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V3.3.3 installed with latest FSUIPC and ASN SP5 beta. No problems to report. EZDok works just fine. Shaders folded deleted and rebuilt with ASN SP5 and first start of 3.3.3. No cloud issues to report. Possible improvement with clouds and performance. Saw a small jump in frames with clouds. As to the VAS questions. Didn't notice any major OMG improvements. Couatl updated today and fixes some issues with GSX I did come across. You'll need to reinstall the latest FULL version of GSX. All third party aircraft good to go. Have not come across any issues with 3rd party sceneries. Orbx FTX Global base and vector good to go. Hope this helps some of you on the fence about the upgrade. Brett Wow. Been awhile since I posted. Need to update my banner. Lol....old

Agree 100%.....$$$$, lots of money to be made here. All it takes is for the right minds to work together to build a patch to fix a 20% issue. And I'd be #2 in line to purchase a "patch" for a lack of better words to fix a night texture issue. Honestly. This is a huge opertunity for the right developers to make some serious cash. I just wish I could do it. But I'm just a dumb fireman with a huge passion for flightsim. We can put men on the moon, land rovers on mars, reach the outer edge or our solar system but can't put a finger on a night texture to convert ???? My .02$

Yeah. I'm going to keep up with them and see if anything can be done. But I would imagine if there was a cure Martin would of known. Just have to keep plugging away. I believe there is a cure, we just have to find it.

Lol. No way man..... I'm all DX10....I know what you were saying tho !! I see that Airport Enhancer HDX is in sale. I'm toying with the notion of getting it and see if it will rewrite the code for our little problem. But my gut already knows the answer....NO. It's all an codeing issue for night textures. And AS2012 and REX already add those nice airport textures. But 9 bucks...idk. Might give it a go. I'm a scenery junkie anyhow. Is there support for people like me?? Lol

This might help. This is an email I sent to FlyTampa and their response: Hi Brett Thanks for writing. I installed and tested the current version of the DX10 fix. The main problem that Addon Developers point out as you noticed is the "missing night textures". What we mean by that more specifically is that night textures won't load on legacy BGLs (FS8, FS9). I don't know if you recall, but FSX released without support for legacy BGLs while at the same time not providing a proper way for Addon Makers to render ground polygons. This affects Airport developers in particular since we need to use a lot of ground polygons for things such as pavement, lines, markings etc. After a long battle with Aces, they re-introduced support for legacy BGLs in Service Pack 2. This wasn't the solution I was advocating for.. I would have prefered a new native way of doing it... but it worked. So what you have now is that 80% or so of airports are made using these old ground poly techniques. This is where Night textures apparently don't work. The "ground" of such airports loads grey instead. Meaning it loads the object material, shaded for nighttime.... but not the _lm textures. I just gave it a try with the 3.1.1 script installed and saw no change as far as these ground poly night textures not loading. My name is Brett Lucas, and I own many of your products. I will be brief and try and not waste your time, I have been working close with some gentlemen over in the AVSIM forum, and working on DX10 for FSX and testing some fixes that some of them have come up with. Our big hurdle is the night lighting issue. I was hoping that there would be a possibility that maybe a couple of your developers could help us with this issue. As of now, we have a Shadder mod 3.1.1 that takes care of all flickering, and there is a light fix, but it is not sufficient. The problem is at night the runway lights are a little blocky, and on approach, the runway lights are very dim. (too dim to see at around 10dme) Here is the link to the AVSIM DX10 forum and you can see what kind of work we are doing over there. http://forum.avsim.net/forum/569-dx-10-discussions-hints-and-help/ I know in your FAQ, you state with the FT software, night lighting is an issue, we just feel the more developers we can get, the better, so I just wanted to send you all an email and let you know what kind of work we are doing with FSX ran in DX10. I have the mod's and fixes, if you would like me to send them to you for you to look at, I would be more than happy to do that, I just wanted to make a first contact and see if there would be any interest in helping or any suggestions that could help us. Thank you very much for your time, Brett Lucas cheers martin[flytampa]

Note. Hiding that bar will give you 5-10 extra farmes. Maybe more. Also when ready. Hold ALT and the top menu will hide too. Side note. For W7 64bit users, remove the Automationcore.dll from your machine. Get rid of it. All my other programs work just fine and not one CTD no matter how hard o tried. PM me for more info. Just FYI!! BOO

