The most important thing are absolute ultra high fidelity visuals and absolute system depth, not plus or minus 3 to 5 FPS 
For +5 FPS are the graphics and resolution setting options in the flight sim.
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I think the main point is that the addon depends on an external app that will run on background alongside MSFS and maybe this app can cause a decrease in performance.
But honestly I don’t expect much difference compared to PMDG or FBW. I think there are other factors or addons that may have influenced the performance loss on some streams like Toolbar Pushback.
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You can disable interior graphics with the EFB - which will improve FPS a little, but you’ll loose the nice passenger views until you turn the graphics back on.
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I hope so too. And streaming itself is quite the heavy load on a pc too. But I don’t know how Fabio mentioned it, for offline too I mean.
I’m not worried though, I’m pretty sure they got it covered and I suppose once the DLSS settles in with DX12 we’re all 80% lighter anyway. Imagine the graphics abilities in the sim by then. 
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That will be the first thing I’ll do. I’m only interested in the cockpit 
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Of course having such an amazing looking plane will be heavier on FPS compared to say the MD82 that uses P3D horrible textures. Think this plane shows the pixels on the EFIS if you get close enough. But guess what, you can select 4K liveries instead of 8K and MSFS has settings that you can lower. Don’t run at Ultra and complain. When the next gen graphics cards release in a few months Ultra settings will not be a problem at all. The MD82 will still look horrible but run at mega FPS (and cost a lot more than the Fenix) 
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Usually on those plane you’re CPU limited, not really GPU limited, so changing graphical settings won’t change much the situation (unless you have a low end GPU of course).
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Is there a list of the livery’s??? I’m looking for old Canadian Airlines colours.
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Is there a P2F cargo conversion of the A320 planned - either on release or later? 
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According to Aamir you can use the integrated GPU on Intel i7and i5 CPUs.
You can render the displays using CPU, GPU, a second GPU if you have it, or your iGPU via a dropdown in the launcher.
This applies to the rendering of the displays, not the entire aircraft.
However, I imagine and hope this may help with certain FPS concerns.
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Really wondering what the throttle calibration with Honeycomb Bravo will be like.
It does not have a reverser axis, only Boeing style reversers functioning as a button and then a sort of quasi-reverse, also functioning as a button.
There are 2 ways to get reverse thrust.
- Use the Boeing style reversers to get full reverse throttle, use them to map a “hold reverse thrust” and then advancing the throttles.
- Or use the quasi-reverser mapped to “decrease throttle.”
I’m probably explaining it wrong, I hope everyone gets what I mean.
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I know it’s not the same kit and aircraft, but I’ve managed to get my Warthog throttle working with an adjustable reverse thrust, on the FBW. It might also be possible on the Bravo.
I had bought an A320 insert, to replace the default detents in the Warthog throttle and have effectively moved the idle position further up the 2 throttle axes, perhaps around 20% up the range from the previous idle, which has now become full reverse. The range of movement between the new idle and CLB is obviously shorter, but i don’t tend to use that area of the throttle axes for much anyway.
I did create a handmade dip in the insert, to create a new idle detent, which made it a lot easier to find. Some bright spark with a skill for design and a 3d printer might be able to create a full detent insert, but this one does for me for now.
Of course, the FBW calibration utility does allow for split axes, where the reverse thrust increases the more you pull it back beyond idle.
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Xbox simmer here. This is indeed very frustrating.
It seems like the only Airbusses we will get are from Aerosoft which isn’t bad at all, but it’s not on the level as Fenix.
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Yeah they’re just not developing it for the Xbox. Entirely up to them of course. Certainly missing out on a lucrative market (and no matter what anyone says, money is a driving force, not necessarily the main one, behind the development of sim aircraft/addons) but I’d question whether it’d even run on an Xbox. Even the Series X. It’s extremely detailed and is insanely complex.
So, no harm, no foul really. When/if the WASM issues are fixed we’ll get the 737NG’s. I’m personally not overly fussed about missing out on the Fenix, as good as it undoubtedly is.
I think the fact most study level don’t come to Xbox is due to the fact they need some external background software to help to do all those systems not able to run on xbox closed system, so not really related to how powerful the hardware is but the ability to work around limitation of the core sim
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Will this be offered on the marketplace?
Nope, because it will use an external app and the marketplace doesn’t support it.
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Fenix refers to the company, Fenix Simulations.
They’re building (and releasing soon) a high-fidelity Airbus A320 for the PC end of the MSFS market.
Welcome, and join in the discussion 
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Personally, I won’t stop hoping and/or believing in the Fenix to be offered for XBOX, …I really wish.
I guess, I’m not alone…
Why is the marketplace not supporting external apps… Well, yeah, microsoft exclusive content and so on… I understand, but I mean, even though, wouldn’t that actually be a win-win-win situation vor MS, the developer of the add-ons, and also for the 3rd party apps that are needed? Is there a way to technically included those supporting apps within the marketplace product that would then be automatically be installed… Is that a stupid question?
What is the reason/issue here that the developer would’t be capable of integrating those apps into the product… or offer alongside the product? If products are as good a PC and CTDs aren’t an issue because of this high end developed master piece, I wouldn’t mind if the add-ons are even more expensive that the sim itself.
I think buying a PC for the Fenix is not what comes up to my mind, but I have to admit that I envy the PC simmers and that’s the first step of hating the XBOX… it’s a frustrating compromise…
Am I alone with this? Or is there an official statement by Fenix itself that they, at least at that point, don’t want to exclude the possibility for a XBOX version completely? Give us some hope… just a tiny bit…