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Fri Aug-01-03 11:08 PMby rsrandazzo
Captains-
I thought I'd give you a quick update on what we are planning for you with regards to the Service Update 1.
During the day today we have been validating a number of items in the Service Update 1.
In it's current state, the Service Update 1 file makes a few hundred small changes to the airplane- and a few larger changes as well. The end result is an airplane that is significantly more stable in both FS2002 and FS9 than the current release version.
Memory usage is down dramatically, FPS is up significantly, stability is greatly enhanced, a Crash to Desktop problem has been cured, anomalous behavior of some systems related to a variable timing rollover in MSFS has been resolved, a violent over-reaction by the autopilot to certain inputs has been dampened and more than 100+ minor items that you may or may not have noticed have been updated.
There are still some issues that we are attempting to resolve- but most of them are not nearly so invasive to your flying... Currently we are trying to determine why MSFS will pass garbage information through the AFDS when certain users switch from full screen to windowed mode during certain times of day or in certain phases of flight, for example. (Yet other users do not have this problem....)
Additionally we are trying to identfy some sources of unexpected results from various situations you can put yourself into with the autopilot and VNAV, etc.
FOr the most part, we are very comfortable with the fact that we have eliminated the instability and glitches that have caused some of you so much frustration. Yet we are looking at some significant changes that will be required to prevent FS9 from introducing anomalous behavior to the autopilot in certain circumstances. These things are going to take time- and a significant amount of work.
In recognition of that- we have decided that we are going to issue this Service Update to you tonight because we are confident that most of you would prefer to have the airplane operating effectively while we continue our work to give you a perfectly operating airplane. We are making this issue under the caveat that installing it is OPTIONAL for the user- and in recognition of the fact that this is not a silver bullet to cure all ills 100% of the time! This airplane is an extremely complex operation- and it is conceivable that some of you may still run into a few problems along the way!
The Service Update 1 will therefor be followed by a Service Update 2 at some point in the future. SU2 will include additional adjustments to further gains in memory usage and stability- while also improving those functions that we are still working on. Additionally- any new items that you all can help us to identify will be addressed in SU2. SU2 does not have a release date- as it is currently in the planning stages. Suffice it to say that SU2 will not be so eagerly awaited as it's functionalty improvements will be contextual rather than global.
During the past few weeks, the customer base for our tiny little company has grown rather dramatically. All of us on the team have been truly amazed at just how interested you are in this product- and recognizing that this airplane stems for many thousands of man-hours of work, we greatly appreciate your patronage, your patience and your fraternity during the past few weeks.
In regognition of how gracious the community has been to PMDG, we are planning to offer you each a discount on the 800/900 when it releases in the future. More information on that will come when we start talking about the release of the 800/900- but it is just one small way to say "Thank You!" from all of us to all of you!
I will be back later this evening with release and download information.....
Robert S. Randazzo
Precision Manuals Development Group