A sad goodbye...

[krigl]

...to the Accelleration datadisk.


Flying the Hornet and the EH101 was great...








But constant whiteouts with any non-default plane took all the fun out of flying in FSX - default planes look great but after a while I began to long for the buzz of downloading something new...








Updating drivers had little effect on the problem, add-on planes had cockpit whiteouts below the visibility layer, and external view whiteouts above it...








...there may be a fix somewhere or other, somehow, somewhen, but I just want to be able to use my sim, tired of looking for fixes for what Aces break. So a farewell to two great aircraft, and to the dubious benifits of SP2 - hopefully I won't need SP2 for something in the future

[Ashar]

Goodbye

[krigl]

Goodbye

Are you going somewhere mate?

I'd better check the Cafe...  ;D

[J.]

some of the things you are describing, sound like they could be solved with a little more power... maybe turn of that ugly bloom effect and reap the benefits!

[Ashar]

Goodbye

Are you going somewhere mate?

I'd better check the Cafe...  ;D

LOL...Not anytime soon

[fighter25]

Why don't you find the files that you want to keep on the Acceleration disk and install manualy them without running the setup.exe.

[Harold]

Now that's a different view of things ...

I don't run FSX but from what I've heard and seen I used to think that SP2 and Acceleration were good things. Peculiar to hear you don't agree.

I'm with J. on the power issue ... the reason I don't run FSX

Still I love the second shot! Those clouds are amongst the best I've seen; especially the ones in the top of the shot. But the bloom (I've never liked it) ruins it for me and it indeed looks like a whiteout.

The angle on the hornet is nothing very special but in relation to the horizon it is really clever. A bit like Tom would do but he'd zoom out more ...

[krigl]

Thanks! The bloom effect in pic 3 is not an illustration of the 'whiteout' effect, with the whiteout you can't see anything! I like the bloom effect actually, each to their own - bright sunlight does kind of look like that, and it looks better than just a yellow disc, to me anyway.

Accelleration is like FSX - different people/machines have different problems. I gave up trying to solve mine and went for the easy solution of uninstalling as I really don't have a lot of time on my hands - and so many games+sims to enjoy - basically I'm only losing 3 planes (even if they are good) and some missions and racing scenery. And the good news is I can just reinstall it if I really feel the urge to use them again in the future, as Acc uninstalls cleanly without seemingly harming the rest of the sim.