359: The Cause of My PC’s Death

| 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 →

News: System Down Notice

| Tom Tsui

After my car was hit a few weeks ago.   My printer broke down last week.   Today, my computer has crashed unrecoverably as well.   I have to reinstall everything.  I guess it will take a couple of days to a week at least to revert everything back to normal.  During this period, my response will be slow.

Misfortunes never come singly.   Even though I am trying to look at all these unhappy things from the bright side, I still can’t help yelling “Damn! Damn! Damn!”

358: A New Blog worth Following

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I’ve been (still am) focusing a lot on developing new gauges for FIPs in the past 12 months, which inevitably reduces my already limited time on exploring new fun to add to flight simulation.   A friend, probably he doesn’t want to be named here, has created a pretty nice blog — On The Glideslope — that in a way supplements what I’ve missed.

He says, “You can learn an awful lot from the people who have come before you.”    Actually, it’s also true to learn from others who come after you as well.   We, individually, are too small to cover all aspects in the flightsim world.

 

357: Get Rid of the GeForce Experience

| 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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356: My Cockpit Got Aligned

| Tom Tsui

I have a spare FIP sitting around for quite some times, which is only used occasionally for various testings via my network computer.   Yesterday, I decided to throw in the underused FIP to the system to see how it effects.
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Actually, the main reason for me not including the spare FIP to my system in the past was because the “6 FIPs + 1 Radio Panel across the top roll” and “1 Switch Panel + 3 FIPs + 1 Multi Panel” on the bottom constituted a pretty symmetric appearance in my 2-stack instrument setup already.   And I’ve been using this setup for a very long time. Continue reading →

355: GTX 1080 is Coming

| Tom Tsui

Nvidia’s GeForce GTX 1080 is rumored to be publicly released by the 27th of this GTX1080month.   Some technical websites preview it “twice as fast as a Titan X” but only priced around 60% of its predecessor.   The company even calls the card “Gaming Perfected”.

Surely it’s just another marketing buzz word.  But still, I can’t help looking forward to seeing what new level this next generation card is going to bring to the various flight simulation platforms nowadays, no matter it is FSX, FSX Steam, P3D or X-Plane.   Sadly, it’s not likely that I will replace my Titan X for it, at least not in the coming year.

 

354: Video of Carenado C152II Gauges

| Tom Tsui

Here’s a short video showing how the Carenado C152II Gauges look like in my cockpit setup.

My personal most favorite gauges so far.

Not quite in mood these days since Continue reading →

353: C172SP NAV Gauges Update

| 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.
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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

| 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.
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Although the C152 II gauges look simple and similar to the C172 siblings, most of Carenado_C152-25the 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 →