Overview Acceleration has RTM’ed. Acceleration Pack contains the SP2 fixes; including both DX9 and DX10

I don't know what bloom is?  How about a nice simple explanation.

thanks.

Hi Russell,

Bloom and HDR tends to increase the contrast between dark and bright areas of the scene, making excessively bright parts of the scene such as a window in a dark room appear more realistic.  The window would almost bloom with light and show a sort of glow.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_(shader_effect) for more details.

Cheers.

Only "Game-Gimmicks".............not worth to buy.

Just my two cents.

Regards

Crowsnest

I trully think that ACES and MS has to focus more on addressing the FPS issues even in DX9 before DX10 features.

Given the adoption rate of Vista is next to nill, and even MS has extended support period for XP as nobody is buying Vista.

I have a dual-core 2.6ghz CPU, 4 gigs of DDR2-800 ram and a EvGA 7900GTX card. I admit not state of the art but not to shabby and the FPS even after SP1 is modest at best.

Now addons can slow-down even FS9 but the fact that even med-high settings in FSX using default aircraft is almost a frame killer, getting DX9 right should be the first priority.

Will it make the sim X run better on some of our slower computers?

Wish you could explain the system in layman term so us "stupid" computer people that just like to play flight sim what it will do for us. Will I be able to open up the scenery, see more, and still use the flight sim where it will move....???

FSX - SP2 and DX10 Performance

Backup a second ... So what is DirectX? Wikipedia says DirectX is a collection of APIs for easily handling

Many have come to the conclusion that DX10 has nothing new, in terms of the effects its able to produce, the volumetrics, and the HDR because after all DirectX is software, just like your GFX card drivers.