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You are most definitely CPU-bound. I'm afraid that framerates > 35 at KSEA with medium or higher settings will be tough with any AMD CPU. TBH, I would save my money for a new fast i5 (4670) or i7 (4770) build. Sorry.

If you want to obtain more framerate from merely a CPU upgrade, be sure it has a worthwhile enough increase in single thread performance. Otherwise, it may be best to save your money for the major system upgrade. I'm in the same boat with an AMD X6 1090T BE. EDIT: X-Plane renders with a single-thread, so throwing more cores/threads only helps with the flight model, AI aircraft, etc. This is why single-thread CPU performance, not overall CPU performance, will have the greatest material effect on framerate, assuming the GPU isn't the bottleneck. When using the fps indicator in X-Plane, pay attention to the relationship between the fps and cpu indications. As a general guideline, if the cpu indication is above .900 and your GPU is not anywhere near max utilization, you are CPU-bound. Conversely, if your GPU is running near max output and the cpu indication is well below .900, then you are GPU-bound. You can use either GPU-Z or your Catalyst Control Center to read your GPU load. I prefer GPU-Z.

The first I ever hear about an update to an X-Aviation product has typically been from an email from X-Aviation. Be patient, and goodness will come...

As with any significant project, one may easily spend 80% of their time completing the last 20% of it.

Come to think of it, I wonder if one actually could alter the fuel load once in flight. I never thought to try it. If it is possible, we might just have found an "undocumented feature" in X-Plane!

Well done! Even with the slight "detour."

And when properly set up, much quieter as well.

Exciting news! Never had any doubt you would keep pushing the envelope. Many thanks to the entire team!

I hope you're right. My page file is already twice the size of installed RAM. I'll give it a try with a long flight when I get a chance.

What do you suppose might happen to performance when X-Plane starts swapping large files in and out?

I love the steam gauges! Classic all the way!

Would you please just release this already because it's a real pain to keep putting my credit card back into my wallet after it jumps out for SkyMAXX Pro!

So, as a recurring customer with other X-Aviation published aircraft, are you really expecting the Saab to be a that big of a disappointment (therefore a big risk) compared to the others you have bought? Do you think other clients that bought the Saab "on good faith" to be so frivolous to take a chance that it would be as good as previewed? Given the reviews and comments all over these forums, I would say people are quite satisfied. As I am. It's been a long time since I have read about anyone so hesitant to make the purchase. Makes one wonder.

As an owner of the 340A, I can speak of its quality. It has certainly raised the bar for X-Plane and requires no excuses when compared to some of the PMDG aircraft I have seen. And just think, it's only V1.0...

That helps. Thanks!

Subjective as they may be, exactly what criteria drive you to one rating or another. In other words, what needs to be missing (or wrong) with a scenery package for it to be dropped from "Very Good" to "Good" and so forth.

You are a master of understatement.

Unzip the downloaded file first. Then double-click on the windows executable in the Saab 340A folder.

If I may ask, where did you find that livery for the Cirrus Jet? EDIT: Found it!

An absolutely amazing video to see first thing in the morning! Don't really need that cup of coffee anymore.

Good video, Ola. The other difference I find is that AA looks much better with HDR enabled (4x SSAA+FXAA) vs HDR disabled (16x extreme) full screen 1920x1200 on a GTX 680. EDIT: Curiously 8x AA with HDR disabled looks better than 16x.

I'm still on 314.22 for my GTX 680. See little reason to go with newer drivers.

My favorite bush planes are STMA's Beaver and Carenado's C185 with the Bush Extension Pack.

Nice shots!

Beautiful, isn't it?