Thanks!Kim