Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Seippg, If you read the previous posts you'll see that the update seemed okay in P3D (one report) but not with FSX:SP2. Until the developers respond there's not much more to add. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Thanks Ray. I wonder if it's the same problem they have in Sacramento...a huge spike in VAS that P3D3 can release but FSX can't. I have left Sacramento off of my sim waiting for a patch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 There was an interesting suggestion from JPL19 in #92 asking if the airport scenery could be separated from the harbour and town. As I (and perhaps many other IFR pilots) only need the airport that would be a welcome change. P3D definitely handles VAS better than FSX but I'm not about to change just for one airport. All my others are absolutely fine with VAS. I don't have Sacramento and don't plan on getting Manchester. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 4 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said: There was an interesting suggestion from JPL19 in #92 asking if the airport scenery could be separated from the harbour and town. As I (and perhaps many other IFR pilots) only need the airport that would be a welcome change. P3D definitely handles VAS better than FSX but I'm not about to change just for one airport. All my others are absolutely fine with VAS. I don't have Sacramento and don't plan on getting Manchester. While I can see that separating them would help, I don't see it as the problem. It's not Los Angeles. The island without the scenery is very light as I remember. I don't have it yet but, I'd guess that they didn't consider VAS as they developed and may have something in the library that's a big problem. Sacramento is a relatively small airport with nothing at all in the surrounding area and yet it's VAS footprint is...certainly the spike...is quite large. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 I completely agree with you seippg. For such a small island the amount of VAS consumed is extraordinary. Read the second sentence in #91. That may give you a clue. Hopefully IGS will respond as I know they are reading these posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 9, 2016 Share Posted June 9, 2016 Yeah, I'm honestly glad they're developing and I hope they're taking this all somewhat constructively. I'm keenly interested in Nassau (and Freeport!...lots of good sceneries to do!) Overall it looks like a nice scenery...just needs some fixing so that it plays well. Even the best devs have to tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr.mario 0 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I would like to try the Nassau X update version 1.01 as my version consistently runs out of VAS memory. However, I do not see how to install the update. Could someone please send me the link? Thanks By the way, I am using FSX from MS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Norcal Bear 0 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Go to your account wherever you purchased it and re-download the scenery. It is not an incremental update or patch. It is a new installer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Er!k 572 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Today I did a flight from KIAH (FSDreamteam) to MYNN with the A320 (Aerosoft) in v1.1. Had my first OOM ever I did not occur in v1.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Erik, What simulator? FSX:SP2, Steam or P3D? Why am I not surprised? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Er!k 572 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 Sorry, is in FSX SP2... I can complete even a flight from Aerosoft EGLL to EDDF without any OOM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 You're in the same boat as me Erik. I have most of the FSDreamTeam, T2G, LatinVFR and UK2000 airports and none give me OOMs. Just Nassau. The fix appears to have fixed little. I trust IGS are reading this and will respond soon. . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Er!k 572 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 I found several very large textures in the texture folder (1 of 65MB, several of 21 MB...) I resized them all to 1024x1024 in order to save VAS. I do not see visual difference. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 10, 2016 Share Posted June 10, 2016 13 minutes ago, Er!k said: I found several very large textures in the texture folder (1 of 65MB, several of 21 MB...) I resized them all to 1024x1024 in order to save VAS. I do not see visual difference. That's interesting. What's the VAS like after doing that? Can you describe how amateurs like me can do this please? Specialist tools required? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 11, 2016 Share Posted June 11, 2016 I've used this... http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12801/? Does a decent job of automatically reducing textures, creating mipmaps, etc. Make a backup of Nassau first! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esteban759 0 Posted June 12, 2016 Share Posted June 12, 2016 Hi, I tried the update. I run prepar3d v2.5 and had no problem whit VAS. To begin with my test, I started from the floor, turned off most of the settings in the config tool (i never use statics o 3d grass in airports where I can elmiminate these features). I fly with a low demanding aircraft (feelthere embraer 175) from LATIN VFR Miami (an authentic permormance killer). I share some captures from 100 miles, few miles from the airport and at the gate. From now on I´ll try with other aircraft and some options turned on via the config tool. In case OOM is not a problem there will not be another post. The fact is that I finished with 1.2 GB free so I´m quite sure I´ll not have problems with aerosoft airbus for example. My specs are: Intel I 4990k and GTX 750, 8GB RAM. I used AS Next, FTX GLOBAL, FTX vector (only highways turned on because I realized FTX VECTOR is one of the keys to prevent OOM). I share my prepar3d settings also. Another clue to prevent OOM is the level of detail radius -LOD- (in my case never more than 3.5, that is what I need for IFR). Finally, the performance was good. Bye. ******** 100 miles out (2.2 GB used) Please login to display this image. Few miles out, on final rwy 14 (2.78 GB used) Please login to display this image. At the gate (2.83 GB used) Please login to display this image. *********** Prepar3d settings Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Please login to display this image. