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  1. after some more trals and restars I started rebuilding the community folder asset by asset. i believe the cause is found - still trialing this but my PMS folder that installs the GTN750 seems to be culprit It has worked well up until the latest series of CTD's so it is possible it is just corrupted. By removing this folder from the Community folder i can at lease access my payware scenery and aircraft at the moment. Fingers crossed. I would like to thank all contributors as there has been some good pragmatic advice from members. Thanks for all your contributions. (And if this doesn't work, I will let you all know.) Kind Regards Ray
  2. I should have mentioned - already done this, but thanks for the support - appreciated!
  3. Dear Forum members, I am at my whits end in trying to resolve the CTD's of MSFS 2020 on normal startup. If i restart in basic mode ( it launches normally, but then I have none of my payware software. The community folder was moved using the Steam MOVE function and two full reinstalls where completed after initial problems with the first attempt. This all came about because i purchased a 2Tb SSD and wanted MSFS to be launched from there. The Video driver was downgraded, and the realtek sound software was upgraded to the latest version. I have allowed the system to manage the virtual memory space (it was defined by before by me before hand.) I have run system checks and Scandisk and all report no issues. I have disabled the virus checker Before the move, the community folder content caused no issues. If i go to %Appdata% folder and delete the Microsoft simulator folder completely in Appdata and reboot the computer, when i then restart MSFS it of course wants to reisntall the total program , but I point it to my existing installation and it resumes normal loading, it then starts normally for one flight. the next time , back to CTD's I have gone through the community folder and have removed any likelihood of suspect add on's. keeping only those needed for my payware add ons. Still CTD's... I have spent way to long on this but if anyone out there has any further suggestions I am willing to try Regards Ray
  4. I will check what versions of MSI and Riva I was running. For now, I am really happy my FPS has returned to normal, Post window 11 upgrade and SU10 upgrade . I did not check version numbers before I came across this solution, I was getting errors about overclocked GPU or Heat problem, or corrupted Nvidia driver. The irony is I never overclocked my GPU and the fans where not screaming in the PC case from demand. This error has now gone now that I temporarily disabled these two Startups. By the way, Are you running Windows 11 latest update??
  5. Just an update for me (terrrible FPS) regardless of driver version and Dx11 or Dx12. I finally found the culprits thanks to a viewer on the main Asobo forum- Nvidia, has done something to the drivers under windows 11 that causes complete FPS slowdown if MSI afterburner and Riva Tuner are running . Disabled both these on startup and presto, got my FPS back thank goodness (for now at least!! - I restarted the PC twice more to confirm this solution remained in place after relaunching MSFS and indeed it did!! Now to rebuild the rest of the Missing 3rd party content
  6. This whole Driver update and a recent decision to upgrade to Windows 11 for me has been a perfect storm for me personally. I have a 5900x, 32Gb ram, an RTX 3080Ti and I have a 4k Monitor After upgrading to windows 11 things worked fine for a little while, then the new SU10 came out almost the same time as windows 11 did an update. Result - disaster. (Even before i tried upgrading to the Nvidia Studio Driver Unbeknownst to me , my SSD System drive was virtually full, thus Caching was not working well. Running MSFS after the update my FPS was abysmal (7 to 8 Fps) . I tried downgrading the Nvidia driver - it changed for just that one session to normal FPS. But on restarting, back to abysmal Reinstalled the newest studio driver (prior to this latest update) using DDU to clean out the older NVidia driver - same result Resinstalled the older drive 516.97 - no difference Tried moving files off the SSD to another drive - managed to get back 187Gb Still no change Ran Verifiy files in Steam - all good Uninstalled my Steam version MSFS and all associated links Reinstalled - no difference in poor FPS Tried again and went through a more comprehensive cleaning of MSFS files and resinstalled All my Asobo extra purchase aircraft missing, All my payware aircraft and scenery gone (I backed up the community folder but the symbolic link doesn't appear to be working) Logged out of XBox and re-logged back in - nothing changed - no ASOBO Marketplace aircraft I purchased downloading or appearing in the aircraft list. As it stands. I have MSFS in its basic Deluxe format. Unplayable because of extremely low FPS. Regardless of which version of driver I select it eventuates in far below normal FPS Reading this thread this morning offers a glimmer of hope that this new Driver will fix the low FPS. If it does, then it back to rebuilding MSFS to where it was before all this happened. Just an unfortunate and bloody frustrating set of circumstances I guess -
  7. Sarcasm aside, if you read my response properly you will see I acknowledge this is business trying to make a profit (as are all Developers), - it is the business marketing model used by PMDG itself that is the contention of my response. Was that not clear enough to you?
