Many months ago, I encountered errors a number of times when switching between Orbx’s NA and AU regions with FTX Central utility. Since then, I started using the following approach:
Whenever switching from NA region to AU region or vice versa, I will switch to Default FSX region first as an intermediate step.
FSX Loglook, written by Jean-Christophe Arnulfo, is quite a useful tool in displaying accumulated figures about one’s flightsimming experience.
It extracts following information: Continue reading
Someone just asked if there is any way to change the font size and color of the Shift-Z text. Unfortunately, there isn’t any as far as I know, although some people reported that the paid version of FSUIPC might be able to change the color of the text. But still, font size seems to be hardcoded and can’t be changed.
Anyway, this reminds me that in addition to the AverageFrameRate previously discussed when Shift-Z is pressed, there are a few more parameters that can be applied to the Shift-Z display as well: Continue reading
Many third-party aircrafts have their own set of keys assigned to different panels.
For example on default aircrafts, pressing SHIFT-3 will invoke the GPS panel. But this key-combo is not necessarily able to call up the GPS panel on Carenado and Aerosoft aircrafts.
If one has assigned an external button, say button 3 on a Saitek FIP, for the GPS panel, the difference between the default and third-party aircraft panel key assignment therefore will be quite annoying when aircrafts are changed.
To standardize panel key assignments across different aircrafts: Continue reading
Performance of FSX is greatly affected by the amount of time CPU spending between foreground operation and background data scenery loading. The lower the framerate is set, the more CPU time is devoted to loading scenery and texture.
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION is a direct command that helps tune the amount of time per frame that CPU runs fiber jobs. Continue reading
RejectThreshold is a command that instructs the CPU to bypass the bufferpool when a specified amount of graphics data is reached. Before that threshold, all data are kept sending to the bufferpool.
This function can be used in association with the PoolSize command to improve system stability.
The default quantities of trees and buildings auto-generated in FSX are 4,500 and 3,000 respectively.
When one sets the IMAGE_COMPLEXITY and AUTOGEN_DENSITY to the maximum, reducing either or both of these two quantities for trees and buildings could bring a significant performance improvement while maintaining a good level of image complexity and density.
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Autogen has a default texture buffer of 4 millions. Properly increasing or decreasing this buffer can effectively reduce stutters, especially while the aircraft is in turning.
This function is not by default present in fsx.CFG. To alter the value, one can add the following lines in fsx.CFG; and commonly used values range from 1 million to 15 million (or even higher) in 1 million increment.
[BufferPools]
PoolSize=15000000
When FSX is started, the default flight is also starting to load simultaneously in the background by default. It is designed to speed up the loading process subsequently.
However, if an FSX system has installed a lot of sceneries or the sceneries installed are large and demand a lot of resources (such as Orbx’s sceneries), it is very likely that one will encounter short hang-ups while changing airports and/or aircrafts or adjusting settings, due to the preloading process taken place in the background.
To get rid of this irritating short hang-up, one can include the following line in the [Main] section of fsx.CFG to suppress the preloading: Continue reading
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