9 hours ago, F737MAX said:

For anyone not using a RTX 4090, I found this performance improvement mod to be brilliant. It allows me to fly into detailed payware airports once again – currently performance of the FBW A380 on my PC is slightly worse than Fenix A320 performance.

(Back-up your main A380 base texture files first!)

https://flightsim.to/file/83938/flybywire-a380x-downscaled-cockpit-textures-fps-stutter-improvement

 

I also like this replacement light mod https://flightsim.to/file/83997/flybywire-a380x-realistic-enhanced-lighting and this window cleaning mod https://flightsim.to/file/84063/fbw-a380-clean-cockpit-windows

 

IMO, it's actually worthwhile flying the FBW A380 now.

We do NOT recommend to use these mods.
Why? The A380X is in continious developement. Not only the systems but also the model and textures. If you use one of the mods and we change something here, the possibility is high that it will break the plane / the look, etc.

Also I would recommend to try the following, if you have fps issues:

• download the 4k version (not the 8k version)
• set the texture resolution (MSFS) to less than ULTRA (HIGH at best)
• set the LOD (MSFS) to 200 or lower
• disable the cabin via the clickspot behind the FO seat (see documentation)

 

We will optimize the plane during the developement process. Expect better performance in the future.
 

Edited November 5, 20241 yr by Watsi

10 minutes ago, Watsi said:

We do NOT recommend to use these mods.
Why? The A380X is in continious developement. Not only the systems but also the model and textures. If you use one of the mods and we change something here, the possibility is high that it will break the plane / the look, etc.

Also I would recommend to try the following, if you have fps issues:

• download the 4k version (not the 8k version)
• set the texture resolution (MSFS) to less than ULTRA (HIGH at best)
• set the LOD (MSFS) to 200 or lower
• disable the cabin via the clickspot behind the FO seat (see documentation)

Already doing all of these suggestions. Unfortunately, none made any difference to the performance/experience I was encountering.
What worked is the performance mod - it has made the A380 flyable in all scenarios.

 

18 minutes ago, Watsi said:

We will optimize the plane during the developement process. Expect better performance in the future.

Fully appreciate that and I know that it's early days still.
Personally, I'm happy to stick with v0.12.1 and the 3rd party mods until there's a significant update that addresses the performance. 

Much prefer to be flying your A380 than not.

"It's too big! It's too big! It can't go up!"

2 hours ago, Watsi said:

We will optimize the plane during the developement process. Expect better performance in the future.

The plane doesn't want to unload non used textures from VRAM. You can see your CPU and GPU work at say 50% and you have stutter.

Edited November 5, 20241 yr by Vitold69

2 hours ago, Watsi said:

 

• download the 4k version (not the 8k version)
• set the texture resolution (MSFS) to less than ULTRA (HIGH at best)

These two things are what did it for me! (4090) thank you! Runs 90% perfect now. 

4 hours ago, Watsi said:

We do NOT recommend to use these mods.
Why? The A380X is in continious developement. Not only the systems but also the model and textures. If you use one of the mods and we change something here, the possibility is high that it will break the plane / the look, etc.

Also I would recommend to try the following, if you have fps issues:

• download the 4k version (not the 8k version)
• set the texture resolution (MSFS) to less than ULTRA (HIGH at best)
• set the LOD (MSFS) to 200 or lower
• disable the cabin via the clickspot behind the FO seat (see documentation)

 

We will optimize the plane during the developement process. Expect better performance in the future.
 

As for many others, for me this is unfortunately borderline unflyable without this mod, so the alternative to using this mod would be to not use the A380 at all for now.

What did it to me was using DDS converter and downsizing all textures to half the size. 8K to 4K, 4K to 2K and 2K to 1024x1024. Only the textures with strange resolution like 2000x2000 I left untouched. Like this, and using only 4K repaints (or resizing them manually), it works fine on my 4080. 

Why this approach? Because even if the 4K variant is installed, there are tons of 8K textures in the folder. At least on my end...

5 hours ago, Lucky38i said:

I think we may look into this but no promises, due to what peter said. Or in our open source nature, you're free to open a PR and have a go yourself.

**edit just saw @Peterwk's comment so edited to avoid repetitive comments.

Makes perfect sense. I am happy with that. It is just a matter of planning my flights using kilograms instead of pounds. No biggie.

Thank you.

https://simulationdaily.com/news/microsoft-flight-simulator-airbus-a380-records-volanta/

 

I guess a lot of people downloaded this plane 😅

I have found the real (In Sim) fuel consumption is 10-11 percent less than official FBW Simbrief profile gives 🤷🏻‍♂️

Just put M10 in fuel consumption adjustment.

Edited November 6, 20241 yr by Vitold69

Is it just me or do others feel super annoyed by the tendency of A380 repaints needed to be installed in the FBW folder using MSLayoutGenerator.exe? Why all of the sudden people choose this route instead of the classic one allowing the repaint to be added simply in the community folder (e.g. via AddonLinker)?

5 hours ago, AnkH said:

Is it just me or do others feel super annoyed by the tendency of A380 repaints needed to be installed in the FBW folder using MSLayoutGenerator.exe? Why all of the sudden people choose this route instead of the classic one allowing the repaint to be added simply in the community folder (e.g. via AddonLinker)?

Totally agree. This is a bad way to implement a livery. When we update the plane, we also update the layout.json every time. So LayoutGenerator has to be used following every update. And there may be other problems, I can't think of right now.
Separate folder is the way to do liveries. Try to avoid those liveries which install themselves in the main aircraft folder.

Edited November 6, 20241 yr by Watsi

Someone made an addon to move the EFB to the pilot's OIT screen

https://flightsim.to/file/84276/fbw-a380x-oit-functionality-mod

Personally I'll just keep using the EFB it's in a better spot.

So bit late to the party completed first 15hr 1x speed flight YBBN to OMDB.

Using the Stable 4K version.

No issues with performance degradation

Still bit of slowdown in some parts but my performance was great at 1440p@Ultra running 4070TI.

Beautiful to fly - TOD and VNAV worked great no issues and the plane flew great in managed mode as selected mode on point.

BTV is so awesome!

Just needs winds aloft data so when I fly near at MAXTOW (which 15 hour long haul is close to) I can load enough fuel to get me to my destination as simbrief atm is way off with their fuel calcs.

I'll be very very happy with this plane for years to come.

Can't believe this is free!

 

Edited November 9, 20241 yr by MikeH99

The work that has gone into this aircraft is astounding considering it's free to the community, and can only get better in time. The FBW team have done a great job, from producing the A320, (Glad they did as i was very close to giving up with MSFS 2020 in the early days, just due to the default A320 being virtually impossible to fly correctly) to this masterpiece, the other point I'd like to make is i think it's a great opportunity to develop the skills required, from graphics, to programming, and it can only be good for the future of flight simulation.