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Aftab. Glad you solved your issue. I found your reply interesting regarding the livery choice. I will try Tiger and a few others to investigate. I think it would be in any aircraft developers interest to attempt to create VR friendly aircraft. I do indeed think VR has a big future. I did order another sensor from Oculus, they seem to be in short supply, back ordered. I have not ordered Leap Motion. I was waiting to read how well the Oculus Touch Controllers function in a Flight Sim? How well do you like the Leap Motion controller & software? It looks to me like a slider or press is very good but a button twist is a bit tougher to accomplish? I suppose one could revert to the revert button and use the blue dot? Dan Church is a man I have faith in. He has done a fabulous job so far and I don't think he will stop until it's done a a viable, finished first class FS application. I had an eye problem 16 years ago when retiring, cataracts, had two brand new silicone I think lenses installed in Boston. A new world seemed to open up. In any event I think perhaps Leap Motion will win the day. I have been busy building cabinets, installing s sink, garbage disposer and associated fixtures and plumbing. Waiting for counter top contractor, should have done myself. The say they cannot cut an exact matching curve around a farm house sink. Had to show them how? As soon as I get some time I will most likely order Leap Motion Controllers. Dan did make the hands look a lot better. Next feedback glove would be, I think, the next step. It would be a big one I believe because it seems to me they would more adapt at squeezing/twisting? Will be good to read your thoughts! Best BaldyB

Aftab something isn't right!Your machine should blow mine right out of the water! I run a ASUS Sabertooth Gen.1, AMD 8053, 8GB Gskil ddr3 1600 Mhz Memory, And an RX-480. Run AS, Soft clouds. GSX, my great grandson loves to watch GSX when I'm not flying. I only run Steam Edition of FSX. I never have OOM's,no screen door effect. i saw a picture of it on line. I would never put up with the screen door deal. I would have brought it back instantly. I had the PMDG 777-200 FedX fly from KLAX to KBOS Xmas eve. Showed all my company visiting VR. I'm talking 14 people. After they were gone it was time to land. I did pause the flight for a time. Landing im Boston at night in VR was really a blast. Passing over Deer Island where I actually worked and looking down felt real. You must need a driver update or have some other issue. Asi say, your machine should much more capable than mine. Yet I do not see your issues. Best BaldyB

The switches and buttons are in the cockpit. Your yoke or flight stick is out side. I just feel it like the hood is of. I seeit react to my touch inside the cockpit. It's the feeling of being IN the cockpit that makes the difference. The way VR's immersion grabs you is what makes the difference, your there IN the plane, not in front of a picture! Many things, almost all can be controlled by key presses with putting the focus on a button or switch using a blue dot on the controlling image. It consists of an <X>, the X shuts off and the < switches one and the > the other way. A simple press is to put the blue dot on the button and click the revert key. The revert key is any button on your Yoke, flight stick, throttle or linked key you want. I use the trigger key on my C&H yoke, the right one. You do need to do things a bit differently and PMDG aircraft are tougher to use, but of course, are well worth the effort IMHO. Leap Motion is very new. Those white glove like hands you see in video's are able to do things like move flap levers and push buttons, also flip toggle switches pretty well. Turning knobs is still a work in progress. The answer in opinion is to wear a lite pair of gloves with tactical feedback sensors. They are in service today in other places. My grandson had a vest in the Army. When he got shot in war games he felt a pretty good tap at or near that spot he got hit at, that's tactical feedback All of those things I speak of exist! They simply have not been assembled into way to serve our community, OR insome cases may still be a bit expensive or whatever. All that will change quickly IMHO. Best BaldyB ack

In Flyinside i get 35/90/ 45 Actual 90 FPS is what the Warp Speed setup. It looks to the user like 90FPS because the software shows an extra frame between frames. Read about it on Flyinsides message boards. Flyind-fsx.com Best BaldyB

With all due respect how do you evaluate something you have not checked out? I fly the PMDG 777-200 and 300-in Flyinside with VR. It's a Beta, a public Beta! Again with all due respect, I need to turn knobs and switch...switches. It's Beta! With anything new and under development you will need to make corrections, add features, KILL bugs. bugs Etc. Some look at unfinished work and judge it like it's done. Some don't even look at the work and proclaim it junk, not ready, etc . They have that right but, it's not constructive. I've seen those same individuals complain about the price of the so called junk when it is released,why? They want to buy that junk? To each his own i guess. best BaldyB PS: The PMDG 777 does not Fly Itself, no matter where it is.

