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DVA5079
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Posted onPost created on February 15 2010 19:22 ET by Michael McPhee

Found this little article interesting after I played around with my fsx.cfg file.
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Powered by WP Greet BoxYes, seriously. If you are like me you’re constantly tweaking and farting around with your FSX.CFG to get things running and looking as nice a possible. On top of that there are addons getting installed and uninstalled all the time, meaning FSX is a constantly changing platform rather than something you can tweak once and forget. Over time, FSX can get a little weird from all this messing around. Load times can go way up, and frame rates way down depsite all the right tweaks being in place. Once this starts to happen, a simple and effective way to sort it out is to delete your FSX.CFG file, then restart FSX. It will recreate a fresh CFG file for you, and often times you’ll find a great deal of improvement as it’s flushed out a lot of the junk that had accumulated or tweaks that conflicted, or were left in place my mistake.

It would be wise to make a backup of you original of course, to allow you to find the tweaks you do want to carry over from the old file to the new. I recently found my FSX load times getting way out of hand, and deleting/rebuilding my FSX.CFG completely sorted that out. It also gave me a frame rate boost as I selectively went through my tweak list and added those I wanted to include.

Nothing like starting fresh now and then.

Michael McPhee (DVA5079)

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Posted onPost created on February 16 2010 06:29 ET by Nicolas Ammann

Hi Mike

Thanks for posting this.

After resetting the file, I usually use Flusifix to change some minor things really quickly. Well documented. English version can be found here: http://www.wolfgang-picheta.de/flusifix_eng.htm

Nicolas Ammann

First Officer, MD-11

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Posted onPost created on February 16 2010 10:31 ET by Michael Brown

Link doesn't seem to work .... takes me straight to the regular home page

EDIT: Found it...follow link and click on the flag on right side.

Michael Brown (DVA3196)

Posted onPost created on February 16 2010 10:42 ET by Nicolas Ammann

Oops, sorry rolleyes

Didn't checked the link wink

Yeah, just click on the UK-flag on the right side.

Nicolas Ammann

First Officer, MD-11

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Posted onPost created on February 16 2010 18:31 ET by Alexander Kolb

Hmm...I followed the link and a large red X came up. Did a little Norton scan and found a few new gifts on my HD wink

Alexander Kolb

Captain, A320

Posted onPost created on February 16 2010 20:57 ET by Michael McPhee

http://www.simtips.com/delete-your-fsxcfg/ theres the link, forgot to post it smile

Posted onPost created on February 17 2010 07:10 ET by Nicolas Ammann

Alexander Kolb wrote:

Hmm...I followed the link and a large red X came up. Did a little Norton scan and found a few new gifts on my HD ;)

Strange, I use the programs for FS9 and FSX for years now and never had an issue with them.

Nicolas Ammann

First Officer, MD-11

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