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Here are some general suggestions and a few tips I have gleaned from the forums. General Performance The goal of SP1 was: · to increase performance 20-40% · to enable FSX to take advantage of multi-core machines · fix some other bugs...

This blog is not product support. I cannot take support questions on configs, bug reports, etc. I just cannot do it. Right now, I am publishing those comments and stating so. I am doing that because I know SP1 is still "hot off the presses" and...

It got in the way of the flow of the SP1 data. I hope no one minds. I saved it just in case, but it seems redundant anyways.

In fsx.cfg --- There is a tweak to control scheduling of threads on cores. It is not recommended to change these settings unless you have a performance reduction and/or maxed out CPU loads in the PerfMonitor. The tweak is Edit:Fixed...

Finally, we have shipped! It’s been solid work since Nov from the Graphics and Terrain team on SP1 performance. Here is a work-list on performance so you can understand what we did: General Performance Work 1. performed more work...

Z has a great article on what SP1contains for the SDK, SimConnect, and 3 rd party developers here . I’d like to point out a few of the key fixes that will affect flyers: Graphics: · Virtual Cockpit Lighting Re-enable the ability to define gauge...

Missions · MISSIONS: Monsoon Approach: Rain is missing · MISSIONS: Swedish Championship Soaring Course: Thermals are not showing in mission (schematic) · MISSIONS: Swedish Championship Soaring Course: When User gets the Club Record time they...

Scenery SCENERY: Night textures not appearing on Vancouver's Canada Place SCENERY: Drop-out of night textures occurring on many generic buildings SCENERY: Mission Paris Airshow at LFPB SCENERY: Nijubashi bridge is on the wrong place. SCENERY...

Setting up for SP1 SP1 needs a pristine RTM. That includes no add-ons. Many 3 rd party add-ons can cause crashes, especially if they load dlls. In that case they will likely need to be refreshed. If you really don’t want to do this,...

Available on here Please read the rest of the SP1 "wave" of blog posts.

Today AMD announced their new Phenom™ processor here . As part of this press release, Aces Studio participated with a quote about our improved multi-core support in SP1. The quote stated “Like AMD, we too envision quad-core technology as an enabler...

This gets asked all the time and I have replied about it at least a dozen times, so lets make it sticky now with a blog post. There is 1 patch per language, 7 languages. English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Polish. Edit: Russian is...

So here is an idea. Occasionally I will publish information on various "tweaks" to the product and what they do. A "Tweak of the week" if you will. So let’s start with the mysterious sounding FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION. There are page after...

We have resolved all Beta bugs, including fixing 4 late graphics bugs. We found a couple small Loc issues today, and are rebuilding tonite with an RC candidate. The build goes into Final Test tomorrow. All thing being equal and "the creek dont rise...

While we fixed the perf regression issue in B3, we still had aircraft mouse-rect and animated part issues left over and found a photo-scenery corruption issue. In both default and 3rd party aircraft. Thus we felt we needed confirmation on those fixes...

So it’s been almost 2 weeks since I started moderating blog posts. I am publishing some of them, but not all. It’s a matter of time and appropriateness. Certainly posts in the following categories: a) Schedule questions, b) Requests to be...