May 24, 201412 yr Everything is great...got everything sorted out....(whether USE POOLS=0 works...is debatable...whatever...I have it in my config and it is staying there for all the reasons of smoothness of animation it gave in FSX) Folks were right...where it isn't a good idea to run FPS unlimited in FSX (yes...debatable until the cows come home...), it sure is in P3D. It goes a major advancement to reduce stutters to almost nil. I run HT, so my value of 242 stays. I only have the following entries inserted at the top in my P3D.cfg file. The rest of it is Vanilla. I am presently in a paused flight over Central Vermont,and everything looks great from the deck, right up to my cruise of 32,000 ft. No degradation of textures to FL320...so...I'll leave it to others, whether Use Pools is an effective tweak in P3D. It certainly is for my GTX680 within FSX, and it also isn't certainly hurting performance, or crashing P3D.exe at all. So...it stays....I am getting very smooth animation now...the same as I have in FSX with this noted tweak (Buffer Pools). Placebo? No...for you either have 'jerk'...or you do not. With this tweak in P3D...I am in the 'not' category. Snake oil? I personally don't care....I have the visuals to prove it does, for my system. Cheers...and the state of Vermont...very nice. ---------------------------------------------------------------- [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=242 [bufferPools] UsePools=0 Post Edit: "....you SERIOUSLY want to go Unlimited in your FPS. I am at 250 knots...in the Raptor, at only 1,800 feet...above PNW...and am pulling hits up to 47 FPS! Very smooth...instant coalescing of scenery, which I have full on, except for auto-gen, set to Dense. A LOD of 6.5, and scenery loading at 250 knots...is instant. No popping. P3D loves the FPS unlimited setting..... Post Edit 2: "Nothing wrong with P3D v2.2. Nothing wrong with Orbx Global or Regionals. What was wrong, was that I didn't have my .cfg set up to run my GTX680 2GB at optional. The above settings do. I have no further anomalies, and simply great performance. I'm ripping all over PNW with the sim (shadows, water, all loaded up...) and hugging the terrain, with fabulous scenery uptake and performance. I don't need another G-card. That is also...fabulous! The GTX 680 2GB is a very capable card to run P3D with all options on...and spiking nearly 50 FPS..with a mean average of 27-33. If anybody has the blurs....set your FPS to unlimited...add BufferPools...if HT enabled...use 242...and you are all set. Load up Northern California...PNW....Fjords....whatever..and LET 'ER RIP!"....
May 24, 201412 yr Author Dang...I'm doing (I know...I know...totally illegal...but this is a sim.....) 640 knots at 900 feet in a PNW valley...with NO stutter...and instant scenery update and uptake. Wow..wow..wow..... No popping in...no blur....and even if I crank back the stick...and gain 4, 000 feet in a matter of seconds.....the scenery now scales beautifully. So..if you have my series of card...and run HyperThread... Throw in my Snake Oil settings...and get ready to have some pretty fantastic flight simulating.....a' la P3D! Post Edit: I came back here, to offer an apology to: LM (P3D) Orbx (Global, Regionals, airports etc..) I never accused either of the above of bad code, or poor performance outright...BUT...it could have been seen that way, as I had questioned (because of my bad graphic performance...degradation of graphics...blah, blah (posted in sheer frustration and puzzlement, mind you...) that either of 'them' could have an 'issue'. No..all the 'issues' were at my end. I offer an open, full-measure apology...if I implied such...and reading today's posts...I think that I certainly did. After adding the lines in this post, changing FPS to unlimited from locked 30...and the rest of the .cfg file as 'Vanilla'...I am at tree top to 1,200 feet above the deck...ripping along in the Raptor 22 at above 500 knots...and tonight, it simply can't EVER get any better in the visuals...and the feeling of total immersion, that with Orbx PNW....screaming along a river valley somewhere in the mountains...following a major highway....and all at absolute smoothness and clarity. Before I get back to the paused flight....let me once more acknowledge that it was MY SETTINGS....that contributed to my dissatisfaction and poor performance over the last couple of days. Not P3D. Not Orbx. Not ASN. Not anything I have added. There...my soul feels better...and now back to bliss, brought on by LM, Orbx, REX 4, ASN...thank you to all....the river valley looks, by all your efforts...REAL. Totally...believably...real. Thank you, all. Flying about 15 miles out and near CYLY.
May 24, 201412 yr Hi Mitch, this one is the real snake oil tweak :lol: but you may know now already. ^_^ [bufferPools] UsePools=0 Spirit
May 24, 201412 yr Author Hi Mitch, this one is the real snake oil tweak :lol: but you may know now already. ^_^ [bufferPools] UsePools=0 Spirit I'll tell you what...it's staying, good, bad, or indifferent....P3D is now absolute GOLD on my system. I'm not touching a thing...my P3D.cfg mouse pointer....... is retired....))))
May 24, 201412 yr AffinityMask=242 seems like it smoothed it out some for me. BufferPools=0 didn't hurt any...snake oil or not. Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
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