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INTRODUCTION
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PMDG MD-11
3) In FSX Graphics Options, de-select “high resolution virtual
cockpit” to improve FPS significantly. The penalty is that the flight
displays become less crisp in presentation, but you may find this
setting useful in some situations where fluidity is important.
Managing the dimmer knobs:
There are a number of dimmer knobs to control the panel lighting in the
PMDG MD-11 cockpit. You can right and left click on the knobs to rotate
them in the appropriate direction, or you can use the mouse wheel.
You should also note that double clicking will cause the knobs to rotate full
travel without having to continue clicking on them, so if you need to
change the lighting quickly, just double click on the inner and outer
portions of the knob!
Disk Maintenance:
After installing the PMDG MD-11, defrag your hard drive with a good, solid
after market disk defragmenter. The default windows defrag tools are
insufficient for the work, and we recommend something strong such as
O&O Defrag.
A fragmented hard drive will drive FPS performance down significantly, so
defrag after installation, and then regularly afterward!
Anti-Virus Concerns:
We STRONGLY encourage you to learn how to exclude the FS directory
from active viral scanning. The process used by modern anti-virus
software to actively scan directories can have a significant hit on FPS
performance in FS because every texture and file that is used by the
simulator is scanned in real time, creating a significant drain on your
computer’s resources. Our technical team has reported tremendous
benefit to excluding the FS directory tree from active scanning.
Obviously, you want to set you’re A/V software up to conduct a full system
scan on a regular basis, but there is no real value to having your anti-virus
