FSX AutoStar X

Congratulations. I have been using AutoStar for years in FSX and P3Dv4 and enjoyed the beautiful and perfect night skies produced. Now, I have gone to P3Dv5. and would like to know if AutoStar is compatible. Thanks and keep up the good job.

I don`t fly aircraft to look at planets and don't think flight simulator even brags about looking at stars much.

Unfortunately it seems that a .dll file is missing. I get an error message every time I try to run the .exe file.

I thought de stars in FSX a bit unreal compared to the real world stars and so, I wanted a little bit more real stars when flying in the night. I found AutoStar X on the internet forums and decided to try it myself. It works indeed! My computer runs with Win7 64 bit. Two things: I got an error report about a missing MVSVD50.DLL. The missing DLL can be downloaded via de Microsoft Support/download webpages. The second thing is, I had to run the program as an administrator, otherwise the program will not overwrite de Star.dat file in FSX (back up the original Star.dat file!)

I have now flow and tried AuroStar X and I am very happy with it. Do not expect a high res star field, but it is very close to what you see in reality. The visible planets can also be seen. They are constructed out of dots and the more dots ( >3) will make it bigger and better to see, but then you might see the dots easier! So, 3 or 2 is better.

You don't have to capture the most recent SOA Star Cataloge, for the one in the program is current and gives the stars as we can see them.