Thanks for the early adopter salute! What you say is all true to a point and may be correct in a technical sense. My point is I was able to make it flyable enough for me to enjoy to the point I would rather use it than not. it is true that early adopters drive the whole works. When you are a small firm requiring kick start funds to get going you may need to go with a public Beta. Best! BaldyB

Sounds like good advice to me. One of the best things I did was take( i think it was Dan's?) Advice and go into PMDG's 777-220 aircraft .cfg file to the view section and adjust the numbers. You can place yourself where you want/ need to be in the cockpit. The first number in a reference numbers location which in my aircraft is 80' in front of the plane. Decrease move forward increase move back etc. The other 2 numbers are up/down and left/right. You will find it in the WIKI now. After doing this I found myself in the seat, not slightly behind or off center etc. When I change views I go back where I belong instead of finding myself in a different, some times somewhat crazy, position. If you ever take off with your head sticking out of the cockpits roof you will have an idea of what I speak of. In VR you want your goggles. Sometimes I will go back to VC and find myself under the floor boards looking at the landing gear, A nice view for inspecting your brakes etc., but not at FL300. When you do that adjustment do it from inside Flyinside and alt./tab back and forth, that way you can see the results then and there. The panel became markedly clearer to me afterwards also. Best BaldyB

Used it on many occasions to deliver BIG starters and generators for the big coal loading cranes in the great lakes. So your right on! It was like and could be used as a powerful airborne pickup truck. Best. BaldyB

It\s been demonstrated that Ryzen runs at in much lower power envelope. It does have lots of headroom to run at a much higher frequency because of that fact. Game developers have been a lazy lot when writing code for games. The name of the game was ' Make single threaded apps., go fast, period. Most games are 32 bit, single threaded! They are starting to run out room and see the value in engines like the Vulkan you can only offer so much with single 32 bits. DX12 with Vulkan will offer so much more. It's able to utilize sym., multi core threading. If memory serves the first 4 cores can operate in a multi threaded way at the same time. That along with 64 Bits gives you Tera Bytes of memory usage as opposed to 3-4 with 32 bits Bigger games/ larger worlds, way, way, less HD file swapping which results in much lower latency game wise. RYZEN has demonstrated the 40% increase in IPC. I see folks on the net saying I have to see this or that, it's not proven. The facts are that AMD did prove the 40% increase in IPC! My grandson works for Oracle. He said Intel was the only one who ever made good sever chips. He is in sales! I told him to ask around, he did. Only to discover that LE was one of the first to employ AMD's Opterons in a huge service center. He said "I was surprised, I never knew that." I said you were not born yet. I will not make a mistake and judge any chip until the dust settles. I know Jim Kellers work. Screw up when building a new machine and you may find yourself paying a lot more money for a lot less. A buddy has a GTX 970, it's a nice card. He was blown away when he tried my machine with the RX-480. I needed a better card for Oculus's Rift VR setup. Needed the card and some good 3.0 USB ports in order to pass the Oculus test. Didn't want to pay $$$ for NVidia. Picked up the RX-480 for $239.00. My friend was surprised. I told him I' waiting for AMD Vega or the RX-490 which may be like the R-290Pro only much faster. The RX-490 may be a dual GPU setup? FSX with Flyinside VR blew everyone mind Xmas eve. "Wow I'm sitting IN the plane", "This is too much", she was waving her hand around, asked what she needed, " I'm trying to put my glasses on the other seat" , of course her hand falls thru empty space! A few actually got a little sick from motion sickness. The next round of CPU's and Graphics power will create a surge in VR. It wont be for everyone but for those who like flight sims it is as real as it gets. Happy new year! BaldyB

