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Hiya's, I've seen on videos remarks about how nice the rain effect and glass-dirt effects were in certain x-plane videos Is there a payware version for better rain effects ? (not that i can find a freeware/donate-ware version to try out first) or is the rain effect only included in payware aircraft ? The same goes for the dirty-window effect Those effects if you've seen them are really immersive for my way of thinking OT, anyone know if x-plane 10 can have a clean->dusty->dirty->man this plane is filthy and needs a wash effect (plugin payware or alike ?) EDIT : I found out there's no plugin etc, seems the rain droplet effects are included solely in certain payware aircraft Thanks Have Fun Tony

Hiya, Many Thanks Found some i had missed finding previously :-) (clicked green arrow, hope it does what i think it does) Cheers Tony

Hiya's, I got x-plane 10 via the web download not steam (if at all it's on steam) around christmas time I've slowly been learning howto do the HD meshes and adding free scenery airports and alike Now i'm addicted to x-plane and after watching so many great yt vids etc on what can be achieved with addons i had to upgrade main parts of my pc as i like eye-candy and hate jaggies Well, i got a new motherboard/cpu/ram and holy smoke what a difference I fought a losing battle with stabilty on my new setup, actually the motherboard was faulty and finally died very shortly after purchasing After again rebuilding my pc and water loop i was set As my fiancee likes watching most sims i play she noticed skymaxx mantioned numerous times and decided to get v3 as a little treat for me after a week of pure pc problems lol (bless her) My first payware late march and only so far was SMP v3, amazing !! really looking forward to v3.1 and then thepayware weather plugin :-) Now after downloading the SMP v3 file, it came in at 44.6mb rar file in my case, i saved it as-is across my hdd's as i only have one pc, i do this with all stuff that's important as in the past year or so i've lost four hdds i think its up to now :-( (out of warranty all so really can't complain as my pc used to be left on 24/7 benching (i overclock cpu/gpu's and used to edit bios settings) So is this the 'backing up' process ?? or is it saving the 'silverlining' folder to safe hdd's the 'backing up' ? As i used my slot allowance i'm awaiting a reply from x-aviation support, and don't want to lose my clouds again now the pc seems 100% stable again Obviously i don't want to mess anything up and have to miss out on v3.1 and weather plugin What i found with flywithlua and other items, i can copy/move those across my hdd's and if needed use them (as a noob, quite a few reinstalls of x-plane 10 have happened since xmas) hehe And for a numpty on this security checking thing, when i get my slots back, can i drag my silverlining folder back or is a full install from my backedup initial SMP v3 downloaded rar required ? To be blunt, is the silverlining needed in my plugins before i do a reinstall Sorry to waffle on, talking comes easier to me than writing Confused :-( Thanks, any help be great so i don't bork anything up Have Fun Tony

Hiya's, Fantastic Not long got skymaxx pro v3 and that blew my mind hehe Good to see companies going forward bettering themselves and their products Kudos Have Fun Def

Hiya, Join the club lol New asus rampage v extreme caused me no end of reboots/hdd problems and of course several attempts at redoing windose before it died and i got it replaced yesterday Only had skymaxx pro 3 a week or less i lose track, but this is what i found out so far ......... Goto the x-aviation site (where you bought it from) use the Contact i think it is, and it asks for email address etc Then put in what your problem is and wait upto 3days i think it says for a reply I am now trying to figure howto remove the login box upper top right of my screen for skymaxx pro v3 lol Wanna fly after i got rig back setup lastnight Hope that helps somewhat Have Fun Def

Hiya's, I had my motherboard die on me Couldn't even reach the bios screen lol Q Codes (in a split second on powering up) were 00 14 76 I tried all i could to remedy slowly dying board over the last days of its life So only having it 11 days i called my local shop (OCUK, used them since its creation many many years ago here in the uk) Took my new main parts in to them, mobo/cpu/ram, left cpu in case i borked the pins removing it lol Anyways, lad tested all parts, came out from testing and confirmed the mobo had totally died :-( So i waited for a replacement to come from stores, great shop if you're in the staffs region etc In 21yrs of rig building besides a set of triple rated ddr3 being borked this is my only ever RMA (or in my case like for like swap) So i've been very lucky really, of course ocuk have a great rep for replacing if goods were faulty, glad it's pretty local to me Great service from them, and now back up n running (ohh used my install allowance on skymaxx pro v3 :-( ) hoping email etc sorts it now i'm hopefully back stable hehe Have Fun Def

