FSX problem with NVIDIA 8600GT Card solved

I had bought the Forsa NVIDIA 8600GT Display card with 256Mbyte GDDR3,
for RM175 from Micron, at Kompleks Karamunsing, Kota Kinabalu.

Initially the card was faulty because I cannot install the driver in
full.

The replacement card was tested by Micron for the night and when I
installed in my PC, the driver can be installed but I still cannot
play FSX although I can play FS9 and Xplane9 at amazing frame refresh
speed, more than 30 frames/second even in the higest quality setting.

Luckily this tip came:

http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26165196

It is just that FSX cannot play when NVIDIA driver is in the Dual
Monitor mode. There is no such problem with AMD/ATI driver(HD3450
card).

My NVIDIA driver is the latest one dated Dec 2008.

When autogen were set to high, the frame speed dropped to less than 10
frame/second. With everything else set to ultra high except the
autogen being switched off, the frame rate increases to slightly more
than 20.

Although I salivate for the HD4670 with 512Mbyte DDR3 RAM, I believe
the price of RM300 does not warrant the quality increase for FSX. I
don't like autogenerated scenery or texture anyway. Whenever there is
a frame rate problem, I shall sacrifice autogen first. I would rather
that Flgiht Simulators use low resolution photosceneries for textures,
than autogenerated high resolution sceneries that are so artificial,
but the AI traffic is interesting but not essential.

State of the art Flight Sim(2008)

http://www.avsim.com/pages/1208/Orbx/Coffs.htm

It uses FSX 30cm/pixel aerial photography but it is extracted from a
22.5cm/pixel original database.

Hopefully FSX or any other FSIM should be upgraded to 22.5cm/pixel and
instead of a scenery of a 70,000 Coffs Harbour, the scenery should be
in large cities such as London.

Even with the Coffs Scenery, it requires 8800 gpu at a less than Ultra
High quality setting. My HD3450 will be too slow but so far it is
useable.

I'm using Tileproxy beta 8 in building, hopefully 1.1m/pixel ,
sceneries extracted from Microsoft Live map. Google is no longer
supported but it was not allowed.

This is done in my Vista 64. Initially I thought I cannot run tile
proxy but it turned out, I just need to disable the device signature
during boot by pressing F8 key for booting options.

http://groups.google.com.my/group/rec.aviation.piloting/browse_thread/thread/4ed14a277c8fdbc3?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&q=flight+simulator#eef61df3d41deb74

The above discussion group shows that flight simulators can be used
for Pilot Time provided instructors are available but this is in USA.

http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/regulatory/faa_8700-10.pdf
The above is the detailed document but it is better to read the group
discussion.

The approved FSIM that has the fastest site is ATC as shown by this
information:

http://www.atcflightsim.com/products/710/

It looks very interesting and does not appear to be very expensive
because it does not require any tilting mechanism. It duplicates a
Cesna instrument panel quite well.

It would be nice if this machine is available at Kota Kinabalu Air
Club. We can play around with it safely.