About Time!

[Ben R]

Well, my laptop went out and had to be fixed, so after about a week and a half, i got it back! heres 1 shot from my first flight in 1.5 weeks..



Hope you like!

cheers,

Ben

[fabiane]

Nice one, ground textures could be sharper, but very good for a laptop.

Like the clouds,

Cheers,
Fabian

[Ben R]

thanks! i havent installed any ground textures yet..but working on them right now

those are defualt clouds!

cheers,

Ben

[haroldkip]

Nice chopper Ben but needless to say you still have a lot of work to do

[Layne.]

I know what you feel my laptop's motherboard had to be replaced cuz it stuffed up and there was a recall on the battery chargers.
Now i am on a low-end Dell and can't play FSX

[haroldkip]

Now i am on a low-end Dell and can't play FSX

I am on a high-end Dell (or at least it was high-end about three years ago) and I run FS9 with everything maxed - like a dream. Nearly constant 28 to 30 FPS (locked) with incidental drops to around 24-25. FPS only drop to 15-20 (and lower) at really big and busy airports like PANC and that is only for a second or so.

But FSX looks like crap on my system. I can run it but never about 15 FPS. That means full stop at PANC
I haven't put any effort into FSX yet and I think I'll wait till next year when I plan to build my new machine.

Moral of the story: a nicely setup FS9 would run and possibly look better than FS9 FSX ...

[VVM]

nice shot.  i got a tour of the factory where they make the rotor blades for these.  very interesting.

8-)

[DaveT]

Moral of the story: a nicely setup FS9 would run and possibly look better than FS9 ...



come on Harold

Nice shot mate,as you said work on your ground textures.

[Jayhawk Jake]

Now i am on a low-end Dell and can't play FSX

I am on a high-end Dell (or at least it was high-end about three years ago) and I run FS9 with everything maxed - like a dream. Nearly constant 28 to 30 FPS (locked) with incidental drops to around 24-25. FPS only drop to 15-20 (and lower) at really big and busy airports like PANC and that is only for a second or so.

But FSX looks like crap on my system. I can run it but never about 15 FPS. That means full stop at PANC
I haven't put any effort into FSX yet and I think I'll wait till next year when I plan to build my new machine.

Moral of the story: a nicely setup FS9 would run and possibly look better than FS9 ...

I know what you mean.  I run FS9 maxxed and flew over Aerosoft Manhattan in an Eaglesoft Cirrus and my frames were still over 15.

[Ben R]

Thanks for the comments guys!!

ben

[haroldkip]

come on Harold

How's this? 8-)

I run FS9 maxxed and flew over Aerosoft Manhattan in an Eaglesoft Cirrus and my frames were still over 15.

Now try that at the same spot in a thunderstorm with 3D clouds and 100% AI between 12:00 and 15:00. And then see if you still have the same performance
On my machine (which is three years old) I got between 10 and 13 FPS on Aerosoft Manhattan in clear skies, which was before my FS-GS treatment

AND on a Pentium 4 with a 7800 GS, not a C2D +8600 like yours