hamish7777

I like the look of that Chris. Always loved the Stars at night. Hopefully not long to wait... Hamish

LG 38UC99 38" IPS 21:9 UltraWide Curved Monitor I recently traded up for one of these as I sit only 24" away from my monitor. Its the most beautiful Monitor I have ever bought and I love the wide aspect. A complete game changer... Hamish

I have just checked and yes FS Dreamteam have removed my BP=O setting in my CFG. Thank you for the heads up... Not happy they should ABSOLUTELY not be doing that without letting you know... Hamish

This looks fantastic. +1 for a Vas Graph could be very useful. A link to the Fsx.cfg maybe useful as well. Love the approach practice... Hamish

I just bought the LG Ultrawide 34inch. 21.9 OMG I think I have died and gone to heaven.. The clarity immersion the sheer beauty it's nothing like 3 screens... I wish I had done this far sooner... Wow. Hamish

Dear Friends. I have recently upgraded to a new Skylake chip and SSD's. I have been using 3 Sony 17inch monitors that I have made into one desktop 3840x1280. The LCD's are over 10 years old so beginning to show their age. I have been eyeing the new LG Ultrawide monitors. I have a question for those that might have upgraded from multi monitor to a single widescreen. Obviously the width is not as great but I wonder from having no bezels if the experience feels more immersive and if the resolution feels better with one single display? I have always liked the wrap around of 3 monitors. I use Track IR. I am also wondering whether VR will be big soon so should hold off. I am running a GTX 770 but think a 1070 would be better. Any advice most appreciated. Many Thanks Hamish

Hi Martin Again a very warm welcome and Thank You for taking the time to come to Avsim and answer questions as we are like a bunch of excited schoolchildren.. After so many years of not being able to talk to Aces/Microsoft you never knew what was in the pipeline and never knew that if you had a suggestion if anyone was listening so I will take a bet that this thread may become over time one of the largest on Avsim if you have the patience. Like many here I cannot say that there is anything that you are doing that does not sound pretty fantastic. You guys seem to be taking a very balanced view of what you can achieve and also knowing that it does not have to all be ready Day 1. It would be great if you are in the future able to give us a few updates from the team on how the DTG Flight Sim Updated Code is progressing in terms of performance and what added graphics you have been able to achieve. On a personal note I have always wished for better Overcast Conditions at higher altitudes if you want to fly IFR and would love to have better VC rain for more immersion but these are small things. 2016 will be a great year we may see the DTG Flight Simulator and the PMDG 747V2 though I imagine not working togther or maybe we can dream..... Hamish

I think it's the combination for me of the 6700k running at 4.6ghz and the DDR4 @ 3600 and the ssd that has just found FSX's sweet spot. If one thing in this link was not there then maybe I would not have had the performance shift that I have seen. One of the computer techs I was speaking too has said that the DDR4 fast memory has really made a difference and having an SSD to work off makes it all the sweeter... H.

Thanks Martin, I will take a look... Hamish

Thanks Martin. It looks like you know your onions. I am still fairly new to this. At the moment I have turned off the power setting so it's delivering 1.38v all the time. Maybe I should go back and revisit the adaptive mode and power saving situation... The 5 way optimization is probably far more advanced than I give it credit for.. Yes it's all running very smoothly at the moment which is great. H.

Hi Martin, Interesting question.. I started with the 5 way optimazation and in some ways it's good to give you a very basic idea of what your chip is capable of though it settles with a very conservative setting.. It also uses adaptive vcore setting which means that the cpu throttles down when not being used to its full potential... Interestingly I found that running fsx the first few times I had a couple of app crashes and I thought that because the program uses primarily only one core in that setting it became unstable which caused the Ctd.. I then changed to a completely manual setting in the bios and have the chip running at 4.6 in a manual mode all the time and changed a few settings.. I followed an over clocking guide I found on you tube and since then no ctd all perfectly smooth... H.

I went with a Maximus VIII Ranger from Asus. I am running 4.6Ghz with a VCore at 1.38volts. The Corsair 110i Cooler is amazing at full tilt in FSX the fan is hardly moving and I am seeing 48/50C maximum. I reckon I could push it to 4.8 at 1.42v with temps in the early 70s. If anyone is on the fence thinking about an upgrade this is the time to do it. Its been better than a kid in a sweet shop...

I held off as I was very happy with my 1TB Samsung Hard Drives, 1 for my OS and 1 for my FSX Install. I moved over to 2 x SSD;s 512GB. I kick myself for not doing it sooner. I can boot into my OS in 19 seconds and the open FSX in about 9 seconds and then select a flight which on average is about 25 seconds... On an normal HD I would have been looking at 5 mins I reckon.. If you like to tweak, change your mind etc its wonderful to have such quick access to your flights. Other than a new monitor its by far the most revolutionary change to my flightsim experience... Hamish

Well Santa has delivered early as my present to myself was an upgrade to my computer which was originally a Sandy Bridge 2500K @ 4.5 with DDR3 @ 2100. I went for a Skylake 6700K with Corsair Vengence DDR4 @ 3600 and the new Corsair GTX Water Cooler 110. I also swapped out 2 Samsung 1TB Hard Drives for 2 512 Samsung SSD's. I decided to keep my Nvidia 770GTX as I want to wait for the new Pascal architecture next year.. i run 3 x 17" monitors with a Triple Head 2 Go at 3840 x 1280. Sandy Bridge has always run very well and I run a modest FSX Steam Edition with PMDG 777/737 mainly some large payware airports etc but nothing has prepared me for the change I have just witnessed. I had a very well tweaked system but now with this new system its like GLASS. Even with the Nvidia Standard tweak 1/2 refresh rate locked at 30, I always suffered small micro stutters when turning at larger airports, now I can stay locked at 30FPS in any situation and there are no stutters at all. Who knows it may help that I am running a fresh install though I secretly think that the nirvana comes from running Skylake with really fast memory and now SSD's for the operating system and FSX I have finally found my holy grail. I can boot into my OS in less than 19 seconds and then open FSX in less that 25 and be flying within a minute and no stutters even when looking behind you, just glass... Long may it last. Thank You Skylake Thank You DDR4 Thank You SSD's Happy Christmas All Hamish

For me its simple. FSX SE has been tweaked by Dovetail. For starters they have radically improved the VAS handling which means I can take the PMDG 777 from big hub to big hub without an issue even in DX9 which before was an OOM given with FSX boxed even with lower settings. They have improved the reduction of frames when having the cursor on screen. Coupled with the changes to the installer using a newer compiler it has helped the FPS overall. I am very interested in P3D v3 but I am still worried that FPS would be lower than we get with FSX SE especially using a complex plane. I am waiting to see what Dovetail do next year with their own Flight Sim before I change. I would say though with the changes I have experienced with FSX SE I am glad I changed over from the boxed edition. Hamish