Curious? What VR system are you using for VR? Using Oculus Flyinside, it's Beta but lots of fun to work with, I have it very working pretty well now. BaldyB Denis Bolduc

In real life i often Flew a piper Cherokee 235 6 place aircraft. Had a big lycoming engine. When you flew alone it felt like a jet. Flew like a dream and got off the ground in a hurry. used to land on a short field and the guy said (He was an old WWII fighter pilot) boy you like to hang it the prop., don't yha? But he had a smile and got right in, that's what counted for me. BaldyB Denis Bolduc

Just kidding Boomer! Happy new year. baldyB Denis Bolduc

I resisted Win 10 until the upgrade time ended. I could not get Win 7 updates in a timely manner. found a way to get around that only to have MS or whoever they were using for a gate keeper finding me out and shutting me out. I did DLoad an ISO and put it on the side, I thought after doing so they would get OFF my back! Of course it didn't happen. I was busy a few times an was trying to do updates but had to leave my machine. Came back to see Win 10 all but setup on it? Had to let it finish and promptly did a reset to revert back to Win 7. They were a PITA$$. FSX was not behaving right at the time. It had been on the machine for a long, long time. I felt there was a lot of garbage included in it's files, that/s how it felt to me at least. Their were some missing hooks for sure. Had a side by side install, that turned out to be a bad idea! My old HD was getting a bit wonky, was starting to sound like an old cement mixer i own. Stuck a seagate 1 TB hd for storage and bought a new Sandisk SSD 500 GB Extreme Pro and used the Win 10 ISO. I was reading that Win 10 and FSX were getting along well with one another. A good friend who has been involved in computer tech as I have since the Sinclair felt the same and was already using Win 10 to boot. It was well past the free Win 10 date but what the hell, gave it a try. Had no problems whatever. It went on slick as ... never mind, it went perfect! With the SSD it booted like lightning, i mean fast. After doing a little updating of my brain by some reading regarding FSX variants and reading about FSX-SE's re-compile and improvements in VAS and memory functionality I decided to give it a try. I did so and never looked back. I noticed all my FSX folders were named FSX NOT FSX_SE. I knew that was a good thing! The second thing I realized was that even with my somewhat tired machine the fluidity was excellent and I saw an increase in FPS. That did it for me. I went thru all the upgrades that others claimed broke their stuff with 0 problems of any in that regard on my rig??? I then decided to purchase a copy of Win 10 for another networked machine I use. After installing, again with 0 problems i noticed re-networking the machines was a breeze AND with the more robust networking security was actually enhanced somewhat. i will not go into details here. Ms likes to stick it's nose where it doesn't belong. their are many online guides to shut some doors on that. The bottom line IMHO is Win 10 is a decent OS. I found it to be faster and as, if not, more stable in it's present form than Win 7. Happy New Year. BaldyB

IMHO the future of Flight sims is in VR. If you have not tried it you cannot understand where I and those who have are coming from. It's difficult to describe the feeling of being in the cockpit rather than in front of a monitor. Some who have tried VR were, it seems, quick to disregard it as not ready! They are indeed partly right and/or right with certain aspects of VR. It is new and the FS Apps like Flyinside are Beta and a work in progress. I have however used it along with the Oculus Rift CV1 version. Found some work around methods and tweaks to make a very flyable. The only problem i see is the fact that some folks actually get motion sickness when in the VR world. I had a dozen people try VR Xmas eve after dinner. I just wanted there reaction to a VR look see. All were amazed at the realism and the feeling of being there. Those who got sick in a few minutes really felt it. My daughter reacted very much like when we flew to Disney World a few years back, somewhat queezy. A few of my friends who tried and quit FSM's before FSX even came out as being too toy like Claimed they will give FS's with VR another good look and asked if I would let them come back again for another session, which of course I agreed to. What are friends for? A new much more robust round of hardware will be arriving shortly. AMD's intro of new CPU's and Platforms will push the big guy to compete and lower some prices. Competition is good. Same goes for graphics I just installed an ATI RX-480 and it was needed to use Oculus VR according to their test. It's graphics power was a surprise. I expected less to be honest. An ATI R9-390 4Gb would not pass the Oculus test. I paid more for it! After the little demo I had arranged I landed in Boston, it was off the charts in VR. It makes me feel like my monitor ( A BenQ 1ms wide 30" or whatever, I forget here, monitor.) sucks. You have a different perspective when approaching the runway, it's so real you want to bring her down by hand. Hard to describe. The tweaks I found and work arounds I found are posted on Flyinside-fsx website if you have any interest. Happy new year! BaldyC