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 On 11/06/2016 at 9:32 PM, seippg said: I've used this... http://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/12801/? Does a decent job of automatically reducing textures, creating mipmaps, etc. Make a backup of Nassau first! Thanks. You didn't say what impact it had on VAS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 1 hour ago, Ray Proudfoot said: Thanks. You didn't say what impact it had on VAS. Ray, I haven't bought Nassau...still waiting for a resolution of the VAS issues. I did try the tool on Sacramento as I recall...it did reduce some textures (no visual change) but I didn't see much serious improvement overall. I should add, however, that there is very little surrounding area at Sacramento. It's very flat and sparse as it is in the real world. Gregg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 20 hours ago, Esteban759 said: Hi, I tried the update. I run prepar3d v2.5 and had no problem whit VAS. To begin with my test, I started from the floor, turned off most of the settings in the config tool (i never use statics o 3d grass in airports where I can elmiminate these features). I fly with a low demanding aircraft (feelthere embraer 175) from LATIN VFR Miami (an authentic permormance killer). I share some captures from 100 miles, few miles from the airport and at the gate. From now on I´ll try with other aircraft and some options turned on via the config tool. In case OOM is not a problem there will not be another post. The fact is that I finished with 1.2 GB free so I´m quite sure I´ll not have problems with aerosoft airbus for example. My specs are: Intel I 4990k and GTX 750, 8GB RAM. I used AS Next, FTX GLOBAL, FTX vector (only highways turned on because I realized FTX VECTOR is one of the keys to prevent OOM). I share my prepar3d settings also. Another clue to prevent OOM is the level of detail radius -LOD- (in my case never more than 3.5, that is what I need for IFR). Finally, the performance was good. Bye. Please login to display this image. Interesting. I wonder how much sliders have an effect and, if so, what slider settings. It could, at least, be a clue to what's going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Developer matted 93 Posted June 13, 2016 Developer Share Posted June 13, 2016 If you set the line in your fsx.cfg to "TEXTURE_MAX_LOAD=1024" this will force the sim to not load the larger textures, and may give some performance increases (I don't own this scenery so can't say for sure). It is a lot easier than resizing all your textures anyway, and should have the same effect! Mat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 20 minutes ago, seippg said: Ray, I haven't bought Nassau...still waiting for a resolution of the VAS issues. I did try the tool on Sacramento as I recall...it did reduce some textures (no visual change) but I didn't see much serious improvement overall. I should add, however, that there is very little surrounding area at Sacramento. It's very flat and sparse as it is in the real world. Gregg Hi Gregg, Oh, okay. So if there's no visual change and little/no change to VAS / fps I'm mystified why people would use this tool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seippg 3 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 1 minute ago, Ray Proudfoot said: Hi Gregg, Oh, okay. So if there's no visual change and little/no change to VAS / fps I'm mystified why people would use this tool. Ray, with some sceneries there is improvement. With Sacramento, not much. It'd be kinda nice if devs would use the tool before sending scenery out to verify everything is optomized. I've not seen it have an adverse affect yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Proudfoot 231 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 7 minutes ago, seippg said: Ray, with some sceneries there is improvement. With Sacramento, not much. It'd be kinda nice if devs would use the tool before sending scenery out to verify everything is optomized. I've not seen it have an adverse affect yet. I agree sceneries should be optimised by developers to ensure maximum performance and minimum memory usage. It's 8 days since IDS commented on this thread (the official support forum) so it would be nice to hear from them on this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheyenne Chief Pilot 829 Posted June 13, 2016 Share Posted June 13, 2016 42 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said: Hi Gregg, Oh, okay. So if there's no visual change and little/no change to VAS / fps I'm mystified why people would use this tool. 38 minutes ago, seippg said: Ray, with some sceneries there is improvement. With Sacramento, not much. It'd be kinda nice if devs would use the tool before sending scenery out to verify everything is optomized. I've not seen it have an adverse affect yet. Whenever ingame changes are applied to any of the graphics settings, this specific setting will revert back to its "default" value of 1024. (Manual edits to other entries in the fsx.cfg will not change this setting, though). So scaling down the textures will only have an effect when this setting is constantly kept at higher values like 2048 or 4096. This is true for FSX-MS at least, not sure about FSX-SE or P3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.D.S 70 Posted June 15, 2016 Share Posted June 15, 2016 Hi all, we're still in the process of resolving issues. Splitting the city from the airport is not that easy and would take long. That's why we're investigating into possible solutions with current files and features available. This process wont be quick. It requires checking all sourcefiles and different methods. So if we're maybe not so active here, we haven't forgotten about Nassau and work on another fix. It worked on P3D so what should stop us from finding a solution for FSX SP2? Ps. A Sacramento updates was released few days ago and we saw that it's available already. For anyone out there with SMF. Check your account Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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