A prisoner of FS9...HELP! or AKA, Cranbrook, B.C.

[gwillmot 31]

It might be wise to put this one to bed at this time. ...... just say'n

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

It might be wise to put this one to bed at this time. ...... just say'n

...and er...why?  

 

People...will delete a sim platform...or keep active..as per their needs...and not necessarily because of the posted opinion(s) of one person...the O.P.

[ctiger 49]

Boy...all I can say...is that if anybody totally blew FS9 right off their hard drive...

 

...oh well....tsk, tsk.....for you can really achieve some 'FSX'ish things with it...but with a guaranteed smoothness of performance no matter what you require it to do...

 

"Did you press the DELETE Key?   "Hmmm.......".

 

"Sorry to read about that....."  :excl:

Mitch, or should I call you Mitch'um or maybe SES or just plain Sesquashtoo (LOL),

 

You always start a tread with "gusto"..Unfortunately as I mentioned on a previuos thread had a complete breakdown of the OS then came a mental breakdown for me becuase I had to reinstall FSX and then a clean FS9. Wow !..it has been so much fun trying to figure out how I installed all that stuff before espiecally FS9 since it has been years. Now almost finished erything except BEV, whcih was never found. I got to add Kudos for Flight One since they had all my fs9 stuff from way back in 2004. (the only one they no longer had was you guessed it BEV.) Now that I am up and flying with FS9 all I can say it is fantastic with such smoothness with everyting I can throw at it -- sliddeers all to the right planes everywhere and now with EVO, AFS, UT, GE Active Sky  PMDG, LVLD etc .  I sure would like you to try out EVO and let us know what you think, espeically with your BEV.  EVO is a remarkaable piece of work that covers the whole solar system (almost).

 

Regards, and keep up the good work in promoting FS9. 

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Mitch, or should I call you Mitch'um or maybe SES or just plain Sesquashtoo (LOL),

 

You always start a tread with "gusto"..Unfortunately as I mentioned on a previuos thread had a complete breakdown of the OS then came a mental breakdown for me becuase I had to reinstall FSX and then a clean FS9. Wow !..it has been so much fun trying to figure out how I installed all that stuff before espiecally FS9 since it has been years. Now almost finished erything except BEV, whcih was never found. I got to add Kudos for Flight One since they had all my fs9 stuff from way back in 2004. (the only one they no longer had was you guessed it BEV.) Now that I am up and flying with FS9 all I can say it is fantastic with such smoothness with everyting I can throw at it -- sliddeers all to the right planes everywhere and now with EVO, AFS, UT, GE Active Sky  PMDG, LVLD etc .  I sure would like you to try out EVO and let us know what you think, espeically with your BEV.  EVO is a remarkaable piece of work that covers the whole solar system (almost).

 

Regards, and keep up the good work in promoting FS9. 

Hi Carl....even though I had never actually, totally removed FS9 from the system...I did mentally, sort of..lol..move into an FSX'ish frame of mind.  Occasionally, I'd pitter back to a flight or three.  Since having figured out a way to get it as close to FSX in looks as I can, (no, I have not tried EVO yet...) I have in fact flown it daily, and will continue to.  Yes..the second runner up for animation performance is XPX.35, and for what it offers beyond FS9's physical capabilities...road traffic/HDR, etc...is IMO, hand's down; XPX.35. The King of the hill though for that single attribute, is still FS9. So, truly...why would I not fly it, for that great card play?

 

BTW, Carl..if you also fly XPX.35...RUN...don't walk, but RUN to getting Tony Wob's W2XP OSM files for that platform....you'll only install..defrag, fly...to know why, I most recommend that you should!  

 

Back to FS9...,  I will give EVO a serious consideration.  Carl...if you can...how 'bout taking off from Cranbrook, B.C.   take shots as you climb...and then please take some shots at between 2,800 and 15,000 feet. That would give me something to compare, to what I now have FS9 at, visually. If you could, that would be great.  So the airport is CYXC.

 

You can still get BEV, but if you are happy with all those programs in tandem...then you might be done. BEV is a very powerful texture injector, that's for sure!  Really again, too bad that the Dev had to face serious health issues, and hence no European textures, etc.  I hope is is better, and wish him good health!

 

Mitch

[ctiger 49]

Mitch, well said about the Dev. Everyone will experience health problems one time or another.  Ok If I can figure out how to post a shotwill do,  but don't hold your breath since I am not a computer Guru but a wanaBe. Need to check out XPX.35.  I used XP 5.0 at one time.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Mitch, well said about the Dev. Everyone will experience health problems one time or another.  Ok If I can figure out how to post a shotwill do,  but don't hold your breath since I am not a computer Guru but a wanaBe. Need to check out XPX.35.  I used XP 5.0 at one time.

