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Addon manager anti-popup setting

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virtuali:

--- Quote from: Ironkidz on April 24, 2015, 10:25:01 am ---Dovetail stated the following: "it should not be necessary to manually change the AffinityMask any more. FSX: Steam Edition will automatically use the correct value. However, if you have previously added your own AffinityMask to the FSX.CFG file, you will need to remove this value otherwise the game will use whatever value is currently assigned there."
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This simply means that, if you set it to all bit enabled, it's exactly the same.


--- Quote ---and in regards to buffer pools: "We have improved the handling of vertex and index buffer pooling (actually, this is dynamic vertex/index buffer management) within FSX:SE. By setting UsePools=0, you are effectively disable dynamic buffer use.
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The explanation is a bit partial: the Addon Manager DOES NOT default to 0, but to a certain value. The missing information is if they now also have a setting to *explicitly* enable this dynamic management.


--- Quote ---You have proven yourself as a master of flight simulation, so correct me if I am wrong, but when I just want to change one thing and the Addon Manager changes these values to whatever it can see in the sim at the time, it effectively makes them static.
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That's not relevant. It's only a matter of knowing what EXPLICIT setting matches the "no setting" of the same tweak, the difference is then only semantical.


--- Quote --- So the only way I see to work around this is to allow the user to select which changes they would like to allow it to change. Affinty Mask wont change unless one enables or disables hyper threading, but the buffer pools do based on scenery and system load. Correct me if I am wrong or if you think there is a way I can manage the .cfg manually to exclude these changes.
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No, it's NOT the only way. A better way could be simply disabling the handling some tweaks, depending on the sim, assuming WE CANNOT find an explicit setting that is equivalent to the "default = non existing" setting.

If, instead, we find the new default setting and set it depending on the sim, it's perfectly fine as it is now.

Ironkidz:
Ok, thanks Umberto. I found the .cfg entry under FSDreamTeam and retained just the antipop up setting in my .cfg backup and it looks like it is working.

cmpbllsjc:

--- Quote from: Ironkidz on April 24, 2015, 06:56:40 pm ---Ok, thanks Martin.

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Who's Martin? You mean Umberto? Martin works for FlyTampa.

Ironkidz:

--- Quote from: cmpbllsjc on April 25, 2015, 10:41:24 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ironkidz on April 24, 2015, 06:56:40 pm ---Ok, thanks Martin.

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Who's Martin? You mean Umberto? Martin works for FlyTampa.

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Sorry. Martin works for Dovetail games. Since we were talking about them I got them mixed up.

hjmx:

--- Quote from: virtuali on April 23, 2015, 09:43:00 pm ---
--- Quote from: Ironkidz on April 23, 2015, 06:25:56 pm ---I noticed that when I do, all of the settings in the addon manager page get saved to my .cfg. Is there a way to just set the anti-popup to 10 while leaving the rest of the settings on that page out of my .cfg?
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This has been discussed so many times on the forum. Those settings that you say have "changed" are either:

- READ from YOUR existing FSX.CFG file

OR

- If the setting wasn't there, is set to a default setting.

It's not that, if you don't see a setting in the FSX.CFG, that setting doesn't exists. It will use an internal default value, and the Addon Manager just reset to it so, it won't make any difference in the end.

The only setting that is actually changed, is the HIGHMEMFIX = 1, which is basically mandatory with today's video cards so, even if it's not enabled by default, it's best to set it to 1, and the AffinityMask, which is set by default to the best value for quad-core CPUs.

Everything else, is set to the same value you *already* had there, or to the value FSX would use internally if there was no setting to begin with.

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Sorry, I do not agree. Using P3Dv3, Settings changed AM to 14 when I have HT on, HighmemFix in P3Dv3? Bufferpools etc, Is it really so difficult to let the user to decide? Your settings/change have been made mainly for FSX now forcing them to P3Dv2/v3 - Not sure if all thes setting are reasonable for the new platform.

kind regards,
Harry

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