FPS Plunging with AI Traffic

[AnkH 2,269]

5 hours ago, regis9 said:

just a note that if you have AIG installed, the now resolved issue in this thread will also impact FSLTL.

 

How come?

[Fiorentoni 4,253]

2 hours ago, AnkH said:

How come?

Probably because FSLTL uses AIG (and their or-now faulty effect library) as fallback. And since FSLTL still misses hundreds of airlines, chances are almost 100% that you will encounter an fallen-back-onto AIG model while using FSLTL. This is, of course, only if you have both installed.

[Sonosusto 681]

Because of this happening to me in the past and AIG's sort of wonkey way of updating (no offense to them) I opted to stick to FSLTL's models.

Simply put: they're good enough and don't cause problems for me. The last time I used AIG and its Traffic program I had terrible performance.

 

[regis9 4,022]

I followed the work around posted earlier in this thread and all is good now.

[DModjo 122]

Thanks for posting the resolution to this. I was going mad trying to understand why my FPS dropped so drastically since the SU12 update.

Turns out I had the VisualEffectsLib folder intact under the FSLTL base models directory in the Community folder.

Deleting it resolved the problem - I imagine a complete reinstall of the base models would have also fixed it.

[Mike S KPDX 597]

34 minutes ago, DModjo said:

Thanks for posting the resolution to this. I was going mad trying to understand why my FPS dropped so drastically since the SU12 update.

Turns out I had the VisualEffectsLib folder intact under the FSLTL base models directory in the Community folder.

Deleting it resolved the problem - I imagine a complete reinstall of the base models would have also fixed it.

what???

the comment concerning this AIG item in this thread was:

"Per AIG personnel suggestion, I deleted VisualEffectsLib folder from the package and FPS is back to normal. It's temporary solution I guess." 

and you state you removed the effects folder under FSLTL?... are you sure you know what you are doing here?  You may be confusing yourself.

[Kaiii3 1,980]

User of AIG OCI can simply get their FPS back to "normal" levels by:

1) Start AIM

2) Run a verify SetUp

3) Verify via the InGame Contant-List that the AIG Effect Library is at least 0.3.2

[EnSnellHest 51]

I've ran the verify setup, but when i take a look the AIG Effects Library is still on 0.1.0. Any idea why its not updating itself?

[SN737 140]

3 hours ago, Kaiii3 said:

User of AIG OCI can simply get their FPS back to "normal" levels by:

1) Start AIM

2) Run a verify SetUp

3) Verify via the InGame Contant-List that the AIG Effect Library is at least 0.3.2

and how is the 3rd one done?

BTW, none of my ai airplanes are using the effects included in the VisualEffectLibs folder

thx

Edited March 26, 2023 by SN737

[nobleord 17]

@Kaiii3 I did the steps that you noted above.  If I look at the community folder, it now has files from March 2023 in the effects folder.  However, in content manager it still shows version 0.1.0 for the AIG effect library.

 

 

[SN737 140]

57 minutes ago, nobleord said:

@Kaiii3 I did the steps that you noted above.  If I look at the community folder, it now has files from March 2023 in the effects folder.  However, in content manager it still shows version 0.1.0 for the AIG effect library.

 

 

Could you tell me the path of the content manager folder you are refering, thx?

[nobleord 17]

@SN737  Community\aig-aitraffic-effects\

 

 

[SN737 140]

3 minutes ago, nobleord said:

@SN737  Community\aig-aitraffic-effects\

 

 

thank you, i have that folder but i don't know where to look for the version of the effects library

Edited March 26, 2023 by SN737

[SN737 140]

2 minutes ago, SN737 said:

thank you, i have that folder but i don't know where to look for the version of the effects library

Just saw it, it's in the manifest.json file, mine is also is old (0.1.0), so verify setup is not bringing the version Kai mentions.

Edited March 26, 2023 by SN737

[Maxis 1,865]

@Kaiii3 Does this new version of effects come at any performance penalty ? and if it does is there any way i can copy back a previous version of the effects ?

 

Edit...After doing some testing. I think there is a performance penalty that im not willing to take. Seeing that AI planes are still showing up at the gate after deleting the effects folder and hopefully they still fly as they should without these effects installed i think i'm going to just do without them. AI Effects are not worth sitting at 28fps in the Fenix at least for me. So the effects will remain deleted and hopefully the TC user interface will have an option to disable the effects to save a few frames for those that prioritize their perf to be allocated elsewhere.

Edited March 27, 2023 by Maxis