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Eric G.

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Nov 2, 2007, 12:04 PM

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Well, I encountered two issues with the Acceleration Expansion Pack
that I didn't expect:

First, I don't see a 2D panel for any of the expansion aircraft.
Checking the applicable "Panel.cfg" files seems to show a very sparse
or no population of gauges for the applicable 2D panels so I don't
think it's a bug, but an intentional omission on Microsoft's part. I
can understand this for the F18, but not for the helo and certainly
not for the P51.

Second, my frame rates have dropped by 1/2 without making any changes
to my display settings. Now, instead of marginally acceptable
performance, the game is not usable in its current configuration.
This is surprising because many posters to this group seem to have had
no degradation of performance with Acceleration.

I'll probably try to address the second problem by scaling back on
display settings, but any thoughts or suggestions about the lack of 2D
panels for the three new aircraft would be appreciated. Incidentally,
all of the aircraft included prior to the three from Acceleration
properly display 2D panels for me, so I know the problem is not with
my settings.

Thanks for any insight.



Jay Honeck

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Nov 2, 2007, 1:29 PM

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> First, I don't see a 2D panel for any of the expansion aircraft.

Correct. I'm not happy about that, either. I can move the 3D panels
onto my secondary screen, of course, but they use a lot of resources
that way...

> Second, my frame rates have dropped by 1/2 without making any changes
> to my display settings.

That's very odd. My FPS went up about 10%, but look a LOT more
improved than that small increase would indicate.
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"Ian D"

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Nov 2, 2007, 1:50 PM

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"Eric G." <santego@ameritech.net> wrote in message
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> Well, I encountered two issues with the Acceleration Expansion Pack
> that I didn't expect:
>
> First, I don't see a 2D panel for any of the expansion aircraft.
> Checking the applicable "Panel.cfg" files seems to show a very sparse
> or no population of gauges for the applicable 2D panels so I don't
> think it's a bug, but an intentional omission on Microsoft's part. I
> can understand this for the F18, but not for the helo and certainly
> not for the P51.
>
> Second, my frame rates have dropped by 1/2 without making any changes
> to my display settings. Now, instead of marginally acceptable
> performance, the game is not usable in its current configuration.
> This is surprising because many posters to this group seem to have had
> no degradation of performance with Acceleration.
>
> I'll probably try to address the second problem by scaling back on
> display settings, but any thoughts or suggestions about the lack of 2D
> panels for the three new aircraft would be appreciated. Incidentally,
> all of the aircraft included prior to the three from Acceleration
> properly display 2D panels for me, so I know the problem is not with
> my settings.
>
> Thanks for any insight.

Maybe MS purchased the rights to 3rd party A/C that only have
3D panels. That giant HUD that pops up when trying to put
the F-18 panel into 2D is ugly, especially with a wide screen display.

I had a small FPS increase with a noticeable smoothness increase
with the Xpack, as MS calls it. How much RAM do you have?
With the Xpack I found that 2GB is needed, as it can use up to
several hundred MB more RAM, depending your settings and where
you're flying.






"Roger (K8RI)"

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Nov 3, 2007, 9:56 PM

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On Fri, 02 Nov 2007 11:29:43 -0700, Jay Honeck <jjhoneck@mchsi.com>
wrote:

>> First, I don't see a 2D panel for any of the expansion aircraft.
>
>Correct. I'm not happy about that, either. I can move the 3D panels
>onto my secondary screen, of course, but they use a lot of resources
>that way...
>
>> Second, my frame rates have dropped by 1/2 without making any changes
>> to my display settings.

The speed in mine made a considerable jump, but now a lot of things
don't work correctly and I'm getting FSX crashes. FSX quits in the
middle of something, screen goes black, desk top comes up in low res,
screen goes black, desk top comes back up in high res. This just
keeps repeating until you kill FSX and you can not close FSX from the
task bar. It requires using the Task Manager.

Also the joystick and rudder pedals get pretty flaky with the F-18,
but seem to work OK on the Baron and 172.

I could use a manual for the pack.

Roger (K8RI)

>
>That's very odd. My FPS went up about 10%, but look a LOT more
>improved than that small increase would indicate.



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