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Thanks for all you've done for so many of us Tom....here's hoping you'll find strength in the good wishes and the positive impact you've had, across the globe. God's speed my friend.

Tremendously proud of you my brother! Keep reaching for the stars, and safe skies, in 2014 and beyond!!!

I have been having terrible stutters/pause in FSX at approx 50 second intervals. I turned on monitoring through Perfmon and noticed there is a spike in the read activity on the HD around the same time the stutters/pause happen. Does anybody know if a 120GB SSD would eliminate the disk access delay (Perfmon spike) and improve smoothness in FSX? I have defragged with OO Defrag and applied several tweaks (all the important ones from Bojote, Nick, etc); my textures are crisp and otherwise the game is fairly smooth, even with FPS at 12-15. Any help or advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. My specs:CPU: Intel, i7 920 @ 2.67ghz (CPUID indicates OC @ 3.917ghz)Mobo: EVGA, X58 3X SLIMem: Patriot, 6GB PC3-12800 @ 1600mhzHD: Samsung, 1TBVideo: EVGA, GTX 480 (driver 285.27)OS: MS, Windows 7 64bits Ultimate (with SP1). Regards,George.

Turn "aircraft cast shadows on the ground" off......uncheck the option under Options, Display, Aircraft (tab). I don't remember the technical explanation but it's a known issue and I believe caused by texture conflict (addon scenery vs AI aircraft)George.

Yes, I use Bojote's Shader 3.0.......could that be the culprit? I have a GTX 260 video card so may not see any performance/visual impact if I disable and revert to Shader 2.0. What should I do???@Ryan: It doesn't happen if I uncheck light bloom and keep ENB acive; sorry if I confused you. I see the performance impact of FSX native light bloom but I can still fly.

Thanks for the suggestion Ryan but the effect is not the same.....I've tried both but like the standard FSX bloom effect, now that I have the power the run it. Any further suggestions or is this just how it is? If so, I'll reluctantly use the ENB series bloom because the large sun at night coming from the core of the earth rather annoying.

Wondering if there's a fix/tweak or way to avoid this happening. I upgrade my PC to one with the power to handle FSX including light bloom fairly well (FPS in the low teens is okay for me) and smoothly. As the sun circles the globe, at night the sun creates this annoying bright light through the earth. Only happens when light bloom is selected.