StubbinMyToe

Hi All, I own the 737NGX and the 777 PMDG licenses for FSX. I am considering switching over to P3D, and it looks like you need to open your wallet again to get these PMDG planes to work, is there a discount for current customers to purchase the P3D license version? Thanks

I checked out RC4 at a friend's house. Not sure if it was a mistake on my part, but at the point in which I was going from enroute to my STAR, it sent me in circles for some reason then stopped responding. I tried it again later with the same setup, and this time it worked and let me fly my route in working just fine. One other funny thing I noticed is if you click the "Load APL" (I think thats what it says, I clicked it by mistake), there is no way to exit the file dialog without loading an APL (did not have one) or nuking RC4 in the task manager. No way to cancel. I will stick with PFE as much as I hate it, and try VoxATC.

No, there is no point

Hehe. Well lucky for me I never purchased ProATC/X

I can name plenty of FSX addons that are not even worth a dime IMO. And not to defend the ProATC/X guy, but getting sick seems to be popular with FSX. I suppose it's because many are developed by amateur hobbyist programmers. Also trying to get help for programs that are still active, such as PFPX, is like pulling teeth. Questions are not answered in the official forums, I can (and did) get an answer here faster. Meanwhile someone like Volker goes out of his way to answer FSCommander questions.

Same here, but I run NVidia. Intel i7-4770k @ 4.2Ghz MSI Z87 M/B GeForce GTX 780 4GB 32 gigs of G.Skill Ripjaws X Series DDR3-1866 RAM Samsung 840 EVO 240 gig SSD (FSX is on here) Corsair Water Cooler Windows 7/64

Don't get your panties in a bunch, I did not say a single thing about this tool, I am just saying in general that I do not have any problems. Perhaps people just do not know how to setup their system, I do. I have Orbx, I also have a ton of addons, and I have no problems. I have nothing to prove to you, I did try the demo though, and it made things worse, so i removed it, simple as that. Again though, I was just asking why do people have such problems. I did not mention anything, good or bad, about the tool. So you can stop needlessly trying to defend it. The guides are good, what I am saying is that I think some people just do EVERY tweak, needed or not, and without knowing what it does. That is not good

Why do people have problems in the first place? I have a ton of scenery, addons, and complex planes like the NGX. My system is very high end, and I hand tweaked it, I have never had any problems with stuttering or texture blur. I have a feeling that people just install various tweaks (such as Word Not Allowed's or NickN's guides) without knowing what it does, or even worse they run Bojote's Tweak tool which is very out dated for today's hardware. It's silly...

Borderless mode will run the same speed as windowed mode.

It (the demo) made my system run slower, but mine was already very fast.

Have the latest version of both. Any flight plan made in PFPX causes FSCommander to give me a "Some waypoints are missing in current Cycle!" error. Both are using cycle 1405, and the route came from Route Finder.

No saved flight

That fixed it, even with the 777-200 full pax and cargo (but not fuel) I guess those engines are just too powerful

Exactly

Are you sure the graphics card is not throttling due to heat for example?

Nope, was ising the default takeofff rate. I have yet to get PFPX + Topcat to help me get the info, so I avoided it

Thanks Ethan. And I know what you mean about SID's and STAR's, based on weather, traffic, and other things ATC can reassign them. So in your FMC you only load the route and then the SID and STAR as you are cleared for them. However, PFE (my ATC) does not really support SID's and STAR's. If I embed them in the flight plan that PFE uses, I can specify the SID end point and STAR start point in PFE, so now PFE should know how to interpret them. At least that is what I think, I can't test it because I do not have anything that saves the waypoints for them.

With DirectX and Direct3D, full screen mode allows the application to take exclusive control of the device, that can allow the application to do things it cannot do when not exclusive. In windowed mode, regardless of borderless or resolution, exclusive control is not possible. That is one reason why fullscreen will be faster. BUT, given today's video cards it should not be that drastic of a difference. Before going to work at Adobe, I was a 3D game developer in the 90's (back then we used VESA drivers and wrote our own 3D code) our 3D code ran at Ring0 to handle VESA bank switching to allow for linear frame buffer access. In the early 2000's before DirectX, it was called the Windows Game SDK, and all 3D games back then were full screen exclusive mode only for reasons I mentioned. Today most games are fullscreen or window, but it will always be faster full screen (just not as much as it used to be).

I limited my speeds for the first three waypoints down from 250 to 200 but still get overspeed. I don't get it, the plane is perfectly trimmed before I engage A/P. The plane was fully loaded PAX wise and about 50% cargo. Fuel was set using short setting, Sometimes, but not always, the FMC will give me a message saying that the default takeoff speeds were deleted (or something similar). I've been flying the PMDG 737 for a long time, and basically I am using the same procedure to setup the 777 for takeoff, but with different parameters obviously. But this plane is cruising like mad, by the second waypoint in the SID it is almost 300 knots even though the speeds are limited in the FMC. After a few seconds it slows itself down and recovers.

Good point Rob

Yes, the weight was very low, and it was pitched up at 20 degrees

Yes, I am used to doing that because even on the NGX I have it set to realistic. Not sure what you mean

Note that the Microsoft C runtime libraries are used for MUCH more than just FSX.

Since Aerosoft forums are down, I will ask here. What is the proper place to adjust the Flight Level of your flight plan? I see "Init cruise Alt/FL" that defaults to "OPT" in the Aircraft section, is that where you change it? Also is it possible to force it to export a FSX flight plan that replaces SID and STAR with waypoints for use in software like PFE? Thanks

On the runway I hit 52% throttle, then engage TOGA, I rotate as usual, get into a stable climb then engage A/P with LNAV/VNAV. But almost always the plane will go into overspeed. I am sure it is something I am (or am not) doing, anyone have a suggestion?