DragonAsh

Just to add another data point to the discussion, I have a GTX1070 running three 27" monitors in a 5853 x 1080 setup. I have a number of Orbx products installed (FTX Global Base & Vector, openLC Europe and North America, FTX Global Trees, EU England) and a handful of Flightbeam airports. I use Active Sky for P3DV4 and also use Ezdok, FSUPIC and Spad.next. I fly almost exclusively PMDG (737, 777 and planning on getting the 747...) With one exception - more on this below - my FPS is consistently in the high teens/low 20's with most of the settings in P3D maxed out. And everything looks fantastic. Even flying at dawn / dusk no problems. Someone mentioned something a long these lines already, but: P3D v4 with FPS in the high teens looks much better than FSX or even P3D V3 looked with double the FPS. Everything looks and feels very smooth, to the point that I don't feel the need to obsess over squeezing out a few more FPS. The exception, however is if AS for P3DV4 gives me heavy clouds or rain. When that happens, if my view includes a significant view of the sky/clouds etc, FPS falls like a stone to low single digits. Basically it's a slide show. I've tried turning down some of the settings in Active Sky, but so far haven't found any group of settings that will give back some FPS.

I love Ezdok,it's literally the only add-on I will not fly without (or, for you English teachers out there - the only add-on without which I will not fly). So I am slightly bummed to report that I appear to be having problems with it in P3D v4 and PMDG's 737. Usually about 3-4 hours in to a flight when changing views, the sim freezes up and I get an Ezdok 'handle is invalid' warning. The sim crashes and needs to be manually shut down. I don't know if the sim freeze is causing the Ezdok error or vice versa. I was using Ezdok 2.5.0.19, thanks to this thread I saw an update was available so have updated to v2.5.0.22. I'll do some more testing. Just wondering if anyone else has seen this? Other add-ons I use: Orbx, Active Sky for PD3v4

Sheesh - a simple 'he didn't have it before, the sig was added retroactively' would have sufficed. Don't know why you have to make veiled threats when I was merely trying to clarify the requirements in a bit of a light-hearted fashion; heck I even added a little smiley face just so it was clear I wasn't shouting etc.

Am I missing something here? His full name is in his signature. As is mine. As is yours, btw. Do we need to have our full name in each and every post as well even if it's in our sig?? If so - you might want to start adding your full name - first and last - in each post :-)

I'm having two rather weird problems with FS2Crew in the PMDG 777 1) FS2Crew doesn't recognize the word 'please'. The 737 NGX Reboot recognizes it just fine (the previous 737 version also had no problems). I say: 'Yes please' Green bar: Yes clear "Please" - Clear "Please!" - Clean up Arrgggh 2) The flight attendant doesn't understand a word I say when she asks if its OK to start boarding. None of the accepted responses register - 'yes' 'yes please' 'go for it' etc. It's not a deal breaker by any means, and the rest of the program appears to be working flawlessly, but kinda annoying nonetheless. Any ideas / suggestions? I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, FSX:Steam and have the usual add-ons installed.

Pretty good catch, I looked at that forever, even magnifying the image and couldn't make it out...

Buddy of mine posted the attached to my Facebook group. We're trying to figure out what plane we're looking at. Only clue we were given is that he took this waiting to take off from Chicago O'Hare.

Basically what it says in the title. I have a Saitek Radio Panel and SPAD. Up until now it's worked flawlessly. The last two times I've flown the PMDG 777, however, when I try to use Com 2, it doesn't work. Specifically, I can change the standby number with no problem, and can see the change is being recognized because the Com2 in the cockpit changes as well. But when I hit Act/Stby to make the standby number active, it resets 'standby' to whatever number I happened to already have active at the time. Com 2 is the only button this happens with; every other button (Com 1, Nav 1/2 etc) all work flawlessly. It has always worked flawlessly with the PMDG 777 as well. Since the problem appeared I haven't yet flown another airplane so don't know if this is a problem specifically with the PMDG or not. I'm on Windows 10 64-bit, FSX:Steam and everything is up to date. TIA, Scott

When you request 'Preflight check list please', what does the FS2Crew status bar say? It should say Pre Flight Checklist, I believe in white letters, to indicate that the FO has finished the pre-flight procedures. If it is <Pre Flight Procedures> in orange-ish font, it means the FO isn't ready yet. (I can't remember, but doesn't the FO say at some point, "I'm ready for the checklist"?) Are you saying that no matter how long you wait, the FO never completes the pre-flight proceduers?

