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FSX with my iMac

Sitting with a bunch of IT guys at a recent flight sim meeting watching FSX start up and run the menu screen, looking at the system resources in use, and they all asked the same question:

What's it doing?

Having said that it's all I fly with! ;)
 
Problem with FSX booting up on Macbook Pro

Hey guys... new to this so hopefully I'm putting this comment in the right place. I have a new Macbook Pro and partitioned the hard drive to run Windows on one side. Made sure I left plenty of space for FS X and am only running one other very small program on the Windows side. FS X has started and run great for the first 4 months that I have had the machine, but suddenly will not initialize. I click the desktop icon and the "title screen" opens with the hourglass but that is it. I can end the program and send an error report, but I do not get a status of the fault from the MS site. I've removed and reinstalled the entire program, but it still does not work. Any suggestions? Stuck at Kunsan AB Korea for a year without FS is going to kill me! Help?
 
FSX won't initialize and run?

There are some error report contents: Unfortunately this is all I have to go on.

...LOCALS~1Temp\WERedf7.dir00\fsx.exe.mdmp and ...appcompat\txt

FYI: I have installed FSX Service Pack 2

Thanks for any help you can provide!
 
flcnfxr said:
There are some error report contents: Unfortunately this is all I have to go on.

...LOCALS~1Temp\WERedf7.dir00\fsx.exe.mdmp and ...appcompat\txt

FYI: I have installed FSX Service Pack 2

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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I would try reinstalling on top of you old FSX.
BTW there is a great tool called winclone which allowes you to back up your windows partishion. So if you do have a problemin the future you just reinstall the backup.
 
Infrared said:
I suspect both flight sims are quite poorly written. When you
consider the general lack of polish and the hardware demands
compared to other games, it is quite embarrassing. I think we
can forgive Austin a little because he has not the resources of
Microsoft. But how does one explain the jaggies on the GPS here:

View attachment 139124

That's simply rubbish. There's also digital noise in the GPS image.

And the knobs on the radio control panel point the wrong way!
They're not aligned with the panel plane normal vector. I mean,
how difficult is it to come up with decent quality 2D images?

Then again, at times FS-X can look quite lovely. But it should do:
it makes Crysis level demands on a system. It even uses 100% of
4 cores (that's 4 x 2.8GHz on a Mac Pro) just to display the free
flight menu... I mean... *speechless*
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I agree. Though I am not a FSX user so I cannot comment on it, X-Plane 9 really needs an overhaul in regards to performance. I first tested it on a quad-core 3.something GHz Mac Pro with the highest end ATI card they had out then (it was the 512 MB card from Apple, the name escapes me). I figure, wow this computer has got a ton of horsepower right? So I crank up the settings (not maxed out, but still on "extreme res" that sort of thing) and the frame-rate was absolutely horrid. I'd be surprised if I was getting 20 fps! There have been refinements and it usually runs adequately on my iMac, but I would still really like to see Austin get his crew in gear and optimize it.
 
Hi Guys,

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead.

I have a question for all those running FS2004 on their macs. Everyone seems to say that the performance is 'smooth as silk' and runs so great on them although I cant seem to get acceptable frames/smoothness at all on my 20" iMac (2600Pro, 3GB Kingston Ram, 2.4Ghz C2D). When I add AA and put display settings on medium-high it is awfully jerky and un-smooth when flying even a default aircraft. I am running XP SP2 through Bootcamp and downloaded the Bootcamp 2600XT drivers from the ATI web site.

Could anyone give me some tips on how they've gotten FS to run acceptably on their iMac/Macbook rigs?

Am I using the correct graphics card drivers? I must be doing something wrong as I hear nothing but positive results of FS9 running on the latest iMacs.

Some help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

David
 
FSX on iMAC 21.5" - Core 2 Duo 3.06 - GeForce Video Card

Hi Guys,

I´m new in the Mac world but very old on the Microsoft FS. My first version of MFS was the FS 5.... 1993. I never was rich enought to have a top computer to run the software consequently never had a huge FPS. However I decided to buy an iMac for my business things and made a research about FSX on that. Found a lot of things which encourage me to go ahead and try this experience.

I can say now.... FSX runs very good under Bootcamp and Win XP.

If you don´t use add-on aircrafts and sceneries, the FPS with highest quality on everything and without tweak the fsx.cfg will runs around 25 fds.
Installing add-ons and tweaking I got the average of 13 fps in a Mega São Paulo Scenery and Latin VFR Guarulhos Airport in the PMDG MD-11. It is already enought to flight but when I unchecked the antialiasing box, the FPS cames up to 18 on the ground and after clouds up to around 35.
During approaches on add-on airports and cities the average runs around 23 FPS.

