John,
If I understand your comment correctly, and with all due respect, I think
that's a little dismissive of Rob's observations and gripes. There are
plenty of people who use payware and still don't get satisfactory frame
rates.
For example, my father has an Athlon FX-55 PC with NVIDIA 6800 PCI-X
graphics card and immediately starts to get frame rate problems with his
PMDG737NG. He flies *purely* for the love of navigation, so frame and detail
rate isn't a huge issue when flying, but it IS an issue when landing. As you
will undoubtedly know, any glitch, pause, or intolerable frame rate during
landing will make it a white knuckle ride, as opposed to a controlled one.
Flying and landing a standard MS plane is fine - because the FPS are well
into the 30s at all times.Put simply, you can't blame poor frame rates
simply on freeware or 'non-payware'.
Andy.

"John" <diajohn2@comcast.net> wrote:
>I don't think you meet the profile for those who like the payware aircraft
>such as the Dreamfleet 727, The LDS767 and the PMDG737NG. You don't want
>to fly an aircraft but to play a game. Play away.
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> "Rob R. Ainscough" <robains@pacbell.net> wrote in message
> news:u$jKRd0gFHA.1948@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Too All those folks (and you know who you are) that are cashing in on the
>> add-on aircraft market:
>>
>> 1. stop with the ridiculously low frame rates as compared to MS default
>> Aircraft
>> 2. learn how to optimize GMax
>> 3. Provide a simplified version of the Aircraft (frame rate friendly --
>> no that doesn't mean just add 2D panels)
>> 4. Panels that NEVER match up to MS's standard control configurations
>> key set so I'm forced to re-program my GoFlight system for every add-on
>> aircraft
>> 5. Panels with NO obvious method of closing
>> 6. Overwriting the default MS GPS key
>> 7. Stop adding endless DLL's to the Modules dir to the point FS just
>> can't handle it any more
>> 8. Provide accurate step by step startup procedures for these
>> aircraft -- documentation is horrible and incomplete
>> 9. Check DLL conflicts BEFORE installing, don't just overwrite
>>
>> Until you folks GET A CLUE, I'm not wasting any more money on your
>> products and will happily fly the free-ware products that: work reliably,
>> look great, fly great, sound great, and most importantly don't turn my
>> Intel P4 3.7 Ghz Extreme Edition 880Mhz FSB 1.5GB 500Mhz Corsair Extreme
>> RAM, ATI X800XT PE, WD Raptor 10K rpm RAID system into a 5 fps crash to
>> desktop nightmare!!
>>
>> Anyone else thinking of getting retail 3rd party Aircraft, you have been
>> warned!!
>>
>> Rob.
>>
>> P.S. Computer Pilot Magazine -- you need to be more responsible in your
>> reviews, one liners that hint at possible frame rate problems should be
>> more clear i.e. "you can't even fly this Aircraft unless you turn
>> EVERYTHING off or down".
>>
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