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Orbx released Global Buildings HD

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57 minutes ago, Peter Webber said:

Exactly. I believe MSFS 2020 will be a big "wake up" call for our hobby.....

A wake up call that needs $3.99 per month to call you...

Greetings, Chris

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Did you hear of this product?https://ww

https://www.rdpresets.com/

looks almost identical to Orbx, but it installs in 1k, 2k and 4k.

Edited by vgbaron
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Keith (CanAmRyder) Sacramento, Ca USA

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I'm not surprised that there's no performance impact for some folks, especially those with newer video cards that have 8GB of video ram.  I'm running a GTX 970 with half that, so I'd rather not eat up valuable memory just to have "cool" 4K textures which make little difference compared with 2K textures.

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5 hours ago, Grand_Pubah said:

Did you hear of this product?

https://www.rdpresets.com

It looks almost identical to Orbx, but it installs in 1k, 2k and 4k.

You probably did not look a bit down at this forum as there is a Topic about it .... 😉

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51 minutes ago, GSalden said:

You probably did not look a bit down at this forum as there is a Topic about it .... 😉

You're right lol. My bad. Thought it needed to be said twice, unless it was said twice then thries (?)

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5 hours ago, AnkH said:

A wake up call that needs $3.99 per month to call you...

😄

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5 hours ago, AnkH said:

A wake up call that needs $3.99 per month to call you...

sorry i missed something here.can you elaborate.

thanks

 steve

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steve howlett

3 hours ago, steve howlett said:

sorry i missed something here.

FS 2020 will be distributed exclusively via Windows store and most probably you need to buy a subscription, e.g. the Microsoft Game Pass...

Greetings, Chris

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4 minutes ago, AnkH said:

FS 2020 will be distributed exclusively via Windows store and most probably you need to buy a subscription, e.g. the Microsoft Game Pass...

That'll go down well.

The World is divided into two groups. Those who say "Give me a link" and those that provide the link. WWG1WGA

It depends on us users. If MSFS 2020 becomes the game changer we all hope, this might even work and enough people will be ready to pay this monthly fee, but if it is offering only a little bit more than FSW did, it will fail as hard. Then it will most probably also greatly depend on the motivation of the addon-developers to accept their addons being sold as well exclusively via Windows store.

We will see... but so far, not a lot of things we heard about MSFS 2020 let it stand out from FSW and as such, a similar fate is more than likely...

Greetings, Chris

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Guys we have a dedicated forum for this, don't drag this tiring discussion into other threads please 

And there's no official statement that its going to be subscription based or "exclusively" distributed via MS Store. BTW, MS recently announced that upcoming games will be available on Steam as well.

Please dont state rumors as facts...

On 7/3/2019 at 11:33 AM, steve howlett said:

funny enough i did.always thought they were blurred.i do have a 5ghz 1080ti setup although i do have to run with some of my settings on medium/dense.

which is enough for me .i would rather dial back a few settings and have sharper textures.as people say ..each to there own .

I also want developers to push the envelope a bit.look at your setup gerard,you should be able to run anything you like at max settings.this is the one core limitation .until our flightsims become fully able to utilise all cores we are always going to have problems with Prepar3d scenery.lets see what fs2020 has to offer 🙂

  steve

I agree here, however it would be a good habit for a developer to offer choices to the users.

In this case why not offer 4 sets in 512/1024/2048/4096 so the user can choose what is best local.

Of course you can change the resolution via the GUI, but that is for all textures (based on mipmaps), no option to choose in different categories and resolutions.

As for performance 4k textures and mimaps (for example 2K in the GUI) will be handled via the GPU including the smaller mipmaps as by design...

The only disadvantage is VRAM because of the footprint of those larger 4K textures in this case.

As for mipmapping from 4K to 2K or smaller that all depends on your GPU if you will even notice it...

Not all 4K textures are a disadvantage, actually the opposite when combined several maps on one, it will actually reduce the draw calls 😉

Going to resize those myself in a batch to 2K and 1K to see the difference local.

 

 

André
 

5 hours ago, awf said:

Not all 4K textures are a disadvantage, actually the opposite when combined several maps on one, it will actually reduce the draw calls 😉

 

Looking at the 4k texture sheets, I believe this is what is being done here..

Bert

18 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Looking at the 4k texture sheets, I believe this is what is being done here..

Yes looking in depth now at those textures Bert, but there are also new models I believe.

I have now an 2K and 1K and of course the 4K set tot test with, so we will see what the effect will be here local...

to add:

1K set in DXT5 with mips is on disk about 827MB

2K set in DXT5 with mips is on disk about 3.14GB

4K set in 32bit with mips is on disk about  4.92GB

Edited by awf

 

André
 

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