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Range Rings Impact On Fps (Renamed For Accuracy)

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do you fly around payware sceneries?

Yes, all the time. In fact, mostly. Just flew into EKCH and had 2 fixes, no problems at all.

Sander Rutte

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It is an issue when you use a radial AND a distance...

 

Just entering a fix and then different DME rings around the fix has no effect on performance. I lost 5fps as soon as I had a radial line and distance ring...

 

It is directly associated with the radial AND distance, though I must admit that I had to check specifically, as it is a function I have not used to date. I have used the distance from fix function, but never defined a radial...

 

If I need to fly to a non-defined point in space, I usually use waypoint/bearing/distance type fixes directly entered into the MCDU

 

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Andrew Entwistle

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It is an issue when you use a radial AND a distance...

 

Just entering a fix and then different DME rings around the fix has no effect on performance. I lost 5fps as soon as I had a radial line and distance ring...

 

It is directly associated with the radial AND distance, though I must admit that I had to check specifically, as it is a function I have not used to date. I have used the distance from fix function, but never defined a radial...

 

If I need to fly to a non-defined point in space, I usually use waypoint/bearing/distance type fixes directly entered into the MCDU

 

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testing it now.

Daniel choen

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conclusion:

the Radio (green line) cause a slight fps drop. combining it with DME ring cause severe impact.

those of you who said they don't  see impact on frames, it's almost impossible to see the impact when you use only the DME green ring, if you will try to combine, you will se the terrible resaults.

Daniel choen

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Didn't service pack 1c fix this issue?

Bryan Richards

 

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conclusion:

the Radio (green line) cause a slight fps drop. combining it with DME ring cause severe impact.

those of you who said they don't  see impact on frames, it's almost impossible to see the impact when you use only the DME green ring, if you will try to combine, you will se the terrible resaults.

 

 

One thing you can try, turn off the Hi def 3d cockpit option in the aircraft settings. You won't lose much graphic quality, if any, and you will pick up a significant amount of frames. It may be enough to offset this loss.

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One thing you can try, turn off the Hi def 3d cockpit option in the aircraft settings. You won't lose much graphic quality, if any, and you will pick up a significant amount of frames. It may be enough to offset this loss.

Hey,

i am willing to sacrifice a little more frames for a high resolution cockpit as much as possible, i am interested if that problem can be fixed.

 

cheers

Daniel choen

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I shut off the copilot displays...this helps a bit too

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I have not seen the fps drop, but that is possibly because I have not looked for it.

I will, but in the mean time...

 

When you enter a waypoint in the fix page, you can then enter bearing and DME on line, like this:

 

310/15

 

or you can enter it on two lines, like this:

 

310/---

 

---/15

 

Does entering on two lines help anything?

Rob Robson

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I have not seen the fps drop, but that is possibly because I have not looked for it.

I will, but in the mean time...

 

When you enter a waypoint in the fix page, you can then enter bearing and DME on line, like this:

 

310/15

 

or you can enter it on two lines, like this:

 

310/---

 

---/15

 

Does entering on two lines help anything?

it reduces the impact dramatically, yes. cheers.

 

I shut off the copilot displays...this helps a bit too

i don't thing it should be the solution, but if it works for you go ahead mate. cheerio

Daniel choen

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Yes I've ran into problems with the fix page before. I had two 396nm rings and equal time point shown which was fine - added one more and dropped to 10FPS. Removed it and back to 25!

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it reduces the impact dramatically, yes. cheers.

i don't thing it should be the solution, but if it works for you go ahead mate. cheerio

Well how about that :-)

 

Strange problem with a strange solution!

Rob Robson

I usually place a 30nm range ring around my ARR. Airport so I know when I'm in range of the tower to request landing clearence. I have not seen a drop in frames at anytime. My frames are ~26 during APR. Into CYVR (FSDT) and Orbx PNW. With a 30nm range ring in place.

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Daniel,

 

Do you have an AMD GPU? I remember they were far more susceptible to this for some reason. Alex did a bunch of optimizing on it for SP1c - there isn't anything more we can do. For whatever reason certain video cards don't like the way these things are drawn. I personally don't see any effect on my GTX570 from this.

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Proof from my end:

Nothing on the fix pages - 39.7 FPS:

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Two separate FIXes with both a DME ring and a radial - 39.4 FPS.

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That's just small margin of error/variance stuff there - the average framerate is exactly the same between the two for me.

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