Hi Tim, there are extensive discussions on the AV*** forums about DX 10 and DX 10 fixer which I believe is a payware program . I have'nt looked into it since my credit card is maxed out with Christmas purchases.
Maybe it helps those with super duper rigs who demand perfection and spend more time tweaking than flying , but for me it seemed to cause more problems than solutions in the past
Ron

Hi Lex.

What happens when you load an aircraft that doesn't support DX10, how can Steve's DX10 Fixer help with those?
Mind you, I consider the price a bit steep when seem to be a case of: "it bundles all the DX10 fixes that have been published to the Avsim Library into a combined easy to install package"!? Reading the info on this product at The FlightSim Store, it, doesn't appear to be much more than that.

Yeah, it's the "extensive discussions" part that don't thrill me. If it were a matter of ticking the box, that would be one thing, but I have precious little time to fly as it is, and am actually pretty pleased with FSX, which, as I type, I am running with every single thing maxed out for the first time and getting a smooth flight with nice weather and some traffic. I take it that it is some sort of visual enhancement. I may fool around with it, but I don't even use a third-party video program. I just let FSX handle AA and it looks great. "Perfect is the enemy of good enough" is a good thing to remember sometimes. Is there a real world example of what I'm missing?

AS FOR THE DX10 FIXER... I don't really have a problem with bundling a bunch of you own free fixes and mods if they really make a complicated job easy. I am not all that computer proficient, which is one of the reasons I am hesitant about DX10. But as a proud member of the forum referenced in the post above, I know that the denizens are sometimes seized by enthusiasms  At one time you were nobody unless you had the latest shader "fix," and heaven forbid you actually fail to use a third-party buffer between FSX and NVIDIA. Oh, and speaking of buffers, buffer pools were in, then they were out. They seem to work for me. In fact everything seems to work for me at the moment. I can just see myself having a wire frame 757 at 3 FPS because I've screwed up something trying to make DX10 work when I can't even explain what I hope to accomplish!  Now I got max water, bloom, traffic, UHDT, heavy weather... all the things that are supposed to bring a system to its knees. But I'm cruising along right now at 50 FPS. Of course I've had cars I've spent less for than this laptop, but hey, money I got... it's time that's scarce.

Markoz wrote on Dec 17^th, 2013 at 12:41am:


Hi Mark,

are they�still available at AVSIM ? I've found only one file as DX10 fix.

Regards
Dietmar

toelg wrote on Dec 29^th, 2013 at 1:34pm:

I guess so. I've never tried any of them myself. FSX is fine for me with DX9, so I have only ever tried DX10 a few times, but found that some of my addons were not compatible, so stopped using it pretty quickly.

Take a look here: DX-10 Discussions, Hints and Help
I'm guessing they are available from within that Avsim Forum topic.

Cappy wrote on Dec 30^th, 2013 at 5:19am:

I believe it has been like that for quite a while Cappy. And I must tell you that as a member, I find it bl**dy annoying, that every time I click on a link to Avsim (forum, library, review, or whatever) I get that blasted message to log in before I can see or do anything.

@AndersCN - I just did all that stuff from the PDF about using DX10. Most of the links in the doc/pdf will give you everything you need to do to use DX10 in FSX. I must admit, it looks pretty good too. All I gotta do now, is find out which of my addons are NOT DX10 compatible!

NOTE: The instructions require you to access the fsx.cfg and make some manual changes. If you don't feel comfortable doing that, the the SteveFX - DX10 Scenery Fixer might be a better way to go about it. The SteveFX - DX10 Scenery Fixer bundles all the fixes found in Avsim forum with it, along with what looks to be tools that do the job for you, without you having to fiddle around and do it all yourself. It's worth thinking about getting if you are not computer savvy.

I thought FSX with DX9 worked just fine for me, but I bought and installed DX10Fixer and WOW Iit's like FSX Next! MUch better looking graphics and way smoother. I haven't used any slider adjustments in the UI either -- �just the default settings. Money well spent!

I did follow the setup instructions by Paul Johnson for Nvidia Inspector, the FSX internal settings and the FSX config.

Bruce