It has been awhile and I am a little rusty...

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks "jime"...much appreciated...

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks Chuck much appreciated and glad to see your electronic gizmo back up and running...

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks RSorochak...much appreciated...

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Andy...

To take the screenshots I used the "V" Key on my keyboard.

FRAPS was only to check what Frame Rates I was getting as I had the slider set to unlimited and this was the first time I used these new add-ons...

I thought if you used any kind of Payware it had to go in the Payware Screenshot Showcase?

Thanks for the info on that one Andy...

[andy190]

Ah I understand.

I thought if you used any kind of Payware it had to go in the Payware Screenshot Showcase?

It used to be that way a few years ago but the Mods changed the rules because they thought it was impossible to take a screenshot without some type of payware being in the shot.

Now it only has to go in Payware if it is

[Flying Trucker]

Thanks Andy...much appreciated...

[todayshorse]

You know, reading this thread made me wonder - my imacs specs arent far behind your PC  flying trucker,(i5, quad core, etc etc), and yet ive never seen frame rates anything near what you are getting - yeah FSX is flyable but its like fs2004 on my old mac, looked great, but maybe struggled a little. Ive always been baffled as to why.Now its finally clicked....

When i got this new iMac, i bootcamped her right into windows 7 - indeed. Bootcamped into WINDOWS 7 32 BIT! Silly boy, my macs a 64 bit thingy, so ive just done a full partition delete and full re-install with Win 7 64 bit.....Now its using ALL my gigs of RAM whereas before it used about 2...sigh, how could i have missed this!!

Initial impressions are very good. I can run it with all the silders full on (without add-ons) and its smooth and much joy was had 

Now to re-install all i had on the initial install of FSX :-/ oh well!!

Many thanks

[Flying Trucker]

Hey I am happy my thread was of some help to someone...

Take your time with the install...don't rush it...

Looking forward to your changes...

[Flying Trucker]

Oh and one quick question folks...

After each and every flight I heard several times a person should do a Disc Defrag.

Does it cut down on the service life of the computer to do that.

This unit is set up to do a Disc Defrag once a week and I thought that was too much.

Comments and advice would be most appreciated...

[andy190]

Hi Doug this is what I found in Windows Help & Support:

1: To defragment your hard disk open Disk Defragmenter.

2: Under Current status, select the disk you want to defragment.

3: To determine if the disk needs to be defragmented or not, click Analyse disk.  If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Once Windows is finished analysing the disk, you can check the percentage of fragmentation on the disk in the Last Run column. If the number is above 10%, you should defragment the disk.

4: Click Defragment disk.  If you're prompted for an administrator password or confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.

Disk Defragmenter might take from several minutes to a few hours to finish, depending on the size and degree of fragmentation of your hard disk. You can still use your computer during the defragmentation process.

So the Computer won't Defrag unless the Computer is more than 10% Fragmented.

[Flying Trucker]

Hi Andy...

I have been doing a Defrag after every flight as was suggested and sometimes it is only 2% but Windows 7 will still do a Defrag back to 0%.

I am just wondering if we really need to do a Defrag even at 30 or 40%?

Sent the specks to you in the other post...

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