I can tell you from personal expereience that FS Gensis mesh will work perfectly well in P3DV2.2. Just point the installer to your P3D location.

 

Lyn

Lyn, thanks for the reply.

Can anyone please suggest what I do for ai landing lights? I can't see any lights on ai aircraft coming in ti land apart from the tailfin.

Not the best shots, but I hope they'll do:

 

Thanks! Though I'm pretty sure the first one is with HDR on and the second one with HDR off.

I'm pretty sure the first one is with HDR on and the second one with HDR off.

 

Nope  :smile:

 

HDR in P3Dv2 really is just seems to darken the scene more than anything. Notice how it has darkened the scene in the 2nd shot, to where the clouds are almost gone. That's definitely HDR.

 

I was momentarily confused as well, as it seems HDR is less "bloomy" than before, but I'm certain the labels are correct.

Nope  :smile:

 

HDR in P3Dv2 really is just seems to darken the scene more than anything. Notice how it has darkened the scene in the 2nd shot, to where the clouds are almost gone. That's definitely HDR.

 

I was momentarily confused as well, as it seems HDR is less "bloomy" than before, but I'm certain the labels are correct.

 

Oh wow. I didn't expect that.

 

It would be great to see a glow option for aircraft/airport lights and the sun. I really like what the light bloom effect in FSX does.

 

EDIT: I noticed that the Prepar3D.cfg has the command "BLOOM_LEVEL" and the default value seems to be 2. Would increasing it make a difference?

Oh wow. I didn't expect that.

 

It would be great to see a glow option for aircraft/airport lights and the sun. I really like what the light bloom effect in FSX does.

 

EDIT: I noticed that the Prepar3D.cfg has the command "BLOOM_LEVEL" and the default value seems to be 2. Would increasing it make a difference?

yes

Well I found the Sweet spot for the time being with my setting to maintain 30FPS with almost anything. I decided to stick with locking FPS to 30

and turning of V-sync and triple buffing for the best results for smoothness but I no longer need to set my monitor to 30hz. 60hz works just as well.

I still need to Set the affinity to All and Priority to high in Windows task manager and FFTF=0.1 in .CFG for no bluries! I did get some really bad bluries before making those changes. Don't know what to say the default clouds are more realistic than REX4 clouds and they are what I am going to use. Couldn't get any of the A2A C172 lights to work. I selected default for landing lights illuminate ground during the install. Also the Textures look off to me at FTX YPEC. it looks like the runway has two sets of markings and some stuff is missing I think one of the scenery sliders is to low for FTX. Hope you enjoy the side slip or is it a forward slip. I can never remember:-) Oh and one other thing have any of you guys tried the new recorder? LM made such a big deal out of it but on my system it isn't much better than the Jerky mess that was FSX. Found something to get annoyed about Eh! :lol:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuXxQ0J-P5g

I found out that v2.2 likes fps set to unlimited a lot more on my PC. And I also disabled Vsync (and triple buffering). Up to now I have to limit fps to 34 for best performance. The only tweak I use with v2.2 is AF=15 and performance is great! Average fps of 45 above for instance the north of NCA, in those parts where there are LOTS of trees, and I have autogen at Extremely dense...!!! It's amazing!!! And that's with cloud and terrain shadows enabled (and trees set to receive)! It's butter smooth! Things have never looked more real than this! The cloud shadows have a far greater effect on the immersion than I expected. I was a bit sceptical at first but it totally transformed the sim. And P3D v2 is only a few months old...!

Speaking of bloom ... is there a "sunglasses" option/add-on ... I seem to recall reading about this add-on.  I know when I'm out in the sun I always have sunglasses and it seems most aviators fly with them.  Sunglasses would certainly help in Alaska snow and water light reflections. 

 

Cheers, Rob.

Well the bank card took a hammering today, I felt 2.2 was the moment to invest fully in Prepar3d

 

So what was the score, erm, Active Sky Next (P3D 2.2 beta), Carenado Phenom, FTX Global, FS Global 2010 FTX (needing that caught me by surprise!), FTX Global Vector....

 

The sim looks incredible, of course, and I'm maintaining high settings at about 30-40FPS with the above, though with a default plane for now. I've only just finished downloading and installing all those addons

 

But there is a massive difference between FSX and P3D2 prior to 2.2 with just a couple of addons thrown at it, 2.2 can take so much more without becoming unusable, and of course there is plenty of headroom to scale back the graphics and still have something that looks vastly superior to any sim

 

Very pleased, though I think the Phenom might have something to say about that

 

Can't wait for Orbx Eng/Sco to get updated, that's my planned playground for the Phenom

 

-edit- get (a very flyable) 20fps with the Carenado

I experimented with AF=4095 -- seems to induce stutters, terrain hi-res loading is perhaps a tad faster, 4 fps drop.  Going to try 4092 today, but so far the default value used by LM for my processor is 1364 and that seems to work the best.

