tool tips do not work with dx10 on

[Ron Attwood]

Or, at the risk of being a miserable old git, learn your cockpit like a real pilot. No tool tips in real life. Seriously, I use DX10 and have long since forgotten what a tool tip is. You DO get used to it.
Happy New Year.

[odourboy]

Or, at the risk of being a miserable old git, learn your cockpit like a real pilot. No tool tips in real life. Seriously, I use DX10 and have long since forgotten what a tool tip is. You DO get used to it.
Happy New Year.

LOL! I'll second that sentiment. When I started simming with FSX, not knowing any better, I went straight to DX10 preview mode. It was probably a year later I finally decided, having never seen them, I should see what this 'tool tips' thing was that sometimes came up in the forums.

[clmooring]

I really appreciate the help I have received regarding dx10 onto his forum. But I need just a little more. I downloaded pseudo_full_screen and auto hot key. Tool tips work again and it improved frame rates. However I have one remaining problem now. FX10 keeps going to simulation paused. Any idea what in auto hot key and pseudo full screen would cause fsx10 to pause about every 20 seconds?...

[Adamski_NZ]

I really appreciate the help I have received regarding dx10 onto his forum. But I need just a little more. I downloaded pseudo_full_screen and auto hot key. Tool tips work again and it improved frame rates. However I have one remaining problem now. FX10 keeps going to simulation paused. Any idea what in auto hot key and pseudo full screen would cause fsx10 to pause about every 20 seconds?...

There's a setting in FSX somewhere called "pause on task switch" - have you tried that?

As to your pauses, it looks like some windowed settings may have "kicked in" - it seems like the generic stutter/pause you get if texture loading has become a problem (for whatever reason). Check your fsx.cfg for any window/full screen values and have a fiddle!

I've never used the pseudo full screen thing, as I find it generally easier to momentarily pop into windowed mode to view the tooltip info then back into regular full-screen mode.

BTW - I totally disagree with the "no tooltip" purists. In a real aircraft, you can easily squint at the guage(s) to read of course/heading values, but doing that quickly in a relatively poor quality VC in a sim is *hard* as it often involves panning, zooming etc. etc.

Adam.

[clmooring]

Thanks Adam. I will see what I can find. Not only are the tool tips useful, but I get better frame rates running in the windowed mode.