New FSXer...

[hhomebrewer]

Here's a picture of the speckled water about which I complain.
I hope the picture is big enough for y'all to see the little buggers...The sky had distinct blue bands of varying intensity, but I clicked bilinear filtering, and they have disappeared. One small victory, that...

[hhomebrewer]

Downloaded and installed n-hancer. Have no idea what to do with it now. I looked at the link provided, but have not yet tried it on this machine. Also had to download something called .NET3.5-something. Have no idea what that does...

Tried and failed. Took both off and thinkin' FSX is goin' down the crapper in short order, too..

[Boikat]

Downloaded and installed n-hancer. Have no idea what to do with it now. I looked at the link provided, but have not yet tried it on this machine. Also had to download something called .NET3.5-something. Have no idea what that does...

Tried and failed. Took both off and thinkin' FSX is goin' down the crapper in short order, too..

Have you tried setting all you slides down to minimum, then working your way up in small increments?

[hhomebrewer]

Negatory on the sliders. I am now thinking about taking off v2 and putting on v1.1 of the scenery/terrain mesh I have. Maybe that is the problem. I do not ever remember seeing the speckles with v1.1, which came quite a while before v2. The other night, when this sorrowful saga began, is the very first time v2 was ever installed. It's a pain in the tokhus, but I have to try it...

[hhomebrewer]

Well, I took the FSGenesis stuff off to get back to pure FSX  and it's just plain crappy. Crappy, crappy, crappy. At 1200-some hours over Friday Harbor in the trike, with bilinear filtering and anti-aliasing checked, the water below is almost completely covered in the black speckles. It's miserable and I am tired of fighting it. Off it comes and back into the file cabinet go the disks. Sticking with FS2004...

[SubZer0]

Don't use bilinear then. Use Anisotropic filtering with the anti-aliasing at the same time.

[jwenham]

[quote]Well, I took the FSGenesis stuff off to get back to pure FSX

[hhomebrewer]

I got rid of it. I tried FSX with bilinear filtering and anti-aliasing checked. It was horrible. I clicked everything back to Default. Still miserable. Surrendered at that point. FSX has always run slowly and herky-jerky on the two computers on which it has been installed. Loading the terrain, et cetera takes several times longer than FS9. FS is more a diversion for me than a lifestyle, so I can take it or leave it. Sometimes I don't launch it for weeks. It's just something with which I fool around a bit, then close to fool around on some other site or go and do something else. I have no idea how to actually use FS to its full potential. I tried having ATC come up on the screen in FS9 once. I found myself constantly pushing F1, F2 and F3 to get the white words off the screen. I had no idea what any of it meant. I got rid of it and never did that again.

Thanks to all who helped. I wish the best for you and your adventures with FSX but for me, it's history...

[laurits]

Interesting thread and point of view, but honestly and no offense, I think you really need a change in attitude!

Seems to me that you have your mind set on the problems instead of possible solutions!

Sorry if I sounds like a Coach, but that's because I am one!

Cheer up, mate...

[hhomebrewer]

Interesting thread and point of view but honestly and no offense, I think you really need a change in attitude.

It is hard for me to read things on a computer. My eyesight is not too good. I get eyestrain and headaches when I try to read text on a screen or spend too long in front of even an LCD monitor, like this one. I am also not one to remember what I read in pages that tell you how to do x, y, or z. My mind is not what it was 20 years ago. I got through college by remembering everything the profressor said. Never studied. Passed tests with 90+ scores. Really hosed off my friends who sweated bullets before mid-terms and finals. That was in the late 1980s. Now, I can't remember anything for more than a few minutes. And not much of anything interests me anymore. I just exist, more or less. A few minutes noodling around in FS is a way to kill time and go somewhere other than to wash the dishes or vacuum the carpets...

Sorry to bare my miserable life and maybe bring down someone out there. But don't worry about me. I've lived this way for many, many years. I'll be fine...

[laurits]

Sorry to hear that, really...

Take your time, and when FSX works OK, take a flight around The Caribic and enjoy the scenery from above, it's beautiful I guarantee!

Cheers...

[RickG]

It seems, by looking at your pc specs, you should run it well. You certainly seem to have a better rig than me, and I am quite happy with my results. One thing I may have missed, but have you dl'd and installed the 2 service packs for FSX?

[SubZer0]

hey hhomebrewer,

I'm glad to know you're not too upset by your FSX experience. FS has always been something that takes spending a lot of time to get it to work how you want it and to run smoothly on any computer.

About your college years... You're lucky you had good memory those years... I have to study for every test I get

[hhomebrewer]

It seems, by looking at your pc specs, you should run it well. You certainly seem to have a better rig than me, and I am quite happy with my results. One thing I may have missed, but have you dl'd and installed the 2 service packs for FSX?

The 9500 is a four-core, 2.2GHz chip. That's just not fast enough for FSX, which is very processor-intensive. I can easily lock-up this computer with just a few windows open, and have to reboot. I know nothing about service packs for FSX. I have heard of Acceleration. Is it a distinct software? Are these service packs small or huge? I wiped all my FSGenesis scenery and FSX from my machine. I am loathe to put it all back on. Takes ages...

[SubZer0]

It seems, by looking at your pc specs, you should run it well. You certainly seem to have a better rig than me, and I am quite happy with my results. One thing I may have missed, but have you dl'd and installed the 2 service packs for FSX?

The 9500 is a four-core, 2.2GHz chip. That's just not fast enough for FSX, which is very processor-intensive. I can easily lock-up this computer with just a few windows open, and have to reboot. I know nothing about service packs for FSX. I have heard of Acceleration. Is it a distinct software? Are these service packs small or huge? I wiped all my FSGenesis scenery and FSX from my machine. I am loathe to put it all back on. Takes ages...

Without the service packs, FSX would almost be unplayable.

After installing the game from the discs, install SP1 (Service Pack 1) and then SP2, both available here:

http://www.fsinsider.com/downloads/Pages/default.aspx