FLYTAMPA AMSTERDAM XP12 TERRIBLE FPS

[VTCH]

Hello. I can barely get 20-30fps in this scenery. There are immense frame drops when you also look in a certain direction. This scenery has been out for such a long time and many people have the same issue. When will there be an update? It is barely flyable. And if you fly the wrong plane, the scenery is unflyable.

[VTCH]

Disregard this post. After some research I have found out that this is a Laminar Research problem. X-Plane 12 has some issues with performance surrounding the Netherlands because of the many small waterways or something like that. I replaced the +50+000 folder in Global Scenery from X-Plane 11 in X-Plane 12, and the performance is much better now. There is also another fix where you can use Ortho4XP.

[VTCH]

Small Update:
The fix I mentioned works partially. When I spawn on FlyTampa Amsterdam XP12, and I look to the direction of the city, my frames drop to 15fps for a few seconds. After about 10 seconds my frames go back up to 30-40fps, when still looking in that direction. There is definitely something up with FlyTampa Amsterdam for XP12, because once I disabled the scenery, everything was very smooth.

[cbsteven78]

Same here. I get the FPS drops too, with a 3060Ti. I think it's a Vulkan thing, where the sim takes a while to load high res textures and downscale them a bit. What's your GPU and texture level? There's a lot of surrounding buildings too, that you can see from a fair distance away. Handling those puts more use on the system. Maybe we need an option to remove those? It's a dense area anyway, so really tests performance.

[VTCH]

I read a while ago this can be fixed by replacing the X-Plane 12 Global Scenery (+52+000 tile I think) with the one from X-Plane 11 Global Scenery. Or you can also download an Ortho tile for that region but you will have to set a certain setting from (default 0.001 I think) to 0.1 . i remember it had something to do with the water ways that somehow are much harder on the system in X-Plane 12.