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Hi Jason, thanks for the reply! What are your settings like, and what sort of aircraft/addons are you using? Cheers, Rudy

Gentlemen, thanks for your opinions! Keep them coming. If I can still get my hands on a new 7900XTX with 24GB, is that worth getting? Or is it too old-gen to be worth considering?

Hello all - planning on a PC upgrade one day. What are your experiences with a 16GB graphics card for 4K? With third-party airliners/airports? Would like to have settings reasonably high, but maybe not crazily so. I am still on P3D but keen to try the inibuilds A380 and a few others once they release. Am a bit bummed the 24GB 7900XTX is no longer produced - other option >16GB seems to be the 5090 which is just crazily expensive. Guess it's a toss-up between 5070TI/5080/9700XT, but am worried it will be the old days of FSX and OOM all over again. Cheers, Rudy

Hello all, I will build a new PC later this year, as I want to try a few airliners in MSFS2024 (I still use P3D on a 10-year-old PC). I want to be able to run MSFS2024 at reasonably high settings and have some traffic at my airports etc. I mainly fly add-on airliners to third-party airports, and am particular interested in the iniBuilds A380 that is coming. I currently run P3D at 30Hz Vysnc 30FPS. I am happy with 30FPS Vsync, but I have read about frame generation etc. but am quite unsure about it. I am a bit worried with the discontinuation of the 7900XTX 24GB graphics card. The only other current one >16GB as far as I can tell is the 5090, which is simply out of budget for this new PC. What card will be happy to run MSFS2024 at fairly high settings with 3rd party planes and airports in 4K? I would really appreciate your advice, as a lot of googling and research turns up results from when the 7900XTX was around. Many thanks for your help, Rudy

Have sent you a PM with a link to the two fictional liveries PMDG had for it.

Well it's over at simmershome.de, but it's all locked down. Don't know if anyone has a downloaded copy of it?

I think it gets them from ActiveSky? Can help you set it up if you are having problems (also check their intro manual) but I don't think OC2 connectivity had anything to do with FMS winds aloft unless I am greatly mistaken.

Hello all, If anyone has a copy of this program, I'd be very grateful. Impossible to download now. Kind regards, Rudy

Glad to hear it! :)

The good thing is, we can open PTP files and have inibuilds, Tavers, Tank etc. liveries which are often better quality than the provided repaints anyway. If anyone is looking for particular colours, many of us I am sure backed up the PMDG ones (myself included), so if you are keen for certain colours, I am sure someone can help if you post in this forum :) Has anyone tested PMDG's 777 download to see if the installers are updated yet?

Ah word not allowed. Somehow I did it, but I just wish I could remembrer how. Did I send these? https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FBhO3HsgZkT2iIJUz7CIZXEbXFfJf8xF/view?usp=sharing Give them a go. Maybe they worked for me? PS I am still looking for AI Aardvark MD-8x models if anyone has them :)

I'll leave this link here to the PTP opener I've used that seems to work well - you will need to manually install the livery after it's unpacked them, but at least it is GUI. https://gofile.io/d/G4OAos

Somehow I got mine working with the files I linked you to above. That contains those models. I think I copied TFS models that I got sent from the first zip into my AIG simobjects folder - have you tried that?

Another non-command line ptp opener is floating around too. Can share link if anyone interested

As far as I can tell, both the Avsim and Flightsim links for the base pack on the site you linked don't work? Unless I'm missing something? Thanks for the link though.

Hey mate, Here is a link of TFS A380/777 simobjects that a kind fellow on Avsim sent to me: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bRDN0VLK9FfZolk_Z1sj2msi5bk_VVI8/view?usp=sharing Here is a link of three zips that I have now in the C:\ProgramData\AIGTech\AIGAIM\temp_model folder for AIG: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16dkTDf3yoOjVI7IaeWCTei6ZnGRjMny7?usp=sharing I just can't quite remember how they came about...anyway...somehow between the two I got it to work. Later on when doing AIG, I found I had problem sourcing AIAardvark MD-8x models (which were also on flightsim.com). Cheers and hope this helps, Rudy If anyone cares to share the MD-8X AI Aardvarks, I'd be very grateful :)

Hi there - I noticed when the updater opened, the command prompt came up and I happened to notice it was trying to delete .dll, .dll.config, .txt and another type of AIG file in system32, rather than its own directory. It seems to use a relative path to where it thinks it is rather than establishing an absolute path. It also installed AIG things in the system32 folder. They are investigating on the forum, but have said so far it is "my end". Not sure what about this script is "my end", but until we get an answer I'd be wary. Luckily I had a backup from a day ago, so have used robocopy while rebooted in cmd mode to replace missing dlls etc. When it runs now it is updated, it is fine. So not sure what the cause is yet.

Hi chaps, Beware of AIG manager - when it tried to update, it ran a script that deleted files in system32 rather than its own directory. I am assuming this is a bug in the update script (did but now I'm going to ahve to restore backup. I will contact AIG. Was on version AIG_AIManager_1.3.10.1 and it tries to update to 1.4.0.1 word not allowed! Cheers

Don't want to sidetrack thread, but the way Nvidia drivers are lately, I tend to think if it aint broke, don't update their drivers.

I asked PMDG support about this. They said they'd ask Robert to update the installers (for the 777). Fingers crossed they'll do that. NGX is probably too ancient to worry about. I still strongly recommend everyone backs up their appdata folder for the PMDG OC2 (which has the updates in folders there). Cheers, Rudy

Are there some high-quality third-party repaints we should download and unpack to be safe? I have downloaded all of John Tavendale's stuff (for the 738, 777 and 744). Also Matt Tank's. Might look at the inibulds collection, but will only download for 738, 777 and 744 as that's all I have and I don't have infinite storage. Also remember to get the update files you need for the 777 (and NGX if you still use the old NGX) from AppData\Roaming\PMDG\PMDG Operations Center\Updater

I am very slowly working on a YSWS for P3D. It is a large project, and I have to be careful I make it achievable in the time I have free. Plus I am learning a lot of it for the first time in Blender.

I'll ask the question via ticket tomorrow - also to do with how we should update the planes after install. Won't hold my breath, but it certainly would be nice and cause me to feel more positively about future purchases if they could allow us to install 3rd party liveries/update. I know there aren't many of us left, but even if we should open ptp files somehow.

Me too!

We had better make instructions on how to download the latest updates for the planes before then. Also had better unstuff any ptps that need keeping. Classic PMDG - it can hardly be hard to allow it to install ptps offline. They just don't care. Have given up making reasonable appeals to them - too many times they are untrustworthy and careless. Their actions and choice of staff suggest that they are not really in it for any passion these days - just business. PS - I did download nearly all their free liveries for 738, 739, 744, 77L/W a year or so ago - so if anyone is desperate for one, let me know. Might ask PMDG via ticket if I could host these if there any interest, but I'm not sure they would allow it.