Wink207

Listen guys. I appreciate all your input and good ideas, but I don't think I've made the point clearly enough. What causes the FR to drop at the end of a long flight on approach, but then pick right up again after a reload of the sim? I save the approach flight, reload, and the FR is back up to 30. It's almost like some accumulating crud in FS X is flushed out by the reload???????

Thoughts on that??

Well, I spent over a week getting my new system on line exclusively for FS X. I've been flying around just looking at stuff at tweaking the FS.cfg according to the various guides and checking the differences in various settings. All going fine except for one thing. It seems that whenever I find myself on short final at the end of a long flight at even a moderately complex airport the frame rate drops from the preset 30 to 15 or lower. Then the oddest thing I park the aircraft and shut down and I'm seeing 15. GPU and CPU temps are low, and CPU and GPU loads are low. So I close FS X, shut down the machine, reboot, launch FS X and voila I'm seeing 30 again even with aircraft in sight parked at the gate. I've researched this in the forums and the internet with no results. I'm just wondering if anyone has seen this type of thing before? On approach everything is fine until I get less than 10 miles from the field and then the frames drop. I have LOD_Radius at 6.5. I'm just puzzled at what is going on here. I'm flying the Wilco Cessna Citation X in VC mode exclusively.

Anyone notice the weather download seems to be working again for FS 9?? I've used it the last few days and double check it against wunderground.com observations. Seems to be ok now.

And Dillon, don't get me wrong. I will say it one last time, they screwed up for sure, airlines have stable approach criteria for a reason. All am trying to say is a number of factors come into play, fatigue, airline culture, automation dependency, a potential lack of understanding of the FMA and exactly what mode the automatics are functioning at.

 

None of that was addressed in the video, only "look I can land a Cessna in flight sim"

 

At the end of the day they botched a visual approach in CAVOK and have to live with the deaths of two of the passengers. Yes, flight crew are crossing the globe longhaul everyday, but if you don't think LH & ULH fatigue is a potential risk you should probably have a chat with with some longhaul crew or at least do a bit of research yourself.

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On short final in VMC there is only one piece of information you look at inside the cockpit. Airspeed. Period. Nothing else. Your eyes are mainly outside looking at the lateral and vertical cues, and airspeed. Cessna or 747, all the same. Who knows what these guys were looking at

Well, I bought TrackIR 4 on sale and got around to working with it today. The install went smooth and it worked immediately with FS 9. However, I noticed a few things right away that I'd like some of your thoughts on if you have TrackIR and use it in FS 9.

1. The normal small movements of the head cause the mouse clicks in VC mode to be somewhat difficult as the mouse finger has to chace the button or switch as it jiggles due to head movement. Sometimes it catches it, and sometimes not.

2. The normal slight movement of the head also cause some shimmering in my panels in VC.

3. I wonder what the frame rate hit is, if any, with the TrackIR software running in the background.

I understand there a re a lot of adjustments to make with the TrackIR software and I haven't taken that on yet. But I'd feel better if some folks who have used TrackIR and are happy with the performance and utility could chime in, maybe with a few tips.

Your thoughts?

Thanks

Rick

If you have to ask...you are probably using DX9. But you can confirm with this.

 

MENU  Options-->Settings-->Display (Tab->"Graphics"), see if "Preview DirectX 10" is checked...if its not, then you are using DX9

yes thanks. I found dxdiag and discovered as you say I an running DX9

How do I know what I'm using????

Have devloped a problem that is quite annoying. When hand flying any aircraft, the plane wants to constantly turn left. To get it to fly straight I have to hold quite a bit of right aileron. I have a PFC Jetliner yoke. Have calibrated it several times, and according to that everything is set up correctly. Have also tried configuring it thru both FS and FSUIPC, same result. Also tried setting the realism settings way back. Nothing makes a difference. Stumped on this one as it just started doing this. Thanks for any ideas. (BTW Win 7 64)

Every now and then I get some sort of weird thing like this. What I do that usually works is start FS 9 by double clicking directly on one of the canned flights or adventures. More often than not, for some unknown to me reason, the nonsense will clear up.

Thank you for your thoughts. Sorry, yes I am running Xp and I've read where Xp can address up to 3 gig of memory. Also the newer memory may be faster than what I have now so I think I will order 2 gig and upgrade, removing the module I have now. As for the auto spoiler behavior, it must be an artifact of my throttle quadrant. I'll continue to fiddle with FSUIPC to see if I can calibrate it to work properly.

Thanks again.

I've just returned to FS after a hiatus of several years and am really enjoying the return. I had a couple of questions I would appreciate your input on.

1. I am currently running FS 9 after years of FS 2002. I have an issue which has carried over concerning the auto spoiler deployment on big jets and on the biz jets I am currently flying. The issue is when I arm the auto spoilers on final, it won't stay armed. just jumps out and returns to stowed position almost immediately sometimes, and sometimes after a minute or two. Occasionally it will stay armed to touchdown and deploy as desired, but that is rare. No manner of calibrating the quadrant in Windows, FS, or FSUIPC makes any difference. Do you think this is just an artifact of my Go Flight throttle quadrant, or do others see this behavior as well. I did find, downloaded, and installed a gauge which arms and deploys the auto spoilers and thrust reverse, and that works nicely but I prefer to engage the reversers myself manually.

Thoughts??

2. My system is about 6 years old and consists of a Pentium 3.2 Gig, Radeon 1800 Pro 256, huge hard drive, FS 9, REX, Real Scene, Ultimate Traffic, and 1 Gig memory. The question is do you think my system performance in terms of frame rates would improve if I added another gig of memory.

Thoughts???

Thanks in advance.