mdavis

Yes, but that's a snapshot. You can keep GPU-Z running in the taskbar and check it anytime your position or weather changes.

Depending on your settings (and there are several significant ones), SkyMaxx Pro puts a big load on your VRAM capacity. If you are flying complex aircraft out of complex airports, you are most likely running out of VRAM and forcing texture swaps between VRAM and RAM which will drop your fps down into single digits. My stock suggestion when you hit a framerate wall is to install GPU-Z and find out how much VRAM is really being used. The numbers in the Rendering window are for X-Plane textures only, not the total VRAM load on your system. My guess is that you'll find that you are overloading your VRAM and making some slider adjustments can pull that back down where they need to be.

The position of library folders doesn't matter, although I like to keep mine near the bottom and all together for editing purposes. It looks as if you have some corrupted files. Download new copies and try again.

I would first run the X-Plane Installer which will correct and add any bad or missing files.

I've noticed the same thing. After adopting X-Plane as my main sim, I rarely return to FSX (except to fly a couple of airports that don't appear in X-Plane and which I'm too lazy to build on my own). I find X-Plane, once I learned it, to be much better with views and some other features than FSX, and I always have a bit of trouble "re-learning" the keyboard and hat-switches when flying with FSX. It's what you get used to that matters.

It has been YEARS since I flew on VATSIM. It's interesting (and perhaps instructive) that VATSIM coverage hasn't grown with the simulator community as much as I would have expected. And, yes, I'm working my way through the old 2004 list by Michael Doherty of Dangerous airports. Most of them are little airstrips out in the boonies and away from ATC concern. I'm also not exactly thrilled with the X-Plane version of Squawkbox.

I don't know of any "switch" that sets baro pressure other than a couple of plug-ins that will set 29.92 for above FL180, but they are unique to the aircraft and not X-Plane.

I believe Carenado aircraft went to versions 3.2 which includes their adjustment for the prop torque. They are saying to update to their new versions but do not resave their aircraft in PlaneMaker as this would "over-correct" the adjustment. I did receive an e-mail from Carenado regarding this. I have a lot of their aircraft and found that you can simply open your account page there and download the new versions. The counter was reset for me after I e-mailed them for clarification of the issue, as I had some older aircraft that had been updated a couple of times. I also have several singles and twins from Peters and STMA and I will send them an e-mail before I try updating their aircraft in 10.45r2. This can be confusing, and if you update some of these in PlaneMaker, and find the fix isn't good, you can't backup unless you had a backup copy or saved the original download zip file.

Great tutorial. I've been using WED for simple things for months and I learned a couple of things that I didn't know.

The current nVidia WHQL certified driver is 361.75 for that video card. Try a driver update before you dig much deeper. I would also revert X-Plane back to a non-custom airport in a non-HD area and use a default aircraft to see if the problem lies in your scenery or aircraft (both of which are very complex). Also check your log.txt file to see if there is a software clue in there.

I bought the Carenado 172II which is very nice. No avionics, just steam gauges. I don't know how they compare as I didn't want to buy the A2A to compare. Perhaps there are comparisons on the net somewhere. The Carenado is a very nice aircraft as you'd come to expect from their reputation.

You can turn on "night vision" lighting to see in dark panel areas. Shift-N. Or simply turn on panel lights.

Yes, X-Plane has changed the torque-roll parameters in 10.45. Additionally, Carenado has released updates to their line of aircraft (most of them) to work with the new X-Plane settings. I think the current advice (correct me if I'm wrong) is to leave things alone unless you think you have a problem with excessive torque-roll. If so, load your aircraft into PlaneMaker and save it from there. But do not to this unless you have a problem as Carenado has already tweaked their flight dynamics and the new PlaneMaker settings may not work properly with their new tweaks.

Hmmm.... no problems with my version. Sounds like hardware and/or driver issues. Carenado would never release an aircraft with those major bugs so they must be platform-specific. On the other hand, I'm using a high-end home-built PC with a fast CPU, 32GB of RAM and a 4GB video card (wish I had 6GB or more). I lose maybe 10 fps with the Carenado aircraft - maybe not even that much. I have a hanger full of them. Another thing that I might mention is that although there are apparently download limits on the Carenado web site, I found that they are sometimes reset. Those limits are intended (I'm sure) to discourage owners from downloading multiple copies and giving them away, which is clearly against the EULA. However when the new torque-roll fixes were released for 10.45, I went back and asked Carenado how to obtain the updates and they reset my downloads for aircraft that I had owned and updated a few times that used up my downloads. Perhaps that's because I bought a dozen of their aircraft, or maybe that's standard practice. They have always been more than fair with me from way back in my old FSX days and they continue to provide outstanding products for X-Plane.

I would guess that only single prop aircraft are affected by the prop torque "fix." Twins often counter-rotate, and of course turbofans aren't affected.

I have a very beefy system (weak spot is the graphics card at only 4GB) and I have no problem running any of the Carenado aircraft. I backed my HDR AA and my AF settings down, use "compressed textures" and pretty much put everything else where I want it - extreme airports and textures, tons of roads and objects. The only time I see frames drop below 25-30 is if I fly into a dense scenery area where there are errors in Custom Scenery files that the computer is trying to resolve in the background while keeping up with the flight model. Most of the time over "normal" country, I'm in the 60's or better on a 32" 2560x1440 monitor.

Amazing cockpit !

First, the "custom view" feature doesn't work with 2D panels(*), just 3D panels which most aircraft have. What I do is go into the Rendering settings and adjust the panel size up or down so most of the panel is visible. That usually makes it a bit too small to see some numbers (like the baro setting). Use your mouse wheel to zoom in and adjust your viewing position to suit yourself - the position and zoom level to which you wish to return. Then lock that in with Ctrl-Numpad. (I like to use "4" for my normal forward landing view, "5" for a radio closeup, "8" for an outside chase plane view, etc.) Those settings will be retained individually for each aircraft you set them up for. You can also move the view around using the arrow keys, and you can assign up/down/right/left to one of your hatswitches. All this assumes a "regular" keyboard and a joystick or yoke, of course. (*) You can move a 2D panel up/down and use "chase" or any outside view using this method but you can't zoom a 2D panel.

If this was a truly realistic simulated aircraft, you would have to buy another copy if you trashed the engine, or at least pay for an overhaul. :smile:

I would recommend working on one thing at a time and getting that functioning properly before you move on. Trying to install and set up multiple additions can cause real problems and make troubleshooting a nightmare. Go slow and make sure one foot is firmly planted before taking another step.

Is that all !? Amazing stuff. :smile: :excl:

There used to be a website that stored weather data from past days. I'll see if I can remember where....

My reply won't help you much. I have the Carenado C210 and F33. I did not purchase the A2A aircraft back when I used FSX so I can't compare realism. I do know that many have said the Carenado with REP packages are excellent but I don't have the REP added to mine. They are great for my flying the way they are. I do not have the other two aircraft.

Do you have "Compress textures to save VRAM" checked or unchecked? Makes a big difference in VRAM loading. If your CPU is fast enough, it has virtually no effect on framerates except in very high texture-loading.

Photo scenery is for the high altitude pilots. Down at VFR and helicopter levels, it is fuzzy, blurry and not realistic. HD and UHD mesh combined with w2xp is far better in a Cessna or chopper.