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Just for the record when it comes to PC Hardware I'm kind of an idiot so lets just get that out of the way. About a year ago my last computer took a dump and I had to rush and order a new one, so I had one custom made from Cyberpower. I would love to just build my own but I know that would not end well so I just go with this method. Anyways I didn't build it for FSX but after having put FS9 away probably 5 years ago I recently picked up FSX again. And for the most part I have no problems with everything on max. Problem is when flying over (I use all orbx stuff) the KSEA area I always got lower frames and when landing at KBVS. It was livable, annoying, but I could put up with it. Having yet to purchase a large international airport add-on I wasn't really sure how much I could throw at it. Well yesterday I bought GEX, UT Alaska, and Aerosoft's Anchorage X addon. And well the results aren't good. The frames are extremely low (8-10) when on the ground, even when turning autogen off and lowering quite a few of the settings. Once I get 3,000 feet above the ground I can turn every setting up and get 30fps no problem. And since I'm planning on buying quite a few more large airport add-on's and work my way up the ladder to larger and more complex aircraft (this issue was with flying the Real Air Duke Turbine) I'm getting kind of worried that my computer can't handle it. Taxing around an airport at 10 or so FPS is really not what I would call enjoyable. Only thing I'm noticing is that my RAM seems to be all used up so I'm not sure if that is an issue or not, anyway here are the specs. OEM INTEL I7-2600K 3.40 GHZ 8M LGA 11 2TB SATA III 6GB/S 7200RPM 64MB CACHE 2GB DDR3 / 1600 MHZ MEMORYx4 ASETEK 510LC 120MM WATERCOOLER WHITE NZXT H2 SLIENT CASE GIGABYTE Z68A-D3H-B3 INTEL Z68 SLI/CR XTREMEGEAR 700 WATT POWER SUPPLY EVGA GTX560 TI 1GB GDDR5 PCI-E DIRCTX WINDOWS 7 HOME PREMIUM SP1 64-BIT Anyway within reason I'd love to be able to fly into the busiest of airports and not worry about running 10fps. Any input would be appreciated.

Nope. Still blows my mind that we still don't have a proper FSX payware KSEA and KPDX. Pretty obvious that they would be instant top sellers. I'm reminded of this every time I fly since FSCaptain always gives me a flight to KPDX....

Damnit I didn't want to buy it yet...........

Basically I'm trying to put together a list of all the Airports that we can download for the Alaska region. Later today I'll be purchasing Flight 1's Ultimate Alaska, Anchorage X, and Dutch Harbor X and making my trek up there with my Turbine Duke from KBVS. This is currently what I have/know of. ORBX PAKT Tongass Fjords Anchorage X Dutch Harbor X And that's all I really know of. I'd like to be able to hopefully start doing a lot of flying around Alaska but I have this serious phobia about flying into default airports... Btw to anyone that owns Ultimate Alaska do they do anything to the default airports besides better blending?

Speaking of Telluride are there any good versions of it available for FSX? I so badly want to fly into there. Starting to think I need to make a thread to put together a list of good freeware and payware airports available between the two coasts.

I use FSMovmap on my HTC EVO 4G LTE just plug the usb charger in and pop out the kickstand and put it on top of my yoke and I have a great looking map right in front of me. Really nice to know what towns you're flying over and what not. The best thing I use is AvationMaps by Avilution on my 10" Toshiba Thrive Tablet. For 4.95 a month you get a all charts for the United states really invaluable for flight planning. I also use my tablet to view checklists and charts I download for Canada and plenty of other things. Honestly the best thing I ever bought for flight simming.

Thanks for the great input guys. Right now I'm thinking I'll go the GEX UTX and Cloud9 Xclass route. Now all we need is some good Midwestern payware airports. :(

I think I figured out that FSCaptian was causing the problem. I turned off the icing causes engine flame out and haven't had an issue since. Back to flying this great bird.

I use the term emulate loosely because I know I'll never quite achieve the quality of it. Anyways I have all the ORBX scenery, so sadly I've become jaded and simply refuse to fly anywhere that isn't within its bounds. I cringe every time I fly on the border of a terrain region and see the default textures. But since I got back into flight sims a couple months ago I've moved up from the C185F to the Caravan, to the Real Air Duke then to the Turbine, and soon about to move up from that I'm going to have to start having to fly outside of the reach of ORBX terrain. So basically what I'm trying to figure out is what is the best combination of payware meshes, textures, and whatever else there is out there to make flying in the rest of the states a bit more palpable. BTW whats the basic consensus on stuff like MegaScenery photoreal stuff?

The name of it is in the first 2 seconds of the video...

First off this it the single best addon I've ever purchased. And I am so exited that I managed to stumble on the cockpit sound effects, anywhoo 1 problem I'm having. Whenever I'm climbing out of an airport and I enter clouds at around 12k feet or so my right engine ALWAYS shuts down and will not restart unless i unclick the failure from the aircraft realism settings. I have my anti icing setup as windshield, both Pitot's and it seems to happen when I turn on the fuel vents. Is there something I'm missing here? And yes I turned off all the random and overstress failures in the Real Air Turbine Duke config app.

Bump, anyone have any sort of idea or ever experience this?

I've been having this issue for awhile but it seems to have picked up more recently. The problem is that SOMETIMES not all the time, when I arrive at an airport for instance either a texture for some buildings might be missing, some AI traffic will be missing there textures, and more common the runway numbering/markings will be totally missing. The only way I can get them to load back in is to restart the game. Not a huge game breaker but it is disappointing to land into PASI without any runway markings and half the buildings missing. Also to note, even if the painted markings are missing, all the rubber marks and the actual asphalt texture will still be there. Not sure if there is a common issue or not any input would be GREATLY appreciated.

Recently I purchased both the piston and turbine Duke's and while I realize that the Turbine has a option to turn off the VC View Click-Spots I was wondering if there was any way in the back end to turn them off on the piston Duke. Love the plane to death but it is driving me insane that every time I miss click or just click back into FSX it moves me to some random view in the cockpit, especially with Accufeel running. Tried searching but its hard to figure out the right terms and I'm still trying to figure out why RealAir doesn't have its own forums... Anywhoo thanks in advance for any help!

Please delete because I am indeed a moron. Problem solved with logitech setpoint. Doh!

Never mind I'm sort of genius and managed to figure out why it wasn't working... :Loser: I look forward to actually landing her now instead of floating down the runway endlessly at 85kt. :)

Perhaps I am just some sort of moron or something but I recently tried installed the new FDE from the website and could never quite get it to work whenever I loaded the plane I got the duplicate something or another error. Do just copy paste everything to where it says? Do I have to insert test for the repaints into the new config? I'm guessing I'm over thinking it or something because I don't see a ton of threads asking how to install it. It's just that the instructions on the website are vague to say the least.

Well I'm too much of a moron to properly type out a title but what I'm basically trying to do is force my mouse wheel to be one click of a dial when I rotate it instead of two. Right now on all my aircraft when I move the mouse wheel to change a dial, radio etc it go from 0-2, or 1-3, never sequential. A couple weeks ago it changed dials sequentially but that stopped at some point and I think I remember it worked back in FS9. Sorry if I'm missing something dumb here I recently bought FSX and started getting back into flight sim after a few year break.