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I honestly dont know if there is any $$ given to MS to have program run on its OS (win 7, etc) but the way I was thinking of FSX or any MS Flight sim is as it were just like a console (xbox, ps3, etc), it is their property and 3rd party developers are making money using said property... Kinda the way I went at it and from what it sounds like its also the way MS sees it now... Too bad it's prbly too littly too late for them... on other news, Aerosoft announced full support of XP10. I'm very excited to see that platform really make some progress this and in the coming years!I also was looking to buy that aerofly FS but can't seem to find it in their US store... anyone provide link?, thx

This kind of thinking is what will hinder any future success in this genre!Guys that might be how construction and other types of business works but you have to realize MS is also in the console business where they get royalties from EVERYTHING that comes and goes through the xbox. Sony is the same with ps3, Nintendo, etc... even STEAM gets royalties obviously for products sold but also on DLC for products offered. Welcome to the age of software entertainment... it's not the same as your basement!

I kinda see the point the OP is trying to get at...and in a way sort of make sense but it's a double edged sword. I'm pretty sure if devs had to pay MS some type of royalties for FSX, it prbly wouldn't be around today.... At the same time if devs had been paying royalties to MS then we'd prbly have a new full fledged flight sim by now but with less addons... Idk which side to take because I can understand both of them...There's + and - to both sides but now that I think about it I would rather have the latter and at this time be exeriencing the beta of a new full fledged flight sim. I personally would rather have a new flight sim every 4-5 years and new addons to boot with it! I think the problem lies with the community (as i've stated in a prev thread) and it's unwillingness to move on to new things. When fsx came out there was a huge uproar against fsx as in it's too early for a new sim and other BS that people that are part of this community post. I am not at all surprised MS is trying to break itself off from this community, can't seem to please you guys either way. If they bring a new game out it's why why why too soon I'm sticking with current fs, if they dont bring one out its waa waaa waa QQ MS is stupid for not continuing fs. It's a LOSE LOSE for MS either way with this community. What you guys need to realize is if you don't partner with MS in order to share profits then forget MSFS all together because it will become completey extinct!

Wow, people were ready to lynch this guy yet he was DEAD ON! Amazing!

Once again, sorry for my previous rant. I will give fsx one more shot before I give up completely on flight simming in general. Without turning this thread into a how to or help me can you pm me some sites that I can use to give this a fair try? My current specs are as follows... 2600k @ 4.6, 3x gtx 580s, win 7 64 bit, 2x 150gb ssd raid 0.... my fps should be great but last time I fired it up was same old BS over and over with huge dips into the teens at default ksea, let alone any addons.... see my frustration? I'm ready for a new sim... lol, just needs to get here!

I might be in the minority here but this: "As for Orbx FSX will remain our core platform for at least 5-10 years" as stated by the OP is super sad for me... I mean c'mon, what a slap in the face! and then /facepalm.There will never be any advances in this damn genre because Microsoft is stupid; Single developers too small to fund own sim; XPX Plane systems too simple... Are we serious here? Us simmers really have no where to turn? I wont be paying $500 for fsx 2.0! Maybe after I see the changes that dx11 will bring I will look into the $10/month thing. I feel like I'm at a dead end here. I haven't fired up FSX for prbly a year now, I have PNW by orbx and it's great but my fps is ###### and so I don't use it... I don't want to bash anything/anyone because I have lots of products for my fsx but I'm done and done with that sim, ready to move on but nowhere to go...Then I come on hear and read developers are preparing to stick to fsx and pr3d?!?!? I just wanna /wrist for ever joining this whole sim community thing!Boy oh boy am I ranting but I have never been so displeased or disapointed by a game/genre in my life! What a fail of a damn genre.... yuck! I apologize if it doesn't make sense to any of you... I'll shut up now and go back in my corner....side not: Aerosoft working on flight sim..... gonna go see if there's any updates...

Wow, thank you for your reply. I actually read back a couple of pages and copied and pasted one of your .ini files you posted for someone else. When I did that the qualitly was even worse. I'm going to read your description vary carefully and report back.. Thanks again!

Yes it does, i tried it and works brilliantly!

C'mon... lol 13 views and no one knows? btw anyone know if this mod works good with the enb series hdr effect?

