PMDG 737 Discussion (PC Version) (Part 1)

Please don’t get this thread locked again, folks. :roll_eyes:

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Ah yes they want to use it for their oncoming 777 too!
But I would prefer the 777 not using a tablet with a suction cup on the side window because this style somehow does not visually fit into a 777 - the 777 has a fixed sidepanel mounted EFB like some P3D-777 screenshots show (of course with the same menu and the same functions like in the 737.)

Uh that makes me excited for the 777 :smiley: and for further 737 updates too.
Please PMDG don´t waste any time in “performance upgrades” of a plane that runs PERFECTLY fine 50FPS on any underdog PC now (the same goes for Fenix - the Fenix is now PERFECT performance-wise!) but all effort should be put into bringing the EFB and fixing the last few flaws and enhance the cabin visuals to make the 737 perfect. :slight_smile:

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Does anyone know if there is a pallet loading animations for the cargo variants?

No there isn’t. It brings in a pallet loader but no animations. The cargo bay does load containers depending on current weight though.

https://forum.pmdg.com/forum/main-forum/general-discussion-news-and-announcements/261401-16aug23-pmdg-737-for-msfs-updated-to-build-3-00-0072#post261401

tl;dr: fixes the liveries issues and that’s it. No more updates until the UFT.

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Did anyone ever try updating a marketplace 737 with the ops center? Will it break something :joy:

It won’t work. Marketplace content is encrypted so the OpsCenter can’t update it.

Oh my days, the FPS in the last update… Amazing,

Back to 20-30 more fps than the Fenix, awesome.

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One thing I’m getting all the sudden that I don’t have in any other aircraft is a random light popping sound. At first I thought it was my headset, but if I fly in anything else I don’t hear it and when I go back to the 738, I’m getting this intermittent popping sound. Very strange. Will do some more investigating but curious if anyone else is getting it all the sudden?

For the record, I flew this two hours ago prior to the update and didn’t have this cracking sound. I’ve restarted the computer and reset my headset. Not noticeable in any other games or aircraft.

It is easy to downgrade texture quality and graphics until it runs on every potato with 144 fps. I could do this in Photoshop and a batch image converter in 10 minutes somehow downgrade and lower pixel-per-inch resolution and colour depth of a whole folder of textures to make it get rendered faster on low-end graphics cards.
But vice versa is what really counts and what makes an airplane really precious. Because is difficult to recreate a 100% photoreal and 100% accurate high-polygon cockpit having simulated all systems and crystal-clear ultrasharp textures and so many details and one can zoom in where real cameras would already switch to macro mode and the cockpit still looks awesome and photorealistic, like the Fenix does :slight_smile:
That is what gives the feeling of sitting in a real cockpit and really being able to pan around and see how it is and how it feels like sitting in there.

But of course now again everyone will continue to say “737 is so much better. Because it has FPS!”
Since 2018 that is all that seem to count in all videogames and simulators, FPS and nothing else, no longer story, immersion, visual quality, interesting characters, sound and music, gameplay mechanics, fun, stability, bug-freeness, and eye-candy.

And nowadays developers get all the hate when not delivering 100% stable 60fps on 300 Euro OEM-potatos from 2015 and “full compatibility” to last-last-gen consoles.
A sad development, instead of going forward in a good mood to photorealistic visuals in Matrix quality, and “the graphics card is too weak and old I should buy new awesome computer parts!” instead of “the developers suck because they don´t FPS-optimize!:slight_smile:

In the early days of flight simming it was always time for a new computer or new awesome computer parts when a new Flight Sim (95, 98, 2000, 2002 etc.) and Unreal engine version was released, a new Pentium a new Riva TNT graphics card and whatnot.
Not trying to stagnate hardware and visual quality progress into the future by forcing the developers “you have to make your stuff run on every ancient outdated hardware that is somewhere out there - or else!” like the mentality is in the whole gaming scene nowadays. :frowning:

One stuttering while having everything set to ultra settings and insane 8k resolutions and whatnot + at the same time capturing in 8k, or on consoles daring to have something run 45 FPS for the sake of absolute photorealism instead dumbing everything down to get of 60 or 144 FPS, and whole YouTube is on that game like hyenas on a cadaver :smiley: “baddest worst game ever made, not optimized, worst game of 2023, 0/10…”
A sad development…

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The reason the Fenix had poor fps was absolutely nothing to do with the resolution of the cockpit textures, unless a person’s GPU was a piece of cheese.

It did, however, have everything to do with the demands it placed (still places to be fair) on the CPU.

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Another test:

Flight Time 3:00 h…recording leveled FL350 to landing…FPS record:

About 35 FPS during leveled phased, but in descend passing aprox FL 330, FPS increase to 55FPS and then descend in approach and landing about 45 FPS.

Then i think that MSFS with PMDG has an issue with FPS up from FL340.

According to chris makris a jet2 livery was added to the operation centre 2 last month is there anyone willing and able to confirm this please :folded_hands::folded_hands:

Yes there was.

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Got it now thank you look forward to seeing this on xbox

Can’t figure out why I can’t change the number of first class passengers. The economy passengers changes no matter what I select. The first class, sorry, it remains on 0 no matter what I press!

Sorry Pyreegue, for spoiling the record!!

Did you configure the aircraft as dual class?

Thx for coming back. I was flying the BBJ2 (Xbox) but didn’t know I had to configure the new one. I just thought that it defaulted to the 737-800 without configuring it.

Is there an easy fix!

Sorry, I just saw this is the PC version, my apologies!

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Got it and it works, thx very much.

She’s a complicated beast!

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