I posted several shots of FTXG and P3D in the "How is it" thread, with medium settings it was an easy 60fps, and max settings around 35-50. 

At our airports, performance is excellent assuming you don't have every shadow checked on. 

Also, don't forget some of these "default" P3D aircraft are actually addon quality aircrafts made by IRIS, Carenado, etc, and are much more intensive than default FSX aircraft. 

 

The VAS usage is slightly higher starting up, BUT.. it runs more efficiently. So for example, when you fly from one location to another the memory will be offloaded more efficiently to avoid OOM, whereas FSX just kept piling it on. 

 

There's more memory changes the LM team is preparing for 2.1 which is pretty exciting, as we can push the sim even further. 

FSDT now has V2 installers. The addons will be coming. And with a black friday sale at that

^thats good to know...thanks!

I believe p3d will fix everything eventually, but right now I'm not interested in performance using default planes in Default scenery. Addons are what have made FSX for me. Default? Who plays their sim like that, indeed...

 

Exactly. Need to wait it out till the early adopters iron it out it seems.

How about today's flying :-

 

Majestic Q400, with max autogen, VC shadows, Heavy weather (Opus), Traffic 360 at 25%, flying from Aerosoft Stavanger X to Aerosoft Trondheim X ............. and 41 FPS ............

 

or,

 

Airbus X Extended, with max autogen, VC shadows, Heavy weather (Opus), Traffic 360 at 25%, flying from FlyTampa Vienna to FlyTampa Athens................. and 40 FPS............

 

seriously, this sim is nothing to do with default aircraft.     I'd say people were just understandably doing their initial testing and set up with the default aircraft.

 

Cheers.

Not sure how good of test the Q400even is. Its such a remarkably designed aircraft and causes hardly any, if any impact on frames in either FSX or P3D. Thats a compliment to Magestic. Now load a captain Sim aircraft at KJFK with a TSRA and check rates!!!

So it is a bit better in FPS than FSX , but DX11 features are making it look more real ...

 

Some graphical features are now being calculated by the graphics card and therefore with a fast card one can add extra graphical features like objects and VC shadows without the heavy loss in fps like FSX.

 

If LM can add 100% SLI support in. v 2.1 and make it 64 bit , P3D will have a bright future.

I'm finding a drastic increase in FPS in what I think are directly comparable configurations between FSX and Prepar3d when it comes to scenery addons.

 

Hopefully get a chance to try weather, traffic and a complex aircraft a bit later

 

Mine is a mid-range card (ATI HD7850) so I'm expecting a big increase when my GTX 770 arrives. I assume one would not expect a GPU upgrade to yield a drastic increase in FSX?

Also, don't forget some of these "default" P3D aircraft are actually addon quality aircrafts made by IRIS, Carenado, etc, and are much more intensive than default FSX aircraft.

 

This is very true.

 

I also think that there are some difficulties in comparing fps in the two sims - people focus on the numbers, but not on the smoothness.  Which is simply a few steps above FSX, at least for me - even before my recent GPU upgrade.  There's also some difficulties in comparing settings; any settings regarding autogen, for example, aren't even comparable.

 

As far as the 'default' aspect goes, the default planes and default scenery represent the majority of flying that I do - military & ga. So perhaps for me, I don't have very high demands - I don't have many hugely intensive planes and scenery to put into the sim.

There's also some difficulties in comparing settings; any settings regarding autogen, for example, aren't even comparable.

 

It's difficult isn't it, I think the fairest thing to do is to get the sims looking the same when making FPS comparisons, and there I'm seeing far better results from P3D.

 

Of course this doesn't take into account;

 

 - P3D will benefit from a GPU upgrade

 - P3D is far smoother than FSX regardless of FPS

 - P3D, configured to look like a maxed out FSX, is tuned some way back from its maximum capabilties