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KatanaDV20 · 24 Feb 2013 at 02:09

Could someone please advise me?

When my FSX is in fullscreen its really blurry. I have to stress its NOT the scenery thats blurry - its the instrument panels, the red messages when you press SHIFT +Z (Brake, parking brake, FPS, LAT-LONG, heading etc) and also the font in the dropdown menu system (Flights, Aircraft, World etc.)

When I press CTRL + ENTER to go out of fullscreen all the above is sharp again.

:confused:

What would cause this? Thanks

thingemajib · 24 Feb 2013 at 03:37

ringo747 said:
I'm looking at the ILS 18C at Schiphol. To me it looks like for the first waypoint will be reached by overflying the NDB, then a right turn to join the runway track. It says that ATC could redirect to the point at 2000ft.

Yep 5.5 is correct for gatwick so probably loc established about 7.5-8.

Yeah that's the procedural approach. From what i've seen its usually used at smaller airports when ATC is too busy to vector and large airports like Schiphol when the radar is down. Looks like you would hold over the SPL VOR at 3000' if needed, once cleared for the approach you would track the 002 radial outbound to the OA NDB. Leave OA tracking the 311 outbound and descend to 2000', then looks like a procedure turn right to intercept the localiser and I think we've done the rest of it to death now

KatanaDV20 said:
Could someone please advise me?

When my FSX is in fullscreen its really blurry. I have to stress its NOT the scenery thats blurry - its the instrument panels, the red messages when you press SHIFT +Z (Brake, parking brake, FPS, LAT-LONG, heading etc) and also the font in the dropdown menu system (Flights, Aircraft, World etc.)

When I press CTRL + ENTER to go out of fullscreen all the above is sharp again.

What would cause this? Thanks

Sound like an odd one to me. First double check that global texture resolution is set to max and hi-res 3d cockpit is checked in the display settings, although this doesnt explain why is goes sharp again outside of fullscreen. Secondly try playing around with your catalyst settings, make sure it isn't forcing some crazy filter on it. Thirdly are you using one of these d9d3d.dll injectors like the enb mod? could be doing something similar to your catalyst?

picnic · 24 Feb 2013 at 08:05

KatanaDV20 said:
When my FSX is in fullscreen its really blurry. I have to stress its NOT the scenery thats blurry - its the instrument panels, the red messages when you press SHIFT +Z (Brake, parking brake, FPS, LAT-LONG, heading etc) and also the font in the dropdown menu system (Flights, Aircraft, World etc.)

When I press CTRL + ENTER to go out of fullscreen all the above is sharp again.

Have you got the correct resolution for your monitor set in the FSX Display Settings? This setting I believe is only relevant for fullscreen mode.

ringo747 · 24 Feb 2013 at 13:38

Katana, I had that problem when using the ENB series mod.

Vuvuzela · 24 Feb 2013 at 19:03

RichBowman said:
Lovely pics there V - Spent 3 weeks in NZ over christmas/New Year - those shots are bringing back some memories

Really need to get into the J41 - I've had a couple of attempts, but not really got my head around it just yet...

Rich

Thanks, I've been twice and it also brings back a lot of memories. Fantastic country!

If you need any help, just shout. I think I know what I'm doing now

KatanaDV20 · 24 Feb 2013 at 23:24

WHOAAA....

Yea you guys are right...I DO use the GTAIV enb .dll!!!

I will get rid of it and then jump back on here to tell you the results. I'll be really bummed if it IS the enb .dll because it really does make FSX look good and the scenery looks a bit less cartoony with it switched on. I'll first try disablng it in the game (SHIFT + F12) and then see if that fixes the blurs. If not then I'll remove the .dll from the FSX root.

However Ive decided that even if it IS the cause of blurry menus then I will still use it because TBH stock FSX looks horrible. But,....FTX Global is on the way and I think with that I can be rid of the ENB..

ghutchison14078 · 25 Feb 2013 at 01:06

KatanaDV20 said:
WHOAAA....

Yea you guys are right...I DO use the GTAIV enb .dll!!!

