Douglas729

Okay, if you are like myself and you don't even install GeForce Experience then you can skip this all-together. However if you do have GeForce Experience installed with the NVIDIA Streaming enabled and if you are not using that feature, you might want to disable it. A user called PC Master Race noticed he could tweak performance by disabling the 'NVIDIA Streaming' Windows service. In fact that feature apparently eats up 3 to 5% of your framerate when activated. Here's the kicker, if GeForce Experience is installed, it will automatically enable itself. http://www.guru3d.com/news-story/improve-geforce-gtx-series-performance-with-a-handy-tweak.html

It's one thing to be born on Christmas. It's another thing entirely to pass away between Good Friday and Easter. My prayers are ascending to meet him. Father Douglas

I have FSX on a good PC but I have FSX Steam on a good laptop near the living room. Next week I'll use Steam In Home Streaming to use the laptop as the host and a small HTPC as a client and fly in front of my big screen TV without moving a thing. Ethernet cable is the preferred medium for indistinguishable latency and any decent used PC or laptop can be the client. http://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/steam-in-home-streaming-guide-troubleshooting.208918/ Cost? a 25 ft. cable. I get a great deal of pleasure from my own axiom- "a good Welshman can not only fix that which he has little knowledge of but intuitively make it better than it was when it worked"

I too love this country from Moab southwest to the Hoover Dam. Aerosoft's Las Vegas at night becomes like an aerial amusement park.

but to claim one's use of an 'improper' noun is a matter of semantics.

Gentleman Semantics is not geography...linguistics belong to only he who speaks it. 'language form, language meaning, and language in context'

Images must be hosted on your own image server site, such as Drop Box, Google Drive, Photobucket.com, OZx Image Hosting, or a website that you own... Homey don't play dat.

GEX NA V2.00 300-5000 ft. Your Elevation May Vary I am a flight sim glider pilot and professional musician with 20/20 vision and I've traveled from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego and beyond. The best compliment I can give Nick and the Flight1 crew is that when I return to Mount Denali. the Rocky Mountains or Lake Tahoe it looks exactly like I remember it, only the distant view is better. It's like flying through beautiful detailed semi-gloss postcards and that's just the way I like it. Mr. Vista

"I'm hugely in favour of trying out freeware solutions prior to investing money in payware." I only fly gliders from the 1100 ft. bluffs of the Mississippi to as far away as the Alps or the Himalayas so I'm often riding air waves close to ridges and mountains. It's that 2-500 ft distance from any object that sure looks good to me. I defer to the pilots who fly much higher that pretty much unanimously recommend FS Global.

My recommendations are subjective and based solely on my personal preferences. You could download and install Leclerq's Creation scenery and FTX Greenland Demo and make a comparison for yourself.

If you like to fly 'heavy and high' FTXG is a very good product. If you prefer 'low and slow' and enjoy the scenery like I do with a glider here are my two preferences- 1. Aime Leclercq's free textures of trees, fields, rocks and mountains- https://sites.google.com/site/aimecreations/freeware-fsx 2. Ground Environment X (GEX) are great textures about $35 per continent. Scenery Tech is a good standard landclass product for either scenery choice.

The term 'beefy hardware' seems only applicable when flying beefy aircraft. I enjoy gliding the Alps in either FSX on a Mini-ITX or FSX:SE on a laptop both with borderline hardware and both without a hiccup. I like the responsibility of pulling my own weight and occasionally avoiding a near miss due to flying by the seat of my pants....it's fun and takes some balls. I respect those that fly an Airbus but you can understand I'm certainly not motivated to fly one myself considering all the quandaries associated with the heavy hardware involved. 'ignorance is bliss'

Friends I don't think I can afford flying to Hawaii's Mauna Kea Observatories this winter but with imagination and some technical know-how I went anyway. My Virtual Reality Vacation Douglas Imagineer

FSX loves gliders but I'm only aware of the Discus X b versions and the free Soar_DG 808S. If you need to go fast push v for slew and use the joystick to relocate at 75 miles a minute.

On FSX:SE I'm gliding the Alps on a i7 mobile laptop with scenery sliders at the max!