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Photo Scenery Load Time in P3Dv4.3

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Ever after I updated to P3Dv4.3 I notice that loading of photo scenery takes almost double the time that it used to take in P3Dv4.2.  Am I the only who is experiencing this? I wonder if there are ways to prevent these long loading times. (Yes, I know, disable all photo scenery, but that's not the solution I am looking for :) )

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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Yes I notice in general that it's taking longer than expected to load than 4.2.

Not really a problem on an SSD though. :)

 

 

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Did not notice it yet , but maybe they have improved photo real scenery rendering as it has been rendered in a lower LOD in the distance since 4.0...

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3 minutes ago, GSalden said:

Did not notice it yet , but maybe they have improved photo real scenery rendering as it has been rendered in a lower LOD in the distance since 4.0...

Perhaps so, it seems to look "crispier" as in P3Dv4.2. I am just curious if I am the only experiencing this.

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Hans van WIjhe

 

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Yeah I had blurry photo scenery in 4.1 when at altitude, hopefully this has been fixed. Also it could be you have the "Detail Terrain Textures" ticked now whereas previously you didn't; that adds a lot to loading time but the sim looks much better for it!

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In 4.2 there was a lot of blurred zones on ground surfaces, perhaps now in 4.3 the pre-downloading is most important to avoid this problem... Just a suggestion to explain this long waiting.

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11 minutes ago, ckyliu said:

Yeah I had blurry photo scenery in 4.1 when at altitude, hopefully this has been fixed. Also it could be you have the "Detail Terrain Textures" ticked now whereas previously you didn't; that adds a lot to loading time but the sim looks much better for it!

Nope, high-resolution terrain textures is off. Bus as the other say, the photoscenery seem to be a lot sharper. 

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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9 minutes ago, ms2 said:

In 4.2 there was a lot of blurred zones on ground surfaces, perhaps now in 4.3 the pre-downloading is most important to avoid this problem... Just a suggestion to explain this long waiting.

Indeed might be the cause. Let's hope one of the experts will chime in and confirm this.

Thanks.

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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For me photo scenery (Orbx netherlands in that case)  loading is much much better then in 4.2..

wonder that the experience with 4.3 is so different for people

Carsten U

I am a heavy user of Megascenery on SSDs and didn't notice a change in loading time with 4.3.

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i wonder, share us your settings

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2 minutes ago, kurtb said:

i wonder, share us your settings

My settings are exactly the same as in P3Dv4.2.

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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3 minutes ago, pgde said:

I am a heavy user of Megascenery on SSDs and didn't notice a change in loading time with 4.3.

Mine is on a plain old HD :)

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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11 minutes ago, RTK1972 said:

For me photo scenery (Orbx netherlands in that case)  loading is much much better then in 4.2..

wonder that the experience with 4.3 is so different for people

I am using the Europe Photoreal Scenery that can be obtained here: http://italyphotoreal.weebly.com/download.html

 

Kind regards,
Hans van WIjhe

 

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2 minutes ago, hvw said:

Mine is on a plain old HD :)

FYI -- here in the US SSD prices are crashing. At Newegg for instance 1 TB drives are about $210, Samsung 860 1 TB are $249. Those are significantly less than when I bought mine....

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