AJT1967

Hi community, Firstly, I am not trying to pan Aerosoft, nor am I trying to start any flame wars on this forum, I just really have a single basic question. I do not have the most powerful computer; I have an i5 with 8Gb RAM, a 250Gb SSD, and a 660Ti video card. I am not in a position at the moment where I can upgrade unfortunately. I just want to know if Aerosoft scenery is any harder on a computer than any other freeware / payware out there? I tend to fly a lot of short regional flights in Europe, but at quite a few of the AS airports, I seem to get low frames on final approach. I've tweaked and tweaked lots of things, but I get a feeling that there is just a very high level of detail in the AS sceneries. I mostly fly between the UK, France, Germany, Austria etc, and I will be tracking down some freeware airports such as De Gaulle. I also recall reading once that the default scenery for France in FSX was frame hungry, but I cannot recall why exactly. I use FTX Global, and REX Overdrive only. Appreciate some opinions. Many thanks, Andrew.

Hi community, Recently, I have had something very unusual happen with FSX on my computer. A couple of nights ago, I reinstalled FSX for probably the fifth or sixth time this year. Over that time, I have also installed a stack of add-ons, as I have been a tester at times. I completed a fresh install of FSX and acceleration two nights ago. When I ran the sim, all seemed to be fine, then about 2 minutes in, things started to lock up, frame rates dropped to about 4fps, and it dropped out to a black screen. There was a message in the system event logs relating to an NV7 failure. I do not have the log now because I'm at work. The thing is, I've never overclocked my card or my CPU, and Nhancer claims that the temperature of the card is sitting at around 30 degrees Celsius. My case was a little dusty, but I've vacuumed that out, and I brought the card into work today to clean. When I googled the error message, somebody on a forum stated that this was a driver issue, and that they had to reinstall Windows. I have to admit that after so many changes to my system, my Windows 7 is *probably* a bit of a mess. So, has anybody else on these forums ever had a similar error? My card is reasonably clean, and my computer has a 680 watt PSU to drive it. SPECS: i5 3760k not overclocked (Haswell) ASrock H55m Mobo 8Gb RAM 1x128Gb SSD (OS) 1x128Gb SSD (For FSX) 1x 4Tb WD Caviar Black GeForce 660Ti 2Gb Many thanks, Andrew.

Hi community, I'm hoping to get a few pointers on what scenery to load for my next iteration of FSX please. Unfortunately, my sim recently crashed, and I was planning a reinstall anyway. But I'm especially looking for advice in this case, should anybody care to advise me as to what is the best items to purchase. First off, I am somewhat limited in the amount of free time I get to fly my sim; usually only about twice per week. Within that, I am confined to flights that max out at about 2 hours or so. So, I have decided upon my next lot of regions that I want to fly, but I would like some recommendations on which sceneries to use please. Firstly, and no disresect intended, I do not wish to user either FTX Global, Global Vector, or Landclass, as they tend not to play very well with my somewhat limited system. In Europe I tended to get black patches everywhere. So, I am currently looking for good landclass / textures / scenery (the airports can wait) for: Alaska Japan Thailand Those are the three sectors that I would like to fly next. Unfortunately so far, I have not been able to find realistic looking scenery for Thailand. So, if anybody has any experience with these areas or can make some suggestions, please do. Many thanks in advance to this great community. Andrew.

Ron, Your paints are absolutely first class I must say, well done! Strangely enough, after following these threads for the last couple of weeks, I've started to fly the Carenado A36 again. Currently loving it with the updates, and think I'll use this as my single until the new Socata TB20 gets released in a few weeks by Justflight. I have a special connection with the Socata's; I did most of my hours on them. Can't believe it's taken so many years for a payware one to be released though. All the best, Andrew.

Very nice paint Ron, but I recently removed the aircraft from my sim. I quite often go through stages of changing things; at the moment I'm more into the tubeliners, flying out of London City airport. In about six months, I will probably do the big re-format again, and do some more GA. Now if only I could have suitable ATC for the UK, and scenery that doesn't drag my computer to it's knees.....but then we can all dream, can't we? LOL. Cheers, Andrew.

Hi community, In recent times, I've noticed that with my FSX install (to it's own dedicated SSD) it reaches a point of around 60-70% full where my frame rates really start to suffer. At this time, I cannot afford to upgrade my system, so I've decided to effectively change the way I fly. Usually, I do fresh installs based around different world regions. Currently I have most of my scenery set up for the U.K and Western Europe, and I do relatively short flights in 737 and Avro RJ type aircraft. Today, I intend to modify my sim. I'm going to remove most of my large payware airports, as well as my airliners, and concentrate on exploring small airfields in the United Kingdom, mostly using GA types. I'm assuming that if I do this (with a new FSX config) I might get some acceptable frame rates back, which leads me to my original question: I know that the ai traffic makes a big hit on frames, and currently I am running MyTraffic 2013. I must admit that I have mainly run with defaults, and not got to know the program so well. So, can somebody tell me please if it's possible to use the program to run only GA traffic please? If possible, I would like all of the airliners and "fast movers" to be gone. I know that this may detract from realism, but I just want to practice my GA stuff, that's all. Also, I recall seeing a graphic in the past; it displayed an FSX world scenery "grid". I would like to find this again so that I can disable areas I will not be flying into. Can anybody help with this too? Many thanks, Andrew.

