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Ok thanks, but I cannot understand why, for relatively minor updates, we should download the entire installation package, remove the previous version and then reinstall again. It is a quite strange decision IMHO. Bye.

Hello, I am currenly running a "old" SandyBridge i7 2700k at 4.7Ghz and thinking about of upgrade to Skylake family. Don't know if worth it or not. I have not upgraded so far because of hot temperatures under OC with next Intel CPU families (IvyBridge, Haswell and Broadwell). I don't have water cooling so 3rd, 4th and 5th Intel CPU families were quite difficult to run for me under air cooling system (Noctua NH-D14). Now, I am interested in this new family, I read somewhere that Intel had improved thermal features but I cannot know if connection between DIE and HIS is Sandybridge like or not. Does anyone know about OC temperatures with high-end air cooling system? Thanks. Bye.

Hello, thanks. I have just checked the current installed version: it is the January update, I don't remember the build number. Is there a way to get the incremental update without download and reinstall the full package? For some reasons the FSX:SE running PC is not connected to the web by broadband connection. Thanks.

Good morning, I had connected to the net my FSX:SE running PC last night and the PMDG operation center noticed me that new updates for my hangar (777-200LR and 777-300ER) are available. I could not understand what kind of, but it looked like strange. I have just seen in the PMDG official website that last service updates available for 737NGX and 777X are 1d, which are currently installed on my rig (I can run either 737NGX and 777X on FSX:SE). Has the build no. maybe changed? Where can I find more detailed information about the updates that PMDG operation center is giving me notice? Thanks a lot, bye. P.S.: my request is due to connection problems I have with FSX:SE running PC. I would like to download service updates from another PC and then install those updates (.exe files?) on the FSX:SE running PC. Only way to do that is to download the entire executable file, unistall the airplane and then reinstall again versus install only incremental updates? Bye.

Hello, two days of test with the last Beau tweak so far. Positive impressions: performance has improved significantly. Never seen fps under 25, even with very challanging weather conditions. Other impressions: this is not a negative consideration, but a neutral one and need to be investigated. I have noted a significant less cloud coverage. I have flown above overcast clouds (accordingly with ASN map) for many hundreds of miles but the weather rendering was absolutely not as supposed to be. On cruise altitude the sky looked like as a broken or scattered one, not as overcast. Very strange indeed. I would like to verify if it is due the new tweak or other. Anyone had something like that?

Hello, I applied the new tweak to test my performance and I must say that I am now pretty satisfied. No more huge fps impact (even to a bottom of 10-15) while flying toward clouds (descending) or climbing over them. No more massive time lags while panning within the cockpit from left to right (and viceversa). Just taken off from KIAH (FSDT) with this metar (by ASN) with the Aerosoft Airbus Extended A320: 311353z 20011G15KT 1SM +RA BR SCR011 BKN034CB OVC050 24/23 A3001 A quite challanging weather condition indeed. Well, before the tweak I would have got no more than 15-20 fps and a lot of stutters, but some moments ago I have had more than 30 fps (steadily). Clouds thickness was impressive, from ground level to about 12000 feet, and gave my tha chance to test smoothness by panning within the cockpit: no more significant lags. During the climb I did't note any performance drop, fps were more then 30. So, generally speaking, the opposite performance and smoothness than the flights before applying the tweak. Now I want to test the descending phase, I will report next time.

Can you confirm this fps gain in flight as well? Did you notice any difference in visual appearence (read: clouds coverage...) between those two tests?

Did you compare 100% same situations, settings, weather? Same at all?

Well, so now it would be interesting to know which new features have been introduced in the cloud.fx v2.3 file or what are main differences in the code which are responsible for such performance reduction.How was it possible?

Ahahaha... Or maybe another high-performance PC dedicated to clouds generation only, different than the simulator running PC. Would it be possible?

I use ASN for Prepar3d, it is the best weather engine developed so far. Yes, it weighs a little bit on performance, but it is due to the more precise depiction system. I get stutters also, but I think they are not driven by ASN, but due to other factors. ASN has much improved compared to ASE, now the depiction system works very well, no sudden cloud appearing/disappearing, clouds are generated where they are supposed to be and so on. For me it is a must have.

Thanks for your suggestion. I'll give a try. Terrain shadow and Cloud shadow both at 0, object shadow distance at 6 thousand meters. Anyway, what I am noting is a huge performance drop not only within clouds, but flying over overcast clouds (e.g. now at FL300) as well, fps down at low 10 in some cases. Anyone experienced a fps drop also in that situation? Thanks.

Just tried to modify Cloud.fx. On my side it has no (positive) effect, at all. Just taken off from CYVR (ASN with metar cycle of yesterday at 1900z), on course toward SEA, fps at 10 or worse, simply unflyable. Very curious to know how would it have been with v2.2. The fps impact due to clouds is quite massive.

Hi jabloomf1230, you got same performance as v2.2, but you had disabled HDR, so a different environment... So, have you been able to get same performance running same graphics settings? This would do the difference. Bye.

Dave, thanks for your help. It fixed the problem, now I have a completely working ND. Fantastic! Thanks.