Alberto Zanot

ok, i think i have found my "middle". http://www.justflight.com/product/737-professional-download i think once i master this, maybe then i can fly a NGX.

thanks for the replies. by the way i know fsx is not definetely a game, and as i said it took me months over months just to learn the 'poor' default 737, reading tutorials, understanding VORs, landing ILS, and so on. for "fun" i did not mean that gamepad frenetic aim and shot kind of "fun"......... i was simply wondering if there is something in the middle between default 737 and supersophisticated ifly and pmdg. thats all.

hello ppl, finally after some hours of flying, now i can master the default 737. so, it is becoming a little bit "boring", and i was thinking moving to some of the 737 pay addons. i've found 3 main producer: 1 wilco pilot in command 737 2 ifly 737 ng 3 pmdg 737 wilco is no good couse is not dx10 capable and i do not want to go back dx9 (i've spent months tweaking and modding dx shaders and now is quite perfect on my pc) so, ifly or pmdg? i do not want an extremely realistic and complex challenge. i just want to have a little bit more fun. from what i've heard pmdg is extremely hard and complex to manage (and fps killer too). is the ifly a little bit easier to fly than pmdg? thanks!

very late question: does aismooth atc speaks to the player also? i mean is it possible that it gives you commands other than the ai? if so, is there a way to make it speak and write just the atc messages for the player?

thanks i will looking forward them

Hello, today the ATC cleared me to land (@ Instanbul) runway 16L ILS... it was ZERO visibility but ILS aligned me good. As i began to see the runway, there was an ai plane on it taking off and... BOOM. ATC cleared me, and then didnt said me nothing, no go around... weird I am using mytrafficX 5.4.

quite same issue here. i got a surround moded 3 monitors making one big 4088*800 display, plus one external identified as second display at 800*600. in DX9 no problem, i can play using the external for the ATC. in DX10 the resolution is all messed up in both displays. any solution found? ...sad...

Hello! I tried searching but didn't find an answer. Doeas anyone knows how halo.bmp works? I mean, there are four shining lights in the bitmap and i would like to know each one what affect what (runways, beacon, strobe...) I know i could found it out my self trying and testing, but if only someone just knows... I could save hours of trials. Thanks a lot!

late answer: Rex use just "runway11.dds" replacement for concrete runways, and "runway12.dds" replacement for asphalt runways. I found out that many other STOCK airports uses different .dds (ie runway19.dds, ruway20.dds and so on...) So for example i can see rex runways @ KJFK, but not in LIRF... (and not in any other italian airports....:-( ) First backup your runways textures. Using a dds viewer open the runways dds in the fsx texture folder and check wich are asphalt or concrete, and note them. Then copy the same "runway12.dds" and "runway11.dds" respectively for asphalt and cocrete that comes with rex (in rex installation folder Images/Runways) into FSX texture folder, making multiple copies of the same file and reneme them accordingly to the original runwayXX.dds you see.

it is not entirely about REX... the bug is about DX10 wich i assume robert is running. the fix for your precise problem is from Steve.

late answer: get STEVE'S fix. search google for "steve fsx analysis".

well, everybody here is going absolutely OFFTOPIC. fallback ONTOPIC, and i can happily say that i solved my overclocking problems. re-summarizing my specs: cpu: Intel quad core duo extreme QX9650 motherboard: Nviida 780i gpu: GTX 295 ram: 8 GB windows 7 64-bit ultimate Now from 3ghz to 4ghz i can see a very good increase of +15/ +18 fps. Now i run @ 40-50 fps in low-normal density areas, and 28-30 in very high density. FSX + UTX + GEX + REX, settings quite all maxed out @ 4088px X 800px triple displays bezel corrected + bloom (wich i love). I made A LOT of things to get it, but the most important was: switching to DX10 (using STEVE'S fixes) and using old version 301 nvidia drivers (following NICKN'S settings, apart from VSync wich i left "unlimited").

it worked. rex staff didnt noticed that... :rolleyes: meh.

