October 14, 201411 yr Hi, I was going to try hdev2, but was not sure if they were compatible with 2.4 and really not sure what size to try. What are u using? Bob Officially retired
October 14, 201411 yr Moderator REX 4 and As2012. I use 1024. Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
October 14, 201411 yr REX 4 and As2012. I use 1024. Vic, I have been using the AS2012 1024 textures with ASN in FSX. I am about to get P3D. Do the Rex 4 textures offer any significant improvement over AS2012 in P3D? Ted [email protected] ghz, Noctua C12P CPU air cooler, Asus Z77, 2 x 4gb DDR3 Corsair 2200 mhz cl 9, EVGA 1080ti, Sony 55" 900E TV 3840 x 2160, Windows 7-64, FSX, P3dv3, P3dv4
October 14, 201411 yr Author HDE has Low, medium, normal, high and very high. Normal is 512, but high and very high do not have a value. I guess if one was to assume, I would say "High" was equivalent to 1024 and very high 2048. Bob Officially retired
October 14, 201411 yr Moderator Hi Ted - Only difference I note is the 4096 HiDef textures in REX are more dramatic than AS2012. Personally, I do not like the "dramatic" effect and I really see no need for 4096 textures. In all the tests I have run, the 1024 are just as good looking and a lot friendlier on system usage. If you already have AS2012, I wouldn't buy REX expecting an improvement. If you had neither - flip a coin. Vic RIG#1 - I9 14900K MSI Pro z790 RTX 5070Ti 40" 4K Monitor 3840x2160
October 14, 201411 yr Thanks for the feedback Vic. I run 3 monitors so I cannot afford the resources to run the clouds higher than 1024. I'll stick with AS2012 textures for now. Ted [email protected] ghz, Noctua C12P CPU air cooler, Asus Z77, 2 x 4gb DDR3 Corsair 2200 mhz cl 9, EVGA 1080ti, Sony 55" 900E TV 3840 x 2160, Windows 7-64, FSX, P3dv3, P3dv4
October 15, 201411 yr I'm running REX4 textures at 1024 DTX5 and ASN. I'm getting solid performance and good visuals with 1024 and DTX5, but I'm going to upping the resolution to 2048 later and see what impact it has. The funny thing about the low resolution is that it sometimes does a good job at making the clouds look fluffy because the resolution is low and compression is high.I notice the low resolution the most on cirrus cloud layers. In REX4, and previous versions I believe, you can set resolution and compression for the different cloud types. Being able to tweak the clouds is a preformance saviour. Derek RogersPC Specs: Intel i7-4790K 4.6GHz : 16GB RAM : GTX 970 4GB
October 15, 201411 yr The default clouds have been good enough for me so far, specially when I look at so many screenies where the clouds look like being cut into cardboard with a cookie cutter. (4096?). Dominique Simming since 1981 - [email protected] GHz with 16 GB of RAM and a 1080 with 8 GB VRAM running a 27" @ 2560*1440 - Windows 10 - Warthog HOTAS - MFG pedals - MSFS Standard version with Steam
October 15, 201411 yr In REX I set all clouds to their lowest resolution and DXT 5. I choose the clouds + sky that I want and after having them copied into P3d I copy the lowest resolution cumulus1.bmp from Oscar clouds v4 into P3D. Great looking sky and clouds with good performance. 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
October 15, 201411 yr HDEv2 normal size (not HD). Very realistic, sharp and little effect on FPS unless you're running ASN with lots of cloud layers Chillblast Core i5 14600KF Liquid Cooled RTX 4070 SUPER 32GB RAM. Internet: 1 Gig Fibre. HoneyComb Throttle & Flight System. UK PPL since 2006 current on PA-28, C-152, C172, Decathlon, C-42 based at EGHP.
October 17, 201411 yr Author I had used the HD but dropped to "Normal" as per the author and these look a little better with no performance hit. Give them a try. Bob Officially retired
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