I hope that my review helps someone. I´m sure that my choice for an iMac was the best. Now I have all the amazing apple world in my hands and also finally flying the FSX as always dreamed.
 
Did you adjust the Win XP to work the Core 2 Duo processor?

Davieis said:
Hi Guys,

Sorry to raise this thread from the dead.

I have a question for all those running FS2004 on their macs. Everyone seems to say that the performance is 'smooth as silk' and runs so great on them although I cant seem to get acceptable frames/smoothness at all on my 20" iMac (2600Pro, 3GB Kingston Ram, 2.4Ghz C2D). When I add AA and put display settings on medium-high it is awfully jerky and un-smooth when flying even a default aircraft. I am running XP SP2 through Bootcamp and downloaded the Bootcamp 2600XT drivers from the ATI web site.

Could anyone give me some tips on how they've gotten FS to run acceptably on their iMac/Macbook rigs?

Am I using the correct graphics card drivers? I must be doing something wrong as I hear nothing but positive results of FS9 running on the latest iMacs.

Some help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

David
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Hi David,

I´m not sure what is your Mac device however I imagine that has a Core 2 Duo processor, right?
If yes, did you change the boot.ini file and downloaded some files to windows folder heading to enable dual processors?
If not follow these steps and will work:


You can do this two ways.
Option #1 - Hal / NToskrnl replacement
a. Make a directory called DUO on C:\
b. Copy halmacpi.dll (search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\DUO then rename it to hal.dll
c. Copy ntkrnlmp.exe (search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\DUO then rename it to ntoskrnl.exe
d. Make a batch file called go2core.cmd and put this in the file.


C:
CD\windows\system32
REN hal.dll hal.old
copy C:\Duo\hal.dll C:\windows\system32
REN ntoskrnl.exe ntoskrnl.old
copy C:\Duo\ntoskrnl.exe c:\windows\system32

e. Run Go2Core.cmd from C:\duo directory.
f. Reboot and you should now see two processors in Task manager

Option #2. Add a 2nd boot option to your boot.ini file
a. Copy halmacpi.dll (search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\Windows\system32
b. Copy ntkrnlmp.exe(search your C:\ drive for this) to C:\Windows\system32
c: Remove the read only flag from c:\boot.ini (right click on file and remove check box)
d. Edit your boot.ini file to the following

#ORIGINAL boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect


#EDITED boot.ini

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional Multi-Processor" /noexecute=optin /fastdetect /HAL=halmacpi.dll /kernel=ntkrnlmp.exe

I got these instructions at: http://www.notebookforums.com/thread183802.html

Also, try to find some tweak tips on the internet. There are few helpfull
 
luidao1 said:
Hi Guys,

I´m new in the Mac world but very old on the Microsoft FS. My first version of MFS was the FS 5.... 1993. I never was rich enought to have a top computer to run the software consequently never had a huge FPS. However I decided to buy an iMac for my business things and made a research about FSX on that. Found a lot of things which encourage me to go ahead and try this experience.

I can say now.... FSX runs very good under Bootcamp and Win XP.

If you don´t use add-on aircrafts and sceneries, the FPS with highest quality on everything and without tweak the fsx.cfg will runs around 25 fds.
Installing add-ons and tweaking I got the average of 13 fps in a Mega São Paulo Scenery and Latin VFR Guarulhos Airport in the PMDG MD-11. It is already enought to flight but when I unchecked the antialiasing box, the FPS cames up to 18 on the ground and after clouds up to around 35.
During approaches on add-on airports and cities the average runs around 23 FPS.

I hope that my review helps someone. I´m sure that my choice for an iMac was the best. Now I have all the amazing apple world in my hands and also finally flying the FSX as always dreamed.
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Glad to here FSX is working out for you. If you get the chance give Windows 7 a try. For me it was a big performance boost, partly because FSX now saw all my ram.
 
i have just bought an imac installed windows xp sp2 32 bit on it via bootcamp and i camp get my graphics card to come along to this side! i dont know what to do, i've tried using the software several times but it still says there's nographics card, why?
 
arran13 said:
i have just bought an imac installed windows xp sp2 32 bit on it via bootcamp and i camp get my graphics card to come along to this side! i dont know what to do, i've tried using the software several times but it still says there's nographics card, why?
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Did you use the apple drivers?
 
arran13 said:
i have just bought an imac installed windows xp sp2 32 bit on it via bootcamp and i camp get my graphics card to come along to this side! i dont know what to do, i've tried using the software several times but it still says there's nographics card, why?
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Have you downloaded the Service packs for FSX?
 
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