One other thing you may want to check. When installing new hardware, I'm sure you didn't forget (I I have momentarily) that many drivers that come on the CD's that accompany the hardware may not be up to date. Mother board BIOS's for example are usually updated often with a new unit or revision. Same for Video and chip set drivers etc. A fair amount of time can elapse between manufacture and user use. These items can have a profound effect on performance sometimes. Good luck. BaldyB Denis Bolduc

Steve, you are one hell of a good painter! Happy New year. BaldyB

No they were working hard, holiday or not. They want to make sure Boomer has a VPP, they came up with the concept for Boomer and Boomer alone. Oh, a VPP is a "Virtual Private Pipe" . Boomer is in such a hurry for the Queen PMDG is fearfull he may have a heart attack! Does that ex-plane it? Happy New year!!! BaldyB

Nothing sub standard about your CPU and Video. 16 Gb of ram is more than enough. What OS, Is your FSX Steam Edition installed on. Is it a side by side install with FSX boxed or a stand alone install. If a stand alone install, or otherwise actually, did you shut down any malware, virus, or other apps running in the background? Did you adjust your user control settings to as low as possible and launch all install apps as Administrator? Did you go into RegEdit and delete any and all references that point to FSX prior installs? Doing all of the above leaves you a clean slate and a solid foundation on which to install FSX Steam or any other FSX variant. That includes the Boxed editions and or side by side installs which do NOT play well together.. Choices: Fsx Steam Edition has been re-compiled using a newer more efficient optimizing software set. It is much more efficient at using resources like VAS (Virtual address space) and releases textures and the like which are no longer in focus, frees up a lot of memory not in use. That's a very good thing! After doing the above If I were you I would make a clean FSX Steam Edition install. If you follow the common sense rules I laid out above you will have NO problems running FSX in a manner that gives you fluidity. FPS is one thing, having a fluid stutter free experience is another. have seen high FPS with stuttering and tearing etc., no fun in that! Happy New Year BaldyB

Using Oculus Rift and Flyinside, is for me a new and pretty darn good deal. Flyinside is Beta and a little raw but I have been able to make it more than just flyable. I set up a flight from LAX to Boston long before family and friends arrived for dinner and the evening last night. At the time I thought was right I asked if they knew anything about VR, they did not. A few said they heard of it but that's all. I introduced them to HMD and they put it on to take a look. They were all amazed, some got a little queezy, some said my stomach felt like I was in a real plane. The guy's I knew who tried FS's at some point said "I'm going to take another look at the flight sim game", " You mean all those systems with the switches and buttons etc., actually work". Most only saw FS9 or earlier stuff. I was able to set up Flyinside and to work around a few issues. I found adjusting the eye point in the 'VIEW' section of the air crafts ,cfg file put me in the seat and closer to the panel . This made seeing textures and reading numbers much better and more comfortable. Care full placement of the sensor/sensors makes a difference. The shimmering oversized mouse problem with respect to programing the FMC was cured for me by simply grabbing the double arrows just like when expanding the width of any other windows. The problem is it kicks you out of VR. You the need to "Enter the simulator" menu to get back in. You only need to do it when you start. it stays expanded after that, same as windows. When you do go back to the FMC you find a little cursor in the shape of the finger type that can fit over/to one button and is not oversized at all, perfect! We are talking Beta software. Dan Church is a dedicated man who will produce the goods, that I can see from my 81 years. The next round of VR hardware, computer power, video cards, and software will usher in a flood of interest in VR. Particularly in the flight sim community. I find it pleasurable to be involved in this, I know, not for everyone. Landing in Boston after mu guests left was off the charts, now monitors are only... Happy New Year! BaldyB

