Phoenix on a mac

[choppertastic]

mac pro

There're a bit flash... Was looking at one today

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There're a bit flash... Was looking at one today

Flash.... Just a big silver tower..

You can build cheap Pc tower's probably as quick but then the Mac Pro is something else and it ain't slow....

I'd never deny its a lot of cash but you'll struggle to find something as nice and powerful...

new iMacs are very flash though

[chipbutty]

This is what I've found so far in my exploits with flight sims on the Mac. I'm running Snow Leopard and have both emulators - Fusion 3 and Parallels 5. Phoenix was working great in Fusion 2.0.6, that was until I upgraded to Fusion 3. Phoenix is now a flickering mess and is unusable. I've informed the Phoenix developers and they're looking into it. It may not be a problem directly related to Phoenix itself. Anyway, I now have Phoenix working great in Parallels 5.

Clearview works in both (it won't work in Fusion 2 as it doesn't support OpenGL. Fusion 3 has OpenGL support) but I've found the frame rate is much higher running in Fusion 3 than Parallels 5. I get around 70fps in Fusion.

I've just started playing around with the Mac version of Heli-x and I like it. My Dx6i works great with it so far, I just need to set up the switches. I have the DX6i working great with all these sims. It's great running OSX these days as we get to use so much more software

This is the lead I'm using for Clearview and Heli-X. Not cheap but it works.

SIMULATOR USB CABLE FOR JR, HITEC, FUTABA, SPEKTRUM TX

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that dongle looks like the the Mac aero fly deluxe one....

[Alcanara]

Chipbutty... I am confused.

Chipbutty... I am confused. (not hard to do)

Hi.... I have the Macbook Pro Intel dual core 2.3. running Snow Leopard, VM Fusion V3.

I was considering (see other post in Beginners) the Spektrum DX6i plus Pheonix.... are you saying that is no good now??

Are there any other choices? I have been looking a lot at this and came up with above plan... but on a mac? Is this possible.

The software dictates the use of a Nvidea graphics chip.... this is mine below.. is this OK

Any one running Pheonix on the MacBook Pro?

ATI Radeon X1600:

Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1600
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x71c5
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxxx-158
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.158
Displays:



Thanks for any help here.

Stuart

[Alcanara]

Disc.... I found one of the main benefits of Snow Leopard was that it released about 11GB (or was it 19??) of hard disc space by getting rid of a lot of old redundant code... worth a bit just for that

Stuart

[siloseven]

I run phoenix on a 2009 mac mini 2.53 Core2Duo + 4gb ram using windows xp and parallels 5. I've found that parallels gave a smoother framerate than VMware fusion 3 and seems to be as fast as my old 2Ghz PC.

I run phoenix full screen at 1680x1050 with most on the options on medium and using Spaces I can flick between my OS X desktop and the sim with a flick of the mouse. Sorted

[chipbutty]

Hi Alcanara - I'm not sure if the problem I have is just related to my particular setup and something is just wrong with my Fusion 3 installation. I informed the Phoenix developers and they're looking into it. It seems siloseven has Phoenix working with Fusion 3 but with a poor frame rate. Is that right siloseven? If so then it could work for you.

Phoenix does seem to work very well with Parallels 5. That's probably not what you wanted to hear (neither did I) but Parallels do offer a very good discount for Fusion owners.

Have you tried downloading the Phoenix demo and installing it on Fusion 3? That should give you some idea. You can't actually play the demo but it gives a good idea of performance. The other option is boot camp of course.

Chipbutty... I am confused. (not hard to do)

Hi.... I have the Macbook Pro Intel dual core 2.3. running Snow Leopard, VM Fusion V3.

I was considering (see other post in Beginners) the Spektrum DX6i plus Pheonix.... are you saying that is no good now??

Are there any other choices? I have been looking a lot at this and came up with above plan... but on a mac? Is this possible.

The software dictates the use of a Nvidea graphics chip.... this is mine below.. is this OK

Any one running Pheonix on the MacBook Pro?

ATI Radeon X1600:

Chipset Model: ATY,RadeonX1600
Type: GPU
Bus: PCIe
PCIe Lane Width: x16
VRAM (Total): 256 MB
Vendor: ATI (0x1002)
Device ID: 0x71c5
Revision ID: 0x0000
ROM Revision: 113-xxxxxx-158
EFI Driver Version: 01.00.158
Displays:



Thanks for any help here.

Stuart

[Alcanara]

Chipbutty.... thanks for your prompt response..... I have seen the demo.

It played the videos very well.... then it crashed.... first time my mac has crashed in 7 years of macs. It does seem strange that it should work and then fail.... the only changes I made was to up the output to High Quality.... it worked for a while then crashed. Hence my query re the ATI graphics chip on my macBook Pro????

As you say this does not prove or indeed disprove that the full program will work... but it has now made me rethink on how I start this hobby.

I will look at parrallels.... more ££££ that I do not have

Thanks for your help

Stuart

[dav20043]

i have tried parallels 5 on my imac and have found Phoenix to run very slow 15 fps no matter what settings i use my mac spec is

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
is there something i am missing

[chipbutty]

This is mine I'm running OS X 10.6.2 and using Windows XP.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

i have tried parallels 5 on my imac and have found Phoenix to run very slow 15 fps no matter what settings i use my mac spec is

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 4 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz
is there something i am missing

[dav20043]

ia mrunning 10.5.8 and windows xp

[Flybar]

This is my spec.

Model Name: iMac
Model Identifier: iMac9,1
Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo
Processor Speed: 2.66 GHz
Number Of Processors: 1
Total Number Of Cores: 2
L2 Cache: 6 MB
Memory: 2 GB
Bus Speed: 1.07 GHz

I've run Phoenix in Leopard and Snow Leopard under Bootcamp and it runs very well. As does Aeroflight Pro. but the version I have may be old and the helis. are not as good as in Phoenix.

Flybar

[Alcanara]

I have now tried the Phoenix demo inside parallel5 and it plays all the way through.... great. even at the highest resolution setting.

So Chipbutty..... I am assuming from what you have said that the actual program will work to.

Wish me luck.

Thanks for all the posters help

Stuart

[chipbutty]

Well I wouldn't guarantee it but that does sound promising! Parallels 5 gives you a two week trial so you can get a good idea. You would be very unfortunate for it not to work in either Fusion or Parallels.

I have now tried the Phoenix demo inside parallel5 and it plays all the way through.... great. even at the highest resolution setting.

So Chipbutty..... I am assuming from what you have said that the actual program will work to.

Wish me luck.

Thanks for all the posters help

Stuart