LonelyplanetXO
Charter Member
Thinking of dabbling with the X? If you're not building a brand new rocketship - DON'T GO THERE!
Instead, relax and read this tragic tale....
One fine day, when other people who had lives were out enjoying the sunshine; that old curmudgeon Lonelyplanet was once again surfing the SOH forums,drooling over virtual aeroplane porn (dare I say it? "Lotus' L-39"....hehehe) and getting all excited over all the HU's for amazing cool new stuff coming up in the FSX forum. "Damn those KBT guys", he thought "that FS-EXX-only Electra looks hot!"
As though to prove that wisdom and age aren't necessarily related, LPXO decided that it couldn't hurt to give the Ex one more go. Armed with the teachings of Jesus and a copy of nhancer, he donned his mad scientist outfit & TrackIR hat and proceeded into the FS-EX config to do or die (virtually, of course).
Tweak this, disable that, add a line here, delete this bit cos it looks funny.....and soon enough he fired up EXX.... Out there in the middle of Canada in the "Beaver Liquor" ElectraII, things looked promising. 25frames a second, locked and stable...wooo never got that before! he marvelled, prematurely congratulating himself of his amazing cleverness and extroadinary ability to follow simple instructions. Then he loaded all of the FS9 addon models he'd invested in which came with FSX installers, providing some cool toys to start.
Fire up the Carenado Moone, showed a locked solid and stable 25FPS. Trying again with a the default CRJ provided the same and proved that default aircraft dont have to suck. Lionheart's Epic sat squarely on 19 and even the evilly-frame hungry tiltrotor managed a flyable 13. Encouraging signs indeed, albeit in the middle of nowhere.
So he thought to try a slightly more challenging scenario, Rwx + circuits at LaGuardia with middish settings.That saw around 20 for the Mooney, 15-19 for the Electra and CRJ, a flyable 8-14 for the Epic but the T/R sunk faster than an airbus in the Hudson, at sub-5fps. Lesson so far was EXX does work if you screw around with it enough, but only with simple or well coded toys.
Soooo with all that cool new stuff around and buoyed by success our intrepid mug ventured forth to the payware sites with credit card in hand to buy - Australia. Well, why not; it's a fine place to visit, even if everything that crawls, hops, runs, slithers, swims or flys wants to kill you. And some real weather while we're there, REX2.
Four evenings of downloads later - and a notice from his friendly ISP to remind him he'd blown his bandwidth budget for the next four years, he fired up Ex in Oz and proceeded on a flight from Archerfield (which is in Brisbane, for those Aussies from Canberra) to Gold Coast (which is a bit South of Brisbane but not as far as New Zealand, for those Kiwis who thought it was part of New Zealand - & all moved there). The Epic managed a staggering 4.8FPS over YBBN, improving to about 6 towards the Gold Coast. Default aircraft were little better and it's fair to assume the Australians won't be buying tiltrotors because downunder, they move about as fast as Ayers rock.
"Strewth! a Dingo got me game" he shouted.... and it might have been true, because it barked like a dog. But being a Kiwi and thus having a natural inclination to fight lost causes - even in the overwhelming presence of common sense; he started to wind back the settings on everything and kept winding back until eventually he got to the same FPS as Laguardia... flyable in simpler models but not much good for anything complex.
Finally, EX was running at 10-18FPS at low altitude and our hero gazed out of the cockpit of the
Epic (having abandoned the Caranedo Mooney, which gave better frames but turned out the windscreen went opaque when it rains) at the vista below... which looked a lot like Voz in FS9, but with worse clouds than FS9. And less autogen. And far less ai traffic....
Sooo he thought, mildly pleased with what he'd achieved. He'd managed to get Australia in FSX to look almost as good as it does in FS9 for only $NZ230.00. And of course he mulled over the idea of a fast new I7 processor, which would need a new motherboard, more RAM and a new Vid card for an SLI setup. Why, that's only about $NZ2200 he mused. And with that, he shut down FSX and hit "uninstall". And lived happily ever after, with his Intel Quad core 2.4 3Ghz of RAM, 260GTX 1gb card. And FS9.
