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Released. Orbx only at the moment. Marketplace to come later this week https://orbxdirect.com/product/skyward-citation-msfs2024

And just like that Orbx have now confirmed in discord they will not be moving forward with this DRM. The community has spoken loudly and forced change.

I flat out asked Aerosoft and they have confirmed it is not the same, and there is no kernel level DRM used in the A340-600

I posted it in the Orbx forum verbatim. I'm not a member of the Orbx discord. If anyone else is feel free to post it there.

Recent example of kernel level anti cheat software being exploited........... https://www.pcgamer.com/ransomware-abuses-genshin-impacts-kernel-mode-anti-cheat-to-bypass-antivirus-protection/ "Security skeptics and advocates have worried for some time now that exploits able to take advantage of anti-cheat kernel-mode drivers could wreak serious havoc on PC security. Now it seems to have happened: The anti-cheat driver used by Genshin Impact, the popular free-to-play RPG, has been abused by a ransomware actor to stop antivirus processes and enable the mass deployment of their ransomware." The fact that blue chip AAA companies even struggle with this and the potential dangers leaves me pretty stunned that FS developers would allow a college drop out with 5 semesters of experience and who used AI to code his app to have this level of access to anyone's PC. Honestly I'm struggling to find this believable. I really think as a community we need to take a stand on this and say no. I 100% believe devs should be able to protect their work and their livelihood, but this is not the answer.

On the Orbx forum a user posted this apparently information from the developer of this DRM module, and I'll post it here. You can draw your own conclusions as to whether this is someone you want to give kernel level system access to on your PC.............. "I did what you'd call "AI Assisted" coding. No "vibe coding". Formal training: I've studied computer science for 5 semester, but haven't finished because I changed jobs and had to move to another city, making continuing impractical. It included several security-specific modules. I'm part-time employing another developer who as a computer-science degree and he has reviewed the application. No personal data is being stored. The SimGuard client transmit only the activation key you enter and a unique device-id (from which no information about the users pc can be deferred, SHA256 hash to be exact). Optionally, automated error-logging via sentry.io is enabled, but you can opt-out anytime to that)"

Well one reason is it starts to become cumulative. There is a growing body of evidence that WASM crashes are heavily linked to the number of running addons, apps and programs you have running connecting to the sim. PMDG have an extensive thread and volume of research that shows a significant link. This is just adding yet another program on top of the mix. As others have said here already the concern will be this will keep spreading, and we will be forced to run more and more of these things. For example if you want to fly the PMDG 737 into KATL you will be running the PMDG program in the background, maybe the Boris sound pack, 3rd party livery, maybe you have the Fenix, Ifly and TDS programs running from your EXE.xml, probably GSX Couatl as well, most people run some kind of flight tracker like Volanta, lots of people have a VATSIM client or BATC/SI running and now a scenery DRM that has to be running as well. Before you know it you've got a dozen programs running away in the background leaving yourself more prone to a lovely set of orange screens. It would not surprise me if Orbx KATL becomes a bit of a WASM fest. Was going to be a day 1 purchase for me but now for the first time ever I am going to choose the Marketplace over a developers own store. History is littered with companies who impose overbearing DRM on their customers and it never ends well - Sony anyone? I guess it continues to be true that those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

Exactly the same for me, only started happening a few days ago, but the forums are essentially unusable for me now on Android. The workarounds mentioned above don't really work for more than a couple of minutes at a time. Cleared all cookies, site data, browsing data, then 5 mins later problem is back. It's clearly not on our end, the site doesn't currently work with Chrome on Android. It really shouldn't be up to us to jump through hoops to make our devices work with the site, it should be up to the site to fix the issue. I'm not faffing around with other browsers just to visit one site, I'll just stop visiting here instead simple as that.

Ah thank you, yes so it does.

I'm using PSXT 12.6.0. I cannot select the checkbox to scan addon airports. I press the box repeatedly and nothing happens, it never gets checked, the scan never runs. I've changed the airports in my community folder so I need to rescan them and I am not able to do so. Scan for liveries checkbox works fine. Any ideas?

