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Tyler Durden recommends United.

An addon sound pack is required to get proper sound for a $140 aircraft addon?

Another alternative is the recently-released CRJ. I think there are still a few issues that need to be ironed out but the CRJ exists in capacities as a private/business jet (e.g. Google image search tail number VP-BCL). There's at least one business jet livery on Aerosoft's download page but I suspect there will be more coming, especially if you ask. It fits all of the criteria...

Thomas: do everybody a favor and post this over at LM and see if anyone can/will look into it. We may have a better chance if LM themselves sees this...

I have that same issue too. Pretty annoying.

I have an H55, which doesn't have/use Corsair Link so I can't really speak to whether or not those settings are operating efficiently. I would venture to guess, though, that the H100 and H55 (and most Corsair AIO units) have the same crappy, OEM fans. I pulled mine off and then stuck two COUGAR Vortex fans on there, sandwiching the radiator in a push-pull configuration. If you're so technically inclined, I'd suggest you do the same. They move much more air and are much quieter. But as you seem to already know, those temps are fine. Even at 80*C, you have over another 20*C before the chip throttles itself...

Samos? I was tooling around there recently (it's what tools do) and the beacon there did the same thing. It was genuinely cool. About the only time I enjoyed DL... when it's not murdering my frames.

Exactly. I find that, all around, 10% is a reasonably good number. Airports will never be filled to the point they should be but large airports have a few planes and small airports have some too. But [most importantly] your frames won't go to hell. I also reinstalled MT6 after some time away from it but found the models to be utterly lacking. And I totally understand the balance between number of polygons, vertices, etc. and performance. But man, up close (i.e. at or near a gate) and they're pretty underwhelming.

That's hilarious. I find it odd that the installers want to install DirectX in this day and age: it's the only flightsim product that I can think of that wants to do it (just hit "cancel" when prompted). Furthermore, I don't get why the expansion installers do that too since one would think anyone that needed DirectX would have installed it with the base product installer, which the expansions are dependent on anyway.

I'm a real world sim pilot and find that real aircraft don't handle realistically. It also kills immersion when flying a real aircraft that OOMs or CTDs never seem to happen. Just when I'd ordinarily take the opportunity to grab another beer, I have to pay attention to my trim and talk to some awfully brusque people on the radio. Again, total immersion killer.

I have been saying for years, this is why jet engines and beaches must be outlawed. How much more carnage will we allow as a society? We have a moral obligation to make sure this can never happen again.

The google translate version of that page seems to indicate that it's less of a P3Dv4 issue and more of those folks migrating toward X-Plane.

You better fasten your seatbelt because the PMDGers are gonna have a go at you, boy howdy! Grabbin' my popcorn now!

I use the H55 and it's excellent. Do yourself a favor if you get one, though, and throw the stock fans in the garbage (that advice may apply to most other AIO coolers as well). Then replace the fans with something like Cougar Vortex (super quiet and move a lot of air) in a push-pull configuration, sandwiching the radiator, and you're all set.

Wait, you can't land on taxiways?

Nice! How are you cooking up that haze/scattering?

Where did anyone in this thread indicate that the AI and ATC in X-Plane and/or P3D are fantastically realistic?

Turn off DL and just fly during the day. I'm not entirely kidding. The night environment in FSX/P3D is so bad that it's not worth it anyway. And all of the fancy scenery we buy: why waste it flying at night? Anyway, one more AA setting you might try is 8x MSAA in P3D and then 4x SGSS in NI. Use something like MSI Afterburner to track usage between that combo and 8x or 4x SSAA in P3D. Don't just concentrate on FPS (at least early on). Find your baseline GPU usage in a test scenario (add some cloud layers in for good measure) and then find an AA setting/combination that looks good to your eyes (and in concert with your monitor resolution) but that leaves your GPU enough headroom. You do not want a bound GPU... GPU binding into your FPS, IMO, is much more constrictive and irritating to frame-times than CPU binding.

Could Virtual Avionics puh-lease hurry up?

Define "most," Dan. DL performance complaints likely come from people like me, that, through their AA, shadow, reflections, etc. settings are already straining their GPUs (I have a GTX1080Ti) and the increased strain from DL is the last straw. That you and others don't see the constraint doesn't mean it doesn't exist; it simply means you have enough GPU headroom to accommodate DL. But the undeniable fact remains that DL requires a lot (subjective term, I know) of GPU usage. Whether that increased usage results in a loss of frames, vis-a-vis the GPU(s) binding, is completely dependent on plenty of other settings like I've said. And if you tell me to turn my AA settings down, I'll tell you to go back to FS98, because that's what P3D will look like. Well put. I can appreciate DL but I can't believe the GPU resources required to render it. I know the comparison to other game engines is not only clumsy but also moot, but if we could chuck fancy aircraft and scenery packages into The Witcher 3 or GTA 5, we'd all be much better off.

Thanks for the answers. I would have asked over there but I'm trying to stay away so that I can have a semblance of self-esteem...

Any photos of the long, lost Malaysian airliner too while we're at it?

Just to confirm, the locked version of RAAS for the 747 QOTSII and 777 hasn't been release yet, correct?

The only time I'll ever visit Newark.

What a lot of these rants leave out is generally how someone like the OP corresponded and treated both the developer(s) and the "store owner." Reminiscent of that Seinfeld episode: I had a bunch of problems, yada yada yada and then the developer accused me of stealing and the store owner told me to never come back. Hmmm...