pierrecor

So much said in so little space. Thanks Reggie it is well stated - sorry to hear about the job. I'll definately get the s/w and start right away - something I wanted to learn for quite a while, but never found the opportunity - well it has arrived.CheersP

Now if anyone can give me in a paragraph which tools to use, I'll step through Africa and try to fix the issues - I know it's going to take a long time, but what the heck, it's part of my hobby.CheersP

Thanks to all for their contribution - it is much appreciated. I'm still flying in Africa and do get "holes" that you cannot get in or get out unless you go into slew mode. Now where the problem realy comes into play is when you fly for virtual money (FS Econnomy) and VATSIM - it removes the realism a little bit. But as it was mentioned - it is a simulation and relatively cheap entertainment as well - so I'll live by the "fudged" runways.VATSAF memberwww.vatsaf.co.za

Hi Doug,My apologies to NMG. Nico from NMG send me a note describing the issue - which is MS who has less interest in Africa than anywhere else and could not care to fix the issues. It seems to me that if I want to have it fixed it has to be me alone - depending on the importance of itBut very thanks for the advice and everyone else who has commented on the issue.CheersP

Yes, I do have an add-on from NMG Trading (www.nmgtrading.co.za) with 76m mesh. I have posted a message to them for comment. Since I have paid a fair amount for this I expect them to have it fixed, especially if the revised landclass is causeing the problemWill post here once I have recieved and answer. Otheriwse it is manual fixing from my side as Mace stated.Thx

I fly quite a bit in Africa (FSX)and there are a number of runways that are either "sunken" or "elevated" above the average elevation. The sunken runways sometimes make it near impossable to land. Any fixes around??? I have NMG Trading Africa Landclass for FSX installed - does not fix the issues.Pierre

I gave the sound some thought, but it seems it is not the problem - I have on-board sound, but have turned that off as well. It happens with any a/c, VC or 2D. It happens even when start taxing as well. I have FSX Delux and Acceleration installed - so I presume the correct Sps are installed as well - no add-ons except FS Commander, which of course is not directly linked. You gave me a thought in turning down animations - will see tonite what happens, although I do not think FS9 had animations ??? and it had a similar issue, but then again I slammed memory into the system with a better grafix card. What I also do is setting the affinity to only on processor - it helps.Must say the FSX folders is NOT in the high performance position, that is, I left windows in the HP area on the platter with a defrag after each little installation such as anti-virus etc. Then installed FSXDL, fire up, defrag, then ACC, fire up, then defrag and so on.If only I can get my hands on the knowledge how FSX reads and manipulates the files. I know there are some trade-offs between blurries and stutters and other stuff (have heaps of tweak documents), but the work-arounds of these does not solve the problem.P

I have this strange phenomena, whenever the a/c starts moving on the ground, I get a serious stutter before the a/c actually moves. I have played with various display settings and when brought about right down - flat land only - it sort off subsides. The same happens when coming in for a landing - the moment the wheels touching the ground, the frame rate comes right down momentarily and at some times you have to quit while trying to land - and not with high display settings either.Basically I have a Dell GX280, dual core, 2GB, NVidia 8600GT 512k etc. which is not too a slow PC. I have tweaked according all available documents on the net (XP and FSX), used UltimateDefrag or O&O Defrag to no avail. Sometimes the stutter is only for a sec or two, but sometimes it is for prolonged periods and sometimes no issues at all. IS there anyone who experienced the same issues and what did you do to alleviate the problemsPierrePS I had the same issues in FS9 and suspect the Dell architecture ???

I have used O&O Defrag and UltimateDefrag, but with the latter I cocked-up my HD to such an extend that a rebuild was all I could do... and I used a recommendation based on a review in Avsim's review section. OK, maybe I did something wrong and'll have to revert to the manual again, but after 4 rebuilds in so many days I'll stay put for a while with O&O. My verdict, UD give you a lot more options and I like the idea of putting the FSX folder on the outside for performance, but what scares me is moving the MFT out of the way - closer to the inner circles - that's now if you does not have a massive HD (mine only 40GB). Maybe one of above can write a decent note on applying UD for FSX, or perhaps if one of UD's employees read this, create notes for all high performance games. It'll give them an edge over the competitors.Other options is Diskeeper and PerfectDisk - none of which I tested. All I know you can use PD to move the MFT to the inner circles to make space for FSXDL + FSXA + ASX + AGX +... +... +...Pierre