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EHM-2381 Ted:
LOL dramatic thread title eh?

Anyway I got my discs today from Amazon and after about 4-5 hours of swapping discs everything installed quite smoothly.
I updated to the latest version 9.67 and started to rough in my controls a bit and play with the display settings.

I can already see that getting the controls mapped to my stick/HOTAS are going to take some fine tuning.

I also did a basic first pass at getting the visuals sorted out and seem to have managed to get frame locked at 30fps but am not sure about the draw distance if the weather is showing fog or if I am exceeding hardware limits. I'll be playing with this and the controls during the week and following the suggested guides at xplane.org and on the wiki and see where I get to.

I did a couple of quick takeoff-flyaround flights using some mystery default jet and the Cessna 172 (oh boy are my controls wonky) and it does run exceptionally smooth right out of the box with just a couple plays so far. The controls are very twitchy and am going to have to sort out trim as my first assignment to a rocker on my HOTAS didn't work so well.

Any detailed guidance on the best visual settings would be appreciated.

System:
Quad Core2 Q8300@2.5GHz
GeForce 430 1Gb
4Gb DDR3 RAM
WINXP SP3

Also-while I get the trim settings under control is it possible to set some sort of "autorudder"? I do not have pedals at the present time and coordinated turns using the stick twist at slow speeds are utter crap (once I get my new widescreen monitor my next investment is that nice yoke with the thumb pedals).

The fluidity of the sim is astonishing to say the least and I look forward to getting things settled and then whacking in some proper airport scenery and the EHM Twin Otter and see what X-plane really has to offer.

EHM-1997 Alexander:
DOn't set the fps to 30, leave at 19.

That setting doesn't lock fps like in fsx, instead it maintains that frame rate as a minimum so if you drop under 30, it will bring the fog of death in to maintain 30 fps.

Set it back to 19 and forget about it.

EHM-2381 Ted:
Hi,

I should have said that the frame appear locked at 30fps-I did not change the minimum frames.

Looking pretty good so far having tweaked it a bit more.

The download for the Wild DH-6 appears to be broken FYI.

EHM-1997 Alexander:
broken in what way - did you download the aircraft you needed? The repaint is just the livery for it.

Once you have installed the livery, load the plane and then load the livery.

To set the livery as default, open the aircraft using planemaker (in the xp9 folder), select the Wild livery and save the plane.

EHM-2387 Eric-Jan:
I think he means the download link from the fleet page; it redirects to the forum with a message "Album not found" ...

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