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The aircraft is still about 1-2 miles offset to the left of the course until I get near my 1st approach waypoint. I did set the coordinates in the FMS manually under the INIT section instead of using the ones that were already there as well. It didn't make a difference. I entered the coordinates that were shown in the CIVA into the INIT page of the FMS. If I turn off PROF mode and do a manual heading towards the course line to go exactly on top of the course line and head the same direction of the course, when I go back to PROF mode the autopilot will take it to the offset to the left by 1-2 miles again.

I just found this posted at JF's website: https://support.justflight.com/support/solutions/articles/17000151979-fms-how-to-setup-the-fms-after-loading-a-flight-on-the-runway- I did a flight from KMOT to CYQR on the JF F100 with engines running at start and used the PROF mode for the autopilot to follow the VNAV and even it started to descend automatically at the TOD like it should. Only thing is that the aircraft icon on the map display appeared to be a few miles off to the side of the course line until I got to my approach then it was exactly on the course line. Is this because I have to enter the exact coordinates of where the aircraft is starting from and the one that is automatically on the FMS is not exact of where the aircraft or is it the exact coordinates automatically and that has nothing the reason the aircraft is a few miles to the left of the course line?

Well in the PMDG 737's I would have to fill in the blanks in the Perf section of the FMS such as gross weight, cruising altitude, cost index, reserves, V1, V2, Vr in order to get a VNAV to work and I could do this with the engines running at start. That's why I suspect that I might need to fill in blanks on the next 2 pages of the INIT section of the F70/F100. Is there a default VNAV profile where I shouldn't have to enter performance characteristics and only my cruising altitude in the FMS for the autopilot follow standard VNAV profile for the F70/100 so I can start with engines running and use VNAV for the autopilot. You say that you are not convinced that the auto pilot will not follow VNAV from climb to descent without access to the next page of the INIT of the FMS to enter the data into the blanks like when I'm starting with the engines running? In other aircraft in FS2024 and X-Plane 12 I would have to add certain data besides cruising altitude for the VNAV to work, especially in the Perf section of the PMDG's. So there should be a standard VNAV profile in the F70/F100 that the autopilot can follow without needing to enter the data into 2nd page and following pages of the INIT?

I did start with engines running as that's how I usually start a flight in FS2024 and never had this limitation with the FMS's of other aircraft I flew in FS2024. I never did use the FMS in an Airbus in FS2020 as I only flew the A320 a few times in FS2020 and from starting from the runway in an engines-on state and never used the FMS those times on those aircraft. So, basically if I want to start from engines running state in the F70 and F100, the PROF mode won't be functional and I will have to rely on FLCH or VS for my climb and do a manual top of descent again using the VS or FLCH during the descent if I want to use the autopilot for climbs and descents?

I purchased the JF F70/F100 bundle. I watched the recent reviews on it and noticed that the INIT section of the FMS had a right arrow on the top right of the FMS screen to go to the next page of the INIT section. However, I don't see this on my end as I only have one page and no right arrow in the INIT Section of the FMS of the F100 and F70. Could that also explain why the PROF mode is not doing anything on my flights regardless it is turned on? Should I have a 2nd page in the INIT section of the FMS where I enter stuff?

Well I one time upgraded from an i7-2600k / P67 to an i7-3930 / X79 and there was only about a 3% improvement in overall frame rate in tests I performed in FSX, maybe because of larger L3 cache and more memory bandwidth, not sure. There was also around a 25% reduction in load times and same went for texture loading. However, there was worse stuttering, like 2-second random pauses usually while taxing or on the runway, and I had to tweak the FSX .cfg file to make it acceptable on the X79 system. A few months later I downgraded to an i7-3820, still same micro-pausing without the tweaks in the FSX.cfg file. Then about 4 months later I upgraded my video card from a 1.5GB GTX 580 to a 4GB GTX 680 and this upgrade greatly reduced the stuttering in FSX and got rid of the micro-pausing that was happening in my system without even me tweaking my FSX.cfg file. So it could have been a combination of the SB-E / X79 interacting with the GTX 580 that was causing the micro-pausing or the e 4GB GTX 680 just a smoother performing card for FSX, not sure, but now it's runs well in my X79 system without tweaking the FSX.cfg file. Also when I downgraded from an i7-3930k to an i7-3820, texture loading times increase noticeably, and load times increased noticeably as well, but frame rate was basically the same, maybe because of the similar turbo boost clocks on both chips and how going past 2 cores does not seem to increase the frame rate in FSX. A SB-E will only offer a slight improvement in frame rates over a regular SB system but the 6-core SB-E makes textures and flights load much faster than a 4-core SB or 4-core SB-E system. 2 cores seems to be optimum as far as frame rates are concerned in FSX, the rest of the cores are scheduled to help with just texture loading and flight loading. I recommend an i7-3770k for FSX over a SB-E system. With at least 4 cores at 3 GHz or so, texture loading speed isn't really that bad in FSX and should be more than adequate in normal flight, but frame rates can always use improvements. You also get official PCI-E 3.0 support with Ivy Bridge CPU but not with SB-E or SB, sure there is a hack to enable PCI-E 3.0 for the GTX 600 series card in SB-E systems but it's not guaranteed to be stable since SB-E does not officially support PCI-E 3.0.

