jostytosty

It shouldn't really matter where you fly. When I fly in the US, I use US charts, When in Asia I use Asiatic charts, in Europe...The usages of the plane however remains the same. A tutorial with the NGX landing in Innsbruck brings you one of the most challenging approaches available for a plane the size of a 737. But It could have been in the Andes as well, if there is a difficult approach for an 737. So It doesn't really matter where you fly, but you have to study where you fly to, to make sure you do it properly.

The thread is named wrong: bugs in v2.5 Of course there can be some bugs in the sim, but what is meant here is that the folder structure of p3d has changed and therefore some addons won't install. This is not a bug, it means "a different sim".

I'm amzed your system does not give you more fps. I do not know whether it's the 777 that keeps your setup slow. I have very good results with P3D 2.5 [also 2.4] and the MJC Q400. Reasonably high settings, some addon airports, Traffic 360 Ai flying about and I set my framerates to 25 wich they stay. Like VC10Man says do not stare at those framerates. P3D can run smoothly with 10-20 frames. The framerate counter of the FS-ses never was any good, If you want to measure fps you should have another program check it for you. Your driver is a driver that was messing up Runway/taxiway lights in P3D 2.4 I have 344.75 and it is doing fine with P3d 2.5 My specs: i7 980 at 4.2 GHz 6GB ram; 1TB at 4 HDD's in RAID10 and P3D on a velociraptor of 500GB; W7-64bit; GTX 750ti -2GB Your system should preform better than mine. Do you use affinity mask? For a quad + HT, I think: [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=63 [mine is 6 core + HT = 1023] This should do the trick= 1st core and 1st HT core off, other cores on including HT. - yeah I know some say HT doesn't work; but a PC does not run a sim only it runs a lot more plus many people don't realise what HT does. Did you turn everything up to full? Roadtraffic is a killer, while the ferries at sea are not. Autogen could be turned up since you have 4GB of ram on your graphics card and P3D is processing a lot of autogen on that card these days. You use powermanagement, is it an ASUS-board? Some Anti virus programms can be a killer. Try a freeware like Avast or Avira antivir just to test that. Are there any anoying programs running in the back ground? Well good luck, happy landings.

the ctd's are caused by FSX being 32bit. You will have to reduce autogen, toad traffic etc. Allthough P3F is also 32bit, LM manahef to get some of the autogen to the graphicscard which reduces the use of the VAS [allocated memory] I know it is frsutrating that FSX does this, nut it is the way it is. Iff you want less crashes [virtua;;y none] turn to P3D. oops toad traffic road traffic off course

P3D is DX11, so you can't compare P3D with FSX DX10 preview. Cloud shadows and light through your cockpit in P3D gives you a tremendous sense of depth. Light effects in cockpit [especially MJC Q400] is amazing. It seems to me that people having problems with P3D and not getting the benefits might have a wrong videocard. It must be DX11 capable and LM says it should have 2gb memory.Flying in P3D with most functions on you should not aim at 60FPS. 20 will do very nicely without the feeling of being part of a slideshow. P3D is smooth and defenitly the simulation for me.P3D v2.3 is out now improvingon cloud shadows.

The 737 is a lighter plane than the DC10 and thus is more influenced by wind. The PMDG package is probably more realistic, thus the wind influence might be more realistic. The winglets version is more influenced by crosswinds than one without [note the handbook] If you fly Ryanair standards -don't forget to take some extra fuel with you ^_^

Okay convinced, a very small grey watermark. i will save me some money to buy a proper DX11 card [summerseason is probably the best time to do so - giving the stats] and buy the "amateur" - acadmic license Once it's running..... I will even try to get rid of the neat small watermark as well [please don't tell LM] :rolleyes: Just like my video image to be very clean. B)

There's the Internet for you... one doesn't know what to believe. You Googled and turned up with a -indeed- very small and neat watermark. I googled and found a film with the P3D logo in the top right corner. So what is it?

Why did I see movies with a logo that is a globe with orbiting letters P3D?? That isn't the same as you say... is yours V2.0?

I have seen P3d 1.4 and a beta 2.0. The reason HDR, fog etc does not have an impact [like Noel says] is because other then "X" it uses the Graphics card better.MUCH BETTER, It is as simple as that. There are many graphics tweaks possible in P3D, from within the program that aren't possible from within X. I can't run P3d v2.0 myself because I will need to upgrade my Graphics card frits [because of DX11] But a friend showed me v2.0 I'm convinced that P3D is the future for us simmers. Forget the Eula -bla bla stuff. I'm no lawyer. We want to fly "as real as it gets" don't we? So just port over planes using that neat programm that is available and set up your 737 kite. The only thing I hate in P3D is the P3D logo in the "academic"version. They say it's small... small? My *! It's HUGE and it's awful, just like all those idiotic TV logo's, as iff I don't know what I'm wathching. P3D plus a new videocard makes it about $350 - something. [Euro's: 310 aprox] Wich is a lot of money in my opinion. But it might be worth it just to keep flying in a Sim that wil be updated every once and a while [but $140 is a lot of money for a logo...]

The guy says it's build by a Belgium game company, so no it's not Flight 2.0 neither is it FS XI. Besides that it's a demo. I remember the promising demo's of both X and FS2004. It means nothing.

The main advantage of FS[X] being on a seperate partition [or preferable a seperate disk] is that when your Windows crashes you won't have to reinstall everything. By using a little trick with Windows, I've placed FSX on a newer, faster disk. That would not have been possible when FSx would have been on the same partition as Windows [=just 1 partition] To keep files save it is allways better to have more than one parttion. Eg.: C= Windows D=FSX E= reservesm foto's personal docs and waht not, This kind of setup saved the day more then just once, IT professionals do it this way with my companies laptop so I'm very curious why home users should not do it the same way.

A friend of mine had made a new rig with SSD's in it. He had them replaced twice. So be carefull if you buy one of those. If you want to combine speed, storage, quality at not to high prices the WD Velociraptors is a very good choice in my opinion. It does make a difference using speedy disks esspecialy when loading this heavy "game".I use a WD Velocity [500GB] in my rig just for FSX, I use 1TB in RAID10 for the system [safe and fast] with ordinary HD's The clue with X is still processor speed. I've got the i7 980 pumped up to 4,2 GHz [watercooled with one of those neat small out of the box watercoolers - 64 C max in "X". Your system look very good indeed to me.

oops Apple instead of Aplle With Quick Time came Itunes, something with an Windows/Ipad connection and other stuff from Apple. I´m not shure which Apple app caused mine, and my friends FSX to crash. My FSX on a PC his on a Highend Laptop.

The Base of the PSS Dash8 was the Fanda Dash8 which was a marvoulous expirience in FS2002 / FS2004. However the PSS DASH 8 for "X Wasn't realy that good. A lot of system simulation went missing. So I actualy hope the king is back in the sense that the Fanda DASH 8 is back in PSS / Majestic Software. A full pro version would be smashsing. :wub: