DX-10 Discussions, Hints and Help

DX9 has been working perfectly on my system. I decided to give the DX10 preview a try and didn't really see any performance benefits over DX9. However, when I switched back to DX9 a number of default scenery objects have disappeared. At my home airfield (FSX default, not an add-on), some of the buildings are there but the hangars and the air traffic control tower are missing. The only change to FSX was to go to the DX10 preview and then back to DX9. Add-on airfields seem to be OK. Any suggestions what I can do to get them back?

Hi I have currently trying DX10 using Steve's fixer and the "How To" doc, however I have some problems. Everytime I set up DX10, after a few days I will start to experience about a second freeze/stutter every 5 seconds or so. I dont have this problem under DX9. I only fly the PMDG 737 and 777 and its happens with both of these aircraft. I run in windowed mode. Mains specs are: 4670K i5 @ 4.4ghz Nvidia 670 GTX graphics card 8MB RAM Samsung 840 EVO SSD FSX.cfg: [AccelerationPack] ControlsFirstRun=0 HomePageFirstRun=0 [AContain] LabelColor=FFFF0000 LabelDelay=1000 ShowLabelAirline=0 ShowLabelAirlineAndFlightNumber=0 ShowLabelAirspeed=0 ShowLa…

The landing lights of ai aircrafts and of airport and road traffic vehicles are floating several feet above their correct position. Any explanation? Thanks

Has anyone else noticed ai traffic nav and strobe lights are missing? I know i have a lot of traffic in that night sky but can seem to see them since switching to dx10.

There is a load of information on the site about AI traffic. Is it not the case with some older packages, some models are incompatible in DX-10. i.e. I here them taxi by and they are speaking (PFE), however, all you see is the navigation lights of something going passed. My question is, will upgrading to UT2 2013 mean 100% AI compatibility? Thanks for any input John

Ok, don't ask, but I inadvertently removed the DX10 fixer via the add/remove programs menu (I was in autopilot mode, uninstalling a load of games and programs to free up space - enough said!) I now have black boxes everywhere in my sim :lol: Is getting it back to normal just a simple case of reinstalling the fixer, or is there anything else I need to do? Thanks

Hi together! Since I have Steve's DX10 fixer I have a strange problem: As soon as I focus any water in FSX I get a HUGE drop of FPS, usually down to 5-6 fps even with the default ultralight plane at the default scenery. As soon as I turn the view "over land" everything runs normal. When looking into the land, I still get about 12 fps with the Airbus X, ORBX Brisbane + AI traffic for example. So it's clearly a problem with the water. I've got REX 2 installed, with 1024 bit textures (as I always had before when I flew in DX9 mode), with the "optimized for DXT5" option activated. But even without that the problem existed. The problem occurs as soon as I set the water e…

Hi Guys I'm new to DX10, and relatively new (back) to FSX after a lengthy absence. I timed my return to coincide with the switch to DX10, and love the increased smoothness I've noticed, however I'm concerned I have some graphical issue that I don't recall being there before, namely some blurry textures. This is a shot around the Greek islands, and I don't remember textures being quite so blurry in the background when I was using DX9, but like I said, it's been a long while. When I'm closer it's not so noticeable, or if I zoom out a lot, does this look fairly "normal" to you? I would expect more "crisp" definition to the peaks of the land (using FS Global m…

When running with BP=0 my gpu ( gtx 770 4 gb) load runs about 30% load and my cpu (i7 4770k o/c to 4.4) is all over from max to min. I have cpu with HT on and set affinity mask to 254, with the usual tweeks in cfg. I was hoping to shift more load to gpu to help cpu, is this about normal. With BP off my gpu load was about 20%. I am running with DX 10.

I really like the Bay tower RV7 but it has painted shadows in vc which conflict with real shadows enabled in Dx10. Has anyone managed to remove the painted shadows?

Does anyone know where I can download PaulJ's latest DX10 PDF guide?

Hello, Steve's DX10 Scenery Fixer was working fine but for some reason when switching the AA to any number say 4x when I exit out and come back the DX10 AA is blank and there is nothing there.I've repeated this a number of times and it still comes back blank. I don't know if the whole program is affected but now my Orbx lights are blinking off in DX10 mode but were fine before. I've also tried a re-install of Steve's DX10 Fixer but nothing helps. I'm running Dual AMD Radeon 7700 (crossfire X)1GB GDDR5 each ASUS P8P67 Mobo,i7-2600(2nd Gen,4cores with HT,3.4GHz per core) Raid 0 Array of 2 1TB Seagate Barracuda HDDs Any help would be appreciated.Than…

