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Robert, The airplane itself isn't jostled about. The wing is slightly bouncing but the engines are doing the wiggle dance! Anyhow, this is what I am talking about: Not sure if thats what you meant. I think this is related to the weather engine (AS4 in my case) because it is starting when I fly between two cloud layers (although the turbulence is fine) and as soon as I clear them it is all normal. Maybe some kind of setting can cause this to happen on the ground as well? If this is not what has been discussed here you are free to delete my posts to save any confusion from my part!

Not sure if it helps but I was departing EDDF today with some showers / turbulence around. When I am leaving the clouds it stops. I also have a video of it which I can post if needed where you can see it starting to happen. It stops as soon I leave a cloud layer. It can also be related to turbulence settings in Active Sky for example.

It reduces the workload of the pilots in some way but you can argue if it is really that beneficial. I am also sure there are legit reasons why they didn't include it in the B747-8 but from an outside point of view it is weird 🙂.

It amazes me that Boeing didn't opt for the automatic pac system for the B747-8. The first time I booted the B747-8 I started the engines one by one without turning the pacs off, because I thought they were like the B777. Then on a later test I couldn't figure why the dual start didn't work :)! After clicking the packs switches I figured it out.

I have seen this on my flight today. Maybe it is related to camera addons and their way to "add" effects into the sim? Which one do you use? I use Chaseplane.

The EFB is only available on the B747-8.

I for one am glad about this feature and am curious what this will all bring to our simulation. They don't, like others said there is always the option to not use the product. But maybe this discussion is a waste of time and they implement such features. Lets wait and see what the actual product will look like ore more information is given.

Stop crashing Navigraph while testing the -8 please 🙂 Still a while for release it seems but she does looks sweet! Very nice features and toys comming our way.

Most of us do invest a lot in a simulation platform (Time, money ...). Werther it is FSX, P3D, XP11 or unfortunately FSW. The day FSW was announced many of us did already knew not to invest in it. We are active on many forums and from day 1 we could see the signs that how FSW was managed a lot of well known developers were not eager to step in. We also knew the history of their first attempt so we did hold back, we did see the writings on the wall. No-one here seemed surprised at least. What I did like about Dovetail was that they brought flightsim to the Steam market. It is in my opinion the best platform to attract new simmers and the more the merrier for all of us. But they chose Steam for the wrong reasons. I feel sorry for the people who invested in FSW. Customers, add-on developers or people at Dovetail working on the actual product. I hope they don't turn their back to our be loving hobby after this joke.

A few things I am hoping for are: A simulation around our sim. Simulate beeing part of an actual company. A multicrew environment The 787 line Planning, dispatcher and performance tools etc But none of these do meet the criteria posted. Exciting times ahead for sure!

No it is not as simple. With that line you can just skip the copy protection altogether. It is not hard to fake their servers to be offline. If this really is about copy protection then I don't know why my copy of the software should be verified every time 24/7. They need to step up.

Their website/domain certificate is expired and that is why your browser isn't accepting their webpage anymore because it's source can not be validated. This is also the problem of their apps. They deny the connection because the SLL connection isn't correct. Although a small issue (just renew the certificate with the provider) it is rather stupid of a company to be in this situation in the first place. Depending on the certificate provider you get an expiration warning sometimes months in advanced and they keep coming until the certificate is expired or you renew it on time. Although embarrassing, it is a good thing their apps deny the connection though.

I just came across this because I have the exact same issue! https://www.navigraph.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=93&t=4654 I did not test this yet but it seems related to Navigraph SimLink at this point. Don't know if you have the .dll file running though but for others it was the cullprint.

I always have the latest installers on my backup drive and when trying installing the PMDG planes on a fresh installed P3D V4 it was telling me that it could not update by the manager and I needed the latest installers from the PMDG site.. I went a little nuts there because I was sure I did had the latest, little did I know the new installers were just released :D.

Never had this and always seem to work. Did you check you had a TOD? Sometimes when the last fix of your route is far away from the airport you don't have a TOD calculated.

My P3D V4 doesn't crash but there is defently another memory leak in the latest experimental release. Chaseplane starting at 100 Mb memory usage and after 1 hour it already creaped up to 270. Eventually it will crash.

