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yay , got PMDG 737 (Read 309 times)
Apr 25th, 2005 at 7:02am

cobzz   Offline
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hey
As a early birthday pressy my friend bought me
PMDG 737NG incl 737-800/900.
ITs awsome.
Has autoland, and TCAS that actually works.
Ill post some screenshots.

cyaa
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 25th, 2005 at 11:55am

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LOL! good luck with getting deccent FPS.. Wink
 
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Reply #2 - Apr 25th, 2005 at 3:02pm

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LOL! good luck with getting deccent FPS.. Wink



The PMDG 737 is very good on FPS...unless you use the VC, which is the area for me and many others that the highest framerate drop acurrs.
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 1:49am

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i get a huge drop in fps, not as much when im not using VS tho. Im getting a new computer so its not that bad.
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 6:25am

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I personally think if you have a semi good video card, AND atleast 512 RAM, but if you could get 1-2 GIG you should be well off

The 1-2 gig is when you go to get another payware aircraft since some of them are heavier on the FPS
 
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Reply #5 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 12:42pm

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LOL! good luck with getting deccent FPS.. Wink


I dont have much of a frame rate drop using the VC, and even if the frames drop, its still remains quite fluid, but then again I used Ramsa's FS-GS service to get everything I could out of my sim
 

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Reply #6 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 1:37pm

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but then again I used Ramsa's FS-GS service to get everything I could out of my sim


Blatant plug for Ramsa's service there!!! Grin Now where's that 60Euros... Wink
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 2:04pm

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From my experience with both, the PMDG NG 600/700 VC is pretty rough on the framerates, whereas the NG 800/900's VC was built using more framerate-friendly methods and  it works very smoothly. POSKY could learn from them! I barely use my A330 VC version anymore.
 

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Reply #8 - Apr 26th, 2005 at 4:40pm

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I fly the 600/700 and have no diference in frames between the 2D and VC.  Now, I have a clocked up 6600GT and one thing I've noticed about this 6600 is that even though I'm not getting outrageous 35-40 FPS like I see some owners of high end nvidia and radeon cards brag about, at least my card seems to downshift and hunker down for more demanding display needs and keep my FPS in 25-25 zone and very fluid if it does drop and that's important to me.  I try not to bother with shift_z as long as I don't notice any handling abnormalities which could indicate a severe FPS drop. It's better that way.  A guy can totally ruin the activity spending too much time worrying about the hardware rather than flying the planes and tasting the dream.  Incidently, I still don't use all the features in my 736/737 NG.  Most of the time, especially under routing changes I end up hand flying through the A/P anyway and just follow the lil magenta line when ATC is leaving me alone.  Too much hassle to go to the key pad and modify my route every time ATC barks at me to do so.  I also usually hand fly my approaches on ATC's vectors rather than autoland.  Once again, too much hassle to try to handle the plane through the keypad all the time.  But, from what I've heard from rated ATP's they fly that way a lot too.  It also helps that there is a second brain and pair of hands for situations like that in an actual airliner.
 

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