BillM

Pils, taking your advice, I have made progress in flying the aircraft, thank you. My only persistent fault indication is ATS fail - but I will keep working on this.

Thank you Pils.

Hi. I have just purchased the Challenger for X-Plane 12. It is a remarkable product with unmatched fidelity. However, I think you are limiting your potential market by keeping it so complex (for all). I suggest the following for consideration: a. Have a choice to have the FBO active or not active (easier for some, less of a hit on FPS and quicker load times). b. Via the avitab, have preconfigured states, i.e cold and dark, ready for taxi, ready for take off - better accessibility - more appealing to a wider audience. c. Make the co-pilot / instructor more interactive - make it a bit easier for those that want to learn the correct procedures. In X-Plane 12, the FPS is very poor, I have a few lock-ups (no plugins other than what the Challenger installed) and it is very frustrating to have to start again. When I have saved a situation (i.e ready for taxi), I end up in the FBO or in a cold and dark aircraft. I am sure some 'purists' will not agree with my suggestions, but more sales, bigger audience = more profit and more products. By the way, I was a flying / aircrew instructor and I have developed / tested quite a few flight sim products (FSX / DCS). Kind Regards, Bill.

Hi, When I update the installation programme fails as it cannot extract Gizmo64.zip. I have tried twice with same problem, BillM. Ref: bm3194@googlemail.com / ORDER NUMBER: 84208 (DELIVERED) Thank you in anticipation

Hi, I had a few issues with FPS and the occasional CTD. I appeared to have fixed my issue by: a. Stopping all unnecessary background resources and making as much RAM / VRAM as available as possible b. I enabled threaded optimisation in NV control panel c. I loaded Cessna 172 first, and then TBM900 - I avoid loading a TBM saved flight By doing the above, I went from 9 to >30FPS. I am sure that the above 'fix' is system dependent. Best of luck, Bill.

Hi Marpilot, I mentioned in another thread that loading the 172 fixes my very poor FPS; good spot! Regards, Bill.

Hi All, Further to my last, good flight, no issues. See attached graphic. Kind Regards, Bill

Hi All, Followed advice of another poster, loaded stock 172 and then TBM, steady 30FPS! Will now get started and see if I can get a flight without issues. I wonder what is going on? However, I do remember the need to load stock FSX aircraft before complex ones such as PMDG. Kind Regards, Bill.

Sorry, my mistake, 2 x GTX 970! Bill.

Hi, I have had FPS problems with the TBM, I will try your solution tomorrow and see if what happens! With FSX, it was advisable to load default aircraft and then a more demanding one - I never did find the reason why Cheers, Bill

Cameron, Yes, I had very good FPS prior to version 30. The only way I can currently compare performance in 30 is against previous experience and current aircraft. I accept that the TBM is a sophisticated aircraft and will place greater demands on my PC in comparison to other aircraft I have, but I used to decrease some settings to ensure good FPS (I.e. no live weather, decreased graphical settings, etc.) - I can’t achieve that now unless I delete the state folder (up initial today when that also didn’t work when I removed all plugins). i will continue to try different permutations in the hope of FPS nirvana until I get my new video card. Regards, Bill

Hi All, Thanks for your suggestions. With DA62, I get very good FPS 30-40, depending on weather. Good FPS with all other aircraft other than TBM. Excessive GPU loading is predominantly with TBM but also quite high with some other aircraft - I think this is down to quite an old video card, 2 x GTX670. All connections checked to / from GPUs, all secure. i will consider fresh Xplane installation at weekend - wary of fixing one thing and then creating other issues. i will keep trying as I do want to get this very fine model flying again. Regards, Bill.

Hi, Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried modifying the graphics sliders - on minimum the FPS improves to 60 FPS but with unacceptable graphics, with TBM the FPS is around 20. I reset preferences and shaders when I upgraded to version .30 but will consider trying again. Again, thanks for your suggestions. Bill.

Hi All, I completely removed all my plugins. Didn't touch the state folder - started Xplane, loaded TBM900, got prompt 'do I wish to continue with flight' - said yes. Aircraft loaded and I had unuseable FPS - see Photo1. Remained in Xplane and loaded Cessna 172 to check - all okay, good(ish) FPS - see Photo 2 Exit Xplane - removed state folder contents, re-started Xplane, loaded TBM900 and unlike all other occasions, still had unuseable FPS - see Photo 3 RAM and CPU usage appeared to be okay but when I opened Task Manager, GPU was at 100% with TBM - see Photo 4 Loaded up Diamond DA62, FPS okay, RAM, CPU and GPU okay - see Photo 5 It would appear that by removing all plugins, I was unable to recover the FPS for the TBM900. I didn't get the chance to fly it so I cannot comment on stability. With your assistance, I do hope to get the TBM flying again - I will be upgrading my GPU very soon but whilst I do concede that this could be part of the issue, I don't think it is the main problem as I did have the aircraft flying well with pretty good FPS. As always, your assistance and advice are welcomed. Kind Regards, Bill.

Hi Fireone, Thank you for your suggestion. As I only have an issue with the TBM900 (all my other aircraft, stock and addons work very well) I would be reluctant to do a completer re-install. I did use the Xplane application to check my installation and it did not highlight any problems. However, the few plugins that I have I will try and remove them and see what happens. Kind Regards, Bill.