 

 

Very pleased, though I think the Phenom might have something to say about that
 
Can't wait for Orbx Eng/Sco to get updated, that's my planned playground for the Phenom
 
-edit- get (a very flyable) 20fps with the Carenado

 

If you turn off one of the PFD's (co-pilot) and the MFD you see that Phenom turn you 20 fps into 40 fps.  Not sure what it is about Carenado PFD/MFD but they seem to suck the performance life out of P3DV2.2.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Tried that: Unlimited with V-sync off and Triple buffing off. Did seem to make any difference at all but it might be better when the FPS drops below 30 so I will fiddle with that for a while.

 

Whats the perceived wisdom on HyperThreading on or off for best results?

 

How can you tell what P3DV2.2 is setting as you affinity mask? I though that line was gone form .cfg?

 

Has anyone tried the SLI with the developers hack provided by Beau?

If so what kind of results did you get?

Speaking of bloom ... is there a "sunglasses" option/add-on ... I seem to recall reading about this add-on.  I know when I'm out in the sun I always have sunglasses and it seems most aviators fly with them.  Sunglasses would certainly help in Alaska snow and water light reflections. 

 

Cheers, Rob.

The A2A C172 has a sunglasses option, but I always thought that it was strictly cosmetic.

whats the perceived wisdom on HyperThreading on or off for best results?

 

How can you tell what P3DV2.2 is setting as you affinity mask? I though that line was gone form .cfg?

 

 

 

The consensus, if there is one with regard to HT, is that it makes no difference in either FSX or P3d whether it is either on or off. It does affect your affinity mask numerically, if you want to set an AM. As to finding out what the AM is set to by default, download and run MS Process Explorer, the task manager replacement. While running P3d, run Process Explorer, alt-TAB out of P3d and then right click in Process Explorer on the P3d exe entry. Then click Set Affinity ... and see what cores are being used. I would wager that without explicitly setting an AM, all your cores except core 0 are free to be used by P3d. Process Explorer can also be used to dynamically set the AM.

 

Since a number of people are running unlimited and with VSync off, it should be noted that frame limiters and Vsync both add to the overhead of running a 3D app. If you are not experiencing screen tearing, don't enable VSync. If you don't have any stuttering, run unlimited.

I am just making a return to simming after deciding to take a break about half a year ago partly to give more time to other games and hobbies and partly because I was fed up with the setting up the sim after the last OS reinstall and thus decided to wait for the P3D V2 to mature and continue from the clean table with better product. So far I am doing my preliminary tests with vanilla 2.2 and I must say that I am very convinced about the performance! With my system I am able to pull really high settings with Nvidia Surround staying way over 30 FPS in the surroundings of the default airfield with the few default planes I've tried. Only thing that tanks the FPS seriously are the cloud shadows, especially when flying in a little bit more cloudy weather, like the stormy conditions predefined setting. But definitely V2.2 is a big jump and I hope that the upcoming SLI support will bring even more preformance.

Next it is time to start the tedious installing of addons. By the way, it is quite evident how much one forgets about simming during the half year period or so. It almost seems now that I am back where I begun few years ago and I have to think which controls I calibrated where and so forth. And I pretty much haven't looked at the aircraft systems at all yet

I experimented with AF=4095 -- seems to induce stutters, terrain hi-res loading is perhaps a tad faster, 4 fps drop.  Going to try 4092 today, but so far the default value used by LM for my processor is 1364 and that seems to work the best.

 

 

 

If you turn off one of the PFD's (co-pilot) and the MFD you see that Phenom turn you 20 fps into 40 fps.  Not sure what it is about Carenado PFD/MFD but they seem to suck the performance life out of P3DV2.2.

 

Cheers, Rob.

 

so it does! cheers Rob

 

I couldn't find how to, so Googled and found your thread in Carenado forum about click spots under screws :rolleyes:

 

This is 30fps at Uk2000 Luton extreme, with FTX global, fs global mesh, FTX vector, ASN, near max autogen and detail settings.....really, really impressive performance from this sim

 

Would literally be down to 8-10FPS in FSX

 

And NO, repeat NO tweaking required