Since v2 will be eating GPUs for breakfast, I just placed an order for EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 and GSkill 8gb 2133mhz ram. It will be a huge upgrade for me since I was running the old gtx 580.

 

Who said that Prepar3D 2.0 will be eating GPUs for breakfast? While they're planning to make it less CPU-bound, nobody said that it will need a monster GPU. Microsoft Flight (which had similar optimisations, less CPU and more GPU intensive) could be easily maxed out with an HD 5870 or GTX 460.

Who said that Prepar3D 2.0 will be eating GPUs for breakfast? While they're planning to make it less CPU-bound, nobody said that it will need a monster GPU. Microsoft Flight (which had similar optimisations, less CPU and more GPU intensive) could be easily maxed out with an HD 5870 or GTX 460.

Actually one of P3D's developers said on their forum "buy as much GPU as you can because V2 will utilize it" So yes straight from the horse'a mouth P3D will eat GPUs for breakfast lunch dinner and midnight snacks

 

 

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Wes Bard, LM:

 

V2 will provide many ways to stretch the limits of the most modern GPUs. Get all the GPU you can afford if you want to leverage new features in v2. The goal is to make v2 able to stretch into future GPUs as they continue to be advanced and developed, as we all know the current architecture is CPU bound and upgrading your GPU doesn't make as much of a difference as you would want it to.

Software Manager - Prepar3D® Team

 

 

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=3204

 

Hope my GTX670 2GB can handle v2.0!

 

Lyn

Wes Bard, LM:

 

V2 will provide many ways to stretch the limits of the most modern GPUs. Get all the GPU you can afford if you want to leverage new features in v2. The goal is to make v2 able to stretch into future GPUs as they continue to be advanced and developed, as we all know the current architecture is CPU bound and upgrading your GPU doesn't make as much of a difference as you would want it to.

Software Manager - Prepar3D® Team

 

 

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=3204

 

Hope my GTX670 2GB can handle v2.0!

 

Lyn

Thanks Mazo for the exact words I guess I paraphrased a little

 

 

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Actually one of P3D's developers said on their forum "buy as much GPU as you can because V2 will utilize it" So yes straight from the horse'a mouth P3D will eat GPUs for breakfast lunch dinner and midnight snacks

 

Really? I haven't seen that. I only remember an interview where they said they want to break the tradition of Prepar3D being CPU-bound, and moving some workload to the GPU along with DirectX 11 effects.

 

EDIT: Ah, Lazo posted it. Well, that sounds really interesting!

Thanks Mazo for the exact words I guess I paraphrased a little

 

 

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 We were typing at the same time and you won - you hit "Post" before I did but we said the same thing. :lol:  I am really looking forward to the release of V2.0

 

Lyn

I think many of us have mid-end to high end video cards, I have a 560ti but I'm expecting it to be ok, that's not a bad card at all. It doesn't need to be Titan like

I haven't been keeping up with the hardware discussions relating to P3D. My video is a 580. What is wrong with it?

Well firstly v2 will use DX11. Which means  it will be effectively using the processing power of the modern day GPUs. Secondly all graphical effects including tesellation and a new particle system will be handled by GPU directly. So I am assuming the new graphics engine will be a bit more gpu intensive.

Wes Bard, LM:

 

V2 will provide many ways to stretch the limits of the most modern GPUs. Get all the GPU you can afford if you want to leverage new features in v2. The goal is to make v2 able to stretch into future GPUs as they continue to be advanced and developed, as we all know the current architecture is CPU bound and upgrading your GPU doesn't make as much of a difference as you would want it to.

Software Manager - Prepar3D® Team

 

 

http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=3204

 

Hope my GTX670 2GB can handle v2.0!

 

Lyn

Well there you go. So happy to hear this. Since I am not a big fan of overclocking although I do have an i7 3930k with h80 cooler but I prefer to run it at stock speeds. I guess my investment in GTX 780 will pay off !

Since v2 will be eating GPUs for breakfast, I just placed an order for EVGA Superclocked GTX 780 and GSkill 8gb 2133mhz ram. It will be a huge upgrade for me since I was running the old gtx 580.

I requested the EVGA GeForce GTX 780 SC w/ ACX Cooler, as a special order when I ordered new Haswell computer in Auguest, along with 16GB of 2133MHx of system RAM. That GPU is very quiet, and runs cooler than the stock 780 (and will actually beat the stock Titan in some games).  I think you'll be very happy with both.

Hi Guys,

 

That's Sweet!!!. I have a Nvidia GTX 690 all ready to go...

So glad I picked up the gtx780, can't wait to see how v2 handles it. Or perhaps how it will handle all sliders to the right.

Hope my little GTX760 can do the job.

 

I do think that it will be up to the developers to make use of the DX11 features.

Does anyone know if P3D 2.0 will support SLI?

Does anyone know if P3D 2.0 will support SLI?

 

No info on it yet, but that would be great and make multiple monitor setups much easier. Running a couple of 6GB Titan cards would be sweet!

No info on it yet, but that would be great and make multiple monitor setups much easier. Running a couple of 6GB Titan cards would be sweet!

 

WBard LM:

SLI support doesn't come free, it has to be implemented. Not sure we'll have it for v2 initially but it is something we'd like to do in a future patch or point release.

Software Manager - Prepar3D® Team

 

This is  found in the same link I posted above.  http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=3204 

 

Lyn