I currently have an i7-3820 and was wondering if the i7-3770 performs better in FSX than the i7 3820? Keep in mind that don't keep my system overclocked. Also the i7-3820 does not support officially PCI-E 3.0 and the i7-3770 does, so would the overall smoothness be better in FSX on the i7-3770 because it supports PCI-E 3.0?

I knew about making layers invisible that I don't want to use and merging and copying the visible layers only, but thanks anyways. That's the way I've been doing it but it's too much clicking and I have to remember to make the layers visible again that I made invisible if I'm continue to continue to work with the master texture fuselage files. Just too much work doing it that way and I was hoping that there is a way that I can leave the layers visible that I don't want to use and only merging and copying 2 layers of my choice that can automatically combine them into 1 layer on the image I'm pasting the layers to.

I have the Just Flight BAe 146-200 addon for FSX. I'm currently working on an Air BC paint job with the included paint kit. I'm using Photoshop CS5. When I want to transfer sections from the fuselage files to the texture files I want to copy the guides from the Guides layer and the paint job from my Paint layer at the same time. I linked these 2 layers but I can only copy and past the paint layer but not the guides from the Guides layer. Reason why I want to copy and past the guides is because the texture files have those same guides and I need to align them together so that the paint is perfectly lined up. How do I copy and paste 2 linked layers into another image?

Never mind, I figured out the problem. The performance mode setting was set to Adaptive and I had to change it to Maximum Performance in the video driver settings.

While playingg FSX with Precision X running in the background, Precision's OSD shows that my GTX 680's GPU is running at 324MHz and GPU usage between 40-50%. Is this because FSX is not a GPU intensive game? My video card is an EVGA GTX 680 4GB and it's GPU base clock is advertised as 1019MHz with a boost clock of 1084MHz. It runs at between 1079-1084 in the Unigine Heaven benchmark. Is my GTX 680 running as it should in FSX or do I have defective card?

Anyone here with an Asus P9X79 Pro. I noticed that when I load FSX (after loading Windows 7), there will be squealing coming from around the CPU area of my motherboard. The second time I load FSX, the squealing does not happen unless I restart my PC and reload FSX. It sounds like mice in my PC. Also when browsing the internet, randomly there will be the very same quiet squealing for a couple of seconds coming from my PC. I sometimes will even happen when Windows 7 loads up. Happens my SSD is getting accessed as I noticed. Running the HD-Tune transfer rate test gives a high pitched squealing with my SSD and my 2nd hard drive. The squealing is not bothersome to me except for when I was running HD-Tune. To get rid of the squealing I have to turn off all CPU power-saving options in the BIOS. Had a similar problem with a 2 Gigabyte X58 boards with an i7 960 that I used to have and it was worse on that one and had to get rid of the squealing in the same way. Also setting a manual CPU vcore gets rid of the noise if I want CPU power saving features turned on except when running one of the tests in CrystalDiskMark, and it's sounds more like the beeps in a hearing test than squealing and it comes from having C1E turned on. My Intel DP67BG makes that same sound as well in CrystalDiskMark with my SSD. I contacted the manufacturer of my P9X79 Pro and the tech guy thinks it's either my hard drive accessing data or the SATA cable.

Anyone with an i5 3570k or an i7 3770k, GTX 680 and a Z77 based motherboard test out FSX? Can someone here run GPU-z and tell me if the latest official drivers for the GTX 680 from Nvidia support PCIe 3.0 on Ivy Bridge processors? I read that the latest official drivers for the GTX 680 don't support PCIe 3.0 on SB-E and I want to know if this also true for Ivy Bridge as well? Note: I don't have a GTX 680 but might consider it if PCIe 3.0 will be supported on SB-E processors since I have an i7 3930k and if it makes a noticeable difference in FSX.

I would like to know if it would be worth it to downgrade to an i7 3770k from my i7 3930k if I can sell my i7 3930k for $400 after ebay fees, shipping fees, and paypal fees. I most likely will get very little for my motherboard or maybe won't be able to sell the motherboard because of a minor issue I'm having with it but it does not effect the functionaliy of the board, so I might end up just keeping what I have. I know that I will lose out in load times and texture rendering performance in FSX if I downgrade to 4 cores but will the increased IPC of the Ivy Bridge make up for it and give me a better frame rate than my i7 3930k? I already have a motherboard that I'm not using that supports Ivy Bridge but it's one with the P67 chipset, so that means no PCIe 3.0. So if I downgrade to an i7 3770k from an i7 3930k then I lose 2 cores, lose PCIe 3.0 unless I buy a Z77 series motherboard, lose memory bandwidth, increased single threaded performance, might not get noticeable frame rate difference, end up with a little money on top.

Actually, if I could turn back the clock, I would have kept my i7 960 / X58 system and not upgrade to the i7 2600k since the i7 2600k was only a little faster for me in FSX, a little worse suttering I saw than my i7 960 I used to have, and I lost too much money in the process of selling my i7 960 and motherboard at the time when I upgraded to the i7 2600k / P67 system.