I will get rid of it and then jump back on here to tell you the results. I'll be really bummed if it IS the enb .dll because it really does make FSX look good and the scenery looks a bit less cartoony with it switched on. I'll first try disablng it in the game (SHIFT + F12) and then see if that fixes the blurs. If not then I'll remove the .dll from the FSX root.

However Ive decided that even if it IS the cause of blurry menus then I will still use it because TBH stock FSX looks horrible. But,....FTX Global is on the way and I think with that I can be rid of the ENB..

Note: you're sig shows your CPU running @ stock....get it overclocked if you can, FSX loves cpu ghz. A 920 should do 3.6 - 4.0 Ghz no probs

ENB was always a bit unstable with FSX; some users had constant crashes and some found it ok.

If you want "ENB" style effects with no crashes then you want to be using FXAA tool for HDR and Bloom effect

download from here - latest version is svn117.zip

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/documents

examples from my FSX using FXAA tool:

http://imageshack.us/a/img543/5093/19507682.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img826/9958/18047018.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img402/2318/96532786.png
http://imageshack.us/a/img515/3986/11485388.jpg
http://imageshack.us/a/img171/1129/62331272.png
Pitures changed to links due to image size.

Vuvuzela · 25 Feb 2013 at 10:04

!bluetonic! said:
Great pics V

Stevio, did you get your pedals sorted. If not, try clicking the 'reverse' mode tick.

Also, I'm in for my P1 on Vatsim on Monday. If that goes well I'll be putting myself forward for a P1 mentor. It's my unofficial intention to create a bridge for forums members to get involved a bit more comfortably.

I'll be hopefully flying on Tuesday.

Monday week I'll be sunning myself with my wife in Madeira so will be unable to fly for two weeks, but can keep an eye on the forums.

cheers mate.

Good luck for today. I hope it goes well and you will be a great mentor Blue.

Yes Tuesday should be good.

Very nice!!

sports_brah · 25 Feb 2013 at 10:10

noob question, but how "realistic" is this game? Are there missions or is it simply fly around where amuses you?

ringo747 · 25 Feb 2013 at 10:31

Enjoy Madeira blue - if I'm thinking of the same place there are some 'nice' crosswind landings into the airport there!

!bluetonic! · 25 Feb 2013 at 13:50

Vuvuzela said:
cheers mate.
Good luck for today. I hope it goes well and you will be a great mentor Blue.
Yes Tuesday should be good.
Very nice!!

Thanks

sports_brah said:
noob question, but how "realistic" is this game? Are there missions or is it simply fly around where amuses you?

There is a good crossover with this game. There are some 'missions' which start as tutorials and then allow you to achieve things such as making an emergency landing or taking a 747 for a test flight after its been in storage.

You can take the default Cessna out for a flight, land at any airport and do some sightseeing.

The 'realism' come from third party addons. The obvious being the PMDG or iFly 737. Of which the planning of the flight is just as important as the flying itself. You'd take into account real-world flight procedures, fuel planning, possible emergencies. You'd back this up with newer scenery and airports.

You can then fly with ATC such as VATSIM or IVAO. You'd learn real-world plane-speak and need to speak appropriately to ATC.

So I've had more than a beaming smile when rw flying back to Bristol on an Easyjet A320. We flew over Berry Head, over Exmoor, downwind for runway 27, turned base, then final for the smoothest touchdown ever. We taxi'd down 'golf' and parked at gate 25. All of which I can do on the simulator with a few add-ons.

ringo747 said:
Enjoy Madeira blue - if I'm thinking of the same place there are some 'nice' crosswind landings into the airport there!

Thank you. Funchal airport is LPMA and the FSX third party scenery is excellent. The last rw landing there was windy, but 'we' got down. Fingers crossed this time for a divert to LPPS

shahpor · 25 Feb 2013 at 17:23

Probably a silly question on this forum, but is anyone running SLI with their FSX?

Reason I ask is that I have discovered that as soon as enable SLI, my FSX crashes just as the plane loads. Turn in off, and FSX is fine.

Any ideas?

Cheers.

ringo747 · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:00

FSX is known to not like SLI.

