I fly for pretty much most of the time over photo-scenery, MSEv2  USA to be exact, with bright sunshine and little cloud.  I don't really have the autogen slider that high as there are no objects to be seen other than near the airports, which all come with the airport packages I have.

My question is, If you don't need to see autogen buildings, trees etc, do you really need that good a GPU or is a mid range one adequate. What really tests your GPU? is it photoscenery, autogen or both.

 

Thanks.

 

Autogen is a CPU hog. Not a GPU hog.

Really you don't need particularly great GPU for FSX no matter what you use, average modern GPU is generally just fine. 

Sorry, should have said that I use P3D and intend to buy v2 when its released. At the moment you say that autogen is CPU hog, will that change when the load is switched over to GPU in V2?

 

Autogen is a CPU hog. Not a GPU hog.

 

That's not going to be true in P3D v2.

 

They are doing the autogen in a single draw call on the GPU. 

I fly for pretty much most of the time over photo-scenery, MSEv2  USA to be exact, with bright sunshine and little cloud.  I don't really have the autogen slider that high as there are no objects to be seen other than near the airports, which all come with the airport packages I have.

My question is, If you don't need to see autogen buildings, trees etc, do you really need that good a GPU or is a mid range one adequate. What really tests your GPU? is it photoscenery, autogen or both.

 

Thanks.

 

The simple answer is no one knows yet.

 

But to speculate, I don't think simply turning off autogen is going to mean you don't still need a good GPU. They are doing all the terrain rendering now and all the new effects on the GPU (dynamic shadows, HDR, dynamic terrain lighting, etc.). 

 

Now, do I think you could turn off some of those effects + autogen and get great performance with whatever you are running FSX with now? I'd think so. 

I guess everyone knows that selective quote does NOT work on an ipad running safari...

 

I think the question needs to be, what GPU will not be BOTTLENECKED by various CPUs.

 

What is going to be the best GPU FOR MY I7-2600K?

 

Anyhow, I assume that once we have our hands on V2, the Beta testers ,no longer on NDA, will come out of the woodwork and tell us what works and doesn't, and Exactly what the min, and recommended specs are for viable-affordable CPU/GPU combos.

 

I am just responding to the autoGen cpu/gpu "boundness" of P3D V2.0

 

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