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[PhilTaylor]

I am pleased to announce that FSX SP1 is now live for downloading!  

Check the fsinsider site at http://www.fsinsider.com

I have some important blog posts that need to be read:
FSX SP1 is now live!
FSX SP1:Preparing to Install
FSX SP1:Aircraft and Scenery Fixes
FSX SP1:Missions, MultiPlayer, and Misc Fixes
FSX SP1:SDK, SimConnect, and 3rd party fixes
FSX SP1:Performance work
FSX SP1:New tweaks

On http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor I have direct links

Edited by PhilTaylor, 15 May 2007 - 09:30 PM.

[spand]

Thanks Phil but I already downloaded RTW from Connect   . the joys of beta testing  

[Night_Killer]

Sweet!! I'm gonna go download it right now, but to bad I have school tomorrow so I won't be able to test it until tomorrow

Also, I would like to thank Microsoft and everyone who contributed in the preparation, testing, and everything else that was done to make SP1,  and for taking the time to make a better, faster and safer  world for us pilots

[SwitchFX]

Hey Phil thanks, I'm almost finished DL the patch. What's this RTM ?

[rf360m]

Fantastic Phil!  I'm dowloading it now.

A huge thanks to everyone at Aces and Microsoft for puttng this together and to everyone who tested it, and to Phil for keeping us in the loop.  Your hard work is very much appreciated!

[frontiersim]

downloading now Its finally done!

[Vlad]

Fantastic Phil!

Thanks!

Edit: Hmm, my download seems to freeze every time, at around 25-30%... With both FF and IE...

Edited by Vlad, 15 May 2007 - 09:58 PM.

[wyoairbus]

Again....I'm getting "Configuration errors" when i visit the site. What the ?

[falcon X]

   Oh,let's go for it!

[rf360m]

After installing SP1 I can see a noticed improvment in performance.  I was getting a solid 26 (locked) at Westchester, where I usually got between 20 and 26.  Over NYC it was about 12 or so, but before it was at about 9-10.  So that's also good.  I'm also getting dual core usage of about 75% (100% on one and about 50-80% on the other). So I think this is a great improvement to FSX!  Great job, and thanks again!

[SwitchFX]

rf360m, on May 15 2007, 08:15 PM, said:

After installing SP1 I can see a noticed improvment in performance.  I was getting a solid 26 (locked) at Westchester, where I usually got between 20 and 26.  Over NYC it was about 12 or so, but before it was at about 9-10.  So that's also good.  I'm also getting dual core usage of about 75% (100% on one and about 50-80% on the other). So I think this is a great improvement to FSX!  Great job, and thanks again!

Just 2 more frames? 12 is still pretty jerky.  

Even on a system like yours.

[frontiersim]

rf360m, on May 15 2007, 11:15 PM, said:

After installing SP1 I can see a noticed improvment in performance.  I was getting a solid 26 (locked) at Westchester, where I usually got between 20 and 26.  Over NYC it was about 12 or so, but before it was at about 9-10.  So that's also good.  I'm also getting dual core usage of about 75% (100% on one and about 50-80% on the other). So I think this is a great improvement to FSX!  Great job, and thanks again!

sounds great I cant wait to try it but I have to reinstall first. I think I deleted a scenery area!

[falcon X]

Phyl,or anyone who knows: On Phil's blog..."SP1 needs a pristine RTM. "... and..."you will need to uninstall or repair RTM"...
What does RTM stand for?

[loafer87gt]

Noticed a slight performance increase on my Quadcore QX6700 / 8800GTX system. Flying out of Tacoma with traffic set to medium, weather set to high, scenery set to high, and aircraft set to ultra high at 1920x1200 I am now getting around 20 -22 frames per second. The one thing the patch didn't fix is my blurry terrain issue, however. I still have to pause the game and go grab a drink while waiting for the scenery ahead of my aircraft to "unblur". If I turn down my autogen settings to sparse, this problem seems to get better. This is on a clean install of the game.

I am going to try defragging my drives and see if that helps improve things, otherwise its back to tweaking the config settings again. As far as core usage goes, the game seems to be fully using my first core, and about 15% of my other three cores.

edit: Watching my task man it seems there are CPU usage spikes whenever a large patch of the terrain "unblurs". When this happens it looks like CPU usage on cores 2, 3, and 4 hit about 65-70%.

Edited by loafer87gt, 15 May 2007 - 11:05 PM.

[chalbers]

Reinstalling FSX as I speak.

... lets hope for bliss

[XSimmer]

SWEET! FSX HERE I COME!

[Gym_Class_Hero]

This includes a DX10 patch, correct?

[Chris598]

Gym_Class_Hero, on May 16 2007, 12:29 AM, said:

This includes a DX10 patch, correct?

DX10 comes later.

Edited by Chris598, 15 May 2007 - 11:30 PM.

[Mango]

What a great blog. Thanks a ton Phil, highly appreciated !  

[rsperge]

let the games begin,

I just took out fsx will reinstall download patch adn the "DEFRAG"  THATS ALWAYS IMPORTANT, AND THEN WILL SEE!!