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They just released their payware PRO variant which is even more powerful. Dont know yet if I like their jetway replacement approach tbh, but it is optional 👍

Well, if you take the price tag into calculation, SI looses big time. It is impressive what evolution BATC had in the last year and while I still envy the SI users for some functionalities, I am perfectly happy with BATC as of now. Even more, after they introduced jetway connection ;-)

Well, that is the mistery in my case. There was nothing. No message, zero indication. It was not listed in the download section of MS store, also not in the "recently updated" list. There was no hint when firing up the sim, nothing was ever downloaded. Yet the Xbox app shows the SU7 version with the correct version number. Ultra strange, never had something like that before. But you know what? I had, in the same timespan, the EXACT same experience with the latest Battlefield 6 Update. I checked it in the morning of the release date, nothing. I fired up the game and tadaa, Season 5 installed. NO idea why, absolutely none. Two "silent" updates of two totally independent games within the same few days. What is my rig doing? 😁

Good question and I second that again. I also had nothing, usually with SU, I get around 5-600mb Download when opening the Store and updating my apps. Nothing this time. All of the sudden, the version changed to 1.9.28 and I get all SU7 stuff in the sim. So wonder if it is really installed properly?

Same here, that is why I limited my FPS to a reasonable level. But stll I see a difference in smoothness comparing 64 to 128 FPS, that is why I use 4x FG now. And as there is no downside, why not? 🤣

If you want more, Vincent, give Optiscaler a try and use the hack that enables MFG. I am currently using 4x frame gen off a basis of locked 32FPS and I do not see any visual degradation or more artefacts compared to 2x frame gen only and to me, it is really a gain in smoothness on my 144Hz G-Sync compatible monitor compared to 64FPS.

Positive: most aspects of the sim tbh. This is the best we ever got, both visually (of course) but also in regard of how it performs on my rig etc. Negative: just minor things atm: AI landing gear culling and this bloody snow coverage in valley (espaecially in the Alps) during summer days with 30°C plus down in the valleys. Seriously, besides those two things I hardly ever notice anything anymore that bothers me. But as I only fly addon planes from addon sceneries using a lot of additional tools (AutoFPS, BeyondATC, ApronLive etc.), things that do NOT work are usually related to one of those 3rd party things ;-)

Wont help me in any case because I have my FPS locked. Which is basically what I suggest everyone to do. So no reason to get 30% more FPS when I have them locked anyway ;-)

Strange update. My sim tells me I have 1.19.18, but there was never any download and also the ingame menues do not offer anything to be updated. What is wrong here?

Gave it another try. If I turn down "external" sound levels to 10-20% only, it gets where it should be imho and is really an immersion booster. But with 100%? Or even more? You hear the departing plane 3m away like sitting next to it, waaaay overdone. But overall, great little thing.

Geez, it would damage my ears, I have it on 30...

What level you put the sound on? 100 is far too much for me, even 30 seems unrealistic loud.

I only did a very short quick test and then uninstalled it again. It somehow modified my whole soundscape, using FSS E-Jets, the sounds of the plane, more specifically the GPU, was waaaaay too loud then. So far, it seems that I am not the only one having this issue with sounds being amped up that have no relation to AI sounds, dont ask me what is going wrong on my end. Most users seem not to have this issue...

But most probably wisely chosen settings and not a blunt «all ultra» approach.

Interesting, thanks. The puzzling part for me is, as I have no knowledge in this field, simply by observation of threads and topics in forums and seeing what problems the userbase is dealing with. And there WAS a time where this "missing objects at destination airport" was a huge thing (I personally was never affected by this, for whatever reason) with several threads in here, over at the GSX discussion boards etc. And then suddenly it all disappeared and it seems as nobody has the problem of missing objects at destination airports anymore. Or is it a MSFS2020 vs. MSFS2024 thing? Or did Umberto find a way for GSX maybe as such as you imply? Generating several simobjects via a single request call? I do not know, so it will be interesting to see if the increasing number of users of Apron Live results in a re-appearance of such threads about missing simobjects. We will see ;-)