Art Burke Posted April 2, 2021 Share Posted April 2, 2021 Tried to research a bit, but "time" is not too good on narrowing down what I'm looking for. At what actual clock rate is X-Plane running? Comparing the time on a clock in an X-Plane aircraft - well, it obviously isn't apples and oranges or even bananas? And if you use the "alt-T" function to speed things along, the time gets out of kilter almost immedately. Yesterday I made an "enhanced" flight (i.e., sped up the sim numerous times) and a roughly two hour flight took about 45 minutes. Comparisons of the time fall apart very quickly as well when using one of the timers in the GTN 750. Time creeps by more slowly than the clock does at an NCAA basketball game in the last couple of minute! Basically, I would like to have some kind of "factor" I can apply to get as close to the real time as possible. If possible! Art Burke - N4PJ Leesburg, FL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Art Burke Posted April 5, 2021 Author Share Posted April 5, 2021 Well, I haven't received any responses, but I've started talking to myself, so I guess we're making some kind of progress. LOL I tend to start my Pilatus with the engines running - when I need to program my GTN 750. Of course, I could wander through the switches, turn on some external power, etc., but I guess the truth is I'm just too lazy! A couple of days ago I was sitting there sort of doing nothing, killing time accidentally between phases of loading my flight plan. Up the right hand corner a message popped up and I finally paid more attention to it - as I've seen it before! My PC is nothing special and neither is the graphics card. Consequently, if I try to run very much detail, the frame rates suffer. And, after reading the message a little more carefully and looking at my graphic status, discovered that my performance is hindered a lot more than just poor frame rates. The X-Plane system, apparently instead of just killing the frame rates decides that there isn't enough graphic support for "rendering" the simulator. So it apparently just sort of slows down the entire process. That explains why (a) the clocks don't appear to be keeping pace and (b) the 9 knots I'm showing at touchdown seem like slow-motion - it is! Had a long chat with one of the gurus at my mom & pop computer shop. Can't yet get a grip on knowing I'll have to spend $2,100 - $2,500 for a really decent system. Art Burke - N4PJ Leesburg, FL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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