Many thanks for the kind words Dirk, and thanks also to those contacting me about their sims. Hopefully I cover well what's needed in the main forums. However, even though I'm extremely busy, please feel free to discuss with me in PM or at my site if you really need to.

Value is quite often unfairly missed out in the purchasing decision where software is concerned. I'm contacted quite often from flight sim guys with very similar concerns. Whereas, from those using paid for software I get many more letters, their sim life depends on several applications. If I have any work in progress on any of those applications, then I'm keen to put the best work possible in place and I find that across the board unconditionally with Devs working in the flight sim arena. All those apps are the best value around in terms of any software apps in general. My stuff is designed to compliment those apps and enhance them and the capability of the hardware, it treads on no-ones toes in this arena.

The fact is that P3D out of the box, with all those addons works fine on recent hardware. As always there's a finer setting available and it's not a hod-carrying process to implement. The enjoyment is enhanced knowing that under the hood, your rig is giving its best. Properly set saves heat. Most less well tuned systems make more heat than they need to with no improvement to performance. I'll continue to push as hard as ever to help to make sure the right techniques are understood and utilised to the best effect

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by SteveW

1 hour ago, Cruachan said:

Instead, you might consider trying:

61=00,11,11,01 or 245=11,11,01,01 or 117=01,11,01,01 or 53=00,11,01,01

Mike, did you happen to come across    XX .XX .XX .11 .11 .11 .10 .10 suggestions for P3Dv4.4 recently? Some posted better FPS with those  10.10 from the right.

Thanks.

PS: however what is FPS vs that minimal long frames deviation?  ))

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by Dirk98

Hi Chaps,

I really appreciate the help. I am trying to take it all in. Wish I had the knowledge you guy's have. But getting there.

I did try unlimited with vsync on, but was not very fluid.. I have ( in my sig) LG 43" Monitor, and has a max refresh rate of 60HZ. Should I lower the refresh rate in NCP to 30 ? or leave at 60 with limited FR set at 30 in P3D.

Thanks again

 

Julian

8 hours ago, Cruachan said:

One for Ray.

Rolling down the runway at ORBX LOWI in FSLabs A320:

Frame rate (not very clear in image) was 29.9 at moment of capture.

Mike

Very good Mike. Now line up on 09R at EGLL and do the same test. Do you have an Ai package?

6 hours ago, Dirk98 said:

Sorry, Ray, but you have no slightest idea what Ideal Flight is about then. Even from the description (were you inquisitive enough to take the time to go through the description) you'd learn that it greatly exceeds your "I’m more than capable of deciding my next flight" outlook, which sounded pretty smug if not i.g.n.o.r.a.n.t in context btw. However I'm not saying you should get it by any means, I'd even suggest you shouldn't bother, given your current experience with your "custom o/c" system (hear hear, kevin). I know you're a good man, Ray, you've done a lot for our common hobby, I appreciate that, so please take it as a friendly poke only and a nudge to dig a little deeper when commenting on something where it is sensitive lol.

Alas, I myself am almost ready to bite the bullet and drain my visa for that outrageously overpriced Ideal Flight software. But I've learnt what I am about to expect from it for my needs.

Thanks! 

Dirk,

I'm still shaking with anger at your reply. To call be i g n o r a n t  because I don't want to buy some software is totally out of order. This is the bullre point list from Ideal Flight...

• Automatic flight planning
• Compatible with any default P3D or third-party add-on aircraft and scenery
• Multiple Profiles
• Career progression and pilot awards
• Enhanced route builder
• Sophisticated flight generator
• Comprehensive HTML briefing
• Enhanced float plane, helicopter, and glider support
• Fly to and from any location in P3D
• Routes and Missions
• Flight, Save Game, and Tower View launcher
• Seamless global weather simulation with thermals and ridge lift
• Enhanced in-flight Save, Load, and Advance Time menu
• Complete flight assessment and records log
• Aircraft properties flight planner set-up
• Cold and Dark set-up
• Aircraft cockpit and camera set-up
• Weather set-up
• Flight records library
• Parked aircraft library
• World map search facility
• Scoreboard with non-player characters
• Help HTML documentation
• Replaceable screen background images
• Near zero impact on flight simulator frame rate
• Full program install and removal functionality
• Include any P3D compatible add-on aircraft, and airport
• Drag and drop BMP files to change interface graphics
• Drag and drop any flight plan on interface to load a flight
• Works with any flight file or flight plan

Nothing in that list remotely interests me. That was nothing like a friendly poke.

