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FSX:SE DirectX 10 and effects problem

Misho

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Hello,

I was wondering what is the status of the DX10 "preview" and the issue of FX not working in DX10 preview mode in FSX/FSX:A/FSX:SE? I find myself using DX10 mode all the time because it improves frame rates.

However, some of the effects, namely the sprites that always face the camera, are not working (which includes most of the lighting effects - strobes, beacons, etc...). I can fix that by adjusting particle's properties in fx file from Face=1, 1, 1 to Face=1, 0, 1, but that certainly isn't the solution for all of the fx's in the FSX.

Also, I found some shader improvements from way back in 2012 downloadable from AVSIM, but I haven't tested that out yet.

Any thoughts?
 
Steve Parsons developed a set of fixes available as freeware, the latest is from 2014: https://library.avsim.net/esearch.php?CatID=fsxmisc&DLID=185080

He has a commercial product which I use (and would recommend) that fixes a bunch of additional issues and has backward compatibility with addons made with older SDK's:
https://stevesfsxanalysis.wordpress.com/how-to-purchase/

Near as I can tell camera-facing sprites work properly, but I haven't tried them in DX10 without Steve's product to verify it's his product that fixed them, and I don't know if the freeware version also fixes them.

With DX10 it's practical to turn on self-shadowing and other features (eg bloom) that are too hard on frames in DX9 mode.
 
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