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I use an APC BackUPS 500, but are some of you running off a surge suppressor? I'm trying to gauge general usage among us FS people...thanks.RhettFS box: E8500 (@ 3.80 ghz), AC Freezer 7 Pro, ASUS P5E3 Premium, BFG 8800GTX 756 (nVidia 169 WHQL), 4gb DDR3 1600 Patriot Cas7 7-7-7-20 (2T), PC Power 750, WD 150gb 10000rpm Raptor, Seagate 500gb, Silverstone TJ09 case, Vista Ultimate 64ASX Client: AMD 3700+ (@ 2.6 ghz), 7800GT

Flight Simmers who are wrestling with Display/View decisions such as Wide Format Monitors, 2D vs Virtual, very large HD TV-Monitors or Multi Monitors, may be interested in this composite Screenshot of the PMDG 747 and the real Boeing 747.Of special note is the very wide ratio of the real flightdeck view- surprisingly narrow vertically vs the lateral width.Perhaps lending support to the merits of triple views/triple monitors.Alex ReidPMDG 747 CYVR R26L. Inset Boeing 747 on final at Tenerife/Los Rodeos- photo by permission of Manuel Marin / jetphotos.net http://forums.avsim.net/user_files/190626.jpg

Hi everybody,I really have a strange phenomenus since a few days. Every plane I fly is transparent in external view. You only see the navigation lights ! But the AI planes are OK. My config is :-CPU Intel Core 2 Quad @ 2.66Ghz.-Windows Vista 32 bit Home Edition SP1-4 Gb RAM (only 3 Gb usable due to OS).- NVIDIA Geforce 8800 GTX 768 Mb Card with the 169.25 drivers (have tried the 175.16 and the 175.19 with the same result!)-One 21 Inch screen -One 20 inch screen both screens in 1280 x 1024I have tried to uninstall and re-install properly (Driver Cleaner) the drivers without successDXDiag doesn't encounter any problem.Somebody has any idea ?Friendly yours,Francois

After about 30 minutes of trying, I have only been able to get my computer working again and get online. Basically, it would seem to boot normally, even to the desktop screen. But, any attempt to get any app to work met with a lockup. I was not even able to shut down normally. I began thinking about overheating...at the moment, according to my core temperature monitor...my four cores are at 56 56 63 and 67 Celsius.But, before I was able to get on, I could not even get into safe mode. The boot screen would come up OK, and I could scroll to select SafeMode...but, in the course of booting into SM, the system reverted bck to the start of the bootup sequence. Finally, I took a…

Hello everyone,I have been hearing many rumors around which tell of horrible problems with the 175.19 drivers. Would downgrading to 175.16s have any bad effects or is it safe to do so?Thanks,

I think I have finally nailed down my new computer specs:Mobo: Asus P5Q3 Deluxe WifiCPU: E8600VC: Asus EN9800GTXHD: Western Digital 750Gb SATA2 32mb x2The choice of RAM seems to be a nightmare. I'm looking at 4GB. Any recommendations?Any constructive comments on the specs appreciated too.At the moment I'm just running FS9 but might shift to FSX so I'd like a system that will enhance that experience! My god the thought of losing all that scenery and aircraft. Thanks

I just ordered a Q6600 from Fry's, and have been reviewing the last two years' worth of threads on core usage. Q2: Is there a consensus on how best to assign cores for FSX? In addition to FSX, the same machine is also running ActiveSky X and FS Map. Q1: Is it better to assign cores for these manually, or let WinXP manage them?I have seen three or four users report good results limiting FSX to cores 1, 2, and 3, reserving 0 for...I'm a little fuzzy on that (see Q2).In December 2007, Phil Taylor posted this in the hardware forum: "[There] is a common misconception of the AffinityMask tweak, that it will completely lock FSX out of core-0. The AffinityMask tweak affects the e…

Put this together on newegg, what do you think?https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/MySavedW...spx?ID=12113547

Hey all,Was wondering where I could possibly find a Saitek Pro Flight Yoke System at a store? I live in the US. Comp USA is where I bought my CH Yoke, but that has since broke and thought they might have the Saitek Yoke, but they don't.Thanks,Jeff

Good Day,Working on a new build from the ground up and could use some advice from the experts.... 1 ....... With a good CPU and video card..... Overclocked Intel Duo E8500 and a ATI 4870 is there much advantage to going with a Raptor 10,000 RPM drive over a standard 7200 RPM drive...... Or how about a large 7200 RPM drive for the OS and normal use with a Raptor 10,000 as a second dedicated drive for Flight Simulator 9 and all the Addons........ Will go with two drives in any case but much cheaper to stay with 7200s unless a big performance gain is possible.......2 ....... Still can

HiI'm really annoyed today - my Mesh PC (18 months old) has practically blown up. I need a new PC.Anyway - I need a recommendation for this. Its primary use will be for FSX and I don

Hi allcan someone please help me.This week I went ballastic and upgraded my pc to a q6600 with XFX 8800ultra xxx.My ram is 2gig in asus striker mobo.With this setup I thougt I will be getting minimum 20+ frames everywhere in fsx -The fact is I am not.With all the sliders maxed at KLAX with stock 737 and stock sceneryI got 3-5 frames.I must say I am shocked.I have noticed that only 1 core of the cpu was being used.The readingin cpu usage was only 25%.It is clear not all the cores are being used.Therefore can you please please tell me how to assign the other cores to fsx.I am very computer illiterate-please explain to me step by step.I hope with your help I can improve the …

