November 25, 20178 yr I'm still running P3D 3.4 and it works a champ. Still, things are moving on from that version and I'm planning for the move to P3D 4.1. I don't want to invest in a lot of hardware at this point. I know that it's graphically better....will it run better or worse than my 3.4 setup? Gregg Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
November 25, 20178 yr I have almost that same setup, work well for my mostly GA flying with ORBX regions and a2a Comanche. Kent i7 4790k @4.7Ghz 32Gb DDR3 1333 RTX 2070 GPU Win10 Pro
November 25, 20178 yr For me v4 runs much better then v3. With higher in game settings I would say I run now 40fps where I had previously 30fps. From my experience your pc should run p3dv4 better than v3
November 25, 20178 yr Author 3 minutes ago, 503Kento said: I have almost that same setup, work well for my mostly GA flying with ORBX regions and a2a Comanche. That's a strong review. I turned off my regions some time ago, opting for more smoothness. An A2A plane flying in a region is tough for me. Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
November 25, 20178 yr 28 minutes ago, Gregg_Seipp said: I'm still running P3D 3.4 and it works a champ. Still, things are moving on from that version and I'm planning for the move to P3D 4.1. I don't want to invest in a lot of hardware at this point. I know that it's graphically better....will it run better or worse than my 3.4 setup? Gregg You should be fine. I have the same setup and with the same settings as I had in v3.4 Prepar3D v4 runs slightly smoother. I fly a lot of VFR with ORBX global and OpenLC NA with TerraFlora trees in an A2A Comanche or Cherokee. I run my i7-4790K at 4.6 GHz. Derek RogersPC Specs: Intel i7-4790K 4.6GHz : 16GB RAM : GTX 970 4GB
November 25, 20178 yr Good CPU, more than enough ram, the GPU will work fine. Down the road an upgrade in the GPU would be worth considering. 8 gig 1070 is getting pretty reasonable. 1070 or 1080 would let you do VR if you should decided to go in that direction. Dave
November 25, 20178 yr 1 hour ago, Gregg_Seipp said: I'm still running P3D 3.4 and it works a champ. Still, things are moving on from that version and I'm planning for the move to P3D 4.1. I don't want to invest in a lot of hardware at this point. I know that it's graphically better....will it run better or worse than my 3.4 setup? Gregg Gregg I think you will get better performance with P3DV4.1 over P3DV3.4. I am running a I7 4770K 16gb ram and a GTX 960. I get better performance in 4.1 than I did with 3.4. I can fly my PMDG 737NGX in Orbx NCA into Flight beam's KSFO without issue. On final I will get 25FPS. I am not running a 4K monitor. Greg Greg Morin Commercial ASMEL Instrument CFI Beta Tester i Blue Yonder, Flightbeam and Milviz
November 25, 20178 yr Author 9 minutes ago, gregmorin said: Gregg I think you will get better performance with P3DV4.1 over P3DV3.4. I am running a I7 4770K 16gb ram and a GTX 960. I get better performance in 4.1 than I did with 3.4. I can fly my PMDG 737NGX in Orbx NCA into Flight beam's KSFO without issue. On final I will get 25FPS. I am not running a 4K monitor. Greg Running any AA? Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
November 25, 20178 yr 8 minutes ago, Gregg_Seipp said: Running any AA? FXAA on, 8xMSAA, Anisotropic 16X, textures 1024x1024 resolution 1920x1080x32. Greg Greg Morin Commercial ASMEL Instrument CFI Beta Tester i Blue Yonder, Flightbeam and Milviz
November 25, 20178 yr Author 28 minutes ago, gregmorin said: FXAA on, 8xMSAA, Anisotropic 16X, textures 1024x1024 resolution 1920x1080x32. Greg Okay. Looks like I'll be good then. Thanks all! Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
November 25, 20178 yr 28 minutes ago, Gregg_Seipp said: Okay. Looks like I'll be good then. Thanks all! Gregg, please report back after you have some experience. We share almost identical setups. Frank Patton Corsair 5000D Airflow Case; MSI B650 Tomahawk MOB; Ryzen 7 7800 X3D CPU; ASUS RTX 4080 Super; NZXT 360mm liquid cooler; Corsair Vengeance 64GB DDR5 4800 MHz RAM; RMX850X Gold PSU;; ASUS VG289 4K 27" Display; Honeycomb Alpha & Bravo, Crosswind 3's w/dampener. Former USAF meteorologist & ground weather school instructor. AOPA Member #07379126 "I will never put my name on a product that does not have in it the best that is in me." - John Deere
November 25, 20178 yr I used to had the same spec running FSX SE, since the switch to P3Dv4 the only upgrade I made was a new 1070 GPU. So I say go for it but maybe upgrade your GPU when you can. Thomas Derbyshire
November 25, 20178 yr 4 hours ago, gregmorin said: FXAA on, 8xMSAA, Anisotropic 16X, textures 1024x1024 resolution 1920x1080x32. Greg I run that in game except 4x msaa with gtx 970 and 2500K at 4ghz 8 gb ram One thing I do is turn texture resolution to 1m in Orbx areas - lose a little clarity way down low (i.e. Less than 1000 agl) but it's far less work on my CPU. Your 4790 may be a lot better able to handle it in P3D 4.1 my biggest issue so far is video ram (our stupid 3.5) and almost running out of physical RAM | My Liveries | FAA ZMP | PPL ASEL | | Windows 11 | MSI Z690 Tomahawk | 12700K 4.7GHz | MSI RTX 4080 | 64GB 6000 MHz DDR5 | 500GB Samsung 860 Evo SSD | 2x 2TB Samsung 970 Evo M.2 | EVGA 850W Gold | Corsair 5000X | HP G2 (VR) / LG 27" 1440p |
November 25, 20178 yr Author 22 minutes ago, ryanbatcund said: in P3D 4.1 my biggest issue so far is video ram (our stupid 3.5) and almost running out of physical RAM Ryan, How much physical ram do you have? Gregg Seipp "A good landing is when you can walk away from the airplane. A great landing is when you can reuse it." i9 64GB RAM, GTX-5090
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