I hope you agree with me that a single pause at 15 NM out and then nothing else is better than many smaller pauses all along the approach. In FSX, part of the scenery loads at 15 NM out, and part loads progressively, since the whole scenery won't fit in memory (especially together with memory hungry airplanes) so, while in FSX the initial pause at 15 NM would be shorter, you'll have many smaller pauses during the approach. This scenery is made to be still compatible with FSX so, even if in P3D4 the loading range is larger, the scenery must load at some time so, it wouldn't be very different if we loaded everything at, let's say, 30 NM, you still would have a pause but, such larger range would likely affect other airports nearby so, 15-16 NM is the correct range. This is not required for our sceneries, thanks to the custom memory management, at the small price of a single pause at about 15-16 NM out, which is when the scenery loads. There are utilities created to ease this process.
Which is why, many users got accustomed to change their Scenery Library for each flight, and turn off all the scenery except the starting and the destination one, to save memory.
With other sceneries that don't have this custom memory management, it's very well known default simulator memory handling is not very efficient and not all scenery is fully unloaded, even if you are hundreds of miles away. "Stabilized" doesn't change anything, unless you were trying to say that my crappy hand-flying was giving the scenery an unfair advantage regarding smoothness.Īt 15 NM out, it's entirely normal you would see ONE big pause, when the scenery loads, which is a common thing for all our sceneries, since we do custom memory management which means nothing of the scenery is loaded when you are outside of its range, so no memory is taken when not required, and all memory is reclaimed when you go somewhere else. We are doing the same with the only things we know could affect performance, but instead of using an external configurator, you can use the CTRL+F12 YouControl menu for KCLT and disable the things affecting performance the most, without restarting. Which is what other developers do by giving you an external configurator to remove stuff they know affect the fps. The scenery can't do anything, if your airplane, combined with all the rest of your heavy hitting add-ons and likely too high settings and the only "optimization" would be just reducing it detail. Again the scenery should be optimized for PMDG/FSL type quality aircraft not default. I don't think many P3d user are going to fly a F35 into a major airport. The default fighter jet is the most correct test of a SCENERY, without introducing too much external stuff, to prove the SCENERY, by itself, is not the problem. If I used another slower default aircraft, I would put even less stress on the scenery. You are using an default airplane, so you are not mislead by wrongly assuming the SCENERY has an fps "problem", when in fact most of your CPU power is already taken away by an heavy 3rd party airplane and likely many other addons.Īll knowledgeable testers usually use a default fighter jet to assess the performances of the SCENERY precisely for these reasons. You are stressing the scenery by going faster than usual, and this would immediately show up with blurred textures and/or stuttering, if the scenery really had an optimization problem. The author can not guarantee for the correctness or completeness of this manual.It's not obviously "silly" and instead is the most proper test of the *SCENERY* because: This is not an official document! Do not use for real flight! If you fly for a VA, this is the key connection. "XACARS" is a program that allows your FSX to communicate with the server of a virtual airline.
But this is just the basic manual for a smooth run-up, takeoff and landing.Īfter doing the steps in the manual you still have to use the checklist! You will find it in the PMDG-documentation!įind this Guide as a pdf-file on my Google Drive: Of course it has a lot of other features and possibilities. This Guide will show you all you have to know, for flying the 737.
It can be difficult to get into the procedures without forgetting anything important.
The PMDG 737 NGX is a very complex and quite realistic addon.