I currently use AS2012 textures with ASN weather engine and am thinking of buying REX4 with soft clouds since it is on sale. My question is will those wonderful HD textures bring a performance penalty verses   AS2012? Any advice appreciated.

 

 

My question is will those wonderful HD textures bring a performance penalty verses AS2012?

 

These are my settings:

 

 

The only setting I found resource intensive was in the Texture Compression Algorithm.  You do not want 32 bit and you should keep them at DXT5.  In FSX, I have Texture_Max_Load set to 4096 but sometimes lower it to 2048 if I need more resources for a flight.

 

Best regards,

Thank you Jim. These texture programs can look so great but there's always the question "can my system pull that"?

Vic, we allow the user to tailor the program to their specific needs.

 

@Jim, thank you.

I assume the "Toshiba std" in your PC specs is supposed to be "Toshiba ssd"?  :wink:

 

Otherwise I would stick with all the DXT options and go no higher than 2048 on texture res. Considering you don't have a dedicated GPU that number may need to be 1024, but try 2048 first.

I've run all sizes from 4096 down to 512, always DXT versions, and frankly prefer the 512 sized cumulus and cirrus clouds not only for the VAS savings they provide, but also think they look more realist and not so hard edged as the HD sets look. The VAS savings will really be apparent running 512's when approaching a complex airport, flying a complex plane, when you've got a heavy thunderstorm or bad weather in the vicinity.

 

When it comes to clouds, I don't think HD is always better looking in the sim.