Happy Halloween everybody. Sorry I have not been as active here in the forum. Just supper busy with life, work, kids and soccer which is in full swing. I have no good news for DX10 night lighting issue. I did hear from FlyTampa and it was not good at all. Have not heard back from Flightbeam nor do I expect to hear from Mir with the announcement of KIAD in the early stages of development. The only good news I have is old regarding KSANX by Devinci. I will email him to see if he had released the DX10 compatiable version. Have not looked myself. Just wanted to drop in and say hello and I have not for got about the "cream of the crop simmers" (DX10 simmers) When I get some more time I will continue the hunt for the magic fix. BOO Brett

The problem lays in the gnd polys. When the developers were making the sceneies they were stuck with FS8 and FS9 techniques. I have been in contact with the boys over at FlyTampa and they explained it very well to me. From your picture, the gnd textures are gray and your taxi signs are also gray. And here is the problem. As of now, there is no way to change those textures. With that said, you will find many addon airports with different problems regarding the night light issue. To be short, the plug got pulled on Aces before they could do what needed to be done for GROUND lighting. Your terminals will be fine, it's the way the gnd textures were developed. I'm not a developer, so anyone with a better explaintion please step in, but like I said this is how it was explained to me by lead developers. In short, we are screwed for DX10 at night. Almost every airport would have to be redone with textures that convert to DX10. Hope this helps. You can thank M$ for pulling the plug too early, hence "DX10 Preview". Brett.

I'm curious. I have shadows everywhere but the VC. At least I have not noticed them. Am I missing something ?

:lol: :lol: :lol: Been there done that

Here ya go, I PM you about this and sent you my string from the reg, and chaged the last value to 1024, I have my paging file set to an empty 250Gb HDD because my OS SSD is too small, but take a look!! Also look for another pm from me. http://i1307.photobucket.com/albums/s590/Simmer71/DesktopHeap-2012-oct-18-001_zps236c8e12.jpg

All MegasceneryX's are DX10 compatible. I have them all, and all are wonderful. As to your Autogen, just leave it where you have it, (your FSX sweet spot). You might notice a small hit in frames but not much at all. I will say, expect a longer load time when starting FSX as it writes the scenery. Also with the Megascenery X, you will notice its a bit washed out but well worth the $$. On the flip side, I have FSDT LAX, Megascenery X SOCAL and now US CitiesX LAX. Flew into LAX in the PMDG MD11 with my Autogen set to dence the other day, no problems. Today, flew into LAX in the NGX but bumped my Autogen to Very Dence, bad idea. Got an OOM on final. So for me Autogen at dence is my sweet spot, (I did not hear FSUIPC warning me so I could bump AG down). Oh we'll. it happens. Like to know my limits and found it to day. But that also leaves me wondering if the NGX eats more MEM than the MD11. Pretty sure it does. And is it me or does the 24's look worse than the 25's in KLAX. I've picked up on this twice now. Weird. Anyhow. Enjoy your new Megascenery. You're gonna love it. Brett

I might bring this up to Mir over at FB and let him know the both his awesome sceneies ARE DX10 compatiable. Maybe all he is saying is its done in DX9 format. Just poor wording. But I will say his KPHX is the best airport by far. It's just amazing to me what he was able to do. Wish I had those skills. I'd live to see more gamer programmers like Mir come to flightsim to do what they do best. I'm not taking anything away from anyone involved in FS design but these guys that make Halo and COD have a very special talent!! Brett

Don't know, but I saw that also..... :wacko:

FB KSFO and KPHX are BOTH DX10 compatiable, been into them both and they look great. I do have the Addon Converter X, burt give them a try before installing that mod. But I have flown into both and am now flying into FSDT KLAX as I type.

OK Pretty cheesey, but not bad for touching photoshop in over two years...give me some more time and I should have something realy mind blowing. Still need some differnt fonts, the lins on the bottom need some work, with the clouds and sun i am very pleased with.

Ha. Photoshop is like riding a bike. Coming along nicely.

