Simple to use, low perf impact traffic addon for P3D?

[Noel 4,499]

I'm looking to replace the default AI traffic w/ liveries that look like real world traffic and isn't too hard on processing overhead.  Simple and effective is good, don't care about massive configurability.  If I could simply install and have the existing AI more into realworld traffic that would be ideal.   Flying PMDG stuff only currently.

Thanks!

[GSalden 4,656]

AIG is the best

I use it icw PSXT (freeware) + Real Trafffic (payware) for real world live traffic.

[787flyer 633]

AIG here. Freeware with decent quality AI textures and configurable in terms of airline schedules and fleets that are easily installed. The schedules are being regularly updated..

[kevinfirth 1,394]

1 hour ago, aldridgem said:

AIG here. Freeware with decent quality AI textures and configurable in terms of airline schedules and fleets that are easily installed. The schedules are being regularly updated..

+1 no significant discernible impact on FPS

[Benbo 53]

Another vote for UT Live from me,i find it amazing with no impact on the framerate on my low to mid range set up and their coverage of the airlines is second to none.

Gary Jones

Edited January 30, 2021 by Benbo

[787flyer 633]

1 hour ago, Benbo said:

Another vote for UT Live from me,i find it amazing with no impact on the framerate on my low to mid range set up and their coverage of the airlines is second to none.

Gary Jones

Re performance UT has always been good in that regard. I was using UT2 (not the Live version) and I found it also did a good job and I didn't have a high end FSX rig. .

The reason I moved to AIG a while ago was the lack of Power Pack utility at the time which I had used previously to introduce my own custom AI traffic and FPs. I believe UT Live now has the additional utility. Of course, this is only relevant if you really like tinkering with flight plans and AI models.

Wrt to the OP questions, UT Live is a good choice too. Install and off you go.

 

 

 

[ailchim 206]

AIG here

[pgde 571]

UTL here.

[B777ER 2,486]

Can someone post a step by step guide to get AIG setup to use with vPilot. For some reason I find the instructions that come with the AIG OCI very confusing. I have zero need for offline traffic. Thank you 

[Bob Scott 7,720]

AIG is a really cool freeware project with fairly extensive model/livery coverage incorporating some really nice models, but simple and easy to setup it is not.  The OCI (one-click installer) is quite a bit more complex than that--definitely worth the effort, but it will take some time and effort to set up and configure.

UT Live v2 is payware, less complete in terms of model/livery coverage, but it is considerably more easy to install and set up.

As far as performance--pretty much all AI add-ons share the trait that performance impact is driven by how much traffic you inject, and performance impact is controllable with the traffic percentage controls (in-app in UTL2 and in-sim for AIG).

 

[joepoway 241]

AIG for the past year or so prior to that UTL.

Joe

[Biggles2010 343]

I am not a rivet counter so I have never understood why some users need every tiny detail portrayed exactly as in real life, with every ai aircraft having the correct number, and parked at exactly the right gate on the particular day and following precise real life flightplans. But I do like to see airports populated with reasonable looking ai, giving a general impression of activity related to the size of the airport..

I had looked at AIG several times and gave up trying to understand the process, which is far from being one click. UTLive v2 is much more straightforward and creates a reasonable sense of immersion without spending many hours reproducing airline schedules and liveries. If absolute accuracy and detail are the most important then AIG probably fits, but it's not as simple as the impression given by some.

[Noel 4,499]

With all the recommendations so far I will have a look at UT

7 hours ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

I use UTLive V2 ... it's very easy to use/install, but the models are low poly but also low impact on FPS.  Only issue is I don't know why they don't just disable the default AI traffic after install?

Cheers, Rob.

Is disabling default AI traffic possible after install?   If not, do the other recommended products disable default traffic?

Thanks!

[Noel 4,499]

Here's a post about UTL:  

 

What I'd really like is to NOT spend a 'ton of time' adding liveries.  I just want the default planes swapped into new liveries relatively matched to the geographic location I'm in, but even that doesn't need to be done too well.  I could care less about mimicking actual schedules or anything else--I just don't want to look at fake liveries in the default AI.  Is there a freeware product that keeps things really simple?  I detest setting up and configuring anything these days, can you tell?  

 

[chapstick 2,757]

1 minute ago, Noel said:

Here's a post about UTL:  

 

What I'd really like is to NOT spend a 'ton of time' adding liveries.  I just want the default planes swapped into new liveries relatively matched to the geographic location I'm in, but even that doesn't need to be done too well.  I could care less about mimicking actual schedules or anything else--I just don't want to look at fake liveries in the default AI.  Is there a freeware product that keeps things really simple?  I detest setting up and configuring anything these days, can you tell?  

 

You want something that doesn't exist. Either take a few minutes to read the tutorial that is included with AIG, buy UT Live (terrible product, don't know why people are recommending it here), or stick with default AI.