Well i followed Nicks advice and my Orbx regions look the best they ever have.i now have all my sliders to the right except water,so someone please tell me he doesn't know what he's doing.

I just don't understand all the rubbish that's posted about someone who is just trying to help other simmers enjoy there hobby.

 

   steve

I think the reason he gets these comments is because of his derogatory attitude towards p3d. If he was just trying to help then why all the snidey digs at prepar3d throughtout his posts. He comes across like his knowledge is superior and he had an agenda.

He might know what he is talking about but all his posts on prepar3d make him look like someone who doesn't understand the difference and has made assumptions that it is fsx with more shadows. The impression that he gives is that he doesn't like it and can't see the point in it.

Chris

what is the problem with not liking it??he prefers FSX and makes no bones about it.I'm not his father and he doesn't need me to stick up for him.if he worked for NASA and designs scenery for Flight1,he knows more about flightsim than i ever will.

I am very grateful for his tips that take an awful long time to get together.if he comes across as blunt sometimes ,great at least he's being honest about his opinions.

I'm a long time orbX user who not too long ago went over to P3d 2.5.i still use his optimize section.it's one of the best out there.

 

 steve

 

 

if he worked for NASA and designs scenery for Flight1,he knows more about flightsim than i ever will.
I am very grateful for his tips that take an awful long time to get together.if he comes across as blunt sometimes ,great at least he's being honest about his opinions.
I'm a long time orbX user who not too long ago went over to P3d 2.5.i still use his optimize section.it's one of the best out there.

 

So what... He is not alone... I've been working for NASA a week each year, I have 42 FS related products behind me since 1995 (mostly for Aerosoft), I did many "firsts" related  to scenery design, so I'm supposed to "know" those internal delicacies a bit, but I wouldn't at all write a tuning-guide on a sim that I dislike. Specially wouldn't if the Dx9 and Dx11 differences would completely escape my attention, as his definitely did.
Nevertheless I still listen to ideas here and there and also got very useful tips in these forums time to time.

Doing a tuning guide and simultaneously suggesting to DISABLE most of the new and specific features of P3D is nothing else but guiding the less knowledgeable users to an "easy" but featurless direction, that simply proves his dislike towards P3D.

I could easily go into the technical detail, but rather refrain from it, just saying that internally locking the sim at 60fps is not at all a good path to follow, it doesn't help possible stutters and compared to 'unlimited', it result in a 15-20% fps loss for sure...
 

Well i followed Nicks advice and my Orbx regions look the best they ever have.i now have all my sliders to the right except water,so someone please tell me he doesn't know what he's doing.

I just don't understand all the rubbish that's posted about someone who is just trying to help other simmers enjoy there hobby.

 

   steve

 

Hi Steve,

 

He makes some statements that are just plain wrong, such as:

 

Affinity mask is only needed if hyperthreading is enabled

 

I totally disagree with any affinity mask usage in the CFG file. Affinity should be set outside of P3Dv2 at boot time for best effectiveness.

 

I think the point is that his so-called recommended settings will dumb down P3Dv2 and make it look like FSX, he recommends you turn off just about every shadow feature P3Dv2 has to offer for example. The shadow features are some of the best features P3Dv2 has to offer, so why turn them off?

 

You must be flying a hang glider or some other very "light" aircraft in the Orbx scenery you have, as his recommended LOD_RADIUS=6.500000, coupled with AUTOGEN_VEGETATION_DENSITY=5 and AUTOGEN_BUILDING_DENSITY=5 settings will guarantee you an OOM with most decent Orbx airports when coupled with an aircraft of above average complexity.

 

Cheers,

 

Jerome

What's happening here? 

 

Do you all have the same computer with the same hardware clocked at the same speed using the same scenery with all sliders adjusted the same way in your sim. so you all can make the same visual/performance observations and give a definitive and exact opinion on what ever Nick is saying is working or not?

 

What am I missing? 

 

He's giving out his own observations on his own computer with his own experience about P3D backed by his knowledge on the subject, take it or leave it but why the attack?

 

How many here have been verbally assaulted because they gave advise/tips related to their own observations after presumably tweaking their P3D sim?

 

I'm not taking either side here but I can't believe what I'm reading from some of you.

 

I've read what he wrote and I can't see for the life of me where he attacked any of us P3D users, granted he does not give the white-glove treatment when giving his opinions on P3D (or any other subject for that matter) it does not mean he's wrong.

 

For me the bottom line is this, try it and see for yourself if his recommendations does work for you or not and for all others that want to challenge him on what he's saying I think the best place to do it would be on his forum where you can prove him wrong if you think he is, now how many of you will go there and challenge him?

What's happening here? 

 

Do you all have the same computer with the same hardware clocked at the same speed using the same scenery with all sliders adjusted the same way in your sim. so you all can make the same visual/performance observations and give a definitive and exact opinion on what ever Nick is saying is working or not?

 

What am I missing? 

 

He's giving out his own observations on his own computer with his own experience about P3D backed by his knowledge on the subject, take it or leave it but why the attack?

 

How many here have been verbally assaulted because they gave advise/tips related to their own observations after presumably tweaking their P3D sim?

 

I'm not taking either side here but I can't believe what I'm reading from some of you.

 

I've read what he wrote and I can't see for the life of me where he attacked any of us P3D users, granted he does not give the white-glove treatment when giving his opinions on P3D (or any other subject for that matter) it does not mean he's wrong.

 

For me the bottom line is this, try it and see for yourself if his recommendations does work for you or not and for all others that want to challenge him on what he's saying I think the best place to do it would be on his forum where you can prove him wrong if you think he is, now how many of you will go there and challenge him?

