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  3. Posted

    Great Movie of Great Men in a bold and exciting time, where would mankind be today if we kept up such a relentless pace. 

    I try to watch the movie at least once every few years to remind myself of the sheer bravery of the folks of that era

     

    On a similar but different note I also watch Band of Brothers once a year usually around Christmas to remember the bravery and sacrifice made, such a shame.

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  4. Posted · Edited by stephenbgs

    Thank you for kind words Noel.

    My first day off work when all my sim equipment is working so i didn't celebrate it myself, so like Jude keeping my flying local.

    Prefer to be in virtual rain than be out in actual rain anyways 🙂  

     

  5. Posted

    Any luck with your issue? i have similar issue, this is the second time i have had the same issue 6 to 8 months ago exact same happened to me after days of trying different cables i contacted TM, after allot of emails, they sent me a UPS Sicker to post it to them in France and strict instructions on how to package it.

    I gave it one more go before i boxed it up and everything worked perfect, so i didn't send it back for repair.

    Now same issue again, i have noticed a very odd quirk maybe you can replicate it if you still have the issue.unplug the SATAs and just plug in the left side ( spoilers side ) that side works fine. if you then attach right side (flaps and break side) neither side works its like there is a short when right hand side is attached or not enough power to operate both sides.

    I just finished a flight with no hardware flaps rudder trim or Parking break had to do that from the VC, but after the flight i reconnected the SATA and it all works again but i know if i fly again tomorrow it will be broke again.

    Its a very odd problem and i see I'm not the only one with the issue    

  6. Posted

    Off work due to sickness so have dreaded daytime tv to watch just seen an advert for kids bike subscription…“when your child grows out of there old bike we’ll replace it for x.99 a month”…ugh I’m not even 40 but my old bikes always went to younger cousins if I hadn’t already tried to take the wheels off to try and make something dangerous out of the parts. I hate subscriptions but you can’t avoid these days 

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  8. Posted

    4 minutes ago, shamrockflyer said:

    Unrelated, but how are you able to use EIDW? Regardless of whether I have MKS Dub or default Dub installed I get a CTD when loading EIDW or when approaching the airport.

    No Idea what may be causing that as i mentioned i use very little to no addons such as AIG or aerosoft  traffic, additional ground add-ons and no 3rd party ATC are you running v1.1.1 stability fixes are mentioned in change log but i never had any problem

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  9. Posted · Edited by stephenbgs

    An interesting evening i promised myself i would never look for tweaks or spend hours playing with settings like previous sims but tonight was an eye opener.

    My experience tonight was by just disabling PG in settings gave the biggest boost,+12 to +18 fps at US airports. Deleting WU photogrammetry cities had a boost but extremely minimal. I suspect its as far as i can push my system those with better PC might notice a bigger boost from deleting the WU photogrammetry cities as @Cpt_Piett mentioned its only 615kb so its no big problem reinstalling them 

    @pmb is right its Asobos turn to take care of this before anymore time passes.

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  10. Posted

    22 minutes ago, Phantoms said:

    It's in the MSFS tips forum:

     

     

    Thanks for the additional info gotta be honest tho IMO it photogrammetry from the USA seems to be my problem 90% of my flights of my flights are in  photogrammetry regions UK,France, Germany, Austrailia

    Im going to remove the files from the content manager as your link suggested to tomorrow and see if there is a greater increase

    Thanks for the info

  11. Posted

    29 minutes ago, pmb said:

    KSFO is the airport where I detected the hard fps hit first, already during the SU9 beta.

    The really bad message is, if you glance through the official forum and the Q&As, you get the impression Asobo themselves doesn't seem to have any clue what they broke. The topic has been raised numerous times in numerous threads and several Q&A questions and they dedicatedly avoided any statement in that matter so far.

    Kind regards, Michael

    Ah yes i remember the infamous SU9 update now, its amazing to think remnants of that update are still an issue despite it being flagged during beta,

    I have not visited the official forum in well over a year so out of interest do you know if there is a performance hit with PG turned on in the Xbox version. I do not own an xbox but i would imagine if it was a problem with the console version Asobo would have found a solution a long time ago       

  13. Posted · Edited by stephenbgs

    22 minutes ago, pmb said:

    As far as I understood, it's not just disabling PG but just deinstalling a bunch of PG WU files via Contents Manager. Details are in the official forum.

    And yes, it's indeed kind of a strange miracle.

    Kind regards, Michael

    That is probably correct if your aiming for higher frames then 30 but just disabling PG worked a treat just hopped over to KSFO and siting pretty at 30 when i upgrade my system ill see what to remove from content manager

    Thanks Michael  

  15. Posted · Edited by stephenbgs

    38 minutes ago, turnandbank said:

    There is a strange known issue where having photogrammetry enabled in other continents significantly lowers performance at PG cities in the USA. There are threads on it here and on the official forum but I don't have the time to look for them right now. 

