Quality of iniBuilds airports

[Dreamflight767 316]

Hi.  Can anyone please contest to the quality of iniBuilds airports.  They have a few large airports that I would like for sim collection but have reservations based on my experience with their airplanes.

Thank you.

[Snuffleupagus 354]

Quality is decent, but they are known for very poor performance.

[blueshark747 1,912]

They are performance hogs, even with later optimization patches they are still very performance hungry.

KLAX is prime example

[Merawen 56]

Which big airport is not performance hungry?

[ryanbatc 13,202]

26 minutes ago, Snuffleupagus said:

Quality is decent, but they are known for very poor performance.

Ditto.  They look pretty good - just a few notches below flight beam but are not great on performance, even with interiors disabled.

[sniper31 668]

My experience is quite a bit different than others above. I have almost all of the iniBuilds heavy hitters, and they all perform very well for me. Granted, I have a beefy system, but their airports all have options to turn on/off many of the visuals, so they can be tuned. I fly heavy the Fenix and PMDG aircraft into Heathrow, LAX, Detroit etc. and no performance problems for me. So, as usual, mileage may vary. I think as far as visuals go they do a very good job with exteriors and interiors. 

Edited June 26 by sniper31

[F737MAX 5,999]

38 minutes ago, ryanbatc said:

not great on performance, even with interiors disabled.

That's because the MSFS display engine doesn't load interiors (other objects) until very close by.

 

1 hour ago, Dreamflight767 said:

please contest to the quality of iniBuilds airports.

After various updates to each of their popular large sceneries, performance is acceptable to good, rather than great.

You'll need to limit your TLOD setting and the number of AI aircraft (the two biggest performance drags in the sim).

IMO, their quality is good. A step below airports by Flightbeam, Pyreegue, Marcus Nyberg and Jo Sund, but a step or two above that of BMW/AmSim, Drzewiecki, MK-Studios, and certainly far above the many, many other lower quality scenery dev products.

[Cpt_Piett 4,997]

3 hours ago, F737MAX said:

You'll need to limit your TLOD setting and the number of AI aircraft (the two biggest performance drags in the sim).

This is extremely important at mega-hubs. IniBuilds is one of my favorite devs. Taxi layout (AI traffic) is very good (EGLL, KLAX, KJFK), and it’s easy to install GSX profiles from the manager. 

[B777ER 2,663]

Great visuals, absolutely horrendous performance.

Edited June 27 by B777ER

[Gulf76 8]

I only have their PHNL, but I don’t have performance issues with it. However, I am running a 4090. Would be great to know those with performance issues what GPU you have!

[bennyboy75 107]

Definitely wouldn’t put them in the top tier - their Gulf offerings in particular are a bit light on detail. Abu Dhabi has missing taxiway lights in places and the ground texturing has a rather shiny Asobo default feel to it. Even little details like bushes and scrub which are common in sandy regions are largely absent. 

Performance is fine for me, however. 

[Drumcode 1,966]

6 hours ago, Merawen said:

Which big airport is not performance hungry?

FB's DEN?

[Sunshine13 241]

U want a slide show buy it!  Even with their patches no improvement.  Their sceneries are beautiful, but stutter.stutter

[Snuffleupagus 354]

1 hour ago, Gulf76 said:

Would be great to know those with performance issues what GPU you have!

4080 for me. IniBuilds sceneries are the only ones I have any issues with. 

Edited June 27 by Snuffleupagus

[Christopher Low 5,522]

i5 7600K/GTX 980Ti combo here, and I do not have any significant performance issues with IniBuilds (or any other) airports. I do not have AI enabled, but I do have 100% static aircraft active (which uses the AIG aircraft database that I have installed).

Edited June 27 by Christopher Low