  8. This is all marketing Strategy. PMDG knew at heart their 737-800 was the main draw. They have been nothing but milking the maximum possible financial return out of this frame now for several years. It is the formulaic cut and dice approach by drip feeding the craving enthusiasts with model series releases optioning for masses of variations , options and "extras". So what you may say? They in are in the business to maximise profits where ever possible, as any operating business would do. Yes, well its at the expense of the public who maybe don't want to fit into this mold of purchase. Do they care? Not unless sales fall drastically. I personally don't want the extra varieties of 738's offered with this purchase, I am interested in the Passenger variant only. Am i going to be able to buy the 738 just as a passenger jet? - No. For many the argument that you get the BJB and Cargo version for this price argument is really irrelevant if you are not going to fly them. Why not offer just the 738 passenger version by itself at a lower price? Because PMDG would say that eats into their profit margins and development time and sales of the 736 and 737 would likely suffer. Hence the order of release shall be: 737, then the lower priced stubby 736, then the anticipated big seller the 738. The only way PMDG will reluctantly abandon this model and respond to differing selling options is if the products on offer sell far below their predictions curve.
  9. I have a couple of issues with the beta 1.32 - First - the default camera view is always Landing gear regardless of how many times I change it back to pilot Second - the Outside sound seems to ignore my sound volume settings - regardless of how low I turn them down - it appears to ignore this and is way to loud. I realize it is a Beta - but cannot find any others raising these two issues ?
  10. same here .... and I don't use the google data, just the Bing data
  11. This from a quick browse on the Internet The answer from Frank Shih provides an excellent technical explanation of how it is that Google Maps of China and satellite view line up, but they are not as deep as the reason for this discrepancy. Particularly, what are the “security concerns” behind the restrictions on GPS accuracy? This goes back to the earliest days of GPS when the Global Positioning System was put in place with funding from, among other sources, the US military. US, Chinese, and other governments were concerned that either terrorists or enemies could use the GPS systems for extremely accurate violent attacks, even, for example, being able to send a missile through a particular window into a particular room of a building. This concern has only increased with the development of drone technology. Early on, the US tried to distort the GPS signals over the continental US to reduce this risk. However, this made GPS signals too inaccurate to be useful in landing commercial aircraft. Ironically, the Chinese government cracked the US distortion, so there was a period of time when Chinese missiles could hit US targets using GPS more accurately than US civilian airplanes could land at US airports. Over time, things have changed and the government of China has put the system described in FJ Shi’s answer to reduce the risk of terrorist or military attacks on the Chinese mainland.
  12. Just to help me clarify the latest comments - PMDG is releasing the Base model 700 first and will charge a lower price for that than the P3D buy in which included all variations of the 737/. The BBJ 700 and Freighter versions of the 700 are considered modifications to the base airframe and will be charged as extras.? Will the 800 require the 700 to run correctly? (ah la Capt Sim)? Or it is completely different base model and can be purchased separately without any 737 700 dependencies.? Observation; Unitizing into separate model components is another way in capitalising on returns. It is a well known tactic in the corporate world. I have to say my observations of this tactic invariably offering more, inevitably means you get less in the long run. - or the same thing previously, at a higher price. PMDG will be hoping the end result will give more freedom to the purchaser of options available and I would agree - however, it would also dissuade me from buying anything other than the base model because that is the real saving -( if the model comes out at a lower anticipated price as per previous posts by Mr Randazzo.)
  13. Looking forward to a lower cost PMDG 737 - There is also the airbus 310 in development
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