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I found a link to this guys site on Kim Komando's site, and looking around at his software, He has a couple of programs for controlling processor affinity. I downloaded the one for "more" than 2 cores, as I have a quad core, and you can set the affinity for any or all of the processes at once. He says on his site that the one for 2 cores is easyer to use but I have not looked at it but the one for more than 2 cores seems to work very well. Just thought I would pass it along, maybe some of you can get some use out of them.http://www.mlin.net/SMPSeesaw.shtml

Are there any FSX tips when installing a new graphics card?I would appreciate any advice that will lead to FSX properly recognizing and configuring a new graphics card.We will soon upgrade one of our AGP FSX systems from an nVidia 5900XT to an nVidia 7600GT, and the system is already at the driver level that we intend to use (93.71).Our thoughts are to remove the 5900XT from the XP Device Manager, to shutdown the system, to replace the card, and to then power up. Make sense? And, our main question is: do we need to do anything to ensure that FSX recognizes the new card and takes advantage of its new features? Do we need to either force display.cfg to be regenerated or …

You buy software and they wont let you use it.You have to jump thru all kinds of hoops to use your software that you PAID for.They invalidate your product key even when you are doing nothing wrong.I installed on XP. Then I bought Vista Ultimate. Un-installed FSX from XP and tried to install on Vista 32 Bit.The product key was CORRECT, about 5 times."Your product key is incorrect or invalidated". Invalidated???I hope Gate's goes broke!!!

HelloI have just installed Windows Vista Home Premium in a dual boot configuration.I have Flight Simulator X on my XP installation but thought that I will now run it on Windows Vista.I installed Flight Simulator X and when I try to run it I get the following error:'The application has failed to start because it's side-by-side configuration is incorrect.I have no uninstalled it from XP but still no go...What could be causing this? Microsofts Website is useless!!!Any ideas?Thanks,Gian

Any thoughts or opinions on the above referenced 512mb video card?I've got a system ordered with this card to buy me a little time between an upgrade to an 8800 in the future and was wandering how it would perform with FS9 and the PMDG software. I'm getting the E6600 processor to run it for now.gremel

Hey guys,since im a newbie in using ATI Tray tools, im wondering if you guys could give me some settings for tweaking my ati 9800PRO and improve a little bit my FS9 performance.Thanks for your time!

I have tried most of the tweeks, and even tho I get 15-18 FPS at 3500 feet over Chicago, when I go into a turn the stutters start and an some times a drop to 2 FPS and a temp. freeze than FPS pop back up to 15-18. Have a Dell 8300/3ghz/ Windows XP with SP2//2.5 gig of DDR2 400 memory/ATI 1600 XP AGP video card with 512 MB mem./ 400 W PS With dual fans plus extra Fox Exhaust fan. Have FSX alone on a seperate 85 gig HD.I have been told I should remove the extra 1/2 Gig of Memory and just use 2 GiG?????? I have tried different settings on page file and now have both Drive C & D set on system managed.ANY IDEAS ON THE PAGE FILE????If I fly Alaska the FPS are higher and les…

Hey guys,My card gets overheated when using FS9 , i dont know what to do i cant enjoy FS anymore and i dont really have money right now for a $400 card any help on how to fight this would be great nmot sure if this is important but my computer is online 24/7 maybe this is why my card gets overheated? well i dont really care why but i need to know how do i avoid this issue.thanks for your time guys!Win XP SP2P4 3.00ATI 9800PRO1gb DDR2FS9

Hi My gpu is a duel DVI output card my currant monitor is a 19"viewsonic 922 both VGA and DVI What I would like to know Please is will a VGA monitor run with a DVI in duel mode I have FS Comander and I would like to run the Moveing map on a 12" VGA monitor next to my 19" DVI.RegardsRex:-zhelp

I have just about decided to bite the bullet and go for a major upgrade thanks to some encouragement from my wife.Asus P5N-E SLI Motherboard with the 650i chipIntel Core 2 Duo E-6600 CPUFour sticks of KVR800D2N5/1G Kingston Memory = 4GB8800GTX Primary Video Card7950GT Secondary Video CardThermaltake W0116RU 750 Watt Power SupplySuper Power SUNP-FUL-110FT-B Full Tower Computer CaseVista Home Premium is pending with some apprehension.All are included from Newegg with the exception of the case.My concern is that I am not too sure which video cards to pick.At the moment I have the PNY VCG880XXPB GeForce 8800GTX listed and the EVGA 512-P2-N635-AR GeForce 7950 as my secondary i…

I am running both FS9 and FSX. I have set up two monitors using a Nvidia XFX 7800 video card. FSX runs fine, In fact FSX is dual monitor friendly. It's just a drag and drop to move the GPS, radio, and other windows to the second monitor. The problem is if the two monitor desktop is running, FS9 does not display the aircraft in the preview window. If I turn off the dual monitors it works fine. I don't really want to keep change my Nvidia setup every time I want descent frame rates and fire up FS9. Thanks

I'm going to build a computer to be used mainly for CAD design. However, I'd like to be able to run MS FSX Deluxe and other games on it as well.Will MS FSX run on NVidea QuadroFX series or ATI FireGL series workstation graphics cards?

Hi Folks,long time listener, first time caller!I've got approval from my 'finance minister' to replace my delapidated 4 year old AMD XP2000+ with a new system (the grinding sound from the fan is making her nervous!). I've been ferreting around these forum and others trying to look for the best combo of price/performance and I've come up with the following specs. The bits I've descided on are listed below - I just wondered if any of you out there have any suggestions that would make an improvement in performance without a jump in price.FYI I'm wanting to run fs2004 only with highish settings at a decent clip (30fps+ with addons). I have budgetary approval for around $1300 …

Hello.I have recently put a 7600GT video card in my machine and would like some help/suggestions on what to put the settings at in the Nvidia Control Panel in relation to FS9.The system is a P4 2.8 with 1GB RAM and, as mentioned, the video card is a 7600GT.I guess I'm trying to figure out what to set the items such as Anisotropic Filtering, Antialiasing, Conformont Texture, Extension LImit, Force Mipmaps, etc, etc to.Any help would be greatly appreciated.Also, without changing any settings it seems as if I might be getting less fps than with the ti4600 I took out. Does that seem right to anyone?Thanks!

I have recently purchased a ATI Radeon 9250 to use in my Dell Dimensions 2400 desktop. I wanted to be able to use the 3D clouds available in MS Flight Simulator 2004 at a reasonable frame rate. The problem is that the fog and visibility function is not working properly. This is one of the nicest thing in MSFS 2004, it would diffuse the horizon even at 20 or 30 miles visibility or obscure a runway at 1/4 mile vis. Now what I get is at 1 mile ore less I get a very dense 1/4 mile visibility and is I raise it to 2 miles I get a sharp, blue field with no fog like diffusion; very unrealistic. If I set it the visibility to 10 miles I can see mountains 10 miles away clear and sh…

Hi,here it is : ANTEC SERVER TITAN 550PSU 550WSCK 775 INTEL CORE 2 DUO E6600 SCK 775 ASUS P5B CORE2 READYCORSAIR XMS2 2*1024 MB DDR2/800HD MAXTOR S-ATA II 160GBDVD NEC 18* 7170PE16 NVIDIA 8800GTX 768 MB XFXVISTA PREMIUM 32 BITSwhat do you think ?

Hoping to get a reasonable experience with FSX now and be ready for that famous DX10 update, whenever that appears. CPU: C2D E6600 Mobo: Intel D975XBX2KR LGA 775 Intel 975X ATX EVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB GDDR3 Kingston ValueRAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 PSU: Antec True Power Trio TP3-650 ATX12V 650W 2xSeagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s (RAID 0) Antec Nine Hundred Black Steel ATX Mid Tower SAMSUNG 18X DVD

Hi all :DRecently seen some sim video of this, looks very good. I was wondering if you can disable it ( keystroke ) to view FSNav as it looks quite sensitive to head movement,I can imaging to map dancing around..? sorry if this has been asked about before.Thanks for your time,Steve

Bruce Schneier is a renowned and respected Security Expert. Read what he says about DRM and it's function in Vista.http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007...in_windows.html"DRM in Windows VistaWindows Vista includes an array of "features" that you don't want. These features will make your computer less reliable and less secure. They'll make your computer less stable and run slower. They will cause technical support problems. They may even require you to upgrade some of your peripheral hardware and existing software. And these features won't do anything useful. In fact, they're working against you. They're digital rights management (DRM) features built into Vista at th…

I'm anxiously awaiting news that NVidia has updated their Windows drivers for the challenges of Vista. I have not purchased Vista Ultimate yet, and won't until I see drivers for that program...what's the sense?Anyone heard anything about this.....do you have any insider info as to approximately how much longer we have to wait?

Hey guys,My card gets overheated when using FS9 , i dont know what to do i cant enjoy FS anymore and i dont really have money right now for a $400 card any help on how to fight this would be great nmot sure if this is important but my computer is online 24/7 maybe this is why my card gets overheated? well i dont really care why but i need to know how do i avoid this issue.thanks for your time guys!Win XP SP2P4 3.00ATI 9800PRO1gb DDR2FS9

Hey - d'ya hear that Intel just announced that they've prototyped an 80 core processor! This thing screams!oh,Wait,Won't help here, will it? Too bad.ThomasP.S. Actually, my E6600/8800 GTS works pretty well with FSX. We're such pansies, huh... All worried and whiney about how to get FS to run at 30 FPS. Maybe we should put some of this energy into solving world peace or something.Now there's something to whine about.[a href=http://www.flyingscool.com] http://www.flyingscool.com/images/Signature.jpg [/a]I like using VC's :-)N15802 KASH '73 Piper Cherokee Challenger 180

As part of an upgrade I'm considering changing from 1GB to 2GB of RAM.Or would 3GB or even 4GB give better results?In case it's relevant perhaps I should mention that I'll be changing to "Vista" at the same time.Cliff

I'm a NooB at system building, but this was easy and fast. I'm running most of the sliders as high as they will go in FSX and the system does not stutter and frame rates are the best I've ever had on any system, running any version of MSFS except maybe the pre windows FS4. Candidly, I've got everything maxed except for the stuff I don't want to see (too much autogen scenery and traffic is not realistic to me).EVGA 680I motherboard (P24 BIOS)EVGA 8800 GTSOCZ DDR2 800Intel E6600Corsair 620PSUZalman CNPS9700Seagate 320GB 7200.10 in Raid 0Coolermaster MystiqueWindows Vista UltimateFSX is very processor dependent. Not so much the graphics card (sorry that sounds Borat speak…

I used to belong to the 'leave your PC switched on' group of folk who believe that leaving a PC switched on saves your hard drives from an early grave. The reasoning being that the initial start-up of a HDD (and any other sensitive electrical equipment) is it's most stressful. In the 10 years of building and using PC's I never suffered any component failure but the cost in the electric bills would have been frightening.http://www.localcooling.com/facts/"A good spec PC can use up to 200 watts per hour and if you use a CRT Monitor... as much as 280 watts"I changed to TFT Monitors some months ago and after reading the statement in the link above I now switch my PC's off at t…