Thanks for the LOL bits.

 

A 32bit "base" that runs really well to excellent ported to 64bit is going to run excellenter!  A thing we might be able to see is a high LODs much farther out, expanding as hurtz go up, and maybe cores if that entanglement is figured out (if they have figured that out they are true masters of the universe, and they might be)

 

In years past I wondered if the ever-present in nature Fibonacci Sequence would be a good metric for when to "grow" something visually simulated to the next [electron] "shell", but I never had a good reason to try it.  

Don't forget that higher LOD further out not only means higher memory usage, but also means more CPU and GPU resources. It will still be limited, but at least by only these two components.

Thanks for the LOL bits.

 

A 32bit "base" that runs really well to excellent ported to 64bit is going to run excellenter!  A thing we might be able to see is a high LODs much farther out,

 

Keep in mind X-Plane is 64bit and LOD at least when it comes to light draw is far less than P3D at altitude anyway - not happy about that

How about bringing back true fullscreen, so the adaptive 1/2 refresh rate vsync would work again like it was in FSX?

We can always hope. And remove AA from clouds.

 

Mark

We can always hope. And remove AA from clouds.

 

Mark

This would be a really good thing!

We can always hope. And remove AA from clouds.

 

Mark

 

JC you mean that hasn't been addressed yet?  OMG!

 

I'd be happy if someone could come up w/ a realtime modulator of factors affecting performance...so that I don't have to hit the P key and go do it manually.  Here's a good recent example.  I'm in the PMDG T7 coming into KPDX.  I think it might have been ORBX freebie Portland enhancement I had recently installed that began to choke it a bit.    I put up w/ choppy video which continued after touchdown.  So I thought--I don't need any LOD radius beyond what I can see out the window while on the ground, which is an LOD setting far to the left.   And I reduce autogen to low from Dense, etc.   So of course the choppiness disappeared.  So if things like autogen/veggies/LOD could be dynamically controlled in the background, along w/ cloud density, shadow distance, etc to a user set of priorities we could eek out a little more Nirvana from existing 32 bit P3D.  I must admit it's shocking excellent already and have a hard time staying out of the pilot's seat especially in the cold/wet of this winter!

JC you mean that hasn't been addressed yet?  OMG!

 

Considering the severe FPS impact enabling SGSS will have flying through dense clouds I'm pretty sure AA is still applied to cloud textures.

 

I remember before I switched to P3D and was using Steve's DX10SF in FSX where there was this option to disable AA for clouds. It really did wonders being able to have SGSS enabled resulting in superb AA but yet with great performance. I really miss that in P3D.

 

This was the main reason I decided to get a 4K screen where I've been able to stop using SGSS and still have fairly good IQ even without SGSS but it's still not as good as with SGSS enabled IMO.

After setting cloud resolution to 512 I don't see huge fps drop with 4x sgsaa. Probably 256 will be even better and tbh I don't see quality difference with clouds. Yet I agree this is probably first thing that should be addressed.

Interesting. Sounds like LM has some work to do in that area...

I remember before I switched to P3D and was using Steve's DX10SF in FSX where there was this option to disable AA for clouds. It really did wonders being able to have SGSS enabled resulting in superb AA but yet with great performance.

 

And no one has yet done this for P3D?  Unreal!  If this was done in FSX I don't have a clue why it hasn't been duplicated in P3D, including by LM itself.  As the new leader of the 4th Reich would say, 'that's just sad!'

 

I use SSGS 4x when there is fair weather and it's quite nice I agree.  Otherwise, it's off during the cloudy weather for just this reason.  Again, this sound like mega low hanging fruit!

Thanks ladies/gents, these threads do make me chuckle.  

 

Rich, I think you're in the wrong forum ...

 

Cheers, Rob.

And no one has yet done this for P3D?  Unreal!  If this was done in FSX I don't have a clue why it hasn't been duplicated in P3D, including by LM itself.  As the new leader of the 4th Reich would say, 'that's just sad!'

 

I use SSGS 4x when there is fair weather and it's quite nice I agree.  Otherwise, it's off during the cloudy weather for just this reason.  Again, this sound like mega low hanging fruit!

 

I've said this a million times. 6 years ago they announced it, they've released 3 major versions and all these little crappy bugs are still there. People are still using FSRealtime to fix the time. What are people buying with their hard earned money (3 times over)? There was also the dream of being able to use all your FSX addons but how smooth did that go? New installers, conversion tools, re-purchases, doubling prices and we're still flipping though thread after thread of VAS/OOM issues, persistent bugs and poor performance. And now people are dreaming that going 64bit will give them backward compatibility that's somehow better then before?

 

I wish you all the best of luck.

I've said this a million times. 6 years ago they announced it, they've released 3 major versions and all these little crappy bugs are still there. People are still using FSRealtime to fix the time. What are people buying with their hard earned money (3 times over)? There was also the dream of being able to use all your FSX addons but how smooth did that go? New installers, conversion tools, re-purchases, doubling prices and we're still flipping though thread after thread of VAS/OOM issues, persistent bugs and poor performance. And now people are dreaming that going 64bit will give them backward compatibility that's somehow better then before?

 

I wish you all the best of luck.

 

Whoow!

You want some cheese, with that 'whine'?  :smile:

 

If this was done in FSX I don't have a clue why it hasn't been duplicated in P3D

 

In all honesty it was never part of FSX but rather a very clever option introduced in the DX10SF.