John Dow

I just loaded Sydney after deleting the content.xml file and I can report all is as it should be with PG on or off.

I just loaded Sydney after deleting the content.xml file and I can report all is as it should be with PG on or off.

I just flew a test at YBBN in the Aermacchi MB339 with YBBN and Brisbane City Pack enabled. Takeoff and flying around YBBN I had no problems with the performance. No fps counter but it all looked smooth, just some minor stutters during major changes of attitude or direction. Headed over to the city and performance was still good but as I turned left and right over and around the city I was getting pauses and stutters. I then turned off photogrammetry as the Brisbane area is a well known resource hog for PG, and the performance went back to smooth everywhere. Conclusion. Photogrammetry is probably the biggest contributor to poor performance in the Brisbane area, without it, on my average spec computer, the scenery presents no problems. By the ay this is running 4K 3840 x 2160, 95% Render Scaling slider, and most settings High with texture settings at Ultra.

I haven't seen any problems with Fly Tampa YSSY, and Sydney Cityscape update is in testing at the moment. Depending on the time taken to resolve some mesh and elevation issues between photogrammetry on and off, it shouldn't be too much longer.

\ Perhaps, but if it's a small incremental update it might have no effect on your flight simming. In my experience a lot of updates make no difference to the scenery for me. Sometimes it's a tweak to a gate animation or apron traffic or a slight mesh adjustment. For me, if the scenery works when I visit it, then I don't need the latest fix unless it is something that affects my simming directly.

My MSFS appears to be locked to 30 fps because I have screen sync on, and to be honest in a flight sim 30 fps is all I need. I recently updated my rig and the 11900k CPU at 5GHz is much better than the 4790k in dense scenery, in landscapes there's little difference

Generally Orbx sceneries are released as point in time products. If a problem with the scenery requires further work, any pending updates may be incorporated as part of the work to be done. But changes in landscape and airports etc aren't enough to generate further development. Not sure if there are fixes pending for this scenery, if there are, often the dev will seek to incorporate all possible fixes into a release, this can take time, and many factors can influence the progress including changes in the core sim which occasionally can make the fixes much more time consuming to develop.

My system is similar with a 3060ti and I can run MSFS in 4K at mostly Ultra settings (with the resolution setting at 90%) and get 30fps in normal scenery and 20+ in cities. Yours should be fine. But remember every scenery is different so if some don't run all the way to Ultra, knocking a few sliders back a notch makes little visual difference.

You might be better to install W10 again and then download the Shell program that let's you run the W7 start menu. I did that and I wasn't even conscious of the fact that I had changed to W10. Fact is computers move on and software is sometimes forced to, to meet the demands of Operating Systems. I have a couple of printers that are still in perfect working order but the software is no longer installable. No thing I can do about it. It's possible that your W7 install has also reached the end of its extendable life and the requirements placed on the Orbx software developers by Microsoft coding mean that there's nothing that can be done to prolong the inevitable.

See today's release announcement

And therein is the crux of the matter. It's probably not your ISP, it's probably somewhere further up the pipe. It can even be a corrupted file in a server or routing junction that causes the download to reset to a lower speed, even a ridiculously lower speed like you're experiencing. Have you tried a VPN? Some users report success using that service. Otherwise all I can suggest is that most of these problems seem to go away after a day or so as the servers all get reset every 48 hours I believe, and hang tight. You could also submit a support ticket so the Orbx staff can be alerted to your problem. I doubt there's anything they can do, because if it was an OC server problem we'd have hundreds or thousands of users experiencing the problem.

You can reset or restart OC or your computer, your download will resume without losing what you've downloaded.

JUst like an exam at school or uni... gotta read the (question) carefully and make sure you understand it!

I guess one analogy that is relevant is the fate of the fax machine. Somewhere in the back of my shed is a perfectly serviceable fax machine, but for some reason I can't buy any of the rolls of thermal paper it uses. The reason is the population stopped supporting the technology. There were many many people who had supported the industry, but in the end the companies producing the machines and the paper rolls found it uneconomic to continue as demand fell away.

Many topics in the support forums to read. Basically the answer is almost all problems have been outside the control of Orbx and appear to be ISPs and other Internet gatekeepers are responsible for throttling Orbx Central downloads.

I have the HP Reverb G2 so I can't comment on Oculus stuff sorry

Just a heads up for those with VR headsets and those who might be considering the move The latest version of OpenXR Toolkit Companion with Fixed Foveated Rendering is a game changer. With just the Microsoft Mixed Reality Portal as originally released, my VR in many cities was either very lo res or down around 12-15 fps, which defeated the purpose of trying to get extra immersion. Now I just completed a tour of Canberra in live weather (lots of rain and clouds today) and it was smooth as silk the whole flight. If you have VR and haven't tried it, go get it. If you have a pc with similar specs to mine or better, but haven't got into VR, now might be the time!

After my MSFS reinstall, a lot of my settings had been saved. So maybe yours will too. As for spending hours getting it back to how it was, I haven't! Much of what I had I've realised was never used, so until I want to fly there I leave it uninstalled. My Orbx libraries were not affected, because the actual files don't sit in the Community folder. Orbx Central rebuilt the links in the Community folder easily enough. So if you're not using the libraries function, might be time to consider it.

Frankfurt and Melbourne. Frankfurt was included pretty well complete I think but there's some work going on to include additional scenery in Melbourne for an add-on City Pack release, but it's only at an evaluation stage at the moment. And look at Sydney, MSFS have a good version in the Australian scenery, but the Orbx Cityscape has many more modelled buildings and features across the entire urban area including many satellite CBDs. I think the chances of this scenery being included in any MSFS release in the forseeable future is vanishingly small, as a South America update would surely have Rio de Janeiro or somewhere iconic as its main attraction for MSFS, and if a Central America update is planned it's probably waaaaay down the track.

And therein lies the conundrum, should not be a problem. The important word is should. Only the developer can know if a certain feature in MSFS works flawlessly with all the elements of the airport, and it's not always as it seems. However I shall leave it there, and I'm sure a response will come in due course.

No idea. I get the impression that MSFS makes it difficult to always implement features that you would think would be easy. However I'm sure if you open a ticket with your observations, they'll look at what's possible to update. Don't forget, devs operate remotely from airports, and don't have the same depth of knowledge that pilots and airport workers have. Literally hundreds (yes 100's) of beta testing issues were raised by a team who also don't have an intimate knowledge of the airport, and in those hundreds of issues, there will always be a few aspects and issues that are not noticed or never known. Important issues that arise after release will always be assessed for updates and patches. There may be issues that prevent 100% realism, if so, the devs will I'm sure advise once investigations and assessments have been made. The airport is an amazing achievement as it is, and should be enjoyed as such.

That's not a very taxing GPU and I suspect the PSU manufacturer has beefed up the supply for the GPU feed, so I can't see any reason to not trust it.

Add-ons, as in freeware normally, are the most likely cause of the CTDs. Excessive overclocking is also a candidate. The vanilla factory fresh MSFS has proven to be ultra stable and should run at Ultra settings on your computer all day every day. Something isn't right, but whatever it is, it isn't MSFS itself. AFS2 is a nice smooth sim sure, but MSFS can be just about as smooth and offer the world at your fingertips. I'd be looking for a solution myself.

They might but it'll all sort itself out in the long run, particularly if the moderators enforce the No Support rule for the General Discussion forum.

I am running the 11700K CPU and RTX 3060ti and at 4K I get all the fps and performance I need. In VR it struggles occasionally in dense urban environments at my High settings, but overall it's plenty good enough for me.