How well will an i7-4790 16GB GTX-970-4GB run P3D4?

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

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

[503Kento 11]

I have almost that same setup, work well for my mostly GA flying with ORBX regions and a2a Comanche. 

[Labbi85 14]

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

[n99wb 10]

Should be fine.  LM is great about refunds if you don't like it.

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

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.

[niyoko 7]

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.

[dbw1 444]

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

[gregmorin 199]

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

 

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

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?

[gregmorin 199]

8 minutes ago, Gregg_Seipp said:

Running any AA?

FXAA on, 8xMSAA, Anisotropic 16X, textures 1024x1024 resolution 1920x1080x32.

Greg

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

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!

[fppilot 4,350]

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.

[sidfadc 1,340]

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.

[ryanbatc 12,799]

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

[Gregg_Seipp 565]

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?