PMDG 747-400X Flight Part 1

[moes478]

crap 747 i got a much better a340-600

[beluga1111]

When i start up the PMDG from cold and dark the EXT PWR isn´t avail by me.

[Xantosuex]

You need to turn that on in PMDG's Options.

[sweetman1994]

good old aldergrove!

[pmdg444]

how did you install pmdg 747 for fsx

i am trying but they write they cannot find the dlls

[pilot2b1993]

how do you move around like that

[cjibbotson]

TrackIR Pro 4 its the best piece of hardware u can buy for FS and many other racing titles. An infrared device sits on you monitor and captures and amplified your head movement. Just Google Naturalpoint TrackIR for website. It's expensive but I wouldnt have FS with out it

[pilot2b1993]

thanks

[tjampe]

no, quad is better, more power, i have one

[kovalcik17]

yo is the duo better than the quad for fsx?

[rturn90]

fair enough

[rturn90]

engines sound like they are having a problem on takeoff

[cjibbotson]

Thats down to FS's pathetic 'Replay' bug which can make the sound choppy at times when using this facility

[markmorgan95]

does the pmdg 747 eat much frames

[cjibbotson]

You can expect to get about 50% of what you get with default aircraft so yes it DOES eat alot of fps ;-( Thats why my AI traffic is OFF to help

[captkramers]

woaa

thats the pc i want:p

how many bucks did u spend?

europe or us?

really nice video but next please turn on your interior lights so i can see what youre doing.

F******* nice:D

[captkramers]

and wich soundpackage did u use?

its not the default one I guesS?

lovely vid

[cjibbotson]

£2500 just over a year ago, you can get far faster now for the same price and yes its the PMDG soundset

[jasleil]

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[cjibbotson]

You may also need to up the voltage on the cpu I have mine at 1.52v (not brave enough to go higher) and keep temps monitored using CoreTemp

[sebb310390]

Aight. Setting frames to unlimited is better in some cases, except for flickering. Went back to XP, which were a performance increese. Which tweaks er you using? Running SP2? And i`m curious, how did you OC your CPU to 3.9? I`ve gotten it up to 3.4 at MAX. And Yes, it did help. Thanks!:)

[cjibbotson]

Wotu mean flickering is your AA filter on gpu? Yes FSX SP2. £190 motherboard helps OC and good heatsink -Zalman CNPS9700-NT nVidia Tritium with AS5 paste.cfg file contains foll tweaks: FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.99 (to get sharp textures-in theory set this high will lower fps but no effect on me); TEXTURE_BANDWIDTH_MULT=400; for GA planes I also tweak LOD_RADIUS=4.500000 to 7.5 which extends sharp textures however entering display settings menu will reset this to 4.5 so manual changing needed

[cjibbotson]

Sorry also meant AF filter on gpu which should remove shimmers

[sebb310390]

What your settings in FSX?

I`ve got a pretty similar system as you. Just not the XXX edition of Ultra. I`am not running as smooth as you though. You`re even runnings FRAPS, which steals some frames.

[cjibbotson]

Afraid my settings are always changing. Main thing is water detail is lowered to Low 1.x, scen complex-very dense, autogen-sparse, mesh complex-60,mesh resol-19m, text resol-30cm, resol-1920x1200, turn off aircraft shadow on ground, weather on max, all AI traffic off (though had roads on 4this vid), FSX.cfg file tweaked 2. FPS set to unlimited as locking it kills my frames. For General Avaition aircraft most settings on max except AI again and water quality a bit higher. Hope this helps.

[william273]

that's it man, 5 stars.

[cjibbotson]

Thanks man :-)

[santskatefly]

how much would you say your computer set up costs? does it ever lag? runnss like a dreeeeeeeeeeeeeeemmmmmmm im so jealous mann

[cjibbotson]

£2500 (See my specs). This is even 'last generation' compared to what you can get now with say a 790i Ultra motherboard, a Quad core extreme 4GB of high speed DDR3 memory and the new overclocked 280 video cards with their huge amount of memory bandwidth

[Jojoairbus]

Awesome video... *****

[18vallancel]

OMG, the 747X is so much better than the last one! I'm getting it now!

[DkHellsDk]

omfg, nice engine sound at start=)is active sky worth to pay for? i w8 on my 747X right now

[FlightX101]

About how many frames did you get?

[cjibbotson]

I get between 25-70 depending on aircraft and scenery. I think this was recorded with FRAPS set to record at 35 fps

[TonyFirelli]

How much does the PMDG744X cost?