Hi community, I need some advice please on new hardware. Please note that I do not want to overclock, I just need to know if I have any other options outside of my planned ugrade. I have not kept up with hardware development. Currently I am running an Intel i5 3570k Ivy Bridge at 3.4Ghz, with 8Gb RAM, a Geforce 660ti Video card, a 128Gb SSD for the sim, and Windows 7 64-bit. At the moment, frame rates at 1920x1080 on my Samsung 27" monitor are nearly perfect, but I still get some lag with texture loading despite the fact that I have optimised my sim. As I see it, my only true option for an upgrade will be to buy a new motherboard, and an Intel i7 4790k Devils Canyon @ 4.00Ghz. Is this my only option? Or are there any slightly cheaper CPU on the way that will give me a slight frame rate boost? The 4790k is an expensive option for me. I appreciate any and all advice. Many thanks, AJ.

Hi Chris, Thanks for the explanation. So, if I am interpreting the information correctly, given that I only fly short commuter type flights from the UK to Europe and USSR, I should only leave horizontal grids 5,6, and 7, and vertical grids 0,1, and 2 active. Does that sound correct? I have already excluded Asia etc. Thanks, AJ.

memorgan, Thanks for the advice, but it did not work. Think I have a dud; the stick is only about a month old. Did some tests, and at a central point with no pressure, the aircraft tracks right in the X axis at about 1 degree every five seconds. Also, the latest Saitek drivers cause a hardware bang in my device manager. Tried over and over again to calibrate, same issue every time. Even changed my settings to easy, same result. The sad thing for me is that last year on Youtube there was a video explaining how you can set deadzones in the controller to avoid exactly this problem. Might have to avoid Saitek hardware now, seems their quality control has declined.

Hi community, Hoping that somebody can help me with an issue with my new X52 in FSX. At first glance, it would appear that the joystick is not calibrated correctly, but I have been through the calibration process many times, and in Windows 7 64-bit, everything with the controller appears to be fine. There is no spiking or anything like that. The problem is, within the sim, ANY aircraft will gradually roll to the right. The angle of bank is so small that one has to zoom in to the AH to actually see the problem. It's getting rather annoying now. Last night after a takeoff my aircraft had drifted nearly thirty degrees to the right. I have modified all of the difficulty settings in the sim as well; even setting everything to easy. My X52 is currently connected to a USB3 port on my system, I've read that this can cause problems, but nothing like what I have. All of the LEDs are active on the device, so it's getting power. The only thing I can think of trying now is to modify the deadzones, but I don't fully know how to do this. I assume that if you "open up" a deadzone within one of the joystick coordinates that the areas within that deadzone will be ignored, is this correct? Last night I opened this up and modified the X coordinate, but the problem still occurred. Problem is also there with or without the Saitek software installed. Perhaps I just have a flaky joystick. Can anybody offer any suggestions please? Many thanks, Andrew.

Fisheye; Once again thanks for all of your help. One thing that I'm happy about is that when I start to create my new profiles (Eg: VFR UK) it will give me the ability to disable IFR traffic but keep VFR traffic. This is awesome. The only thing I do not know (and I will contact the author) is whether I can disable the GSX couatl application when I'm flying GA. After all, how many Cessna's need a pushback? Many thanks again, Andrew.

Hi Fisheye, Thanks for your explanation. You may be able to add a little more for me regarding what I need to know though. I will try to explain it as best I can. I'm an IT tech, so as far as I know, I've got my somewhat limited PC tweaked pretty good for FSX. What I do know is that some people set up individual profiles for IFR and for VFR. My original question that Capt Speirs answered was related to me hangaring the aircraft I usually use for VFR, when I'm flying IFR, and whether I can also hangar repaints that I'm not using. The application looks good to me in the sense that I can disable scenery very quickly that I'm not using. If this is the case, it SHOULD in theory affect the performance of FSX for the better. But yes, I will contact the vendor, but it is also nice to hear others views of a product. Many thanks once again, Andrew.

So, I watched the video about SIMStarter, and if my interpretation is correct, you can set up multiple profiles for FSX to suit either VFR or IFR type flights, I understand that. As well as this, you can "hangar" aircraft that you may not necessarily use for a type of flight. So in VFR, I could hangar my BaE146 and all variations to improve performance, is this correct? Also, if I fly from say, England to Germany, I can also exclude scenery such as Scandinavia, to once again improve performance? Please advise if this is the case, and I will probably download today. Thanks again, Andrew.

I think what would really add to the sim as well is some additional payware mission sets, but ones that contain many variations, and you do not have to fly them for too long a time (Which was one of Dougals original points - the free time he has available to him). When M$ made the original missions in FSX and acceleration for example, I found a lot of the aircraft types inappropriate for given mission. For example, after working for Bristow, I find it very unlikely that anybody would attempt to conduct SAR in a Jetranger. Interesting post guys. :-)

To add to my last: I forgot to say, prior to any reinstall that I do, I spend some serious time thinking about which add ons I am going to install next. And I am always realistic about it in regards to the limited power of my current PC. I strongly disagree with Pilottj; I never find my regional flights boring, no matter how it may sound. Currently I have five aircraft and two helos installed, and lots of high quality scenery for Europe, and I'm using 69.9GB of my current 128Gb SSD. Last week I also purchased and installed Aerosoft night texture for UK. This has been a game changer for me. I've put some comments and some screenshots in the appropriate forums here at Avsim. Just because I keep my FSX realistic does not mean that I make it boring or repetitive. I refuse to install military jets, as I can do nothing with them, and besides which I cannot get adequate frames for high speed operations. Although at one stage in the past I had the Skysim Hawk installed, and I flew the entire RAF Nav syllabus. To finalize, I also found out a couple of weeks ago that Just Flight are going to release a payware version of the Socata TB20. This is what I've been waiting for. Most of my real time flying was logged in this model of aircraft, and it is well worthy of a good DX10 representation in FSX. Guess I take my FSX a little seriously because of the realization that now, at 48 with a wife and three daughters, I probably won't get the opportunity to fly the real thing any more.