Nangua

It's a bit of a hit - down to 6-7 FPS at some points in really heavy weather! But I prefer good looks rather than super-smooth performance. Most of the time my quad 3.2GHz CPU, Intel 4600 graphics and 8GB RAM handle things OK. Much of the time, the area that I mostly fly in has CAVOK and high visibility, with relatively light other loads (like AI traffic, city autogen, complex airports, etc). So the hit for a 200nm cloud radius is only really noticeable in cloudy weather ^_^ Cheers, David

I had been using 200/200, but just discovered that anything above 189 causes ASN (v 1.0.5099.6239) to not refresh clouds outside a bubble with a radius about 200nm. I was on an IFR flight and after around 200nm simply 'ran out of weather' and emerged into clear skies, even though the METARs around (and ahead) were all showing cloud and rain. After all, the manual says that anything above 150 is "use at your own risk". So now I'm using 189/189 and it's working well for me. Cheers, David

Hi everyone I'm wondering if some kind soul would be able to send me the Hongdu JL-8 / K-8 Karakorum light attack jet package (apparently contains model and many repaints) that was created by GMAX Académie. The owner of that site parked it up well over a year ago (http://gmax-ac.fr/index.php), so it's no longer available publically, although their forum is now active again (in French). A Venezuelan [?] guy was also working on a model, but never released anything that I can find (http://hangarcerouno.blogspot.com/20...-la-forma.html), and I've searched many times everywhere else! Can anyone help me? Cheers and many thanks, Nangua (南瓜)

@GaiidenI think what Andrej is saying is that there is a hex sequence "C0 72 40" which only appears once within the .dll. For Acceleration, it won't be on the same line as for SP2, but if you use Hex Edit, you can search (under the Find menu) for this sequence. Just cut it from this post, make sure the "hex" radio button is selected, paste it into the find field, click OK, and it'll take you to there. Change the "72" value to "8f", then Save As AIPlayer.dll and exit. Make sure that nothing's already selected in any columns, otherwise Hex Edit seems to not be able to find things, and will return "search string not found".I'd suggest confirming all this with Andrej, though, as I don't have Acceleration.Cheers,Nangua (南瓜)

Hi all,My first post; I usually just look around and download stuff, but have found something worth sharing -- a fix for disappearing AI aircraft when they remain stationary for more than 5 minutes. AITP-X has already been released, and that's good for FSX SP1, but not SP2, as many will know.This fix brings the AI timeout up to around 15-17 minutes for FSX SP2, something which many of us have been looking for for a long time. I don't know whether this will work for FSX Acceleration.I didn't create this -- the folks at FriendlyFlusi.at (specifically GunnarMD) have already done it, but it's not available anywhere else that I could find, so I've merely interpreted the slightly-difficult Google-translated German to English and tested it on my setup.The Google-translated original is here: http://translate.goo...6prmd%3DimvnsfdBut Google Translate does not create perfect English from German, yet!So here we go.1) Back up your AIPlayer.dll (very important).2) Go on the internet to http://www.physics.o...rewett/hexedit/3) Download Hex Edit, which can run from your desktop, and is entirely self-contained.4) Open it; it will immediately bring up an Open dialogue box. Navigate to your AIPlayer.dll (in the main FSX folder), having remembered to create a backup of it!5) When you open the .dll with Hex Edit, you'll see three columns. Incidentally, make sure that the View option (under the View menu) is set as "hex".6) Using the scroll bar on the right, navigate down until you reach row 11b0 (as found in the narrow column on the far left).7) Go along the row until you see the value "72".8) Change that value (by selecting it and then overwriting) to "8f". DON'T CHANGE ANYTHING ELSE.9) Save As "AIPlayer.dll" and overwrite the original if prompted (obviously depends on where you want to save it). Don't overwrite your backup by mistake, and make sure that your edited copy makes it to the FSX root folder one way or another.10) Start FSX and you'll now have AI waiting times of around 15-17 minutes before they disappear.But be aware that your airports will still need good 'plumbing', and that you may occasionaly get stuck behind an aircraft for quarter of an hour! You may also have very large queues that make you regret increasing the timeout :) It's also possible that there may be other values that work -- for example, providing 10 minutes before disappearance. But I haven't researched those yet.Cheers,Nangua (南瓜)PS. Naturally, I can not be held responsible for any damage (real or perceived) to your FSX (or wider) setup. Back up your AIPlayer.dll in a safe place, and you should be fine. If you don't like the results with the modified .dll, put your backup AIPlayer.dll back, and things will return to normal. Hex Edit, as downloaded from http://www.physics.o...rewett/hexedit/, contains no malware, as tested by Avast! and MalwareBytes on 29 February 2012.