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It creates a hideous blur effect when looking about that reminds me of being slightly drunk. With TrackIR I find it intolerable. I have noticed that game developers like to use it to mask poor frame rates. I switch that off whenever possible.

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There is not a checkbox in FPS Cap mode to enable TLOD Base + but I assume that it's on by default which is why it exhibits this behaviour of trying to push beyone my TLOD Base setting? If that is actually what is happening then yes, that is exactly what I'm asking for. When I load into the sim with FPS Cap mode I don't want it to try and push my TLOD above my TLOD Base setting until I have taken off and flown above my ALT TLOD Base setting. Once above that it's great to have it do its thing. Inversely, I want it to be back at my ALT TLOD Base setting as I pass back through ALT TLOD Base. With the way I currently have this set up it would mean that I remain at a TLOD Base of 100 until my ALT TLOD Base altitude of 500ft when it can start pushing up my TLOD should the correct conditions be met. And the same in reverse when landing. I'm perfectly fine with it doing it's seeking thing for a minute when I load up as long as it does what it needs to do and gets the info it needs and then sets and sticks to my TLOD Base until ALT TLOD Base altitude. My personal concern with that is, won't that mean that it will limit more how far it will push the TLOD limit when in flight? As an example, if it would push up to 300 TLOD in flight now then it may limit it to 250 or something after such a tweak? Or would this only affect when on the ground? Does Hr+ affect the entire range of flight from ground to cruise or is it aimed at something more specific? I just what to clarify. From my testing it seems to effect the entire range which is why I'm concerned with that. I suppose though, that if more restrictions were placed on that and it did limit more then one phase then I could increase the TLOD Top setting to compensate for reduced TLOD in cruise? Would that be a correct assumption?

The thing is, buddy, this is not the answer because it solves one issue and creates another. If I use Auto TLOD with the + additional unchecked then it will indeed force the TLOD Base below ALT TLOD Base and that is great but then it creates a new problem when flying and that is that I have to have my TLOD Top set so low that everything looks ugly all the time because I may fly over an area such as London or New york. That means that most of my flight looks poorer than it needs to in order to have the headroom to fly over London without it turning into a slide show. FPS Cap mode gets rid of this problem because it's changing things on the fly according to what it sees my FPS doing. That means I can set it up so that it looks great when it can and drops it when it has to such as high demand areas and this works very well for me generally speaking when flying. It really impresses me. The trouble is that it doesn't seem to work well on the ground at the start of the flight and as I have said. It consistantly tries to push this far too far and after a min of it working it out I'm left with a figure far too high and this goes on and on until it eventually realises that it's wrong and drops it to the TLOD Base level anyway. This can take forever and normally is still going on during the preflight, start up and taxi and the entire time I have erratic FPS which is an immersion killer. The Auto TLOD mode has the checkbox '+ additional TLOD with good performance conditions'. What I'm suggesting is that we have a similar checkbox in FPS Cap mode that allows us to force it to always use TLOD Base below ALT TLOD Base. I'm fine with it being erratic for a minute while it does what it does but it needs to settle at my TLOD Base and not try to push this until I get above the threshold of Alt TLOD Base when it can go about it's adjustments to maximise the visuals without dropping the frame rate. If we had that option in that mode it would be the perfect mode as far as I can see. Is there any technical reason that this cannot be achieved? I believe that @rjack1282 is seeing the same problem as me and has suggested this or something very similar as a way to remove the problem. Anyway, it's your baby and I hope you are taking what I'm saying in the way I am intending it and not as a criticism. I think it's a great piece of work and I'm just trying to help you make it better and make my flying experience better.

That wouldn't be a terrible idea. However, can't there be a setting to force it to stick to TLOD base when below the Alt TLOD base? I'm not sure why it needs to push this at all below there if the user doesn't want it to. If it must then can't it run whatever process it needs to run to establish the data it needs before reducing down to the TLOD base number I have set. The fact is, in my experience the initial setting is just wrong. Whatever it thinks I can run at the beginning is almost always wrong and instead of being at the 60 FPS I have set and capped it drops to 50-55 as soon as I look around. Then I must put up with this until it realises its wrong. It's just an immersion killer and seems totally unnecessary. If it stuck to my TLOD base number of 100 it would always stay at my 60FPS setting with headroom. Is there a technical reason why this can't be an option?

