worked out why my flying’s crap

[Tripler]

After reading various threads here I’ve worked out why my flying’s crap

1.I don’t eat enough Marmite on toast or crumpets.
2.I don’t use Phoenix
3.I like scale helis
4.I’m not sponsored

Guess I’m a lost cause really,

Just wish I didn’t enjoy this sport so much it would save me alot of money

[marktigere1]

Sorry but for number 3 you should be kicked off the forum

[Smoothound]

I won't be using Phoenix soon as in it's latest beta version i, it runs like a sack of shit. h was not good and this latest one is worse

[Tripler]

I know, I know, re 3 but I do enjoy flying them,,

I'm still using XTR do'nt think I'll bother with PHX better the devil you know,,

Should I voluntary banish myself from this forum,

[inferno]

Nope... you should attend your local club and arrange for one of us vet's to force feed you marmite till you ebay that scale body

[robgt]

Phoenix is running sweet on my Laptop - maybe it's a "spec" issue for you Phil?
Currently running version 2.00h beta.

Cheers,
Rob

[Smoothound]

I've just fiddled and got the frame rate right up to a sensible level then it just crashed on me

More fiddling later although my PC is ancient and very tired...

[moyesboy]

I'm just running the last v1, j,.
I'll let you guys do the beta testing.

They should get a few of you guys with loads of time and particularly gruesome PCs to do the beta testing before public release. Now folks are slagging off phoenix and bigging up other sims just because the phoenix beta release has problems?!

They are doing work to make the sim better, adding lots of free extra models and backgrounds and making the updates free. That should be a good thing. Unfortunately now they are getting hammered becuase their development releases are out in public, and people are saying phoenix has taken a wrong turn, and isn't as good as it was.
Phoenix last official release is every bit as good as it was proliferation of different beta releases rubbishes the online capability.

[robgt]

From what I've seen of v2 so far, it's improved.
I agree with the online problems with beta versions out in the public domain (need the same version to work, etc) - but public beta testing means the product will end up better than it would have otherwise been with a small group of people testing it.

It's the model all the major software publishers use

Stuff goes wrong with PCs all the time - and in general use Windows will slowly choke itself to death (cos realistically, it's shit at managing itself).
My home PC used to run v1 Phoenix perfectly, but no longer does (it crashes, blue screens and then reboots the PC now) and nothing has changed on that PC other than Windows getting older through general usage. That's a battle that is almost impossible to win I'm afraid.

Cheers,
Rob

[SRH990]

Well, with fingers firmly crossed and touching wood, I've been running the same install of Vista for over 18 months now, no major crash problems, no issues with getting slower and s l o w e r and it runs the latest version on Phoenix Beta very well with everything on full. The PC was actually on constantly without a shutdown or reboot for over a month with no issues, I only shut it down overnight now because of the cost of electricity

I take the point about online use, when the Beta's are stacking up almost daily and there are so many to choose from, which one do you run to connect online!

[Nicolasgreening]

Can I blame the reason I keep crashing on the fact that I hate Marmite?

[callum]

:P,

at the moment. my PC will run everything thrown at it at max settings, anyone wanna buy my pc for 2grand? tis driving me mad having to wait for my Raptor 30,

[Tripler]

Windows is a crap os system,

If you don't regularly defrag remove old restore points and temp files it slows down
because its got so much sh*t stored and running in the background.
Its also worth getting rid of programes/processes you do'nt use because most still use Ram cutting down available memory for running programes to use,
All high end graphic hungary prog's [Phoenix and XTR] still use some of cpu and alot of ram whichever type it may be.
Another problem with some programes is that when the prog is altered or changed or updated it may use different memory areas that may have been allocated to other older programes that won't let go of that area for use.

Two words, clean remove, including windows crap frilly bits you do'nt use,