Today I will try to show to our readers the best TIPS of PCs, . I decided to write this because many people have questions about "Victor , what computer i have to buy". Any person use the PCs for different things and i can't give you the perfect configuration BUT i can give you a basic "rules" when you go to buy in a computer shop.
HDD(Hard Drive Disk): We will want a HDD who have a minimum of 320Gb (about 70€ to 100€). I specially recommend to you buy a 500Gb. Today we can found 2Tb but for a normal user 2048Gb is too much.We have to be alert with the RPM (Revolutions Per Minute), If you found a HDD cheap with 7200RPM buy it :D. Want a serial SATAII
Motherboard: You're very free here man :D , according if you want a AMD CPU or INTEL, but be aware INTEL has been released INTEL CORE I7 with a new socket 1366. It means that you can't use the older processors as DUO CORE QUAD CORE... who use LGA775 socket. Then we will decide about PCIe X16 expand randoms (for graphic cards). If we want a SLI dual or triple we have to buy a motherboard ready with NVIDIA nforce chip :). AH! and the expansion PCI randoms for add TV card, sound car... and HDMI support, RAM DDR3 ready ! andREMEMBER chip X58 or G45
PERSONALLY RECOMMENDED ASUS 4EVER :D.
CPU(Central Processement Unit): Very Simple, INTEL=powerfull and nice AMD= powerfull and cheap. I prefer Intel :). Intel have been released a new processor without BUS who process 2Gb/s if i'm right. Is called Intel core I7
Graphic Card: We will want a NVIDIA(recommended) of the series 200 if you can . It will have 1Gb dedicated memory, HDMI and a good graphic processement rating (for this i recomended series 200). We can't forget it have to be PCI, we haven't to want AGP.
RAM(Random Acces Memory): We will want a RAM DDR3, minimum 2Gb installed as 2 of 1Gb for enable dual channel. I recommend 4Gb for vista.
Sound Car : Isn't mandatory but if you want a sound car ASUS XONAR
Operative System: With windows 7 for launch in 2010, we have to buy a vista because we can use DX10 (directX10). If you install XP you can't use DX10 and you will continue with DX9.0C. And vista version? home premium ;)
A ATX with 650-1000W power plant and ventilators inside. We have to want spendthrifts for cooling better.
About monitor? TFT FULL HD 20-24", some HP are very good. We have to want a good contrast 10000:1 are OK
With this tips and a bit of help in the shop you can buy a "cool" PC for gaming :D. WRITER: Victor Guixer, team leader--> aboutfs.director@gmail.com Doubts of PCs configurations send me a mail :) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *We're continuing wanting writers if you can help: aboutfs.director@gmail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Next articles: About navigation and much more ! I have to think a bit :D
Most of newbies don't know much things about SIDs. Well, SIDs (Standard Instrumental Departure) allow to ATCs and pilots an structured departure of the airports making more fluid the departures and avoiding airborne conflicts. With the help of Paul Gibson(the writer) we can explain today the "keys" for understand a SID:
You will need to find aerodrome chart 2.1 and ALVIN 1B SIDs Chart 6.1.
Once you have these, load your flight simulator to a gate of your choice at EGFF Cardiff set weather to clear, ensure you fly the default Boeing 737 for this lesson.
A departure chart is a set route out from an airport of choice that enables the safe routing of traffic; this route will keep you clear of other traffic and terrain such as mountains!
It also helps ATC manage the flow of traffic away from the airport.
*ATC have given us our departure clearance which is ‘Runway 12’ and the ALVIN 1B departure, so from then on start your taxi.
*Once we have taxied into position on ‘Runway 12’ open your departures chart after take off we will fly heading 120 as indicated on the chart. Do you see 120 marked on the chart? That is our Heading.
*I-CDF is the Cardiff VOR which is on frequency 110.70 set this as NAV1 on your flight display, you will now see CDF 0.5 this is your distance to the VOR, also known as your DME (Distance Measuring Equipment).
*On the chart it says CDF 4.5and 2600 what this means is at 4.5 miles from CDF we need to be above 2600 ft also as you can see at CDF 4.5 we begin a left turn to heading 002.
*Now set NAV1 to the BCN (BREACON) VOR which is 117.45.You should now see on the flight display BCN and your distance from the VOR.
