May 27, 20179 yr 7 hours ago, mikeymike said: I see atm i only have 100gb used out of 250 Fsdt Global As16 Asca Rex And thats with a fair amount of addons Dont really purchase too many airport addons as i wouldnt have time to fly to all. You need to get some photoscenery! ive got a 1tb ssd for the sim and a 4tb western digital black hdd for scenery, and they're both full! Going to get a 6tb WD to give myself some room to grow. Oz Sim Rig: MSI RTX3090 Suprim, an old, partly-melted Intel 9900K @ 5GHz+, Honeycomb Alpha, Thrustmaster TPR Rudder, Warthog HOTAS, Reverb G2, Prosim 737 cockpit. Currently flying: MSFS: PMDG 737-700, Fenix A320, Leonardo MD-82, MIlviz C310, Flysimware C414AW, DC Concorde, Carenado C337. Prepar3d v5: PMDG 737/747/777. "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
May 27, 20179 yr Author 8 hours ago, OzWhitey said: You need to get some photoscenery! ive got a 1tb ssd for the sim and a 4tb western digital black hdd for scenery, and they're both full! Going to get a 6tb WD to give myself some room to grow. Holy!!!really ? That much room needed. This hobby is gonna send me broke lol i have 2 3tb hdd atm 1tb ssd aint cheap
May 27, 20179 yr Let's wait to see what LM say after release. Cheers, Richard Intel Core i7-7700K @ 4.2 GHz, 16 GB memory, 1 TB SSD, GTX 1080 Ti, 28" 4K display Win10-64, P3Dv5, PMDG 748 & 777, Milviz KA350i, ASP3D, vPilot, Navigraph, PFPX, ChasePlane, Orbx
May 27, 20179 yr 3 hours ago, mikeymike said: Holy!!!really ? That much room needed. This hobby is gonna send me broke lol i have 2 3tb hdd atm 1tb ssd aint cheap I wouldn't say 'needed'. A terabyte of total space is probably plenty for most people. I just like photoscenery, and that can take up a fair bit of space. I'd guess I have about 7 terabytes of it at the moment, as I have a lot sitting on external discs awaiting a new proper internal HDD. Storage space is not really that expensive any more - I remember paying $400 plus to upgrade a laptop to a 1 Gigabyte drive, and Canon selling 16Mb flash drives for around $500 (which stored almost two RAW photos from my 1Ds!). A 1-2 terabyte SSD is pretty cheap by comparison. Oz Sim Rig: MSI RTX3090 Suprim, an old, partly-melted Intel 9900K @ 5GHz+, Honeycomb Alpha, Thrustmaster TPR Rudder, Warthog HOTAS, Reverb G2, Prosim 737 cockpit. Currently flying: MSFS: PMDG 737-700, Fenix A320, Leonardo MD-82, MIlviz C310, Flysimware C414AW, DC Concorde, Carenado C337. Prepar3d v5: PMDG 737/747/777. "There are three simple rules for making a smooth landing. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are."
May 28, 20179 yr With regards to hard drive space, I am just curious as to how P3Dv4 will manage add-ons. I am an FSX user who has never used P3D before so I do not know how the platform is structured. I saw on a video (SkyLoungeTV I believe) that v4 will install add-ons into a folder in your C drive's documents folder. If this is the case, a 120 or even 250 gb SSD may not be enough depending on the amount of add-ons you own. Does that make sense? Or am I think this through all wrong. In FSX:SE, I have all my sim files on one drive while my operating system (Windows 10) is on a 120gb SSD. Will I be able to have a similar structure with P3Dv4 where I can dedicate a hard drive to all things related to my sim. Anthony A. Moise
June 12, 20178 yr On 5/26/2017 at 10:42 PM, 331BK said: So the 8 gb of my 1080 are enough Not for TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=10, otherwise yes for settings you adjust via UI. For TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=10 I'm almost always above 8GB VRAM usage. Cheers, Rob.
June 12, 20178 yr On 2017-05-26 at 11:12 PM, CaribbeanCLANK said: I was thinking of a 34" with an aspect ratio of 21:9. Not sure which resolution I wanna go with....2560x1080 or 3440x1440. I'd highly recommend going with the 1440p monitor, especially at 34". You'll notice a lot less aliasing ("jaggies"), everything will look sharper and more detailed (obviously). I'm running 4K at 27" and the clarity is so beautiful (and helpful): tiny trees atop mountain ridges are nicely defined at a distance, autogen at a distance looks wonderful, airports are easier to locate and see details in when approaching, cockpit gauges and labels are much more readable without zooming/leaning in (Track IR), all significantly better compared to my 1440p 27" monitor. I think 34" 1080p will be very pixelated, and your monitor will be with you for a while, through GPU upgrades, so you won't regret it down the road. You'll only wish you had a 4K ultrawide! I know I do. i5 4670K, 16GB RAM, 850 EVO SSDs, GTX 1080, 4K, CH Yoke/Pedals, Saitek Throttles Windows 10, Prepar3D v4, Orbx Base/Vector/Trees/openLC/NA regions, fsAerodata, FreemeshX, AS16, REX, PrecipitFX, ChasePlane, TrackIR A2A C182, F1 King Air, F1 Mustang, FSW Lear35, MilViz T-38, Mindstar GNS
June 13, 20178 yr 9 hours ago, xrobp said: I'd highly recommend going with the 1440p monitor, especially at 34". You'll notice a lot less aliasing ("jaggies"), everything will look sharper and more detailed (obviously). I'm running 4K at 27" and the clarity is so beautiful (and helpful): tiny trees atop mountain ridges are nicely defined at a distance, autogen at a distance looks wonderful, airports are easier to locate and see details in when approaching, cockpit gauges and labels are much more readable without zooming/leaning in (Track IR), all significantly better compared to my 1440p 27" monitor. I think 34" 1080p will be very pixelated, and your monitor will be with you for a while, through GPU upgrades, so you won't regret it down the road. You'll only wish you had a 4K ultrawide! I know I do. Appreciate the advice. From what I have seen online a GTX 1070 will be able to handle 3440x1440. And 34" seems like a good size...there are a few ultrawide monitors that are a bit bigger but very expensive. And 29" seems a bit small for that aspect ratio. Anthony A. Moise
June 13, 20178 yr 10 hours ago, CaribbeanCLANK said: Appreciate the advice. From what I have seen online a GTX 1070 will be able to handle 3440x1440. And 34" seems like a good size...there are a few ultrawide monitors that are a bit bigger but very expensive. And 29" seems a bit small for that aspect ratio. Yeah, I think the 1070 would be the next-best choice, if you're not able to go with a 1080 for whatever reason, unless Nvidia release a 1070Ti. I agree, 29" ultrawide may seem small (in the vertical dimension, particularly). For flightsims, it seems to me that bigger is better! i5 4670K, 16GB RAM, 850 EVO SSDs, GTX 1080, 4K, CH Yoke/Pedals, Saitek Throttles Windows 10, Prepar3D v4, Orbx Base/Vector/Trees/openLC/NA regions, fsAerodata, FreemeshX, AS16, REX, PrecipitFX, ChasePlane, TrackIR A2A C182, F1 King Air, F1 Mustang, FSW Lear35, MilViz T-38, Mindstar GNS
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