Author Topic: A few tips from Skuzzy on skins (Read 1388 times)

Krusty · « **Reply #15 on:** May 18, 2007, 09:06:16 AM »

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Originally posted by FiLtH
Id make every plane look like the orange Nik.

(*comes back to life so he can keel over dead, again*)

E25280 · « **Reply #16 on:** May 18, 2007, 09:13:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Traveler
All the skins in the world do you no good for recorded flights, you only see the defaults in the film viewer anyway.

Why is that, anyway?

(<== too lazy to do a search.)

hubsonfire · « **Reply #17 on:** May 18, 2007, 09:56:59 AM »

Presumably because it's not a priority fix for HTC.

kamilyun · « **Reply #18 on:** May 18, 2007, 10:07:00 AM »

The skins are cool...on my plane. I feel like a pimp rolling down the runway, checking the external view. However, I prefer to have other planes in the same standard skin. Helps me ID an 109E vs a 109K over the 800m mark.

Citabria · « **Reply #19 on:** May 18, 2007, 10:35:35 AM »

chop the number of skins from 15 to 5 or less.
most of them are crap anyway. you can delete all mine first for all I care.

however im a on a three year old PC with RAID 0 Hard Drives with a good graphics card and I dont get stutters or freezes.

I did. but then I deleted the cache and let it rebuild itself and havent had problems since.

anyone having problems might do well to try that your milage may vary. it might be new skins released and not included in the cache? dunno but it works for me.

Laurie · « **Reply #20 on:** May 18, 2007, 01:11:29 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
(*comes back to life so he can keel over dead, again*)

Kermit de frog · « **Reply #21 on:** May 18, 2007, 01:16:39 PM »

I preload skins and textures.
AH and another program I have both state 1.6GB of ram being used while AH is running.
I have no stutters. I did have stutters months ago, but a defrag fixed that problem.

I have a 3.0g/s SATA Harddrive and a FSB of 1.6GHz, E6400 @ 2.56GHz running DDR2-800 in dual ch mode along with 7950GT (OC to 640MHz) 512MB.

FiLtH · « **Reply #22 on:** May 18, 2007, 02:00:10 PM »

It would be alot easier on my eyes

fuzeman · « **Reply #23 on:** May 18, 2007, 02:03:03 PM »

I wish you could see a little picture of those skins on the download page so you knew what you were getting.
Wrong forum I know.

Off to delete skins, Feter's first!!
Just kidding, of all the skins I'd keep yours would be on the list along with any other skins that have teeth.
For some reason I just like a skin with teeth on it.

Optiker · « **Reply #24 on:** May 18, 2007, 02:14:57 PM »

Ouch fuzeman - skin with teeth!??!!

Kev367th · « **Reply #25 on:** May 18, 2007, 02:26:01 PM »

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Originally posted by Kermit de frog
I preload skins and textures.
AH and another program I have both state 1.6GB of ram being used while AH is running.
I have no stutters. I did have stutters months ago, but a defrag fixed that problem.

I have a 3.0g/s SATA Harddrive and a FSB of 1.6GHz, E6400 @ 2.56GHz running DDR2-800 in dual ch mode along with 7950GT (OC to 640MHz) 512MB.

The skins in total take up a little over 4.0Gbs, the other 2.4Gb (4.0 - 1.6), is in your pagefile, not memory.

Fulmar · « **Reply #26 on:** May 18, 2007, 04:18:10 PM »

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Originally posted by Krusty
I've got a SATA 1.5GB drive -- which is screaming fast don't get me wrong! -- but even so I get occasional hitches. Not too often that I complain about it.

Sadly, not all of us can have 10000 RPM Raptor drives, or super-fast RAIDs set up to increase read time. I don't think there's much of a way around this problem. As PCs get faster and faster we're going to get more and more bottlenecked by our input/output (including HDs).

SATA 1.5 GB/s is marginally faster than IDE ATA100/133. Some people think SATA 3.0Gb/s is twice as fast as 1.5, butthe easier analogy is like this: No matter how many lanes you make your highway, the traffic isn't going to really get there any faster to the destination if the speed limit remains constant.

RAID 0 can give you near WD Raptor Performance, tomshardware.com did a review on it about a month ago. Flash memory based HD's show some promise but their read/write speed is still about the same as their older counterparts. Flash HD's will be great for laptops, but their usage in desktops is limited.

straffo · « **Reply #27 on:** May 18, 2007, 05:16:29 PM »

I would be good to be able to use the skin viewer to flag the skin as cachable or not.

Krusty · « **Reply #28 on:** May 18, 2007, 05:17:26 PM »

Fulmar, this is just my personal opinion, but my 1.5G/s SATA drive is at least 5x as fast as my IDE drive, for reading and writing.

Everything loads faster. Now when I transfer stuff to my IDE (backup) drive, it's like waiting for a floppy drive to finish

Fulmar · « **Reply #29 on:** May 18, 2007, 06:20:36 PM »

If you merely changed your hard drive and no other components, and your IDE hard drive wasn't 5 years old and 5400 RPM's etc., I have a hard time believing it. Also if you moved from say a 80gb hard drive to a 300gb Seagate drive, you'll notice a boost, newer Seagates (250gb+) are a pretty good transfer rate). Plus your 80gb was probably full, reducing the access time on the drive. A less full drive is going to perform faster. You may have seen an increase if your cache was 2mb on your old drive to 8mb+ on your new one and your benchmarking huge files, then yes.

You would really need to benchmark both drives using a program like HD Tach. On my set up, 1 of my Maxtor drives on SATA 150 put out around 70mb/sec. Once in RAID 0 with an identical drive I was reaching 105mb/sec. A 35mb/sec increase is a noticeable difference. However, as my drive gets more full and etc, access times slow down. Kind of like, why does my computer after a fresh reformat boot in 20 seconds, but after 12 months of acquiring more data on it it takes 45+ seconds.