AMD's new architecture as benched against Intels best shows big promise. Remember the difference in wattage at the same clocks. If AMD wanted to increase performance it's an easy case. They could bump the speed up to 4-5.5 or more GHz at the cost of a bit more power. Don't be surprised if they do so if they have to at a later date. Jim Keller is the guy behind the Ryzen, As he stated, they brought me back and said they wanted to make a big swing, he did! The structure allows multi threading with all cores at the same time. Keller was a principle in the design and engineering of the Athlon 64. IMHO too many folks talk down AMD but many are younger kids who do not remember when all corporate users insisted on a second source. Intel enlisted AMD, run at the time by Jerry Sanders. Having licensed Intels tech they were free to make em go, and make em go they did! AMD was first to 1 GHz. They produced a x486 CPU that was faster than Intels. Did not please Intel, period. Intel had more than 1 fab by then so decided not to deal with AMD and renew any licensing arrangements. AMD did stumble a bit and built a fab they could hardly afford and at a bad time in the financial sense. The board hired a new CEO who had, IMHO a name in tech more by association than actual knowledge. They came to the conclusion more cores would cure all problems with sales in all segments of industry, I think, it did not. They then bought ATI that was a big Financial swing. Damn near put em out of business, but, in time saved their bacon. AMD was first and gave us 64bit's, Intel's people told me directly that Intel was actually first but AMD got hold if it and released it first. That was a lie! Water marks and time stamps told a different story. Intel was in such a hurry to grab the 64 bit glory they released a version that was missing some final code and attributes included in AMD's release. At the same time AMD intended to give it to the public for the good of all. Intel did grow to be a huge corporate entity. AMD was a midget in comparison, but, Intel was afraid of em so they did everything they could to crush a business 1/10ths it's size, they failed. AMD sued and won! The new CEO Dr. Sue Lu is not only a highly educated business woman, she is also an MIT graduate and Electrical Engineer who knows what she is talking about and listens to you, the user, the gamer, the innovative game developers. AMD/ATI next year are coming out with the Vega series of video cards. The AMD guy was holding a video graphics card with stacked memory the size of a brick. Turns out it has as many teraflops of graphics power as NVidia's unit that powers one of the driver less cars, but barley fit in it's trunk. Wont be the consumer version any time soon, maybe a year or two??? However a 12 Teraflop version I believe will be. that's double what we can get today. Yes indeed, I will indeed build a new Ryzen based AM4 socket based rig. I want to fly PMDG's and other good payware aircraft at a 100FPS like I used to with PMDG.s 747 in FS9. The two FX-57's were barn burners, some thought i was crazy, didn't care then, wont care next year. That Intel rep never got his wish, my AMD signs stayed on my doors and windows! Have a good New Year. BaldyB

Would you mean Mega Data? With it they can make fine wine OR, wreck your life! Happy New Year! BaldyB

