Scott434

Yes, but it costs a lot. See towards the end of this avsim report. http://forum.avsim.net/page/index.html/_/reviews/review-gtn-650-750-avionics-r2357

Great aircraft. Been waiting for a while for this and it very well done. Handling is superb, GTN support, visually very pleasing. All RealAir products are top notch and I own both v2 Dukes and the legacy. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smabmvtlop6of51/AAC1W52xyWCiJtmQJufaQDm8a?dl=0

GTN750 no contest. (I have most of the RPX guages and the 530). See pics at link below. https://www.dropbox.com/sh/smabmvtlop6of51/AAC1W52xyWCiJtmQJufaQDm8a?dl=0

777-200F, sp1b, FTX-Southern Alaska, Anchorage X airport, Ultimate Traffic 2 at 100% traffic levels yielding 14 aircraft at and around terminal, cloudy & rainy with ASN, GSX running with main and aft cargo loaders doing their thing, LOD=4.5, textures=1024, healthy slider levels ..... This is a significant FSX load yet my remaining VAS is approx 500-600 Megs. This is a test scenario and reducing traffic down to reasonable levels my remaing VAS hovers around 800 megs. I have found that the reccomendations in the 777 introduction manual to use fs-sceditor (FS Scenery Configuration Editor) and remove unnecessary (unused for your planned flight) scenery is extremely worthwhile. Not only does it improve your remaining VAS levels but it speeds up loading/unloading FSX.

Thanks PMDG. I can confirm that SDK SP1b works now. Thank you! I am sure that we are closer to having FS2Crew!!

Very good debugging approach and I am sure it will be interesting to see what actually caused your problems. Making changes one at a time allows you to isolate the problem(s). I also use NickN guide and have been doing so for years. I have never had a problem. My testing shows that the 777F SP1 uses approx. 0.850 gig of VAS. I can easily induce OOMs by cranking up LOD and/or traffic or by using higher rez textures (I use 1024). But the times of "just loading everything to the max" are gone and one has to make some priority calls if we want to use these cutting edge and remarkable simulations put out by PMDG and others. When I fly low altitude in my other aircraft, I use "heavier" FSX settings. When I am flying the 777X, I am so busy concentrating on flying that "lighter" FSX settings go virtually unnoticed. Cheers, Scott

Sorry for the multiple posts as Avsim was a bit slow when I tried to post the PDF. Perhaps someone can delete the two first posts since they are missing the PDF attachment. Thanks, Scott.

For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!

For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!

For those who might be interested, I developed (and currently polishing) a little FSX application to do a couple of things I have always wanted to be able to do namely easy cockpit switch control and flight data logging with takeoff and landing charting. Please see attached PDF for more details if interested. Since I fly pretty much exclusively PMDG aircraft, the cockpit control part of this app work only with PMDG aircraft since I utilize their SDK (only NGX available at this point.) The flight data recording works with any FSX compliant aircraft. I was thinking about making it available for others if there is enough interest but that would required a couple of folks volunteering to do a bit "beta" testing first. If anyone is interested please PM me. I am hoping that PMDG does not mind me posting this here. Thanks!

Can anyone else (I believe you Simon but 100M is hard to discern the way things vary) confirm the 100 VAS saving when disabling RAAS in the dll.xml (changing Disabled to True - 3rd line see below). If you disable this addon and you load a 777 livery that has the RAAS option enabled, what happens? <Launch.Addon> <Name>RAASPRO</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>.\RAASPRO\RAASPRO.dll</Path> <DllStartName>module_init</DllStartName> <DllStopName>module_deinit</DllStopName> </Launch.Addon>

F2?? [buttons.777X] 0=RY,21,C65966,0 ; Throttle 1 Thrust Reverser - Repeat throttle decr 1=UY,21,C65967,0 ; Throttle 1 Thrust Reverser - Cut 2=RY,22,C65971,0 ; Throttle 2 Thrust Reverser - Repeat throttle decr 3=UY,22,C65972,0 ;Throttle 2 Thrust Reverser - Cut

LOD settings is very influential in VAS for me. In fact that is how I throttle things up/down (along with Traffic levels). I would be very concerned if I changed this value and did not see a difference - meaning something is not right here! FSX changes LOD back to 4.5 automatically every time you change display settings within FSX so perhaps it has always been at 4.5. LOD multiplies "everything" so it has more of an exponential effect from my understanding.

Sorry Ryan I did not mean to imply this. I meant to imply that things that are pre-release sometimes are not the same as release ... "Some specifications are subject to change on the final released product." My delta VAS numbers between the NGX and the 777X are more like 300-350 and not 185. Other peoples number vary as well and the question is why? It is hard to converge on a number in FSX but the swing is large. Perhaps it is something small that crept in during the last push of bug fixing prior to release.

As part of my latest build and FSX priority memory usage, I log/"plot" VAS memory use vs LOD settings (with all other sliders/variables constant). I use FSDT's CYVR and Aerosoft's Anchorage X airports as the load. In preparation for the 777X I did VAS benchmarks on the NGX. I determined exactly and precisely the settings required to trip an OOM and the threshold I need to be at to maintain my flying environment without. The 777X significantly surpasses the NGX and is most definitely harder on VAS than the NGX. IMHO the difference is not within the usual margin of error that was causally assumed from pre-release comments and marketing speak which indicated the 777x and the NGX would be comparable. It is why in fact, the many are seeing OOMs while comparing to the NGX. I have made adjustments to my system to accommodate the 777X because it is such work of art. I have been a software developer for over 3 decades and I FULLY appreciate what PMDG have accomplished here and I just love the plane!! My approach is to make the aircraft a priority over other memory consumers. I fully anticipate that in the natural progression of the products life cycle, service packs will find a way to optimize and provide tuning options for the users who either can't (know how) or won't (eye candy and traffic are their priorities - and that is OK!) take steps to relieve the OOM potential. If PMDG say "Guys we have done everything and the 777X VAS footprint is required" then I will live with it but I have to believe that his is not the case. Thanks PNDG for a crazy good aircraft which will only get better as time progresses. Cheers!!!!!!!!!!!