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  1. I agree, I have justFlight and the Horizon scenery and there is no comparison. Horizon is so much better.
  2. I use the FSX Learjet 45 with this panel add-on http://www.friendlypanels.com/htm/lear.htm
  3. The limited space was a bit of an issue as I only created a 1gig ramdisk to leave 3 gig for FSX but managed to pack enough WOAI into that space to give plenty of traffic.I have no "data restoring hassle" as the ramdisk program automatically backs it up on shutdown as restores it at startup. There is also no problem with cpu loading increase as fetching AI from RAM has less load on the CPU than getting it from SSD via a Disk Controller. My main disk is a hardware raid and is pretty fast so I have no issues with loading scenery. What was annoying me was the stuttering when AI came into range. Loading this from Ramdisk has completely eliminated the stutters.I'm not saying that this is the best way to fix it but if you don't have a SSD drive and are getting AI stutters then its worth giving it a try.
  4. As I don't have a SSD I'm not sure. All I can say is that since creating and moving the AI Aircraft to the ramdrive I have not had any stutters.
  5. Thanks *******, Can I just install this over the previous version ?
  6. Just tried it and it works fine for me
  7. Thanks, Gives the same smoothness as FPSLimiter on my system but will switch back to FPSLimiter as I miss the ENB series bloom effect.
  8. No, Would like to but I only have 4 GIG of memory so to increase my RamDisk more than its current size to fit them all in would limit the memory available to FSX and cause other problems.Would be great to hear from someone with more ram who could try it with all simobjects.Note: I have also disabled cars and boats
  9. This was not a problem with WOAI, it was with any AI package. 99.9% of the time I got no stutters but occasionally I was getting a stutter and noticed that this did not occur with all AI set to Zero. Limiting my AI by only using AI from areas that I fly ( Europe ) and putting them on the Ramdisk completely eliminated the stutters. I suspect most people would not be too bothered at these rare stutters but they annoyed the hell out of me :)
  10. My understanding of a disk cache is that it is only beneficial if the application repeatably loads the same data from the Hard Disk. In the case of FSX I would have thought that the majority of data loaded from disk would be scenery files that get loaded as you fly rather than the same files repeatedly loaded. I wouldn't be surprised if running Supercache with FSX actually makes it worse.Will be great if your going to try it. Please let us know the results.
  11. Thanks Luis,Great article on the use of RamDisks. Also mentions a free alternative to "Superspeed Ramdisk Plus" called "Gavotte RAM Disk 1.04". Wish I had heard of this free one before I started this :)CheersDave
  12. 1) No, the RamDisk software I am using backs the files up to the hard drive when windows shutsdown and puts them back again when I restart windows.2) I am building a Lear45 Simulator so I don't fly any other aircraft. But if I wanted to I would then put the files for that aircraft onto the ramdisk.3) I put the Lear45 on there too as it keeps the FSX.CFG changes simpler.4) No, I am only using my ramdisk for this purpose. I would really need to increase my memory to 8gig before trying this with other FSX files as you need to leave enough memory for FSX to run efficiently.
  13. I made a comment in Bojote's thread "Automated Tweaking and Tuning tool for FSX" regarding the use of a RamDisk to reduce stutters caused when AI aircraft get loaded..There was some interest shown so rather than hijack Bojote's thread I thought it best to start a new one to give those interested some more info.First to save any confusion I would like to point out that when I refer to RamDisk I am not talking about a SSD Drive but instead a virtual drive that is created in the computers memory ( RAM ).I would not suggest that you try this without first making backups of your fsx.cfg and also your SimObjects\Airplanes folder or if you have less than 4gig of ram.Note that this will only prevent stutters from AI loading so if you are getting them for other reasons it will probably make little difference.Before using this make sure your fsx setup is as optimized as possible and I suggest that you check out Bojote's excellent Automated Tweaking and Tuning tool and also his shader3.0 mod utility. ( all info for these on AVSIM ).The size of the RamDisk you create will determine the amount of AI aircraft you can use but you need to keep at least 3 GIG or ram available for FSX.Here is what I did:-First of all you need to decide what AI you want.I have limited myself to Europe so I installed the WOAI ( World of AI ) packages for the Unighted Kingdon, Germany and France. This installed around 800megabytes of AI aircraft.I created a 850Megabyte Virtual Hard Disk in ram using Superspeed RamDisk Plus . Im sure there are others that do the same thing but this worked in 64bit windows 7 and is dead easy to use.On the RamDisk I then created an Airplanes folder.I then copied the WOAI aircraft files from the FSX SimObjects\Airplanes folder to my ramdisk Airplanes folder.You then need to copy the folder for the aircraft that you will be flying to the ramdisk Airplanes folder. In my case this was the Lear45 Folder.I then modified my FSX.CFG file so SimObjectPaths.0 pointed to my ramdisk Airplanes folder instead of the SimObjects\Airplanes folder. My entry was as follows: SimObjectPaths.0=D:\AirplanesI also set AirlineDensity=50Thats it. Will be interesting to know if others find this improves their AI loading stutters too.I did some speed tests on the ramdisk and the read speed was 4772 MB/s so pretty fast :)
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