360: Skipping Orbx Online Verification

May 29, 2016May 29, 2016 | Tom Tsui

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Besides backing up my system images, I also make individual copies of important files on my computer regularly. Orbx addon registry is certainly one of them.

During installation, Orbx addons firstly performs an online-store verification and then creates a corresponding entry containing the serial of the product in the registry. With this information in place, the verification process is no longer needed, no matter how many times the product is again reinstalled onto the same computer.

This principle similarly helps in my recent system break-down incidence. Continue reading →

359: The Cause of My PC’s Death

May 28, 2016May 28, 2016 | Tom Tsui

Although there are still some fine-tunings to do, my computer is in general up and running again after a few days’ reinstallation and updating.

Over the rehabilitation process, I had a chance to tidy up my system a bit and get rid of many useless stuffs from my SSDs. I guess it is one of the good things I get from the broken computer.

Like many others, I have Multicore Next and P3D Fiber Accelerator from FSPS (Flight Simulator Platform Solutions), which I occasionally use for testings and other purposes. During a recent search for Continue reading →

357: Get Rid of the GeForce Experience

May 21, 2016 | Tom Tsui

Updating driver regularly is a good practice, especially when it comes to video cards. However, doing so may risk us to install unwanted features that come with the driver as well. One of these is the Nvidia GeForce Experience.

GeForce Experience is Nvidia’s proprietary software in which separate applications, including Game Optimization, GameStream, ShadowPlay, Battery Boost and LED Visualizer are included. They are designed to automatically adjust the configuration of the GeForce graphics card based on the games we play.

It sounds good, doesn’t it?

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353: C172SP NAV Gauges Update

May 9, 2016May 11, 2016 | Tom Tsui

A couple of months ago, I mentioned there would be updates to the existing C172 Series. Here it is the first for the Navigation set.

This update is an important one. It not only includes graphical enhancements but also resolves more than a dozen fixes in programming and rendering.

Existing users should have received an email containing the download link in their mailboxes by now. If not, feel free contact me directly.

This is the first wave of the C172 gauges updates. The next will come soon.

352: FIP Gauges for Carenado C152 II

May 2, 2016May 2, 2016 | Tom Tsui

Steve in Texas in the US said that

Most people that fly in the real world start their training in a 152 in preparation for their PPL

in the comment section of the last Post regarding Piper Cub gauge set announcement. Couldn’t agree with him more. So here’s the Carenado C152 II gauge set brought up front per his request.

Although the C152 II gauges look simple and similar to the C172 siblings, most of the gauge components need to be reworked in order to match better in design. In addition, many gauge responses from programming are different from their bigger brothers, too. Continue reading →

348: My Fix for Windows 10 Upgrade

April 15, 2016June 8, 2017 | Tom Tsui

In the past ten months, I had failed to upgrade my older computer to Windows 10 numerous times. Various google-searched solutions were tried but futile in the end. The upgrade process always stopped at 20- or 70-somethings and reverted Windows10 back to the original OS. It was quite frustrating.

Last weekend, I was finally successful to upgrade the computer to Windows 10. The optical drive was the key! Continue reading →

340: My P3Dv3.2 Settings

March 17, 2016June 28, 2017 | Tom Tsui

Since somebody asks and it’s for my own personal record as well, followings are the settings of my Prepar3D settings for version 3.2 system.

Anyone interested to see the details of my Prepar3D.cfg could click on the Realism Image at the bottom. All changes I made are highlighted in red. And manually changed items are further bolded.
P3Dv32_01 Continue reading →

339: P3Dv3.2 First Impression

March 10, 2016March 10, 2016 | Tom Tsui

Installed the new Prepar3D version 3.2 last night and played with it for a few hours under the same settings (including third-party addons and peripheral hardware) as in the last version. P3Dv32_01

Surely it’s impossible to “experience” all the new features that come with the new version in such a short time, but two features that mentioned in the version’s release announcement could be confirmed right away. Continue reading →

334: Clean and Small

January 18, 2016January 19, 2016 | Tom Tsui

I regularly backup my whole system with Acronis True Image every weekend. After cleaning the 34,423 invalid paths in the registry as reported in my Post 331, I just found the size of the backup has also reduced from 279GB to 176GB. Double checked and confirmed my system is intact.