BufordTX

There is no way Microsoft marketing is going to give us a switch between "potato Xbox" and "powerful PC". Their statement that it runs well on Xbox can be defended only by crippling it on PC's. Sometimes I wonder if Jorg regrets selecting Asobo as the contractor to code the game.

Yeah, the VR window is 100% not necessary for SI to work over the radios, and provide ATC and all the other cool stuff. The window is useful in VR because it shows a transcript of comms (useful is you miss something and don't have a copilot or kneepad) and shows frequencies that you can click on to tune since knobs in VR are a pain. So, convenience only, but very convenient.

TLDR, it was the Say Intentions VR toolbar panel. This is a public FYI. Noticable in PMDG planes (heavy CPU load), in VR using Virtual Desktop, every 30 seconds (like clockwork) there is a roughly 1 second freeze...no new frames sent to VR, and image freeze in the headset. I've been troubleshooting this all week...drivers, Navigraph addins, background apps, etc. I found the culprit today. It was the SI VR toolbar panel addin. The one that gives us the window in VR with frequencies, etc. Off....smooth as butter. On, pauses every 30 seconds, I timed it. Repeated this over and over. The pauses are very evident looking at a chart of GPU load....drops to near 0 during the pause, as the GPU gets no new frames to render. I submitted a ticket to SI, but for anyone else battling this, try stopping the SI VR window, until a remedy arrives if the pauses are driving you mad. Evidently the browser Asobo uses for VR toolbar panels is very old. I've seen VR panels load up the sim so bad it stutters (navigraph addin panel startup, GTN750 startup, etc.) Folks have assured me that it must be something else in my system. I had tried everything else, from a bios update, Buying Process Lasso to move threads, stopping services I don't really need while gaming, clearing caches, shaders, updated nvidia drivers, you name it. According to SI, I'm the only guy on the planet with this issue. Maybe aliens have a cosmic ray generator pointed at my house. In any case, just sharing this so someone might stumble across it when searching for bad stutter/pause every 30 seconds.

2D settings are not supposed to affect VR rendering, but it could be a bug. Remember back when 2020 did something similar? It was something like setting 2D LOD at 200 or something, made VR better? Someone else here might have better memory than I do. Has anyone else tried reducing 2D settings, like OP?

I'd rather have framerate over 100,000 polygon tires for some youtuber.

It's getting worse. Last 3 days have been chaos from SI. Forgetting I'm in the air. Nonsensical vectors, not reading flight plan, not finding my Simbrief flight plan. Pushback not working, or ignoring direction instructions. Not renewing unless they make major improvements. Is BATC any good for IFR airliners?

It's getting worse. Every other flight, I get incoherent instructions. When it's working, it works well..just a roll of the dice.

I wish he'd release it. Its with tubers and influencers now, and is withheld from paying customers. I hate this new 21st century business practice. It sounds great. I have many days and nights sitting next to a (and slightly in front of) a GE90 in business class. The startup, takeoff, and climb power reductions, are perfect...like I'm back in a window seat. The problem is, PMDG will be releasing an update for free. And, if it's good enough, well, $15 is $15, and I'm lazy. Oh, and those tubers you're favoring now?, every one will be doing another video about the new PMDG sounds also. My business consultation to this developer would be: Drop the influencer marketing hype BS Fire the person who told you to do that. Tubers will still make videos of it for you....they need the clicks regardless. Your two videos are enough. They have shown everyone how great your product is. Get this thing on the market NOW, TODAY, Friday, before Bobby R erases half your market. Don't believe me? Ask any of several developers in the 90s and 2000s who made software for sale...what happened to your business model when MS bundled a free version with Windows? This one is different. You have a clock ticking on this one. Keep up the great work.

Sense of humor is the second thing to go when you get old.

The sounds in that video are awesome and very realistic. The 777F and -300ER stock sounds from PMDG are awful. The -200ER is better but still bad. For $15?!, this will be a day 1 buy for me.

SU3 introduced a bug with LODs in VR. It severely affects the PMDG 777s. Someone (not me) found a workaround. Kok made a post showing how to do the workaround in dev mode and did not cite the original discoverer, but he got it wrong and showed the wrong setting in his post. I made a nice post (not mean or anything), highlighting the correct selection. I made screenshots in VR, showing the setting on and off, with the effect on the VR cockpit. I suggested he fix his post, which was sticky'd. Came back in a few days to see if any comments. He fixed his post. No credit to me. And the SOB deleted my post! Gone. No reference. It was even gone from my post history. That guy needs to retire and just go somewhere else and yell at kids to get off his lawn. Yes, PMDG is worse than the official forums.

Another VR bug created in SU3. You have to center view before entering VR. All those betas only work if they fix what is found in them....as opposed to targeting a date for a conference.

Another important binding to set is Autopilot pitch sync. Bind "A600 AUTOPILOT PITCH SYNC PRESS" to a button and "A600 AUTOPILOT PITCH SYNC RELEASE" to the same button but upon release. This is an actual button on the real plane yoke. You press and hold it to release the pitch servos, then pitch the plane manually (push or pull the yoke) until you have the pitch or VS you want. Then release the button. That becomes the new pitch setpoint for the autopilot in "ATT" mode. FWIW, I used the IAS button on the Bravo. It's very handy to have available and I can see why it gets the coveted yoke button status. You can also use the pitch scroll wheel down by the AP controls to make fine adjustments to the pitch, while in ATT mode.

Did a bit of fiddling and got the flaps lever to work with the Bravo. 1. For the Aerostar, Bravo, created a new profile, go to Flight Control Surfaces, Secondary Control Surfaces 2. For Decrease Flaps, click on the left box to scan and flip the Bravo lever up and then let it spring back. Should show Joystick Button 16 3. For Increase Flaps, click on the left box to scan and flip the Bravo lever down and then let it spring back. Should show Joystick Button 15 4. For Flaps Axis (0-100%), click the left box to scan and flip the Bravo lever down. Should show Joystick Button 15 5. For Flaps Axis (0-100%), click the RIGHT box to scan and flip the Bravo lever up. Should show Joystick Button 16 6. For Flaps Axis (0-100%), click the gear icon. 7. With the selector at the bottom on Primary, on the left side of the screen it should show Joystick Button 15 with a check mark Set "Input Value" to 50.00 Select "Set Control on Release" (checkmark to the right) 8. 7. Move the selector at the bottom to Secondary, on the left side of the screen it should show Joystick Button 16 with a check mark Set "input value" to 50.00 Select "Set Control on Release" (checkmark to the right) 9. ESC back out to Save and Back Now, moving the flap level down and holding it moves the aircraft flap lever down, and holds it. Upon release, it sends the flaps 50.00 command and the aircraft lever returns to the middle. Vice versa for flaps up. You have to watch the flap position indicator and stop the movement when they're where you want them.