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VIRTUALI add-on manager- "AFFINITY MASK" for i7 2600k CPU?
rsm2000e:
OK- I guess "BITMASK" is different from the actual suggested value of 14. You are talking like programmers to end-users. I now understand that 255 or 125 do not directly correlate to "14". Thank you for explaining. I was not disturbed or upset about AFFINITY MASK, I was confused by your use of the words "BIT MASK", which is not a setting I have ever seen for FSX. So you are talking a different "language" to someone who didn't understand your terminology. I was FINE with "AFFINITY MASK" it was your "BITMASK" that confused me. Honestly, it's great that you put that feature in, but realistically, you should WARN USERS that "DEFAULT" settings or "resetting to DEFAULT settings" may DECREASE performance - Other products like ULTIMATE TERRAIN X have FSX.cfg editors built in, but they also have pretty good suggestive help available and show the user what some possible settings could be, based on high, mid or low-end hardware.
Please know I totally love GSX. I mean no disrespect. I couldn't find anything out about the new Virtuali add-on Manager "INTERFACE" in your existing GSX manual... it's totally missing as far as I can see. I only make suggestions as an 'end user' to help those of you who think "like programmers think" and may not realize that some direction is needed to prevent confusion.
Thanks for GSX- it's really great! And thanks for explaining that the Virtuali add-on screen is merely an FSX.cfg editor. To me, the only real 'danger' is a user who thinks "default settings" somehow may relate to any specific hardware - or that your editor is 'reading' the end user hardware. In truth, it is only 'reading' the FSX.cfg file. As such, that's a good optional feature!
Robert M.
California.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: rsm2000e on April 23, 2012, 04:55:24 am ---OK- I guess "BITMASK" is different from the actual suggested value of 14. You are talking like programmers to end-users. I now understand that 255 or 125 do not directly correlate to "14". Thank you for explaining. I was not disturbed or upset about AFFINITY MASK, I was confused by your use of the words "BIT MASK", which is not a setting I have ever seen for FSX.
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There's no such thing as a "BITMASK" setting!! As I've said (and others said) you should simply put 14, and don't worry about what it means.
The one and only reasons of me using that term, is because you asked why you should go "down from 125 to 14", which seemed to indicate you were thinking the value would be "lowered". THAT'S why I said that lower or higher don't have any meaning, because that setting IS A bitmask, not a linear value, so going "higher" or "lower" with the slider is not really "increasing" or "decreasing" anything.
But again, you only had to set it to 14, and that's it.
--- Quote ---Other products like ULTIMATE TERRAIN X have FSX.cfg editors built in, but they also have pretty good suggestive help available and show the user what some possible settings could be, based on high, mid or low-end hardware.
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That's not a fitting example. UT is installing something that affects FSX *globally*, so it would make sense to discuss FSX global tweaks, since they ARE relevant to what they have just installed.
The tweaker included in the Addon Manager it's just a free tweaker included with the product, and the tweaks are not really connected to what we just installed (an airport scenery, for example)
In fact, it could be exactly the opposite: it's possible that suggesting a tweak (which is global) that might increase performances on the "product we are installing", could have ad adverse effect on all the rest of FSX.
That's why it's best to not "suggest" anything, and simply present that interface as a built-in free helper to edit the FSX.CFG file, and nothing more, if you are using Notepad, nobody is suggesting anything. This is the same, just easier to use, but it's NOT advertised as a built-in optimizer or performance enhancer, you are still supposed to know what values put it.
If you are not sure, don't change any setting (because, as I've said, they are READ from your EXISTING FSX.CFG) and don't press the "Save" button, and it would be exactly as that page never existed because, as I've said, no values are changed without your intervention AND the "Save" button.
--- Quote ---I couldn't find anything out about the new Virtuali add-on Manager "INTERFACE" in your existing GSX manual... it's totally missing as far as I can see. I only make suggestions as an 'end user' to help those of you who think "like programmers think" and may not realize that some direction is needed to prevent confusion.
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I don't see why this should be mentioned in the GSX manual, since it doesn't have anything to do with GSX. It's an Addon Manager feature, which is not "new", it has been there since about 4 years, and it has been discussed many times here in the past. And, even the actual tweaks presented were not always the same.
--- Quote ---To me, the only real 'danger' is a user who thinks "default settings" somehow may relate to any specific hardware
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If it was, the button would have called "optimize settings", not "default settings". They are two very different terms with an entirely different meaning.
The only suggestion I can accept somehow, for someone that doesn't understand what "default" means, is to put an additional dialog box before pressing the default setting button, that will alert with something like "These settings will be restored to their default values after a clean FSX installation, are you sure ?"
rsm2000e:
Ok, Thanks again Umberto. Wonderful explanation - thank you for taking the time to clarify it for me! I really appreciate it!
Again, I totally love GSX, and feel it's a "must-buy" along with the great airports from FSDreamteam!
One idea I had for GSX- would you ever consider putting a menu choice on the GSX menu for "Deboarding ONLY - no baggage reload"?
While some planes might be taking off again soon, it would help my flow when I shoot videos to demo your products if I could 'dismiss' the baggage loaders at the end of the flight. I think I read in the forum that you chose to let them remain after the baggage carts disappear to handle the next flight. If it's the 'last flight of the day' or if the plane is going out of service (say for maintenance), it would be nice to have the baggage loader guys get back into their vehicles and drive away, instead of hitting "reload position".
I have YouTube videos under user
rsm2000e
Two of them are based on GSX (one daytime one nighttime).
Thanks for considering my idea about the baggage handlers... Ciao!
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