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Flight Sim discussions; mostly on the core platform ( graphics and terrain, platform team, sim engine, geo tools and geo data, international, internal tools, technical art ) plus news on releases and updates, and the occasional tweaks and tips.

July 2007 - Posts

Windows update ( XP and Vista ) for Intel multi-core processors.
A microcode update from Intel that affects multi-core processors, here . This seems like a good update to take, even if I don't have much more data than you do. Read More...
Friday the 13th is here, and so is the 2nd FSX-DX10 progress report
With this blog post, I have likely run out of snarky dates to make a post on. Ides of August anyone? J . So on with the show First, this is not the FSX-DX10 feature discussion. Nor is this the “what will be in the DX10 release for DX9 users” discussion. Read More...
Vista Appcompat update for FSX
The KB located at http://support.microsoft.com/kb/932246/ contains an application compatibility update for Vista that include changes for FSX that enable us to fix the disabling of Aero when you launch FSX on Vista. This came out earlier this year, but Read More...
FSX SP1: The blog posts
We have collected the set of blog posts I created on release of SP1, and turned them into an article on FSInsider, here http://www.fsinsider.com/tips/Pages/SP1HowtoPrepareforSP1andWhatYouGetWhenYouInstallIt.aspx , that makes for a little easier reading Read More...
FSX Performance benchmarks by Toms' Hardware
I wrote an article up for the fsinsider site, which references the recent Toms Hardware graphics benchmark. That benchmark uses a variety of games across just about all recent hardware. It is a very good resource for guiding purchasing decisions. You Read More...
FSX Tip of the Week:Reporting those pesky content errors
Here is a set of tweaks for FSX.cfg that will enable a set of errors that can help pinpoint content loading errors. This is especially useful in dealing with content brought across from a previous version of Flight Sim, but can be useful even for new Read More...
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