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Hi all, Looking for a little advice with this annoying issue! Firstly, my specs are: i7 6700K @ 4.5 GHz, 16GB RAM @ 3000 MHz, Nvidia 1080, a 4K monitor and a bunch of SSDs. I usually run with hyperthreading off. I have the terrain textures get blurry/not much if any autogen loading during the last few long flights. Even after taking off out of EGLL the other day in the PMDG 777, I noticed the terrain textures over Belgium were blurry and not loading properly. My normal settings are: Resolution: 3840x2160 FXAA: Off AA: 4xSSAA Ansiotropic 16x Texture 4096x4096 Vsync: On with triple buffering (monitor @ 30Hz) Frame rate: unlocked Level of detail radius: Ultra Tesselation: Low Mesh: 1m Texture: 7cm Scenery complexity: Very Dense Autogen and scenery draw distance: High Autogen vegetation density: Extermely dense Autogen building density: Dense EA: on Shadows: High/High Internal vehicle/external vehicle cast/receive Sim objects/Vegetation/Buildings receive Clouds cast I tried reducing the LOD to Medium & High, Autogen/scenery draw to Medium, and both vegetationa and building autogen to normal, as well as turning down mesh, but still, when I save and resume the flight during initial cruise over western Europe, the same problem. I am using ORBX openLC Europe + FTX global. For some reason, if I turn hyperthreading on, this does not happen. I let P3D decide the affinity mask for non-HT, and for HT I use: AffinityMask=255 P3DCoreAffinityMask=255 MainThreadScheduler=0 RenderThreadScheduler=2 FrameWorkerThreadScheduler=4 I can't recall seeing blurries that don't resolve like this before, and I am not sure why hyperthreading seems to help. I have always had HT off in the past as I feel the sim is less smooth with it on. Have tried rebuilding P3D cfg, letting scenery indicies and terrain cfg rebuild etc., but no luck. Scenery library is in order (Addon aiports, then orbx Airports, then orbx openLC/global, then mesh (not for Europe), then default. Has anyone had any luck curing these annoying blurries? I am open to any advice. PS my ORBX library is on a separate SSD to P3D but I am assuming that is not the problem. I notice the scenario loads quicker with HT on. Kind regards, Rudy

Would be keen to hear if you need to run the EZCA simconnect installer after windows updates every few weeks. Let me know how you go. It's no big hassle for me, but not sure if I'm the only one.

Thank-you for your ideas, chaps. I think I'll stay off it and continue on with the 777 for such flights. Toliss 330 does look good, but was keen for a classic. Beggars can't be choosers eh. Cheers, Rudy

Hi all, Currently get around in the FSL A320, PMDG 747 & 777. I am considering the Aerosoft A330 - I realise it doesn't have any failures. Is it a good product for an A-B flight? Does it have things like step climbs, save/resume, takeoff/landing calc etc.? How do you like it? Cheers, Rudy

Exactly the same, except I am on Windows 10. Works fine, but need to run config tool after some Windows updates (not just Defender definitions). Happy with it and it does what it says on the tin. In fact, I'd be very upset without it.

Thought there were quite a few payware aircraft without it? Could be mistaken though. Or more than just inop, if its not much use as I see in A330Driver's streams for example - showing lots of precip at low altitude with a 6 degree tilt up at FL330.

PS - hopefully Fenix's implementation of the WXR spurs other devs to have a red hot go

Interesting responses, gents. Thank-you. It does annoy me a bit that a lot of graphics/fancy stuff gets a lot of Asobo effort versus some stuff core to flying. I would have thought after five years now there wouldn't need to be much a "backward step" if you move over from P3D. I'll have to come one day but guess I'll hold on for a bit longer. Once there's a plane I really want to fly that I don;t have in P3D I'll make the move. I am a bit of a nerd and enjoy doing some detailed flight planning with PFPX etc. and like to follow airline SOP as much as possible, so little things like WXR being inop annoy me quite a bit! Thanks for all the posts. A cheeky sidenote - I'll probably need to make a new post - is the default A330 (inibuilds) in 2024 much good? Would I be frustrated using it if I am used to the FSLA320 or PMDG 777 for example?

I know it's not really much help. EZDOK/EZCA seems to still be up and going/updatd for P3D v6. Works fine for me, except after any major windows updates, I need to run its config installer again. I am not on latest version though, so that might be why.

Hi all, Still lurking around happily simming with P3D at the moment. One day (after I upgrade - holding off upgrading till I am ready to make the switch) I'll probably have to move over. Things that really put me off at the moment include the general lack of a decent weather radar (my love of historical weather is sorted by ActiveSky now - means I can plan a flight carefully and fly it the next day, or any other day really). I saw something about Fenix doing something, but didn't know what the general state of it is. Are there glimmers of hope of weather radar becoming better? Cheers, Rudy

Hi all, Does anyone know - If I run an airport with 4096 textures with the sim set to 1024 (for the sake of my puny VRAM amount), does this lower in-sim performance versus shrinking the textures to 1024 outside the sim and running at 1024 in the sim? Any experience/ideas appreciated! Kind regards, Rudy

I have a fairly ageing system - 6700k @ 4.5, 16 RAM, 1080 GPU. Turning off Orbx_3D_Grass_High_Poly.bgl, all CarsParkingVehicles BGLS has helped a bit. Plus you don't notice parked cars on roof when landing a jet! Dynamic lighting is pretty word not allowed intensive, but thankfully doesn't affect takeoff and landing.

Hello all, Just bought this - didn't know it had released. Going to have a bit of a look shortly, but my first impression from flying out of it yesterday was that FPS came down a bit after sitting there, even with AI on/off. Anyone else had much experience with it? Cheers, Rudy

For the moment, in case they don't update the installer/somehow allow updates: I have copied the contents of \AppData\Roaming\PMDG\PMDG Operations Center\Updater\PMDG 777-200LR and other planes somewhere else so I have a copy of the updated files. If you don't have that folder, you may need to uninstall the plane, install it from the installer you download, and let the OC2 update it. Then you've got to find where to copy the files to.

I have posted again. Mathijs labelled it as "commotion" which I can't understand. Mathijs, Here is the question in bold below. I can't make it any clearer. Please address it. How are we to obtain the lastest version of the 77L/F/W product (1.11.1201) if the installers availabe for download are outdated and OC2 is not going to give the update after install? Robert's post said: "... we will deprecate use of PMDG Operations Center 2 and that will reduce the tools effectiveness to only installing 3rd party liveries". Yours I've quoted here says the same. This would mean OC2 is not going to install updates for some of the outdated installers like the 777 ones available on our accounts. For the fouth time now, I have mentioned the 777 has outdated installers on our accounts. The OC2 provides updates to it after install. This is inconistent with your statement "nothing changes apart from support being halted". Without the OC2 update or an updated installer, we cannot get the most up-to-date version of the 777.