I never go outside the flightdeck; ruins the immersion for me. If I want to see a plane from the outside I'll go to Airliners.net.

Precisely the point I was making with folks bemoaning External Views FPS. We are simulating all real-life procedures, why would one want to fly a plane from Exterior Views panning around?

I thought I would update this tread a little bit:

 

I completely removed v2.4 and all traces of addons over the weekend and installed v2.5.  I wanted to test 777 VAS usage in stock conditions so I installed 777, FSUIPC, and EzDok.  I left all sliders at their default settings except turned off FXAA and set frame rate slider to unlimited.  Loaded up the 777 at KMIA (UAL livery) with fair weather preset and had 1.7 GB of free VAS.  Flew the however long flight to EHAM and after parking at the gate had 1.38 GB of free VAS.  I also switched to external view multiple times during the flight.

 

My conclusions: I could easily fly multiple cross Atlantic legs with the 777 in default v2.5.  v2.5 is very good at VAS management over the things it can control (i.e. not third party scenery).  The 777 is not a VAS hog when used in the appropriate conditions and could be flown for many hours with out issue.

 

Now when Orbx, Rex, and ASN provide their updated installers we'll see how well it goes then. :unsure:

I feel your pain. What was the savior for me was DX10.  Using Steve's DX10 Fixer, I am able to run everything on full except Autogen and Scenery Complexity being at Very Dense (one notch down) instead of Extremely Dense.

 

I get 20-30 frames on the ground and over 50+ in the air.  My VAS usage with the PMDG 777 starts with 2.6 and by the time I land it's about 3.5 or so.

 

These are my addons and computer specs:

 

FTX Global and Vector

Rex 4 Texture Direct w/ Soft Clouds

Active Sky Next

Zinertek HD Airport Graphics

PMDG 777-200LRF

PrecipitFX

Accu-Feel

GSX

 

MSI gaming laptop

i7 2.2ghz cpu

16gb ram

Nvidia GTX 570M 

 

 

I was having the same issues you were until I went DX10.  Also I made sure that I had these settings:

 

AffinityMask=14 (if I go with 84 or higher, my entire machine craps out, 14 is good)

LOD= 4.5000000

Texture Resolution=2048

 

I don't remember other settings, but I'm working great now.

 

 

My conclusions: I could easily fly multiple cross Atlantic legs with the 777 in default v2.5. v2.5 is very good at VAS management over the things it can control (i.e. not third party scenery). The 777 is not a VAS hog when used in the appropriate conditions and could be flown for many hours with out issue.

 

I agree so far, still testing.  I have two flights into FSDT KLAX (VAS killer) both with plenty of VAS remaining at gate after shutdown using GSX.  One from KATL other from PHNL.  Key element missing is weather, waiting  for HiFi to finish polishing their new ASN version.  Pretty much default settings except I am using 4096 max texture load.