Shalom and greetings all my pals,

Presenting a nice year 1984 Sarajevo Winter Olympics flight by MD-83 from LIRN Naples International Airport located 4 miles northeast of the city of Naples, Italy to LQSA Sarajevo International Airport located eight  miles west of downtown Sarajevo in old Yugoslavia

On airborne to climb to Fl250 after take off from runway 24 now making 180 degree right turn toward east to start the route TEA M736 NAVAG L5 SPL Y88 VRANA KG

Now cruising at Fl250 across mountains of Riserva Naturale Orientata Fara San Martino

Approaching eastern shores of Italy to get ready to leave Italy

Approaching to pass Chieti that is suburb of Pescara where you can see highway route number SS5 across the screenshot

Passing view of city of Pescara that is blocked by clouds and its next door LIBP Pescara Abruzzo Airport located 2.5 miles from the centre of Pescara, Italy

Crossing waters of Adriatic Sea

Cruising across the same sea

On descent on way to runway 11 entering old Yugoslavia

On final runway approach battling snowstorm

Making proper descent rate adjustment

Starting to flare in view of runway 11 getting very closer

Seconds before touchdown

TOUCHDOWN!!!

Dont you love snow blowing during braking down??

Close up view of reverse thruster spewing snow blowing

Getting ready to exit from runway

Exiting from runway into taxiway toward gate to drop off lucky passengers who are going to watch Olympics event games

Thank you for viewing. Stay tuned for next exciting flight.

Regards,

Aharon

Ugly weather, beautiful pictures, Aharon! Now that I have a better laptop, how do you have your computer set up? Somehow I can't get this image quality

1 hour ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Ugly weather, beautiful pictures, Aharon! Now that I have a better laptop, how do you have your computer set up? Somehow I can't get this image quality in my rig ASUS TUF FX504GD (Intel i5 8300H @ 2.8-4.0 GHz, 8 GB DDR4-2666 RAM, Nvidia GTX 1050, 256 GB M.2 SSD+256 GB SATA III SSD as storage, Windows 10 Home)

Thanks for kind words.  Assuming you are using FSX,  you would need at least 12 GB ram. What is video ram for your video card??  limit your fps to 35. Show us screenshots of your FSX settings   Bear in mind I know about FSX but NOTHING about FSX Steam.

Regards,

Aharon

Edited February 26, 20206 yr by Aharon

Ah man, there is some incredible freeware area and airport scenery forSarajevo that I haven't seen in quite some time and was hoping to see show cased!

 

 

7 hours ago, Aharon said:

Thanks for kind words.  Assuming you are using FSX,  you would need at least 12 GB ram. What is video ram for your video card??  limit your fps to 35. Show us screenshots of your FSX settings   Bear in mind I know about FSX but NOTHING about FSX Steam.

My RAM is 8 GB, and my VRAM is 2 GB. I'm limiting all my user aircraft textures to DXT5 with mips, 1024 px almost always (2048 px in some light aircraft). Also, I'm not using any addon sceneries, just Orbx Base, Vector, Landclass and some AFCADs. As requested, see below my FSX settings (inside the spoiler):

Spoiler

 

DaveCT2003,

Thanks for your kind words.

Luis,

I am afraid that 8 GB ram and 2 GB video ram are not enough if you are using Orbx. Try to reduce frame rate to 25 fps. 

Here are my settings from my very old laptop that has same configurations as yours except my old one has 12 GB ram

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10 hours ago, Aharon said:

I am afraid that 8 GB ram and 2 GB video ram are not enough if you are using Orbx. Try to reduce frame rate to 25 fps. 

Here are my settings from my very old laptop that has same configurations as yours except my old one has 12 GB ram

Thanks, Aharon. I've studied your CFG, and I see some differences against mine:
- FPS locked at 23 instead of 30 (I use this lock due to the 1/2 refresh rate tweak via RTSS). I saw no CPU temperature difference going down to 25 with RTSS off.
- You run FSX DX9 while I use DX10 (with the Fixer).
- All your scenery (autogen, LOD radius, water FX) and AI settings (airline traffic, airport vehicles) are higher than mine.
- According to FSX, your CPU is faster than mine (ProcSpeed=6694 vs 5580).
- Looks like you're not into study-level (PMDG/FSL/Maddog/iFly) or aircraft with highly detailed VCs (Aerosoft/Quality Wings). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe my last statement explains why you can afford to have more scenery displayed. What did you use as CPU?

Edited February 28, 20206 yr by Luis Hernandez

14 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

- Looks like you're not into study-level (PMDG/FSL/Maddog/iFly) or aircraft with highly detailed VCs (Aerosoft/Quality Wings). Please correct me if I'm wrong.

You are correct I do not have fancy payware aircrafts in my old retired laptop

14 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

Maybe my last statement explains why you can afford to have more scenery displayed. What did you use as CPU?

It is from my retired 5 year old laptop that retired 2 years ago. So it was 15 inch Sony "S" Vaio laptop with quad core i7, 12 GB ram, 750 GB at 7,200 rpm, and 2 GB dedicated video ram

On 2/26/2020 at 9:09 AM, Aharon said:

Thanks for kind words.  Assuming you are using FSX,  you would need at least 12 GB ram. What is video ram for your video card??  limit your fps to 35. Show us screenshots of your FSX settings   Bear in mind I know about FSX but NOTHING about FSX Steam.

Regards,

Aharon

 

On 2/27/2020 at 9:18 AM, Aharon said:

DaveCT2003,

Thanks for your kind words.

Luis,

I am afraid that 8 GB ram and 2 GB video ram are not enough if you are using Orbx. 

@Aharon @Luis Hernandez

I wasn’t going to say anything but in case we have new simmers reading this, I needed to point out this falsehood before they think they need to run out and buy more RAM for better FSX performance.

What is stated is true for P3D or X-Plane 64bit versions but not for FSX being only a 32bit program. FSX can’t use more than 4GB of RAM so it doesn’t really matter if you have 12, 16, or 32GB. Generally speaking 8GB is amble so that FSX can use 4GB and the operating system can use the remaining 4GB. Also important to note is that having more than 8GB RAM won’t improve FSX performance or prevent possible out of memory situations.

For a short time I actually ran FSX on a system with only 4GB of RAM using WinXP 32 bit beige moving to Win7 64 and upgrading to 8GB RAM. The only noticeable improvement was quicker texture reloads when switching views. 

To touch on the part about “if your using ORBX” you need X amount of RAM. ORBX makes many products so you can’t use a blanket statement like that. If you use their Global product it’s just a default texture ground replacement product and the textures don’t degrade performance since they’re the same size and format as the default textures. Still, even using “ORBX” products doesn’t mean you need more RAM because FSX still can’t access more than 4GB.