9 hours ago, nealmac said:

After toying with the idea of sampling Aerofly, X Plane, and FSW, I've now made up my mind. P3D V4 looks like it's blown them all out of the water.

Not quite, RealAir has closed shop, so some of our favorite aircrafts will not be in P3Dv4.  I will be waiting and seeing on how various Aricraft devs. respond.  The scenery guys are no brainer, they are the least impact, but you will get the same fsx colour scheme and graphics, P3D 3 or 4 has not evolved that much in the visuals department.  If you look out from the windows or a commercial flight, you will find the landscape of XP11 looks more like the real thing.  My jury is still out on this one.  I jumped in too soon with P3D 2.5-3, now I will sit out and wait.  It's a good thing I just uninstalled everything P3D and all the add-ons due to a hardware change.  I have yet to reinstall see the mountain of add-ons that much be redo.  I am glad I have not done any of that work yet.

With the xp11 demo and all settings cranked, it looks no better to me than p3dv3.

Great news. Key is cranking up the settings full tilt with 64 bit. Lots of room to increase texture resolution etc. XP  11 looks great.

9 hours ago, Anxu00 said:

Not quite, RealAir has closed shop, so some of our favorite aircrafts will not be in P3Dv4.  I will be waiting and seeing on how various Aricraft devs. respond.  The scenery guys are no brainer, they are the least impact, but you will get the same fsx colour scheme and graphics, P3D 3 or 4 has not evolved that much in the visuals department.  If you look out from the windows or a commercial flight, you will find the landscape of XP11 looks more like the real thing.  My jury is still out on this one.  I jumped in too soon with P3D 2.5-3, now I will sit out and wait.  It's a good thing I just uninstalled everything P3D and all the add-ons due to a hardware change.  I have yet to reinstall see the mountain of add-ons that much be redo.  I am glad I have not done any of that work yet.

The very fact that I will be able to push my sliders to the right without fear of OOMing will greatly enhance my visuals. And with ORBX base, vector, LC and various regions it will be a huge enhancement. As for aircraft, all my favourites are going to be converted anyway. So it's a no brainer for me.

1 minute ago, nealmac said:

The very fact that I will be able to push my sliders to the right without fear of OOMing will greatly enhance my visuals. 

Can someone confirm or deny if that is in fact the case.  There must be a massive performance price for that too

I get the feeling that I would need a better graphics card to experience the improved lighting and other features that P3D v4 has to offer. I currently have a 2GB GTX 770 (which is fine for P3D v3 @ 1920x1080 resolution), but I suspect that more VRAM would be required for P3D v4.

24 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

I get the feeling that I would need a better graphics card to experience the improved lighting and other features that P3D v4 has to offer. I currently have a 2GB GTX 770 (which is fine for P3D v3 @ 1920x1080 resolution), but I suspect that more VRAM would be required for P3D v4.

Time will tell as the sim gets released an people start figuring out exactly what is needed but it looks like a video card with 8 gigs of ram will be the way to go, although 4 will still be fine, just will not allow quite as high settings.  12 and up will be for the bleeding edge systems when these cards are released.

32 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

I get the feeling that I would need a better graphics card to experience the improved lighting and other features that P3D v4 has to offer. I currently have a 2GB GTX 770 (which is fine for P3D v3 @ 1920x1080 resolution), but I suspect that more VRAM would be required for P3D v4.

I fear even my 6Gb 980Ti will be really insufficient - especially at 4k...

Sadly I fear my wife's response to finding out I spent £700 on a 1080Ti even more! :p

15 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I fear even my 6Gb 980Ti will be really insufficient - especially at 4k...

Sadly I fear my wife's response to finding out I spent £700 on a 1080Ti even more! :p

I have the same card and also thinking about getting the 1080Ti.  Look forward to the feedback next week.

LOL, Kevin. You may have to fork out another 700 quid if you want me to keep quiet about it

4 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

LOL, Kevin. You may have to fork out another 700 quid if you want me to keep quiet about it

Haha I havent actually bought a 1080Ti I'm too afraid :O

11 hours ago, Anxu00 said:

Not quite, RealAir has closed shop, so some of our favorite aircrafts will not be in P3Dv4.  I will be waiting and seeing on how various Aricraft devs. respond.  The scenery guys are no brainer, they are the least impact, but you will get the same fsx colour scheme and graphics, P3D 3 or 4 has not evolved that much in the visuals department.  If you look out from the windows or a commercial flight, you will find the landscape of XP11 looks more like the real thing.  My jury is still out on this one.  I jumped in too soon with P3D 2.5-3, now I will sit out and wait.  It's a good thing I just uninstalled everything P3D and all the add-ons due to a hardware change.  I have yet to reinstall see the mountain of add-ons that much be redo.  I am glad I have not done any of that work yet.

It's already mentioned in several threads and in video evidence that the realair legacy already works in v4

the duke relies on a 3rd party 32bit sound gage but the programmer has already agreed to update to 64 bit so the duke will be good too.

that probably covers most people's realair needs in v4

That's a relief, losing my real air planes was my biggest concern in making the switch.

The original beta v4 system recommended requirements for a graphics card was 8 gig of vram,  I did inquire about this and was told the v4 System Requirements would be re advised again before final release.  

V3 was a 4 gig vram recommended,  So i would say that v4 will defiantly be at least a 6 gig vram and will probably end up settling at the original 8 gig of vram

I was using a 980-ti (6 gig)  with a 3.8 -  i7-3930 k and 16 gig or slow memory ram (ddr3) With a 27 inch dell Ultra sharp monitor Using some Orbx Scenery,   Ported over (copied) Rex Texture Cloud files and running UT2 with Prepar3D nice settings (medium to high-ish) and had no Issues,  But then again I'm a lite flyer,  I'm happy locking my frames at 25\30 and using medium settings with a small amount of Add On's 

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As per v3 windows 10 will also will be a recommended Operating System to use v4 on but you will have no Issues with with v4 on windows 7 and 8.  I had v4 across all 3 operating systems.  Note:  You will need your windows updates on windows 7 and 8  (As per v3 of course)           

59 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I fear even my 6Gb 980Ti will be really insufficient - especially at 4k...

Sadly I fear my wife's response to finding out I spent £700 on a 1080Ti even more! :p

Was it the Starfighter F104 they called the widow maker? Or v4?