BabtridgeMcJoystick

EDIT: Original email removed. Apologies. I managed to accidentally buy the justflight tb10/20 rather than the LHC 21. That will teach me to buy things when I am distracted and have too many windows open! Thanks for reading

Hmm well this is an old thread, but as I have been spending a fair bit of time trying to get my 5820K based rig working with P3D 2.5 I thought I would post. I have been really happy with it, mostly flying an A2A Cessna C172 with Orbx addons and regions. I have a GTX980 as well, and generally with the C172 frame rates are enjoyably high, when I bother to look I am usually seeing 50-75 out of town, with maybe dips over densely populated areas down to 35+ if I fly low enough. I have bought myself the aerosoft A319 and paired it with Orbx Palm Springs. I have not put my REX addons in yet, but I have been experimenting with maxing sliders and seeing what happens. With everything absolutely max I am seeing about 20+ FPS, but the dips are annoying. Scaling back some sliders a little boosts the frames up into the 25-30 region. Resolution is a weird custom one, about 1920 x 1500 as I am waiting for a new 2k monitor and am using an old TN panel with NVidia DSR. I don't have software to take trends / data, so if someone can recommend me a good program I will collect some figures. Looking around at YT videos made with 4790k's with the nuts OC'd off them, at least from a subjective 'smoothness' perspective I think the 5820K really does quite nicely. I am running mine at 4.5GHz and with HT off, which really seems to make a difference. Havent bothered with affinity masks, though P3D is using all the cores. Not tried FIBER FRAME FRACTION yet either, but OPTIMIZE PARTS does nothing at all. Core 0 is indeed maxed, but that is true no matter which aircraft I use. As an aside, the sim looks BEAUTIFUL. I cannot wait to get my monitor. EDIT: Just quickly took the airbus to Heathrow for a take-off, with Orbx Open LC Europe handling scenery duties. Still with everything, and I mean everything, at max, min FPS was 13 but mainly hovering around 20. Not where you want to be for simming, but provided here as an indicator of power. Now if I can just get rid of the annoying terrain shadow flashing problem, I will be very happy. SPECS: 5820k @ 4.5GHz 16GB Corsair Dominator Platinum DDR4 @ 2666GHz 2 x EVGA GTX 980 SC ACX 2.0 (though not SLI'd, am under impression P3D doesnt like it) Samsung 850 Pro 512GB, at least for sim duties H105 AIO cooler Superflower Leadex Platinum 1kw NZXT H440 Various controllers. EDIT 2: Hmm it seems that having hyperthreading off has actually given me some more headroom with my overclock. Just pushed it up to 4.625GHz, and FWIW is stable on a 15 minute realbench test (usually fell over immediately above 4.5GHz before). With P3D that seems to have given me a buffer over 20 FPS with everything still at max (graphics, not tried AI yet).

Having said that, the Orbx site literally just came back online as well. Just good timing on your end. And now my addons all show up.

I am also finding that FTX Central 2 is no longer showing my installed add-ons. Does it work by polling the Orbx servers before letting addons run, e.g. is it DRM? EDIT: Also I had a ton of problems last night with FSS, the site was super slow and sent me several purchase notifications. Really hope I didn't use the site during a hack?

I am actually still in 2.4, I have been holding off upgrading due to the Orbx incompatibilities and also laziness.

Hello I noticed something odd with all the aircraft I use in P3D. There seems to be a blue or sometimes grey polygon that rotates with the user view under the aircraft, which you can see when on the ground. Its most noticeable when you open the door and look out, but if using trackir and turning your head, you can often see it then. You do not see it when in the air, its only when on the ground. Anyone know what this is, and preferably, how to get rid of it? Thanks!

I know this is an old thread now, but for anyone struggling to read gauges who has a GTX970 / 980, try using dynamic super resolution and bumping the res of the DK2 up to 4K. It completely transforms the gauges and makes them readable just by leaning forward - at least in a small cockpit like the C172.

Hi I am at KPSP, I have the Orbx addon, (don't know if this makes any difference), and I am trying to get the ATC to direct me to a refuelling point. However when I press '8' for parking and fuelling options, I only am offered taxi to parking / gate options. I am using the A2A C172 addon, and to add another layer, the DK2 with the DCOC plugin. I COULD use the A2A fuel and load balancing, but this is not available in the rift, so I'd like to do it the proper way! Anyone come across this? Or can you just not refuel a cessna at Palm Springs?

