Abacus & Aerosoft Add-on aircraft causing 33% slow down in..

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I've purchased a few Add-on aircraft form Abacus & Aerosoft & a few other
companies. I loaded up an ATR42-500, BAe 146 v200, and several other
aircraft (even some combat aircraft) -- all aircraft that did NOT come with
FS2004. I noticed that my frame rates suddenly dropped (20 fps)
considerably with these add-on aircraft.

So I exit and load up the Cessna (in fact any aircraft that comes with
FS2004) -- bang, my frame rates are up and back to normal (30 fps). So I
exit and once again load up the ATR42-500 and viola frame rates drop back to
20 fps. I also noticed that when I go to external spot view, I can see the
aircraft being painted -- this does NOT happen with any of the standard
FS2004 aircraft.

Is this just a known problem with FS2004 SDK? Or, in a quest to provide
higher quality aircraft the designers did not optimize their vertex and
polygon count?

Also, I can be traveling along in the Aerosoft BAe 146 v200 -- cruise on at
Mach .58 at 18,000ft, some very minor turbulence and the aircraft falls
apart with an "over stressed"??

Also, some aircraft don't have a vitual cockpit, others do but they are
vitually impossible to read/use?

Now I can understand some of these problems appearing in shareware Add-on
aircraft, but for purchased ($40) products from Abacus and Aerosoft I kinda
expect a more.

Anyone else come across this problem with Add-on aircraft? Any possible
solutions?

Thanks, Rob.

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Rob -
I stopped buying add-on's after about the second one
because there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of very
good freebies for almost any aircraft you can name.
Sometimes you get a frame-rate hog... so just toss it
out and look for others. I've had better freeware a/c
than any I've purchased. Google finds them easily.
s ---------------------------------------------------

>-----Original Message-----
>I've purchased a few Add-on aircraft form Abacus &
Aerosoft & a few other
>companies. I loaded up an ATR42-500, BAe 146 v200, and
several other
>aircraft (even some combat aircraft) -- all aircraft that
did NOT come with
>FS2004. I noticed that my frame rates suddenly dropped
(20 fps)
>considerably with these add-on aircraft.
>
>So I exit and load up the Cessna (in fact any aircraft
that comes with
>FS2004) -- bang, my frame rates are up and back to normal
(30 fps). So I
>exit and once again load up the ATR42-500 and viola frame
rates drop back to
>20 fps. I also noticed that when I go to external spot
view, I can see the
>aircraft being painted -- this does NOT happen with any of
the standard
>FS2004 aircraft.
>
>Is this just a known problem with FS2004 SDK? Or, in a
quest to provide
>higher quality aircraft the designers did not optimize
their vertex and
>polygon count?
>
>Also, I can be traveling along in the Aerosoft BAe 146
v200 -- cruise on at
>Mach .58 at 18,000ft, some very minor turbulence and the
aircraft falls
>apart with an "over stressed"??
>
>Also, some aircraft don't have a vitual cockpit, others do
but they are
>vitually impossible to read/use?
>
>Now I can understand some of these problems appearing in
shareware Add-on
>aircraft, but for purchased ($40) products from Abacus and
Aerosoft I kinda
>expect a more.
>
>Anyone else come across this problem with Add-on aircraft?
Any possible
>solutions?
>
>Thanks, Rob.
>
>
>.
>

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.games.zone.simulation (More info?)

You can also try Project AI. They have all kinds of cool
stuff that won't kill your framerates. Some time back, for
reasons unknown, I lost all my default AI traffic for
FS2004. I've since gotten more AI traffic than I know what
to do with thanks to Project AI. Best of all, it's FREE.
http://www.projectai.com/

>-----Original Message-----
>Rob -
>I stopped buying add-on's after about the second one
>because there are hundreds, maybe thousands, of very
>good freebies for almost any aircraft you can name.
>Sometimes you get a frame-rate hog... so just toss it
>out and look for others. I've had better freeware a/c
>than any I've purchased. Google finds them easily.
>s ---------------------------------------------------
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>I've purchased a few Add-on aircraft form Abacus &
>Aerosoft & a few other
>>companies. I loaded up an ATR42-500, BAe 146 v200, and
>several other
>>aircraft (even some combat aircraft) -- all aircraft that
>did NOT come with
>>FS2004. I noticed that my frame rates suddenly dropped
>(20 fps)
>>considerably with these add-on aircraft.
>>
>>So I exit and load up the Cessna (in fact any aircraft
>that comes with
>>FS2004) -- bang, my frame rates are up and back to normal
>(30 fps). So I
>>exit and once again load up the ATR42-500 and viola frame
>rates drop back to
>>20 fps. I also noticed that when I go to external spot
>view, I can see the
>>aircraft being painted -- this does NOT happen with any
of
>the standard
>>FS2004 aircraft.
>>
>>Is this just a known problem with FS2004 SDK? Or, in a
>quest to provide
>>higher quality aircraft the designers did not optimize
>their vertex and
>>polygon count?
>>
>>Also, I can be traveling along in the Aerosoft BAe 146
>v200 -- cruise on at
>>Mach .58 at 18,000ft, some very minor turbulence and the
>aircraft falls
>>apart with an "over stressed"??
>>
>>Also, some aircraft don't have a vitual cockpit, others
do
>but they are
>>vitually impossible to read/use?
>>
>>Now I can understand some of these problems appearing in
>shareware Add-on
>>aircraft, but for purchased ($40) products from Abacus
and
>Aerosoft I kinda
>>expect a more.
>>
>>Anyone else come across this problem with Add-on
aircraft?
> Any possible
>>solutions?
>>
>>Thanks, Rob.
>>
>>
>>.
>>
>.
>