So I finally decided to get P3D....And wow.  I am beyond impressed.  I am able to maintain the same FPS as FSX while cranking the sliders wayyyyy up!  The best part was most addons (except my PMDG 737 which I ended up also just buying for P3D) were compatible.  There really is no comparison.  I wish I would have put more effort in to researching P3d sooner before rebuying FSX on steam.  Could have saved the cash for more addons for P3D!

Welcome to the dark (HDR) side. All credit for that one goes to someone else, I'm just borrowing it.

 

Seems like there's someone else every day!

Welcome to the dark (HDR) side. All credit for that one goes to someone else, I'm just borrowing it.

 

Seems like there's someone else every day!

 

 

Welcome B)

So I finally decided to get P3D....And wow.  I am beyond impressed.  I am able to maintain the same FPS as FSX while cranking the sliders wayyyyy up!  The best part was most addons (except my PMDG 737 which I ended up also just buying for P3D) were compatible.  There really is no comparison.  I wish I would have put more effort in to researching P3d sooner before rebuying FSX on steam.  Could have saved the cash for more addons for P3D!

Even FSX before you start adding aircraft and sceneries looks and works marvellously but when you have brought it up to date with all your old addons you'll find it's just the same.

After all, LM did buy it off of MS.

 

 

 I am beyond impressed.

 

Welcome, more to come so sit back and enjoy the ride.

 

Cheers Rob

 

 

So I finally decided to get P3D..

Yes welcome pegruder. Its a cracking way to spend time alright.  

 

 

 

Welcome to the dark (HDR) side. All credit for that one goes to someone else, I'm just borrowing it.

That did make me laugh  :rolleyes:

Welcome, more to come so sit back and enjoy the ride.

 

Cheers Rob

More to come eh!   *I think Rob is telling us a subliminal message*  B)

Welcome to a more immersive flight sim experience

Even FSX before you start adding aircraft and sceneries looks and works marvellously but when you have brought it up to date with all your old addons you'll find it's just the same.

After all, LM did buy it off of MS.

Yep, can't justify the supposed gains and benefits received from P3D after converting from FSX. Still can't install 50% of the addons I can in fsx, with some I have managed to install, have to scale back the settings and loose the supposed gains anyway. Every update seems to break something, spend more time playing with sliders and settings than flying. I'll stick with old faithfull untill LM pull there finger out. Huge cost for a few shadows, but remain optimistic. If you have a stable FSX, I'd stick with it for a while longer ?

Yep, can't justify the supposed gains and benefits received from P3D after converting from FSX. Still can't install 50% of the addons I can in fsx, with some I have managed to install, have to scale back the settings and loose the supposed gains anyway. Every update seems to break something, spend more time playing with sliders and settings than flying. I'll stick with old faithfull untill LM pull there finger out. Huge cost for a few shadows, but remain optimistic. If you have a stable FSX, I'd stick with it for a while longer ?

 

 

It's almost as if Prepar3d is a different product, instead of FSXv2... :rolleyes:

 

But seriously, if you are actually claiming that Prepar3d v2 requires more manual tweaking than FSX and only has improved lighting... then I don't see how anything else you say can be taken without a pound of salt.

It's almost as if Prepar3d is a different product, instead of FSXv2... :rolleyes:

 

But seriously, if you are actually claiming that Prepar3d v2 requires more manual tweaking than FSX and only has improved lighting... then I don't see how anything else you say can be taken without a pound of salt.

To chime in - I loaded this thing up and cranked the settings to max and am locked at 20fps...with 0 tweaks.  The biggest hit I took was installing MTX 5.4c.  That knocked me down to an intermittent 15-20.  Thats graphics sliders pretty much all the way up, and traffic at 55% Commercial, 20% GA, 15% on all ground.

and traffic at 55% Commercial, 20% GA, 15% on all ground.

 

 

30-40% for the Commercial setting gives realistic air traffic levels using My Traffic Pro 5, according to the author. In addition, the Air Traffic Manager app will limit the maximum number of AI aircraft with your "user's bubble" so you don't see those fps drops in high traffic areas.

 

@Rob A.,

 

Do you think it would be helpful to have the Air Traffic Manager thread as a "sticky"? It really improves performance in P3d with AI Traffic enabled, unlike a lot of other suggestions. Maybe you could also pass along the concepts that the app is based on to LM. 

30-40% for the Commercial setting gives realistic air traffic levels using My Traffic Pro 5, according to the author. In addition, the Air Traffic Manager app will limit the maximum number of AI aircraft with your "user's bubble" so you don't see those fps drops in high traffic areas.

 

@Rob A.,

 

Do you think it would be helpful to have the Air Traffic Manager thread as a "sticky"? It really improves performance in P3d with AI Traffic enabled, unlike a lot of other suggestions. Maybe you could also pass along the concepts that the app is based on to LM. 

I may have to give this a shot then.  I chose 55 because that seems to give me just the right amount of interaction with AI.  Even at this setting sometimes I dont see any other planes landing/taxing or taking off.  Although I did just go from 5.1b to 5.4c (Im just getting back in to simming, its been awhile) so Ill have to see..

It doesn't hurt to go above 40%. I have run My T Pro 5 at close to 60%. The trouble is that AI Traffic are so CPU-bound that one can bring any system to it's silicon knees, when one combines those  traffic levels with an international airport in a large urban area.

AI traffic at 30% ... once you give it time to ramp up will be a constant and non-stop stream at any moderate sized airport.  Agree, very CPU bound.

 

Cheers, Rob.

It's almost as if Prepar3d is a different product, instead of FSXv2... :rolleyes:

 

But seriously, if you are actually claiming that Prepar3d v2 requires more manual tweaking than FSX and only has improved lighting... then I don't see how anything else you say can be taken without a pound of salt.

I only have the three main cfg tweeks ( hi/mem, wide true, and 4096,I have tried every tweek for FSX that you can google). Over the years, i must have reinstalled FSX scores of times. I believe the key to a stable FSX is the install process, SSD,a nice clean moderate system, and no freeware (not the tweeking). I did not mean to rattle anybody's cage, I have great hopes for P3D. Just saying, if you have a stable FSX, wait a while. Salt is really bad for ya by the way :-)

 

Oh forgot, I added a vasi scaler to the CFG, as I run FSX at 6048 x 1080, REX 4's tripple head to go lights were still too large for this resolution in FSX. I can only run P3D on my LG ultra wide at 2056 x 1080, and I still need to add the same vasi tweek to P3D. I don't get OOMS on either platform by the way, though I limit myself to short haul. I only fly NGX, Dash 8, and A2a, so I'm well accustomed to demanding addons.