jwenham

Try a PRE-RENDER setting of 1 if you are seeing big fluctuations in framerate. For me it help tremendously with that as well as eliminating autogen spikes.

Same here. I cant even start it as of right now. Figures, the one time I have a chance to fly I cant !!!! :mad:

B4 using the settings I posted and when I had no issue it was luck of the draw that the landing winds were close to my aircraft location winds which made everything work fine. The times I would see the landing problem was always when the destination winds were opposite my current location winds at the time RC picked a runway. With my settings I posted and with opposite current location winds from my destination winds I still was handed the proper runway from RC. Hope it works for you too!! Jim

I have spent MANY MANY MANY, too dang many hours trying to improve this issue as well. After all my testing and setting this that and the other I have come up with a combo of setting that works well for me. If you want to give it a try here is what I do: Active Sky: Check - Force Destination Weather Zone Check - High Priority Processes Check - Direct Weather Control Check - Create Additional Stations AND Enhance Route Coverage <------- (These 2 settings seemed to help the most) Set - Dynamic Rate of Change to 0 Make sure to enter your flight plan into Active Sky. I do this B4 I start FSX but not sure if that matters. Also make sure you have LOCK to CLOSEST selected. Ultimate Traffic 2: Weekly Traffic Density - I keep it @ 50% all the time Daily Traffic Density - None - Zip - Nada - 0% FSX Target Frame rate - OFF Max Alt Ground Traffic Visible - 18,000 Distance to Spawn Ground Aircraft - 25 nm <-------(Very Important. With the weather settings above, your destination weather will be set when you are 80 nm from your destination. With a setting of 25 this gives Active Sky PLENTY of time to get the destination weather in place B4 your AI are added there. This will help greatly with head on landings at your destination as well as wrong runway assignments at your destination) These settings have worked best for me and maybe they will help you also. The wrong runway problem is NOT the fault of RC nor is it the fault of UT2 but is a product of Active Sky and how the weather is added to the sim. If you are not using RC or UT2 then you would not see these problems at all. The above ONLY needs to be used if using RC AND UT2 (at least for me). Good luck !! Jim

I think that answers my question then. Sounds like that most people that use weather either dont fly with AI or fly online or just live with the way AI behave in FSX with other weather engines. Thanks !!

I never really had the AI issues till I started using a 3rd party weather engine. I like to fly with AI and I really like what your software does but I want to make sure that my AI issues dont continue if I switch to OPUS. Again. FSX with no 3rd party weather works with no issues. The demo version cant be tested fully in that aspect.

Thanks for the reply. I will post this also on the forum you mentioned and see what they as. Thanks, Jim

I currently use ASE and have constant issues with the way the weather and my AI traffic play with each other. I use UT2 for AI and also sometimes use Radar Contact but lately have just been using charts and such flying SIDS/STARS. My question are: 1) WIll OPUS work with Radar Contact ? 2) will my UT2 AI and Opus work with each other or will I still have the problems with AI landing opposite end of the runway ? The only mode in ASE that will guarantee both will work is to use standard mode but we all know what that causes. Thanks !!

Set your FSX profile VSYNC in Inspector and then match that setting in the GLOBAL profile.

***** UPDATE ***** Well... sending ASE to the system tray was not my issue. It turned out to be a VSYNC issue. Who would a thought?? I use Inspector and recently updated to the latest cough..cough.. greatest. With the new inspector I MUST set the same VSYNC setting in GLOBAL as well as my FSX profile. After doing that I have had no problems and I have been flying all day.

Last week I did several flights after a short break from FSX. ATL to TPA, TPA to BOS, BOS to JFK and LAS to LAX... all with no problems. Then I decided to do LAX back to LAS and this is where my problem started and it took me 2 days to figure it out and thought my experience may help someone. What was happening was I setup to depart out of Gate 56 out of LAX. I did everything as I always have and was greeted to a FSX crash. I rebooted and tried again only to crash again and then again and then again. Now, I dont know about you but when this kind of thing happens I MUST find the cause.... its in my blood and its what drives me crazy at times. Anyways.. I tried this and that and this again with no solution. I was able to start at other gates just fine but gate 56 and a few others would crash every time, I eliminated the problem being the PMDG 737 as it would crash even in the trike. I then noticed I had no crash without running ASE.... Hmmmm I said.... ASE was confirmed as the problem after many many attempts to resolve my issue. I posted my issue on FSDT's forum with no resolution found. Well... after 2 days of pulling my hair out I found out that if I minimized ASE and not send it to the system tray WA-LA ... no crash !!! This was verified time and time again. So ... why would sending ASE to the system tray cause FSX to crash as opposed to minimizing it??

This is a GREAT vid a friend of mine sent me a link to. Just watch her face .... all the joy she shows and her at times concern and then relaxation. If you have kids I think you will like it even more as it is a great thing to be able to see your children experience new thing in life. Enjoy !! http://www.youtube.com/embed/w8JU-1ZrRAg?feature=player_embedded Jim

If you get Imaginesim's and if you need support at all you can forget it !!! Fly Tampa's scenery is top notch AND has GREAT support when you need it, should you need it.

yep ... I have suggested it several times now and every time people say it removes the spikes.

To all of you having spikes ... in Nvidia Inspector change Pre Render to 1 in place of 3 or default. It will most likely remedy you of the spikes.

What you are asking really can not be done. I asked about this when UT2 was being developed and the reason it cant be done is that the number of AI also represents the AI that are in the 50 or 60 mile AI bubble that FSX has. I use UT2 which uses real world schedules and I have it set to 55% for airline and 0% GA. THis setting for me gives me the best compromise as far as performance versus traffic amount.

How does this weather engine play with AI (UT2) when using Radar Contact? Are the weather readings taken from the users aircraft or the destination when asking for METARS?

Setup the Nvidia CP as per Kostas guide and then in FSX you select the filtering of you choice. I believe the guide says to set it to Trilinear. (I have Anisotropic selected in FSX)

Anisotropic will give better sharper distant textures and this is the setting most people are using. We set it in the Nvidia CP to Anisotropic 16x and Trilinear is selected in FSX. I actually have my FSX set to Anisotropic and have it set in the NVIDIA CP as well which is where the level is set, in my case 16x. As far as which one is better for FPS?? why not just try it and see?? I doubt you will see any FPS difference at all.

First off... welcome to AVSIM !! Now, you said you set your BufferPools to 850 mb ?? That is way wrong. I have a 260 and I find it best to use: [bUFFERPOOLS] PoolSize=0 Secondly, a SLI setup for FSX has been proven to cause issues. Thirdly, and you may not want to hear this but it is the truth, 2 ghz CPU for FSX wont cut it. To be able to enjoy FSX you need a Quad Core CPU running @ 4ghz With all that said this does not mean you wont be able to USE FSX but.... FS9 may be a better option until you upgrade your CPU. Try to disable SLI and start out with a CLEAN CFG and go from there.

Gotta love ImagineSim..... NOT !!!!!

oops.. my bad sry !!! Didnt realize I was in the FS2004 forum.

I doubt any airport in that area of FSX will be 100% stutter free.

That is caused by NOT having VSYNC on in your video card. Also are you flying in windowed mode or full screen ??

Wait till you want support from ImagineSim or think a update or a patch is needed.. then you will understand. Glad you like your new purchase and that you are happy with it its just that ImagineSim has left a bad taste in alot of peoples mouths.