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... and I thought with P3D that is no problem anymore like it is with FSX that loads everything while P3D only loads the scenery where you are flying. Maybe I'm mistaken but that's what I read somewhere AND with the 64-bit it should not be a problem to fly from EDDF to EGLL while EHAM is loaded as well, and yet the amount of scenery loaded should then influence the overall FPS and not only when you switch lights on and off.

When I bought the B744 for FSX I had a problem that the landing lights did not work, or it will work on take-off but when I arrived they are gone. Then one day I saw on my Aivlasoft EFB screen on separate computer that there is a AI object right behind my aircraft following me around. When I land it somehow get detached from the aircraft. I then opened a ticket with PMDG and over time they discovered the problem and it was fixed in a later update.

As you can see from above, it's not so easy to just bring sliders down and or tweak the GPU ... maybe PMDG can advice on the recommended settings and/or investigate what it is with the QOTSII that hit the FPS for a home run when you switch on the lights. My gut tells me it has something to with the fact that the B744 has an AI-object for the lighting and that there is a tension/strain between the two. But I can be completely wrong.

Will PMDG be so kind to give us a summary because I've searched and googled and there are a 1000 opinions but very little "suggestions on how to properly configure" - my P3D4 settings are already toned down according to some recommendations and although I prefer to leave Nvidia Inspector as it is, I've followed some advice to set that as well with neither having any effect on the impact of the landing lights.

Me too ... and 32GB of RAM ... and a FSX locked at 30 FPS that hardly ever drops below 25 even at EDDF or EGLL

I've read the argument of the influence of some 3rd party scenery and the FPS drop when switching on the B744's lights but why will the FPS drop when you switch lights on over the ocean? And why will the same airport (FSDT Vancouver for example) have NO FPS drop when I switch the lights on of a Carenado aircraft that are P3D4 compatible? And if it is only on my system, then I would like to know what is the influence of the QOTSII on my rig because on FSX everything is smooth and NO FPS drop? And lastly - is there a correlation between ORBX night lights and the B744 because in daytime everything is smooth but when the night comes ... ♪♫ ... tralalaa! Must say, I know P3D4 is new on the market and most definitely the future within the 64-bit environment but goodness gracious between the stuttering and shimmering and endless tweaking trying to solve it, it is more of a frustration at the moment than a joy. Accept when I start up the compatible Carenado aircraft and hip-hop over some ORBX terrain scenery like Norway. Then it is all smooth sailing but the moment I turn on the B744 then everything turns off ... and as I say, if my rig is good enough for a very VERY smooth FSX performance then it should surely be more than good enough for P3D4.

I also have the GTX970 with NI settings on default and my FPS gets a thumb on the nose when I turn the landing lights on. I was so hoping the days of tweaking with fiddling details were over ... but alas! And I'm afraid after buying P3D4 and had to buy the B744 again for P3D any upgrade to the 1070Ti is way off any further spending on my hobby and if my Lady finds out what my hobby costed me the last 12 days, then it's going to cost one hell of a lot more to reset her mood.

I have v1.2 and the LITE version is better, but still worst than any PMDG aircraft ........... and in P3D it is shimmering shimmering all the way. Don't know, I'm disappointed.

Really don't know what's going on with the Carenado aircraft lately - there must be a way to revive the FPS? They make such great aircraft and I've just counted and I have 18 aircraft between them and Alabeo and they don't come cheap. Unfortunately there are little or no updates after a month or two and if it isn't fixed by then, then the next development has priority. Seeing that I had a King200 rating in my younger years, I just love the turboprop aircraft and I was waiting for the Cheyenne with great anticipation. Come on Carenado - give us a version with a lower polygon count and make this bird flyable without the need to buy a super computer. Maybe lower that 4 x 16.7 MB texture files and/or lower the size of the 280 MB Common Files PS: Such a pity that RealAir Simulations had to close ... that DUKE Turbo still one of my favs and the FPS are a breeze.

