17 minutes ago, eaim said:

You might be right about FSW, however how much of an improvement is V4 going to be over V3?  ...... time will tell.

True! We don't know (yet). But there's rumors of an overhauled lighting system. And a real lighting system (like in X-Plane) and 64-bit - well, that's all I need to be exctatic! 

I thought Pete Dowson said that he wouldn't create FSUIPC if P3D is 64 bit? Correct me if I am wrong. 

2 minutes ago, shamrockflyer said:

I thought Pete Dowson said that he wouldn't create FSUIPC if P3D is 64 bit? Correct me if I am wrong. 

The obvious solution for Pete if he doesnt want to continue with a 64bit FSUIPC is to sell it to someone else.  Best for us if LM incorporated it into the sim...

Keep your expectations at a sensible level, guys. Moving to 64bit doesn't necessarily mean that P3D is suddenly going to look and feel appreciably different to version 3. I am sure that there will be improvements (and one or two may be significant), but I doubt it will be the second coming of the Messiah

20 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

Keep your expectations at a sensible level, guys. Moving to 64bit doesn't necessarily mean that P3D is suddenly going to look and feel appreciably different to version 3. I am sure that there will be improvements (and one or two may be significant), but I doubt it will be the second coming of the Messiah

That's correct. 64b X-Plane is OOM-ing pretty easily 

Edited May 21, 20179 yr by G-YMML1

your physical memory will be the restriction, but i have 32 GB now so that should be enough

40 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

I doubt it will be the second coming of the Messiah

its not the Messiah, its just a naughty sim!

32 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said:

That's correct. 64b X-Plane is OOM-ing pretty easily 

64 bit doesn't mean OOM's will be a thing of the past, but if you play your cards right and either keep the same settings as you do with V3 then it shouldn't be a problem. Some seem to think that you can max out your settings with 64 bit and fly for 24 hours straight without OOM'ing, but that is not the case and they are simply un-informed about 64 bit. I have personally never had an OOM in X-Plane 64 bit, but I do like to keep my settings at a more realistic area. 

13 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Keep your expectations at a sensible level, guys. Moving to 64bit doesn't necessarily mean that P3D is suddenly going to look and feel appreciably different to version 3. I am sure that there will be improvements (and one or two may be significant), but I doubt it will be the second coming of the Messiah

I have spent a lot of time fixing my sim and it runs perfectly. I accept bad fps in a big city because it is still smooth. The only problem I have left is running out of memory, flying the PMDG 747 into an Orbx region. If I do not have a 4gb limit I can use Orbx regions and fly any airplane, and add back all the AI traffic I spent so long manually creating but had to get rid of because it hit that 4gb limit since the PMDG airplanes and FsLabs are so vas hungry.

In my case, getting rid of the 4gb limit makes flight simming perfect again.

15 hours ago, Anders Gron said:

True! We don't know (yet). But there's rumors of an overhauled lighting system. And a real lighting system (like in X-Plane) and 64-bit - well, that's all I need to be exctatic! 

 

Other than the 64 bit rumour, that is the one feature enhancement I truly wish for.

Lets just say 64bit just makes it a whole lot easier to deal with.  When you OOM with 32bit theres not a whole lot you can do other than reducing settings once again, or not flying into your fav scenery or using your fav plane all at once. If you were to OOM in a 64bit, there IS something you can do and quite simple. Just add more physical memory. No more banging your head on the VAS ceiling anymore. I do that enough in real life as it is. 

I'm excited for a few reasons, but I'm also not expecting a lot of miracles.  As long as the platform overcomes the 4gb VAS problem, allows for better lighting, has a better ATC/AI engine, and is stable, then I think that there will be plenty of room for developers to go to town and make the sim more immersive over time.  So maybe this will be more of an engine overhaul that can give the program new life.  Whatever happens, I'm trying to clear my desk as I anxiously await to see if the purchase/download links open up in the next few days.  What an awesome year to be in the community.

John

I'm hoping for DirectX 12.   Seems everyone has forgotten about that possibility and the "world" it opens.  64bit will definitely improve performance, but the best place to dig for performance gold would be in DirectX 12, no?  

(Sadly, I'm also hoping to recover about 1.2TB of photoscenery I had on a partition that Partition Magic messed up on me.  Not sure what else was on there.  Was trying to expand the partition to use the whole 1.8TB of the drive when something went wrong.  Not sure of PM was moving files to the front of the drive to where the other now deleted partition was, or if it will still be in the original location as part of how it handles the partition expansion.  I guess I'm about to learn.)

Edited May 22, 20179 yr by denali

We'll see what happens... but as far as I know, there's no performance improvement in 64-bit on itself... 

There should be about an 8% performance benefit in the port, but that can be taken up by just managing the new memory range, going by the raw numbers for any port.  Memory still MUST be managed well in a 64bit application, particularly if you want a smooth flow of data.