RayProudfoot Posted March 24, 2016 Share Posted March 24, 2016 Urs, I know I have asked this question before but with respect your answer leaves me confused. When I start a flight and have traffic enabled in EFB I see lots of aircraft at the airport. But during medium / long-range flights they slowly disappear from the interface. You say this is down to a problem with SimConnect. But I also use SuperTrafficBoard which also relies on SimConnect and this shows all the Ai aircraft in FSX including those at complex airports with many gates. Why can't EFB 'see' those aircraft if SuperTrafficBoard can? Is it because they may use different versions of SimConnect? It's particularly frustrating because in all other respects I am happy with EFB v1. Having to buy EFB v2 just to cure this strange problem would be difficult to justify. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted March 25, 2016 Share Posted March 25, 2016 Hi Ray, I guess that EFB is using SimConnect in a way which other add-ons don't. Because EFB needs to know the aircraft position and other data (altitude, speed, COM, etc, etc), EFB requests every one second this data from SimConnect. As long as SimConnect has enough performance (memory / CPU) it will answer to these requests and for the traffic requests too. The more time you fly the more memory will be allocated by FSX but unfortunately not released (this is a known issue). Therefore SimConnect looses performance and starts to give priority to certain requests but unfortunately not to traffic requests. In version 2 EFB does no longer use SimConnect instead of FSUIPC. With FSUIPC I have not yet seen this "traffic-loose" behavior. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayProudfoot Posted March 26, 2016 Author Share Posted March 26, 2016 Thank you Urs. That does make sense since SuperTrafficBoard makes much smaller demands on SimConnect. Are you over 90% completed with v2 yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aivlasoft Posted April 2, 2016 Share Posted April 2, 2016 89.99% But as usually with the "80/20" rule of thumb, you need 80% of the time to finish the top 20% of the work to be done ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RayProudfoot Posted April 2, 2016 Author Share Posted April 2, 2016 Thanks Urs. So you've done all the easy stuff and now there's just the difficult remaining! So a reasonable chance of me being able to buy it before the Grim Reaper comes calling! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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