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Wow! Those PNG ones will be great for PNG flying, thanks!

I just meant that in an accu-sim plane, for example, oil amount, age and temperature actually does make a difference so you actually need to check the oil gauges. I rarely even look at oil gauges in other planes because they usually only show a "fake" set value right after engine start-up. That's what I meant, not that you shouldn't have a "working" oil gauge. Sorry if it came across as offensive. Cheers!/Andreas

Does it really matter? After all, there is no real oil usage/ -systems simulated in Carenado/Alabeo models anyway. The oil temp gauge is basically just there for decoration.

It's very strange indeed, that they spend months modelling an aircraft but so little time actually checking that the most basic things are working properly. What's another few days extra before release when it's been in development for so long? Sloppy and arrogant are the words that comes to mind. Looks nice though.

No you don't have to buy ASCA for the "whispy cloud effects", it's a feature of AS16. I know because I have AS16 and only use REX Soft Clouds with it.

I can confirm the Turbine Duke engine failure simulation. Happened to me once, not sure what I did wrong pretty sure everything was in the green but BAM! went my left engine.

Sorry to say this but, an overclocked Pentium G3258 + a GTX 970 would probably run FSX/P3D better than any AMD cpu coupled with any graphics card. Don't be fooled by all the bells and whistles of P3D, it is still a very CPU bound application. Too bad you didn't check with the community before you decided to spend all that money on a top-end GPU. Heck! That FX-8350 will probably bottleneck the 1080 in other modern games as well. However, since both FSX and P3D are still very much using the main core of the CPU you should be fine with an overclocked i5k skylake processor. IMO, i7's are better performers but by such a small margin that the extra cash isn't worth it. Check out the following list: https://www.cpubenchmark.net/singleThread.html It shows the CPU's with the best single-thread performance. Some people have hard time accepting it but the 70€ Pentium G3258 actually has better single-thread performance than even some i7's. Easy fact, lesser cores=faster single core performance. Cheers!/Andreas

P3Dv3 runs pretty good, until you throw in AA and heavy cloud coverage into the mix, the it runs like a DOG. Mind you, it has gotten better but I keep reverting back to fsx for better "weather performance". Each to his own I guess. Cheers!/Andreas

Hi! I picked up KMCI in the current sale. It's a very good price for what you get. Nice worn textures and reflections on the terminals, CTRL-J jetways and 3d grass with almost no framehit. I think the photoreal is very good and the blending to the default FSX ground textures are some of the best I've ever seen, I'm not kidding. I can't vouch for how it blends with FTX Global because I don't use it for my heavy jet flights but with the default textures it blends very well and I wish more developers would take their time to blend photoreal like that. I was honestly surprised of how good it was. Performance? you wouldn't know that it's a big airport because because there is virtually no performance hit at all, I know it isn't exactly FSDT or Flightbeam quality but still, great performance! For the price that it's going for right now, it's a steal. Haven't checked VAS usage but I wouldn't think it would be a problem, I don't fly heavies with FTX Global vector or UTX on anyway. Only thing I feel missing a little is different animations and maybe apron traffic, not a biggie but would be nice to have.

Fantastiskt! Tack så mycket för dessa! H. Andreas

Sorry to say it but get an Nvidia card, I know from experience that they perform better in P3Dv2/3. Used to have a R9 280 3GB card and then "upgraded" to a GTX 960 2GB, had pretty significant stutter problems and wildly varying fps. All that went away after I got the GTX 960. I don't even think you need a GTX 980, the 970 is great bang for the buck unless you're going multimonitor and/-or 4k that is.

Flightsimstore + new heavily anticipated Orbx release = same old problems. JV and Co, get AT LEAST one more online vendor for your products, FFS....

Well if that isn't small-dohicky compensation then I don't know what is.

Hi, just got a confirmation fron Carenado support that they are indeed working on new installers for their products. They didn't mention which products but I guess all the P3Dv2 compatible ones is a fair assumption. "Carenado Support, Oct 4, 20:14: Greetings, We're making several tests to make our products P3D v3 compatible, but we don't have a date yet. Regards Carenado Support"

Yes, "hopefully" and "optimistic" are two keywords within this context. If it's just an installer issue then it shouldn't be too much of a hassle or costly, right?