Not sure if its a bug or ‘feature’, but whenever I use the Random weather generator,
the visibility is always unlimited regardless of the mix of clouds/layers.
If I then try to reduce the visibility in the main WX page, all the nice weather is lost.
( I know you hate adding more buttons, but maybe a visibility button on that page would be perfect)

Thanks,

Nat

Made the same upgrade myself, expensive but did make a huge improvement especially to cloud rendering performance (without Skymaxx). I think the overclocked Core i5 is now the bottleneck on my system, maybe along with the RAM.

Right – if you’re not using a physical G1000 there’s no need to sync the datarefs.
In the past we have simply “slaved” the failures to the present UI, but recently we’ve been trying to stabilize them since third party add-ons have started to depend on them.

In general, a third party add-on that does -generic- data IO (e.g. shovel this dataref from a config file over there) should not hard fail if a dataref is missing – it sounds like smart copilot is just issuing a warning, which is fine.

Mine does too if I choose an airport in a less dense area than LAX. I also have extended dsf on and skymaxx pro. I think it’s just a combination of all of this where I’ve exceeded the available memory. I have multi thread optimization off. Thanks.

It does have 4GB, but that last half GB is in a different memory partition. That partition runs a little slower but still much faster than swapping to system RAM.

http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-gtx-970-memory-issue-fully-explained/

I use smartcopilot, and write smartcopilot.cfg files. (http://xsmart-plane.com/smartcopilot/)

Stock failures can be transmited between the two planes thru the plugin.

The log.txt of smartcopilot tell me that it can’t found those datarefs. Now i understand why

Will delete them of my smartcopilot.cfg files.

If you read the fog thread, the answer is sort of in there – setting the near fog ratio higher makes hard-ball IFR days look better, but it also screws up clean days. Similarly, a lot of the scattering tricks make scattering look better in some views, but just turns things “pure blue” in others. Some of these tricks are matters of aesthetic taste (e.g. “hey let’s make the light billboards HUGE – ooh, pretty!”). Some of them only work in some views.

So my view is that if a modification isn’t:
– Applicable to all aspects of the flight (or has fine print and cases where it makes things worse) or
– Changes the aesthetics of the sim in a way some users like but is not what we intended

then a third party add-on is the right place for the modification.

Yes. Those failures were being used _only_ in conjunction with a physical real G1000 attached to X-plane via ethernet for high-end pro training purposes.

If you were using them in an add-on and your add-on is broken, please file a bug immediately.

Dear Filippo,
I have the same graphics card (AMD 7870) and also thought about buying a GTX 980TI. It would be great to hear how your fps benefits from this upgrade.

regards,

Carsten