Hi there Thanks for the suggestion, there doesn't seem to be anything recorded in the error logs that I can see (I found them by opening Event Viewer in W7). I don't get any error message, it just simply closes FSX. Are those the right logs to be checking? EDIT right ok its my fault. I reinstalled FSX On this machine a few weeks back and obviously didnt get round to putting the acceleration DVD on. Apologies!

Hi I have got MS:FSX Gold edition installed. I followed the installation instructions and verified it is compatible with the Gold version. However when I try to run it from the aircraft screen, FSX just crashes to desktop. Its the version on the main page of his site: http://indiafoxtecho.blogspot.co.uk/ Any suggestions?

Hi there Thank you so much for a superbly detailed reply, I really appreciate it. It all makes perfect sense, especially the part about the venturi effect. I will definitely be studying the chart you provided, that's a cool (no pun intended) bit of info. Just before I put pitot heat on, I flipped on the fuel pumps, I don't know if that could have had an effect? But I think you may be right with saying that I just came out of icing conditions - the nose had been dropping for a while. Anyway its a great way to learn, making mistakes like that in a sim is probably the only way to make mistakes like that!

That would be cool. Is skymaxx pro kind of the REX 4.0 for XPlane? Back on topic, I found this thread http://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?showtopic=82099&hl= over at the X-Plane forums, and it looks like the mod guy believes it to be an Nvidia drivers issue. It can't be to do with drive speed, or at least I would very much hope not. I am running the Samsung 850 Pro which is meant to be the very fastest SSD you can buy without going up to M2 or whatever its called. Hopefully this will come down to NVidia putting out a new driver. Sadly it seems that if you own a maxwell card you are out of luck, as the older, non-stuttering drivers are not usable with maxwell. Thanks for this John, looks like it may well be the culprit. Should be good for anyone not running maxwell, as I understand that you cannot get pre-344 drivers if you are on a 970 or 980.

Hmm cant edit my older post so have to start a new one. Done some more testing this morning (nice being on annual leave lol) and it looks very much like it DOES come down to clouds. I tried putting every slider to zero, (and the key piece) turned off clouds in the weather tab by setting to 'clear' at all altitudes and setting to minimum on the rendering tab. Whilst there was still the very occasional, tiny stutter, it was smooth. Then I gradually started turning up all the other settings, until I had all the sliders pretty much at full apart from objects which I left in the medium / high range - just so it looks nice and filled out. Tiny little hitches, only a fraction of a second, started to come back, but were infrequent and not as invasive as before. Turning texture resolution to very high made a small impact, but this seemed intermittent. Then I turned the clouds back on. I had read a performance guide (very old) that suggested certain types of cloud are worse than others, but to be honest it doesn't seem to make that much difference which ones I selected. Once clouds were on, the one-second hangs came back, even with every other setting at minimum. So, to get rid of hitching, I either need to disable clouds, or find the right combination that doesn't affect my machine too much. However, it does seem odd that with everything else at minimum and clouds on, the problem persists especially on very capable hardware. Possible incompatibility? I am running an X99 rig. I really hope a solution can be found. Also I got a replay of psycho boeing driving up the side of a cliff if anyone wants to see

It could well be, though of course that would be quite dismaying given its running on one of the fastest SSDs available :( I wonder if it doesnt like DDR4? My CPU is running at 4Ghz too. Now I think about it I have my nvidia 3d settings configured for my oculus rift, I will try making an XP profile. Are there any good recommended ones anyone knows of?

OK I am on a bit of a mission now. I am using the same flight path each time, departing Innsbruck on runway 8, then flying roughly bearing 070 once leaving the runway threshold until I meet a bend in the river. With object settings at "a lot" you should see two triangles of static carvans (depending on your scenery packs). Its at this point I always get the lock up, sometimes shorter, sometimes longer. Hopefully people can repeat this. I tried the following, repeating twice to make sure of the result. Values were changed independently, not cumulatively: Reducing clouds completely to zero: Still get hitching Reducing trees to zero: Still get hitching Reducing Objects to zero: Still get hitching Then I got tired Weather download is off, Anti-virus is off. No TrackIR. Most other sliders at max or ON etc. Latest NVidia drivers. Nothing conclusive, but I will try other things. By the by, whilst trying to take screenshots, I met PSYCHO BOEING. The first time I met him, he raced to the end of my runway (yes, my runway lol I was already on it), wafted back and forth with smoke pouring off the tires, then basically did a handbrake turn and hammered it towards me. Result: Scuse the jaggies, its running on a monitor from 1783. NASA were in a massive hurry. I saved it as a situation and twice he decided to ramp himself up the side of the mountain, and the third time he just sat there. So I took off over him