Day 2 - I'm a believer!

[Q_flyer 766]

You simply pointed the installer to the P3D folder? Or did you install it in another way? I did read a few posts alread from people who said they had various problems with the plane in P3D...

 

No mate - I used the new version of the FS Estonia Migration tool.  It's fully P3D2 supported now :smile:

So except for the AffinityMask tweak, no other tweak is compatible/needed?

 

I suspect most people won't even need the Affinity Mast tweak.   I use it because I have a slightly naff motherboard, which has hyperthreading permanently locked on.    There is a different Affinity Mask value for CPUs that have HT on, so I've put it in there if the CFG, for that reason.    I suspect if your're using a i5 or i7 with HT off, you probably don't even need to think about the Affinity Mask tweak.

[Jean-Paul 167]

Well, on my setup,  adding 

 

[JOBSCHEDULER]

AffinityMask=14

 

to the prepar3d.cfg to avoid ground textures blurring gave excellent results with my hyperthreading disabled I7 quadcore. Even better than in FSX.

 

Also, if you wish to get rid of the cockpit shimmering (if your GPU has enough horsepower)

In the Nvidia Inspector Prepar3d profile, set Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 4xSGSS 

[Guest]

So, does it work better, than FSX?

 

Yes. The settings I am using now are impossible in FSX and performance is equal. As it is now AA isn't as good as I had it in FSX but it isn't utter crap: it just could be better. But there is no way I am going back to FSX after flying above New York in P3D with buidings as far as I can see and shadows (trees and buildings and terrain and of course in the VC). That alone is worth it already.

 

 

No mate - I used the new version of the FS Estonia Migration tool. It's fully P3D2 supported now :smile:

 

Ah, ok... Don't have that tool and I also don't have FSX installed (which is needed, I think...?). I will wait for A2A.

[Waterman981 2]

I did a simple test install of the 172 last night... Tried to install to F:\P3D (No trailing \)... It created F:\P3DSimObjects, F:\P3DGauges, and so on... so I just copied those files to the right directory in P3D. Did a simple little flight last night at LAX in the dark. Everything seemed to work fine, but it wasn't a complete test of everything.

[Bigmack 30]

 

Well, on my setup,  adding 

 

[JOBSCHEDULER]

AffinityMask=14

 

to the prepar3d.cfg to avoid ground textures blurring gave excellent results with my hyperthreading disabled I7 quadcore. Even better than in FSX.

 

Also, if you wish to get rid of the cockpit shimmering (if your GPU has enough horsepower)

In the Nvidia Inspector Prepar3d profile, set Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling to 4xSGSS 

 

 

 

 

SimobjectPath.9=simobjects\AI Aircraft are the only changes I made to cfg file so far

[mwilk 1,106]

Guys,

           I've been on the fence concerning P3Dv2. I have v 1.4. Any thoughts as to the performance I'll get with a 2600k@ 4.6 and an Invidia GTX480?

[sascha 314]

Could someone please post some screenshots of Asian loacations e.g. Phuket, Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong with FTX Global, please? Everybody seems to focus on US and Europe naturally, but I would love to see how some other regions fare!

 

Thank you!

 

Sascha

[laserit 93]

Guys,

           I've been on the fence concerning P3Dv2. I have v 1.4. Any thoughts as to the performance I'll get with a 2600k@ 4.6 and an Invidia GTX480?

 

I think you will be pleased with the autogen and feature's but you won't be seeing any great increase in performance.

[MarkW 1,493]

Has anyone installed an addon that is known as a beast in FSX just to compare (obviously one that can legally be installed).  Sorry I don't have any good examples other than ConcordeX but I know it does not work due to a simconnect version incompatibility.

[Q_flyer 766]

Guys,

           I've been on the fence concerning P3Dv2. I have v 1.4. Any thoughts as to the performance I'll get with a 2600k@ 4.6 and an Invidia GTX480?

 

Well I am using a 2600k, with HD 7850 2GB, which is probably on par with your 480 and I am getting dramtically better results with P3D 2.0 as compared to what I got with P3D 1.4   (Actually P3D 1.4 was consistantly slower than FSX on my system; lower frames in like for like scenarios).  

 

P3D 2.0 performs strikingly better than FSX and P3D 1.4, with my hardware, especially around autogen and weather.  Although I certainly can't max out the new lighting and shadows!

[RWFeldman 159]

As an intial naysayer and having Aero disable and even deleted from computer for FSX performance. Enabling Aero peek made all the difference in the world. Both quality and performance. perhaps a coincidence but quite convinced not.

[DarkstarF16 72]

Yes. The settings I am using now are impossible in FSX and performance is equal. As it is now AA isn't as good as I had it in FSX but it isn't utter crap: it just could be better. But there is no way I am going back to FSX after flying above New York in P3D with buidings as far as I can see and shadows (trees and buildings and terrain and of course in the VC). That alone is worth it already.

 

 

Ah, ok... Don't have that tool and I also don't have FSX installed (which is needed, I think...?). I will wait for A2A.

I don't have the shadows for the vegetation turned on and quite frankly I don't care I've not flown in New York since the fs9 days but the first time I saw the view in P3D it blew me away. Today I got my performance up by re-installing my video driver and turning on aero and then the shadows. It looks so real. I was up till nearly three am last night doing skyscraper circuits. at dawn dusk and midday. That is an eye opener too it actually looks like the sun is shinning... At last!

[SolRayz 392]

Any trackIR users here? I find that in FSX I have to maintain a minimum of 40fps or higher to have butter smooth panning, so I have never locked at 30.

 

In P3D, is anyone experiencing the same, or is panning smooth at 30?

[RWFeldman 159]

 

 

I don't have the shadows for the vegetation turned on and quite frankly I don't care I've not flown in New York since the fs9 days but the first time I saw the view in P3D it blew me away. Today I got my performance up by re-installing my video driver and turning on aero and then the shadows. It looks so real. I was up till nearly three am last night doing skyscraper circuits. at dawn dusk and midday. That is an eye opener too it actually looks like the sun is shinning... At last!

 

Wow, that exactly to the word what I've done. At last!.

[roarkr 104]

Smooth as butter

 

http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6q95TBoDUjk&feature=c4-feed-u

 

Not the landing , but the video of P3D v2 in Dubai