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But if you don't fly with traffic anyway, what difference does it make if your airport is empty? It's empty now anyway. If you go on Flightradar24, every flight you see on the screen is injected into your sim. You can filter it if you want to altitudes above and below your aircraft If performance is an issue. My experience is a much higher FPS numbers and lower VAS consumption for the same amount of AI That would be generated by P3D. The fact that P3D isn't doing the math for the AI releases the VAS needed to computer those traffic bold, and my FPS is up because, again, the CPU isn't bogged down flying AI. It's free to try...works great in my opinion. No cost to try but your time.

PMDG has said "Based on our knowledge of the process at this time, we anticipate that x64 upgrades will be made available to licensed users of PMDG products at no cost." ... meaning it's not written in stone that it's a free upgrade. (I bolded the word to highlight the what makes it ambiguous). Just to clarify lest something make this a much more complicated switch over than it might be for aircraft developers...all speculation for us right now.

The 8i has been there from the beginning...under expansions. EDIT: DOH! Max beat me to it. That's what you get for opening a window and not refreshing after getting distracted!! lol!

Nothing to do with your 8GB of RAM...everything to do with the 32bit architecture of P3D. Every 32-bit program can only use 4GB of VAS...no more. The only way to stay under that 4GB limit is to turn down your settings. Look through AVSIM on VAS issues. High end aircraft and airports affect VAS. LOD radius affects your VAS. Water Texture quality, Clouds, AI Aircraft....everything in the sim affects VAS to certain extents. It's up to you to figure out what you want to sacrifice to keep your VAS under 4GB and fly with VAS heavy jets and airports. The biggest players on VAS in my opinion is AI Aircraft and your LOD radius and high resolution textures (clouds, aircraft paints, etc)...at least that's what it is on my system. Bottom line...you can't run P3D or FSX, or FSX:SE with your sliders full right and expect it to not run out of VAS.

+1 Thought that was weird too...

That the part of OCing I hate...memory! Lol. The faster you go on the CPU, the harder it is to OC the RAM. With the 4770K, I was only able to keep it at 1600MHz or it became too unstable. I was OK with that as I had pretty low latency anyway. I only bought 16GB of 3000MHz Ram, so we'll see how it goes.

Video drivers can be the culprit...the only way to know on your system is to try it. What a driver does on my system won't do the same thing on yours. Do you use AI traffic? Texture loading can also cause stutters...be it textures from AI aircraft, airports, and other scenery. The speed of your drive will dictate this along with the size of textures used. I use an SSD drive on mine, and have a slight pause at times when large or lots of textures are being loaded, such as getting in range of a large airport with lots of AI. There isn't much you can do about that kind of stutter...it's the nature of the beast. Another thing you can try is limiting your FPS to about 30, turn of your VSync if it's on and see how that works. Limiting your frames allows the CPU to "keep up" to put it unscientifically...basically you give the CPU more time the render the scene instead of pumping out FPS. It's worth a try. As for your task manager stuff, I can't advise you what is what. Each system is different. Like I said, doing some digging on Google will help you. See what programs in task manager is using the CPU, google it, and see what that program is and what it does. Also, try searching this forum (AVSIM) and Google about Procmon...a nifty little program that may give you a clue what is happening in the background during your stutters. It's pretty advanced, but Google can help a lot. Finding stutters can be frustrating, but the only way you can find out why is to test, test and test. Disable/enable programs, turn things on/off, slide things up/down, etc. Just keep trying things.

That's the plan. I delidded the 4770k and was able to get 4.6GHz myself. Pretty damn good processor. It's been going for about 5 years now, and I cleaned up the old thermal paste and replenished it with new stuff just before I gave it to him...dropped it another 3-5C. Hopefully he'll get enough years out of it that he can buy his own next time!! So, I plan to delid this new baby and see what I can get out of it! Can't wait!

OH!! That's my dream!!! On another note, my Kaby Lake is coming in this week!!! My son's computer went to the virtual heavens...so I gave him my "old" 4770K. He plays Ark Survival Evolved and loves it on that system... Deal is, I get a new Kaby!!! Happy Birthday to me!! LOL!

Yes. You've excluded the folder, so they shouldn't be scanned at all. Try P3D again, see if the stutters have gone or reduced. Like "AoA" posted above, other windows processes in the background may also be a culprit. There are hundreds of posts about stuttering here and many other places that can help you try to isolate why. There is no magic bullet...lots of different factors and lots of different setups make one stuttering on one system completely different than another. There are only the "obvious" ones we can help you with...the not so obvious one, you will have to dig for yourself if the obvious ones aren't the problem.

No. You want to go into your anti-virus settings and EXCLUDE all your P3D related folders....P3D, scenery, etc...everything P3D uses. Windows defender does the same thing...if you have that running, do the same thing. The reason you want to exclude is most antivirus programs do something called "real time scanning", meaning every time your computer accesses a file, it is scanned by the antivirus. This will slow loading times and thus bottleneck P3D. Google how to exclude with your antivirus and do it to all folders used by P3D and see if it helps

Not possible with FS9 since it's does not have the ability to "inject" traffic into it like FSX/P3D.

Just fly...it'll be out when it's out. It's not unflyable now without the update. There is also a great big "real" world out there!!

I'm an android detective as you can see...nothing fools me!

You fly a dog house all over the place as a WW2 flying ace of course!

+1 I agree...love the insights you guys give us. Much appreciated!!

I have P3D 3.4.22 and have yet to see my VAS runaway or OOM. A lot of the "problems" associated to 3.4.22 VAS problems was nVidia driver related as "wsmeier" alluded to and it well documented. P3D 3.4.22 is fine. I use both P3D 3.4.22 and PMDG QOTSII and never have OOMed, don't see a steady VAS increase. I'm always about 3.1GB - 3.4GB in VAS with FTX Global, FTX Vector, AS16, ASCA, and many addon airports...and many, many others have no problems at all with the new 747.

lol!

Can't help you there. Nothing I can find in the manual on how to use it. Kyle or one of the other guys will have to answer this one...

I may be wrong, but I thought if you load up a "saved" default panel state, you get all the settings that state had when it was created, engine oil quantity included. So, I'm guessing you're resetting the oil quantity yourself when you load the default long state panel.

Your 737 won't conflict with the 747...so yes, you can install it. Yes, the AIRAC update covers all your installed PMDG products.

FSRealTime is good for installing the "Fixed" TimeZone bgls...don't get me wrong, though you can gat the same files here in the AVSIM library for free, but you have to install them. When I use FSRealTIme, I just don't use auto update button. Auto update isn't needed for correct timezone crossing...the installed bgl files will take care of that for you. All I use FSRealTime for is to know what the local time is, since the aircraft I use only have Zulu.

Nope. I'm on P3D.

Mine doesn't shake either. Have you updated GSX using the installer from their site...not just the auto updates? Sometimes auto updates don't update everything... Mine did the shake when QOTSII first came out, but GSX has since updated and it no longer does it.

No problem. I suggest you take down you license numbers...you'll have more issues with those up on this forum!! :0