LPXO
Instead, relax and read this tragic tale....
One fine day, when other people who had lives were out enjoying the sunshine; that old curmudgeon Lonelyplanet was once again surfing the SOH forums,drooling over virtual aeroplane porn (dare I say it? "Lotus' L-39"....hehehe) and getting all excited over all the HU's for amazing cool new stuff coming up in the FSX forum. "Damn those KBT guys", he thought "that FS-EXX-only Electra looks hot!"
As though to prove that wisdom and age aren't necessarily related, LPXO decided that it couldn't hurt to give the Ex one more go. Armed with the teachings of Jesus and a copy of nhancer, he donned his mad scientist outfit & TrackIR hat and proceeded into the FS-EX config to do or die (virtually, of course).
Tweak this, disable that, add a line here, delete this bit cos it looks funny.....and soon enough he fired up EXX.... Out there in the middle of Canada in the "Beaver Liquor" ElectraII, things looked promising. 25frames a second, locked and stable...wooo never got that before! he marvelled, prematurely congratulating himself of his amazing cleverness and extroadinary ability to follow simple instructions. Then he loaded all of the FS9 addon models he'd invested in which came with FSX installers, providing some cool toys to start.
Fire up the Carenado Moone, showed a locked solid and stable 25FPS. Trying again with a the default CRJ provided the same and proved that default aircraft dont have to suck. Lionheart's Epic sat squarely on 19 and even the evilly-frame hungry tiltrotor managed a flyable 13. Encouraging signs indeed, albeit in the middle of nowhere.
So he thought to try a slightly more challenging scenario, Rwx + circuits at LaGuardia with middish settings.That saw around 20 for the Mooney, 15-19 for the Electra and CRJ, a flyable 8-14 for the Epic but the T/R sunk faster than an airbus in the Hudson, at sub-5fps. Lesson so far was EXX does work if you screw around with it enough, but only with simple or well coded toys.
Soooo with all that cool new stuff around and buoyed by success our intrepid mug ventured forth to the payware sites with credit card in hand to buy - Australia. Well, why not; it's a fine place to visit, even if everything that crawls, hops, runs, slithers, swims or flys wants to kill you. And some real weather while we're there, REX2.
Four evenings of downloads later - and a notice from his friendly ISP to remind him he'd blown his bandwidth budget for the next four years, he fired up Ex in Oz and proceeded on a flight from Archerfield (which is in Brisbane, for those Aussies from Canberra) to Gold Coast (which is a bit South of Brisbane but not as far as New Zealand, for those Kiwis who thought it was part of New Zealand - & all moved there). The Epic managed a staggering 4.8FPS over YBBN, improving to about 6 towards the Gold Coast. Default aircraft were little better and it's fair to assume the Australians won't be buying tiltrotors because downunder, they move about as fast as Ayers rock.
"Strewth! a Dingo got me game" he shouted.... and it might have been true, because it barked like a dog. But being a Kiwi and thus having a natural inclination to fight lost causes - even in the overwhelming presence of common sense; he started to wind back the settings on everything and kept winding back until eventually he got to the same FPS as Laguardia... flyable in simpler models but not much good for anything complex.
Finally, EX was running at 10-18FPS at low altitude and our hero gazed out of the cockpit of the
Epic (having abandoned the Caranedo Mooney, which gave better frames but turned out the windscreen went opaque when it rains) at the vista below... which looked a lot like Voz in FS9, but with worse clouds than FS9. And less autogen. And far less ai traffic....
Sooo he thought, mildly pleased with what he'd achieved. He'd managed to get Australia in FSX to look almost as good as it does in FS9 for only $NZ230.00. And of course he mulled over the idea of a fast new I7 processor, which would need a new motherboard, more RAM and a new Vid card for an SLI setup. Why, that's only about $NZ2200 he mused. And with that, he shut down FSX and hit "uninstall". And lived happily ever after, with his Intel Quad core 2.4 3Ghz of RAM, 260GTX 1gb card. And FS9.
LPXO
FSX runs at a nice 25fps out in the wilds with some autogen but thats where i fly, i rarely go into anything bigger than a farm/municipal airstrip...
