I have a problem to reduce amount of AI planes in my P3D4.5

I have many AI packages from Alpha India, on some airports I have too many planes which affects sim performance.

Also in the air I have sudden bursts of hundreds planes around me.

Read posts, tried different settings within P3D and min/max values in AIG AI Manager - no effect, seems to be that amount of AI is beyond control even with AIG Manager.

I know that FSUIPC can be used, but do not have full version, so this solution is not for me.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

It is quite easy ... I'm using AI Flight Planner from Dan Grovestine. Open a traffic.bgl from AIG-OCI with the AIFP, in the Flight Plans Menu you'll find "Adjust Activity Levels", choose the range ('Im using 1-50), "Maximized Distribution" then click Adjust and finally "Compile" (in the main window). Done. I did the adjustments only for the bigger ones with traffic.bgl files larger than 2 MB, to keep the airline diversity on airports at a maximum.

Edited January 12, 20206 yr by Nemo

There is no way to do it without another program ?

Have a look a 'AI_Companion' by Alpha India, that works perfectly 

43 minutes ago, Beardyman said:

I have a problem to reduce amount of AI planes in my P3D4.5

I have many AI packages from Alpha India, on some airports I have too many planes which affects sim performance.

Also in the air I have sudden bursts of hundreds planes around me.

Read posts, tried different settings within P3D and min/max values in AIG AI Manager - no effect, seems to be that amount of AI is beyond control even with AIG Manager.

I know that FSUIPC can be used, but do not have full version, so this solution is not for me.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Depending on the settings used during the compiling of the flightplans using the AIG AI-Manager, you can control the Ai traffic density using the P3D sliders. From memory, I think you should first set the activity from min 1% to max 99% in the settings page of the AI-Manager before doing the compilation of the flightplans.

In case of doubt go to the AIG forums. They're usually very fast in responding.

Cheers, Ed

Any possibility of making a re-compilation of existing ones ?

 

36 minutes ago, Beardyman said:

Any possibility of making a re-compilation of existing ones ?

 

That's the way to go, compiling again those flightplans that were not compiled with those settings (1%-99%). As far as I know, it has to be done again. I discovered this after I had compiled my first 6-8 flightplans, so I was on time to change and not doing the whole thing again.

Cheers, Ed

Oh my God...it took me a long time to install all of those...

So Ed u confirm that when compilation will be done with min 1% and max 99%, then I will be able to control traffic using P3D slider ?

2 hours ago, Beardyman said:

There is no way to do it without another program ?

https://www.alpha-india.net/forums/index.php?topic=29651.0

What I did was take the "primary" airlines, probably 30-40 of them and compile them at 1%-44%, then I take everything else and compile it at 1-99%.  Then in P3D I set AI to 45% and I get a really nice balance.  I get all my UA, BA, VS, DL and the other majors but limit some of the other "noise"...

 

Just me 🙂 

45 minutes ago, psolk said:

What I did was take the "primary" airlines, probably 30-40 of them and compile them at 1%-44%, then I take everything else and compile it at 1-99%.  Then in P3D I set AI to 45% and I get a really nice balance.  I get all my UA, BA, VS, DL and the other majors but limit some of the other "noise"...

 

Just me 🙂 

Precisely the way I too went.

2 hours ago, Beardyman said:

So Ed u confirm that when compilation will be done with min 1% and max 99%, then I will be able to control traffic using P3D slider ?

Correct!.

45 minutes ago, psolk said:

What I did was take the "primary" airlines, probably 30-40 of them and compile them at 1%-44%, then I take everything else and compile it at 1-99%.  Then in P3D I set AI to 45% and I get a really nice balance.  I get all my UA, BA, VS, DL and the other majors but limit some of the other "noise"...

 

Just me 🙂 

This is more or less what I've done at the end. Obviously if you have a lot of flightplans compiled at max lower than 99%, you may have to change (i.e. recompile) a lot of them.

Cheers, Ed

 You can use AIFP to adjust them once they have been installed with AI Manager. Under Bulk Traffic, select Update Activity Levels in Traffic Files. The big thing to remember though for new plans is to have your AI Manager set to compile the traffic at the numbers that you want. By default, it's set to 1% which means you are getting EVERYTHING at 1%. 1-99% will give you the ability to use the traffic slider in the sim.

why 44%, not 50 or 60 ?

for me whole system of setting traffic is not fully clear, so let me ask if my understanding is correct - if compile primary airlines with parameters 1% to 44% and set up P3D slider to 45%, means that only 44% of total available traffic will appear in the sim, correct ?

1 hour ago, Beardyman said:

why 44%, not 50 or 60 ?

for me whole system of setting traffic is not fully clear, so let me ask if my understanding is correct - if compile primary airlines with parameters 1% to 44% and set up P3D slider to 45%, means that only 44% of total available traffic will appear in the sim, correct ?

If you adjust traffic of a specific airline for example to a 10-50% range in your traffic file, your P3D traffic slider setting would give zero traffic when <10, increasing traffic from 10 to 49 and full traffic with 50 and above. Many of us use a setting from 1%-99% which give the p3d slider full functionality.

As mentioned before, I adjusted only major airlines for performance reasons and let the others at 1%. This gives me the possibility to reduce the traffic at performance hungry airports to get reasonable frame rates. I also like to see smaller operators at larger airports here and then ... others call it "noise".

 

Edited January 13, 20206 yr by Nemo