November 26, 201312 yr Author Here's my settings: Running on a three year old i7-950 overclocked to 4Ghz, with a GTX480. Hyperthreading off. Totally default and unmodified P3D.cfg Windows 8.1 with the latest WHQL Nvidia 331.65 drivers. Flying the default F-22 at Mach 1, at treetop height across southern England with the fair weather theme. No blurries. No autogen popping. Nick
November 26, 201312 yr I've got blurries and autogen popping, so I see no big change from earlier versions. That said, I haven't done extensive tests with the settings yet and run them at default. Until I can get VSynch to work (stop stuttering and tearing) I'm not doing much else with the settings. Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
November 26, 201312 yr Commercial Member I've got blurries and autogen popping, so I see no big change from earlier versions. That said, I haven't done extensive tests with the settings yet and run them at default. Until I can get VSynch to work (stop stuttering and tearing) I'm not doing much else with the settings. If you haven't already, enable Aero. This is a requirement for my system. This enabled Vsync for me, and from what I understand on the LM forums, is required for P3D to function properly. I don't know if it helps the blurries, as I hadn't tested prior to enabling Aero, but I can most definitely say that I cannot introduce the blurries through regular flying, no matter what I do. This is utterly unlike my install of FSX, in this regard. Jim Stewart Milviz Person.
November 26, 201312 yr Author but I can most definitely say that I cannot introduce the blurries through regular flying, no matter what I do. This is utterly unlike my install of FSX, in this regard. Absolutely. I tried again today, loaded up the F-22 and went for a Mach 1 dash at low altitude around southern England. If I looked really close I could sometimes just notice the highest detail texture LOD "pop" into existence a second or two in front of my aircraft. Without a doubt, for me at least, on my rig with the settings I'm using P3D2 out of the box is vastly better than FSX when it comes to the blurries, which were always a major problem for me, far more so than framerates or OOM. Nick
November 26, 201312 yr If you haven't already, enable Aero. This is a requirement for my system. This enabled Vsync for me, and from what I understand on the LM forums, is required for P3D to function properly. I don't know if it helps the blurries, as I hadn't tested prior to enabling Aero, but I can most definitely say that I cannot introduce the blurries through regular flying, no matter what I do. This is utterly unlike my install of FSX, in this regard. I've tried it, but I get the following message (and need to figure out what the heck is going on): Windows has detected your computer’s performance is slow. This could be because there are not enough resources to run the Windows Aero color scheme. To improve performance, try changing the color scheme to Windows 7 Basic. Any change you make will be in effect until the next time you log on to Windows. Simmerhead - Making the virtual skies unsafe since 1987!
November 26, 201312 yr I've tried it, but I get the following message (and need to figure out what the heck is going on): Windows has detected your computer’s performance is slow. This could be because there are not enough resources to run the Windows Aero color scheme. To improve performance, try changing the color scheme to Windows 7 Basic. Any change you make will be in effect until the next time you log on to Windows. I also got an odd message from Windows about Aero but after closing the window again and opening it once more, I could enable the Windows Aero theme and after that the sky was the limit. ^_^ (I enabled Aero by rightclicking the desktop, choose Personalize and then I selected the Windows Aero theme).
November 26, 201312 yr Moderator Is it better to run with Hyperthread ON or OFF? Didn´t get it. OFF! Hyper-threading is totally unnecessary and will only cost performance at the expense of doing nothing at all... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
November 26, 201312 yr Absolutely. I tried again today, loaded up the F-22 and went for a Mach 1 dash at low altitude around southern England. If I looked really close I could sometimes just notice the highest detail texture LOD "pop" into existence a second or two in front of my aircraft. Without a doubt, for me at least, on my rig with the settings I'm using P3D2 out of the box is vastly better than FSX when it comes to the blurries, which were always a major problem for me, far more so than framerates or OOM. Agreed - out of the box, performance has been fantastic (I still remember how gutted I was with FSX initially). I'll give your settings a try. Also curious if you've installed FTXG and are still running blurry-free.
November 26, 201312 yr Author I did drop the Just Flight Lightning F6 into P3D to try it out (more high speed low level stuff in my all time favourite aircraft). Other than that I've not installed anything at all into P3D2 yet. It's still early days yet and I would rather let the community catch its breath first and let the more intrepid users work out how to get existing favourite addons up and running in P3D2. I've already seen the FS Estonia Migration Tool is now P3D2 compatible, so things are moving. I'm also acutely aware that being a virgin install, my P3D2 is running as fast as it ever will on my hardware, and adding stuff in is only going to slow it down. I'll also let the more clever guys work out what all the new graphics settings actually do and how they interact with eachother, as it appears the accepted FSX wisdom is no longer valid with the new DX11 graphics engine. Having said that.... I've got a load of MSE2 scenery sitting on one of my HDDs, I might point P3D2 in its direction and see what the results are like.... Nick
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