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I also use Process Lasso. Process Lasso is the best way in my opinion as it's so flexible and so easy to use, no need to go into bios to turn HT on or off, you can choose to have HT on or off on a per Application basis, and once you have decided what cores and hyperthreading mode you would like an application to use, Process Lasso remembers your settings for that app and will automatically apply them when you boot up your desired program. I use it to allocate some of my e-cores on my 13600KF to run external apps like one e-core assigned to FS Realistic Pro, another e-core to run FSLTL, another e-core to run AnyoneFly etc etc. You can also tell Process Lasso to always run MSFS with High Priority all the time with one simple click, or instantly make MSFS use maximum performance CPU mode with one click etc. I would argue it's almost indispensable if you are running a 12/13/14 series intel. It's also handy for non MSFS related gaming stuff, a few examples: Star Wars Empire at War rts game. There are a load of great community mods for this old game, but it runs really poorly on my 13600KF as it was only really designed to run dual-core so you get about 10 frames a second. With Process Lasso I just set the game to use 2 cores and bang. 60fps smooth as silk. Fire and forget, I never have to bother setting the affinity for that game ever again whenever I run it. Assassins Creed Odyssey, When the game loads up under normal circumstances on my 13600KF, it doesn't appear to enable any of my e-cores. Now the game still runs great apart from randomly freezing for 5 seconds when you are playing. No rhyme or reason to it, just completely random. It never crashes just freezes for 5 seconds then carries on as normal. I use Process Lasso to enable all my cores for the game, and it now runs butter smooth all of the time. No more freezing.

Aren't Saitek owned by Mad Catz now? Mad Catz reduced their workforce by 37% in February, due to terrible sales of the Instruments they made for Rock Band 4. I wonder if this has had a knock-on effect? http://arstechnica.co.uk/gaming/2016/02/rock-band-4-cant-save-a-struggling-mad-catz/

My name is 4L0M, and I have a problem. Sunday, British Grand Prix, Max Verstappen did a great overtake on Nico Rosberg and I was too busy looking at the clouds over Silverstone. I then turned over to the Wimbledon final and when the camera panned out to the arena shots of the majestic looking Centre Court........ I was looking at the bloody clouds! Lol. I think I may need professional help.

You do have the Steam client installed on the pc in question, and are not visiting steam through chrome or Firefox etc? You need to download the steam client to your pc, install it. Run it, login using your steam name and password, then click on the "Library" tab, and all games that you have ever purchased through steam will be shown there. Games that are currently installed on your pc show up in white, and games that you have purchased, but have not installed show up in grey.

Download onto your laptop via steam. As stated above, steam installs the game automatically,but once you have an install on your laptop, right click on fsx : se edition in your steam library, choose "Backup game files", choose "custom size" and make the custom size a couple of m/bytes bigger than your FSX se folder (sorry, but I can't remember how big it is off the top of my head), and choose where you want to back it up (you could back it up to a 32gb memory stick for example) or onto multiple dvd's. You can then pop the memory stick into your sim rig at home and there will be an installer.exe in the backup folder that you can run to install it onto your sim rig without ever having to download it ever again.

I don't know what shader mods you have used before for this to happen, but I use reshade/sweetfx 2.0 in FSX, and all it does is add a .Dll file (in my case it adds dxgi.Dll) to your main FSX directory and a folder called sweetfx which contains your shader settings. If you want to get rid of shader mod, you just have to delete the dxgi.dll file. That's it. Nothing else is touched.

My findings above were with 4xSGAA. Performance seems slightly smoother than ASN with same settings.

