Flightbeam KPHX Airport with P3Dv4.4 Performance Question?

[SunDevil56 183]

They look fine to me, at least in my pics, your's are another matter. I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

[joepoway 241]

I posted my observation on the Flightbeam forum and this was a response I received from one of the FB staff members:

That is completely understandable. The v2 of Phoenix mainly was done to optimize some of its features like Dynamic Lighting, Flood Lamp Glow, and most important was having it added to our Flightbeam Manager and getting away from the FSDT Manager/Coutl.

When it was released we made sure we were very clear that v2 was NOT a redo of PHX by any means. PHX needs to be updated; but with current projects on the table it is not doable at the moment. PHX will get the love it deserves in due time just like all the rest of our airports. Only difference is LM P3D does updates at a constant rate with a TEAM of people while we are trying to do new scenery products, and keep the updates flowing with for the most part ONE scenery person. Big difference.

[SunDevil56 183]

6 hours ago, joepoway said:

I posted my observation on the Flightbeam forum and this was a response I received from one of the FB staff members:

That is completely understandable. The v2 of Phoenix mainly was done to optimize some of its features like Dynamic Lighting, Flood Lamp Glow, and most important was having it added to our Flightbeam Manager and getting away from the FSDT Manager/Coutl.

When it was released we made sure we were very clear that v2 was NOT a redo of PHX by any means. PHX needs to be updated; but with current projects on the table it is not doable at the moment. PHX will get the love it deserves in due time just like all the rest of our airports. Only difference is LM P3D does updates at a constant rate with a TEAM of people while we are trying to do new scenery products, and keep the updates flowing with for the most part ONE scenery person. Big difference.

Joe, have you tried clearing the shaders folder as newtie suggested..??

Might be worth a shot.

[joepoway 241]

7 hours ago, SunDevil56 said:

Joe, have you tried clearing the shaders folder as newtie suggested..??

Might be worth a shot.

Oh yes I always make sure I do that when changes occur, but thanks for the suggestion. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling next.

Joe

[SunDevil56 183]

14 minutes ago, joepoway said:

Oh yes I always make sure I do that when changes occur, but thanks for the suggestion. I will try uninstalling and reinstalling next.

Joe

OK Joe, well good luck, hope you get it straightened out.

[FireRx 18]

22 hours ago, Shylock_35 said:

Gotta love FB sceneries and then you look outside their product and ah yes the rolling green land of Arizona. I wish ORBX could come up with a fix for that. I have noticed only a small drop off of FPS after initial install of the client but after deleting shaders and CFG everything seems back to normal. 

Uo'd be surprised how much greenery is here😁

 

[joepoway 241]

21 hours ago, Rob Ainscough said:

I believe FB's new control panel interface has a troubleshooter section that will scan for conflicts, might want to use that to check for issues.

Cheers, Rob.

Thanks Rob but it doesn't have a repair function. I did an uninstall and re-install but no difference.

The one knob I was able to reduce and show a rather significant effect was the AG and Scenery Draw distance. If I reduce it one notch to Very High I'm OK but the increased draw distance seems to be only an issue around FB KPHX. I think FB placed a lot of surrounding Phoenix scenery in this airport that is not optimized and now with the new "Scenery Distance" added to this slider in v4.4 my old system can't handle it.

So my options are to use the Extremely High setting and live with frames less than 30 hence my micro stutters on my Vsync'd 30 Hz 4K TV monitor at this one airport add-on I use or pull back the slider one notch and all is well. I'm going to experiment more to see if pulling back the setting is noticeable regarding the benefits I am seeing with airport scenery not popping in late or disappearing when panning around in v4.4. BTW I also have deployed your suggestion on the Max_Texture_Request_Distance=320000 and added Enable_Memory_Optimization=0 since my 8Gb of memory is still fine with lots to spare.

Thanks

Joe

[Shylock_35 43]

1 hour ago, FireRx said:

 

Not that green. I’ve been there and I know northern Arizona is very green. But in and around the airport, not so much 

Edited December 8, 2018 by Shylock_35