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Jim, thank you very much for the info!

Hello again fellow simmers! I've seen some videos of the PMDG 737 ngx where people had different custom cabins and seats etc... and windows looking realistic (dirty)...... Could anyone please advise on how to get that? all my cabins with different liveries look the same.... Thank you!!!

James, thanks for the links, they helped A LOT. I've downloaded the pdf with tweaks and used those cfg settings and tubed them a little bit and then tweaked with venetube again and then tuned again It was very usefull to start this discussion here for me and I would like to thank all contributing fellow flight simers!

James, you pics look great!!! Will give it a try too.

What about the temperatures? Everybody in the forums is warning me not to overclock.....but there would not be an option like that if it would be that dangerous I think.... Do you have extra cooling? Thanks.

Thank you Jordan! I'll try to go with your Nvidia settings. Regarding the smartassembly - I've found in the forums here that the latesr FSUCIP update 4.90 fixes the problem, and apparently it did for me too....fingers crossed. Also, I am thinking of changing my HDD to a SSD for FSX purposes. Currently I have an OS SSD 128GB (not enough space for fsx) and a HDD 750 GB....but the HD is slow as hell..... I think running the fsx from a SSD will get it flyin smoothly.... Thank you!

Jordan. thanks man! I will try your settings....the only difference between our settings is that I have C1E and BD PROCHOT checked and you don't . Anyway, I got a raise in fps more or less to a level where it is nice to fly except for the 3D cockpit where the fps range from 10 to 20 having 13-15 on average. So, I'll get there. The only huge problem now is the SMARTASSEMBLY ERROR that still keeps on killing me. Could any of you guys send me a link to a working (fsx) version of the UIAutomationCore.dll file? I would very much appreciate it! Thanks in advance!

Well, I used Throttle Stop, looked a little better at first but not a lot, not at all. Temperatures got as high as 90C..... that's not quite dangerous is it?

No, no such option I bios, only the OC option, I got confused. Will try ThruttleStop, looking at tutorials on youtube. Also a strange thing happened, after finishing a flight and trying to close FSX a fatal error occurs now..... this FSX software just never gets tired of bringing fun into your life does it? I've been finetuning in for the last week!!!! I mean, a whole week!

I live in Moscow, and its still hot outside now during the summer but not as hot as in Jamaica obviously. So, do you suggest I do throttle stop via BIOS if it supports it or better via Throttle Stop utility? thx!

Jordan, so you are saying that FSX runs fine on your laptop? Therefore I don't see a reason why I cant do the same. And you don't have throttle stop I guess.....does your cpu overheat? Thanx.

As a matter of fact I do have an OC option in my Alienware bios

Not an option, just recently got my Alienware...cant give up that easily, will fight to get FSX to work! Everything else besides fsx runs great

Thanks guys! I see in Alienware forums that I'm not the only one having this problem on certain games. Will look into these things and post my results...

Thanks for the replies. Yes, I downloaded the UIAutomationcore.dll couple of days ago and it helped preventing crashes from the menu of the game. Anyway, I deleted GEX Europe and only left UTX and ORBX Europe England (I think orbx besides England also affects the rest of Europe) and was able to finish the flight okay. Perhaps the problem was the conflict between GEX and Orbx because the crashes occurred right when I was leaving England and therefore the smartassembly errors. OC will be my last option of course. I will do some research before I do it and will try to get the fps up without it. And again, thanks for the help! :smile:

On second though, the smartassembly error could be due to a possible conflict between ORBX England and GEX Europe..... ??

There is no way I am going to blame you guys! The power supply is 240W .... that's all I know... Well, the FPS were good until the middle of the flight from EGKK to EHAM (I'm doing this PMDG tutorial)......and just before descent they dropped like crazy down to 5! I was above the sea, so there is not mush of scenery going on.... very strange. And then I keep getting this smartassembly error right after I start to descend and crash to desktop.... :mad: I did download the 14 day trial of smartassembly but it don't help. Also run FSX in Vista service pack 2 compatibility mode since I have Windows 8. The fps problem I almost fixed...and now this Oh and yeah, first I got a small drop in FPS when I started recording my flight. Somehow I got a gut feeling that recording a flight or playing a flight back has something to do with this smartassembly error.....

Okay, somehow the FPS at that Gatwick airport with all of the addons got up to 18-24 fps!!!! I installed game booster 2 which shuts down most processes and also performed FSX defrag using the same software and set fps to 35 on the NVidia inspector. it wasn't on before as I thought. Well I think I will give the OC a try sometime just to see the difference. My standard desktop temperature is 33-37 C

Thanks for the replies!!!!! Well, actually I am quite impressed with Alienware so far! Fine laptop. If money will allow I will stick to the brand. Bergman, So for tweaking I used Venetube. In my fsx.cfg file I only found this about bufflepools: [bufferPools] Should I add a line like: bufferpools = 0 And where exactly do I add it into? Shamrock, so you also have a CPU @ 2.8 but you overclocked it? How dangerous will it be to overclock my laptop you think? I only have extra fan cooling under the laptop. Thanks again!

Hi again everyone! I got a little big question here. I am seriously low on FPS (around 10) when starting a flight at Gatwick with a Gatwick addon + ORBX England +Active Sky +Ultimate Traffic and using PMDG 737 ngx. GEX Europe UTX Europe as well, but I think Orbx England overwrote them. The scenery is quite nice actually. BUT impossible to fly due to the low fps of course. In Insbruck X I get aroung 14 fps, not much of a difference. Anywere else in the word without scenery addons or modifications I get 30-40 no problem. My specs are: Alienware m17x r4, Intel Core i7 3840QM CPU @ 2,80 GHz, RAM 16, GTX 680M. I got this computer in hopes to fly FSX at good speed..... I already tweaked fsx.cfg, limited the fps to 40 via NVidia inspector but still get 10 fps.... Question is - should I hyperthread my processor and overlock the graphics card? how dangerous can it be for the laptop? Thank you!

Oli, thanks, I knew that, but i actually wanted the flight to start in full screen mode by default. Okay, after restarting the computer it opens in full screen mode now. Thanks.

Hi everyone! Finally got my FSX to work properly on windows 8. But it keeps on opening in a separate window when I start a flight and I don't want that. Tried just about everything. Any ideas? Maybe I should edit something in the fsx.cfg file? Thank you!