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87: My FSX Tuning Part 1 – Back to Basic

| Tom Tsui

As stated in my last post regarding AMD 11.8 setting, due to the discrepancy to what I’ve been using for a long time, I’ve been re-tuning my whole system as if it was just newly installed.   This is the first of a series of posts regarding my tuning process, and the objective of the first step to reset most of my system back to the state as if they were just installed.

STEP 1: Preparation

a)     Backup fsx.CFG to fsx-Backup.CFG  (c:\Users\<username>\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX)

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30: Flight Instrument Panel Tweak – Part 3

| Tom Tsui

I got three Saitek’s Pro Flight Instrument Panels.   They are good but expensive, too.  Moreover, the more of this FIP are attached to a system, the more impact of it affects FSX’s performance.

Using earlier Tweak 1 and Tweak 2,  my three Panels are setup as picture shown below, and each panel controls two related gauges:

AIRSPEED <—> RPM

ATTITUDE <—> DIRECTION

ALTITUDE <—> VERTICAL SPEED

Under this arrangement, I can simply press the up and down buttons to easily access the six basic gauges on small planes I usually fly.

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29: Flight Instrument Panel Tweak – Part 2

| Tom Tsui

On each Pro Flight Instrument Panel (FIP), there are six physical buttons (S1 to S6) located on the left hand side of the LCD screen, which are predefined as:

The functions of these buttons are defined in the SaiFlightSimX.xml file under C:\Program Files (x86)\Saitek\DirectOutput directory as described in Tweak 1 (see below).

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28: Flight Instrument Panel Tweak – Part 1

| Tom Tsui
Saitek Pro Flight Instrument Panel

Saitek’s Pro Flight Instrument Panel (FIP) comes with an XML file that defines the order of gauges to be shown when starting up.  The default order is:

Altimeter<-> Airspeed<-> Attitude
<->  Compass <-> Turn Indicator <->  Vertical Speed

This order is also true to the sequence of gauge starting when more than one FIP are included in the system.  By editing the XML file, the order of the six gauges to be shown can be arranged as desired.

Here are the steps:

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