Actually I beg to differ that it would be a slideshow in FSX. I'm able to run FSX on my Macbook Pro Core2Duo on bootcamp just fine with moderate settings. Plus I know JV at Orbx has FSX running Orbx addons on his laptop no problem, and even provides demo vidz. I'm not sure what your point is. 

 

 

Autogen and photoscenery?

 

Is possible.

 

P3DV2 is not perfect, there are a few bugs but so far I've been able to work around them - LM have acknowledged the issues and will be fixing them.

 

Orbx FTX 1.1 has issues also, some will be fixed in the 1.2 update.

 

I had the best "short" test flight of my entire FS'ing "career" this evening in P3DV2 and recorded it with Fraps.  What I've noticed is that FXAA is considerably faster AA than overriding and using 8X Supersampling ... image quality and clarity is better with Supersampling but the performance hit is significant (especially with all the add-ons, clouds, shadows, HDR, etc. etc.).

 

Actually I beg to differ that it would be a slideshow in FSX. I'm able to run FSX on my Macbook Pro Core2Duo on bootcamp just fine with moderate settings. Plus I know JV at Orbx has FSX running Orbx addons on his laptop no problem, and even provides demo vidz. I'm not sure what your point is. 

 

 

 

My point is this that what you saw in that video would be a slide show on my laptop with FSX. How do I know this? Because I was trying to run that on my laptop before getting P3D. And oh, with less clouds, less autogen, less everything. I was getting 7 to 10 fps.

 

That video was running at 25 - 30 fps.

Bought it, installed it. First run = stutters, awful performance (as LM stated). Second run, smooooth as a butter. I experimented with various settings (extremely dense autogen + shadows ) I was ~25fps all the time, and it was smooth. Nice. I disabled tesselation, shadows, and set autogen to dense, and fps is ~50. Acceptable for vanilla with my gfx card. I will try to disable HDR, and re enable tesselation and will test fps again, since I'm using SweetFX.

 

 

smooooth as a butter

Well that is good news.  I thought that the performance would be much worse, but it is good to hear that even a GTX 560 can run reasonably well with proper visual settings for the card.  Looking forward to hearing more performance results.

Mmmmm...... bacon sandwiches all round!

 

Joking apart, I hope you can get P3D2 running better.  It does take some doing (and maybe some luck) but it's worth it.

After a significant hiccough I'm up and running again and it's truly remarkable what's happened w/ FSX that has been morphed to V2.  Despite the polished completeness of FSX now this thing is very hard to put down!  I reinstalled everything prior to my odd meltdown w/ poor performance all's well again.  I think for now until the black screen issue and a few others are solved as long as I changed to windowed mode when I need to access the desktop for REX or whatever all's well.  

 

 

BTW it's not about 25 or 30 frames, it is about huge stutters, very anoying. In FSX DX10, 25fps is smooth, I don't have a problem with that.

I had smooth flying w/ FSX, but now I have ... smoother flying in V2 ;o)  It is different for sure and it was quite good w/ FSX, but I see a big difference now over FSX, but I do have the hardware to run it well now too, but did w/ FSX as well.  

It's funny how things change. A year, or year and a half ago I bought Gigabyte GTX 560 OC card, and it was high range card back then. Even now I can run 95% of new games with high details, 40-50fps (AC: Black Flag). Now, I feel again like I have some old GeForce card with 256mb of RAM, all because of P3D 2.0. Oh well, every 3 years I'm upgrading my machine, and in a year or two that is a must.

Bought it, installed it. First run = stutters, awful performance (as LM stated). Second run, smooooth as a butter. I experimented with various settings (extremely dense autogen + shadows ) I was ~25fps all the time, and it was smooth. Nice. I disabled tesselation, shadows, and set autogen to dense, and fps is ~50. Acceptable for vanilla with my gfx card. I will try to disable HDR, and re enable tesselation and will test fps again, since I'm using SweetFX.

Ah ha! Xcellent. Your card is twice mine, plus you have a desktop.

 

I have tesselation on full right slider, it seems to make very little difference to the framerate.

 

I'll be uploading another video showing lots of autogen. Over 20fps on my laptop.

It's funny how things change. A year, or year and a half ago I bought Gigabyte GTX 560 OC card, and it was high range card back then. Even now I can run 95% of new games with high details, 40-50fps (AC: Black Flag). Now, I feel again like I have some old GeForce card with 256mb of RAM, all because of P3D 2.0. Oh well, every 3 years I'm upgrading my machine, and in a year or two that is a must.

GTX 560 has never been high range ;-)

Well, if I can push ANY game I bought in high details, fluid gameplay, then it was high range card. I dare to say it is still a good card, it serves me good.

Luv the title of this thread.  I can say I just experienced a nice "WoW" last night.  After struggling the first week things are settling in nicely.  Just did the most buttery smoothest approach/landing into KPHX with Flightbeams' Phoenix, Megascenery Arizona version 1 (with the night lighting and autogen).  Flew in a Airbus 319 with VC (project airbus).  With my GTX 670 (2GB), I flew in my wrap-around (3) 27" displays at pert-near 30FPS (locked at 33).    It was just gorgeous at dusk!

 

Had settings usually 1-2 notch down from max.  Turned off water as I was out in the desert, had shadows for outside, inside and for buildings.   Had no gitters, no OOM, no crashing but then again I have not experienced those at all.

 

Guess I am saying I am sold but really always was despite the hiccups.  Yea, I  need to (or LM needs to ), work on AA and maybe the sharpness of photoreal tiles but I have made/added no tweaks.  This is still "out of the box" with the exception of those trial addons.

 

Here I was during the first week ready to pull the lever and pick up a Titan think that would solve everything.  Think I will hold off on any GPU upgrade at the moment.  Do I have my eye on that new GTX 780 ti 6GB edition coming out but I am in no rush now.

 

FSX never flew this good outta the box for me.  It took years to get that bird looking/flying good.   And how many remember how long it took before 3rd party pleasures came around.  Not here... this is what, only the 2nd week.  Congrats LM. This for me is definitely FSnext.   

Well, if I can push ANY game I bought in high details, fluid gameplay, then it was high range card. I dare to say it is still a good card, it serves me good.

 

Fine for you and enjoy it...

 

But for the record it was a mid range card it's never been high end ;-)

Have here GTX560TI for sale for you lol

GTX 560 has never been high range ;-)

I have to agree.  I have a 560ti and it's not running P3D well at all.  I'm thinking of getting the GTX770, just not sure if I should get the 2GB or 4GB.  What do other users think?

I have to agree.  I have a 560ti and it's not running P3D well at all.  I'm thinking of getting the GTX770, just not sure if I should get the 2GB or 4GB.  What do other users think?

 

Well everything over 2gb can give OOM in 32 bit apps so switching between FSX and P3Dv2... That will change with native 64 bit...

I think that you are on the sunny side of the street with a  GTX 770 4.0GB. Hence I ordered mine yesterday. B)