Vuvuzela · 25 Feb 2013 at 18:37

Soya runs SLI doesn't he? He produces some incredible photos!

ringo747 · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:06

I think he maybe runs two separate cards but not in SLI mode as far as I know. I could be wrong though.

Soya · 25 Feb 2013 at 19:57

Hey guys,

I do run 2 GTX580's in SLI mode but FSX does not make use of SLI and ignores it. When my FSX was still running (it hasn't run since last October, been getting crashing errors with a bug report in terrain.dll) I managed to run FSX fine while PC was set to SLI mode, it just didn't make use of it (I checked the SLI bars, they didn't move) but had no crashing due to it (at least, not that I know of).

Out of curiosity Shahpor, what kind of crashing are you getting? My FSX been dead since last October, crashes as soon as I try to load a flight (terrain.ddl error) but pretty sure that is not due to the SLI cause I been running with it on for a year+.

On another note, glad to see this thread alive and working out well for people, thanks to many offering friendly advice etc. Keep it up guys and enjoy your flying. As I mentioned above, I sorta fell out with my flying since FSX started crashing on me every time and I tried everything to fix but no avail. Obviously I need a complete fresh reinstall but I thought I would hold back for a while due to 1) personal issues and work IRL 2) wanted to play some other games and also try out Train Simulator 2013, which I am enjoying 3) Waiting to see what happenes with P3D and perhaps upgrade to that this year depending if they are about to release a new version. However, I am coming back to it (put to much money/time and effort to just leave it) hopefully sometime this year, but in the meantime, please enjoy your flying and share the world of flight sim with others in this thread.

Happy Flying...

Soya.

PS One of the reasons for my quality of the screen shots is that I ran FSX in 2560x1600, so by the time you carefully resize your screen captures to @1024, you get tremendous detail left over from the large screen size. Like these past shots:

KatanaDV20 · 25 Feb 2013 at 20:59

ghutchison14078 said:
Note: you're sig shows your CPU running @ stock....get it overclocked if you can, FSX loves cpu ghz. A 920 should do 3.6 - 4.0 Ghz no probs

ENB was always a bit unstable with FSX; some users had constant crashes and some found it ok.

If you want "ENB" style effects with no crashes then you want to be using FXAA tool for HDR and Bloom effect

download from here - latest version is svn117.zip

https://www.assembla.com/spaces/fxaa-pp-inject/documents

THANK YOU for this I will try it right now!!

I want to overclock but I dont have enough knowledge or confidence to do it

I only have stock cooler etc.!!

Soya said:

Wow awesome shot Soya your FSX looks so wicked...Im v jealous

Vuvuzela · 25 Feb 2013 at 21:42

I really do hate FSX sometimes!!

FSX has been running brilliantly since I rebuilt it about 2 months back. I was also flying this afternoon, now I'm trying to get on again this evening and it's constantly crashing ever time I try launch it WHY! :mad:

ghutchison14078 · 25 Feb 2013 at 22:08

Vuvuzela said:
I really do hate FSX sometimes!!

FSX has been running brilliantly since I rebuilt it about 2 months back. I was also flying this afternoon, now I'm trying to get on again this evening and it's constantly crashing ever time I try launch it WHY!

What info can you gather from the application crash report in the Event Viewer?

FSX gremlins must be doing the rounds today; I had the exact same today when trying to load up the BN-2 Islander;

tried other add-on aircraft and they worked just fine but for some reason the Islander crashed FSX as soon as selected from menu....uninstall and reinstall sorted it thankfully.....random :confused:

ghutchison14078 · 25 Feb 2013 at 22:11

KatanaDV20 said:
THANK YOU for this I will try it right now!!

I want to overclock but I dont have enough knowledge or confidence to do it I only have stock cooler etc.!!

Wow awesome shot Soya your FSX looks so wicked...Im v jealous

If I were you I would spend about 30-40 quid on a half decent CPU cooler and get your 920 overclocked;

there are a plethora of guides available online showing you exactly how to do this in your bios and what tools to use to test if you have achieved a stable overclock.
Getting more Mhz out your cpu is essential for FSX if you want eye candy and add-ons

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