I'm interested in how resource hungry they are. I expect the TDS to be more resource hungry but because I have not tried it I can't test and compare the 2. FPS is primary concern number one for me in flight sim. When I do get it I will compare the two in exactly the same conditons to see how it affects performance but am interested to hear from anyone that has done this themselves.

Is there any way to get it to always use the TLOD base setting when below the AT TLOD Base number when using FPS Cap? I currently have a TLOD Base setting of 100 but when I start the sim up it runs it's checks and it decides that my system can run 200. Sometimes more, sometimes less. Trouble is, it can't and I have to put up with jerking and micro pauses until it decides that it really can't and then defaults down to the TLOD baase setting of 100. My AT TLOD Base setting is 500 so I would assume that below 500ft it should always default to TLOD 100. This works fine when I'm landing but for some reason, when I load into the sim it tries to push it's luck when it really shouldn't. What am I missing?

I have a fully paid up premium PMS but since the Navigraph integration on the TDS I have been considering migrating. I believe that I will sometime in the next month. I'm most interested in the performance differences between the two.

No thank you. It's far better for the app to inform you that there is an update than to have to go searching around websites.

Sure, although, I'm not sure where this is going......how about a game of snooker? Do you play snooker on Shoooters Pool? It's like the flight sim version of snooker.

A little gushing, perhaps. Appreciated, none-the-less. The praise isn't for me, though. It's for the author.

I have been playing with this app today and I must say its a game changer. Had no need for it with 2020 but with my rig 2024 has been disappointing with the performance. I have only flown in 2024 with the A2A comanche and the performance when on or near the ground has been borderline. Enough to convince me that airliners were not going to be an option for me and my rig in 2024. Anything less than 60 FPS is not acceptable to me, especially with track IR. However, after spending a few hours with this today, I have managed to massively increase my graphics and maintain that 60 fps at all times. It's no understatment to say that it's a game changer. Why Asobo have not implemented this into the sim is mindblowing to me. It's so obvious and effective as to be an open goal. The fact that a hobbyist has done this work by himself makes me raise an eyebrow as well as to force me to doth my cap to the man. Thank you, Reset XPDR. MS2024 is looking much more enjoyable thanks to your efforts. It really is appreciated.

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I've seen it alright and once I did it was turned off. It's as janky as it gets and almost all the ships look like the Cutty Sark. Never seen so many tall sailing ships. All identicle. Normal modern ships were rare and when they made an appearance were parked in totally stupid places. Half onshore, half off. It was a total immersion killer. That said, there wasn't any where I would expect to see it such as one of the busiest shipping lanes in the world like the English Channel. But then I would find 5 massive identicle tall sailing ships crammed on top of one another in tiny harbours. I think it fair to say that it doesn't work and when it pretends to work it looks absurd.

14 pages an not one comment regarding performance. Unless I missed it, which is entirely possible. How do the FPS compare to the Fenix? Anyone able to just compare the two at the same airport and settings?

Crikey, that time of year again already, is it? Where are the years going?

Interesting post because I have experienced some weirdness that may be the same or similar since the update. It started as I flew into Luxor in Egypt. Just as I was about to touchdown the frame rate plummeted from a locked 60 to below thirty but it started pulsing and it felt like 1 frame per second. The coil whine on my graphics card was also pulsing as though the card was being turned on and off. It was unflyable and caused a hideous landing. I stopped and ended the flight immediately and then launched again to see if it had gone away. Same airport but this time I started at a parking spot. The issue was still there. I tried again at a different airport and it was fine. Tried again at Luxor at the same parking space and it did it again. I tried again but this time started on the runway and it was fine. Tried again at the previous parking spot and it happened again. Very very odd. Eventually I started the next leg of my journey from the runway and the flight was perfectly fine but something about that airport caused this disturbing issue.