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by Ray Proudfoot

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Dirk,

I'm still shaking with anger at your reply. To call be i g n o r a n t  because I don't want to buy some software is totally out of order. This is the bullre point list from Ideal Flight...

• Automatic flight planning
• Compatible with any default P3D or third-party add-on aircraft and scenery
• Multiple Profiles
• Career progression and pilot awards
• Enhanced route builder
• Sophisticated flight generator
• Comprehensive HTML briefing
• Enhanced float plane, helicopter, and glider support
• Fly to and from any location in P3D
• Routes and Missions
• Flight, Save Game, and Tower View launcher
• Seamless global weather simulation with thermals and ridge lift
• Enhanced in-flight Save, Load, and Advance Time menu
• Complete flight assessment and records log
• Aircraft properties flight planner set-up
• Cold and Dark set-up
• Aircraft cockpit and camera set-up
• Weather set-up
• Flight records library
• Parked aircraft library
• World map search facility
• Scoreboard with non-player characters
• Help HTML documentation
• Replaceable screen background images
• Near zero impact on flight simulator frame rate
• Full program install and removal functionality
• Include any P3D compatible add-on aircraft, and airport
• Drag and drop BMP files to change interface graphics
• Drag and drop any flight plan on interface to load a flight
• Works with any flight file or flight plan

Nothing in that list remotely interests me. That was nothing like a friendly poke.

There is absolutely no need for your comments about the value of the software or whether or not it interests you. I was being friendly with your request about what I do. You don't understand the software so forget it - it's something for the professionals and development and it's also a complete professional test harness package you won't understand.

Just now, SteveW said:

There is absolutely no need for your comments about the value of the software or whether or not it interests you. I was being friendly with your request about what I do. You don't understand the software so forget it - it's something for the professionals and development and it's also a complete professional test harness package you won't understand.

I’m perfectly entitled to comment on the price of software and whether it interests me or not.

If I don’t understand the purpose of the software then that’s down to the description on Flight1 and the bullet points. The most important features usually come first and the first point was Automatic Flight Planning. Since i already use PFPX I have no need for that. Nor do I need a weather generator. If I don’t understand the software that’s down to how it’s described, not me.

Your throw away comments are not welcome. I enhance my PFPX plans by loading them into IF so you might like that too..  However I find the IF routes are more fun since they take the burden out of that process and produce good routes. I enjoy much more along with the many IF users. So forget it - take the trouble to investigate before being so wise.

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by SteveW

17 minutes ago, SteveW said:

Your throw away comments are not welcome. I enhance my PFPX plans by loading them into IF so you might like that too..  However I find the IF routes are more fun since they take the burden out of that process and produce good routes. I enjoy much more along with the many IF users. So forget it - take the trouble to investigate before being so wise.

Self promotion is no recommendation. Enjoy your enhanced flight plans whatever they are.

44 minutes ago, SteveW said:

 However I find the IF routes are more fun since they take the burden out of that process and produce good routes.

Steve, does IF allow you to compile a  subset of airports from which IF will generate flights (to/from).  In other words, if I was only interested in flying to/from 50 airports and exclude everything else will it randomly generate flights only from this subset.  

29 minutes ago, ErichB said:

Steve, does IF allow you to compile a  subset of airports from which IF will generate flights (to/from).  In other words, if I was only interested in flying to/from 50 airports and exclude everything else will it random generate flights only from this subset.  

Yes. Lots more besides. It can restrict you to just routes in, for example France, or a cherry picked set you make or a set it compiles from your addon scenery only and then you can exclude any from there and it comes with some precompiled like the list of major hubs, they are editable in notepad easily too. It does all the randomisation from those locations you desire as well as giving the option to choose from the list which is displayed in several orders, by distance, name icao, airport altitude and direction to that location. It offers a filter to those so you can for example only get routes in an Easterly direction or to airports with other criteria and will find a path round the World for that aircraft with your set of particulars and criteria for that aircraft or set of aircraft.

