Back to SP1 - Yipee!!

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Well, today I put my money where my mouth is. A few weeks ago I messed up my GWX copy that I'd kept on SP1 and I'd got so annoyed with the stupidity of SP2/Acceleration because of all the problems it has created in my main FSX that I decided to reinstall and revert everything back to SP1.

Magnificent! I had forgotten how much I'd lost by going to SP2 in my main FSX. I've now got back lots of lovely FS9 aircraft with negligible problems - all ones that I'd lost because of the stupid VC transparency problems that SP2 created. I've got my Zlins and my Beech Debonair and I'll have my Tobago too.

Ohh and I'm so disappointed - not. The 3 aircraft that came with Acceleration don't seem to work properly in SP1. I'm sure I'll shed quite a few tears over that.

SP2/Acceleration - good for the kiddies who think farting around in the FA-18 is what it's all about, but for me, and I suspect for quite a few others, a major non-event and a complete waste of money with infinitely more lost than gained.

Still now I'm on the way to getting lots of my much loved FS9 aircraft into FSX that came to a grinding halt when I was foolish enough to install Acceleration.

My FS is now getting back on track - and what a relief too.

Edit added....

There's logic to my madness and for those who don't know maybe I'd better explain.

SP2 is geared to DX10. DX10 (which looks like another MS disaster right now IMO) can only be run in Vista. Ahhh.... Vista - what can we say. The forgotten operating system maybe? I deinstalled Vista some while ago and reverted to XP and - ahem - currently have no plans (like the majority of the World and his brother) to move back to Vista. So DX10 is out of the window for me (breathes sigh of relief) so there's no need for SP2. So I go back to SP1 and - hooray - I get most all of my lovely FS9 planes back - no prop problems, no VC problems. I can live with that

[reddog]

yepper got to agree with you. XP+FSX+SP1= a great sim! Have lots of my favorite FS9 a/c in it and they work real good.I'm runnig GEX with either Cloud9's land class or SceneryTech's landclass and I like it.

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Something else I've noticed - after I'd originally installed Acceleration/SP2 I got a new ATI HD3870 graphics card. Then I noticed I was being plagued by flashing textures, buildings mainly, and I put it down to the card.

But hey ho - since going back to SP1, the flashing has stopped, and I think my sim looks generally better all round, actually. So I have to conclude that the flashing had something to do with the DX10 content of SP2 even though my card is DX10 compliant.

Why aren't we told these things in advance before we make the commitment? Presumably they know because they've tested the software before they release it.

[Kofi]

reddog said:

yepper got to agree with you. XP+FSX+SP1= a great sim!

Only if you want FS2004 backwards compatibility.

If you want to experience the full capabilities of FSX, then FSX/SP2 & pure FSX scenery/aircraft is the only way to go...

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Yup, absolutely right - if it was possible. But as I said in Roger's thread, it's all about compromise. I can't wait any longer for FSX/SP2 aircraft - as everyone was concerned about in the beginning, they're taking too long to come through. And why wait anyway when the majority of high quality FS9 planes can be used in FSX - so long as you stay on SP1.

I disagree anyway about the 'necessity' of SP2 which is all about DX10. I have no intention of moving to Vista in the foreseeable future so DX10 means nothing to me even though I have a DX10 compliant graphics card. There were no performance enhancements that I'm aware of in SP2 over and above what was in SP1. In fact because of the well documented ACES scenery cockups - they call them 'reversions' which we're expected to live with until it's convenient for them to do something about rectifying them - there are actually negatives in going to SP2 for people like me.

But as I also mentioned elsewhere - it's not an either/or situation. You can have both on your PC and I can't see why anyone should argue against that. Choice is always good in my book.

[Kofi]

SP2 contains updated SDKs which allow for greater creativity and exploration not possible in SP1 from a designer's perspective