Mike. I like all those things you mention! All done right have much merit, but you know even on this Xmas evening, while waiting for the Great grand kids and the rest, I fired up my machine and started a flight from LAX to Boston. I used the Oculus and Flyinside. After the folks were here for at time i asked if they would like to see something different? I was flying PMDG's FedEx 777-200 variant. I sat em my chair and helped em get the headset adjusted etc. It blew their minds. A few got motion sickness, just like when they tried flying for real they said. A few who I know for a fact did try flight sims before but quit they claimed because it was too toy like. Of course they never actually tried quality aircraft. "You mean ALL the Switches and Buttons work?". I have to look at this stuff again, this is amazing. Too be honest the graphics are not 100%. After tinkering with this app., Flyinside w/ Oculus I have managed to make it much better. Adjusting the eye-point in the aircraft's cfg. file I now sit IN the seat. Not behind, not above, not to the left or right of it! After finding the optimal sensor position and so on everything started falling into place. Still not perfect but damn close and I don't want to use my monitor again. I found that popping up the FMC and widening it slightly, the mouse problem I had was fixed. Now when I hover over any button on the FMC the pointer/cursor turns into a little hand that points perfectly when and where you need to have it. Still could use better graphics, yes, but by leaning in just a few inches I can see the text and so on with no problems. It is now quite flyable. The next round of video cards if promises are kept should improve it even more. Landing the 777 in Boston in VR is off the charts, you have to do it to see for yourself! You will not want to land the old way anymore. I will tinker some more, I think it's well worth the effort! I know, but that's just me. Dan Church is the man behind Flyinside. He is a real gentleman who actually engages with his users, he is not afraid to answer a question or two, a good guy. Happy New Year All! BaldyB

Trust me, you will not be sorry. I did a complete clean install of Steam edition and Windows 10 on a Sandisk 490GB SSD, no Boxed stuff. I am not running P3D. The difference between the side by side install I had on Win7 64 is quite amazing. I was in a hurry and was busy on another matter and did not realize until later that (Fairly long DLoad) I had let it install into Program Files(x86). I figured to heck with it, went into property's and found the check box for "Run under Administrator". I was surprised to find all folders were FSX (Not FSX-SE). I noticed much higher FPS and a decrease in VAS usage. Windows 10 loads way faster then Win 7 on my rig. The networking is more robust IMHO, others seem to agree. I have 3 I TB WD Black and a Seagate 1TB drive sitting on the shelf, I can tell you with all certainty they will NOT be going back into any machine I own! You can turn off a lot of junk in Win 10. I heard, a rummer perhaps, that MS was coming out with a 64bit gaming edition of Win 10? That I would like to see. In any event I cannot see where you can go wrong, My next machine will have the M.2 NVxyz or what ever the PCIe gitty up is. Windows in the game seem to load faster too. Merry Xmas BaldyB

Don't know when the C&H yoke and pedals went on the market. I can tell you i have been retired for 16 years and I owned them for at least 4-5 years before that. The treatment I described worked like a champ, I may have done it a few times, cannot remember. I had some (I think it silicone based) spray I used on my leather bench seat on my 1959 Lincoln Premier. On my first left hand turn I found myself in the passengers seat, slippery as heck! Almost lost it! Merry Xmas BaldyB

I can only guess what the screen door effect is, I have not seen it for some reason. I agree the mouse action is a little erratic at times. I still find the mouse usable enough, I managed to improve it's stability a lot, and it's size. It was too big for my taste. One thing I need to do is to go into FSX's .CFG file and adjust my position within the aircraft. I read that you have to do this with each new Aircraft after it's installation to have a permanent fix for that particular bird. Flyinsides developer is working on these problems. I've been tweaking FS.s since Sub Logic and even wrote a few of my own sqigily line that I thought represented something. When our guy's went to the moon I wrote a little short app that showed the the big rocket taking off and going up to the moon then around a few times before ejecting the lander. The lander landed and in a few minutes it took off and chased the mother ship til it docked up with it. But I made a mistake and it docked with very loud bang and gave the space ship a kick in the a$$ like you read about. The mother gained a great deal; of speed. The kids loved it. When fixed they loved it a lot less, kids??? The Amiga with Lattice C: was one good graphics machine! I have the whole mess flyable right now. I am about to order the Leap Motion Controller, it looks pretty decent and it may help with the mouse use or not? If or when I go to an outside view and back I keep finding myself moving lower and rearward ion the cockpit to a point that if i go in and out too much I end up the jump seat end eventually under and behind the cockpit flying along in mid air. You get a hell of a view at least, I know it isn't funny! Merry Xmas BaldyB