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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?

Yup, that's what I've found as well. Older installers (c208 caravan for example) without P3Dv2 support actually work but ironically, newer ones that DO support P3Dv2 refuse to install. Big bummer!

Yes, I've already left a support ticket asking them about this since several of my recent Carenado/Alabeo planes (citation II, navajo, alabeo saratoga etc.) refuses to install in v3. What worries me is the fact that Carenado/Alabeo aren't known to modify/update "old" releases or installers, not even their most recent releases. I'm not going back to 2.5 and I don't like to use third-party installations tools because they in no way guarantee compatibility and they often break the EULA. What do you think, with their track-record, will Carenado/Alabeo come out with new installers for recent releases? It would be a great dissapointment if they didn't. Cheers!/Andreas

Also, those 15-20% improvements don't automatically translate to a 15-20% improvement in FSX. Most tests are synthetic and the real-world gaming tests of the new Skylake series actually show some degradation in gaming performance compared to equivalent predecessors. That doesn't bode well for single-thread intensive legacy software, like FSX. Hate to be a neghead but it would be nice if we had a whole new simulator platform that actually took advantage of the power of modern multi-core/-thread CPU's and GPU's instead of having to constantly brute-forcing decades old code. Imagine something that was DX12 native, it would run well on almost any multi-core hardware as long as you had a decent GPU.

I'd say not so much better, unfortunately CPU's are developing in the direction of lower power consumption, workload spread over many cores and clocks barely moving up at all. These are good developments for modern OS'es and software/games but for ageing legacy software like FSX and P3Dv2 -which are still very much single-core and high IPC dependent- it's the opposite of what we need. Hopefully someone will develop a modern flightsim, built from the ground up for modern hardware and not some fantasy 6+GHz monster that will never exist.

Global Vector+PMDG 777=not good, maybe? When I read OOM topics the two most common things mentioned are always the PMDG 777 and FTX Global Vector. Both are VAS hogs and there is little one can do except "disabling" one of them or both, lol!

I have Taburet Night 3D Finland installed and it looks incredible with HDR on. I tried with hdr turned off and it doesn't look nearly as good. I was flying last night and looked out my apartment window and this time of the year the clouds are almost as bright white during the night as in the sim. At least here in the north.

Something else will be released before the T-6. A2A usually disclose information about a new product shortly before it's released. Like many other developers, they probably start on a new product even before they release their latest one. This is becauses certain development assets frees up during the end of development, most likely modeling and texturing and maybe some programming.

So, lights are fixed now? The Witcher series is not "FPS rubbish", had to be said.

Nothing mentioned in the release notes about P3Dv2 light fix or sli profile.

Yeah, I have the static water issue at all altitudes. Copying the FSX WaterConstants.xml will fix it? I'll have to try it later. Thanks for the tip!