Traffic + PMDG

[blackheart2502 0]

Can any of you that have third party traffic add-ons give me their opinion of which one they like best? Particularly which one seems to have the lowest FPS hit. I tried the demo for the Flight 1 traffic with the J41 and took me down into the single digits FPS. When I turned the view away from the traffic I shot right back up to 25 FPS in the VC. I really want to enjoy traffic again. I had it on FS9 on my old computer and it ran fine without a major FPS hit. Are the FSX traffic programs just so detailed that they eat resources? Thanks for any advice.Hiram Hunt

[Airbus Commander 563]

Can any of you that have third party traffic add-ons give me their opinion of which one they like best? Particularly which one seems to have the lowest FPS hit. I tried the demo for the Flight 1 traffic with the J41 and took me down into the single digits FPS. When I turned the view away from the traffic I shot right back up to 25 FPS in the VC. I really want to enjoy traffic again. I had it on FS9 on my old computer and it ran fine without a major FPS hit. Are the FSX traffic programs just so detailed that they eat resources? Thanks for any advice.Hiram Hunt

Tried WOAI, they're great and don't have much of an FPS impact compared to others...

[blackheart2502 0]

Thanks for the advice Ronan. What does WOAI stand for?Hiram Hunt

[Tom Wright 438]

WOAI - World Of AI. I used them for a long time before a hard drive reformat. Great models and lots of airlines, and it's free. Only disadvantage is every single airline has to be downloaded separately so whole process takes ages.Tom Wright

[Airbus Commander 563]

Yeh that can be a problem, but then you can only choose airlines for the airports you fly to and not some random airline from Timbucktoo...

[theshack440 22]

I actually used to have WOAI for quite some time and because the models were fs9 native I had some problems with it, fps being the biggest of them (although the models themselves were great -- they use flaps for takeoff ). But I bought Ultimate Traffic 2 and because the models were native to fsx I actually got much better frames with them, and they all came in one big package. WOAI does't have many US regional carriers, so that was also a major issue for me.Although I have spent countless hours tweaking the schedules and flights in the UT2 menus, (so Delta would fly 744s, A332... etc and I do not believe you can do that with WOAI as easily) I am very happy with UT2 and I would pick it up.Just my two cents,Regards

[Tabs 2,790]

Big fan of UT2 here as well.

[chapstick 2,757]

Only part about UT2 that really annoys me is the traffic resetting whenever you use a menu. I know it's a necessary evil but it definitely hurts immersion.

[theshack440 22]

Only part about UT2 that really annoys me is the traffic resetting whenever you use a menu. I know it's a necessary evil but it definitely hurts immersion.

I agree with that, it can get frustrating at high traffic airports when after sitting around for 30 mins you press the esc key by mistake and all of the ground traffic resets. I'm glad the NGX will have menus in the FMS to avoid using the alt menus that cause that to happen.

[ajpongress 467]

My vote goes for WOAI.Been using it for a while and no problems. Good paintjobs too.And it didn't take me "ages" to install it. In fact, you can group select multiple packages to inject into FS9/FSX when using their installer. Took me all of 2 minutes.

[blackheart2502 0]

Where did you get all your WOAI? avsim library?Hiram Hunt

[mcbellette 145]

I don't use AI because I only ever fly online with the exception of testing out a newly purchased product. Only AI that I see is that generated with SquawkBox. I like to familiarise myself offline first so that I'm not pressing pause or not following ATC instructions while I try to figure out how to engage LNAV or something.

[theshack440 22]

Where did you get all your WOAI? avsim library?Hiram Hunt

go to www.world-of-ai.com and download the installer and then whatever packages you choose.Regards

[blackheart2502 0]

Thanks a ton Wallace!Hiram Hunt

[Sekstifire 10]

I use World of AI for online models with FSInn. It works very well. I have no idea how the ai part is tho, as I only use it for multiplayer traffic. WOAI is freeware so its well worth a try.