Steve's DX10 Fixer - HUGE attaboy

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heywooood

Mayor Emeritus of Taco City
I don't think I'm overstepping when I say that the DX10 Fixer has made FSX 100 times better in all aspects of gameplay - from improving the lighting, to making it possible to use legacy aircraft and scenery, to allowing for greatly improved FPS owing to the advantages in the DX10 preview mode over DX9 and on and on...

I know Steve isn't under appreciated but I just want to be sure he knows what a value his program has added to the FSX experience in my opinion and that I don't think I am alone when I say, Thanks Steve - I know FSX wouldn't be nearly as much fun to fly without the DX10 Fixer - it is Essential
 
I'll second your attaboy! Steve's DX10 Fixer has added new life to a sim many thought was dead and gone.

Greg
 
When using FS8 planes with DX10 fixer, does it just fix the visuals, or does it also somehow cure the big frame rate hit you get when using them?
 
DennyA said:
When using FS8 planes with DX10 fixer, does it just fix the visuals, or does it also somehow cure the big frame rate hit you get when using them?
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No it cant fix FS9 plane issues the model would ned to be recompiled that is the only way.
 
Does that mean that all of my FS2004 AI aircraft will remain all white in color in FSX using DX10?
 
Majority of my AI are from WOAI and are FS9 I dont have any issues, you could try converting them all to DDS might help the FPS but I think only messing with the Textures will you fix them. I just cant for the life of right now think of what needs to be changrd.
 
With all the positive bits that come with DX10 I guess I am the odd one out here;-) After getting a a new rig recently I fully satisfied returned to DX9. Now why?

It was exactly those permanent issues with DX10 concerning older addons or certain - only partly compatible - scenery addons that kept buggering me over and over. Yes, the FPS are better, so is lighting, sharper textures, the vc-shaddows a nice feature, BUT in my opinion FSX simply wasn´t completely made for DX10, so e.g. the REX textures, especially inland water, etc. stil look way better in DX9.

I must confess though Steve did a tremendous job and really nailed the DX10 functionalities for FSX, made it finally work. So I guess I will switch if necessary, but for now I keep returning to DX9, cause with a decent rig it still runs smooth if tweaked out and doesn´t cause me any trouble with older favorite addons.

Regards
Alex
 
Dx10 works great, but yes if using none FSX aircraft/scenery in FSX you will run into issues, its a bit strange to say its FSX DX10 fault for this though.
 
I have tried - once - the DX10 "preview" (don't see why it's not referred to as the "main feature" once you have switched over) but went back to DX9 after just a day, for the reasons cited above. All those conversions (AI and scenery) would take me forever and not worth the marginal benefits (have a high end Haswell 4700 gig o/c rig and card).
 
The DX10 "preview" is nothing like Steve's Fixer... where the "preview" ends the Fixer begins. Steve has done a monumental job bringing out so many DX10 features of the sim.

Greg
 
Just tried the DX10 Preview mode in FSXSE. My framerates are actually 50% lower (without AA and AF, mind you) and my custom (FSX native) road traffic models are causing flashes of huge, multicolored polygons all across the landscape. So I'm with Alex. #teamDX9
 
Another big thumbs up from me. I've yet to have any issues with DX10 using Steve's Fixer. Admittedly I only use native FSX aircraft and scenery but all of my add-ons (both aircraft and scenery) work flawlessly. Apart from better performance on my older, very modest system, I love the cockpit shadows which seem to have little or no effect on framerates.
 
Has anybody got a link to Steves's DX10 fixer? Looked for it some time ago and had the impression it was no longer available.

Thanks folks

DaveQ
 
looks like he is distributing the file himself - I hope I can still get updates - I bought from the vendor...
 
expat said:
I have tried - once - the DX10 "preview" (don't see why it's not referred to as the "main feature" once you have switched over) but went back to DX9 after just a day, for the reasons cited above. All those conversions (AI and scenery) would take me forever and not worth the marginal benefits (have a high end Haswell 4700 gig o/c rig and card).
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you tried the DX10 preview mode - but not the DX10 fixer then?
you can still find the set of free files that Steve made for FSX DX10 at the usual sites...maybe try those with the preview mode to see if your frame rates improve.
= note that these are not all of the fixes you get in the paid program, but you get the idea

I was not sold at first (before the Fixer program was released) because I was getting great results in DX9..with the exception of my FPS drop whenever I wanted to fly in weather...now I have great FPS throughout and I can have bloom enabled and fly most FS9 ports without any show stopping texture issues
 
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