Good questions Paul, FT was great KSAN scenery and like you one of my tops, but FT did not make another for FSX (huge mistake on their part) so I stumbled on Davinci KSANX. Now, he has two versions, photoreal and standard. I can not be sure about the tall buildings on the approach, but to me, they look default (autogen), whith that said, that does not mean those are not part of his scenery,looking in his scenery file, I see 3 bldg files, one autogen.bgl, and 2 bldgs placement bgl's. Im no scenery guru, but the autogen I believe answers our questions, and the placements tells fsx where to place them. On the photoreal scenery, I was not a fan of it prior to DX10, and to be honest I can not remember if it replaced the flat buildings your were talking about on the west side of the airport. And your 3rd question. Weathering the appropns, I agree, looks like fresh paint, but beats the hell out of the default. I can not speak for Sagga, but we have developed a good working realtionship. I wonder tho if MAYBE AS2012 or REX can weather the lines.....looks like more testing. Just FYI, I have a very powerful Laptop with FSX on it and that is where I do all my testing before moving it to my FSX desktop, try before you buy kind of thing, so let me do some more testing and add some textures and lets see what we get. Fair. Also Paul, for SOCAL, I have UTX,GEX,MegasceneryX and now USCitiesX LAX,(but USCXLAX does not reach SAN) but megascenery does, and a side not, I do not have any of those installed on my laptop, just your default FSX for scenery testing....I know I know, it needs to all be on there for a true test, I'll get to it. So with that being said, I am going to put the new KSANX on my desktop and see the difference with those addons. Side note, as of today, no option for photoreal KSANX for DX10...FYI. K, long winded sorry, but hoped I answered your questions, off to photoshop land to TRY and make a cool banner for FSX in DX10 wish me luck!! Oh yeah, trying to get my wife and iPhone 5 today....yeah right, I stood in line to get mine for 45 minutes and had a blast with the other folks, but her 4S fell out of her pocket and shattered.....so yeah.....I'm sure we will find one today :blink: , one apple store in STL is getting a shipment at noon, and if you knew my wife, trust me, you would give her what she wanted to get her out of her store.... :lol: :lol: Later

Ok, KSANX looks great!! Now DX10 Compatiable. I'm not a programer just a tester and Sagga did a great job. Still very dim runway lights on approach, but what is new with DX10. On the runway they look great!! Sagga and I have been going back and forth with different files, so when he is ready, Im sure we will see an update very very soon. but here is a taste. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xmxmozwtzs4bp6w/YJRhefPAFA

Thanks Paul!! I got a few ideas, just need to get them into photoshop and play. I left my screenshots at home. Had some real good ones.

Just got a PM from him this morning. Ill share when I'm on my laptop. Brett

Updated KSANX On its way. Won't be able to test it until Tuesday but progressed had been made. Next stop is FDST to see if the can help. Their landing lights are perfect. Fingers crossed. Brett

Ok all you photoshop studs out there. Can some one come up with a DX10 banner?? I have photoshop and will give it a shot myself. Anybody against this. I'll even up the steaks, I will pick one person to pick the best. He does not know it yet but that is fair. I make a motion to start it tonight and ends Oct 21 (0000z) (Voice from the back "I second it") and the gavel strikes. I for one will think it would be cool. And I'm a man of my word the winner gets himself some brandnew scenery, and I win, a couple rounds of Jack and Sprites. So I'll have photoshop going tomorrow. I hope others do to. NO COPYRIGHT INFRINGEMENT!! There. I said it.... Blue skies Brett GO CARDS!!

You really need to follow the .doc word for word. It tells you everything you need, what and how to install with links to installations. This is not a poke, but really it took me all of 20 minutes to read and fly. If you have been following the forums, the big bug is night textures. And by that I mean runway lighting. For me DX10 has been a dream come true. So go back. Brew a pot of coffee, download what you need and off the top of my head you will need the shaders mod 3.1.1, AddonConverterx (to convert DX9 files to DX10) and mod your config file. If I was you I'd back up your current FSX.cfg file, let FSX build a new one and start fresh. Trust me. DX10 works for me and many others. Also. I joined your forum, very nice, but I firmly believe this DX10 needs to stay right here in AVSIM. Too many people working hard to take it to another forum. Just link it back here. Hope you can understand that. Last before someone jumps on you, sign your posts so we know who we are talking to. Blue Skies Brett GO CARDS!!!!!!!

Good news gents. Been in contact with Devinci who put out KSANX and he has confirmed that his scenery is now DX10 ready to go. He stated he wanted to test some more this weekend, and its Sunday so hopefully we will have an update very soon. This airport is the only airport in my very large library, scenery made by everybody, that AddonC would crash on. So one of my favs will be flyable again. Yay. Blue skies and GO CARDS Brett.