So I'm eating crackers while watching the market tank when the phone rings!

[Cazzie]

It's my IT buddy George, who also works part-time at the local Wally World.

"Yo dood, whatja doin' before you get the younguns?"

"Nuttin'"

"Well, drop by here on the way a little early. I got summin' for ya."

Dropped by and I too, now belong to the dark side. At his price - $30.00!



All's installed, got some nHancer settings to make. Tried it and set my frame rates at 24 fps. Guess what, with sliders only one nick away from full on everything, I got 24 fps!

Okay Panther etal, recommendations please?

Caz

[SkippyBing]

Welcome to the Dark Side (sound of heavy breathing etc.)

Try the Wyvern http://www.nazcastudios.com/sea-hawk/wyvern.html

[BananaBob]

You have done our bidding well, muhahahaha! :cost1::d

[lucas81]

Cazzie,

As for the scenery, I can recommend you Ultimate Terrain X series. It corrects the road/river network and introduces very accurate landclass. I recommend the one for the Europe. Mesh in the FSX is very nice. The USA and Canada are covered with 38m mesh, while Europe, Japan and Australia have 76m mesh.

As for the planes, there are many freeware to enjoy. Here at SOH, you will find many of them.

Edit: Phil Taylor, former member of Aces team posted the list of freeware planes made with FSX toolkit. Cazzie, be aware that FS9 planes ported to FSX can have display problems. The list which Phil posted contains birds which will work flawless in the FSX.

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/archiv...s-and-fsx.aspx

[BananaBob]

Yes, definitely get the great freeware aircraft from Lukasz and team at SimHangar above, great work and full FSX, and get the updated Jenny too for FSX there, fantastic stuff, and not to fail to mention all the great aircraft Piglet has done for FSX.:ernae: And the Wyvern above also, cannot be missed, thank goodness for these great free stuff.

[cheezyflier]

get alacrity pc awesome program, and then mebbe you'll pick up a tad more performance even still.
after that, there is the:

aa-5b from piglet
carenado 206
maam-sim's briefing time at least, but it's all good from them and you get a good price if you buy the whole package.
keep an eye out for the dodsim huey that should be out any time now.
the sneak shots i have seen are awesome.

[Lewis-A2A]

Welcome to Flight Simulation, pick up your flight simulation aircraft from Wings of Silver Boeing 377.

Pilots License dispensed once mastered

[Lionheart]

Lucky Cajun!!! 24FPS with almost full sliders!!!??

:isadizzy:


arrghh.....


(Translation: Man, dude! That is awesome! You now have FSX and it runs fast on your rig! Have fun and happy flying.. :d )


Go check out the Kennemore amphibius airfield in Washington, (I think its called that). Check out the airport scenery... Very cool.


I recommend getting TileProxy running on your rig, as FSX will display the most brilliant, crisp, photo real scenery. When you dont have TileProxy on, your scenery and AutoGen return to normal.

When you finally get a chance, do a touch and go in the MIssions center in the F-18 Hornet on a Carrier. Tell me (us) how many times in pattern until you successfully do a cable catch/landing.



Bill

[huub vink]

Well Cazzie, let me start with the good news.... There is a great Fokker Dr1 for FSX and Robby88 has a FSX version from his Brisfit.
The bad news is that Stuart Green's FS2004 models have some uncurable errors in FSX

Nevertheless enjoy
Huub

[Alexraptor]

Almost full sliders is actually pretty easy if you have a decent system, just make sure you have "bloom effects" disabled, because it eats an insane amount of computer power.

[PhilRamone]

TILEPROXY!!!!

id ont have FSX (bc my comp wont run it :P) but hell if i had it thats what id have on first thing... my dad has it on FS9 and loves it hahaha

[Pultacatt]

It was your destiny!

:costumes:

[spotlope]

Dooood! Thirty buck for the whole she-bang... that's incredible. Think of all the money you saved by waiting until now! Hey, if you're feeling rich and all, I've got a $15 airport I'll sell ya.

Really, I do.

[MCDesigns]

Congrats man, welcome to the club! :ernae:

[harleyman]

Lucky Cajun!!! 24FPS with almost full sliders!!!??

:isadizzy:


arrghh.....


(Translation: Man, dude! That is awesome! You now have FSX and it runs fast on your rig! Have fun and happy flying.. :d )




Bill

Just makes me want to cry.........:d




I paid 49 bucks for the Gold..Thats a great deal...Enjoy....

[kilo delta]

If you're into VFR flying, then nothing..............and I mean n-o-t-h-i-n-g comes close to FTX ( http://fullterrain.com/ ). It covers most of Australia at the moment, although the developers are planning on eventually taking over the world!!!!!:d

[Cazzie]

Just makes me want to cry.........:d




I paid 49 bucks for the Gold..Thats a great deal...Enjoy....

First, thanks to all that replied, I am going over it all, but it will take time. UTX-US is a "must have". Although the water textures are out of this world, is there any way to change the inland colors more green? They are way too blue.

And Bill, I ain't da cajun, dat'd be Pointy31, I'm a Tarheel who has immigrated over to the Soreback state. :d

Harleyman, you just need to know the right people, It was $49.99 retail there too, but I got it as George's Wally World discount, which is about cost. Don't know what my po bones would do sometime without good friends!

Caz

[CG_1976]

Welcome to the flip side Cazzie:ernae:

[MudMarine]

It (FSX) truely is the dark side! Maybe someday someone will show us the light!! But what choice do we have now............

[Dain Arns]

A-HAHAHAHAHAHA! GOTCHA! (Vader softly whistles: "Another One Bites The Dust")...


(Welcome, Caz! :icon_twi: )

[N2056]

"Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your destiny, consume you it will."

Welcome to the club!
Oh...and ya might like "Pete", pete.zip right here at de outhouse! :d

[Snuffy]

Congrats Caz! :ernae:

[Roger]

Cazzie,
One thing you will notice is that Manuele's Ansaldo will show in FsX without any adjustments. It even works in Vista Dx10 mode!

[deathfromafar]

I'm running both FSX Gold and FS9 and enjoy them both. I wanted to get FSX up and running to take advantage of some of the new FSX only models or ones on the way soon. FSX runs smooth and looks great overall but I have so many FS9 addons for aircraft and scenery there's no way I can ditch it for a while. Interesting thing is with all my custom environments in FS9, it actually looks better than FSX in a majority of the scenery and landclasses especially at altitude. Eventually I will have all the same setups on FSX which will correct some of the blatent errors I have observed in scenery and landclass. After that, I will probably scale FS9 down and use FSX more.

[MCDesigns]

"I will learn the secrets of FSX and turn them all to the dark side!!"