Don't know ... but this PA31T has worse FPS than the B777/B744 PMDG and/or FSLabs A320. My FPS is locked at 30 and with PMDG and FSLABS pretty much maintain 28/29 all the way and only at airports like EDDF and EGLL (Aerosoft) I will see a drop to low 21/23s but the Cheyenne just startup with 21/23 and while flying into ORBX LOWI it drops to below 20 FPS. My specs are more than decent and my FSX/P3D setup runs very smooth. No need to tweak or change anything else. The proof is that no other aircraft in my hanger has this hit on FPS. Don't know ... something somewhere just doesn't feel right because I own a lot of Carenado aeries and this one is just a bummer.

It's there as it always was ...

PMDG could you please explain this ....... It's been discussed before on the forum with more than one user having a problem with the L&T lights: it seems the AI-Object that is modelled for the landings lights has a problem on certain PCs. The first picture in EFB shows the PMDG 744 after push back with AI-object still parked and second picture you can even see the AI-object's NAV lights on the ground. Third picture you can see the splash lights on the side of the B744 but the landing lights are visible in the parking where aircraft was parked. I don't see that L&T lights are listed in the 'Issue Tracking Thread' and would just like to know if the issue/problem will be addressed in a future update? My rig: Win7x64; FSX Accelerator; GTX750; 16GB on i7 4790 https://imageshack.com/i/pntmXuQrj https://imageshack.com/i/podvCoyzj https://imageshack.com/i/pnew9Ltxj PS: And I give up with the URL picture upload if the notification says "You are not allowed to use that image extension on this community" - if it isn't *.png or *.jpg - what is it then?? I've uploaded pictures before in exactly the same way.

OMW - I did not think about that ... of-course, if EFB picks it up as 'two objects' then VATSIM will too. Maybe @PMDG can shed some light on this?

And I promise you, in my sim they are dark at night ... the screenshots were taken at early dusk. But I think we are a little off topic now. Back to the point is the fact that for some of us the Queen and her landing and taxi lights are inconsistent and you never know if they will work until you are on the ground because the splash on the side does not mean the lights shine on the ground.

GREAT! WONDERFUL NEWS ........ so happy for you Heron. Now go and fly that beast :p0503:

I want to make sure I follow you - do you mean that time of day is too light because as you can see it's only 15H46 UTC and still 'light' dusk ... at night it's a different story and really dark in my sim.

Very interesting read, thank you Konstantin. What baffles my brain regarding the Landing and Taxi lights is the fact that PMDG created an AI-object that is clearly visible in AivlaSoft EFB if you have this must-have software. It is right behind your aircraft and follows you around on the ground and that object, according to PMDG, is there for L&T lights. The problem is that quite a few times it seems on my rig that this AI-object gets stuck and then you taxi away from it and then you loose your L&T lights - or, you land and it is as if the AI-object stopped in its tracks on impact and then your L&T lights obviously disappear as well. I've opened a ticket in this regard and we are trying to figure out why L&T lights will work at an airport and next time, same airport, it doesn't work. I've also noticed that if it doesn't work at an airport by simply deactivating the scenery for default scenery does not necessary means the L&T lights will work. In the image you will see no lights in the circle because for some reason the AI-object did not follow the aircraft. When I switch the lights on it appears in the circle away from the aircraft. I then reloaded and started all over again and this time the AI-object followed the aircraft as you can see on the EFB screen. The most perculiar thing of all is the fact that then next time I loaded LOWW there were no L&T at all and when I taxied there was NO AI-object following me. Will investigate more.

After hours and hours - I got the culprit ......... It is EZDok V2.0.2.25 One by one I've uninstalled all the plugins and when I uninstall EZDok the lights work as it should. Then installed EZDok V2 original and it worked ... updated to V2.0.2.25 and lights are gone! Thank goodness I have V2.0.2.24 and that works as well. The question is, why will v2.0.2.25 not work with the PMDG QOTSII while it works with every other aircraft ...?? ​The mind baffles - !!