Hiya's, After a rethink, and taking into account ddr3 is somewhat aging now, i decided with intels new cpu offerings now delayed until late 2016 early 2017 to take a drr4 route (somewhat) to get me into a bit of a future proofing region I got the asus rampage v extreme coupled with a i7 5820k and 32gb corsair 3200 ddr4, also a new rad and nzxt lcd fan controller and small assorted sundries Spent best part of 1k sterling, sounds a lot but i've not upgraded cpu/mobo/ram from gen 1 i7 ! (now to save and wait for the next gpu offerings) I had some issues getting to grips with the bios !! even though i overclock whatever cpu/gpu i've had, the new bios stuff has so many options it threw me for a day Anyways, i am chuffed at the results so far, cpu running solid 24/7 @ 4.7ghz with 1.34 vcore though i got 4.8ghz solid now too but needs quite a bit of juice through the core Still rocking along with my r9 290x clocked to the hilt for now (heard maybe nvidia releasing sometime soon ! ?) With both cpu/gpu running off the same loop as before but instead of a 240+360 rad setup, i now have an oblong 6 fan rad, rooms approx 22c and max gaming temp on cpu is 40-50c ish, benching it hits 55c average and can spike to 58c Totally glad i got the x99 platform now, as i can await the upcoming new gpu and cpu releases and decide when/if to rape my wallet again, also the new cpu's hopefully be a good future upgrade to this 5820k Performance-wise, heck i can sit in 3d cockpit mode now and not dip much under 30fps at airports And as a present for my revived rig, the fiancee treated me to skymaxx v3 (ohh lord, how i love this, increased fps and totally made the sim so realistic instantly, dunno who's more impressed with the clouds her or me lmao) So while i'm typing, i have a freebie a380 hurtling towards moscow (uudd) with lovely clouds surrounding me, and typing on forums and of course i have youtube playing too, happy times :-) Cheers Have Fun Def

Hiya's, After mulling over specs and benchmarks for days I'm going to lag behind as such and go the 4790k route An Asus mobo (almost 100% decided on model) a 4790k and 32gb of ram with one of the major brands i've used previously I will after getting those items sit tight and await the new intel cpus and nividias new range of gpu/s As i stated, besides x-plane 10 and fsx all my fav games run fine on my currant rig, but now i've decided on a 4790k i hope soon i can buy and maybe treat myself to a payware plane :-) Cheers Have Fun Def

Hiya Flo, After watching some yt vids on payware planes i understand that some payware planes eat the cpu power hehe Well as you say, nvidias new gpu format coming out this summer, so maybe i can grab a bit of a bargain regarding a gpu later in 2016 if indeed i think it's needed for my eye-candy addiction :-) Going to buy from my usual online site for pc parts (pretty local to me so i like to drive n buy, hate waiting for deliveries lol) Ohh, i did watch a very detailed x-plane 10 vid, the guy went through all the settings, i was pretty astounded what i thought would be gpu driven was actually cpu driven and visa versa, you live and learn as the saying goes Thanks Again Have Fun Def

Hiya Flo, Thanks for the reply That pretty much explains all i needed to know I'll try and upload a screeny https://www.dropbox.com/s/opq47106f5evkd2/X-Plane%20Settings%20About%20Maxed%20Out%203rd%20Jan%202016.jpg?dl=0 The title of that screeny means my rig is about maxed out playable-wise, but gives you an idea how much my cpu/gpu overcolock allows me to push the graphics without any fancy scenery/mesh/planes EDITED ... Best add, besides my original amd cpu circa 1995 (160/166 mmx or something lol) and then Athlons, not the slot type, i've always had intel for my cpu (though i found phase-change cooling Athlons a blast hehe) I would guess i've used 65% ati/amd and 35% nvidia gpu's over the years, so i am not a fanboy of either but now i do go for the bang-for-buck Many Thanks for the advice it's much apreciated :-) Have Fun Def

Hiya's, New to this forum, but here goes ........... I have got back into flight sims again after a long spell away My fiancee threw out by mistake my old beloved saitek x36 (which would of been fine with x-plane 10's own ingame mapping lol) but i still have my CH pedals :-) I grabbed a thrustmaster x hotas to tide me over (but for the money it's real decent) Anyways to my question/questions regarding hardware ........... here's my rig spec off top of my head X58 mobo (gigabyte udr3r i think rev 1.3 or 1.6 (max ram is 18gb i think ?) i use 12gb i7 do 920 @ 4.2Ghz watercooled, never skipped a beat this cpu 12gb DDR3 triple Channel running @ 1600 i think (3x4gb) 128 ssd for OS + X-plane 10 (will upgrade later as it's way too small for simming) 2 R9 290x's (have xfire off as i know it hurts sims) Main gpu is watercooled and running 1267mhz core and 1346 on the memory (so she's no slouch lol) 1k watt psu G15 kb (orange led) MX 518 mouse And last but not really a rig part is, my hyperX 7.1 headset, i am 67% deaf at last testing, so this alone has opened my gaming world right up again (amazing for the money) So my dilemma, do i upgrade cpu to eg: i7 4790k with a motherboard in a bundle, and of course 32gb ram or maybe more ? Or Go up a few notches from my faithful high-clocking R9 290x to say a nvidia GTX 980ti and go for a known good overclocking version ? Any input much apreciated as i can only do this years upgrade in stages of around 500-600 quid at a time Unless things change, only 1200 quid on hardware this year, but maybe a new monitor if money allows late this year as i want a 2 mon x-plane setup Thanks Def