Rex use "runway11.dds" replacement for concrete runways, and "runway12.dds" replacement for asphalt runways. I found out that many other STOCK airports uses different .dds (ie runway19.dds, ruway20.dds and so on...) So for example i can see rex runways @ KJFK, but not in LIRF... (and not in any other italian airports....:-( ) So my question is: is there a way to tell FSX to use ONLY "runway12.dds" for EVERY airports? Uhm... got myself an answer right now while i am writing.... just copy the same "runway12.dds" that comes with rex, make multiple copies and reneme them accordingly..... maybe it could work.

First of all, steve and martin thanks for sharing your knowledge. Well, about the 4ghz OC, yes it is stable with Prime95 stress tool. About ram settings, if you are talking about timings i left them default, everybody says that tuning the ram won't give you that boost. About fixed frames and pre-rendered frames, i tryied almost everything, and best settings for me are two: 1 - from nvInspector: vsync 1/2 refresh rate, unlimited frames in fsx settings, and 2 prerendered frames. 2 - no vsync at all, unlimited framerate in app setting, 1 or 2 prerendered framerates. with the first i get 30fps fixed (ofcourse because of the 1/2 of monitor's 60hz) in "lightweight" areas, but dropdown 10-11 at high density area. with the second the increase in lighweight areas is not that much, about 38-40fps, but i can see a resonable increase at dense areas 19-20fps anyway @ KJFK it is ALWAYS 14-15fps... no matter the settings...... i do not use bufferpools, and the FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION is default 0.33, because i tryed every settings for it and didnt notice ANY DIFFERENCE.... After one month of try and trial i can say that ANY TWEAK ADDED TO THE DEFAULT CFG IS A MYTH.

thanks martin.. but it still do not make enough sense to me. you say that going from Cpu 3ghz to 4ghz "You should definitely see a reasonable increase in frame rate". i didnt had any increase, but you agree with me that i had to see an increase anyway, despite of what kind of Gpu i got... i mean... gtx295 + cpu @3ghz = 15fps gtx295 + cpu @4ghz = 15fps if i upgrade gpu gtx680 + cpu @3ghz = let's say, 40fps gtx680 + cpu @4ghz = if there is any logic, always 40fps... so the problem here is not the gpu i am using... it is the fact that there is no increase @4ghz of cpu.

thank you all for the solidarity. anyway i tried everythin i had to try, with no satisfing results. lets go a little bit off topic for a moment: is xplane better coded? is it fps friendlier than fsx?

thats the point. people keep saying fsx is all about cpu. i prefere to say fsx is all about luck... i got a QX9650 (best 775 cpu ever, can be compared to i5) @ 4.1ghz xfx 780i gtx 295 8gig of ram and i run at 15 fps in jfk with that damn lightstuffplane... fresh install. no addons. followed most common tricks in cfg. settings mid-to-low. and this is the maximum i can get after ONE MONTH of try-n-trial. nonsense. i give up.

simmerhead, did it made sense to you in some way?...

@ skiboj GTX295. not that good, but nor that poor... @ Simmerhead i see

Hello ppl, I was totally disapponted when i realized that in KFJK with the lightweight plane i got 15 fps @ 3.0ghz, and same 15 fps @4.0ghz. I think i will give up trying to make out the best from FSX. It is a challenge full of nonsenses and conflicts. By the way, cpu is QX9650......

Ok, at least i installed REXess. At first i choose to install just the textures and it was like "uhm, ok, a little bit better quality... nothing awesome"... Then i tried the weather engine....... and i was like O___o OMG WOOOOOW!!! It is absolutely stunning!!!!!! It looks like a totally different videogame. Anyway to use the weather engine i always have to open REX. And ok, it is not that terrible. The other thing i do not like is that when it inject the weather data (each 15 mins) the visual changes are very "sudden". You know what i mean? Is there a solution for it? Thanks so much!

thats great! thank you

glad to hear all these good comments! well, i was asking if there is a "save and forget" options in the setup of rex. i mean i do not want to use the rex interface everytime. i prefere to use fsx interface to start a flight. if i start a filght using fsx planner and weather options (i.e. real world weather), will the flight have the beautiful rex clouds?

hey Steve thanks for your reply! Ok, so i think i will go for it. Have a nice day