AI Traffic and Frame Rates

[asalsafi]

Since the frame rates drop at large and famous cities, it is advisable NOT to jam the airport with a lot of AI planes, instead jam the skies with AI crafts.

To do so, just add flight plans for overflying crafts over the areas/region you fly most.


Asal

[asalsafi]

bump

[sehender1]

Good suggestion...
But how do you do this? How are you preventing planes from jamming up at terminals? (which seems to bring the simulator to its knees)

I've been editing my added flight plans to spend no more than about 20 minutes on the ground at any given airport; it seems to be working to some extent, but there is the occasional log-jam (i've noticed that anymore than about six planes at a terminal can kill frame rates on approach to land.)

any other suggestions?

[b2spirit]

Turn the traffic percent down to 40 or 50 percent and the frame rates shouldn't suffer too bad. I bumped my framerate when parked at Heathrow from 4 to 20 by doing this.

[sehender1]

Another suggestion:

I have all of my programmed AI flights set at 8%; so I can turn down ATC below 40 and still get the important flights I want to see around me.

never gone to heathrow in the game; i do mostly u.s. flying.
but i'll tell you, after I programmed a healthy number of u.s. air flights into and out of philadelphia, landing there became an impossible slide show.
When I got onto the ground, I found out why: there were like 12 planes parked at gates. (many were A320s, which are add-ons and seem to eat more memory than default repaints)

i'm still tweaking to get it so that planes don't hang around the airport too long. (i don't care as much for planes at gates as I do for hearing other planes moving through sectors in the sky.) I've got Philly down to about 6 planes on the ground at a time. My goal is no more than 4, and maybe one or more taking off/landing.

My specs:

P4 1.3 GHZ
384 MB RDRAM
Geforce 3 Ti500
most sliders maxed; ATC, clouds and terrain mesh turned down.

[oslpchris]

So are you guys saying you're getting put into pattern behind more than one plane on approach?? I've been trying to get this to happen for a long time... I'm always following in a plane that's already on the runway... (granted I fly smaller planes). Where in the manual can I look for options on these settings... I can't seem to find it. Thanks for your time. ei. more planes in the air than on the ground. I've yet to experiance a really, REALLY busy airport. ATC always flies me in and puts me right on the ground... no circling except for maybe entering the downwind leg. my apologies is this is an ignorant question but I'm new to simming and don't really understand all the ins and outs to AI traffic. (I keep my slider in the ATC window at 55) I don't really want to hit my framerate much harder than that (I do have my scenery setting pretty dense) thanks in advance for your suggestions...

chris
Athlon 1.4
512 DDR
Via KT266 Mobo
GeForce2 64meg videocard

[asalsafi]

Well, its a good suggestion to keep the rate for your aircrafts to a certain low number, mine is 15% for all the flights that I have planned in/out of the airports I fly most often. In addition you have to do some prior studies and calculations to make things right. These are the rules that I put for my planning and also follow:

- Only jam large airports with 20 or more gates in order to have a good feeling of aircraft movements.
- At least 25 min between arriving flights, since departing and arriving times are not so precise like actual world.
- Departing flights are no problem.
- Spread your planes around 24 hrs with most of the jamming during the hours you are able to sit behind the yoke.
- In order to have jamed skies, plan flights from/to different airports on either side of your area at various alttitudes.

I have noticed that at large airports, when some crafts land and no gates available, they tend to exit the runways and wait on the taxiways.



Asal