ACTIVE FTX Norway mesh conflict.

[Jon Clarke]

Recently I started to get microstutters in P3D having been smooth ever since I got it and installed all my sceneries and addons.This smoothness applied to FTX regions. I loaded "Europe" via Central and tried Norway which has always been stunning. I chose a new, first time flight from Aro (Molde). When I took off I noticed that all the land scenery in front of me started to constantly rise and then flatten in a wave like motion as i was flying towards it. I have flown many areas in Norway and never experienced this before.

 I have Ultimate mesh installed and have been advised via a previous posting here on the forums, that I should not disable the in built mesh that comes with some of the FTX regions, so I didn't. P3D will choose the highest detail mesh i am told, and use that mesh. In order to try and remove this new problem, I disable Ultimate EU mesh and all was well again. I then enabled Ultimate EU mesh and disabled the Norway mesh. Again all was normal. My conclusion was therefore that there was a conflict going on with the mesh choice if I left both meshes active.

 I have also started to get the microstutters in PNW (Arlington Municipal, Washington is my default airport in this region) NRM,PFJ and NCA with the same settings that i have always had and have enjoyed smooth flying. I decided to reinstall PNW to see if some corruption had effected this region to induce the stutters. I reinstalled PNW, latest Libs and ran Vector AEC. I still got stutters so I then disabled the PNW mesh leaving only Ultimate running. The result was the stutters gave gone.

What i am wondering is what on earth has suddenly caused (a) the conflict to arise and ( why the stutters suddenly appeared. My FTX library insert points are correct with FTX in Yellow at the top. The only addon i have added recently has been Open LC Canada/Alaska which operates in Global and not in either Europe nor North America.

Anyone any ideas?

 My P3D sits on a 510GB SSD with 215GB free so I do not think that it is that my SSD is full and therefore reading the files is becoming the problem. Never had the stutters nor rising and flattening scenario before.

 

[John Dow]

Not a mesh guru but I understand that different mesh resolutions are called at different distances, and if Ultimate Mesh and the ORBX mesh are calling the bnext resolution at different distances it may create a problem.  SO you my be on to something, but just as likely I've got it all wrong.

 

With any luck one of the devs will spot this and advise.

 

Cheers

[Guest]

Hi,

Even if FSX/P3D select the best mesh into the scenery library, the fact that 2 competitive meshes (same max detail) are activated at the same time is a waste of CPU usage. So if you fly only inside Norway, unactivate Ultimate and reversing, for a cross flight by Hybrid mode, unactivate one's from Nroway and set Ultimate on.

[Jan Nordberg]

Here in Norway we have been blessed with talented mesh designers for years, so I have seen this sort of problems with FS Global 2010/FS Global Ultimate mesh and local made higher mesh resolution for years, long before FTX Norway. The last freeware mesh were just the same data as included in FTX Norway.

John, I think you are pointing to something right.

So when I have been working on my own NGA (Norwegian GA Airfields), I have seen this mostly on the west coast, but also further North. My solution, not an elegant one, are to set FS Global mesh for EU disabled until I cross a border or fly over the Ocean. This way I keep the better mesh active for Norway without interference, and are still able to have the better mesh from FS Global for the rest of EU/World.