February 21, 201511 yr Yep I am no longer able to get on, database thing I'll try later this evening Ron
February 22, 201511 yr I suggest you disable the following if you want more or less equal performance as FSX: HDR offTessellation offCloud/Veg/building shadows offVolumetric clouds offDetail radius - MediumAutogen Density - Normal/DenseWater Detail - Medium/High Now you can somewhat compare FSX to P3D, and you will most likely find P3D smoother Generally speaking, I had lower settings than the above.. :unsure: .... I was taking the approach of starting very low and then increasing settings one by one - but I didn't get very far with that! ...... Just not a nice experience whatsoever for me, but of course everyone's experience is different.
February 23, 201511 yr Yes, it's gone ... 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
February 23, 201511 yr I've contacted LM in regards to the Database connection error, I get the same error when I try to login. Cheers, Rob.
February 23, 201511 yr Now it's back.. 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
February 24, 201511 yr Although it's not related to my original post (so apologies for the O/T), I just wanted to provide an update following my report earlier in the thread about my poor initial experience with P3D 2.5. Update It was playing on my mind all weekend that I'd bought P3D2.5, and had uninstalled it after only a day, following really unsatisfactory performance. So I decided to give it another go yesterday. Things went a lot better. I know there's a big "it doesn't need tweaking!!" sentiment in this forum section, but my experience was that adding the Fiber_Frame_Time tweak (at 0.12) absolutely brought the sim to life....... I was able to set maximum AA/AF and still have good performance, frames and smoothness. Yesterday I tried out the Carenado Citation II (an addon that I find very heavy on performance in FSX), in P3D2.5, in FTX Norway and the performance was excellent. Much better than I'd typically see in FSX in fact with these addons. I've also noticed less of a performance impact when I fly through clouds, compared to in FSX. (I'm using OpusFSX and REX Texture Direct). To do with DX11 maybe? But the real gamechanger was trying out the Majestic Q400 1.013 (patch just released, for 2.5 compatibility)... wow! I'm now running P3D2.5 with higher autogen settings than I can get away with in FSX, and am using medium cockpit shadows (no terrain shadows), and am getting higher frames than in FSX.So yes, P3D 2.5 definitely has my attention now! :smile: Just wanted to update, as my initial experience (and therefore my initial report) was negative.I'm not quite ready to delete FSX yet but at this point that's only because I'm not prepared ('Prepared, get it? :wink:) to re-buy full price licences for the PMDG NGX and 777 - and that's a whole different discussion!
February 24, 201511 yr As others have recommended - DON'T download the full install zip - mine was also corrupted. Download the individual cab files using a download manager. Thankfully I have a 50MB cable connection otherwise I'd be sending rude emails to LM about their rubbish website/forum and files. Talking of their forum - it has to be one of the ugliest user-unfriendly sites I've ever visited so I try and avoid it which is pretty easy seeing it's never online for very long Thankfully we are lucky to have AVSIM and Rob over here to help us. 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.
February 24, 201511 yr "As others have recommended - DON'T download the full install zip - mine was also corrupted." My Full install ZIP downloaded fast ... My checksum was = OK My Install was = OK Best Regards, Vaughan Martell PP-ASEL KDTW
February 24, 201511 yr I also was able to d/l the full installer Sunday evening, after 3rd attempt (database errors), The installer was just fine after 2 attempts (empty folder on my e drive) & I reinstalled using repair function which installed to the default c after uninstall & then reinstall to e prepare3d v2.5 all went well & I am now reinstalling all the compatible Orbx products including the latest libs.Holding off on the hotfix until I see what develops. Ron
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