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I realized I had my settings.txt set to 8192 for shadow quality. Once I set it back to 2048 the depth of the stutter was less. It does seem to be happening every 7 seconds. Ignore the third stutter mark, that was caused when I hit print screen. Once I took off the 7 second stutter went away and I had constant 60fps. So it seems Gizmo usuage has no bearing on the fps. This is about as light as the default 172.

Yes I was seeing stable FPS with the IXEG. Since last week I upgraded from my 4790 to a 5800X3D. That seemed to fix most of my G500 problems. I get a little spike right when loading but then it settles down to mostly 0% usage and stable (tested with 172 REP, Mu2, BN-2T equipped G500). With the IXEG I get constant 10-15% Gizmo usage but the fps overall is good. One strange thing I noticed is I was getting a constant stutter every 10 seconds. I could reproduce the same stutter by turning off and on the terrain display (one stutter each time). In this pic the first and last stutters happened on their own. The middle two close together were me click on and off the terrain display. The stutters look exactly the same but I'm not sure what's causing the ones to happen on their own. But by going to external view and back into the cockpit the constant stutter was gone (I still get it when turning on the terrain). I tried it again and then that trick didn't work.

So I did another test. I see Gizmo is using about 15-20% usage with the 737 but I never noticed it as my frame time is still low. It's the G500 that's causing me issues on the other planes as that one spikes up over 50% usage. Also with the 737 the usage never goes down like it does with the G500. But it doesn't spike either.

I was going to post this same issue. When I first load a plane now that uses Gizmo (including the G500 on non X-Aviation planes) I get a huge cpu draw from Gizmo. My cpu frame time goes from 0.200 to 1.500 for a minute or so. Eventually it settles down and Gizmo shows about 0.10% usage in the admin window. But then every minute or two it goes back up to 50% usage for a few seconds before settling back down which causes stutters. I've tried this with the 737, Mu2, BN-2T and the Laminar 172 with G500. I bought both the 737 and the G500 at the same time so not sure which one triggered it. My system is old, i7 4790 and I have a 5800X3D build I'm completing tomorrow so I'll report back if it continues with that new system. Prior to this week I never had an issue with Gizmo so did something update it on the 737 or G500 purchases? Btw my tests were done at various locations including Land's End which is usually very light (I get 60fps in the stock 172) just to rule out scenery problems.

For now it uses the old external model so yes.

What does plugin admin look like? And do you have MSI afterburner? That helps to see the nature of the stuttering.

As mentioned earlier in the thread you need to contact support.

I think this is just for XP12 as the main point was to get it working there and add XP12 only features. There's a couple of bug fixes for the XP11 one though that maybe will get ported to that?

Should be in an email.

It's out.

It says on the sales page it's not released yet in red.

Where's that listed? An update check seems to show r3 is still current.

What was the price you paid for it? Is it possible the users who get the free upgrade also paid more at that time?

Shows 84.99 now, used to be 74.99 I believe. From sales page: EGPWS terrain display Weather radar system with tilt, showing X-Plane´s precipitation, ground returns, allows overscanning

Did it say it was free when you purchased it? If not then that message doesn't apply to you.

AP seems to be working in the latest beta, 12.06b6.

Is there an option for this? The key command works for both when set to one but the axis doesn't.

Also meant to mention I need to set the master volume to about 50-60% otherwise the engine sound results in distortion.

I found a workaround. I opened the stats window from the sidebar. I then clicked the button to make it into a normal window and then minimized it. That hides it from view and stops the HSI from flickering. Instead the sidebar now flickers when I hover over it but that's fine.

Can confirm it's to do with the dialog windows. The camera preset one started it too. If I open that window back then the flickering stops as long as it's open again. Once it's closed then the flickering starts. I also noticed the window itself was flickering at one point too.

Hi Cameron, thanks for your reply. I did test and verify it's from Zink. Disabling it reduced my fps from 40 to 25 though. I did figure out the flickering is triggered when I close the auto start window. But if I leave that open (and off the side of the screen) it's fine. I'll try doing a manual start and see if that avoids the issue all together. It might be something with the latest beta as it broke the dialog boxes for World Traffic too. The ones for the Saab work but maybe there's something similar conflict going on. Cheers

I noticed recently the pilot side PFD flickers on the top half. It might be due to Zink. The co-polite side is fine though. Would be it possible to edit this in plane maker? Or should I just fly the co-pilot position?

Same here.

I just tried this again and depending on the angle (looking down) I went from 45fps to 32 to quite a lot of difference. But looking straight ahead from 32 to 30. So in practice not that much in normal use. That was with cabin lights. With panel lights turned up it went from 40 to 30 when looking straight ahead or down.

Did this get pushed out? I'm on AMD and I'll like to buy the G500 but want to make sure it's working now.