Hey Folks. Crash to desktops in Windows 7? Well I cannot speak for Windows 8 or XP, but I can speak for 7. This find, was THEE most important find for me when it comes to FSX crashing. Whether using DX9 OR DX10. Please give this a read. Since I performed this fix I have yet to have a CTD, or OOM crash. Here it is. http://forum.avsim.net/topic/273341-heres-the-apparent-fix-to-fsx-crashing-win-7-x64/

Hi Guys Fairly new DX10 user here. Tonight I spent ages preparing my flight on the ground, only to get the dreaded fatal error just moments after take off, and haven't got it in me to go through it all again tonight! Does anyone have any advice for reducing the frequency of these, or insights into what causes them to occur? Is it settings too high, generally? I've only really had a problem since going to DX10. Thanks

With the version 2 of the Fixer one can get some shadow inside the NGX via the Fixer toolbox. I am however unsatisfied with what I am seeing. I do like how the cockpit brightens and darkens when above and below clouds. However the shadows are not distinct, especially when the sun is low on the horizon. Anyone have some good VC Shadows and if so what are your fixer settings?

I've never been a big fan of Bloom (in FSX or just about any game/simulation) - almost always over saturated. But with the recent DX10 Fixer running so well, I decided to give Bloom a try and dialed reflections back to 60% via DX10 fixer settings. It looks pretty good, still on the fence to whether I keep the setting on or not, but I gotta thank Steve's work for at least providing the setting. Anyway, the real reason for this post is that I picked up 10 fps on average after I enabled Bloom (BLOOM_EFFECTS=1) - at high load areas (usually FSDT airports) I'm around 30-33 fps, but with bloom, those same airports I'm at 42-46 fps. This "to say the least" has me puzz…

Hi guys I am trying to get a copy of "How-To-go-DX10" and everytime I go to the Dropbox link I get an error. Could someone please help me out. Thanks. John

You must delete fsx.cfg file prior to switch to DX10 and let FSX create a new one because if you don't do this you may experience a sim that looks like a bad DX9! Maybe many of you know it but i started this topic for other new DX10 simmers like me :rolleyes: who don't. I had stutters, bad frames and lot of shimmering and i was wondering that last year i had a better experience with the free patches. I spent a whole day of tweaking and searching with no success. So the last thing was to delete the fsx.cfg file and tataaa the sim at its best again!

Hello, I decided to activate DirectX10 as it gives me loads more fps. But for some reason my screen will have an almost rippling effect. Is there any fix for this? I am running Fsx acceleration. I have tried to change my vsync settings using the Nvidia control panel but no matter what setting I choose the problem still remains. Thanks for reading.

Greetings everyone, might be going blind, but I cannot seem to find the DX10 how to doc...I mean I can find the thread, but none of the links work? Best regards, Rene

I just want to take a minute or two out to thank all of you folks for the use that you have made of the "DX10 "How-To" guide, and especially to those fliers who have added so much of its content through their own experimentation. Additionally - "Thank you" for the many emails and pm's - and posts here and there - expressing your feelings regarding my 'decamping' from the venerable Avsim Website. It has been an honour and a pleasure to have been involved - at the grass roots level - with Steve in the saga of the development of one of the most exciting addons to have hit the flight simulation hobby since FSX was released. He has single-handedly repaired almost everyt…

Using bloom with DX10 and everything looks great expect for the PMDG NGX HUD display. Looks very bad. It's very blurry. Anyone have a workaround to use bloom and still get a sharp HUD display? Of course using latest version of Steve's fixer. Thanks.

Hi everybody, I tried Steve's DX10 Fixer last week, but i don't think it was helpful for me, and I haven't seen big improves using the fixer. So I decided to go back to DX9, and I decided to delete the Fixer. I followed the manual to uninstall the DX10 Fixer, and I (think) I did everything right. But now, all my textures are blurred! What did I wrong and what can I do to get the "normal" textures back? I'm using FTX Global, and before uninstalling the DX10 Fixer, everything was okay. Please help me, it really looks like crap now! Thanks.

I switched to DX-10 and got the latest DX-10. Performance has been noticebly higher; however, I noticed all of my waters are dermant- no movement or aimation. I rember in DX-9, Biojote give us the parameters on how to make these changesnat low,ed, and high settings, and give it more movement. Can some please tell me where do I go, or how can I modify the water-animation in DX-10? What numbers or parameters do I need to increase or decrease? I would b very greatfull, if I can be provided his info. Thank you again, Jessy

Hi All, I have been running DX10 for about a week now and with some tweaking I have a fantastically smooth sim. I decided to utilize a small LCD TV to display the flight displays as shown in the pics. I am running full screen and have dragged the flight displays to the 2nd monitor. My question is now I am using 2 monitors I am back to having ever so small stutters. It is not horrendous but it was so smooth with DX10 and a single screen. I have adjusted my inspector settings to reflect the other monitor but it hasn't really made a huge difference. I was wondering if anyone has done anything similar and has still managed to maintain good results with multiple displa…