by Gary R. » Fri Dec 23, 2005 5:58 pm
Well, I see I'm not the only one having difficulties with this bird. I finally loaded it and got to the runway but then something came up and I had to abort my session. I just am loath to take off with anything I can't get consistant 24fps plus and I can with most every other plane I have, even 737 NG. My main problem at this point is low frame rates. I even took all my sliders all the way left. Looked like FS98, why, even worse. Best that did was bounce between 18 and 22 FPS and spikes up to 26 periodically. I shut everything else on my system down, FSAutostart naturally. Any other aircraft loaded would have been nailing over 40 FPS after all that. Now, I did email the lead developer. He was very nice and immediatly responded with a request to include screenies in my reply which I did. I think the resources could be spared if they could optimize their code a little better or do a dxt tex version of the plane. GMAX is way over rated. I think dxt textures look darn near as good and they spare a lot more vid card strength. I mean to keep trying to work with this plane. I complimented them profusely for their efforts and didn't complain, just a little constructive feedback. I want to see this be all it can be and even more I would love to see PMDG turn green if 4 guys from Asia could do a freeware Qween of the Skies that can equal or best what PMDG charges $50 for. I suggest that all you email them from the links in the manual. Compliment them, tell them what you like, tell them where troubles are and support them on the project. This could be one of the biggest ever freeware add-ons to hit a server.
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