Once the install was done, I had a logfile from that that I opened on this machine (outside the VM) for inspection. I ran the installer, but, while I was running it, I was running Process Monitor to see exactly what it was fiddling with. I of course don’t have XP installed on a machine so I used a trusty VMWare install, and a XP install that I had sitting about. In any case, after a bit of running around (the things I do for a blog post) I finally got the ZIP file for this nonsense.
The first step, was, of course to find it. I say it’s time to truly examine this: normally I would dismiss it off-hand for being stupid, but what the heck, I have a few minutes to spare, may as well give it a proper debunking. I even found one that claimed to allow you to play, say, Crysis and Ultra High (which usually required DX10) and, when you ran DXdiag after installation, it said DirectX 10.1, so there is NO way its fake!
Instructions say something like “copy to your windows folder, now u have directx10 and your games run faster” There are torrents that claim to have DX10, but half of them are just a few Vista DirectX DLLs zipped up. DX9.0L is a refined, dedicated version of the DX9 API specifically for Vista, but as Vista draws more resources than any previous OS just to run itself, I really cant see how FSX can run better under Vista, on the same hardware.There are a lot of people, forum posters and the like, vouching for any number of “addon” programs that allow you to install DirectX 10 on your Windows XP PC, even though DX10 is a Vista+ feature. Which explains the interest in having the claims about `improved` FSX performance under Vista being proven. See other threads for details.In the meantime, FSX is designed as a DX9 game, so the appearance of Vista does NOT, repeat NOT, imply any performance increase whatsoever for FSX until the DX10 patch is issued. The performance will come at major cost (no surprise there then) and there are major doubts about the licensing and activation policy of Vista that directly impacts on the ability of the user to actually do the upgrades and still keep a working copy of Windows. But no-one has demonstrated that `sparkling` performance yet, either under Vista with DX9 or Vista with DX10. Misinformation like this helps no-one.Basically, Vista should be on the upgrade path for anyone who ever hopes to get sparkling performance from FSX. We've covered this in detail in the correct forum - the HARDWARE forum.
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