    Hole in one Martin, thank you. I need to keep more up to date with the sim, now siting at KLGA at 30Fps i owe you a beverage of your choosing 🍻, cheers Martin have a great weekend 

  16. Posted

    4 minutes ago, turnandbank said:

    There is a strange known issue where having photogrammetry enabled in other continents significantly lowers performance at PG cities in the USA. There are threads on it here and on the official forum but I don't have the time to look for them right now. 

    I'll Disable PG and do quick test thanks for the tip 

  17. Posted · Edited by stephenbgs

    Hello everyone

    I was just wondering what is the most reasonable answer to this issue i noticed after a bit of experimenting.

    I've noticed allot of FPS, Smoothness, this plane v's that plane topics and this one falls in the FPS category but not in the typical Hardware, weather, AI Traffic or graphic settings, but on location mainly USA and therefore my question is was world update 2 optimized in a slightly different way? I have only one FS PC so my test was not thorough nor by any means complicated and to be quite frank it was brief so therefor ask if some folks on here can they confirm similar experience? 

    After  months or so mostly doing my flights in Europe and Australia i can not figure out why USA is such a performance hit. Was WU2 different and could it be part of the reason some people have poor sim experience?     

    I have a pretty vanilla Install with a mid range system, the sim is up to date and with every world update and add-ons only include PMDG, FENIX, FBW, JUST FLIGHT 146, I do NOT use Toolbar push back or ground addons, in my test all airports were default ( except EKCH and EIDW) and Aircraft involved were both FENIX and PMDG engines running at the gate

    Conditions were same time of day clear skies and NO Traffic. Cockpit view frames locked to 30 to give it an easy target to hit, and a small wait to let aircraft systems initialize.   

    Some of the results were obvious and others were not so much        

    EIDW 30 Fps ( MK Studios) 

    EGLL 30 Fps

    EGLC 30 Fps

    EHAM 30 Fps

    LEBL 30 Fps

    EKCH 30 Fps ( Fly Tampa)

    LFPG 30 Fps

    YSSY 30 Fps

    RTJJ 30 Fps

    KLGA 17 Fps

    KBOI 28 Fps

    KPHX 17 Fps

    KDFW 30 Fps ( Why is Dallas the easiest on frames ) 

    KMSP 18 Fps

    PANC 30 Fps

    KPDX 17 Fps

    KLAS 18 Fps

    KATL 17 Fps

    KMCO 18 Fps

    With no weather and no traffic is there any reason for this? and personally i found FENIX and PMDG Identical on frame except at KLGA the the 737 got 19 frames. Obviously KLGA is gonna be hard on the system but i see no reason why London is smoother then default Boise or Vegas or Orlando, Great performance out of Dallas tho

    Thanks for reading this far,

    Any thoughts?

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  18. Posted

    Thrustmaster did a really good job of helping. It felt like there e-mails were slow but to be honest I think it was my impatience, they did the usual FAQ abot calibration and drivers which i told them in my initial ticket was not the problem so that was i bit annoying and wasted 3days on questions I already answered. Finally they asked to film my Quadrant setup and calibration program so they could see if it was showing anysign of inputs.

    They saw there was no inputs so told me within 4 days I'd receive a shipping slip from UPS and to send it back to repair.There was a lot of directions on how to pack the qudrant, size of box and protection that part made me feel a little skeptical they were very adamant that any slight damage on the box during transport they would be unlikely to fix it, seemed they were looking for a get out clause, but that's probably my paranoia 🤪

    To cut a long story short when I started to pack it after a long holiday weekend I tried it once more and it came back to life the actions and functions were messed up but 5 mins calibration fixed that.

    I told thrustmaster I would not be sending it back now as it was working but I asked them to keep the ticket open as I have no idea why it died and came back to life, they fully agreed and said if it happens again they'll send out a new UPS collection slip and to send in back.

    My overall impression was they did a good job albeit slightly slow at customer service but I think they have regional support so it could be my location for example if I wanted to phone my local support it was only open Tuesday to Friday 3pm to 7 pm

    As far as I can personally say they will stand  behind there products 

  21. Posted

    I Have a ticket lodged with thrustmaster but wanted to ask here also.

    I have lost all input from the center pedestal add-ons, No Spoiler, no auto brake, no gear, no flaps ,no rudder trim, no parking break,

    However the thrust levers, engine start switches, and ignition starters all work perfect. SATA cables are all seated and re-seated.

    This is not just an in sim binding/calibration issue from using the thrustmaster control panel i can see there not working its like no power is being distributed to the failed components.

    What makes the isuue more annoying is there was only 12hrs since my last flight which everything acted perfect, I cant blame a sim update, windows update or firmware update,

    I've tried swapping USB ports and even the sata cables in the unit, and turning power saving off on the usb ports all with no change 

    If anyone has experienced this be grateful for any information   

     

    Thanks for any help

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