June 30, 20196 yr Hi folks, Here is a small comparison between textures in Europe (only). Please note: 1) The sim is paused so fps are not relevant. 2) Comparison is done with R&D presets 4K GENEVA DEFAULT GENEVA RD GENEVA ORBX MALAGA DEFAULT MALAGA RD MALAGA ORBX NAPOLI DEFAULT NAPOLI RD NAPOLI ORBX TOULOUSE DEFAULT TOULOUSE RD TOULOUSE ORBX Edited June 30, 20196 yr by David Roch - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
June 30, 20196 yr Author And now, much more interesting, night textures. GENEVA DEFAULT GENEVA RD GENEVA ORBX MALAGA DEFAULT MALAGA RD MALAGA ORBX NAPOLI DEFAULT NAPOLI RD NAPOLI ORBX TOULOUSE DEFAULT TOULOUSE RD TOULOUSE ORBX Edited June 30, 20196 yr by David Roch - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
June 30, 20196 yr Author ORBX did a fabulous job and their new textures are just awesome and much nicer and innovating than anything else. Reducing them to lower resolution would help though, because the 4K is eating frames for breakfast. Particularly if you max out building autogen! R&D textures are a nice addition compared to default and they offer the resolution's choice. But IMO they are far behind ORBX in Europe at least. - PC Hardware: AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D // Asus ROG Crosshair X870E HERO // 2x32Gb Corsair Dominator Titanium DDR5 6000MT/s CL30 // ASUS ROG Strix GeForce RTX 4090 OC Edition // 4Tb Corsair NVMe M.2 MP600 // Corsair 1600W PSU Samsung Odyssey Arc 55" curved 165 Hz monitor. - Simulator Hardware: VIRPIL Constellation Alpha Prime + VIRPIL VPC Universal Control Panel - #3 + MOZA AY210 Force Feedback Yoke + WINWING URSA MINOR 32 Throttle & PAC Metal + WINWING SKYWALKER Metal Rudder Pedals + WINWING Airbus FCU & EFIS + WINWING Boeing 3N PAP + WINWING MCDU-32 + WINWING PFP-4 + WINWING PFP 3-N + WINWING PFP-7.
June 30, 20196 yr David, many thanks for your comparisons. For me it now wil be Orbx. Regards, Gerard 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
June 30, 20196 yr Hmm, I have to be honest I was a bit "meh" with the difference in daytime shots, but I do like the improvement in the night textures. Thanks for taking the time to post comparisons. - Aaron
June 30, 20196 yr Orbx is a bit more detail. But RD is not bad. I think i'll give RD a try first. Thanks for the comparisons. Maurice J I9 12900k \ EVGA 3080ti \ G-Skill 32GB \ Samsung 4K TV
June 30, 20196 yr Thanks for the comparison shots, that really convinced me NOT to get any of them, I can see the orbx night shots looks better, but I'm very disappointed with the daytime shots, and that goes for both RD and ORBX. After a couple of flights, I really don't think people will notice the difference anymore, and especially for me who mostly fly heavies and fast jets, it'll be a waste of money. Jorn Lundtoft I don't always stop and look at airplanes.........Oh wait, Yes I do. Intel I7-13700F, 32GB Fury DDR5 - 6000, Kingston 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD, Asus Geforce RTX 4070 TI 12GB, Kingston 2TB M2 NVMe SSD, Corsair 750W PCU, Windows 11
June 30, 20196 yr Part of the reason why I'm not impressed with the day pics is that I fly mainly in FTX regions and payware airports. I'm used to seeing quality custom objects. The night shots do make a huge difference and for that reason I might get ORBX version. But, if there are pauses or distant loading textures have gotten worse, the answer is hell no! MSFS
June 30, 20196 yr I think I'll wait until Orbx has HD Buildings on sale with 40/50% off in 6 months or so, it looks as though this isn't as groundbreakingbreaking as I first thought, plus in 6 months we'll have more info on MSFS2020, so I may not bother at all yet. AMD 9800X3D, NZXT X73 RGB AIO COOLER, Gigabyte X870 Aorus Elite WIFI7, 64GB 6000MHZ RAM, 4TB Samsung Pro NVME, 4 TB Crucial P3+ NVME, 4TB Crucial SSD, Gigabyte Gaming OC Geforce RTX5090, Antec C8 ARGB Case, X55 JOYSTICK/THROTTLES, LG 4K C4 42" TV/Monitor 120 Hz, 2 Dell 1080 monitors. Honeycomb Alpha Yoke, Bravo Throttle. Thrustmaster TPR Pedals. Moza AB6 FFB Joystick, Pimax Crystal Light VR, Tobii Eye tracker, Steelseries Arctis 7+ Wireless Headphones.
