LouP

Auto FPS or something similar?

For those of you that just can't take it anymore or are worried about them having us over a barrel, I saw that xplane is getting (or already has) photogrammetry. Maybe a little relief to know there could be an alternative if things get worse. LouP

I think they are making us install a new xbox app. Thanks for the warning Joe! LouP

Wasn't there a Carenado something due out? Is this what we got instead? LouP

Just re-installed windows and msfs2020 on a new PC, threw out my rtx4090, bought a new monitor, drank a case of beer. Have I over-reacted?! LouP

Don't fall into this bottleneck cr&*. We are not trying to race our systems for the best numbers out there but simply want a better running sim. There's always a "bottleneck" somewhere! I had the exact same CPU as you and went from a gtx1080 to a rtx2080ti and finally to a rtx4080 super and each jump I saw a smoother running sim. I'm sure I was "bottlenecked" but who gives a rats a#$. The simulator ran better with each jump which is all I cared about. I finally just broke down and got myself a Ryzen 7800 x3d. Main reason being that I just dropped a boatload on a Pimax Crystal light and wanted the CPU boost for that. The 8700K is one hell of a chip and was running fine right up to the point I upgraded. I think the next GPU jump would have done her in and to be honest, I did not see the same jump in performance going to the new CPU that I saw when I went to the 4080. Lastly, consider how close we are to the next generation of video cards (not saying don't do it). LouP

Question, what prevents MS from using the latest Bing maps in the first place? Thanks, LouP

Just turning on HAGS produced amazing results for me. LouP

Anyone know if any of the new ships have hard decks for helo ops? LouP

Including terrain masks? Because the information in the install dowload specifically says that the terrain masks are incompatible with DX12. LouP

Just read that the Bijan textures are not compatible with DX12. Anyone know of an update coming? LouP

I have my ship traffic up to 100% and it doesn't seem overkill at all. LouP

OK, thanks. Fianlly getting back tp this now lol. LouP

Hi Damien, Thanks for getting back to me. I was finally able to get to my page at Sim Market and I could not believe the download link was still active so I downloaded another copy of AS 6.5 that I had purchased. I was also surprised as I did not see any keys associated with my install and it looks like it just installs without any security codes. However, I stopped the install process because at one point I started getting all these warnings about AS messing up FSX if you try and use it there. While I only intend to use this for FS9, my FSX install is on the same machine (different drive though) and I became worried that it would somehow mess that up. This is a Win 7 64 machine and my FSX in on my I: drive and FS9 is on my L: drive. Are the warnings making me worry for no reason? I would hate to mess up my FSX install but I would love to get AS working for FS9 again. Let me know if you need or want me to send you a copy of my invoice from Sim Market or anything. Thank you,Louis Parente (LouP)

Hi, I purchased Active Sky 6.5 a while ago from Sim Market (ORDER Number: [Removed for privacy]). I finally got fs2004 up and running on my windows 7 64 machine and I can not seem to run Active Sky as it says it is unregistered (of course, it's a new PC). My e-mail from Sim Market from when I purchased the product has a link to a page that is supposed to have all my details but I can't seem to access that page. So I guess I have two questions, First, does AS 6.5 even work with W7 and if not, is there a free upgrade to a version that will. I am not looking to use this with my FSX install, just FS2004 as I always did previously. Thank you,LouP