Public Beta - FTX Day Night Switcher - Can double your FPS!

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From John Venema, CEO Orbx

Hello all,

We've decided to heed customer feedback, and in a similar vein to how Ultimate Terrain X can disable its night lighting effects, we have tested some simple ways to disable the FTX lights and found substantial performance gains in city and urban areas, particularly places like Seattle, Portland, Vancouver, Sydney and Melbourne.

We always knew that the FTX lights took a hit on FPS, but due to the way lights are implemented in the FSX code the light effect is polled for by the engine even during the day even when it is not used which incurs a needless performance hit during daytime flying.

So today we're releasing two very simple apps called FTX Day and FTX Night. Their usage is very straight forward:

- If you are mainly flying during the daytime, run the FTX Day app and the lightpoles and effects will be switched off

- If you are flying at dusk/night/dawn, run the FTX Night app and the lightpoles and effects will be switched back on

You can grab the beta installer from here - http://myftx.com/FTX...DAYNIGHT100.zip

We will look at integrating this into FTX Central soon.

For the full post please visit the Orbx Systems forum post here