May 2008 - Posts
see http://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/Pages/BonusAccelerationRacingMissions.aspx
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http://www.pilote-virtuel.com/viewtopic.php?id=2130 some interesting shots in there, including a working ejection seat and, it looks like, a launchable air-air missile. the site is claiming SP2 compat, although I dont see any shots of VC shadows so it
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here for ATI and here for NV. the "Related News" links on both pages have more tidbits. it will be interesting to see if the rumors pan out to be true. this does point to the fact that newer, faster hardware is coming on both the GPU and the CPU side
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as per TSInsider.com at http://www.tsinsider.com/en-US/team/Pages/MeetusattheNationalTrainShow!.aspx TS2 will be present at the National Train Show, info on which is available at http://www.nationaltrainshow.org/2008/anaheim.html This will be an early
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Soaring Heroes, by Andreas Paschen. Normal-D on youtube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqiHO5T6RxE HD at vimeo at http://www.vimeo.com/1034755 Wow! Nice work by both Andreas and the OrbX team. And thanks to John ( Koorby ) Venema for pointing this
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You will have noticed there are no more comments or email from my blog. No, there is no change dictated from higher up. This is my decision based on how the community treats me. I am sick and tired of a)personal attacks, b)the lack of apology or acknowledgement
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When loading a flight (saved in windowed mode with open panels/views) in fullscreen mode, the opened panels appear but the user cannot interact with them. Even closing and re-opening them does not enable them. Going in and out of windowed mode does not
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Toms posted a OC CPU-GPU review on May 15th that included FSX-SP2 and shows a whopping 83.1 FPS at 19x12 with no AA,trilinear and Ultra Quality, and a still excellent 72.7 FPS at 19x12 with AA, Anisotropic and Ultra Quality. Wow, we are getting close
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is finally changed. <sigh of relief> . please see the new images at http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/features/details/directx.mspx which match the released FSX-SP2 product now. who knows, maybe I will be able to get the Vista
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Goal: Let’s create some definitions for FSX content, so users and third-party developers (3PDs) alike can understand the landscape when discussing if/how content works in SP2. First, a disclaimer: I am not sure my say-so solely defines what is and isn’t
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Microsoft ESP Developer Conference - May 22, 2008 - Reston, VA, See ( http://blogs.msdn.com/publicsector/archive/2008/04/29/microsoft-esp-developer-conference-may-22-2008-reston-va-you-are-invited.aspx ): Microsoft ESP Developer Center is live on MSDN
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I want to clarify my previous post on FS9 port-overs. Let me start by saying my blog posts are my opinion and not the Studio's or MS's. As are my posts here. Can we not try to conflate my comments into WW3? Let me restate where the issue is: 1)FSX content
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