June 30, 20196 yr Wonderful comparison, thank you! It seems to me that the primary reason to get Orbx is for the vastly improved night textures. Those are just miles ahead of both RD and default! Truly brilliant! i agree with others though. I’ll not bother for full price and wait for a sale of sorts. The daytime difference doesn’t seem like a big enough difference given that I really mostly fly tubeliners. Benjamin van Soldt Windows 10 64bit - i5-8600k @ 4.7GHz - ASRock Fatality K6 Z370 - EVGA GTX1070 SC 8GB VRAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX @ 3200MHz - Samsung 960 Evo SSD M.2 NVMe 500GB - 2x Samsung 860 Evo SSD 1TB (P3Dv4/5 drive) - Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM - Seasonic FocusPlus Gold 750W - Noctua DH-15S - Fractal Design Focus G (White) Case
June 30, 20196 yr Well, i have an 8 year old (so it's really old) PC, but hadn't experienced slower loading times. FPS also remain the same (stable 25-30 fps) as before, so with your beasts (that all cost 2k+), i don't see any reason FPS or loading times would deteriorate. And since the cost of this new upgrade is only 2% max of your computer's price, i don't understand the price argument either. I'm really enjoying VFR (GA) flying, so visuals play big role for me and i have like most of Europe, Oceania and NA covered with ORBX and other sceneries and airports, so it never came to my mind not to buy this new package. It costs like 4 beers or one T-bone, so no-brainer really. If you however fly jetliners (and i guess you do since with GA planes you wouldn't be complaining about fps) you might skip this one. Anyway, enjoy flying with or without GB HD whatever and wherever you fly. Edited June 30, 20196 yr by AndrejS Win 7 Home (SP1), i7 [email protected], RAM 16gb, gtx 1080 Ti, ssd disks, DELL U2715H P3d ver 4.5.12.30293, TrackIr v5, T16000M + TWCS
June 30, 20196 yr 2 hours ago, jlund said: Thanks for the comparison shots, that really convinced me NOT to get any of them, I can see the orbx night shots looks better, but I'm very disappointed with the daytime shots, and that goes for both RD and ORBX. After a couple of flights, I really don't think people will notice the difference anymore, and especially for me who mostly fly heavies and fast jets, it'll be a waste of money. For me I think it does make a noticeable upgrade to the autogen, and I even have gotten a little better performance. I also noticed faster autogen loading and less pop-in. I realize not everyone will have the same experience, but I wanted to share mine. Alan
July 1, 20196 yr Just saw a youtube video with the new orbx HD buildings, tested in Tokyo, Paris and Mumbai, and the tester seemed very pleased with it. I still don't see that much difference from standard autogen, and even if it comes on a 50% sale at sometime, I won't be adding it to my addons. And for tubeliner pilots (like me), I really think it will be a waste of money. I'm a fan of ORBX, but I think this one is not up to their usual standard, and I DO understand there's a big difference from making a "small" region to doing the whole world, but .....still.. Edited July 1, 20196 yr by jlund Jorn Lundtoft I don't always stop and look at airplanes.........Oh wait, Yes I do. Intel I7-13700F, 32GB Fury DDR5 - 6000, Kingston 1TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD, Asus Geforce RTX 4070 TI 12GB, Kingston 2TB M2 NVMe SSD, Corsair 750W PCU, Windows 11
July 1, 20196 yr Well, I got it yesterday with the discount! And to me it is well worth it, the textures are crisper and the improved FPS is worth its price alone. Intel i7 6700K @4.3. 32gb Gskill 3200 RAM. Z170x Gigabyte m/b. 28" LG HD monitor. Win 10 Home. 500g Samsung 960 as Windows home. 1 Gb Mushkin SSD for P3D. GTX 1080 8gb.
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