We’ve decided to standardize on FS9 for the moment, as FSX, even with fairly high-end hardware, does not give the frame rates that we’d like to see, and intermittently gives frame rates as low as 3 fps. We’ve done all of the tweaks and mods that we can to improve this, but there is still an intermittent and maddening degradation of the frame rates over time, the longer we run the sim software, the slower the frame rates become.
On another front, the BFG 7900 card is back from RMA and works like a champ. We’ve cleaned up the basement (sim location) some, and we are going to relocate the electronics on the bench there pretty soon. Currently, our testbed utilizes the Tremont cart as a base….I’ll post pictures when I get a chance.
I’ll be completing a second computer soon, for PM testing. Weve worked out the bugs in the first computer (faulty XFi card drivers), and things seem to be running smoothly, with the occaisonal machine check exception blue screen.
So far, we’ve been testing with:
FS9
Active Sky 6.5
FSG Mesh
Ground Environment Pro 2
FSUIPC
WideFS
All seem to work and play well together.
TTFN,
Mark
