Clouds in P3D

[Driver170 42]

Why does clouds crush your system! Its the only thing i'm struggling on.

[Bobsk8 12,728]

I use just 3 layers, looks good and doesn't impact FPS. 

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

I use just 3 layers, looks good and doesn't impact FPS. 

 

Are you referring to cloud layers in ASN ?

[Driver170 42]

Ok i've set 3 layers in ASN

[DylanM 1,069]

Almost no impact to frames with Opus and Soft Clouds.

[Driver170 42]

Whats the difference with soft clouds and REX4D? I'm using the latter

[Buziel-411 4]

What kind of GPU do you have?

[Driver170 42]

GTX780

[Bobsk8 12,728]

Are you referring to cloud layers in ASN ?

 

Yes

[Nyxx 6,993]

Soft clouds are far better,there just what they say on the tin.

 

When people say clouds hit fps that's normally because there using Inspector for AA a big NO unless you have a 980+

 

I have ASN at 5 levels better overcast etc and with 780 6gb have no problems with fps.

[Driver170 42]

I don't use NVCP or inspector. Only set prefer maximum performance.

[Richard Sennett 2,499]

Yes

 

Thanks

[Jim Robinson 122]

Whats the difference with soft clouds and REX4D? I'm using the latter

 

REX4 is capable of installing 4096px cloud textures which will impact FPS a lot in heavy cloud cover. As near as I know Soft Clouds are limited to 512px so if you have "Low level clouds" set to 4096 (Ultra High resolution) in REX4's main configuration page you'll likely see a big performance difference when you install a soft clouds set. If you have 512 (low resolution) selected you won't see any difference at all performance-wise. I personally think high res cloud textures are overkill, I resize mine to 256px manually, they look fine. The default P3D3 low level cloud texture is 256px incidentally.

[Driver170 42]

Bit pointless having softclouds if you have REX4D as you can set 512 res clouds

[Jim Robinson 122]

Staring at a computer monitor for hours at a time pretending to be flying an airplane is a bit pointless too but we still do it, lol.