January 16, 201412 yr Ok, after the initial mess, I came up with what I find the best compromise in terms of X-Plane 10 scenery. I have installed the FULL HD Mesh V2, by Andras, which gives a superb coverage out of main towns here in Portugal, and Spain, and am using only Lisbon ZL17 Photoscenery from SimHeaven, and waiting for a few more Airport & City photo sceneries to become available. In the end I will probably hjave 4 or 5 World detailled cities / airports, and the rest will be HD Mesh V2 with default X-Plane scenery. I really think this is a much better option now. Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 16, 201412 yr I am using HD Mesh V2, Sky Maxx Pro, and Urban Maxx with Old City/Town and some custom airports. With my new video card (Gigabyte GTX 770 OC 4GB), I am achieving about 40 FPS average with HDR and most everything at least high (no deer, balloons, smoke, etc). Pretty realistic stuff here. I hope 10.30 doesn't cause problems, but I can't imagine the guys doing anything but making it better! John John Wingold
January 16, 201412 yr Hi old as dirt, what settings do you use with your gtx 770? And also your sky maxx settings? And what's your cpu and ram? Thanks ' !!
January 17, 201412 yr Hi old as dirt, what settings do you use with your gtx 770? And also your sky maxx settings? And what's your cpu and ram? Thanks ' !! I use the HDR with the second anti-aliasing (the longer 2x - I have that computer running a backup right now) and the 2x anthroscopic setting checked. All the other options in that section are checked. Most everything else is high or better. I'll try and post a picture of the settings when I get back to it. The SkyMaxx Pro is pretty much on default settings. I hadn't noticed before changing the video card, but the cloud patterns change from puffs to thin and wispy with contrails, etc. from one start to another. Sky colors also change to suit the time of day. CPU is i7-4770 and I have 16 GB of 1600 DDR3 DRAM on a MSI Z87-43 motherboard. I can get higher FRs, but this setup runs pretty consistently, so a reasonable setting does not "dive" into "stutters" when in dense areas. Yes, it will go down, but remains smooth. John John Wingold
January 17, 201412 yr Here they are except I have dropped the anisotropic filter level to 2. John Wingold
January 17, 201412 yr Author Yes, when possible I really have to invest on a good graphics card :-/ Presently I do not use HDR ON. Not really a problem for me, but, with the only photoscenery I have now, and the OSM + autogen covering Europe and the Americas, and HD Mesh V2, In crowded regions ( i.e. Paris ), my fps get's down to, sometimes, 5 fps. Yet, X-Plane 10, even at 12 fps, is satisfactory for me, but I am really suffering from only 1GB GDDR. HDR will make it unusable for me... I wonder what is heavier: - To try to use "only" the HD Mesh V2 with X-plane's autogen, or to use, as I do, the SimHeaven OSM + Autogen over it? I assume the SimHeaven OSM + Autogen folders, listed in my scenery_packs.ini before the zzz_hd_v2 folder, will allow for the use of both? Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201412 yr I'm currently running X-plane 10 with complete HD Mesh v2, SkyMaxx and no photo sceneries. I run a creaking i5 750 and a GTX 460v2 1Gb. I get between 20-30(locked) with my setting. Really quite pleased. I check my system everytime I run X-plane with the excellent Process Explorer from Microsoft (SysInternals: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-gb/sysinternals/bb896653.aspx). I found that the bottleneck for me is my Gfx card. The poor thing is maxed out and my old reliable i5 sits burbling along at 45-50% usage. I slapping in a GTX 770 4gb tonight and I fully expect that although I'll get better performance, the CPU will now be my bottleneck. I'm a recent FSX convert and I love X-Plane. I love it cause of it's excellent community support and it's ability to properly utilise the hardware I can throw at it
January 17, 201412 yr Also, beware of bandwidth on the motherboard. The components can pump all the information into it that you want, but it has to move to the next component in a reasonable fashion before you see the results. John John Wingold
January 17, 201412 yr There is an Opengl Injector , you guys should try it out. I did try it in the demo and looked wonderful. Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus
January 17, 201412 yr Author I'm a recent FSX convert and I love X-Plane. I love it cause of it's excellent community support and it's ability to properly utilise the hardware I can throw at it Welcome !!! Yes, we are all great guys - probably not so tall as Austin. We do miss more gals around here :-/ If you know of any, please show them your X-Plane 10 qualities, and maybe we get new gals converts !... Maybe X-Plane is for flight simulation what Mac's are for the PC World, and gals tend to like Mac's more than other hardware :-) Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201412 yr John, you should really go for extrem resolution with a 4GB card (compress textures if necessary - but I doubt that) and the 770 GTX can easily handle 16x anisotropic filtering. Will give you really crisp ground textures with almost no FPS hit. Cheers Flo Flo B.
January 17, 201412 yr Moderator Yet, X-Plane 10, even at 12 fps, is satisfactory for me, but I am really suffering from only 1GB GDDR. I can tell you that memory makes a big difference here. I went from a 1GB ATI card, to a 2GB Nvidia card on a computer with less memory, a slower-disk and an i5 instead of an i7. The graphics card makes a big difference. With HDR enabled on the old computer in a OSM populated area, it was a real slide-show, about 4-5fps. On the newer computer, I get between 10-20fps (which is perfectly flyable for me). With HDR off, the 2GB card jumps up about 5 fps, the 1GB card becomes flyable at around 15fps. One day, I will invest in a completely new dedicated computer, but for now I'm quite happy with performance. I assume the SimHeaven OSM + Autogen folders, listed in my scenery_packs.ini before the zzz_hd_v2 folder, will allow for the use of both? No, the autogen in the HD will be used instead. The actual autogen in the "OSM + Autogen" is simply the default X-Plane autogen, so if you place it above the HD mesh, in areas where there is no OSM, it will use smart exclusions and use the autogen from the HD Mesh.
January 17, 201412 yr Hi, john, I use a gtx 770 4GB also. Turn your shadows on to global high and also turn anisotropic filtering up to16x. Also, set texture to extreme and do not compress it. This card can handle it! Ian
January 17, 201412 yr Author Ah! Ok - so I shouldn't use the OSM only, because that way I would have no autogen at all, correct? Flying gliders since 1980 Flightsimming since 1992 AMD Ryzen 5600x, 32GB RAM, GPU Nvidia RTX 3060 Ti 8 GB, 1 TB and 500 GB nvme2 SSD drives, HP 27" 60Hz LED monitor @ 1920x1080, T16000, Hotas from old X52 Pro, Saitek Combat Rudder Pro (2010 model)
January 17, 201412 yr Moderator Ah! Ok - so I shouldn't use the OSM only, because that way I would have no autogen at all, correct? Yep, correct.
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