Why do they call it ACCELERATION Pack?

[johnost]

Well - got the pack, installed and activated with no problems, and while I had FSX running very well before, the FPS were down and THE STUTTERS WERE BACK - bigtime! Desperately turning on the DX10 Demo mode only made matters worse, with the nice blue sky color transitions, from light horizon to dark overhead, showing as solid horizontal bars.

I have been working hard to go through all my settings with little progress. Additionally, I find the new planes pretty on the outside, but with unsatisfactory panels - especially because of no 2-D.

I have never been whining here before during 10-12 years of flightsimming, but this time I am hugely disappointed. Remember the promises of DX 10 relieving the CPU, which was always the bottleneck, causing me to buy a whole new computer with Vista and a ridiculously expensive graphics card, and for what? Now we can only look forward to FS11, which will probably be designed for DX xyz, which will require a new, ridiculously priced graphics card to be fully utilized.

I will continue to try to find settings, that would show SOME improvement, but if unsuccessful SP2 will be uninstalled.

John

E6700 @2.66Ghz on Asus PSN32-E board w. nVidia 680i
2Gb DDR2 800Mhz RAM
nVidia 8800 GTX
All the latest nVidia drivers

[jetguy35]

It is pretty ture that our computers are behind the times of flight sim. My computer isn't even acting that great with the expansion. My frames are okay, but I get weird video glitches that I had never recieved before. We'll see if anyone releases any tips about this.

Ben

[Captain America]

They call it "acceleration" because it accelerated my freefall
into bankruptcy by 32.00 dollars. The marketers at Microsoft
know what they are doing.

I deleted it. No 2D panels is unsatisfactory for me.
Plus it killed my add-ons.

[BOtten]

I'd be careful with any criticism of this product or FSX here. One of the residential self-proclaimed 'protectors' will no doubt weigh in with an opinion on how any fault of the product is YOUR fault. Obvously, you'll be told how you didn't follow directions with an install, or similar.

A quick check here, or on other forums, will quickly show this product is indeed laden with problems.

bill

[jdk2]

>A quick check here, or on other forums, will quickly show this
>product is indeed laden with problems.
>
>bill
Indeed, and even introduced us to DX10's less than stellar AA and AF performance. This is the first title I've owned that doesn't allow forcing of AA and AF in the driver. Admittedly, I'm no FPS fan, but as AA/AF worked perfectly in DX9, what has so drastically changed that removed that all important function in DX10.

And I can't help but wonder what the testers saw when they activated DX10 on a qualifying video card.

Oh, well, lesson learned.

[font size="2" color="2491FF"]Regards,
Jim Karn[/font]
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[Captain America]

>I'd be careful with any criticism of this product or FSX
>here. One of the residential self-proclaimed 'protectors' will
>no doubt weigh in with an opinion on how any fault of the
>product is YOUR fault.


I have no problem with the Acceleration pack. I chose to uninstall
it because the 2D panels and my present add-ons were more valuable
to me than the 3 new aircraft.

[jetguy35]

Bill,

I couldn't agree with you more. Beware the iron fist. They are quick to slap you down and make you feel like you did all the wrong things when in turn it was the poor produced product at fault.

Ben

[BigBravo21]

>
>I have never been whining here before during 10-12 years of
>flightsimming, but this time I am hugely disappointed.
>Remember the promises of DX 10 relieving the CPU, which was
>always the bottleneck, causing me to buy a whole new computer
>with Vista and a ridiculously expensive graphics card, and for
>what? Now we can only look forward to FS11, which will
>probably be designed for DX xyz, which will require a new,
>ridiculously priced graphics card to be fully utilized.
>
>I will continue to try to find settings, that would show SOME
>improvement, but if unsuccessful SP2 will be uninstalled.
>
>John
>
>E6700 @2.66Ghz on Asus PSN32-E board w. nVidia 680i
>2Gb DDR2 800Mhz RAM
>nVidia 8800 GTX
>All the latest nVidia drivers

Yes I totally agree. I too spent a fortune to get a DX10 PC and Geforce GTX 8800. Why did I bother.

[BMG50]

>
>>
>>I have never been whining here before during 10-12 years
>of
>>flightsimming, but this time I am hugely disappointed.
>>Remember the promises of DX 10 relieving the CPU, which
>was
>>always the bottleneck, causing me to buy a whole new
>computer
>>with Vista and a ridiculously expensive graphics card, and
>for
>>what? Now we can only look forward to FS11, which will
>>probably be designed for DX xyz, which will require a
>new,
>>ridiculously priced graphics card to be fully utilized.
>>
>>I will continue to try to find settings, that would show
>SOME
>>improvement, but if unsuccessful SP2 will be uninstalled.
>>
>>John
>>
>>E6700 @2.66Ghz on Asus PSN32-E board w. nVidia 680i
>>2Gb DDR2 800Mhz RAM
>>nVidia 8800 GTX
>>All the latest nVidia drivers
>
>Yes I totally agree. I too spent a fortune to get a DX10 PC
>and Geforce GTX 8800. Why did I bother.
>
Add my name to the list of people with problems and I am hugely dissapointed...Lou

[smoky]

I gotta tell you guys hardware is key here. I have an X6800 Core 2 extreme chip over clocked with 4 gigs ram and 8800gtx with 768mb ram and i am getting 30 fps just about anywhere with all details maxed out except the water, that kills this system too. I am running xp pro sp2 and want to hear from others running vista with dx10 and what its like.