Not sure why Tom's Hardwared tested the ATI 4870 with Cat 8.22 Beta drivers?? Maybe the WHQL Cat 8.6's didn't work with all the games they were testing (including FSX)?Regardless, I'll post my testing results of two 4870's in Crossfire compared to my 8800GTX OC. So far, the results have been IMPRESSIVE. No texture flashing with shadows (and all along I thought this was just a problem with FSX code), image quality really does appear to look better than my 8800GTX. Frame rate is smooth and doesn't suffer any fluctuations regardless of the scene. Even have ActiveSky/Graphics X and clouds (even when set to 100 mi) don't seem to impact frame rates.I've only done testing o…

Hi TeamJust purchased my new PC to let me get back into flight simming.Hardware is as followsGigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 motherboardIntel Quad core 94504 Gb Cosair DDR3 1333 Memory9800GX2 1 GB Video Card1 TB HddVista 64Antec 850 PSAntec 900 caseLatest Nvidia drivers and system drivers, bios etc.I have installed FSX with SP1 and SP2I struggle to get just on 8 frames per second. OUCCHHHHHHHAny thoughts ?Tony

Has anyone tried out the reposted 175.19 drivers from nVidia? If so what was the changes from the last time they were put up on the nVidia site.

I was reminded of a process to defragment the Pagefile by setting it to none and rebooting setting it to system allocate and reboot. A Microsoft recommended process.Anyhow, when I set it to no page file on any of the three disks, and rebooted I continue to see the Task Manager showing PageFile allocation?? Looking at the disks via "explorer" there is no PageFile on any of the three. Memory use is normal for FSX and would be very noticeable if memory was actually used as a pagefile. FSX will take PageFile (PF) up to over 900mb at times when none is allocated???Windows XP/SP3 2gb memory 2.5ghz DualCorePictures - Task Manager and PageFile manager. Regards,Dick BoleyA PC, a…

I have just upgraded my Core2 Duo 6600 and my Kingston DDR2 RAM (2GB) to a Core2 Quad Q6600 and G.Skill PC2-8000 DDR RAM (4GB) and I

HelloI posted before about my config file contained, my old 7600 cardand my new card 8800 ultra is listed in two places , as I installedthe matrox TH2go and changed to the 3840x1024 res, I recieved a reply from harleyman who kindly replyed that I should remove the config file and let it build a new one, or carefully remove the entries;I was wondering if you had the time ( no rush) to give me step by step instructions how to remove the file, so it will builda new one, which will only contain the new card, and the matrox3840x1024 res,I am on windows xp professional,fsx,deluxe ,acceleration,3 LCDmonitors;Thanking you in advance,Best RegardsDON

I recently purchased an Nvidia 8800 GT alpha dog edition and notice that sometimes I get flickering on some instruments. It seems to be more prevalent on the Level D 767,and moves from one instrument to the next. On the CLS DC-10 it seems to be only on the VSI.Are there some settings I should be using for the graphics.I have an HP AMD 64X2 dual core 5200+ processor.Any suggestions welcome.Ron

I notice Core Temp displays a temp that is roughly 10 deg higher than either ASUS Probe II or Realtemp display. Realtemp's display can show 4 separate "core" temps as does Core Temp, but these four will display as the same temp, suggesting to me Realtemp is actually measuring tCASE.What do you know?Noel

Hope this is the right forum to ask, but for 6 months, I've been trying to configure the two throttle levers on my Saitek AV8R-01 to have Throttle 1 work for engine 1 and have Throttle 2 work for engine 2, each of them independent. How do I do this?Thanks in advance.

My ATI AIW X800XT 256MB card has just hit the skids. Not worried about it, I went to the ATI website. Since the AMD takeover they are only giving out 1 year warranties now?And then I did a quick look at Nvidia - they are 3 years!? Is this die hard ATI user for 5 years being forced to move over to their arch enemy!? Did I read the warranty info correctly?

Hello All! I just installed the latest nVidia drivers (175.19), and now I have antialiasing in full screen mode only. I am using FS9, and I have the setting in the nVidia control panel set to "Enhance the application setting." I also have nHancer setting to the same. Any ideas? I would really prefer to run in windowed mode! Thanks a bunch,Paul

First off, thanks much to Nick and the other experts who help us all tune our PCs for FSX! I used this help a lot in putting together a G0 q6600/8800GT PC recently. My problem is that CoreTemp is reporting >60 deg temps on my Q6600 even without overclocking. I have a NZXT Hush Mid-Tower with two 120mm fans (set at max speed from BIOS), a XFX 680i LT mobo, and a 8800GT along with, at first, a Thermaltake 775D CPU fan which I just upgraded to an ASUS Lion Square which was reviewed (http://legitreviews.com/article/728/1/) as being quite good. I just don't get anywhere close to their results (before or after the CPU cooler upgrade) in that I get over 60 deg with no overc…

Just a heads-up NVIDIA just released the 175.19 WHQL display drivers (http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us). Suppose to improve a lot of things. I didn't see any fixes for the DX10 Preview setting but I did see improved performance. I ran a 3DMark Vantage benchmark and these drivers performed much better. Previous driver benchmark was 8543 and this driver's benchmark was 9546, a little over 100 points higher. Best regards,Jim