PMDG 737 NGX released!
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warchild
Charter Member
Just like Oregon right now.. Cold and Dark ::lol:: j/K..
They may be right.. out of some thirty flights i've done in this thing since it was released, I just had my first successful flight.. The difference was that before flying, I reduced the texture size from 4096x4096 ( the default size ) to 2048x2048. Thats the only change i made. I'm gonna run a few more test flights tomorrow as i'm not quite ready for the big Eureka yet, and we'll see how it goes..
Pam
Yes, if you are running SLI on 32-bit Windows that would explain it. Be sure to get a 64-bit version the next time you upgrade
NGX OS Recommendation...
Hi Pam, et. al. - Check page 11 of the Introduction pdf -
"Choose a modern, 64bit Operating System: We strongly recommend that users run their simulator from a 64bit operating system. The best operating system currently available (at time of writing) for FSX is Windows 7 64bit. The advanced memory management capabilities of modern operating systems are far superior when running complex simulations such as the PMDG 737NGX."
If you're trying to run the NGX on Win32, you will run into problems! I'm using Win7-64, and I have not had the problems you are experiencing....the only problems I've had were occasional panel freezes, which seem to have been cured by hotfixes 2 & 3. (They happened using the EFIS/MAP DU layout...probably because of the added graphical strain over the PFD/ND style. Also, one freeze happened when I had to change an arrival RW & STAR. All happened prior to hotfixes). AP disconnect returns full control to me through CH yoke and pedals.
The only odd thing I'm experiencing now is the loss of the lower DU functionality when selecting the EFIS/MAP/side-by-side config - I cannot get the SYS page to display in the lower DU. (This may actually be how the real NG is, though. A couple of years ago when Southwest was still using the EFIS/MAP config, I asked a Captain about it, and she replied that SWA didn't use the lower DU. They switched over to the PFD/ND display in April 2010 to give them full RNP capability). So, it may be a moot point if the lower DU is not used with that "older" config. I did submit a ticket about it two days ago, though.
I hope you can get your difficulties sorted out, because the airplane is absolutely incredible....best airliner for FS that I've ever flown, hands down! (And I've flown all the rest - Level D, Ariane, iFly's NG, CS, PMDG744 & MD11, FT 733-4-5, etc).
Good Luck!
Hi Pam, et. al. - Check page 11 of the Introduction pdf -
"Choose a modern, 64bit Operating System: We strongly recommend that users run their simulator from a 64bit operating system. The best operating system currently available (at time of writing) for FSX is Windows 7 64bit. The advanced memory management capabilities of modern operating systems are far superior when running complex simulations such as the PMDG 737NGX."
If you're trying to run the NGX on Win32, you will run into problems! I'm using Win7-64, and I have not had the problems you are experiencing....the only problems I've had were occasional panel freezes, which seem to have been cured by hotfixes 2 & 3. (They happened using the EFIS/MAP DU layout...probably because of the added graphical strain over the PFD/ND style. Also, one freeze happened when I had to change an arrival RW & STAR. All happened prior to hotfixes). AP disconnect returns full control to me through CH yoke and pedals.
The only odd thing I'm experiencing now is the loss of the lower DU functionality when selecting the EFIS/MAP/side-by-side config - I cannot get the SYS page to display in the lower DU. (This may actually be how the real NG is, though. A couple of years ago when Southwest was still using the EFIS/MAP config, I asked a Captain about it, and she replied that SWA didn't use the lower DU. They switched over to the PFD/ND display in April 2010 to give them full RNP capability). So, it may be a moot point if the lower DU is not used with that "older" config. I did submit a ticket about it two days ago, though.
I hope you can get your difficulties sorted out, because the airplane is absolutely incredible....best airliner for FS that I've ever flown, hands down! (And I've flown all the rest - Level D, Ariane, iFly's NG, CS, PMDG744 & MD11, FT 733-4-5, etc).
Good Luck!
warchild
Charter Member
I think i miscommunicated something somewhere.. I'm running 64 bit windows 7 Ultimate.. Its FSX thats still 32 bit.. And i have goit to admit. I own all those others as well. Like you say, so far, this plane is better than any of them.. OH, and resizing the textures appears to have worked ..
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warchild
Charter Member
I havent tried it with weather on yet, but i suspect that now that i know what directions to move in, I can handle it..
I successfully completed my first EGKK -> EHAM tutorial flight up until a head on collision with a 747 taking off from 36L, opposite direction of my assigned 18R landing runway... 
I mean, what's the fun in meticulously programming the FMC for half an hour, sit in the ( extremely beautifully rendered !
) cockpit and watch the aircraft fly the route, take over the controls at 2 miles from the threshold, perform a perfectly greased landing only to end up in a bowl of flames....
I mean, if you want to fly a programmed route you can forget about ATC and AI as well, right ? I.e. be all alone up there again, like with FSII ....
Don't get me wrong, i think the PMDG 737NGX is THE most exquisite airliner model ever produced for FS, i just can't see the fun in having to revert back to FS when ATC and AI were just blimps on the virtual horizon.
Cheers,
Jan
I mean, what's the fun in meticulously programming the FMC for half an hour, sit in the ( extremely beautifully rendered !
) cockpit and watch the aircraft fly the route, take over the controls at 2 miles from the threshold, perform a perfectly greased landing only to end up in a bowl of flames.... I mean, if you want to fly a programmed route you can forget about ATC and AI as well, right ? I.e. be all alone up there again, like with FSII ....
Don't get me wrong, i think the PMDG 737NGX is THE most exquisite airliner model ever produced for FS, i just can't see the fun in having to revert back to FS when ATC and AI were just blimps on the virtual horizon.
Cheers,
Jan
I believe that's true, yes. If only some FS wizard outthere could make ATC be aware of SID's and STAR's... fat chance i guess.... To quote Jack Walsh in Midnight Run " looks like i'm walking... "
Absolutely. Used it a few years ago but i can't do with these computerized voices anymore. It's a great program though but no AI neither...
Cheers,
Jan
CG_1976
Ret. US Coastie/RCAF
Any Painters want a challenge for a 737-600 paint. Try this hottie of the Arctic http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674air_inuit_revamps_logo/
I know a 737-200, but this airline is so poorly represented in FSX it needs some TLC, so I call in the NGX 600 and a Req to painters please.
I know a 737-200, but this airline is so poorly represented in FSX it needs some TLC, so I call in the NGX 600 and a Req to painters please.