The slow loading of textures at Aerosoft Heathrow Xtended is a feature of the product, rather than a limitation of Gerard's PC. I assume that the London addon is Aerosoft VFR London X, although he does not seem to be displaying it at high detail settings.

I had Aerosoft EGLL for some time until yesterday. Bought UK2000 EGLL yesterday.

 In terms of looks I like both, performance wise the UK2000 is much better and the black textures in the Aerosoft version are a bigger problem than at the UK2000 version.

 

The UK2000 version was around 18 GBP which is more than ok. Bye bye Aerosoft EGLL.

1 hour ago, Christopher Low said:

The slow loading of textures at Aerosoft Heathrow Xtended is a feature of the product, rather than a limitation of Gerard's PC. I assume that the London addon is Aerosoft VFR London X, although he does not seem to be displaying it at high detail settings.

You are correct.

Using a high level of custom AG icw a high level of London VFR gave frameratedrops till 20 with some stutters.

Therefore I choose to use a lower level of London VFR for parts further away from the river Thames and a higher level of AG to fill in the empty spots which now give drops to 24.

London VFR : instead of appearing smoothly in batches it is completely there and when approaching all textures need to be loaded all at once.

It's all about compromises : performance <-> detail

 

16 hours ago, 777200lrf said:

I like your setup. To get faster texture loading (I noticed the black textures and delay in loading in as you turned onto the runway) adjust the texture bandwidth multi setting I have started using 160 instead of default of 40

What is the consequence of making this change? Are there downsides?

53 minutes ago, slait said:

What is the consequence of making this change? Are there downsides?

According to Rob A ( he asked LM about it ) it does not do much nowadays with modern graphics cards.

 

 

UK2000 for me. Easy on the computer frame rate wise. London autogen is intense.

uk2000

4 hours ago, slait said:

What is the consequence of making this change? Are there downsides?

Faster loading of textures, could overload some systems and cause stuttering if set too high.

19 hours ago, cmpbellsjc said:

He mentions the addons used in his post with the video. See below.

 

I was hoping for one add on, but thank you for your help anyway!

On 7/30/2017 at 10:21 AM, GSalden said:

Here a short vid. I did not prepar the cockpit like it should. Just a quick vid. Not everything is official conpatible with P3Dv4 ..

You will see : AS Heathrow Extended , GenX photoscenery , OpenVFR UK AG , London VFR and Life Traffic ( Nico )

 

That my friend is priceless. Its super authentic. Huge commitment to deep immersion. You are no anorak! I can see that you fly by seat of your pants and your balls! There are systems managers and their are pilots and you my friend are a pilot. How do I know? Because you, whether you know it or not are using the TLAR method.

What is that you ask? I had the good fortune to have dinner with a great and renowned glider pilot. If you ever saw the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair he was piloting the duo Discus in the gliding scene in that movie. He was also involved in the training of the early space shuttle pilots. Don't forget that the Space Shuttle was actually a glider. (My glider pilots license actually licenses me to pilot "All Gliders" so I technically am licensed to fly a Space Shuttle)

Anyway, I won't name him and me as a glider pilot having dinner with him was a bit like a lowly Catholic having dinner with the Pope but the story as I recall it was that when he went to the Cape to teach the shuttle pilots how to fly and land a glider he told them that he could get in the shuttle simulator and land it without any instruction using the TLAR method!

And indeed to their amazement he did! Then to my good fortune he demonstrated the TLAR method to me and its about the best piloting lesson I ever had.

Because despite all the systems their are on an aircraft to account for and eliminate human error there is none that can even remotely  approximate sound human judgement.

In other words there is no TLAR system on any aircraft except between the pilots ears and in his guts.

TLAR      "That Looks About Right"

4 hours ago, Avidean said:

That my friend is priceless. Its super authentic. Huge commitment to deep immersion. You are no anorak! I can see that you fly by seat of your pants and your balls! There are systems managers and their are pilots and you my friend are a pilot. How do I know? Because you, whether you know it or not are using the TLAR method.

