I have optimized PD 6 / WinXP for performance (gave both CPUs + 2GB RAM to VM selected enable 3D along with 256MB RAM on Video settings page of VM power settings are for performance - not long battery life and wherever permitted in VM configs selected optimize for speed and performance).
If you press Continue the Flight, your menus and paint scheme will be OK when the application returns to flying - but they will soon revert again to "gibberish".Īttached 2-page PDF shows good menu/good paint scheme and gibberish menu/gibberish paint scheme. If you remember the command's location, you can press ALT (to get the top of window command menus) then navigate to End This Flight at which time a new window opens asking if you want to end or continue the flight. except rarely when the menus/paint will suddenly look "OK" again - for awhile. The spikes quickly disappear but the gibberish menu/paint scheme remains. If doing this quickly, sometimes nearby trees (in scene with plane) show sharp spikes sticking way up into the sky. In outside of plane view, using a joystick, you can quickly change point-of-view (move around the outside of plane). When the command menus turn to gibberish, and you change to external view (to see your plane), the plane's paint scheme is also incorrect.īTW I think FSX Deluxe used DirectX 9 while Acceleration Pack upgrades FSX to DirectX 10. from inside to outside the plane) the menus become illegible. Initially menus are OK but when switching views (e.g. Now that I have good frame rates, I have the gibberish problem you described in the command menus. With FSX Deluxe only, frame rates were intolerable but menu commands at top of window while flying (activated by pressing ALT key) were OK. Please make sure FSX's SP1 & SP2 are really installed. A new FSX + Acceleration package installation takes 6 hours.įSX frame rates on PD6 improved GREATLY after I installed Acceleration Pack (which incl SP1 & SP2).
If I can't get the FSX issue resolved in Parallels 6, is there a way I can revert back to Parallels 5, without having to create a new virtual machine, including new windows installation and new MS FSX installation? I have a lot of 3rd party components (planes) installed and it would be extremely difficult to rebuild them. Repeat, FSX worked perfectly under Parallels 5. FSX is the only Windows application I have on this machine and the only reason to have installed Parallels. I searched the forum and found nothing pertaining to FSX. several other keyboard commands are intermittent or slow to react. In fact, using the escape key itself is intermittent when trying to halt the flight. For example, trying to set replay in the pull down menu takes several tries, using the escape key each time after the screen freezes. The controller commands, duplicate the key commands that are problematic. Some keyboard commands, some pull down menu items, and some controller commands are intermittent. With 6, performance is slower, and quite a few functions are intermittent or don't work.
FSX worked perfectly under Parallels Desktop 5. I only have Parallels on this computer to run Microsoft FSX.
I just upgraded to Parallels Desktop 6, and Microsoft Flight Simulator X, does not work properly.