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Are you using the Experimental version?

Pretty much everywhere. An airport like KATL will obviously have more traffic, but still not remotely close to what it is like in real life.

So this should greatly increase the traffic when using BATC. As it stands, even with the sliders maxed out, traffic is pretty sparse.

No, it's not a joke. I'm a hardware reviewer.

MSFS 2024 is an incredibly heavy sim to run. I have 5 GPUs with 4 of them being 16GB VRAM or lower, and I get the resource usage warning on all 4 unless I dramatically decrease resolution and/or settings. The 5th one is the 5090 which is my main GPU, and obviously no issues there. Whether that's warranted or whether it is poorly optimized by Asobo is a different discussion, but that's just the reality of the situation. Pointing being, if you have a mid range system that already struggles with the vanilla sim, then of course adding a bunch of highly detailed addons will further kill your performance. It's not surprising.

FSR 4 has been out for a while, and it's exclusive to the Radeon 9000 series. It uses the machine learning acceleration cores available on the 9000 series. You can mod the INT8 version of it on 6000 and 7000 series GPUs, although it's not as good as the the FP8 version. FSR 4.1, released recently, is a nice improvement over FSR 4.0. Official support for the INT8 version of FSR 4/4.1 is coming to the 7000 series this year, and in 2027 for 6000 series. And no, it's not better than DLSS 4.5. It's a big improvement over FSR 3, though.

There's absolutely no need to worry about your GPU blowing up. If it gets close to its maximum safe operating temperature, the GPU will throttle so that it doesn't get hotter than it should. You will lose some performance if that happens, but your GPU won't be damaged.

It's incredible how bad this team is at optimization. MSFS 2020, and now 2024, have been horrendous in terms of the way it uses memory. At 4K with maxed out settings (5090, 9800X3D, 64GB DDR5) I experienced several CTDs as a result of "low virtual memory." Why the sim would ever need to use so much virtual memory but so little of my physical memory is a mystery. Increasing the page file to 32 GB solved the issue, but that should not be needed. Hopefully they finally figured out how to optimize memory usage in SU5.

That's definitely one of the better freeware airports.

Looks like there's no thread on this, but this was announced back in January when the devs said the airport was 70% done. https://fselite.net/content/xwind-studio-announces-long-beach-airport/ Their last dev update on their Facebook page was on April 6 when they said it is progressing well. Looking forward to this one!

I had repeatable WASM crashes in the PMDG 738 when importing the Simbrief FP in the FMC too. What fixed it for me was this: when the plane was cold and dark, I would turn on the EFB only and then import the FP in the EFB. I would then start the plane, and from there I could import the FP into the FMC without any issue. Haven't had a WASM crash since. I should also note that I'm on the SU5 beta.

I have a 5090 but had to RMA my PSU and I'm not taking a chance using the 5090 with my old power supply. I've been using a 5070, so with all of the VRAM issues I guess I will wait until Monday to fly the 737 when I get my PSU back.

This looks excellent. Have they improved the HUD, especially for non straight-in approaches? That was my only gripe with the iFly.

AI is great, but most of what you are talking about here, and the implementations that are most useful in the real world, aren't related to LLMs, and certainly not the LLMs that you use everyday via these fairly unintelligent AI chatbots that are available to the public.

Very exciting news. The aircraft must be pretty far into development if it's set to release this year.

Perhaps FlyTampa should steal from Glideslope Pro. Then they could have released a better V3 than the garbage they put out.

$30 for a minor update 💀

PMDG claims a lot of things that turn out to be false.

PMDG haven't "rebuilt" anything. This is a product update akin to Fenix's BFU and to iFly's upcoming SP1, both of which are entirely free. A big update, but an update nevertheless. This is just PMDG being PMDG.

My first post in this thread was a reply to someone saying that $20 would be reasonable when other devs are providing higher quality updates for free and PMDG stated it would be the price of a cup of coffee. That's how the discussion started.

I agree. For example, we have people whining about opinions they disagree with.

It's not childish to say that one product is better than the other. Rarely are two products equal in terms of quality. It's perfectly fine to share that opinion. In fact, it is very helpful when people do so. The more data there is for potential buyers, the more informed they will be when deciding between those products.

It's a discussion forum, Einstein. That's what we do here. We discuss things related to upcoming sims/addons.

PMDG's time isn't any more valuable than other developers. On the contrary, it's actually less valuable than some others (like Fenix and iFly) because they make inferior products.

It's all about value. The 5090 and 9800X3D + 64GB DDR5 PC I have is very much worth it to me for well over $5000. I can't get this level of performance with any other combination of hardware. $20+ for a product I have already purchased when others are providing free upgrades for products that are equal or better makes zero sense. I am happy to stick with the iFly 737 MAX, which is better anyway. Having money doesn't mean you just throw it away needlessly. I can purchase hundreds of addons I don't need that would cost me as much as my PC, but that wouldn't be very wise.