January 14, 20179 yr Just loaded up PB6 - fps are about 12 fps better - smoother also - out side aircraft shadows on ground look way better and crisper - keep for me - everything working no issues so far - nice :smile: Rich Sennett
January 14, 20179 yr Made a copy of PB3 just in case (didn't go for 4 or 5) but no issues with PB6 so far, smooth frames.
January 14, 20179 yr Does anyone here suffer from big FPS drops when interacting with the default FMC. Or when you turn ON the GPS on any of the default aircraft? Start with the 737 with engines on Check FPS Touch any button on the FMC (FLPN, Status...) Check FPS Thank you guys Cheers N.-
January 14, 20179 yr Does anyone here suffer from big FPS drops when interacting with the default FMC. Or when you turn ON the GPS on any of the default aircraft? Start with the 737 with engines on Check FPS Touch any button on the FMC (FLPN, Status...) Check FPS Thank you guys What video card are you using? I have this problem with an AMD card, but not Nvidia. Allen, flight sim lover and AA-5 Traveler owner
January 14, 20179 yr John, could you please give a quick instruction how to remove the smoke? Thanks. I got this from another post somewhere, so I cannot claim to be the owner, but: Before doing this, copy and paste the aircraft back into your aircraft folder and rename it by changing the "- copy" to "- NS" or No Smoke. I choose the shorter title so I can read it when I open the main menu on XP-11 Open Plane-Maker Select the proper aircraft (in this case xxxxx - NS) Click on Standard tab - Select Engine Specs and on that page open SFC/Sound tab In the bottom right of that screen, find Exhaust Dirtiness Set for 0.01 (the lowest setting you can choose) If you have not used Plane-Maker before, just close the current window and then go to File Save your settings I have done this to 3 Carenado aircraft and my FF 767.. Works on all. Nice clean exhaust. Good luck! John Edit - Sorry Rich - Didn't see your response! John Wingold
January 14, 20179 yr Thank you both guys, this does the job. For the Carenado C90 I changed the value to 0.10, it still blows a nice sand cloud on a dirt strip but flies clean once airborne. Hans
January 14, 20179 yr What video card are you using? I have this problem with an AMD card, but not Nvidia. Yes, I'm running an AMD RX470. Cheers N.-
January 14, 20179 yr I got this from another post somewhere, so I cannot claim to be the owner, but: Edit - Sorry Rich - Didn't see your response! Thanks for instructions - well done - is this only visual or does it also help with fps ? Rich Sennett
January 14, 20179 yr I hate more than anything haVING TO turn down the extra's, the cars above anything else give me a feeling of realism in a sim, I hate to look at barren roads. But the quickest way to increase FPS is to back the sliders off for that, AA, and the details slider, Just turning those three sliders back one notch will give you and extra 15 FPS, or at least 10, using only cirrus clouds brings you another 10+ FPS, and actually there are many days where you look up and there is nary a cumulus cloud in the sky, we like them in the sim, but they do come at a tremendous cost in FPS. If you can handle flying in winowed mode there is another gain in 5-10 FPS. So, when I first opened beta #6 at Lowi in the 172 I was getting 7FPS with all sliders right, fine for screenshots, but not for flying. Turning the three sliders I mentioned down a notch each, clearing all clouds, but forcing high cirrus clouds in SMP4, gave me 40-50 FPS in windowed mode, which on my 55" HDTV gives me a window of around 28"-32" or so. And in full screen mode I got 30-40 FPS. My specs: CPU: 4790K with turbo, average about 4.6 GHz, or can do a one click OC I have set up for 4.8GHz. At 4.6 I stay in the 70's celsiusas far as tems, and range from 4.6-4.9 GHz during a flight. Default is 4.0GHz with turbo giving you 4.2 I believe, but after setting upo everything in my BIOS for high performance I am always sitting at 4.6GHz, which is fine, especially considering I stepped up from an i7-920 OC'd to 4.2GHz, which was about a 60% OC, it is nice to see 4.2GHz at defasult and hit maybe 65 degrees C at the most. At 4.8GHz I might hit 92 degrees C, and see a range of 4.8-6.4 GHz during a flight. I hardly ever fly beyond default with turbo though. GPU: NVIDEA GTX 670 - in the old FSX days going beyond that would not have netted an increase in FPS, but there would have been slight improvements elsewhere. But now I dream of getting a 1080 card with 8GB of memory, about a 28" 4K monitor, and eventually Occulus Rift. Then I will be a happy simmer. Aaron Tirrell
January 14, 20179 yr fps are about 12 fps better Coming from 20 or 60 or 120 or...? 12 fps doesn't tell me much. I myself see no real improvement in performance with pb6.
January 14, 20179 yr The thing I hate in XP is always going from side to side on the takeoff run. I've soloed several 150's and Citabria as a student pilot before almost breaking my neck, and have many hours in a parasol type conventional gear ultralight, and I never had an issue with staying stRAIGHT WITH THE CENTERLINE, EXCEPT FOR EARLY ON IN THE TAIL DRAGONS, BUT ONCE MY FEET GOT SMART THERE WAS NO PROBLEMS AT ALL. Sorry for the caps, I am a sight typer, and have nerve damage and don't feel my finger hit the caps lock key, and only look up every paragraph or so, and retyping is not worth the pain involved. Even in the ultralight I would practice 20 touch and goes on RWY 17 when the wind was straight down 13 at KMWL, my home airport. In stable steady crosswinds of up to 15 knots, I had no issues landing or taking off in a little 270 pound ultralight with conventional gear, asnd it was a very short plane, it wanted to swing around on you, and would if you had not trained in a tail dragger. That was the sole purpose of my time in the Citabria, to get my feet smart. BTW, you have not lived until you have soloed a Citabria on a short grass field, the grass is awesome, so forgiving, and is aviation at it's most simple and fun form, outside of aerobatics. Aaron Tirrell
January 14, 20179 yr Yes, I'm running an AMD RX470. Unfortunately Laminar does not have a solution. I went back and forth with support for a couple weeks before we both gave up. AMD support is terrible in both XP 10 and XP 11. For more info, see my thread in this forum about it a few weeks ago. I was running a 390x. It's disappointing because these are great cards in everything else. Allen, flight sim lover and AA-5 Traveler owner
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