 

Bravo Sir!

So what... He is not alone... I've been working for NASA a week each year, I have 42 FS related products behind me since 1995 (mostly for Aerosoft), I did many "firsts" related  to scenery design, so I'm supposed to "know" those internal delicacies a bit, but I wouldn't at all write a tuning-guide on a sim that I dislike. Specially wouldn't if the Dx9 and Dx11 differences would completely escape my attention, as his definitely did.

Nevertheless I still listen to ideas here and there and also got very useful tips in these forums time to time.

 

Doing a tuning guide and simultaneously suggesting to DISABLE most of the new and specific features of P3D is nothing else but guiding the less knowledgeable users to an "easy" but featurless direction, that simply proves his dislike towards P3D.

 

I could easily go into the technical detail, but rather refrain from it, just saying that internally locking the sim at 60fps is not at all a good path to follow, it doesn't help possible stutters and compared to 'unlimited', it result in a 15-20% fps loss for sure...

 

well potroh if you are the expert you say you are...you know nothing about my system..and i'm telling you it is performing better than i could have hoped for with his tuning guide.he himself says it is just a starting point.and to adjust where you need to.

Jerome you are wrong as well.i use the A2A cherokee and aerosoft airbus not full blown PMDG aircraft but i'm surprised at how smooth it runs with his settings.as for shadows..i had ground shadows turned off.with nicks setup they are ON.

HDR is off but i don't miss it just yet..it is only a click away

 

Romain..i'm with you..he doesn't personally attack anyone and from what i see his comments are all tongue in cheek..that is the way i read them anyway.

oh well let the haters hate eh

 

 steve

What's happening here? 

 

Hi there,

 

What is happening here is that a bunch of experienced simmers are giving their own advice on tuning P3D, which to some extent goes against NickN's so-called "Bible" advice.

 

And then I see you trying to create drama where there is none........ 

 

Cheers,

 

Jerome

 

 

well potroh if you are the expert you say you are...you know nothing about my system..and i'm telling you it is performing better than i could have hoped for with his tuning guide.he himself says it is just a starting point.and to adjust where you need to.

 

Sure, I know nothing about your system.

But try to grasp please, that switching off most P3D specific features (all shadows, HDR, etc.) in order to get smoother and better performance, is not really tweaking but rather cutting off the testicles of the sim...

 

 

oh well let the haters hate eh

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Hi there,

 

What is happening here is that a bunch of experienced simmers are giving their own advice on tuning P3D, which to some extent goes against NickN's so-called "Bible" advice.

 

And then I see you trying to create drama where there is none........ 

 

Cheers,

 

Jerome

 

Sir,

 

I see your advice as good as any other including Nick's advice if they work for me or anybody else but when you make a statement like this one about Nick's advice " He makes some statements that are just plain wrong, such as:" it's because you can show me beyond a shadow of a doubt where he's wrong.

 

I don't call that drama but knowing what you'r talking about.

 

If I think the advice you give or gave are plain wrong I will make sure to challenge you on your own turf with plenty of solid proof to back any of my atatements up to show you where you are wrong, unless I can't back it up I will state that my own advice work on my own system and MAY work on others.

why the attack,s! ,well approx 2 yrs ago that's what flight1 did to the P3d community they bullied and shouted and attacked  members via these forums and other forum,s,demanded that post,s be closed down mainly because they did not want anyone to use their Mustang in P3d without paying them twice,they wrote to the dev,s of the migration tool and started trying to bully them into stopping producing/allowing the migration tool to work with flight1 products,when the FSE dev,s suggested going to the European courts to settle the matter flight1 started to back off,then they posted on the FSE forums under a false name of"Dar" it is still all there on the  FSE forums just follow the link below ,it shows the depth these wonderful people were prepared to go to ,What has happened in my humble exp is that flight1 are seeing sales disappear on fsx products so need P3d to replace them and are desperately trying to jump onto P3d before they loose more sale,s

peter

 

 

http://www.flightsim.ee/news/2013/on-flight1s-new-policy-and-on-the-most-bizzare-customer-weve-ever-had

I understand peter that Flight1 have been trying to stop people using GEX in p3d,and they went about it the wrong way it seems.but what has that got to do with NickN.

Nowhere is his name mentioned in any of the posts.Really it seems that flight1 are doing what a lot of companies like PMDG did and want people to use a seperate licence for p3d for there products.some companies like aerosoft embraced P3D as soon as it came out,others are now coming on board as it gets more popular .can't blame them for that it's a business for a lot of people.

 

But try to grasp please, that switching off most P3D specific features (all shadows, HDR, etc.)

 

potroh please try to grasp that ALL shadows are not turned off in his tuning guide.with NIcks setup Ground shadows are turned ON.before his help they were OFF.

so with his help i am able to have MORE shadows on in P3D.I also have max buildings and Trees.only setting that is not full is water at Medium.now if vas plays up i will lower things ,but at the moment it is smooth and i'm having zero problems for the first time in years.

 

  steve

 

 

potroh please try to grasp that ALL shadows are not turned off in his tuning guide.with NIcks setup Ground shadows are turned ON.before his help they were OFF.

so with his help i am able to have MORE shadows on in P3D.I also have max buildings and Trees.

 

If cloud shadows are turned OFF it means fleecing P3D its best new feature.

If one does that for the sake of having MAX autogen settings, it is not a wise decision, to say the least.

 

With Nick's settings (and HDR turned off) you have a kind of slightly different FSX (with the known SDK-2002 made scenery compatibility problems).

The FPS-limiter at 60 is plane wrong, in the best case it should be 58-59 to take the place of an average 60Hz Vsync.