At this point on the chart we can see BCN D19 and 3500 so when our DME is BCN D19 we need to be above 3500ft.
*Next we see 4500 so continue climbing to 4500ft, and then there is a right turn onto heading 060 this heading should be to the ALVIN waypoint.
Set your NAV1 to HON 113.65.
*Our next instruction is HON D65.2 6000 do you see it has a line ABOVE and BELOW it? This means at 65.2nm from the HON VOR we need to be level at 6000ft.
We continue to ALVIN.
*At ALVIN the departure route ends and our flight plan begins.
We highly recommend the use of a FMC (Flight Management Computer) as five letter waypoints e.g. ALVIN have no marker in flight simulator, the only way to find the ALVIN waypoint or any other five letter waypoint is by using an FMC.
Our second article shows you the way to activate your admin account with windows vista :D. It will mean that you can use FSX with better results. Follow us! :
Logon to Windows Vista with normal user account username and password (must belongs to Administrators group).
Click on Vista Start button, and type cmd in the Start Search box.
window, type the following text at the command line to set a password for administrator account. If you want to use a blank password for the Administrator account, skip this step.
net user administrator password
Replace password with the actual password string that you have chosen. Press Enter when done.Note that if your computer is a member of domain controller or has enabled complex password requirement in Local Security Policy
, you will have to pick a really hard to remember password mixed with symbols.
Next type the following command and press Enter to activate and enable Administrator account:
net user administrator activate:yes
The process should completed with the following message:
The command completed successfully
If not success message is returned, repeat the process again.
Logout from Vista by choosing Log Off or Switch User.
Click on Administrator icon and logon with the password you selected.
Well, our first article will speak about "how to set up you windows" for better results in FS. I'm going to give you general tweaking advices: ABOUT WINDOWS TWEAKS
We will start by cleaning our TEMP files (temporal files) and cleaning our windows registry (don't worry, it isn't dangerous. The program will delete broken entries). For this task we recommend to use CCleaner (click on link and then go to "download the latest version". When the program is installed: Open this-->click on "cleaner" (brush icon) and in the left-down corner "analize" option--> Close all browsers and click "execute cleaner"
OK friends, we will continue cleaning the registry. In the same program go to "registry"(cube icon)--> "search problems" --> finished the search go to "repair selected" (when ask you for the registry security copy, make it if you want but isn't necessary) -->click repair all entries--> well, click on "close" and exit.
ABOUT SECURITY AND PERFORMANCE
Next steps are about malware. We highly recommend using SpyBot Search & Destroy. To download click in any mirror and download it.
When the program is installed, open it and go to "search updates" and then "inmunize"( you have to close the browser again).
Then on Search & Destroy click on "search problems". Finished, go to solve selected problems.
Spy Bot isn't enough. You have to have your antivirus updated and execute scans periodically.(We recommend minimum one per month and when you feel that something is not working properly).
*We recomend you to have defragmented you HDD (hard drive disk). *You must have MINIMUM the SP1 for FSX and the 9.1 version for FS9. In case of FSX you should have SP2. * Don't forget to have the operative system UPDATED. *Mantain your graphics drivers updated for the best results LINKS
-NVIDIA(we recommend you to use the "option 2") -ATI
All tweaks works with any Vista version 32 or 64 bits and any XP and Windows 7
We recently opened this project builded for give to FS community the latest news. We're proud to do this blog "About FS". From today we'll speak about several topics who affects our community as online flight, add-ons, tweaking(specially for FSX). We will try to give you a free information from a neutral point of view.
Written by FS users (in my case more than 2000h) for FS users, here you can find answers to your questions. Our readers can send us their suggestions and doubts. We will try to solve them. aboutfs.director@gmail.com
Oh! if you're an FSX user and you want the best tweaking tricks send me a mail with your machine specifications, remarks and if you have SP1 or 2 and acceleration.
Finally we have to remark that, we're only 2 writers (me and the weblog master) we're wanting people who knows about FS! If you think that you can help for any thing please send me a mail. aboutfs.director@gmail.com
Soon, our first article!
Victor Guixer blog director and writer
Mario Sánchez blog supervisor,writer and webmaster