Txs again for the response. Yes, I should have noted; I do indeed have the .rte files as well. Both aircraft are up to date. In general, I never save flights 'on purpose' - in other words, when I do have to load up a saved flights, it's not by choice, it's because of some crash etc. in the middle of a flight. I start every flight 'fresh', from cold 'n' dark, so I don't think I should be seeing any problems due to repeated saving of a panel state. I'll do some testing to see how FSX handles saving and loading saved flights (including for non-PMDG aircraft). txs.,

Hi Mike, thanks for the suggestions. Should have noted this earlier, but I'm on FSX:Steam, Windows 10 64-bit (although had the same problem with Win7 64), and unless there's been an update of FSUIPC in the last week or so, I have the latest version. I have Steam etc. saved to a folder on the C: drive, not under the Programs or Programs (x86) folder. The panel states are being saved correctly; as noted I have both the .fmc and .sav files. And yes, lots and lots of autosave files. I hadn't thought about trying to manually re-load the panel state, I think I might try that next time. I have a pretty beefy computer, so I don't think I've ever had a memory error-related CTD, more often it's an accidental PC shutdown by one of the kids etc. LOL.

FSUIPC: I'm not 'saving' flights, I'm specifically talking about the autosave feature in FSUPIC; the only time I use it is after a crash-to-desktop etc. The saved flights from FSUIPC don't 'freeze or stutter' - they fly fine - it's just the route info & FMC etc. is blown all to heck. I'll try saving a flight through FSX and see if that works better. If so I might just have to manually save every so often.

In general I almost never load saved flights, mainly because I usually fly for a VA, so flights have to be done in one sitting. However, I do use FSUIPC to save flights for any (thankfully rare) CTDs and such. I have PMDG's 737 NGX and the 777. When I do have to load a saved flight after a crash, the flight is never started from the correct 'saved' condition, other than being at roughly the same altitude (but starting to dive), in the same area. Whatever route I had saved in the FMC is gone. Most times I'm not able to load a new flight route, trying to put the destination in the 'Dep/Arr' page comes up with 'invalid entry'. On the 777 I'm able to get something from the Rte2 page, but still get 'Perf/VNAV not available' errors. Any suggestions? TIA!

Windows 10 here. I was already on a pretty beefy machine, but FS still feels a bit more lively, and Win10 overall definitely feels faster at just about everything, from boot up to loading programs. I just did an upgrade, not a clean install. Why not just do an update, see how you like it and how things work? It's a very quick and painless process to roll back to Win 7 within 30 days if you don't like it (you can of course go back to Win7 even after 30 days, it's just not quite as quick). The upgrade process itself is very quick and you lose nothing by rolling back other than a few minutes of your time.

Somewhat late to this thread, but thought I'd add my bit for future readers. That's a nice system, great performance yet still good value. One option you might have considered is to just have one 500G SSD as your 'main' drive, and have the second drive be a 2TB regular hard drive for files, backups and such. Given the significantly higher cost, having an SSD as a backup drive is somewhat over-kill (unless you're accessing it in-program a ton), and 500GB really isn't all that big. Just a thought; if nothing else you can always take out of the SSDs and make it the main drive in your other PC. Slightly more a concern for me is the power supply; 650W feels on the low side for the GTX 970 and that CPU. That's a great card, btw; great cost/performance ratio. It's the card I use in my main rig while I wait for the price of the Titan to come down to a level that doesn't require a second mortgage. Might want to double-check the recommended PSU for your card. Just as a quick check, based on a core i7 LGA 2011 CPU, standard desktop mobo, GTX 970, 4GB DDR3 x 2, 2 SSDs and no optical drive, newegg's power supply calculator recommends PSU wattage of at least 700W. Other than that, it's a nice system; you're going to love flying on it. Have fun!