PMDG 737NGXu First Impressions and Review!

[Kilo60 660]

1 hour ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Do you have this set in your Prepar3d.cfg?

[PANELS]

MAX_VC_TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=4096

What's your zoom level?

Cheers, Rob.

Hmmmm, Is that Frame rate friendly?

[Shomron 251]

2 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

It should be, but might use some additional VRAM.  I believe the default is 4096 so it should already be set, but it's worth checking if VC text is blurry.

Cheers, Rob.

In the UI I have high resolution VC checked. Is that it? I'll check and report

[dray007 0]

Does it have Procedure Turn feature in fmc? hows the failure option? is there something new?

[threexgreen 3,135]

56 minutes ago, dray007 said:

Does it have Procedure Turn feature in fmc? hows the failure option? is there something new?

Not sure if I get you completely but it does have manual and automatic turnaround procedures controlled via the FMC. I haven't checked myself but I think it was announced the failures are more detailed and some have been added.

[SAS443 1,716]

38 minutes ago, threegreen said:

Not sure if I get you completely but it does have manual and automatic turnaround procedures controlled via the FMC. I haven't checked myself but I think it was announced the failures are more detailed and some have been added.

Procedure turn is a course reversal in order to establish the acft on the final approach course, usually it involves the 45/180 degree procedure, racetrack or the teardrop.

IIRC, the old NGX and its FMC was not able to execute these procedures correctly. Havent tried it in the NGXu. But use the timer and fly standard rate turns is my advice

[OzWhitey 3,353]

Well, after some concerns about performance, I ended up buying it anyway. 

How is it in VR? Pretty good, actually. Have turned the FO screens off, and the captain screens refresh rate down, which helped a quite a bit. 

Some of the cockpit PBR is dodgy - that carpet on the kick panels is awfully reflective. And the smaller guages, like the brake pressure one, shimmer quite a bit.

DL is not a big deal for me in VR EXCEPT for the dome light, which really sucks frames.

Being on the P3D platform, I miss the hand controllers that I use with the Zibo, but have got 80% of the controls I need mapped to my Warthog yoke, including some key MCP functions.

Have set up Voiceattack for the remaining functions (along with checklists), and started playing with the SDK so I can control the overhead.

Overall: well, I flew it til 6am this morning and then turned up to work after an hour’s sleep, so I guess I like it.  🙂

[Nyxx 6,993]

Have they changed the names of the panel states?

I use to use "long" as that would place the NG on ground gpu state.

Has this changed at all. I am thinking of buying it this weekend as i have just updated to W10 and in the process of a complete fresh install of P3D and every addon.

I also in the old NG like I do as in the FSL as I use two screens one above the other don't need 3D ND etc to have a 30 fps refresh rate. Like the FSL I set the 3D to 5 FPS and have pop ups (2D) set to 12 FPS.

I would be very interested if someone set a VC view zoom to not show the ND etc, like a zoom level of around 80-90 and with the 3d displayed set to the minimum fps in the FMC and see how FPS is then.

I found in all PMDG setting the 3d displays like that saved a lot of FPS.

 

 

[Michael Moe 494]

1 hour ago, Nyxx said:

Have they changed the names of the panel states?

I use to use "long" as that would place the NG on ground gpu state.

Has this changed at all. I am thinking of buying it this weekend as i have just updated to W10 and in the process of a complete fresh install of P3D and every addon.

I also in the old NG like I do as in the FSL as I use two screens one above the other don't need 3D ND etc to have a 30 fps refresh rate. Like the FSL I set the 3D to 5 FPS and have pop ups (2D) set to 12 FPS.

I would be very interested if someone set a VC view zoom to not show the ND etc, like a zoom level of around 80-90 and with the 3d displayed set to the minimum fps in the FMC and see how FPS is then.

I found in all PMDG setting the 3d displays like that saved a lot of FPS.

 

 

Hi David , 

I am at work but from top of my head i dont think the "short" and "long" is present but i could be wrong. I know cold and dark is there so maybe you just make your own "on gpu" like i use to do with front door open etc.

About your screen setup. Have you consider disable the 3D Gauge display for the ND in panel.cfg ? I do it when i undock the FMC/CDU so it is blacked out in VC cockpit invironment . That saves some FPS .

Michael Moe

[JasonPC 173]

I think it may be possible to define your own state. I like to use previous state and set the aircraft in the state I would like to return to. I believe if you do the same thing and copy/rename the saved state file and you have defined your own.

Edited November 27, 2019 by JasonPC

[Nyxx 6,993]

I just watched BB doing 3 landing one with only one engine and cutting the throttle at 50 ft and it still floats. Really thought they would have sorted out the bad floaty landings.

[FDEdev 955]

Usually jets tend to float more during the flare during OEI ops because you land with less flaps, hence less drag, at least IRL.

On one engine one tends to fly the approach rather a tad fast than a tad slow, another reason for an increased floating tendency.

Edited November 27, 2019 by FDEdev

[gsand 105]

2 hours ago, Nyxx said:

Have they changed the names of the panel states?

I use to use "long" as that would place the NG on ground gpu state.

Has this changed at all. I am thinking of buying it this weekend as i have just updated to W10 and in the process of a complete fresh install of P3D and every addon..

Hi David,

They do have a Long and Short now, showed up after the update last week:

I did modify it a bit, zeroed out the pax and cargo and left 4k fuel. Default Long is pretty loaded and when Ground Ops starts first thing that happens is deplaning and cargo/fuel unload. Made my turnaround close to 45 minutes....😱

Edited November 27, 2019 by gsand

[Nyxx 6,993]

2 hours ago, gsand said:

Hi David,

They do have a Long and Short now, showed up after the update last week:

I did modify it a bit, zeroed out the pax and cargo and left 4k fuel. Default Long is pretty loaded and when Ground Ops starts first thing that happens is deplaning and cargo/fuel unload. Made my turnaround close to 45 minutes....😱

Great thank you for info, Gerald.

[MDFlier 2,031]

5 hours ago, JasonPC said:

I think it may be possible to define your own state. I like to use previous state and set the aircraft in the state I would like to return to. I believe if you do the same thing and copy/rename the saved state file and you have defined your own.

It is. Set up the aircraft the way that you want it to save, and then select save state. You can give it the same name as an existing state to overwrite one, or a new name to create a new state.

[Evros 310]

2 hours ago, MDFlier said:

It is. Set up the aircraft the way that you want it to save, and then select save state. You can give it the same name as an existing state to overwrite one, or a new name to create a new state.

You don't even need to make a separate panel save, but you can save the whole scenario via P3D. That way it makes it so much easier to load up and pick up at exact point and configuration you left it.