Why is this so amazing? It's a default aircraft...

 

I can do that same thing in FSX..

 

Extremely Dense Autogen and Scenery, LOD at 4.5, TML at 2048 and 2xMax water recording at full-speed (60 FPS) with frames set to unlimited in FSX and not have any blurries or stutters while panning around the plane or view in a dense area like Norfolk? I THINK NOT.

 

Download Dino's F-35 (hardly "default"), and recreate it in FSX with the above settings with framerate counter showing and I'll believe you.

Why is this so amazing? It's a default aircraft...

 

I can do that same thing in FSX..

 

Yeah, no you can't.

 

No one in FSX is flying around an urban area with full autogen at 500 knots and not getting blurries. 

 

And it's not a default aircraft. I mean it is in P3D, but the IRIS F-22 is a former addon plane that runs like an addon plane (i.e. its not that great on FPS compared to the stock 172 in FSX or the like). 

Agree with both of you.. That isn't happening in FSX..  Hell, it isn't happening in P3D 1.4 either. Don't forget.. It's doing all of this while encoding an AVI at the same time..  Fraps is notorious for being the worst performing movie capturing software and I still pulled 30FPS average.. Crazyness.  Again FSX/P3D 1.4 would have been half that 30 FPS I was averaging if not single digits and full of blurries. Full disclosure, the video was encoding on a separate drive than what the simulator was on but.. That's common sense if you have a spare drive. I'm glad people are seeing what is actually taking place here..  I know for a fact in FSX  to pull off a video like this you have to use FS Recorder shenanigans and trickery and in P3D 1.4, you have no options because the newest FS Recorder that allowed that trickery didn't work

Seems that maxing out the sliders as you did improves performance drastically. Shadows and clouds are best to keep them sparse it seems. I had terrain and scenery sliders set to medium or high and was getting only 12 and even in single digits fps with addon scenery and a certain NGX. Now maxed all those 7 sliders out and I'm back in the 20 to 30's and the screen build (reloads) much faster.

 

Thanks Bill

I will have to go test this same scenario in FSX when I get home today. The problem with this test, is that much of that autogen may already be loaded into memory. Try flying fast and low outside of the initial LOD. If you could make another video with the same results, I will be thouroughly impressed.

Awesome. There are some really great things happening here. I flew over Seattle and it was smooth as butter and held 33fps steady. Seattle!! And at night no less. Notorious beast killer for fsx. 

 

What was the GPU monitoring software in the top left?

One thing I've picked up on some of the forums (not only on this site), is the mention of "yeah but it's only default aircraft...". Since when is Carenado, IRIS, etc. default quality aircraft? We were BUYING these planes up until now for FSX as quality PAYWARE. So to answer these guys: You get PAYWARE airplanes as DEFAULT in P3D. Thus, when you fly P3D out of the box, one can immediately monitor its performance with some payware add-ons already.

 

Maybe we should get our perspective right in this regard. These planes are much more complex as defaults, than the default planes were when FSX launched.

 

 

I flew over Seattle and it was smooth as butter and held 33fps steady. Seattle!!

 

LOL! Ok now you have gone too far! :lol:

Same here. Seattle has always been the area that stressed the heck out of my system. I am reserving final judgement until ultimate traffic and the AA stuff starts working, but so far so good on results. 

Great things are happening but in that video I clearly see autogen popping up and textures loading late so it's certainly not perfect. And the used settings are moderate: medium radius, low reflections, low shadows, low effects, low cloud coverage, no AI at all, I mean... I love P3D but it's not that this video is so extraordinary imho. Of course it's nice and better but it's not totally awesome. ^_^

FPS problems and recodring will hopefully be history as soon as NVidia's shadowplay is up and running.

Why is this so amazing? It's a default aircraft...

 

I can do that same thing in FSX..

No, you can not.  FSX can't display scenery at that level of detail.  Period.  You just literally can't.

Norfolk in P3D is a much more highly detailed area than Norfolk in FSX, so any comparisons are truly moot from the outset.