Hello all!Ok, I just wrote a huge post begging for help and something happend and it was all erased... lol, so i'll make this quickspecs:i7 980x @ 4.5ghz12gig ram300 gig ssd3x gtx 28550mbit connectionk, used the quick setup tutorial guide http://www.edtruthan.com/tileproxy/tutorial/ and used the proxyuser.ini file in there to set me up. got everything working and all is well, except the texture resolutions are pretty low. here is my proxyuser.ini exactly:## Start a line with # to comment it out.# Turn your text editor's Word Wrapping OFF for editing this document.## Read the manual for help with configuration. Do not contact the# author about the configuration for particular services. Thank you.#[TileProxy]# Enable or disable worldwide photographic scenery coverage (Yes/True/On to enable)master_enable=On# Write a logfile to disk. In recommend to only turn this on for debugging purposes.# When using FSX RTM or FS 2004, the logfile will grow VERY fast and affect performance.#logfile="C:\logfile.txt"# If you have concerns about possible copyright violations by caching JPEG and BMP tiles# on your hard drive, this switch is the solution. By enabling diskless mode, Tileproxy# will not store a single tile on your hard drive. Expect higher network usage though.# Note that offline mode will depend on tiles being available in the cache.diskless_mode=Off# Offline Mode - No network access will occur (Yes/True/On to enable)offline_mode=No# Resolution limiter: 17 = 30cm/pixel, 16 = 60cm/pixel, 15 = 1.1m/pixel, 14 = 2.3m/pixel, 13 = 4.75m/pixel# Lower resolutions load faster, but are visually less appealing. The 30cm resolution may only be feasible# if you have at least 2GB of system memory.max_lod=15# The following two settings allow you to tune Tileproxy to not preload specific LOD levels. This can# be used in conjunction with third party scenery products like "FS Altitude" that provides data only# up to a specific resolution. If you place this scenery higher than Tileproxy's world folders in the# scenery library then it will have precedence over Tileproxy for the specific LOD levels that it# contains. You can then instruct Tileproxy to not preload these low resolution LOD circles because# they are not needed anyway.# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be lower than 8.preload_min_lod=9# Lowest LOD ring to automatically preload tiles for. Must not be higher than 17.preload_max_lod=15# The maximum number of tile contexts that Tileproxy will send to the filter driver. A context# is essentially a very fast buffer for graphics data sitting in kernel memory that delivers# data right into FSX. Each tile context can hold an entire LOD 8...15 tile. Higher values# mean more use of your precious kernel memory though. The maximum number is 512. Lower if# you run out of RAM during flight and the PC starts to use the paging file a lot.max_contexts=512# Generate Water Mask. This brings back shader-rendered water and allows# for the use of planes with floats (Goose, Beaver, etc...). If you turn this# option off, you get the Tileproxy behavior of Beta 5 and earlier versions.water_mask=On# Recommendation: FSX users: Use water_blending=on, water_smoothing=off# to get soft land/water transitions## FS9 users: Use water_blending=off, water_smoothing=on# to get hard land/water transitions which# Tileproxy tries to match pixel-exact against coast-lines## Combining water_smoothing and water_blending is discouraged.# It's slow and gives weird results.# Use blending techniques to create a soft land/water transition with some# transparency effect near the shoreline. Compatible with FSX only.water_blending=On# The distance in meters that you want land/water blending to extend from the# shore line. Larger values require more processing. Large values are now possible,# useful values are up to 2000 meters. Very high values may be detrimental to water# mask resolution. Loading speed however remains mostly unaffected by this setting.blend_distance=500.0# The rate at which terrain is blended into the water color. 1.0 means a linear# blending, values > 1.0 blend faster. Values < 1.0 blend slower. This works# similarly to a Gamma Curve. An exponent of 2 gives a quadratic blend function,# an exponent of 0.5 results in a square root behavior.blend_exponent=1.0# The minimal and maximal transparency of the water. The lower you choose the min value,# the more reflective the deep water will be. The higher the max value is chosen, the less# reflective the water will be directly at the shore line. The reflectiveness transitions# linearly from max to min throughout the distance given by blend_distance from the shore.# Allowed values are between 0 and 1, and alpha_min should be smaller than alpha_max or# things may look weird.# The following alpha_min values will not give you any dithering artifacts on all-water tiles,# so the use of these is recommended. It is multiples of 16/239 (rounded up slighty)# 0.0700, 0.1339, 0.2009, 0.2678, 0.3348, 0.4017, 0.4687# 0.5356, 0.6026, 0.6695, 0.7365, 0.8034, 0.8703, 0.9373alpha_min=0.2678alpha_max=0.7# The water color in hexadecimal RGB notation. Prefix with #. This should be blue# or greenish blue or some shades of brown, depending on your preference.# Values of #000000 are discouraged when using water blending - it will result# in weird behavior at the shorelines.water_rgb=#000D1A# Try to smooth land/water boundaries by trying to match the water mask to the image content.# This is a a somewhat experimental algorithm.water_smoothing=Off# The decision threshold for water/land when water_smoothing is enabled. 