Carl..it is easy. You see a scene and want to capture it. In FS9, you would press your Print Screen key, that on most keyboards, is near your number pad, or to the upper right quadrant of your keyboard.  That shot is now in your system's memory. Not a picture yet. You then need to open up a graphics program, like Microsoft's PAINT (it works great!), and then you would use the PASTE function. That will place your screenshot into Paint. From there, you can save it as a number of different picture formats. I use the PNG format, at that keeps the best attributes of the picture for posting.  If you try to upload a picture, and the upload site says that it is too large to accept, you can then go back to PAINT, and RESIZE the pic...then try to upload again. Sounds like a pain..but once you do it a few times...it's like breathing in and out, lol.  Carl..have a go, and show the world where you like to fly...and what interests YOU!

 

Cheers,

 

Mitch

[ctiger 49]

OK Mitch, I have taken a few pictures (png) not sure how to upload.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

OK Mitch, I have taken a few pictures (png) not sure how to upload.

Here is the link...for the upload site I use...and you can read how to post a screenshot in the Screen Shot Forum, Carl..up at the top...very easy. Use this link to the hosting site,..and at the top right of the page...you will see a white cloud icon (UPLOAD) with an up-pointing arrow. USE THAT. You don't need to sign up, or make an account. Then a screen will open up..where you point that to your actual picture where it is stored on your system. You then high light that file...and press OK.  The file will up-load to the site. If it is too big, it will tell you that...and then just use Microsoft PAINT's reduce size function and save the pic again on your system, with a repeated upload attempt.  I usually drop by 3 percent each time..until you see that the pic will be accepted.  Then, you will see tags below...to make a link. The one you use, will be explained in the Screen Shot Tutorial in the Screen Shot Forum...

 

You do it once...and it will be second nature, anytime you wish to share your sim'ming in the future.

 

Cheers, and looking forward to the pics of EVO!

 

//fsfiles.org/

[ctiger 49]

Mitch,

Go to the site you gave me and you should see about 5 posts with the B55 and 377.  I still am unable to get it here but will keep trying.  Any way those are my first post ever so understand it should improve.  It was somewhat hazy at CYXC above 5,000.  This was EVO and AFS.

 

//fsfiles.org/

 

By the way thanks for taking the time to helping me out on how to post pics.  I am getting there....

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Mitch,

Go to the site you gave me and you should see about 5 posts with the B55 and 377.  I still am unable to get it here but will keep trying.  Any way those are my first post ever so understand it should improve.  It was somewhat hazy at CYXC above 5,000.  This was EVO and AFS.

 

//fsfiles.org/

 

By the way thanks for taking the time to helping me out on how to post pics.  I am getting there....

I saw them, Carl...the red and white B55, right?  If so..then yes..and thank you for posting!  

 

Cheers!

[ctiger 49]

Yep, also had a 337 in there.   Not the best but will work on it.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Yep, also had a 337 in there.   Not the best but will work on it.

Thanks for posting...very much appreciated, Carl! ))  With every screen shot you set up...they always do get better..more of the 'artist', comes out in you  I know it did for myself.

 

Mitch

[Makinen11 184]

How do you people get so clear textures so far away!?! I've been fighting blurries for years with no solution... I'll either have to bear a very ugly noticeable ring around my aircraft as it is loading the high detail textures or I'll have clear textures all around my departure area and look good during climb and then as soon as I move over a new photoreal area it will load nothing and stay a blurred mess...

Could you please share these settings that you have in your FS9.cfg?

I have:

TERRAIN_DEFAULT_RADIUS=9.5
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS=4.5
TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS=4

which is the only one that loads the textures and doesn't stay blurred, but on the other hand it is a very small area around my aircraft and it is noticeably ugly in the distance...Nothing like your photos!

[gwillmot 31]

Pretty normal for "high detail textures" / photoreal textures.  I removed all my photoreal textures after fighting it as you have done.

BEV, GEPro, EVO are actual "normal" size and display similarly to default textures.

 

Also, using the same FS9.cfg setting ..... I suddenly encountered TERRIBLE blurries.  Turns out something had changed the settings on my video card (ATI).  Took me quite some time to figure that out.  Another trip to the Catalyst Control Center has cleared up the "blurry" problem.