Chisco

That Duke sounds like something not to be missed. Yes, i do value being able to do a slip. I learned to do this in RL and have always tried to replicate in FSX to no effect. Thank you for covering all the innovations in such detail.

^{So I recently bought Anacortes from orbx and in the read me it says I need PNW? Do I really need that for the install to work?}

Although your experience will be better with it, and although you will miss some elements (traffic?) if you don´t, it is not technically necessary to have PNW and you will certainly be able to install Anacortes. But it will not be integrated with the rest of the scenario.

By the way, I also got Skagit and was positively surprised with that one.

Saab,Good tip. I was in fact using FSX to test if my OC was stable. Will try to find and run the app you mention to further test my OC. On a side note. What about water cooling? I am on air right now (not stock, though) but see the Corsair Hydro Series H80 and wonder if such water cooling would improve my OC capabilities/stability?

I am beginning to become addicted to overclocking. But a miriad questions will appear. Once I reach what my ASUS tells me is a stable OC (remember I am a beginner, my OC is still press a key automatic OC...) I start getting BSOD inside FSX. But if I check my temps they seem to be around 60 C. I do not think thats too hot. Reducing OC seems to get rid of BSODs. Have I reached my limit? My OC is not too extreme (4,5 mhz for a SB-e i7 3930k) and I have what I think is a powerful air cooler. Would liquid cooling help me sustain 4.5 mhz and beyond? Did I get a lemon chip that can sustain no more OC? Any help or suggestion to help me diagnose greatly appreciated.

My vote is for the Milviz too!

Nope, no external sound card, just the internal audio coming with the mobo. And latest drivers since its a new mobo just installed. Internal audio its a:Realtek® ALC892 8-Channel High Definition Audio CODEC- Supports : Jack-detection, Multi-streaming, Front Panel Jack-retaskingAudio Feature :- Absolute Pitch 192kHz/ 24-bit True BD Lossless Sound- Blu-ray audio layer Content Protection - DTS Ultra PC II- DTS Connect- Optical S/PDIF out port(s) at back panelAnd no strange problems reported by dxdiag.Interestingly, the sounds coming from AccuFeel do not interfere with FPS, and they seem to be unaffected by silencing FSX internally via the "q" key.

Supressing sound with "q" causes increase in fps inside FSX. I was surprised to see a 7 to 10 fps increase in the sim just hitting the q key. My system is a fast SB-E i7 3930K OC at 4.3, and fully ORBX'd and REXD and Accufeel, addon aircraft and what have you. MOBO is n ASUS P9X79. W7 Ultimate.Anyone else experienced this? Anything I can change to reduce the impact of sound on frames? Interestingly enough I can still hear the AccuFeel sounds without a fpsimpact, so I can still get some sound, but would be greatnto get the engines (and the frames) back.Can this be related to DirectX? Is there any proven output format for the sound that would eliminatethe fps impact?

Interestingly enough, I hit the q key yesterday to supress sounds in FSX and realized there was still sound coming from the plane. It was certainly the accusim addon doing its stuff. The interesting part though is that using q to supress sounds immediately provided a 7-10 fps increase! After several testsI thought to myself, "this is sound foming from accusim, so it could lerfectly be called accusound". As it turns out the term really exists!

For some strange reason (SSD? w7? SB-e?), my FSX load times are measured in seconds. And yes, the beast is fully loaded with ORBX, REX OD, UT2, EZDOK, VRS Superbug (and some more), and some massive photoreal sceneries (airHispania full, i.e. all Spain). Load times are so ridiculous on any region that they are no longer an issue. In my previous machine it would have taken from 14 to 20 minutes to load the full Spain scenery of over 120+ Gb of scenery. With my current rig it does not take more than one minute. I am afraid to change something and lose such fast load times!I did try AM=62 as suggested by Word Not Allowed and BP=0,But with BP=0 bit did no see a marked improvement in FPS, and in fact minor blurries appeared when flying insanely low and fast. Not sure why, maybe the SSD is too fast for the CPU or the GPU to benefit from BO=0. Will review the previous suggestions in your posts and experiment.OT, but congrats on the honeymoon, although I hear its not compatible with your flightsim hardware...Ps2. correction, BO=0 should say BP=0.

Start engines, power avionics, turn Mfd on, select A/a radar, go to left side panel, turn the Radar knob on. If properly modelled i believe you will need to be airborne for the radar to operate.

SaabI have followed your posts with great attention and have read them time and time again to properly understand the issues discussed. I appreciate the time and effort you put to experiment and to explain all your findings. Particularly intriguing all the explanation about the AffinityMask settings, t+t loaders and the unloading of fibres to increase Ffps.I just upgraded to a SB-E hexacore, and I am at odds trying to determine which would be my best Affinity Mask setting to maximize offloading of fibres. I do understnad we cannot control where they go, we can just make room for them. I have HT off, W7 64b, 8gb RAM, a large and fast SSD drive and pretty much an untouched FSX.cfg, save for the proverbial Highmemfix and a vsync-on setting (unfortunately do not like the tearing), nVidia Zotac GTX 580 with 3gb RAM and nvidia Inspector AA of 8SQ. My load times are amazing (a bunch of seconds, no matter how heavy the scenery load) but with heavy ORB+REX+VRS Superbug my fps go to the low twenties.Have you performed any analysis on the SB-E processor with six cores? I am curious what where the results. Any suggestion for an affinitymask setting?Thanks and best,ChiscoJust curious what

Using the automated settings on the Asus mobo I can reach 4,5 on air but started getting BSOD in FSX until I brought it down to 4.3. No more BSOD.Edit to add it was 4.5 with HT on. I now have 4.3 with HT off. CPU: i7-3930K SB-E 3.2 Ghz (OC'd to 4.3)Mobo: Asus P9X79Geforce 580 - 3gbOS: Windows 7 x641 SSD

VRS TacPack (pre-ordered)Any RealAir aircraftAny A2A aircraft

I am extra-cautious buying FSX addons, but the price and the universality of this addon -is applied to all planes in FSX- made it a no brainer. Excellent decission, and although I am pretty sure some of the effects might be unrealistic with my VRS Superbug, it really adds to the immersion!