Hi Mark

Well it’s taken some months but here’s what I’ve done now and it seems to work ok.

I’ve pushed the Scenery complexity and autogen to dense which has given me a lot more buildings, ground traffic and aircraft. To compensate I have brought the distant scenery slider back to the far left instead of medium.

As I tend to keep visibility to 20, or max. 30 miles, that doesn’t seem to make a difference to what I can see as it gives the scene that nice misty appearance. With broken clouds and medium coverage it’s pretty good.

I’ve also brought the traffic sliders up to around the 50% mark and I must say the whole thing has improved the activity feel no end.

As for water, I’ve brought that back to ‘nil’

However, the pay back is that I must admit the ride isn’t quite so smooth even though I’ve pegged the frame rate back to 20. Depending somewhat on what I’m flying, the frames dodge between 19 & 20 most of the time but just occasionally get back to 15 or slightly less.

As it doesn’t affect the flying, take offs and landings too much I think I can live with it like that especially with the good old Beechcraft Baron 58 – what a lovely steady old aircraft that is! The only real jerks I get are when I taxi too fast round the bends so it’s all my fault!

Mind you, I must also admit that I’m still using FS9 a lot. With most of the sliders to the far right and customised weather it’s still really smooth. Probably a bit smoother than a real aeroplane is I seem to remember! But with those settings quite realistic. If it only had better roads with traffic on them I could be tempted not to bother with FSX at all.

Thanks for writing.

Best wishes

John Y