Finally! After "can't this", "not that format", "not this site", "not allowed", "not the ..." ........ hallelujah ♪♫ If you compare, the green and white lights as on the PMDG screenshot below do not illuminate even with knobs/buttons full open/to the right. The colour tone is also different. Or maybe my eye are squinting after so many hours trying to get the Queen's crown on her head. And this is what I mean with "ghost plane" - you will see a picture with no light in the green circle; then the landing lights on; and in EFB you will see the magenta AI object behind the red plane ... quite peculiar :wink:

Kyle, if you have access to your 'ticket' desk, you will see the pictures under the topic: B744 Ghost and the correspondence between me and Ryan Maziarz ... it seems I can't do a URL from Pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, DropBox and I'm not going to sign up somewhere and provide email address and then tomorrow I've won the UK lottery again and by the afternoon a man from Nigeria left me his whole inheritance if I only let them know my bank account. Alternatively PM me your email address and I will mail some pics to you.

I've opened a 'TICKET' to the problem with a 'ghost' plane following me on the ground that is visible in EFB and as far as I understand PMDG created "an AI object that controls all of the 747's lighting effects in the external view" - well, on my rig that AI object sometimes gets stuck and to your amusement you can taxi away from it and then you can see your taxi and landing lights go on if you flip the switches while in outside view as if a ghost plane is parked 100m behind you - or even land without landing lights just to see your landing lights behind you somewhere in the middle of the runway. But that's beside the point - I'm busy with the 'TICKET' and let's see how that pans out. Let me try in the absence of a picture to explain to the best of my ability what I see: If you turn the light knob it should light up the background behind a gauge/knob for example: If you turn the one of the panel lights up, you should see the background on the A/P or the overhead light up (I think it's the inside knob) and the outside knob will do the 'general lighting' - with me nothing happens when I turn the inside knob ... the outside knob do light up that area but it looks unnatural and not like the screenshots of a panel in the night by PMDG. Don't know if this makes sense especially if English is your 5th language. Kyle, if it is drivers or anything else, shouldn't it then have an influence on all other aircraft as well? I mean, why will all the other aircraft work perfectly with lights and performance? My FSX.cfg file and Inspector Profile are in use for the last couple of years and the combo provides a really smooth and effortless experience in FSX in DX9 ....... with no other shader mods. Okay, and I can't do a link to my DROPBOX - the whole insert URL method is crazy because where do I upload the photos to in order to download again to AVSIM?

I really don't know what's going on with the QOTSII on my rig ... my cockpit lights do not light the knob background and the whole cockpit looks like tea made of drain water. It does not look like the videos on YouTube of other people at all. Strangely the B777 and B738 and FSLabs A320 are all perfect but something somewhere is not right with the Queen. I've uninstalled and reinstalled and did everything to the book but no luck :mad: I'm about to give up because I don't want to spend hours and hours trying to figure out something if there is obviously something wrong that I've missed. And I don't know how to paste a picture in this forum in order to demonstrate what I mean ......... #gatvol

For me there is only one and that is AivlaSoft EFB - it uses RouteFinder and then export to any aircraft you desire. Not only is EFB an incredible tool for following a flight but the detail display of SIDs and STARs as well as ILS approaches makes it by far the best tool available. I run it over a network on a second computer and it works like a charm. http://www.aivlasoft.com/

Hi Dan, I've uninstalled some aircraft I never fly anymore (all the CaptSim stuff; a few Carenado, and the BlackBox A340xx) ... and then I edited SceneryConfigEditor to put all newly installed airports in their respective 'groups' in order to easier activate and deactivate some airports. I've restarted my machine afterwards, loaded a flight from LOWW to EDDM and then notice I don't have taxi and/or landing lights, AGAIN. Deactivate the scenery to see if it does the same at a default scenery and still I couldn't see any taxi and/or landing lights on the ground. As it was getting darker I've noticed that I also lost my cockpit lights and there goes a night's flying because the whole evening I was trying to solve this ............

Don't know what I did wrong this time ... I've cleaned up my FSX a bit and uninstalled all the dead wood and now only the DOME light works in the Queen. All the other light knobs and switches to full and no lights display in the cockpit. I've cleaned my SHADERS folder and let FSX write new ones - could that be the reason?? I've done a repair of the Queen with no change. I've tried default scenery since the Queen freaks out at some third party scenery what landing and taxi lights concern but that doesn't bring back the cockpit lights either. Shall I uninstall (again) - I just don't want to go through the activation hassles again that I've experienced with the first install? Ai, ai - if you only want to do a Sunday evening, relaxed, quiet house, flight and then it's a whole rigmarole to sort out a fresh set of issues.