Help Question from Carenado Owners (Recent Models)

[StormILM]

Okay, as I mentioned in the Carenado Fokker 50 thread, I purchased their Cheyenne III model a little while back only to discover it uses up a lot of VAS in FSX which makes it more or less unusable. Looking at the Cheyenne III and the Fokker 50, they have huge MDL files for both the Interior/VC and Exterior which almost without a doubt eats up a lot of VAS at the start of a flight. I believe the large MDL files are because of the use of PBR (Physical Based Rendering) and the "Takeoff run and landing real rolling movement effect" (which they have began adding to newer models). Such as it is, again, I think this type of development is essentially seeing the end for 32bit FS versions. Carenado has offered me any model in their inventory but before I make a decision, I want to ask the community here who own the following models to please advise me on what size the MDL files on the following:

690B TURBO COMMANDER

B350I KING AIR HD SERIES

DO228 100 HD SERIES

PA31T CHEYENNE II

F406 CARAVAN II HD SERIES

B200 KING AIR HD SERIES

390 PREMIER IA

[wombat666]

I have all the aircraft listed and have never had any problems at all, in FSX (which I'm phasing out) or in all versions of P3D, 32bit or 64bit.
FTR the Fokker might come later, not sure if I need another one as the JF F27 is fine for my purposes.
A brief check comes up with the following numbers for my currents active installation, the others will be on a backup drive:

690B TURBO COMMANDER
A690.MDL 41488K
A690_interior.MDL 88598K

B350I KING AIR HD SERIES
B350i.MDL 44866K
B350i_interior.MDL 37930K

DO228 100 HD SERIES
dornier.MDL 48970K
Dornier_interior.MDL 44102K

390 PREMIER IA
premiere.MDL 54054K
premiere_interior.MDL 55985K

PA31T CHEYENNE II
cheyenne.MDL 50194K
cheyenne_int.MDL 124548K

And the Cheyenne III flies like a bird.

:encouragement:

[StormILM]

Thanks Wombat! That is exactly what I needed to help in the decision.

[RKinkor]

I have the same problems with the Cheyenne 3 and out of the list you posted I have Cheyenne 2 and the 406 and their performance on my system is just fine for me. The Cheyenne 3 and the Qualitywings 787 are the only aircraft I have vas problems with.

[wombat666]

RKinkor the Qualitywings 787 runs in both FSX and P3D3 on my system without a flicker.
I'll be testing it in P3D4.1 when I get a chance.
:encouragement:

[Victory103]

B200:
MDL: 19312k
Interior: 14467k

I have the C90GTx and B350, no VAS issues from long flights for me yet in FSX, just well documented lack of system depth, as a real world King Air guy they are almost un-flyable. I got the B200 when I was flying the C-12 version with it being the closest to that, as you can see light on the KBs.

[ryanbatc]

Their recent models just crush my system. There's no reason a light GA or medium twin needs to be that huge.