Posts by Toorop

Quote from Tomfa

Thanks Jet-Pack, indeed I noticed a lot of errors in the ''tm.log'' especially with third-party scenes, first, I disabled all POIs, Airports and images from third parties, and cleared the cache. The FPS increase was increased to 35 but still remains below. New York is very dense and requires more resources, even when flying over certain areas of the city, we feel it.

However, I installed the latest driver, 572.42 dated 02/13 and seems to have solved part of the problem even by reactivating all the addons but still remains below compared to some other cities like LA with a frame rate of 140 FPS.

My card is an RTX3070Ti - 8Gb maybe aging and is starting to be limited in some places in ultra.

I do not see any strange fps loss at JFK (all settings to maximum) an my RTX 4060 Ti is not very far from your RTX 3070 Ti : "The truth is out there" ...

Got issues with all drivers after 566.14 working fine for me... (Nvidia RTX4060 Ti 8 Go)

Hello,

I think making the airport creation tool available would help greatly AFS4 to grow...

A problem with the actual airports is that many some grass airfiels have concrete runways (like LFET : look at screenshots, the good one is with HD textures and airport disabled by renaming .wad file) : would be nice to be able to correct it...

Like LFET looks in streaming version :

How it should look (airport disabled) :

Some others have very too large concrete runways (like LFPL). Would be necessary to be able to correct it too

For both of them being able to modify them is quite mandatory

Kind regards

Quote from Jet-Pack (IPACS)

We've uploaded a new beta version, please check if that issue still occurs with the current beta.

Problem solved for me since the last beta update : many thanks !

Seems to work for me (very quick test)

Thanks again !

Thanks to you for the quick answers and solution

Hello,

if it may help :

1 : The issue only happen in the areas covered by the new improved scenery (ex : Europe), looks like a conflict with the new sceneries :

My tiles with "mask" elements are still working in South America where n scenery is present (despite they do not have many interest because of the lack of cultivation and airports)

2 : Otherwise I coud not check if "mask" elements in elevation files bring to the same issue as the images "mask elements

Kind regards,

Jean-Paul

Quote from MartinM

Happens to me too.

When you focus on Colombia and start to zoom in image freezes and then you get a CTD

Thanks for answering MartinM : I don't feel alone anymore

Hi,

Thanks for answering Jan

Here is the upload of two renamed main.mcf files

One called "main_aftercrash.mcf" : this file was after a crash using the location map in the area

The other called "main_startingfromcrash.mcf" : starting a flight from the location where the sim did crash using the location map

I hope to be clear : using the map in this area brings the sim to crash /CTD but I still can start a flight from the location where the map made the sim crash. Indeed I cannot use the location map to leave the area because using the map makes the sim crash again

Kind regards

Jean-Paul

Thanks a lot Thomas

Hello,

I did notice that, without any addon or ortho image, I get a CTD each time I want to explore in "start location map" the area between Santiago de Chile and Ushuaia on the West side of South America (Does not happent on the east Coast from Ushuaia to Buenos Aires...)

This is disturbing as AFS4 starts again in the same area and I cannot choose another start location

Fortunately despite this issue, without using the map I can start my flight but I have have to fly far away to the east to get rid of the problem !

Does somebody have the same issue ?

Kind regards

Jean-Paul

Quote from TomSimMuc

admin

Could you please check, what happend since the September update 4.00.03.05?

Some photosceneries like the ORBX-NL crashes the sim. This does not happen, if the mask files are deleted.

Of cause with the disadvantage that global tiles will not be shown anymore and the (different) IPACS orthos will be shown instead.

Example: Rotterdam.

Hello,

This is not a 100% confirmation that it is the only problem but I did check : all my working images don't have any mask

But could you explain what you mean by "with the disadvantage that global tiles will not be shown anymore and the (different) IPACS orthos will be shown instead" ? I am sorry (and I feel myself stupid) but I do not understand what these masks really do...

Kind regards

Jean-Paul

Vielen dank Dieter

Since the new update the sim crashes in the areas where I am using my own images

Back to X-Plane for the moment...

Quote from ApfelFlieger

do it on my Mac with FS4 as I did with FS2, and I don't need a "customer" folder:

Thanks ApfelFlieger

I think too the Custom folder may not be necessary but it's a good way to remind where your added images are (i.e. to keep on the same place all non "native" image sceneries)

Thanks a lot MartinM : will try it with symbolic links pointing on my AFS2's scenery folders

Quote from MartinM

AFS4 does not read the custom folder variable, so i created in the sturcture of the scenery folder a custom folder and added the canary islands with the ultra high res ground images.

Thanks and congratulations !

Could you give details of the resulting file tree to avoid mistakes ?

First many thanks : great work ! I love this new version

Just wanted to report that it seems to me the display distance (LOD related to distance) should be a setting in the sim (maybe it does exist but I did not found it)

The reason is I saw a great performance hit looking at the horizon despite I had incredibly good performances looking to the ground even to a quite large distance. So it seems to me the sim displays details far in the distance that I can barely see myself, but with the cost of a quite 50% performance hit !

Anyway it is "just to let you now" : Sim works great "out of the box"

Hope it will help...

Note some users are happy with Vsync on "Fast" (NVIDIA settings) with other simulators like P3D V5. l think there is a similar paramètre for Radeon graphic cards but cannot remember his name and cannot try as mine IS NVIDIA...

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Anyway, no big deal. Maybe I'm just missing something that got lost in the translation, lol!

Probably : my English is not so good I apologize

I f you mean AFS2 probably works the same without Oculus OpenXR runtime, I agree but as I am using three different simulators including MSFS, activation of OpenXR runtime for Oculus is is recommended at least for this last one : as it does not harm AFS2 keep it activated

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Hello Toorop,

i have the same PC configuration . Please can you post your settings which you have in AFS2.

Yes of course :

For extremely heavy sceneries like France VFR 's Paris Ile de France with Airport Pack I use the settings just below and get 35 fps as minimum (but smooth) even with the heaviest parts of the scenery in view. Lowering graphic settings allowed me to increase pixel density to 1,2 (but visuals are quite good too with 1 like with the "Ultra" settings below and you can get more fps).

Obviously these 35 fps are a minimum (despite playable) but on lighter parts of the scenery you get much more

Strangest thing is that 35 fps was totally unplayable in the Rift but seems pretty smooth now with the Quest 2 : the same in MSFS (no explanation at the moment)

Note : fps in the Hud and in MSFS dev mode are the same but do not use tools like Fraps : they are measuring the mirror fps and some apps like Flyinside reduce the Mirror Refresh rate so you could get very low unrealistic fps with Fraps

So, for extremely heavy sceneries :

For more "normal" sceneries (included detailed ones with good cultivation) I get constant 72 fps with these settings :

For all kinds of sceneries :

Remember : always launch in VR mode (Aerofly FS2) like this :

- In Nvidia parameters you can use VSync "Disactivated" or "Fast" (no other one)

I_ n Nvidia parameters I suggest to keep Low Latency Mode "Disactivated" but you are allowed to try changing for "Activated" or "Ultra" : did not see any significant changes in Flight Simulation

Additional infos for Oculus settings : be conscient some settings may reset to default when restarting the App. Fortunately they are not the most significant ones and you can ignore them (just to let you know...)