When it's downloading the update it tells you the total target download size and how far it's gotten in the window at the bottom. The bottom right if my memory is correct. Normally looks like 1.9Gb of 3.9Gb. It may also show a percentage but I can't remember. Obviously the left side number increases until the download is complete. Just like most downloads one has to do these days. It's quite small so perhaps you have just missed it but it is there.

I just got a 3.9Gb update when I launched the sim. I launched it 5 mins before and it wasn't there so I presume it just dropped.

I can't get this to work at all and it's rather annoying, I must say. I go to the library settings and click "browse" to tell it the new location and when I select the folder the library settings window closes. Doesn't even let me click on the confirm button. It just vanishes. If click on settings again to see if it has changed it hasn't. Still the same idiotic default location it installed to without my permission to begin with. I don't want it on my C drive. Why on earth would I want all my addons sucking up all my C drive space? I can't start using this sim until I can move this community folder and install a plane worthy of my time. Not a good start. Despite giving them a week and a half to sort their house out 2024 has fallen at the very first hurdle for me. Unless I'm missing something so profoundly obvious, which is feasable, but I can't see what that would be. EDIT: Just got it to work but it's clearly bugged. I select the folder and the settings vanish without getting the chance to click on confirm. Then if you bring it back up again the path is still the silly original path. If you click confirm it vanishes again. If you bring it up again then you can see the path has actually changed. Trouble is, you don't want to click confirm because it's telling you that it's confirming the location it already is and not the one you have tried to tell it you want. It was only out of frustration I thought I would try to press confirm despite all logic telling me that it shouldn't work. Silliness.

First I have heard of it but the fact they thought they were going to get away with that is astonishing to me. Though, it probably shouldn't be.

Sounds to me as though they should be paying you.

Hmmm, I held off buying this plane but after reading that update I thought I would give it a go and it hasn't gone well so far. I'm getting some extremely strange and funky behaviour with regard to frame rate, jitters and even a weird graphic thing where I'm seeing a rain drop run down the interior of my cockpit which is freaky looking. It was truly unusable and something must be wrong. I noticed that looking left and right out of the plane my frame rate sticks to the 60 it's locked at like every other plane until I looked forward and it would lose 10 and drop to 50. Then, at semi-regular intervals it would drop down to 40 and then back up to 55. Looking left or right the frame rate would go back up to 60. I was wondering if the prop animation has something to do with it. However, when looking around with TrackIr there is this intolerable jitter that comes and goes even when the frame rate is at 60. After trying to fly two circuits I shut it down and tried some of my other planes and all is absoslutely fine. Restarted the sims and tried the PC-12 again and again the same thing. A totally eratic frame rate and a dreadful jitter along with the phantom random interior rain drop. It feels like the cockpit is haunted by the teardrop of someone. I didn't have much time to get to the bottom of it but was so convinced something has gone wrong here that I have uninstalled it and when I have time I will download it again to try again because what I saw can't be right. Not sure when that will be, probabaly not until after Christmas now. If that doesn't work I will have to reach out to the developer because it's unusable for me in this state. Also, it wasn't obvious how to uninstall it. It doesn't appear in "add or remove programs" like any other planes and the manual doesn't tell you. There is an uninstall.exe in the aircraft folder in the community folder if anyone is looking for it. Update: I have a spare half hour this morning so I just downloaded it again and reinstalled it. This time I installed it with different GPS options. Before I chose the PMS with Sky4Sim and this time I chose chose the default. Loaded up in the same place I always do and the frame rate was locked at 60 no matter where I panned around. However, I don't have my Track Ir or any of my controllers attached so I can't take off and fly to properly try it but what I was seeing last night is no longer there. I'm hoping that something went wrong with the install. When trying to buy it their website was having terrible trouble and it took me a while to be able to purchase it. I nearly didn't because it was behaving so badly I wondered if it would mess up the payment. Perhaps something went wrong along the line. Or perhaps there is something wrong with the installation when selecting PMS and Sky4Sim. Could be any of many things and I shall have to do much more testing to see if I can get it to happen again. I'll report back on this when I have time.

Alt + L for the MSFS torch.

Nice an selective. That's the way 😉