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DVA10723
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 10 2012
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Myrtle Beach, SC

1,547 legs, 4,986.4 hours
19 legs, 27.1 hours online
1,525 legs, 4,930.9 hours ACARS
2 legs, 4.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 10:47 ET by Josh Martin

Anybody who has this, did you notice a hit on performance with frame rate? I'm doing 4.1ghz and have an AMD Radeon 7850 gpu with 2gb, and plenty of regular RAM

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 10:57 ET by Josh Martin

Btw...for FSX

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA12847
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on December 30 2015
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"Step on the ball!"
Ajax, ON Canada

256 legs, 968.6 hours
162 legs, 548.7 hours online
244 legs, 947.2 hours ACARS
22 legs, 80.0 hours event
25 legs dispatched, 29.4 hours

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 12:33 ET by Aidan Stevens

I personally did not notice a performance hit. Now, that doesn't mean there wasn't one, it just wasn't really noticeable.

Aidan Stevens (DVA12847)

DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
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Marietta, GA

2,347 legs, 9,466.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
2,005 legs, 8,259.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,383 legs, 9,600.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 12:57 ET by Luke Kolin

Josh Martin wrote:

I'm doing 4.1ghz

On what CPU?

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 13:01 ET by Josh Martin

Luke Kolin wrote:

Josh Martin wrote:

I'm doing 4.1ghz

On what CPU?

Cheers!

Hey Luke, thanks for your response. It's the Intel Core i5-3570K Ivy Bridge Quad-Core 3.4GHz (3.8GHz Turbo) LGA 1155 77W BX80637I53570K Desktop Processor Intel HD Graphics 4000

And my GPU is MSI, not AMD...lol

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA12650
Captain, B777-200

Joined on June 10 2015
White Knuckles Club
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Globetrotter
Black Pearl Club
Double Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Midwestern United States

213 legs, 288.8 hours
206 legs, 278.3 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 13:33 ET by Noah Weber

I have definitely noticed a performance hit, especially when there is a lot of weather to generate (ie. clouds, rain, etc.). Low visibility conditions are particularly rough. I also use the Cloud Art extension so that probably doesn't help.

Thankfully, there are a few options you can adjust to mitigate the performance impact. Carefully examine the provided descriptions of the different settings to see which ones mention performance trade-offs. Of the top of my head I think "suppress local weather changes" was a big one for performance. Makes the weather change a little less frequently but I haven't noticed much of a drawback beyond that. You can also "prevent downloads on approach" to avoid having AS16 try to load new weather when you're nearing the airport.

Hope that helps!

-Noah

Noah Weber (DVA12650)

DVA2030
Captain, B777-200

Joined on December 01 2004
Online Triple Century Club
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Maricopa, AZ

411 legs, 763.3 hours
376 legs, 696.5 hours online
362 legs, 692.8 hours ACARS
4 legs, 9.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on April 04 2017 14:05 ET by Greg Goodavish

Also, don't use max resolution on the clouds. That will definitely bring your system to its knees in cloudy weather.

Greg Goodavish

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on April 05 2017 07:39 ET by Josh Martin

Noah and Greg, thanks for the responses. I've always heard that it was a great weather program, I just never pulled the trigger. I'm considering switching to p3d at some point, but really don't want to lose all of the add-ons I have, not to mention basically needing to build a new computer if I want to do it right. I keep getting into occasional fist fights with FSX, may just stay where I am for now...not sure.

If so, I'd like to improve the weather

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

Posted onPost created on April 05 2017 20:27 ET by Greg Goodavish

I use FSX, and it works great.

Greg Goodavish

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on April 06 2017 06:37 ET by Josh Martin

Took the plunge and got AS2016...downloading now, stay tuned... cool

Josh Martin

Captain, B737-800

DVA10736
Captain, B777-200

Joined on May 13 2012
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Milton, ON Canada

1,057 legs, 6,426.5 hours
47 legs, 280.8 hours online
1,052 legs, 6,405.6 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 06 2017 15:24 ET by Florin Marinache

No impact here, you'll love it!

Florin Marinache

Captain, B777-200

DVA5434
Captain, B767-300

Joined on January 14 2008
Black Pearl Club
Toulouse Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Triple Century Club

Southeastern United States

319 legs, 1,299.2 hours
313 legs, 1,268.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 10 2017 01:49 ET by Chris Radev

Any performance hit will not be due to the program per say but per the weather the sim has to render.

There are things you can do there. Default it limits cloud layers to 5 and limits thunderstorms to 1 giant layer. I have turned both these off and don't notice any difference. I've seen cbs well into 45000+ level now. pretty awesome.

Been using AS since the fs9 days.

DVA10830
Captain, A320

Joined on June 20 2012
Century Club
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"There is always a silver lining."
Australia

162 legs, 924.5 hours
28 legs, 98.5 hours online
160 legs, 921.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on April 11 2017 18:41 ET by Antonis Kastrinakis

ASN (the previous version) user here, FSX as well and an i5-3570K (but running at 4.2GHz -- utilise that "K" suffix, Josh!). Did you also get ASCA or are you using another texture package (REX4 for example)? In any case, as long as you don't select the high textures options in any of your texture progs you will be good to go. I have my REX4 clouds textures set to 512 (DXT5) and they still look great.

It's a whole new world out there with ActiveSky cool

Posted onPost created on April 11 2017 22:42 ET by Chris Radev

Under REX4 optimal is

High level clouds 1024

Low level cloud 2048

Runways/taxiways 1024

literally no effect on vas but you wont notice the typical artifacts with 512 textures stretched 4x their native size on your screen

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