Remember that all maths are computed by Range. So when you see the Range specified on a website for a real aircraft, the sim aircraft will be tuned to be close to that performance. We fly the plane in our regular standard setting and get the overall range for that aircraft, placing that in the calculator, everything else is done complete with a BOING documented fuel calculation with reserves and all the other trimmings like weight at pushback and weight at takeoff.

Folk that got it years ago are still finding out more things it does. The bullet points are not exhaustive, there are more there to view on the site and the free version does most of those BPs. There's just no easy way to present such a package.

Back in FS9 days I purchased the magnificent' Airliner Pilot' from Just Flight. It provided a pre-compiled list of routes which I soon exhausted, but enjoyed repeating them to perfection.

So what I originally liked to do was go back and forth on the same routes but had no idea how well I did. So I built the IF monitor section and started working toward flying the perfect flight as was now possible with all that essential information.

Edited January 14, 20197 yr by SteveW

1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I’m perfectly entitled to comment on the price of software and whether it interests me or not.

If I don’t understand the purpose of the software then that’s down to the description on Flight1 and the bullet points. The most important features usually come first and the first point was Automatic Flight Planning. Since i already use PFPX I have no need for that. Nor do I need a weather generator. If I don’t understand the software that’s down to how it’s described, not me.

Ray,

Time to cool of a bit m8, put yourself into other shoes and re-read your comments.

It is very hard to put a price tag to something we don't understand, so perhaps it would be better to ask for more information before placing any judgement in public.

In any case we all understand you do not wish to buy the product, this is fine and also aceptable, however this doesn't mean the product is a high quality add-on and that is very valuable to others. This is the very thin line we are all walking here.

My personal opinion as a professional is that Steve is an amazing developer with a set of skills that are unquestionable.

Best Regards,
Simbol

 

I think I bought it  during the FSX days although I never really used it - purely because i didn't spend the time to get to know it well enough.  I'll check tonight.  If I did, will it still be valid with P3D (relevant updates) or would I need to repurchase?   It seems to be more useful for the type of flying I do these days.  Thanks for the reply.

11 hours ago, Cruachan said:

Rolling down the runway at ORBX LOWI

Even I find ORBX LOWI performs very well, with my core 0 not near 100%

It is UK2000 or Aerosoft EGLL which is the real performance problem. With my 210 FOV screen on three projectors, using three scenery windows, I can barely reach 20 fps in some views with reduced settings (and this is on a 7900X with all cores at 4.8GHz.

Pete

 

Hi Pete, Ray

All I’ve been trying to convey is that for my flight simming aspirations I have in place what is required to fulfill my expectations. I don’t see this as a competition whereby we each try to outdo what can be achieved on similar and dissimilar hardware. Instead the aim of my posts is more towards demonstrating how the flexibility of the Prepar3D simulator environment allows us to tailor said environment to our respective and specific requirements. If I have been unsuccessful then the fault is mine and mine alone.

I fully acknowledge the ongoing performance shortcomings associated with complex hubs like EGLL. That’s why I tend to avoid such destinations. Nor do I own many of the 3rd Party alternatives....yet. I’ve never been a long haul enthusiast, preferring instead to potter along in a predominantly VFR, 3rd Party enhanced environment. Curiosity tempted me to install several so-called ‘study level’ aircraft, but that was more on a whim and a desire to to see how they perform along with the earnest intention to knuckle down someday and learn how to fly the things properly!

My fascination for flight simulation extends back to those heady days pioneered by Bruce Artwick. Since then it’s fair to say that there have been a few changes, changes that are now enveloping us in wonderfully challenging and believable environments. I know I have the hardware in place that is delivering what I need and this belief is tempered with a realistic expectation of what is possible within the constraints imposed by my chosen system and setup. Quite clearly your needs are somewhat different as are many of the solutions.

Best regards to you both,

Mike