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I wouldn't even listen to John Venema, as he's a self centered ignorant, and he doesn't even take his own product support seriously, or doesn't care. I bought their product (orbx England), it was ridded with bugs, and problems, and he wouldn't even acknowledge this, and his only support given to me was, disable all realism options in the FSX, and wait patiently few months for updates. How come I buy a product, and then have to wait few months (this is how long it took to fix it), until I can actually use it. He also banned me from his forums, for my complaints that he (or his support) wouldn't respond to my posts for several weeks at all. He hired brand new (newbs) team of devs to create ORBX England, and then he said it's the same quality as their demo product, which is of the highest quality they have on offer. It clearly wasn't, what was also confirmed by various customer reviews. Since then I moved on to X-Plane in 100%, despite having a collection of payware for FSX worth more than £2000. All I can say is that I completely disagree with John V. as X-Plane is not only the future of flight simulation, but on modern hardware it's also faster, better looking, and a lot more professional than FSX, plus it's developer stable. FSX with ORBX all maxed out only plays at 25fps on dedicated PC with [email protected], 16G Mem@2133MHz, GTX 760 2GB Card, with 4 SSD drives for OS, FSX separately, ONLY when flying default Cessna. Put PMDG 737 on it, and it crawls down to 2-5 FPS. Another thing is that FSX doesn't even use GFX much, it's 90% CPU bound, so it only confirms how little he (JV) knows about the platform itself. Everybody knows that data streaming for terrain, autogen and AI is what eats FSX CPU. Maybe what he uses is plain ORBX, no autogen, no AI, and he just flies himself, all alone, in Cessna. I believe this could give him stable 30fps. X-Plane is 100% tunable, with plenty of options to make it a smooth experience. I fly on the hardware as above, with smooth 50-60fps (monitor rate), at high settings with plenty of ground movement, HD meshes, ATC, AI, and high quality aircrafts. P3D is not an option to anybody but actual pilot students, and pilots/instructors, so I would ignore it as a product completely, until such time LM decides to change their policy. I believe his(JVs) remarks regarding the X-Plane could also be due to the fact that there already is a superb product for X-Plane which would make orbx insignificant, as it's free (donationware if you can), and of top quality - alpilotx's HD meshes, trees, and pro scenery. Now we also see superb planes of the PMDG quality being released for X-Plane, and this only confirms that the X-Plane market only grows bigger, and better.

Well, it should be called pre-alpha then, judging by the number of issues people have with it. I'm still flying on plain NGX with no hot-fixes, and it seems to be quite fine for me.

Shame I can't buy it for now, due to store not working.

Rubbish. Piracy has very little to do with this. It's quality of the software and problems people have with legit copies. People have learned, to wait, and check what's the quality of the product, what problems they may have, etc... Most of them also know that pirated software often hides viruses too.Nobody rushes anymore - (well, apart from ######), to buy every new product that comes out - most often rushed by the need to get the investment back ASAP, which most often turns out to be a catastrophic failure. The argument that they found a copy on the torrent and closed down business, is crap, as it's the cheapest of excuses these days. Poor management and very low quality is the cause. And what, did they close? poor gossip... so what? they could have reported links to site admins and they would be gone in minutes. Also did they count downloads, and how much was lost, vs how much did they sell? What was the ratio, or was it another speculation? One torrent site doesn't drive the whole world. Again, **... they closed down Aces because it was going the wrong way, and they lost on sales. Aces studio were repeating the same mistakes over and over again in every iteration of the product. FSX was plain FS9 + nice shaders and 15 years of legacy that is still killing even high performance machines. Microsoft was fed up with the bad image and complains. They want to rebuild it with Flight - by doing most of the coding from scratch. Read real statistics and some very good mathematical explanations to the real loss of business. Piracy is only poor excuse to bad quality, lack of support and ridiculously high prices. In my opinion, good product is worth high price, as in case of NGX, but majority of add-ons for FSX are not worth the penny, even those from major players on the sim market. They keep rushing, and focusing on wrong areas, and support is bad to almost non-existant. E.g. Wilco doesn't support 64-bits, Aerosoft doesn't care beyond sale point, Captain Sim will spam you with issues on your side, never theirs, Carenado only does good visuals, doesn't care about the rest much, etc...

And multitude of those like you, complaining about others spamming. You're no better.

Yes, you do, I always take my birthday off, after all it's just once a year. NGX wont escape. Happy birthday, and all the best.

That's rubbish - I wonder who could have misused wikipedia like that. Wikipedia is a place for "facts", not speculations or hopes. Whoever did this should read the policy on wikipedia site, and punish himself.

This is where all the "stuff" flushed down the toilet is being released - in the air of course... to make things more colorfull.

It's an absoulte OT of this forum anyway, so what's the big deal. In general, this whole thread is pointless. All FSX add-ons are only virtual anyway (data only), so what's the big deal with retiring? Are you all running out of disk space or what?

This is absolutely standard and most basic way to handle input devices like joy/mice, almost every game does it this way.

It's most likely caused by the drivers of your graphics card/sound card, or temp too high, CPU crash would probably cause BSOD or hung your PC. I suggest to check the latest drivers. Sometimes it's good to downgrade to most stable ones - check forums.As for GFX, if it's OC'd, de-OC it, and try again. Check temperatures, which should be < 100 deg C on avg. - you can use GPU-Z, or other tool. Try to reset all GFX settings in the NVIDIA control panel to defaults. Do the same for Sound Card.Also, sometimes in your crash dialog, you'll get dropdown box with details of the crashing module. Check what's the module name, and post it. Get 3D Mark, and run some serious tests, to check if the system is stable in general. If it crashes, then you need to dig deeper. In the Event Viewer, look for errors and warnings coming from either Service control manager (SCM) or system/kernel, which would detail what happened.Add-On sceneries usually cause massive load of textures, make sure that you have SP1 and SP2/Acceleration installed, especially if textures are DX10 compatible. You may need to apply [GRAPHICS]HIMEMFIX=1 in your fsx config to get issues with new GFXes and the way they handle texture addressing on card with lots of memory, sorted out. Next, turn of DX10 preview if it's enabled.Cheers

PMDG Team's ?

At last, some sarcasm here...

Remember guys that "going for the biggest bang" with top notch CPU and overclocking it, sometimes also increasing voltage, all requires power, which is not free, and if you're from USA, you're already a biggest contributor to the pollution of the environment. Seriously, high end PCs take anything from 650 - 1200 W, which is half of the power used by typical oven, or washing machine.Why not go for what you need rather than what's the best you can get ? Save environment people. Same note to all devs - more optimised code, saves environment.

I took part in that Open-Beta testing, and was happy to report minor issues back to the team, and even though it was still Debug version, which was slower than release one, it was great to see that it already worked nice on my spec. The actual release product was performing much faster.I think that it wouldn't work with PMDG though, as performance doesn't seem to be a major concern here. The actual functionality of the product, requires certain knowledge that only few has, making whole exercise worthless, and probably too expensive. People would start asking questions like, how do I start the engine, or can't start APU, or why I can't see cabin... etc...