WoAI vs FTX AI

[ScottyB]

Hi guys,

I was just curious, as I have always had WoAI and looking at changing to FTX AI just because its newer etc, but am worried that my sim which runs at a pretty steady 30FPS (limited to 30), will slow down FPS wise with it installed.

Is FTX AI a lot more demanding than WoAI?

Regards
Scott

[deeknow]

It depends on the models, how detailed they are, whether their native to the version of sim etc. It also depends how many flight plans you have loaded in your scenery folder, WOAI, FTX or otherwise.

If you have a decent rig I don't think you should worry yourself too much about performance of one over the other, the biggest issue is where you have the AI slider, what airport you're at, and therefore how many AI are actually in your vicinity for the sim to render and manage.

The FTX AI stuff is Australasian/Pacific mostly right? so don't throw out all the WOAI stuff for other areas, its perfectly fine to use a mix of them. I use hundreds (literally) of WOAI and custom AI packs for the rest of the world, and FTX for Pacific. Works well.

[emfrat]

Hello Scott -
AI is AI, and high traffic airports do drag framerates down. Nothing to be done about that, but the thing to avoid is traffic bgls which duplicate AI activity. For example, in my VFR Modern (FS9) install, I had heaps of WoAI and several airports which came with their own AI traffic file. I would see a WoAI plane come in to land with a duplicate plane right behind it, and at the gate, one would taxi straight inside the other. They would depart in similar fashion. This happened because the two traffic files were based on the same timetable - WoAI for an airline globally, and the airport ones for all airlines using that airport. I cut out all the airport-specific files and standardised on WoAI traffic.
In my current FSX, I fly principally in NZ and Oz, so the FTX AI does the job for me.
As the FSX develops, and the FS9 ones are rebuilt, I will be adding AI on the same principles.

[captsl4]

ftxai flightplans arent complete flightplans for airlines outside of oz and nz. so basically it only has flights in and out of australia and nz .

so for eg theres no singapore airlines flight from singapore to somewhere else other than aust/nz destinations