rjquick

Short 360.

If a doctor gives you a placebo pill and your headache goes away, do you really care that it was a placebo? In FS, your brain is already in a mode of creating reality out of a computer screen, so it is more than ready to accept that any little tweak made things better (or worse). Just make sure you keep track of what changes you are making so you can go back to where you started if things go bad.

Glad to hear that PMDG finally fixed the problem. Troubling that they had it coded wrong in the first place.

Do you have rolling cache turned on? If so, try a test with it off. That was a huge stutter problem for me (and others). Many say it causes no issues for them. My bandwidth is such that I haven't had any issue not using it. FS2020 is odd in that there seems to be a number of things that some can't do without issues while it doesn't affect others. Even with high level hardware.

A lot remains to be seen with FS2024. The initial previews showed it morphing into an arcade game where you score 10 points for rescuing little Johnny from the cliff, much to the delight for some and horror for some others. They backed off on that a bit and said it will still be true to flight simulation, only better with 'missions'. We'll see. With compatibility, it is one thing that an fs2020 aircraft will work in fs2024 and another that it will be taking advantage of the aerodynamic improvements offered by the new platform (let's be positive and say such improvements will exist). So, the aircraft still may have to be upgraded or risk being left behind by new aircraft being developed from the ground up on the new platform.

It's rarely a good look to root for others to fail.

The 787 and 747 is there for free. It's up to each person to decide if a payware aircraft is worth it to them. It's just the nature of people to want the best quality at minimal price, but that is not how it typically works. If someone bought the 737-700 on release, it has cost you 10 cents per day. The cost of all these payware aircraft and fs2020 itself is almost unbelievably cheap considering what goes into them and that they also get updated and improved regularly.

I'm pretty sure that if you don't like PMDG and/or the 777, the cost will be zero.

Behind every great discovery, there is, most likely, many failed experiments. Never stop.

People get what they ask for. They don't ask for airports with great frame rates, they ask for hyper-realistic airports that contain everything in detail and they want it filled with real time traffic. But there is no free lunch. It all has to be rendered frame by frame. How many times have you read someone stating that a payware airport looks really great, but the frames rates are bad as if the developer did something wrong? It makes perfect sense that the frame rates drop significantly. Why wouldn't they? Some other developer will release an airport that gets pretty good frame rates and it will get roasted for lacking this and that detail. Of course it does.

I knew it. You are the one.

Legend has it that there was once a flightsimmer that could do anything he wanted inside the sim. He was not bound by any of the rules set forth by the programmers or hardware.

Same here with the audio. I read every Stereo Review magazine issue front to back. Pondering every fractional percentage of 'total harmonic distortion'.