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Happy Holidays!I finally bought the Reality XP GNS 530 and it works great. How do I get it to show up on the Katana VC?It easily comes up as a 2D panel, but I can't integrate it like the Sierra and Duke.Thanks.Jose

Hi thereI have been a longtime lurker around here. I have recently gotten back into Flight Sim after a long hiatus. I have been doing this a long time but I am just now getting back into it with a new system and a steep learning curve. Could really use some help right about now. I have exhausted all search functions on all forums that I can find and it is becoming a bit of a merry-go-round!! Too many contradictions and now I just feel like I am "going fishing with dynamite" as my original issue was not that big.My system - i7 2600k@4.5, Z68x-UD3H-B3, MSI GTX560Ti Hawk OC@950mhz 1gb, G.Skill Sniper 2x4gb DDR3-1600, OCZ Vertex 2 60gb SSD, 2x1TB wdc Black, Antec Kuhler H20 920 Cooling, OCZ Memory Cooling, Cougar 700CMX 700w PS, Corsair 600T White CaseMy basics - FSX Gold sp2/accel (FSX on 1tb dedicated drive, win7 on ssd, 2nd drive storage) - REX, Orbx, Aerosoft, Iris, DBS w/f, etc,etc. - Setting mostly high to max - Resolution - 1920x1080 on a 24" Asus monitor - Tweeks - Well, there in lies the problems!!My problem - At first, none really, then I started to fiddle!! haha (basically Jerky AI planes in game and using fs recorder)My initial setting where pretty basic. A stock .cfg (with 2048 max texture for REX, etc. and thats about it) and using some of Nickn's advise but found my system worked best with unlimited frames (no nhancer/inspector) AA set in-game, ansitropic in-game and mostly "application controlled" settings in the nvidia control panel (NO v-sync). These setting provide 100+ frames and amazing smoothness. That is until I encountered some heavy REX clouds, then BOOM, it all went sideways. My gpu overheated and shut down with a black screen! After some research, I discovered that limiting the frame rates in-game to 60 solved this problem. It did create another problem though. Screen tearing. To solve this, I enabled (v-sync force on) in my nvidia control panel. Problem solved. Everthing was great for a bit. Smooth, no problems, etc.Then I encountered traffic. The "AI" did nothing to my framerates as my machine is a beast. The problem was that the "AI" looked like they where having an epileptic seizure. Forward and backward lunging and stuttering like crazy. I also installed FS recorder at about the same time I noticed this. Using that program and "record as traffic", the problem was even more pronounced. This made me crazy and I looked for a fix. The fix I found was that if my limited the FPS (in-game) to 30, problem solved. No more "seizure AI". New problem though!!! Now my terrain was stuttering!!! This is where I began to research BOJOTE and all of his fixes and tweaks. I decided that maybe I should use an external FPS limiter and run my .cfg through his nifty little website device. I proceeded to install Nvidia inspector and send my .cfg through the Bojote tune up shop. I also limited my FPS to 30 using the new nvidia inspector.Well that brings me to the present. After doing these last few tweeks, I fired up FSX and discovered that it was running like absolute CRAP!!! Barely able to make 25fps stable and jerking like 1920's black and white movie!!!!!!!!!All of this, just so I could make a little AI airplane stop jerking a little bit. I literally took a machine running FSX at over 100+ fps steady with sliders maxed and reduced it to a crying sad shell of it's former self.I believe there is a lot of value in the tweeks from people like Bojote and Nickn. The problem for me has been the contradictory info and opposing views but mostly my impatience for a fix for the AI problem. I am lost in the middle somewhere and only because I want to fix a VERY SMALL problem. Like I said at the beginning "Fishing with dynamite!".Sorry for the long read. If anyone has been patient enough to read all of this and could point me in the right direction, I would be eternally grateful. I am honestly lost. All I want to do is smooth out the "AI" visuals and maintain my 60fps limit with AA and v-sync enabled. Also be able to record some video with FS recorder and have smooth AI. I know my machine has the horsepower but I just think that there has to be a simpler way to get the AI to fly smooth without limiting the frames so much, or do all this tweaking OVERKILL!!Thank you so much for reading and any input is greatly appreciated.Eric