My new laptop ...

[speedbird591]

Lunching between 1349 and 1357 is a bit vague mate. Couldn't you be a bit more precise?

ATB
DaveB

I know, I know! I'm usually as laid back as a penguin but this business is causing a recurrence of my OCD problem. I might have to go and rearrange my Tesco club card vouchers into date order to help me relax.

Ian

[Effoh]

I might have to go and rearrange my Tesco club card vouchers into date order to help me relax.

I knew I wasn't the only one...............

[airboatr]

spend a quiet moment of reflection on its past glories over a glass of ale and a pizza pie?


Ian

quit ?, give up?, Never!
They call me Mr. Tenacity. Besides I made a promise to someone , and that promise I must keep.


Anyway,... how's the thoroughbred running. FSX sliders maxed? ...or did you just DL Flight and use that as your bench mark on how FSX will run.

[Airspeed]

I'd get shocking indigestion squeezing lunch into eight minutes, or was that the time you were going to start reading the menu?

[speedbird591]

Well, the laptop did arrive and it was just in the middle of the predicted one hour delivery slot. So huge congratulations to PCSpecialist and their courier for getting it built and delivered between Sunday afternoon ordering and Friday lunchtime. Terrific service. It's a good looking case and feels very solid. All the specs are correct and they even include the original Windows disk.

Only one wrist slap. It's got a 120Gb SSD for the OS and a 750Gb hybrid drive for the flight sims. The hybrid drive wasn't showing in Windows and after a quick scare I remembered how to activate it in disk management. A bit sloppy in their final check but everything else is fine.

I've loaded FSX and some FTX scenery and that works very well so I'm now in the process of installing P3D and REX and linking to the FTX scenery in FSX with the ORBX migration tool.

One interesting problem was when I started adjusting the display settings in P3D. It didn't recognise my fancy GTX 675 graphics card and was running on the Intel HD on board graphics FSX was using it, though!

I eventually discovered that I have nVidia Optimus, which is a system for saving battery power on laptops. It runs graphics primarily with the on board chip until the need for power increases and then the bigger card cuts in. But it means that the only card a program sees by default is the Intel HD one. There's an option in the nVidia driver for pointing programs to the more powerful card, though. FSX was already pointing to it by default but I had to do P3D manually. Happily the GTX now shows in the settings options for P3D so panic over!

P3D downloaded all 3 files in about an hour but REX is taking about an hour and a half for less than half the size.

I hope to be flying before bedtime

Ian

[Paul K]

Just had a text from the courier to say that 'my parcel' will arrive today between 1317 and 1417. I'm a bit pissed off, actually, as I was planning lunch between 1349 and 1357. Now I'm going to have to replan my whole day

Good one!

[TSR2]

I've put all of my scenery in a folder outside the FSX / P3D folders and then just point the respective Sims at that folder. It saves any fannying about.
haven't done much in P3D 1.4 yet, but from the quick flight I have done, the shading on port over models (VC10 etc) seems dull. They look as if there's a dark cloud over them

[DaveB]

That would be realistic for the UK then!

ATB
DaveB

[speedbird591]

I've put all of my scenery in a folder outside the FSX / P3D folders and then just point the respective Sims at that folder. It saves any fannying about.
haven't done much in P3D 1.4 yet, but from the quick flight I have done, the shading on port over models (VC10 etc) seems dull. They look as if there's a dark cloud over them

There's definitely a dark cloud over VC10s in the RW

No aircraft issues as I've only got a Carenado Cessna in P3D for the time being. I've got enough to get my head around with a new PC, FSX, FTX, P3D and REX all being installed together ... (#bravenewworld)

Ben, how do you point the sims at a scenery folder? I'm going to use primarily FTX scenery and ORBX puts its own folder in FSX and provides a tool to point P3D towards that, so as FSX is going nowhere, I don't have to fanny about when P3D has to be updated and reinstalled. But I'm sure to want to put a few extra airports in (Kai Tak? ) so it would be useful to store them externally.

Ian

[TSR2]

Hi Ian

The way I have mine set up is e:\FSX E:\P3E and F:\Addons

So far I've installed GenX VFR scenery and the UK2000 airports. When I run the installer for these I point them to the F:\addons\...

As these sceneries are primarily FSX, FSX has its scenery.cfg updated automatically I can then go into the scenery CFG in FSX and copy the new bits to the P3D Scenery.cfg (being careful to change the numbering so as they are consecutive in P3D)

Then its job's a goodun. One set of scenery folders with both sims pointing at them. In theory you could create a shared "Addon Scenery" folder too and any manually added airports could go in here and you'd simply use the scenery editor in each sim to point to the new airport.