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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:30 pm Post subject: |
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No problem. I flew in Africa to avoid the problem.
Thanks for the information. That's one item off the dark side of Acceleration.  |
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| BigWaveDave |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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| CrashGordon wrote: | BWD/Meshman,
I may have stumbled across a problem you'd be interested in.
The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans disappeared |
FSXX installs a new Terrain.CFG file, which deletes any entries made by addon scenery. UT/X and Vancouver + are two that modify this file by adding in new features. Start up either of the UT/X products, USA or Canada and it will automatically reconfigure the Terrain.CFG file and you should have water back where it should be.
Sorry, I missed catching that last night.  |
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| AaronMyers |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:23 pm Post subject: |
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Good thing I rarely rush to get a first gen anything. My 7950GT is working quite nicely.  |
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 11:29 am Post subject: |
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BWD/Meshman,
I may have stumbled across a problem you'd be interested in.
The Atlantic and Pacific Oceans disappeared The Aegean was there, the Indian Ocean was there, but the only part of the Pacific I could find was a circle around Honolulu which is part of the photoreal scenery for that area. Everything else was the basic world forest.
I disabled UTX US and Canada and any other North American land class addons I had, and the oceans returned. I guess I have to restore things one at a time to find the culprit.
One thing I did find is that many addon aircraft won't load their textures if DX10 is turned on. Anyone who rushed to get a DX10 GFX card for FSX got royally screwed. |
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 8:40 am Post subject: |
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First, Bill Gates doesn't have to hide.
The installation, which seemed to take forever went without problem.
ASX works here.
It wasn't raining where I was flying, so no raindrops were observed.
Performance appears improved, though I will have to ratchet my AA up a tad.
BTW, that FA-18 is a frisky aircraft.
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| BigWaveDave |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 6:59 am Post subject: |
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| Think you will find ActiveSkyX will need their announced SP2 to work with FSXX. More often than not, if I try to run both it will keep me at the Loading... bar at 100%. |
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| RadarMan |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:58 am Post subject: |
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Lets see the raindrops.
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:38 am Post subject: |
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| My copy of Acceleration has arrived. New in a little while. |
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 11:53 pm Post subject: |
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| AaronMyers wrote: | You guys must not be married.  |
Not true, but we are in charge!  |
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| GreekMan72 |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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| AaronMyers wrote: | You guys must not be married.  |
Too late to avoid it...  |
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| AaronMyers |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 9:17 pm Post subject: |
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You guys must not be married.  |
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| GreekMan72 |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 10:05 am Post subject: |
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No plates at all...  |
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 2:08 am Post subject: |
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Paper plates! They save a whole lot of work.  |
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| AaronMyers |
Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2007 12:41 am Post subject: |
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I don't discourage defraging at all. However doing it in between each step is a little like cooking dinner, but running each individual dish through the dishwasher as you go. I tend to prefer saving the dishes for the end when they can all go into the washer at the same time.  |
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| RadarMan |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:46 pm Post subject: |
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| CrashGordon wrote: | | GreekMan72 wrote: | Its wrong way ...You dumb the raindrops  |
What raindrops? MS has the whole world looking like a desert.  |
True and not true.
They have sand looking textures (quite plain, brown and ugly). True high desert like at Edwards-Mojave is grey, small rocks and loaded with short scrub. It would look much better than the plain brown at KLAX.
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:34 pm Post subject: |
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| GreekMan72 wrote: | Its wrong way ...You dumb the raindrops  |
What raindrops? MS has the whole world looking like a desert.  |
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| GreekMan72 |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:25 pm Post subject: |
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Its wrong way ...You dumb the raindrops  |
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| CrashGordon |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:23 pm Post subject: |
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My FSX folder is currently at 75.2 GB. I use a defrag program that automatically defrags in the background, so I don't have to worry about it.
But with as many addons as I have, uninstall-reinstall is not an option. |
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| RadarMan |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:16 pm Post subject: |
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Unfortunately loading SP1 on a established add-on scenery laden install of FSX will prove to be less than spectacular.
When you do uninstall and run defrag you'll see by the graphic how bad your disk is.
Each time you do it you'll see this.
Unless you have a machine that had a CPU that has been in the house for 12 years or has 200gigs worth of programs, videos and MP3's the defrag goes quite quickly.
Do I enjoy sitting and waiting for the next step...no, but I did get a pristine setup when finished and If I'm careful with what I add to it it'll stay running perfect.
What I posted above is a short tutorial on the best way to do it not the only way to do it.
I did it that way and the results to me have been much more than satisfactory.
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| GreekMan72 |
Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2007 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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