IMPORTANT : MFD extract
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Did I miss the part where Mav-jp is an active developer for the BMS team? I humbly apologize if I missed that key point …
https://www.benchmarksims.org/forum/content.php?45-documentation
… and much much much … much … much more.
because AFAIK Mav is a Senior Member who has been around forever, but is not currently an active developer on the BMS Team.
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I wonder … What would happen if he said please elaborate on your vote…
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Not to say… please assume why I ask for… :rofl:Στάλθηκε από το MI 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
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No need to discuss it more. There was never any question of suppressing the extraction of MDF, but simply presenting the option in .cfg vs BMS configurator … that’s all.
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So I think it’s time to call this thread to a close.
It was a mistake to post the poll question without more context and one that we’ll learn from for the next time. By no means was it the intention of anyone on the development team to alarm people and the team is sorry if there was any upset, however unintentional. This was meant to be simple data gathering; and by the way we got that in the process so thank you.
Here’s how this came about. As we work on prepping 4.34 for release (yes, we’re heading that way, no I’m not saying anything about dates), performance tuning is of course one of those things we look at. To cut a longer story short, in comparison with earlier versions the code we have now shows lower FPS in external views and we wondered why. One candidate we looked at was the Render To Texture (RTT) support – this is “on” as a feature by default but can be turned off in the config. Turning it off does increase frame rate; less work to do, duh The poll then was intended to get a sense of whether this feature should be on by default or not based on the number of users expecting to export cockpit display elements. To be clear: we were only thinking about the polarity of the default for the config file value – nothing more.
In point of fact we’re actively IMPROVING the performance and capability of RTT to the extent we can so worries about this going away are actually 180 degrees off from the reality.
I hope it should be no surprise that 4.34 will in some cases show lower absolute FPS – there’s a lot more going on in the code and a lot of bug fixes. As far as external view FPS is concerned specifically it turns out that rates seen in 4.33 aren’t achievable in 4.34 because of a bug fix – we have at various times warned that use of external views was bad for stability…in 4.34 that stability is significantly improved for external views but it does cost some frame rate to make that so…the trade off is well worth it though since a whole class of stability bugs was conquered and the actual FPS cost is nominal – all you see in the game is that the FPS difference between in cockpit and outside views is less pronounced and yes, both rates are still perfectly fine for game play purposes on the wide variety of systems the beta test team is working with. [complete disclosure: use of external views for extended time especially with time acceleration will still more than likely mess up your game…bugs remain in this area…]. So, don’t get paranoid that we’re taking features that people love away or that we’re going to deliver something that has slide show frame rates – rather be happy that we’re up to the point of getting the code to perform as well as possible with all the new goodies
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Guys it’s just a simple q.
Why try to find a negative aspect on it?Στάλθηκε από το MI 5 μου χρησιμοποιώντας Tapatalk
I’m with Arty on this, but unfortunately The World is sometimes otherwise.
Dee_Jay, thanks for the explanation, and sorry the Devs had to deal with turmoil. However, an ounce of prevention is a pound of cure, so perhaps next time an explanation will save us all some grief. Just a thought…
As far as Boxer’s post, it seems to me the Dev’s are on a good path,as it seems they’re realizing not all of us have Super Computers. Or, are computer programmers, for that matter. One of the many reasons I fly BMS is my system will run it smoothly. DCS, for example, is jerky.
Also, Mark(Boxer) , can you confirm 4.34 will be a new install and not a 4.33 upgrade.I have a personal reason for that. My Setup is wonky and won’t take updates, so I’m stuck at U1