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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.

January 2008 - Posts

GPU variants, performance envelopes, and being an informed consumer
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 how the Read More...
Last Post was 100th Blog post
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 in Read More...
FSX Release Identifiers, so users can verify what they have installed
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. Read More...
Manual for F/A-18 VC in Acceleration
For the F18 cockpit manual, go here http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/board,4.0.html Read More...
Partial fix for the "w-key" cockpit view issue
Sidewinder on avsim.com came up with a decent partial fix for this issue, see the thread here . Read More...
Aces Studio Organization:Yesterday and Today
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. First Read More...
Great jobs available in Aces
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=10&SortCol=DatePosted Read More...
New Year, new role, new series of posts
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 Read More...
Four points about FSX and Blurries
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. Please Read More...
Why your 4G of RAM Windows 32-bit system may not report all of the 4G (even though it is in use )
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 less memory, Read More...
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