aerosoft heathrow extended

[britfrog 180]

as some of you know I have been an outspoken advocate for uk2000 since long before fs9 , i have always thought their work more than adequate even when the first edition of the simwings /aerosoft heathrow came along i felt the version 3 of thiefrow was better

However nothing stands still thankfully, and I have to say the latest version of heathrow is far better than I had expected and sadly much better than the uk2000 version.

Not only is it far more detailed, with its detail stretching further from the airport, but the fps is about 15-20% better than the less detailed uk2000 and also it uses less VAS as well so it is a win/win situ.

I just hope that UK 2000 can up their game because new airports from the like of WDS are going to push the bar even further.

[mutley 4,498]

That's odd, it brought my machine to a standstill and eventually OOM.

The good thing is it seems to integrate with Orbx seamlessly.

Joe

[britfrog 180]

you using dx10 Joe? mind you fps wise it was just about the same in dx9. I find if I use process explorer fsx is using around 2,200,000 VAS so plenty left for other things, in fact i am using the same vas even with the ngx and a steady 23 fps rising to 35 over terminal 5 check out fsuipc and see if wide fs is enabled, also what ai traffic have you, i use 50% using my traffic 2013,

initially i did have a problem with some scenery  but I found if I disabled everything in scenery manager, rebooted fsx and re-enabled the scenery , all was well. however a weather prog combined with bad weather does get things down to 9 or 10 fps but still no ctd in dx10

 

just realised you are using ftx i am using generation x  ftx is a terrible performace killer sadly , i have ftx on another hard drive i will see how that reacts to thiefrow

[britfrog 180]

ok Joe

with ftx england and wales fired up but no other ftx airport just thiefrow, at the start the vas was up at 2.7gb using the q400 after a cicuit to land again the vas was up at 3gb fps in the 12-14 range but no OOM, however fire up some weather  and even fsgrw uses 800mb of vas and that will put you over the top, add on the other ftx new stuff and that must also get you very close if not over the top without weather fired up.

i presume you have lowered LOD to 4.5? I use 6.5/8.5 but not with ftx

[mutley 4,498]

I keep LOD at 4.5 but I must admit I was chucking everything at it! Ultimate Traffic probably didn't help either but it doesn't seem the same without airliners at the terminals 

 

I have done a few arrivals now and its held up well.

[britfrog 180]

i use my traffic 2013 at 50% and there is a fair amount of a/c all over the place , this is why i prefer my traffic it uses the AI traffic slider in fsx to regulate the amount of traffic, it is so easy.

[stu7708 244]

London and FTX England is a resource hungry beast so I'm not surprised you ran into trouble there Joe....

[britfrog 180]

here are some more observations on heathrow for what it is worth:

basic VAS usage 1.15gb rising to 1.3gb (using ftx BOB) with my traffic 2013 at 50%

with airbus extended, 1.7gb rising to 1.9 gb

add FSGRW (weather) 614mb but no increase in fsx vas, the day was cloudy , however yesterday FSGRW increased the VAS to 816mb i suppose the weather was worse?

change to REX 4 ,  407mb , now this surprised me as it is using a third less VAS than FSGRW !!

 

AI traffic is My traffic 2013 and if I set it to zero then changed it to 100% there was a difference of 170mb, so very little impact

 

So with quite a reasonable amount of traffic , a demanding a/c, plus weather, and you are still only around 2.5 gb though I do stress this is however with DX10

a terrain quality Lod of 4096 and a LOD radius of 4.5 however going to 6.5 (which gives one more distant objects only raised the vas by 170mb, so still way under the 3.3gb where things tend to go a bit flakey

[mutley 4,498]

Thanks for the update BF, I still use DX9 as I have shaders that don't work with DX10.

I think it would be more realistic using an airliner than FTX Bob though!

Cheers