0 means everything# will be turned to land, 1 means everything turns to water. Chose some value inbetween.water_threshold=0.33# Maximum number of bytes allocated to BMP graphics tiles in RAM at any time (0 for unlimited)# The value below states 100 MB.cache_bytes_limit=100000000# Maximum number of BMP tiles to cache in RAM at any time (0 for no limit).cache_tiles_limit=100000# The currently active service is configured here. Only ONE active source please.# The other source statements should be commented out.#source=Acme Globe Service#source=Service Example 1source=Service Example 3#source=Service Example 4# The sources you want to be able to switch from the GUI menu.# Separate the list entries with | and enclose in quotes. Make sure the# names specified here are valid services which are defined below.# You may want to rename the services according to your preference,# but make sure you replace all occurences of the strings.menu_sources="Service Example 1|Service Example 2|Service Example 3|Service Example 4"# Experimental API Hooking section. Disable if you see strange crashes and effects.# Currently we only have the DirectX 9 hook. More hooks are planned.enable_hooking=No# The DirectX 9 hook enables the moving map overlay. More features are planned.enable_dx9hook=No# A flag whether to show the moving map overlay initially or not.enable_movingmap=No# Dimensions and overlay colors of the moving map. Positions are percentages of the screen.# Width and Height refer to the full 512x512 pixel texture used for the map. To get a round# map circle, the ratio of width and height should match your screen's aspect ratio (e.g. 4:3)# Radius is given in the map texture's pixels where one pixel represents a LOD 15 tile. A# radius of 0 disables the round stencil and shows the entire 512x512 texture. Color is given# in a hexadecimal ARGB notation. movingmap_alpha=255movingmap_color=#ff000000movingmap_xpos=88movingmap_ypos=15movingmap_width=60movingmap_height=80movingmap_radius=60## Here begin the service specific configurations## This is new when you specify captcha_module## On encountering HTTP 302 redirects the captcha module will send Internet Explorer's cookies# stored for the specified service domain to the web server. It will also display whatever web# page the service redirects you to. This could be a page requiring you to enter a so-called# captcha. After entering the captcha correctly, the resulting session cookie will be stored as# a permanent cookie (expiration 1 day) in your IE Cookies folder and sent to the service on# subsequent requests. You will then be able to use the service as long as you wish, given that# you correctly enter the captcha dialog which may nag you once every 20 minutes or so.# # Explaining the captcha_config arguments:## cookiedomain from captcha_config specifies the domain name for which cookies are stored.# This might be the service name plus a top level domain like ".com"## cookieurl specifies a HTTP url from which an identifying cookie will be retrieved first, if# no existing identifying cookie is found. This may be required sometimes to make the captcha# dialog appear in the first place. This could be the service's front page URL (e.g. a search# engine)[Acme Globe Service]cache_folder=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.acmenetwork_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://server*.acmeglobe.com|path=/terraintile?pos=%s&v=%v|quad=ABCD|balance=0123|agent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; The TileProxy Project)"captcha_module=captchaformcaptcha_config="cookiedomain=acmeglobe.com|cookieurl=http://www.acmeglobe.com"min_level=9max_level=17map_version=1color_hack=Nocolor_level=0bulk_extend=25[service Example 1]cache_folder=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.service1network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://a*.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.net|path=/tiles/a%s.jpeg?g=%v|quad=0123|balance=0123|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=9max_level=17map_version=330level_mapping=9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19#level_mapping=9,10,11,12,14,14,15,16,17,18,19 more radius HQ (13->14)#level_mapping=9,10,11,14,14,14,15,16,17,18,19 even more radius in HQ (12,13->14)color_hack=Yescolor_level=13bulk_extend=50[service Example 3]cache_folder=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.service3network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://us.maps3.yimg.com|path=/aerial.maps.yimg.com/img?x=%x&y=%y&z=%z&v=%v&t=a|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=5max_level=17map_version=1.9color_hack=Nocolor_level=0bulk_extend=50[service Example 4]cache_folder=C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\cache.service4network_module=libnettilemodule_config="conn=20|rate=2.0|verbose=0|server=http://mapcache*.ask.com|path=/sat/%Z/%X/%Y?partner=|balance=1234|useragent=Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506; .NET CLR 1.1.4322)"min_level=5max_level=17map_version=1color_hack=Yescolor_level=12bulk_extend=50------------------Can someone please modify and repost this so i can just copy and paste it over everything in my .ini file... PLEASE! lol. i've been at this for over 5 hours now and want to see something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRRMybGLt90 Please help me out. Thank you!Sorry for maybe seeming a little rude just asking like this but I typed a much more detailed and kind post then that fell throught and i wasn't able to post it so here i am trying to just throw something together to get it out there before i go to bed.... lol, thank you all again !