Month: August 2011

70: Maps – FTX NA Landmarks

| Tom Tsui

One of my favorite places to fly in FSX is the North America area covered and enhanced by FSAddon and Orbx paywares, which include FSAddon’s Tongass Fjords (TFJ); Orbx’s Pacific Northwest (PNW), Pacific Fjords (PFJ), Central Rockies (CRM) and Northern Rockies (NRM).

Lately, I’ve been customizing maps for all these regions as a whole.  In addition to re-grouping and re-categorizing Landmarks, Points of Interest and Airports from these addons, I am also adding sceneries from Return to Misty Moorings (RTMM) and other FTX NA-compatible freewares to these maps.

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69: My Best FSX Setup (2011-0808)

| Tom Tsui

Due to the latest changes I made in the AMD Radeon 11.7 setting, my fsx.CFG has realized a significant modification by removing the AffinityMask entry completely.

This means that all 4 cores of my i7 CPU are now available to FSX, rather than just limited to 2 cores through the AffinityMask=13 command as set before.

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68: AMD Radeon Settings (11.7 Updated)

| Tom Tsui

Graphics Card: ASUSTeK MATRIX HD5870 P/2DIS/2G
OC to 970MHz / 5000MHz  (default 894MHz / 4800MHz)

Radeon Driver: 11.7

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67: fsx.CFG – LOD_RADIUS

| Tom Tsui

LOD_RADIUS under [TERRAIN] determines the size of the coverage area to be refreshed around the aircraft.   It has a default value of 4.5.

[TERRAIN]
LOD_RADIUS=4.500000

However, a number of other aspects are also influenced by this value in addition to refreshing the coverage: Continue reading →

66: Give the Aircraft a Little Push

| Tom Tsui

Purchased a few third-party aircrafts but the default C172 is still my favorite.  It will be perfect if the plane can be more powerful and fly a little bit faster like the Skylane 182.

Here’s how I “installed” the 182’s six-cylinder, 235hp engine to my C172:

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65: Maps – Netherlands Airports

| Tom Tsui
Netherlands Airport - Schiphol EHAM, Amsterdam

The whole of Netherlands scenery and airports enhanced by NL2000’s version 4.x, plus Amsterdam, Lelystad and Rotterdam from Aerosoft, and Venlo from Martin Schrijver.