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I appreciate your feedback, Zylx. Thank you.

- Higher weather settings like cloud coverage and cloud distance used to cause me issues. - Certain water settings was a big issue for me with flashing. I would experiment with different settings. - Orbx HR buildings cause turn stutters for me during turns, but as a rule Orbx scenery works perfectly for me. - High traffic settings around big airports might do that as well. It might be fun to set the simulator to the lowest possible settings and notch up 1 setting per session to find the sweet spot (using the same location and the same airplane). I did that once as a test to simulate FS-9 settings.

I'm not running FSX/A gold in any compatibility mode myself. I'm only checking run as administrator. No issues with any payware except A2A and simconnect.

Some more of my settings. ------------- [GRAPHICS] HIGHMEMFIX=1 ALLOW_SHADER_30=1 STALE_BUFFER_THRESHOLD=1024 // Valid values are 5-1024 ------------ [Display] TextureMaxLoad=12 //trying to eliminate black terrain squares ---------------- [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=14 ---------------- AirlineDensity=20 GADensity=10 FreewayDensity=2 ShipsAndFerriesDensity=10 LeisureBoatsDensity=5 IFROnly=0 AIRPORT_SCENERY_DENSITY=2 <MyTrafficPro 6> --------------------------------- [SCENERY] LENSFLARE=0 DAWN_DUSK_SMOOTHING=1 IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=3 //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=5 Extremely Dense //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=4 Very Dense //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=3 = Dense //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=2 Normal //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=1 Sparse //IMAGE_COMPLEXITY=0 Very Sparse ----------------------------------------- [TERRAIN] LOD_RADIUS=4.500000 //LOD_RADIUS=4.5 //higher settings less scenery popping MESH_COMPLEXITY=100 MESH_RESOLUTION=23 TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=29 AUTOGEN_DENSITY=2 DETAIL_TEXTURE=1 WATER_EFFECTS=4 --------------------- I'm not an expert, it's all trial and error I've used over the years past. I'm playing FSX/A on Windows 11 64 bit, and I'm using the big box FSX/A Gold edition. People can argue about tweaks all they want, means nothing to me. The goal is to make whichever owned game to work without too much issue.

Not an expert but I can post what information I have. ============ [BUFFERPOOLS] //UsePools=0 UsePools=1 Poolsize=8388608 //1000, 4000, 8388608 (NickN), 15000000, 100000000, 200000000, 850000000 RejectThreshold=126976, // 512K=524288, 256K=262144, 124K=126976 (NickN), 96K=98304 //UsePools 0 should make FSX work better if the graphics card is higher end //If the CPU is stronger than the GPU, such as a 4.5-gig CPU feeding a 560TI with only a gig of video //ram - we will definitely need UsePools =1, but with a bigger RT, say 1MB (10485760). //If you get constant white or blue 'box' visual glitches and you are sure //you have HIGHMEMFIX=1 in the config, then raise to:RejectThreshold=262144

On my W11 computer, FSX/A struggles with VAS. Also, (for me) huge issues with simconnect. If I had the energy I would dump W11 immediately.

In my previous iteration of FSX/A (Windows 7 64) the radio towers were much too high, reaching towards the sky. Someone had fixed that and made the fix freely available for download. I had the file on my previous computer, but can no longer find it. Perhaps someone has the file or the download link. Thank you

a2a stable of airplanes refuse to accept my simconnect versions, or perhaps I should say sometimes they work, but mostly not. These are the freely downloadable simconnect versions available to everyone. I have all of the simconnect versions. I'd like to say I downloaded all from Just Flight recently, but I already had every one of the files. It's only a2a planes. No joy at a2a forums, I'm told it's my fault for still using FSX/A. That may or may not be since I'm now using Windows 11, but that's now how I purchased the planes. These planes worked perfectly with FSX/A when I was using Windows 7 64. I don't have the time to invest in another (newer) simulation, so that's not an option.

Apply the W7 version, run as administrator, W7 compatibility setting, initial testing positive.

Windows 11 - FSX/A Can not get auto thumbnail to work. Installs correctly, have the original and the latest update that purportedly works on W7 and above. Have installed it many times but never on W11, am experienced FSX user. Hopefully I overlooked something simple and someone can offer advice, thank you.

thank you, Ray

Considering a move to P3D, but their website only sells v.6. However, I may be wrong. How does a home user purchase and download specific versions of P3D?

RIP Claude, my uncle was a MM Master and bar pilot for many, many years. They are a different breed.

Here's my solution. I've been on board eliminating tweaks in the configuration file, thinking less is more. However, with my new more powerful computer I've been CTD with my stable of A2A airplanes. With my old Windows 7 rig I never had this issue, so I tried reverting to some settings that I used with Windows 7. Adding this tweak back in to my configuration fixed the A2A airplane CTD problem. No idea why it works. [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=14

I'm on a new computer with Windows 11, a new video card and the updated CPU. I had much better success with Windows 7 even with the less powerful CPU and video. I'm not flying FSX Gold with drastically increased settings, in fact I struggle using the same settings with the A2A stable of planes, and 1 specific Carenado plane (D18S). I wonder if the Steam memory management would address this situation to a more positive experience. I've also made an attempt to uninstall many W11 apps and tried to reduce the overhead, whatever that is. Maybe I'm not managing W11 correctly enough for FSX/Gold. Opinion welcome.