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  1. 1997 start here on Flightsim.com FS 7, 9, (skipped 8), X. Didn't bite on P3D or MSFS. Happy with beautiful FS X. No CTDs, no VAS issues. Great aircraft.
  2. Hi all (again): After experimenting with the Leclercq textures it seems that they are in conflict with either GTX or UTX. I notice that the textures are installed in Scenery/World/Texture, but GEX/UTX don't use some or all of those textures. I'm puzzled. Does that sound right? Thanks Rick
  3. Thanks everyone for your responses. I investigated Top Gun's suggestion to look at Aime Leclerc's work and was very pleased to find that Aime had developed wide ranging Texture upgrades as well as rock Texture upgrades. The rock Textures were a noticeable, immediate upgrade on GEX/UTX. I'm still looking at the general Texture upgrades. Thanks again Rick
  4. Hi all: I have been running FSX now for about 7 years and I have my installation quite good. I am running UTX, GEX, mesh addons, etc. I did try Orbx but their stuff just didn't work out for me. The one area I am not happy with FSX is the mountain terrain where the surface is rocks. The textures seem coarse and the color isn't right. Areas with vegetation are satisfactory, but the rocky terrain just doesn't look right. Does anyone have ideas on add on textures for that narrow rocky area? Payware or freeware is ok. Thanks in advance Rick
  5. Lovely! If I may, where is that airport?
  6. Open root folder and double click on the FSX executable. That should start FSX. If that works, then create a new FSX icon on your desktop. Hope this helps. Rick
  7. Hello all: Recently I have noticed that some add ons are having trouble finding my FSX installation. I have FSX installed in C/FSX. I am running Win 7 Pro 64. When I run some add ons (F1GTN cfg is an example), a dialogue box pops up and tells me it cannot find FSX. Some add ons just ask to be pointed to FSX and proceed normally after that. But some just stop at that point. FSX launches and runs normally. AS16 launches and runs normally and links up with FSX normally. I have not reinstalled FSX in about 4 years. I would appreciate your ideas on this. Best regards, Rick
  8. Looks like a nice scenery but I am wary of all the required libraries.
  9. Better is the enemy of good enough.......is it an aviation simulator, or a scenery simulator?
  10. Better is the enemy of good enough! There are all sorts of interests in flightsim. Some guys like to build new computers and spend time tweaking their hardware and software for performance. Some guys like to try new sims and spend hours, days, weeks, months building a new sim with airports, aircraft and other add ons, then spend hundreds of hours optimizing. Some guys just take the default aircraft and default scenery, and fly! I too am veteran of FS7, FS9, and FSX (I skipped FS2000). I have spent over 20 years and thousands of hours flying and tweaking. Right now I have FSX as good as it gets and I am done, done, done peaking and tweaking. No P3D and no FSNext, whatever they call it for me. I have a great FSX rig, great add ons, no crashes, no OOMs, just flying and enjoying. As I said, better is the enemy of good enough. Think about it. Rick
  11. This occcurs occasionally on my system also. I recognize it immediately when I boot the system. I then right click on the screen and open nVidia Control Panel. There is one page in that which returns the display to my preferences.
  12. Yeah, thanks Wim. As I said, I didn't expect it to be an original idea. On the other hand, I don't see the need for an application for this. It is trivially simple. Rick
  13. Hi all: I just wanted to pass along a tweak for FSX that is really very effective in controlling VAS and eliminating stutters. I'm sure I have read this elsewhere so I do not claim to be the originator, but I cannot remember where I first saw it. This tweak involves controlling add on sceneries (airports) on flights where they are not used for departure or destination, or alternate. I simply create a "working" scenery.cfg file which contains all the default scenery files and any essential scenery files such as GEX, UTX, and any others one might have. Then simply add the departure and arrival add ons at the very bottom of the"working" scenery.cfg.Then carefully save the full scenery.cfg file in a safe place and substitute the "working file". My scenery.cfg file contains over 500 add on airports all over the world. The "working"scenery.cfg file is updated from the carefully saved original scenery.cfg file. For example, imagine I am flying from KMIA to KSTL, and I have add ons for both fields. Well, I search the original scenery.cfg file for KMIA, then copy the entry and paste it on the bottom of the "working" scenery.cfg file. Same for KSTL. In so doing, one must be careful to avoid having two scenery listings with the same numbers. These entries look like this: [XXX] Name=KMIA Miami Int Location=Addon Scenery/KMIA Miami Int Layer=XXX Required= So one must be careful to avoid repeating numbers. This takes only a couple of minutes before each flight. I found OOMs are essentially in the past in my rig and the annoying micro stutters are eliminated completely. It may be that many guys are already doing this but it was such a wonderful tweak I thought I should pass it along. Rick
  14. Little Nav Map can help with this....
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