What is that you ask? I had the good fortune to have dinner with a great and renowned glider pilot. If you ever saw the remake of the Thomas Crown Affair he was piloting the duo Discus in the gliding scene in that movie. He was also involved in the training of the early space shuttle pilots. Don't forget that the Space Shuttle was actually a glider. (My glider pilots license actually licenses me to pilot "All Gliders" so I technically am licensed to fly a Space Shuttle)

Anyway, I won't name him and me as a glider pilot having dinner with him was a bit like a lowly Catholic having dinner with the Pope but the story as I recall it was that when he went to the Cape to teach the shuttle pilots how to fly and land a glider he told them that he could get in the shuttle simulator and land it without any instruction using the TLAR method!

And indeed to their amazement he did! Then to my good fortune he demonstrated the TLAR method to me and its about the best piloting lesson I ever had.

Because despite all the systems their are on an aircraft to account for and eliminate human error there is none that can even remotely  approximate sound human judgement.

In other words there is no TLAR system on any aircraft except between the pilots ears and in his guts.

TLAR      "That Looks About Right"

Great story . Thanks for sharing 

5 hours ago, Avidean said:

My glider pilots license actually licenses me to pilot "All Gliders" so I technically am licensed to fly a Space Shuttle

Since in the UK - technically at least - there is no glider licence (well,sort of, as far as the main law is concerned, but I suspect if someone ever found themselves in court over it, the UK's Crown Prosecution Service would take a different view lol*), this does make literally everyone in the UK legally-rated to pilot the Orbiter too, at or least they would be whilst it was in orbit over the UK. Then again, technically, a similar legal loophole meant the Allied nations of WW2 were officially still at war with Germany until 1991 too lol, but similarly, I should imagine driving a Sherman tank up the Unter den Linden in the 1980s whilst attempting to 'retake the city for the Allies' would have been frowned upon as a defence as well, in spite of its quite genuine legality at that time.

*Caveat alert: Since every airfield in the UK is CAA licenced, and glider fields are also BGA licenced too, they would want to see any person's - internationally recognised - FAI glider licence and log book if they just showed up at a UK airfield and wanted a launch or an aerotow. So if someone couldn't show 'em both of those, they'd tell them to 'bugger off'. But let's not let facts get in the way of a good story lol.

Anyway, back on topic, UK2000 - it's a much better design compromise where frame-rates are concerned.

A little of topic ; over the last 3 days I have been working on getting the best London city in Fs. 

I used Prealsoft HD Autogen + Aerosoft London VFR + Etienne's London additonal buildings + Open VFR UK

http://members.casema.nl/gsalden/Prealsoft London.jpg

Bit late to the party but, I purchased Aerosofts Heathrow and after installing UK2000's Manchester Airport, I massively regret it. Lesson learned, stick with UK2000.

He's done a superb job on Manchester Airport (my local) even the viewing park with the exact planes that currently reside there (frequent visitor), and you can even see Concorde through the hangar window, plus there's people in the viewing park. I'm blown away by it. Best £16 I've spent on add on scenery. Manchester is usually my start base for a quick flight to Heathrow. (added bonus, UK2000s Jetways work unlike Aerosofts Heathrow package)

11 hours ago, dannydhc17 said:

Bit late to the party but, I purchased Aerosofts Heathrow and after installing UK2000's Manchester Airport, I massively regret it. Lesson learned, stick with UK2000.

He's done a superb job on Manchester Airport (my local) even the viewing park with the exact planes that currently reside there (frequent visitor), and you can even see Concorde through the hangar window, plus there's people in the viewing park. I'm blown away by it. Best £16 I've spent on add on scenery. Manchester is usually my start base for a quick flight to Heathrow. (added bonus, UK2000s Jetways work unlike Aerosofts Heathrow package)

There should be an update you can download to replace the jetways with SODE ones.