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Hello Orbx. Today im here with a request. Not only by me but im sure by many. Where a big amount of them just dont know it jet. The problem is one that hunts MSFS pilots in their dreams, where you will find + 700 thousand entries on google, where every forum or discord is pflastered with questions and rants about this issue. And where you could find customers 100%. Im talking about the issue that Asobo doesnt find too interesting, seemingly. Because this problem appeard early last year and collected many thousands of posts from angry users, like mentioned: Photogrammetry and the impact its having on the sim. The problem is that every single city that is installed, causes the performance to decrease, even when its in the opposite of the world to where one is flying atm. Ill link a few Topics about this, with many many posts. And we are really getting frustrated. It cannot be that there is 2/3 less performance when these cities are installed. And the problem when one is turing it off is that the areas that are covered with PG has very bad quality of autogen. Worse than P3D even in some cases. This isnt my pic but if i would do it, it would show the same. It shows exactly the issue. To "fix" this, of course your products like Singapore City are doing an immense job. But also these can have heavy impact. For example, i cannot fly to WSSS with the payware airport and city installed, in planes like the Fenix, without decreasing LOD by far, what sadly turns the terrain into a blurry mess on higher alts. Imo the best middleground would be something like Orbx Global Buildings. Ive used it in P3D and would love to have it here too... So i (and many others) can simply delete that Photogrammetry option out of our brains. Its so bad. Please give us an improvement of autogens, especially in places where usually is photogrammetry is available. 9900k RTX 2080 32 GB Ram Poor performance on the ground - Bug Reports / Install, Performance & Graphics - Microsoft Flight Simulator Forums https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/615666-su8-bad-stutters-on-ground/ https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/low-fps-on-ground-since-sim-update-9 PS: I know, some of you sit behind the keyboard and want to open a post where they want to say "but i have no issues with PG. It has to be you". Please, dont do it.... Its wasted time ^^ I wont respond to it. This problem is so far spread, there is no discussion anymore at this point.

Hmm. Just wondering, because I thought about upgrading from 5.0 to 5.1 but if that makes TE worse then I wait. But now you said you're coming from 4.5, that's another case. I got a noticable boost in performance from 4.5 to 5.0. Basically it's the opposite for me, had more problems with TE on 4.5, with blurriness etc. Did you ever check your scenery order and such things? May have impact on it if things are very wrong there. I would brute force some things, like shader deletion etc. I made some tests 2 days ago on KSFO, with the 787 from wings, with all west US TE add-ons installed. Got a whopping 50 fps on the gate (see pic below, left too is fps counter) in the cockpit. With the CRJ even more. Im flying there often. I don't think there is an overall problem with TE and v5. How things are with 5.1 i don't know though. If you need help with shader deletion and such things you can let me know. System again, 7700k and rtx 2080, 16 gb ram.

Was this introduced with 5.1 for you? Works fine for me on 5.0. it has higher load of course, compared to open lc but it's not on 100, maybe 85, something like that. No blurriness. 7700k on standard freq, medium to high terrain settings.

Looking great

I have a problem with the flighttime shown. I have imported my flights from STKP but the flighttime is shown as a negative 19k hours. If i browse through the time of the flights i dont see a - before any time so i wonder how this happens. It took me around 8 hours to complete the import, is there any easy way to change this in the database to the real value? The flighttime for me is the most important stat, would be great if this shows the right amount. Seems you import the time right out of stkp, because i have the same problem there. I think it would be better if you simply add the times of each flight instead, then this wouldnt happen.

Glad you solved it :-)

Exception: Could not find file 'C:\Users\andyc\OneDrive\Documents\Parallel 42\The Skypark\Aircraft'. I guess that points out to the Problem. I had many, tons of, issues when i had onedrive installed. There seem to be problems accessing this folder out of other apps. Not saying that's the reason but I remember exact same problems in past, where the errors look like yours. Since I have everything in the "real" Documents folder those problems are gone. I don't really get what's happening there as well but it seems the Documents folder, on PCs with it installed, access is done via /onedrive/Documents/ instead of only /Documents/ on a pc without onedrive and that was an issue often for me. Not sure it's because of access rights to that folder or the path, or if the files are "locked" when onedrive is running actively and is in sync, or whatever the Problem is. But getting rid of onedrive and by that having the normal Documents folder path again all the problems were solved. Also some flightsim apps have issues with this I remember. You may ask in the discord. They will probably answer you in minutes there. https://discord.io/skypark You may try to go to that folder and see if it's really there. Or if there is content in it.

Here is the official note regarding this problem. Hope it helps ^^ https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016424300-Error-message-Package-failed-when-trying-to-download-and-install-packages

I bought it over Orbx and both load in fine. On second read though it seems you mean download when you say "load"? That would be a known bug and there is not much that you can do. This affects all downloads in the MS content manager. I have this problem every world update as well. Then it requires to manually download packages from the download manager and it fails all the time for the first weeks. Then suddenly they can be downloaded. Other ppl had luck with simply retrying it over and over but others, like me, tried it dozens of times without luck. And I'm talking about original asobo Files. It's the same with everything there... Few things you can try: - Delete all cache - restart router - make sure you didn't limit your bandwidth, seems that can cause issues. There are many posts about this problem in the MSFS forum. https://forums.flightsimulator.com/t/cant-download-world-update-usa-point-of-interest-in-content-manager/327063/13 I willl never buy an addon over the MS store, that much is sure.

anything Asia really. I buy those Orbx cities anytime. Seems my sim doesnt like photogrammetry, it looks awful most oft the time, at least in the fast planes. But the fixed 3D buildings from Orbx etc look always nice. Thats a big pro imo

Signed ^^