Yesterday I tested the Queen and noticed the FPS drop as well. I did a reset on the sim (default settings) and started with the settings below and worked my way up to the settings I had yesterday to see what was causing this. My current PC: I7 3770K (changed to default clock for this test) Asus GTX 980 SLI 16 GB RAMSSD drive 1 for Windows SSD drive 2 for P3D only Benchmark settings P3D: Radius of detail MAX All other settings on Dense & High 1440P FSAA? off 2 x SSAA 16 x AF Vsync ON + tripple buffering Wide aspect view enabled AffinityMask is set to 254 to eliminate CPU1 which is mostly used by background tasks but after removing this setting from the .cfg I didn't see any change. With MSI afterburner / Riva tuner I was able to note the CPU, GPU and RAM usage while testing various settings within the sim. First set of tests were on a default small airport in Brasil (SNLI) + ORBX FTX Global Second test were with the same settings on KSFO (Flightbeam KSFO HD + ORBX FTX Global + FTX LC NA) Test 1: 22:00 local time All lights off CPU 1 usage < 10% (Windows) CPU 2 usage > 95% CPU 3 / 8 usahe < 20% which shows that P3D V4 is not much optimised for multicore envoirements (Din't expect that to change anyway) GPU 1 usage 33% with 1600MB used memory (SLI scaling works but there is low GPU usage) GPU 2 usage 35% with 1600MB used memory RAM usage 4200MB total (Windows + Sim + everything else) 37 FPS from VC Test 2: Same airport, cockpit lights on - Only small difference in memory usage on GPU's and RAM Test 3: Cockpit lights off, external lights on GPU memory usage went up 60MB / GPU RAM usage went up 600 MB total 34 FPS from VC I did try to change HDR lightning, reflections, shadows etc. without any changes in FPS as noted above. On KSFO I noticed the same behaviour on test 1 expect 50% GPU usage, 2400MB memory / GPU usage and a total of 5000MB RAM usage. No large FPS hit when turning on external lights. I changed the SSAA setting to 4x and did all test again like above. Even on the default airport when turning on the external lights the FPS dropped to single digits. Changing other settings did not help at all(unless turning off dynamic lights) On 4x SSAA my CPU usage dropped about 25%. For now I have to fly 2x SSAA but my sim looks like crap in distances (flickering lines). Hope P3D can find what is causing this massive CPU drop. Although I understand that my CPU can be a bottleneck there are also people with a 7700K / 1080TI setups reporting the same issues.

Paul, Try N32W135 like Romain stated in post 2, it should work.

Hi Chris, Probably some incorrect setting in your Nvidia inspector causing this. For me it is usaly a miscofig between P3D MSAA and the Nvidia Inspector Antialisaing Transparency Supersampling setting. Do you have your P3D MSAA settings the same as the nvidia Inspector (NI) Antialiasing Transparency Supersamping (ATS)? Ive set mine MSAA on a minimum of 4 (normaly 8) and NI ATS on 4 x sparse grid supersampling or 8, depending what my MSAA P3D setting is. For the 747 I set them both at 4 where on the 777 I set them both on 8 (depending on flight though). I never use settings lower then 4.

Although I flew every rivet out of the LVLD B767 back then and I whould buy a PMDG one when it releases I still hope they look into the B787. I know there is already one beeing done but it is not PMDG . But before all that I hope they continue with the B737 V3? and the B777-200ER types! Untill then I have enough to cover with the 737, 777 and 747!

Well, the 777 had som sort of a ground (loading) simulation. My guess will be that the 747 will do more, maybe fully animated ground crews around the airplane loading it up and maybe even a pushback crew responding to voice. If not, there still a few days left to do it

They will be releasing an overhaul shortly for their chart product line: http://blog.navigraph.com/post/153344256881/uncovering-next-version-of-charts

Avsim has been the central point for me in all my flightsimming years. Even when I stopped FS for over 6 years I was glad to see on my return that AVSIM was still going strong. Tom, thanks for your effort to give us such a place in this community. May you rest in pease. My prayers are with his family and friends. Stefan van Hierden

Whoa? With an average wind on the perf page the ETA times should not be that different on these small legs. Its not even close on my sim. As I said, what happends on my sim is not what supposed to happen but I can live with the solution of not filling in any winds / temps and have a correct ETA.

Ok I did find the point where it all goes wrong. On the PERF INIT page, as soon as I fill in CRZ / WIND and ISA DEV figures the time on the ND changes. I will leave them blank. Thanks for the help.