jeff3163

I saw other people with the TH2Go, so I got one. I thought it would be a convenient way to tie three monitors together. No technical reasons, for sure. I am not overly impressed by it's performance or features, or lack of, as the case may be. I've pondered eyefinity, and hydravision. I may yet try them. I don't know. Yep, the traffic idea was a red herring. I think the driver was broken, and now is fixed. I've had no spikes since the new driver was installed. Fingers crossed.

I started at PANT and flew to PAKW with the AI traffic "general" slider (on the settings main page) maxxed. That puts the individual sliders at airlines=20,GA= 20, medium, road=20, ships=40, and boats=40. Time of day is dawn, current date. No glitches or spikes since I updated my video card driver. I believe they've addressed the problem and fixed it. I think the trick was in completely removing my previous driver. COMPLETELY!!! And reboot twice before installing the new drivers. Then reboot twice after installing. Well, I did it twice because of my Triplehead2Go. Then go flying, and check it out. I hope it is fixed, . . . so far, so good. Maybe now I can fly in DX10 all the time! Yay! I have all my settings maxxed as I said above, and AI traffic, and the sim is looking good. Frames are very low though. It is alot of work, so now I think I'll turn down some things to make it run better. Thanks for the heads-up on the new driver.

Yes, I have my water maxxed. My clouds are at minimum for both coverage and density. But Opus lays 'em out pretty thick anyway. My DX10 AA is at 4. I'm on Multisampling right now in CCC. I still need to set the "recommended" settings.

I'm back. I just flew from Juneau to Ketchikan in various planes, (A2A Scout amphib/PBY Cat./Aerosoft DHC-2) and the weather was extreme cloud cover and rain. I started with no AI on at all. Then I turned on airline and GA aircraft to 10% and airport stuff on low. I flew for a while, listening to ATC traffic. I added ships next and continued. I was nearing Ketchikan when I turned on leisure boats. Well, shortly after that my PC became loaded down with too much, and the ground textures were fuzzy and wouldn't load. Then I got an OOM error. When FSX closed, I discovered that MS Essentials was trying to do a scheduled scan. I think that caused the OOM, together with my current location in FSX. BUT, through all that, I haven't seen any spikes or glitches yet. Since the road traffic is the only remaining thing, I could jump to a conclusion that there is something about road traffic that's causing the glitches. But I will wait until after I fly with it on to say yes or no. Re-installing a new display driver may also have "fixed it". More testing needed.

I just flew from Gilbert Bay, AK to Juneau with everything maxxed (except mesh res=5), except no AI traffic at all. The sim worked great. I haven't turned it back on, to see if it corrupts the graphics yet. I updated my ATI drivers to the Nov. 7 beta version also. So can't draw conclusions just yet, but my sim sure is happy at the moment without the AI traffic going.

Me too! I voted that I switch between them. But I would stick with DX10 exclusively, when the bugs are all worked out. It is much better than DX9. (even with the bugs, IMO)

I have the same issue, and using the 7970 card. I just wanted to say that tonight I was flying over PAHO in DX10 and the scenery was beautiful. But suddenly FSX reloaded "AI traffic", of which I only had the bottom sliders in the low teens. (roads, ships, and leisure boats). When it finished reloading FSX had spikes like crazy. So I went in and turned the road, ship, and boat sliders off. When that reloaded, the terrain was back to normal, looking crisp and clean. (more testing of this theory is needed) Next time you get spikes, go in and turn off all AI traffic. See if they clear up. I run FSX pretty much maxxed, except for mesh res at 5. This thread has grown since I was here last. I need to catch up some on what has transpired, but I wanted to throw that experience up here in case it has any value. It sounds like the straw on my camel's back. I will turn down some settings, :( and see if it helps. Sometimes I can fly for a long time with no spikes, then they appear suddenly. (Usually when I am approaching the threshold on landing. :lol: ).

I have the same exact problem, and I have the same hardware (ATI 7970 black edition 3G/1T), and software. I don't OC. Software is Win7Ult/+FSX/A, Radeon Pro, Orbx FSX Go. (I am building my RP and FG profiles following forum advice, but still get spikes/yikes) I am hoping this gets figured out eventually. I have had long flights with no spikes. But then later flights do have them. Sometimes a little bit, sometimes a lot.

Man, this is an OLD thread! Well, thank God for old threads. I've been pondering this problem all day, searching threads. I finally came to this one, the right one. I've been working on my DHC-2 Beaver from Aerosoft, and I activated the autothrottle, but I couldn't get it to hold my present speed. It would always slow down to 135 knots. I tweaked the aircraft.cfg file, added gauges to the panel.cfg file, and cut and pasted from one air file to another. No suggestions would work for me, as the airspeed remained a steady 135 knots. After reading "THIS" thread, I set my autothrottle_MAX_rpm from 0.90 to 10000, and like magic, it now works as I had hoped. I doubt that any of the original posters are paying any attention to this old thread, but I felt the need to say "Thank you" anyway. This solution was so easy to implement, and test. Don't ever discount a thread by the date it was produced. Someone in 2011 may just need that information.