Download for missing textures: https://www.alpha-india.net/forums/index.php?topic=46574.msg433063#msg433063

Like you I'm a busy family man, and have a full time job in aviation, I don't have time to spend 8-10 hours at my PC, and having it fly overnight while I'm asleep or jump ahead features hold zero appeal for me either - I'm busy enough in the mornings with the family or work as it is. I am really happy to report that the A340 on my hardware at least is flawless at 8x sim rate. I do have a beefy system (9800X3D, 64GB DDR5 6000 RAM and a 4090) so YMMV but I've just completed a trans-atlantic flight and it performed amazingly. Both laterally and vertically it tracked to perfection, just as good as the PMDG 777s. In every other Airbus (INI A330, A321LR, A350, FBW A380) to use 8x I have to pull the VS and set 0 to avoid the wild pitch oscillations, lateral tracking is always fine, but in the A340 I can leave it in ALT CRZ with no problems and it holds altitude perfectly. I'm well impressed. Fuel only burns at 4x, however once I reached the point at TOD where I wanted to go back to 1x sim rate, I just set the fuel in the EFB to what Simbrief had planned at TOD and it set the fuel with no fuss and I had a wonderful descent, approach and landing at realistic landing weight. Anyway just passing along if you have the hardware that can cope you can run the Ini A340 at 8x with no problems at all (except for the fuel burn, which can be worked around).

No I have not had the App installed since I moved to my new PC in February. I only have 2x FG selected and I use DLSS swapper to put the most up to date DLSS files in sim. I have since found I can get smoother performance with NVIDIA DLSS FG using the FrameRateLimiter setting in the Usercfg.opt

Thanks for the tip. I only run a single monitor and no head tracking, but gave it a try. My monitor is 144Hz native. Tried at 120 and 60 and no real noticeable change. Perhaps marginally better at 120Hz when resetting the cockpit view.

I'm finding some interesting things as I tinker around trying to reclaim my smooth performance from pre-SU1. I'm almost there again. Before SU2 I used MSI Afterburner and RTSS to stay locked at 60FPS with FG (so 30 native, with x2 FG). I had perfectly smooth performance everywhere, even when panning and switching views. Was beautiful. Running a 9800X3D OC to 5.4GHz, 64GB DDR5 6000MHz RAM and a 4090 with MSFS24 on a dedicated PCIE4 M.2 drive. Used DLSS Quality, and DLSS Frame Gen. With SU2 and no settings changed I was having terrible stuttering even when in a default aircraft at a default airport, no traffic just sitting there doing nothing. FPS would be steady and then suddenly start dropping and stuttering before going back to smooth again, before it would happen again and rinse and repeat. My DLSS and FG dll files are the latest, also installed the latest FSR dll. All shader caches cleared, and rolling cache deleted and rebuilt. Tried the latest NVIDIA driver and also rolled back to my previous one, and no difference so not a driver issue. Reinstalled the latest one again. I found that by switching Frame Gen to AMD FSR that I removed that stuttering I was getting with DLSS Frame Gen, and sitting there stationary I had my old smooth 60FPS back and it would stay there. I did still get some stuttering when changing views, ie inside to external or when resetting my view after looking at the overhead or pedestal. Also some occasional stutters while panning around, but certainly miles better than I was getting with the NVIDIA DLSS Frame Gen, where I would see FPS drops down to 35 and heavy stutters. Today I tried the Frame Limiter setting in the Usercfg.opt. I set it to 30 so that would give me my 60 with x2 Frame Gen. No real change with AMD FSR, was largely smooth except in the circumstances I mentioned previously. What surprised me though was when I changed to NVIDIA DLSS Frame Gen the horrible stuttering and performance I had yesterday was gone. It was back to being just as smooth if not slightly better than the AMD FSR. So I shut the sim down, reset the Limiter to 0 in the cfg and tried again. Sure enough the stuttery poor performance was back. Just to make sure, set the Limiter back to 30 again and fired up the sim and sure enough nice smooth performance like I was getting in SU1. With the view steady its exactly like it used to be, smooth, steady 60FPS with constant frame times. Again changing views and panning isn't as good as it was in SU1, still get some minor stuttering, but at least I have almost got back to where I was. Just posting my findings in case it might help someone else that is struggling with stuttery performance in SU2.