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To close this out... I finally went with the FV12 panel and dash that has 2 13.3 displays. Then on the side I added a 3rd 13.3 display. On the main 2 displays I put the primary flight instruments and in some cases even the main standby flight instrunments. I use the 3rd display for panels and switches and indicators and in the case of the Honda Jet, I even added the 2 GTCs. It all worked out perfect for me using Air Manager and PopoutMgr.

I'm considering a FVPro6UDM panel with dual encoder and dual 15.6" touchscreens. I like this option since the touch screens (with Air Manager) can be reconfigured to a number of different aircraft as opposed to a dedicated G1000 (or other) solution. Does anyone have experience with Flight Velocity and their touchscreen panels w/Air Manager and are you happy with it? Are the 15.6" touch screens overkill? Are there a lot of panels/instruments available for Air Manager and is it easy or a headache to configure? Thanks!

Thanks @Bob Scott especially for that great reply. I fully followed your explanation and logic. I may take this 1000VA back tomorrow and go to at least a 1200 VA unit. Thanks agai!

I have a Masters in EE, a long time ago but I don’t think volts and amps have changed much… I can not figure out how to properly size a backup battery / UPS. My PC with an Nvidia 4080 and a 850 watt PSU is plugged into my CyberPower 1000VA UPS. The only other things plugged into that UPS are a printer which is mostly hibernating, and a network external drive that is almost never accessed especially when flying. I would think 1000VA would be sufficient (although the battery also says 530 watts which doesn’t compute to 1000VA), but I keep getting a warning tone. How do you size a Backup battery / UPS or do you just not use one. Thanks!

I use the FSUIPC7 .bat that can be created when installed. Then I use the FSUIPC7.ini [Programs] section to start the additional add on I want (SPAD, NavigraphSimLink etc). Works great!

Just FYI, I use the FSUIPC7 feature to put a shortcut on my desktop that I use to start MSFS. Works great. And in my FSUIPC7.ini I use the "Programs" feature to start other addons like SPAD.neXt and ForeFlightRelay. [Programs] Run1=CLOSE,"E:\XX - MSFS2020\My_MSFS_Stuff\Miller.MSFS..ForeFlightRelay\Miller.Msfs.ForeFlightRelay.exe" Run2="E:\SPAD.neXt\SPAD.neXt\SPAD.neXt.exe"

I use the -1. The parameter there tells RTSS where to put the tearline. A 2160P monitor has additional lines per displayed frame to provide a buffer before loop back to the top. Setting a negative number tells it to put the tearline that number of lines below the last line in the displayed resolution, so off screen (unless the negative number is larger than the buffer in which case it loops back up). In @Noel's example of 60 it should put the tearline 60 lines down from the top. But in P3D I don't really see a tearline in any event. I believe that is due to the relatively low dynamic movement in the scene compared to some action games, but not sure.

If all else is the same, why is autogen popping better with limiting in sim vs externally? I always thought that was more a function of other parameters.

I never really noticed any either. I think it's more evident in other "games" where you have high FPS and dynamics. In any event, I a 3840 x 2160 res monitor has 2160 vertical scanlines per frame but some number of those (I can't remember how many) are actually off screen, a kind of buffer. So if you set -1 you are telling RTSS to put the tearline 1 line below the last displayed line, so off screen. you can make that -1 or -2 or any negative number less than the number of lines off screen. Setting it too negative will just wrap the tearline back up to the top and down a number of lines. BTW, this is much more than I really know about the subject 🙂.

I chose -1 to put the tear line just below the screen and out of view.

My monitor is at 60Hz. I only use the scanline x/2 with -1 as a parameter. I leave the frame rate in RTSS at 0. Result is monitor refreshes at 60Hz, but P3D is externally limited to ~30fps (by the scanline sync x/2). I'll reiterate that my P3D settings are unlimited, vsync off and TB off. And just to confuse things further 🙂 I select TB in NVI, to put the burden of TB on the graphics card as opposed to the CPU and P3D.

My guess is many people just don't want to install and run yet another add-on utility and elect to use features already installed. @Noel this confuses me, and I think you said it earlier also. Why would you use vsync in P3D AND RTSS scanline sync x/2 (-1)? Just scanline sync x/2 will give you the 30fps result.

Yes. x/2 parameter -1

Yes, I'm surprised so few say they use it. I use P3D UNLIMITED, NO VSYNC, NO TB but RTSS ScanlineSync x/2 and it's great. And when I want to monitor performance MSi/RTSS has a great on screen display I can turn on and off.

I just installed this afternoon and it was perfect. BTW, thanks @Bina !