Hi,

I have the Aerosoft East Frisian Islands installed but performance is terrible. It used to be good, but at the moment, while having reasonable framerate of about 30 fps in 2D, it is stuttering/pausing heavily. In cockpit view is still good (also in VR, can move head and the instrument view is fluent, but outside it pauses every some 1/3 second or so. Other scenery works as expected. Any clues?

 

EDIT: WHen uninstalled the airports perform normal, but more boring of course.

Thanks in advance,

 

René

Edited July 17, 20232 yr by Rene_Feijen

I purchased this about 2 years ago and only flew it once. Performance is non existent. Ridiculous, a few tiny islands, villages and airfields a stuttery mess and they don't even bother an update. 

I found the models to be incredibly badly behaved as well. Lots of disappearances, popping up at the last second etc. 

It's heavy in custom ground imagery which might be the prime factor in bad performance. 

I won't be expecting an update. 

You could see if you could delete the CGL folders which is where that lives. It might break everything. No idea. I've never done it.

Obviously back it up beforehand. 

An easier one would be that it also has an enormous texture folder in the package. You could resize the biggest ones in a program like paint.net from 4096x4096 to 2048x2048 etc and see if that makes a difference. 

Many normal textures could go from 4096 to 1024 and you won't see much difference. 

Edited July 17, 20232 yr by superspud

THanks for the replies, will try to fiddle with the CGL folders. I would like to fly these islands, as I now have IRL lessons from nearby in the Netherlands (EHST)

25 minutes ago, Rene_Feijen said:

THanks for the replies, will try to fiddle with the CGL folders. I would like to fly these islands, as I now have IRL lessons from nearby in the Netherlands (EHST)

I'd suggest trying reducing the textures first. Probably easier and likely more effective. If you don't like the look then just drop the backup in again. 

Some of the textures are absolutely vast and double or more the size of what other developers would use for the same thing. 

There's also a suspiciously small number of textures with 'LOD' in the name. 

Hm, I dont have pain.net and sounds a lot of work with so many dds files.

I try to remove the CGL folder first.

 

EDIT: That doesnt help.

Edited July 18, 20232 yr by Rene_Feijen

In the folder "aerosoft-airfields-east-frisian-islands\SimObjects\Misc" deactive the folder "Library_SimObjects" by renaming it for example to "_Library_SimObjects" and you have much better fps.

Bernhard

1 hour ago, Bernhard777 said:

In the folder "aerosoft-airfields-east-frisian-islands\SimObjects\Misc" deactive the folder "Library_SimObjects" by renaming it for example to "_Library_SimObjects" and you have much better fps.

Bernhard

Will try, thanks!

1 hour ago, Bernhard777 said:

In the folder "aerosoft-airfields-east-frisian-islands\SimObjects\Misc" deactive the folder "Library_SimObjects" by renaming it for example to "_Library_SimObjects" and you have much better fps.

Bernhard

That works great, finally the islands are flyable again!

This area works well with aerosoft n sea industry also. 

18 minutes ago, g-liner said:

This area works well with aerosoft n sea industry also. 

Indeed! Just did a flight over Friesland, Netherlands, and saw 2 oil rigs North of Ameland.

2 minutes ago, Rene_Feijen said:

Indeed! Just did a flight over Friesland, Netherlands, and saw 2 oil rigs North of Ameland.

Think there’s loads of objects about the islands like lights and boats etc there’s a guide on the aerosoft website with locations of everything. Some are quite small though.