[simpits-tech] FSX

[Sean Galbraith]

You can change the zoom level by editting the saved flight file, but you have no way, that I have found anyway, to change the FOV that FS uses (unlike X-Plane which is easy....)

SeanG 

-----Original Message-----
From: Gene Buckle <geneb at deltasoft.com>
Sent: Monday, 28 December 2009 14:13
To: Simulator Cockpit Builder's List <simpits-tech at simpits.org>
Subject: Re: [simpits-tech] FSX

>> From the expeimenting that I've done FSX doesn't zoom in the same way 
>> that FS9 does.  In FS9 you could zoom out to 0.31 which gave you about 
>> 120 degrees, then by editting the saved flight you could bring the zoom 
>> out to about 0.25 which gave a little more.  FSX doesn't appear to show 
>> the same field of view to zoom ratio.
> The only way I managed to achieve a true 180 degree view was by 
> undocking and maximizing 3 separate views.  With TH2GO this was very 
> very heavy on processor time, so I ended up switching to a quad-SLI 
> motherboard with 3 9800GT's installed. This worked fine, but ended up 
> being unstable, with regular crashes to desktop.  Now this was all in 
> FS9 running XP Pro, and I would suspect that FSX and Vista might be a 
> better combo.... Hth

Sean, isn't there a config file you can hand edit for setting the FOV 
and/or zoom level?

g.

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