Bdub22

Thank goodness the A220 will have dual jetway support.

Yeah, I wish the 777 would get the same kind of makeover the 737 got.

Oh man, I'm sure PMDG is just gonna love this.

Yeah, I thought the same thing and then when I read OP had both, my viewpoint of his intentions for this post completely changed.

Kind of how I feel about the upcoming 757 that they're still planning to release on MSFS 2020. Blows my mind they haven't changed their minds, at least -- as far as I know that is still the plan.

This sim is crazy sometimes. I had GREAT performance on SU4 and was excited to see all the gains everyone in SU5 Beta were reporting. When it was released, it absolutely nerfed my sim and performance was terrible. This update however seems to have brought me back to the gains and performance I was seeing with SU4 and then some. It’s a fickle beast. What works for some definitely do not for others, but think of all the variables that go into this software and how it’s meshing with your hardware and other addons in your community folder. I’m sorry for the folks are seeing a decline because trust me — I know how that goes.

I did two test flights tonight to compare performance between the iFly and the Fenix A320 - Ketchikan to Juneau. Same settings for both flights and using AutoFPS along with GPU-Z to monitor VRAM usage. It’s such a bummer because the 737 is seemingly still a hog after the hotfix. Granted, I’m on a somewhat “outdated” rig @ i7 11-700k, 3080 with 32 gb of ram, but the test still stands. My vram usage was around 68-70% with Fenix, but pushing 97% with the 737. I love iFly’s version of the Max. I flew it for hours and hours in 2020, but I’m just wondering what’s going on with the optimization for this newest update. I’m not here to be critical, as I’m likely one of their happiest customers, but man I wish I could get this thing to run closer to comparable high-end addons. It really says something though that even when dealing with choppy performance, I still can’t get enough of this absolute banger of a plane.

I think we might have differences on how we define "huge". There is barely any difference, especially flying at a buck 50 a few thousand feet over the ground.

This is a common misconception. T(errain) Level of Detail will increase draw distance and quality for terrain, runways, roads, coast lines, etc. The best way to increase your draw distance and quality is O(bject) Level of Detail. This will increase quality of photogen and photogrammetry. If you're getting melting buildings or buildings that pop in out of nowhere, the best thing you can do (if you can, but AutoFPS helps) is to increase OLOD.

I know we can choose which servers we access, is there a best practice to discover which has the best bandwidth?

Seriously. The flight model is one of the best aspects of this plane. I have no idea what they're talking about.

I'm not getting great performance on this update. It's definitely not bad, but far more power hungry than the Fenix birds. Maybe the they'll do some further optimizing.

Wow! This is a SLAM DUNK! So much detail in this airplane and I think this the best EFB we've seen yet. I love nights like these when you get a new or updated plane and that feeling you get when you just know you have many fun hours ahead of you for the next few weeks. Thank you to all the people who updated this amazing plane...for free!

For a free update....the community is getting one heck of an upgrade in this "Service pack". I wish another well known 737 developer shared their same business practices…

I for one, thank you for your knowledgeable and insightful posts here. I wholly agree with you, too. If PMDG wants to claim they make the best plane addons and have the reputation for making the most realistic desktop sim of Boeing planes (which they do), then I think they should be listening to what you have to say. Unfortunately, PMDG isn’t the same company it used to be. They used to be pioneers who innovated and now they’re just happy to sit back, port over the same 3-4 planes to a new platform and count their cash, which is fine — but they can’t make claims that they are anywhere near the best anymore or that they care about replicating as close to a 1:1 version of the airplane on a desktop sim that they can.