PTaylor's WebLog

In an excellent piece of good news, Adam Szofran, late Terrain Dev lead of Aces, has returned to the fold. And we are glad to have him back! Now back to your regularly scheduled programming, I mean flying.

There is a lot of discussion and buzz around Intel, Larrabee, and ray tracing on the GPU. So I decided to investigate. First, we have some required reading J . Resources to get your head wrapped around the current debate and the questions it raises...

http://www.winsupersite.com/reviews/winvista_sp1.asp is an excellent and informative article. I hear 3/18 ( tomorrow ) is the day for downloaders, but I could be wrong :-).

I forgot the name of the #define for handing the VS2005 SP1 redist dependency and accidentally deleted the post ----- A couple of issues have come up that we think are going to affect 3rd party content, and that SP1 will not fix. VS 2005 SP1...

Mike McCarthy of FS Open Components fame ( amongst other things ) takes his time as a raconteur to interview yours truly here .

Overall, performance is only as good as the weakest link in the chain. So if you skimp on the GPU and get a great CPU, the GPU becomes the bottleneck. There is a reason the high-end cards cost so much. They provide more. Really. Understanding...

I thought it was noteworthy of mention that my last post on FSX version identifiers was my 100th post. I suppose that makes me a confirmed blogger, and not one of the bloggers who starts a blog and doesn't really follow-thru which I was in danger of...

RTM: 10.0.60905 SP1: 10.0.61355 (Russian: 10.0.61357) SP2: 10.0.61472 XPack: 10.0.61637 You can check this by bringing up the About dialog box from the Help menu.

For the F18 cockpit manual, go here http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html

Sidewinder on avsim.com came up with a decent partial fix for this issue, see the thread here .

Now that I am starting a new series of posts, let’s talk about where the Studio is from an organizational perspective. To understand the present, you first need to understand the past. The Studio has had a lot of changes and growth in my 18 months...

We have openings in both Dev and PM in the graphics org, see these postings on the MS job site: PM, Graphics and Terrain http://members.microsoft.com/careers/agent/details.aspx?JobID=20C7D1C5-9D25-4EC3-9103-893666948DBF&start=1&interval...

So now that I am back and just about dug out from the holidays and some intense management training that I attended, I wanted to engage the community in a discussion about how the Studio is changing, where we are going, and how that is impacting the Studio...

First and before I forget - Happy New Year! Next, this post is not meant to minimize, marginalize, or denigrate anyone who has the blurries. This post is meant to discuss the data I have in front of me as a result of investigations on this topic...

The best explanation of this I have yet found is here ; with this article as a supplement. This explanation makes it pretty clear that even if Windows 32-bit doesn't report the memory, it is getting used by some part of the hardware. If you had...

If you have installed before, and especially if you have installed add-ons - its entirely possible some registry entry did not get completely removed. This can block re-installing or make the re-install fail. If this sounds familiar, and you get stuck...

From Stoopy at avsim.com in this thread , the following instructions should allow you to upgrade the propellers on FS9 aircraft that have bad propeller textures under FSX-SP2: - Download and install Martin Wright's DXTBMP program http://www.mnwright...

DXDiag is this great diagnostic for your gaming hardware. It was created during my time as DX SDK PM by the DX SDK and Tools team. It is hard to imagine gaming before DXDiag and its reporting what is on your machine; but lately I have seen a lot of misunderstanding...

some users are reporting the menu crashes with SP2 are related to FRAPS and do not happen without FRAPS. see http://forums.avsim.net/dcboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=121&topic_id=428494&mesg_id=428494&page hth, and back to your...

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! And enjoy your flying, no matter if it be in-game or in-life! I am on vacation, so please do not expect a lot of interaction.

it just went live!, find it here http://download.microsoft.com/download/3/C/A/3CAD9417-A0BE-4892-9224-4A4479F9F633/sdk.msi and this link is available on FSInsider.com now.

“Bob “The Setup Guy” Arnson makes a post to try to help SP2 users figure out why their install is failing here .

With a week to spare before the Winter Solstice and fall is over! A lot of people worked hard to get this done before Christmas, kudos to the SP2 team at Aces. FSInsider.com now has the downloads links. Note: My post on Acceleration and...

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9de6260e-4275-482d-9524-de850c4dd91c&DisplayLang=en

In another excellent thread on sim-outhouse.com, DennyA has collected a list of planes along with their type ( payware, freeware ), source, and compat notes here . I have to say, informative threads with great details like this are worth a lot to the...