*FSX Tweaks*

[yv35p]

Hey Guys and Gals, hope all of you are enyoing a nice day :D

Heres my Sunday FSX flight, this time using dense autogen as i've been switching textures from the .dds format to .bmp..Im not 100% sure about what the heck im doing LOL but hey, isnt this a reason for having a demo? and it definetly gives me a noticeable improvement in smoothness regarding the autogen... Now i think when i receive my final version i'll just copy my FSX.cfg, autogen and general textures folder and thats it, lets fly! no more tweakings...I hope so...Wishful thinking LOL...I've done tests with the framerates' slider..locked at 20, unlimited and locked at 18...im having a totally smooth flight locked at 18 so theres where that thing will stay and i'll try my best to avoid the "shift-z syndrome" from now on :7

Hope you like my test-flights shots amigos, have a great start of the week :7

[707jet]

Cool idea Carlos, and good news... My Ministry of Finance will
allow any upgrades of my machine not earlier than 2073...
Very fantastic shot´s you made there..

Thorsten

[Peer]

The flying broomstick again.... Breathtaking flight and pics Compadre, please go on testing the settings and give me the final results LOL
See you my friend! :-)

[centauri23]

those pictures look absolutely awesome!

seems FSX slowly begins to show its full potential since the release of the beta demo and the full version

[alexzar14]

can't wait to get my copy! nice, but indeed someone has to fix up textures and autogen because tests show no software can run FSX at 20fps.

[geguic]

Hi!

Look a great idea to convert those textures. Any software to do that?

Best regards

[yv35p]

Hi Thorsten, Jan, Justin and Alex, thanks guys! :D

Thorsten: LOL!

Compadre: Yeah, incredible is it may seems, i really like this flying broom stick..i think it has something to do with being perfectly safe on the ground hahahaha :+ Oh! of course i'll pass all of my findings for y, tweaks, etc for you guys :7

Justin: I agree with you! :D

Alex: Well i've found some great improvements so far...Some of my "tweaks" ????..lol....open the autogen folder and rename the autogen.xml just like i did in FS9 when my system was a low-end...Direct X, the sound slider one notch back..no noticeable loss of sound quality btw..i reconverted the autogen textures using DXTbmp from .DDS to DXT1, maybe will try another format although so far so good...the water, using Mid 2x looks awesome and i gain some FPS...Right now i can run the demo 2 locked at 18 no matter where i fly...direct to the forests included...but of course i have to wait until i grab my hands on the definitive product, im totally optmistic as im not an expert in any form, so i imagine what our expert folks will do :-)

See you amigos!

[yv35p]

Hi my friend Gérard, just saw your reply :D

yeah, i use DXTbmp, just choose "open .dds texture" and then i save it as DXT1....Well, i used to do that (but to DXT3 from 32-bit) with airplane textures in FS9 and it worked great with in my opinion minimal loss in visual quality..i'll keep on testing! LOL

See you, take care :D

[PHCO]

Looks pretty amazing Carlos ... great idea! Will contact you ... ;)

[yv35p]

Hi Captain!

Of course amigo, anytime...Oh i posted some additional pics at the Captain Flo's Airstrip forum ;)

Have a great start of the week :D