[cjibbotson]

Google is your friend Tony!

Do a search for PMDG for more info.

Its quite expensive 59.99 Euros (£45 approx) but worth it although you need good performance in FSX to get the best out of it or lower a lot of your settings like autogen and water quality before using it to compensate for the loss in fps that this aircraft will give

[TonyFirelli]

Thx! and nice video:D this looks awesome!

[TonyFirelli]

The PMDG744x is for sp1 right? and i have sp2 can it still work?

[cjibbotson]

If you are refering to FSX SP2 then yes of course it works. SP2 greatly improves performance so I would certainly get it. When I first ran FSX without any SP installed it was poor but with SP2 and a good payware GA aircraft by Caranado I can put Scenery Complexity on Extremely dense and autogen on Very Dense and still get 45 fps

[TonyFirelli]

Oh ok thx!

[boing71234567]

do the jetways in fsx work with PMDG 747 X?

[cjibbotson]

Yes they do just download the latest AIRCA Cycle from Navigraph to allow the Flight Management Computer to use the latest jet and victor airways together with SIDS, STARS and terminal procedures

[PilotGav]

fantastic! How is your panning/zooming so smooth? are you using TrackIR?

[cjibbotson]

Yes I'm using TrackIR4 Pro. Its the best add-on for FS9, FSX and Colin McRae DIRT ;-)

[GIBiochip]

Kep 'er lit, Ibby!

[tf51d]

Nice video 5/5. Couple of procedural things not mentioned here, that will help you out. When starting engines, it's not necessary to shutdown all 3 bleed packs, just 2 and 3 leave 1 to Norm. Normally you would start engines during pushback, so you would set the Hyd pumps first 3 Auto and 4 to Aux. Once the first engine starts, you'll get a message that the Aux pump is no longer needed, then you can switch the 4th pump back to Auto.

[cjibbotson]

Thanks, I know about the packs and leaving the flightdeck on norm but turn them all off as it lets me hear the engines better. The Hyd pumps is also an error I realised after stitching the video together, you will notice they are switched on then a while later off again. I also wanted a manual start and pulling the starter which failed to light as the Auto switch was still engaged. It's all a learning curve ;-)

[ImperrfectStranger]

It's a pity you missed the Gen Cont switches during your preflight. These switches should always be pushed in (even on a dead ship).... Rather embarrassing leaving your ship in darkness after you switch off your APU :P

Regards.

[cjibbotson]

Thanks, I had just briefly run my eyes over the checklist before so most of that was from memory as I couldn't record the video and check the manual at the same time with TrackIR (view would go everywhere!). Thanks for the info about the switches, I will try to stick to the checklist in future ;-)

[RichardDdog]

damn son i wish my pc would perform like this

[slickdoc]

holy Moses

smoking clip from a smoking system.

keep em coming !

henry KLAX

[SnareMV17]

i can't even get FSX to run 20fps with the PMDG loaded up. What hardware are you running?

[cjibbotson]

Thanks, system specs are listed at the bottom of the video description - just press 'more info'

[SnareMV17]

I've got at C2d E6600 oc'd to 3.1

EVGA nForce 680i MB

4GB OCZ DDR2 PC-6400 SLI Ready Memory (EPP)

EVGA 8600GT with 1024mb DDR2 gpu

Onboard Sound

Antec case and 475w power supply

2 x 500Gb Maxtor SATA HDs in RAID0

Windows Vista Premium 64bit

19" Envision LCD Monitor

My stuff doesn't run nearly that smoothe. What am I doing wrong?

[cjibbotson]

I'm not a fan of Vista and ditched it for XP. E6850 has FSB of 1333 default which helps (E6600 1066) though I have mine at 1740 and my DDR2 oc helps and my gpu has a huge memory bandwidth of 110Gb/s which helps to make things smooth. FSX.cfg file also tweaked and a lot of time spent on the graphic settings. I get smoother rates flying Carenado Cessnas even when turning the graphic settings even higher. Water, texture resolution and AI aircraft are main killers of fps so play around with them

[Jesterocity]

Bit of a marathon for your first video!

Nice work.

J.

[slickdoc]

Subscribed !

loving those buttons and knobs.

what video capture program you're running ?

ever thought about shockwave's 3d lights ?

henry KLAX

[cjibbotson]

Its just captured using the unregistered version of FRAPS. Unfortunately you are limited to 30sec captures and a watermark at the top