FsP World Tour - Season #2 (Leg #70 - 71)

[Joeflyer]

Will try it out, Mark By the way, I downloaded the Carib scenery and something is quite strange about the TAPA scenery. The ground
textures cover up the runway while on the ground, but when I slewed to several hundred feet, the ground textures started to uncover the
runway I can see it now....making the approach to TAPA, lined up perfectly until about 300-500 feet and then the runway
disappears. I even included the AFCADS that came with the Carib fix file. Apparently the AFCAD for TAPA is bad....still.

[Dutch64]

I think it has to do with the elevation of the area, sometimes a flatten fix or maybe check their site if there's some adjustment needed when flying
with FS Genesis. (Just guessing a bit, I had it once with one airport but forgot how i solved it )

[Tracker801]

Hmmm, maybe Mark has directed us to an old USAF airfield clogged up with camouflage

[Joeflyer]

Dutch64 wrote:
I think it has to do with the elevation of the area, sometimes a flatten fix or maybe check their site if there's some adjustment needed
when flying
with FS Genesis. (Just guessing a bit, I had it once with one airport but forgot how i solved it )

Martin, if you run across that "fix", I would greatly appreciate you forwarding it to me

Tried another uninstall/re-install of FSinn 1.2 and CoPilot 1.6 with the firewall/antivirus disabled. Same issue. Can get into the multiplayer
lobby but chat will not activate.. Even installed the current VB items. Still no joy on chatting. Does this mean I can see everyone online
anyway even if the FSFDT indication is red?

[Dutch64]

Try the latest beta maybe? http://www.mcdu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4363

Not sure why it doesn't work there...

[Joeflyer]

Thanks, Martin. I tried connecting again and for some reason IT WORKED! I'm back in bizzzness!!

I tried out the PMDG 747 from KPDX to KDFW last night while running at 1680 res. It looked as though I was going to actually make a long
haul flight to DFW after all, and just as I was on the downwind leg for RWY 31L, I got an out of disk space error Even with a
clean/defragged hard drive, there is no such thing as making a long haul flight over the US with UT-USA installed. Have had this error on
the same flight with my old pc as well. Now I know to make only shorter flights within the US.

[Dutch64]

Joe, update to the latest UT version and get the 'unofficial' 1.3 patch, it will solve those problems

[DBE]

Dutch64 wrote:
'unofficial' 1.3 patch

8o

[Joeflyer]

Dutch64 wrote:
Joe, update to the latest UT version and get the 'unofficial' 1.3 patch, it will solve those problems

Okie dokie...will look it up

EDIT: Hmm, I found an unofficial patch for UT-USA but it's 1.21 at Scenerysolutions.com. Where is this 1.3 patch?



Post Edited ( 08-13-07 16:58 )

[DBE]

Joeflyer wrote:
Where is this 1.3 patch?

My thoughts exactly..

[Dutch64]

it's there, let me try to find it

Edit: Here you go;

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_po...?TID=19685

[Joeflyer]

Dutch64 wrote:
it's there, let me try to find it

Edit: Here you go;

http://www.simforums.com/forums/forum_po...?TID=19685

Ahhhh, found it, installed it and now I need to try the same flight again. This time I'm going to try it with all UT-USA enhancements
activated. After I installed the patch, I started a flight with the Dreamfleet 727 at KPDX and at night since that is usually the big frame rate
killer....at least it was on my old system. I got an average 24.5 FPS departing PDX(with the FlightZone scenery and settings maxed out).
Not a single stutter or lag

Thanks for pointing me to the patch

[Joeflyer]

Update: Flew the PSS 777 KPDX-KDFW without a CTD I'll try the PMDG 747 next.

[Dutch64]

cool In fact, the 1.21 version of UT USA keeps looking (at a rate of approx 5 times per second) for a file called 'effects.fx'. Well, it doesn't
exist and there is the recipe for OOM or CTD's This patch makes UT referring to the correct files and so no more problems

[Joeflyer]

Ahh, it's good to know that bit of information in case someone asks me about it Thanks Martin!

Oh, I did connect to FSinn while on the KPDX-KDFW flight. It didn't affect frame rates like I thought it would. I managed 22 FPS until I got
into the DFW airport area and only lost down to 18 FPS briefly. I know that when other peeps are online, the frames may go to a slide
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