'Tearing' in pan mode?

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Re: 'Tearing' in pan mode?

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Re: 'Tearing' in pan mode?

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Trev, just visited the site Darren recommended, had my FSX.cfg tweeked to wondrous effect, and I too have downloaded the external frame rate limiter.

Extract the contents of the downloaded External FPS limiter folder to your main FSX directory ( in my case D:\Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X )

Go to that directory and find the file FPS_Limiter_GUI.jar and click thereon.

Search for the FSX executable ( in my case D:\Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\FSX.exe )

Edit the maximum FPS figure, which is 30 by default but has to be changed to 20, according to the web site.

Click on Create Bat.

Now, go and have a look in your main FSX directory again, and you will find a newly created file called fsx.exe.limited.bat. This is now the file you click on to start FSX. You can right click on it to create a shortcut for your desktop in the usual manner.

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Re: 'Tearing' in pan mode?

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I think I run external at 30, no problems.

Also right click & choose properties on the bat file to change the icon, navigate to where fsx.exe is and choose the fsx icon, or any other you might want.

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Thanks Darren, but I cannot find that bat file, it's not in the FSX folder! I tried editing Colin's but still to no effect...yet!
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Re: 'Tearing' in pan mode?

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Hmm, just found it in the limiter folder, now I get a breif dos window come up, then nothing!
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Trev, there shouldn't be a Limiter folder. The contents of the downloaded .RAR file should be put into your main FSX folder as here:

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The batch file will always appear in the same folder as the others. Click on FPS_Limiter_GUI.jar to start the process.

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Paul K wrote:Trev, there shouldn't be a Limiter folder. The contents of the downloaded .RAR file should be put into your main FSX folder as here:
Mine's in it's own folder, not in the main FSX one, & it works fine ;)

My batch file:

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start D:\"FPS_Limiter_0.2\"FPS_Limiter.exe /r:D3D9 /f:30 /x:OFF /l:OFF "D:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe
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Post by Paul K »

DaveG wrote:

Mine's in it's own folder, not in the main FSX one, & it works fine ;)

My batch file:

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start D:\"FPS_Limiter_0.2\"FPS_Limiter.exe /r:D3D9 /f:30 /x:OFF /l:OFF "D:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe
Dave, you mean the batch file is in its own folder or all the other files too ? I thought the .dll files had to be in the main FSX directory.

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I removed the 'contents' into FSX and it still does not make anything! It made a 'limited' bat onece, but that did not work. I wonder how anyone can make something so clever, that is so difficult to get working...at least by thikies like me! :lol:

Going to bed, it'll be better in the morning.
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Re: 'Tearing' in pan mode?

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Paul K wrote:
DaveG wrote:

Mine's in it's own folder, not in the main FSX one, & it works fine ;)

My batch file:

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start D:\"FPS_Limiter_0.2\"FPS_Limiter.exe /r:D3D9 /f:30 /x:OFF /l:OFF "D:\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\fsx.exe
Dave, you mean the batch file is in its own folder or all the other files too ? I thought the .dll files had to be in the main FSX directory.

He edited his shortcut file to look in another folder, Dave stop confuddling people :lol:


Straight out the box without editing them the files MUST be in the main FSX folder for it to work.

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