Jim, I took the screen shots in question, not this npole guy. The shots are totally unedited. As stated above, I also posted shots in this thread that look great. Due to the nature of ASCA being dynamic, sometimes it's going to look great, sometimes not so much. As I spent over £80 this morning on upgrades for FSX and P3D, and ASCA I personally would love it be the greatest thing ever. If I'm brutally honest, I think the price is too expensive as it is, I also think that making FSX and P3d versions separate is also wrong. At the very least I personally think it would have been fairer to the community to have offered a bundle deal for a slightly lower price if you wanted to buy all 3 products at the same time, but as I wouldn't have had half the enjoyment flying without their weather engines over the years, hifi are probably the one company that I would have shelled out this much price wise. It's only day 1, I'm sure hifi will tweak it and make it better over the coming months like they normally do with their products. The actual AS16 itself is excellent.

AS16 so far appears to be very good. Performance (only tried in FSX so far, but I did also buy it for P3d), compared to ASN seems to be better, it's definitely no worse, but I do feel it runs weather depiction, especially in rain and stormy weather smoother.

I took the screenshots in question, there was Nothing "wrong" about them. I DO use sweetfx, but they looked equally hideous without sweetfx, as I also disabled it to test. Now, I also posted a few shots in this thread that DO look good. The nature of "dynamic" texture generation leads to the fact that sometimes ASCA will look awful, sometimes it's going to look spectacular. My mine gripe is more with the sky textures, some of them are plain odd, but the sky texture generation can be turned off, but you can still have the clouds change dynamically, so that's not too much of a problem. The cloud sets maybe better if they were labelled into areas, such as a Europe set, Caribbean set etc, as the "wrong" shots in question were taken over Heathrow and the sky certainly didn't look anything like that in the UK today, it was far more grey than those super white fluffy clouds depict. The actual AS16 itself is excellent, performance is really good, even compared to ASN. One question, is there any way to stop ASCA loading up automatically everytime I run AS16? Regards!

Have you updated your graphics card drivers recently? After a Nvidia driver update, your graphics card output will always default itself to "Limited" dynamic output range, this definitely makes the colours more "muted" than normal. You have to manually go into Nvidia control panel and turn the "Output Dynamic Range" setting back to "FULL".

AS16 ASCA : AS16 & Rex Soft Clouds : Started flight with AS16 & Rex Installed, took shots, paused flight, started ASCA which then injected texture set into same flight. To be fair, I don't think ASCA looks too bad on these, but I still prefer Rex personally. The actual AS16 weather engine itself seems be be pretty good in itself, but whether its a $29.99 worth of Upgrade is debatable.

I bought for FSX, P3D and the Active Sky Cloud Art as upgrades to ASN, cost me over £80, which in my opinion is a complete joke. So far only tested in FSX. Pro's : Easy to setup, Performance seems ever so slightly better than Active Sky Next, definitely no worse. Didn't need to uninstall ASN, this made the upgrade process easier as AS16 automatically found my ASN key when installing. Only tried the "Global" configuration so far, where AS16 uses ASCA to inject texures on the fly. Cons : Clouds so far, look pretty unnatural to me, they look, too clean possibly? If that makes sense. I do use sweetfx if that has any bearing, although sweetfx looks great with Rex Clouds. Another BIG con so far. My FSX has crashed to desktop twice this morning, once when I was going into cloud and the cloud textures started to flow over the front of the Aircraft ( which did look pretty cool ) and once on runway a second after ASCA had finished injecting textures. My FSX has NEVER ever crashed since it has been installed for months with ASN and REX soft Clouds, yet 2 crashes in the space of an hour this morning after installing AS16 and ASCA. Shots in FSX, Haven't had time to install into P3D yet. Regards ! EDIT : For clarification, FSX was set to Max cloud coverage, 90N/M, AS16 settings were all default and I HAVE installed the additional 1GB+ HD Texture pack.

In your FSX folder, there should be a folder called Dlc. Inside this folder will be folders incredibly inconveniently named as numbers. Have a look in one of them ( You will only have multiple folders if you have bought multiple dlc's, if you have only bought rex, then you will only have one numbered folder). It should be in there somewhere.

Thanks petkez, but I already own a 55" 4k HDR 3D Sony BRAVIA android TV, and I already run P3D in sli, I just wondered if I would get any performance gain by chucking my other 970gtx into my rig for Three way SLI.