Dear All,
My name is Chris and I just registered with Sim-Outhouse to thank you for this wonderful knowledge base
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I have a few games in my notebook and use them for relaxation mostly on business trips.
There are three long-term favorites: CFS2, Aerofly Professional de Luxe (RC-Planes), and Virtual Skipper 5 (Sailboats). They all have realistic physics in common and this is why I still enjoy them so much!
This is where my introduction could end but maybe the following stuff helps to understand why I am here and why I appreciate this community so much. It's my recent experience to migrate from Windows 10 to 11 with a brand new laptop:
I just ākind of completedā the installation of my new HP workstation Windows 11 notebook after a stressful week of work during the day + IT installation at night.
Microsoft forced the move towards Windows 11 since my beloved Lenovo workstation notebook was discriminated by key functionalities in TEAMS (āthis function is not available on your deviceā) although you can run quite modern games on it. It wasnāt easy to find a āmilitary gradeā successor with embedded LTE, a replaceable battery, and a good graphic card (Nvidia RTX 4000 ada + Intel UHD,) and a few other special specs. I ended up with an HP Fury workstation 16 G 10.
The migration process was time-consuming and full of surprises as I remember it from XP to 7 and from W7 to W10. It took ages to adjust all the detail settings to my preferences ā and in the end, Iāll hopefully achieve exactly the status that I already had with the āoldā machine.
However, the known issues were not the Windows Apps but the simulators and especially cfs2!
The first installation with no CD patch on Wednesday went ok, but the graphics and performance were just horrible. My IT support always complains āThis game is too old and not meant to work with your modern graphic cardā. I do not take no for an answer. So we tried every possible setting and were left to choose between poor graphics or crashes. On Wednesday evening Intel decided by surprise to offer a graphics driver update including the Arc Control Control Center for the UHD graphics card and all of a sudden cfs2 ran perfectly with more than 1500 FPS! My IT support was quiet. Unfortunately, that changed again without any reason when cfs2 crashed again the next morning. From Thursday until Saturday evening, I spent many hours in root cause analysis and enjoyed the āmodernā world of graphics management in Windows 11:
You can adjust graphic settings for a game in great detail in the Nvidia Control Center, but this is overruled by the simplistic Windows graphic settings, which also show no effect. So you have another chance by making some vague adjustments to the same game in the Intel Arc Control Center ā what a mess! The real combat on this notebook seems to be between Windows and the graphic driver providers not to mention that it comes with an HP driver for the Intel UHDā¦
Annoying was the fact that cfs2 sometimes worked perfectly and after the next start went back into crashing mode.
I checked all the recommendations I could find in this forum, on YouTube, etc., of course. To make a long story short: Aerofly Professional and Virtual Skipper seem to run great with certain settings, but cfs2 needed a very special treatment and that is DGVOODOO2 which I found in this great forum. I installed it following the description and cfs2 runs better than ever on the INTEL UHD: About 200 FPS with maximum details and 1920 x 1200 resolution. On the DGVOODOO2 website, you will find some detailed information about what this program does, and it proves that the developer has understood and fixed the root causes of the drama which might be located somewhere between Windows 11 and Intel graphic cards.
I am really happy now and hope that my new notebook (that boasts better audio and an illuminated keyboard) will join me as long as possible during the Windows 11 and Office 2024 life cycle which will end sometime beyond 2030
So "long"!
Chris
"She looks o.k. for me and flies well!" (my IT support)
My name is Chris and I just registered with Sim-Outhouse to thank you for this wonderful knowledge base
-I have a few games in my notebook and use them for relaxation mostly on business trips.
There are three long-term favorites: CFS2, Aerofly Professional de Luxe (RC-Planes), and Virtual Skipper 5 (Sailboats). They all have realistic physics in common and this is why I still enjoy them so much!
This is where my introduction could end but maybe the following stuff helps to understand why I am here and why I appreciate this community so much. It's my recent experience to migrate from Windows 10 to 11 with a brand new laptop:
I just ākind of completedā the installation of my new HP workstation Windows 11 notebook after a stressful week of work during the day + IT installation at night.
Microsoft forced the move towards Windows 11 since my beloved Lenovo workstation notebook was discriminated by key functionalities in TEAMS (āthis function is not available on your deviceā) although you can run quite modern games on it. It wasnāt easy to find a āmilitary gradeā successor with embedded LTE, a replaceable battery, and a good graphic card (Nvidia RTX 4000 ada + Intel UHD,) and a few other special specs. I ended up with an HP Fury workstation 16 G 10.
The migration process was time-consuming and full of surprises as I remember it from XP to 7 and from W7 to W10. It took ages to adjust all the detail settings to my preferences ā and in the end, Iāll hopefully achieve exactly the status that I already had with the āoldā machine.
However, the known issues were not the Windows Apps but the simulators and especially cfs2!
The first installation with no CD patch on Wednesday went ok, but the graphics and performance were just horrible. My IT support always complains āThis game is too old and not meant to work with your modern graphic cardā. I do not take no for an answer. So we tried every possible setting and were left to choose between poor graphics or crashes. On Wednesday evening Intel decided by surprise to offer a graphics driver update including the Arc Control Control Center for the UHD graphics card and all of a sudden cfs2 ran perfectly with more than 1500 FPS! My IT support was quiet. Unfortunately, that changed again without any reason when cfs2 crashed again the next morning. From Thursday until Saturday evening, I spent many hours in root cause analysis and enjoyed the āmodernā world of graphics management in Windows 11:
You can adjust graphic settings for a game in great detail in the Nvidia Control Center, but this is overruled by the simplistic Windows graphic settings, which also show no effect. So you have another chance by making some vague adjustments to the same game in the Intel Arc Control Center ā what a mess! The real combat on this notebook seems to be between Windows and the graphic driver providers not to mention that it comes with an HP driver for the Intel UHDā¦
Annoying was the fact that cfs2 sometimes worked perfectly and after the next start went back into crashing mode.
I checked all the recommendations I could find in this forum, on YouTube, etc., of course. To make a long story short: Aerofly Professional and Virtual Skipper seem to run great with certain settings, but cfs2 needed a very special treatment and that is DGVOODOO2 which I found in this great forum. I installed it following the description and cfs2 runs better than ever on the INTEL UHD: About 200 FPS with maximum details and 1920 x 1200 resolution. On the DGVOODOO2 website, you will find some detailed information about what this program does, and it proves that the developer has understood and fixed the root causes of the drama which might be located somewhere between Windows 11 and Intel graphic cards.
I am really happy now and hope that my new notebook (that boasts better audio and an illuminated keyboard) will join me as long as possible during the Windows 11 and Office 2024 life cycle which will end sometime beyond 2030
So "long"!
Chris
"She looks o.k. for me and flies well!" (my IT support)