London has always been one of the most demanding areas to fly around in the FS world, and the detailed representation of this area in TrueEarth GB South has only served to highlight this even more. However, I must admit that I have been rather impressed with the framerates over London since upgrading to my new PC this year. The performance around London on my old PC (with the first version of GB South) with all custom buildings and autogen enabled was very poor at maximum detail levels (4-5fps), but when I conducted a test flight at Heathrow this weekend on my new PC (with the new version 2 of GB South), I was pleasantly surprised at just how much better the framerates were. For the record, framerates of "16-20" over London in this scenario would be excellent as far as I am concerned (considering the slideshow on my old PC), and I must have been getting at least that (considering how flyable it was, with far fewer stutters; and this is compared to the experience on my old PC with all of those 3DM buildings disabled).

I have also been told that Southampton is another hard hitting area where framerates are concerned (I have not tested this yet). However, I would not be at all surprised to discover that this area has been given "extra special treatment" as far as landmarks and custom 3D models are concerned, since John Venema lives down there.

Specification of my old PC........

• Gigabyte Z97A motherboard
• Intel i5 4690k CPU @ 4.3Ghz
• CoolerMaster Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler
• 16GB Kingston Hyper X Fury DDR3-1600 RAM
• 2GB GeForce GTX 770 GPU
• Corsair RM750 PSU
• 2x2TB Toshiba DT01-ACA200 7200rpm hard disks
• Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit

By the way, when I say "new PC", I do not mean "state of the art 2020 technology". I only had the opportunity to upgrade at all because of the extreme generosity of a handful of my flightsim friends. The specification is listed below.....

• Asus Maximus IX Hero motherboard
• Intel i5 7600k CPU @ 4.6Ghz
• Noctua NH-U14S CPU Cooler
• 32GB G.Skill Trident Z RGB DDR4-4266 RAM @ 3600Mhz
• 6GB GeForce GTX 980Ti GPU
• Corsair RM750x PSU
• 2x2TB Toshiba DT01-ACA200 7200rpm hard disks
• Windows 10 Home Edition 64bit

 

• I always fly with calm winds and clear skies
• 1920x1080 resolution
• 2048x2048 textures
• 4xSSAA and 16x AF
• LOD Radius @ High
• Autogen Draw Distance @ High
• Tessellation @ High
• Mesh Resolution @ 5 metres
• Scenery Complexity @ Extremely Dense
• Buildings and Trees Autogen Density @ Extremely Dense
• Water Resolution @ High
• Dynamic Lighting enabled
• Shadow Quality @ High
• Shaow Draw Distance @ Medium
• Shadows (Cast and Receive) - Internal Vehicle/External Vehicle/Simulation Objects
• Custom AI planes @ 100% (no limiter, so a LOT of planes around London)
• PMDG 737NGX/747/777 and Quality Wings 787

I appreciate that complex weather is very important to a lot of flight simmers, but the above information clearly shows just how well detailed VFR scenery in P3D v4 can run on a PC that is nowhere near the top end of the scale if the screen resolution is set to standard HD, and complex weather is removed from the equation.

Edited February 17, 20206 yr by Christopher Low

And what is the point of this post exactly?

Well, I just wanted to say that the performance of TrueEarth GB South is now much, much better than before, and that you do not need an i9 9900k/RTX 2080Ti powered system to fly over London anymore. I am not really sure why you needed to respond in such a negative fashion

10 hours ago, Makinen11 said:

And what is the point of this post exactly?

😳

21 hours ago, Christopher Low said:

Well, I just wanted to say that the performance of TrueEarth GB South is now much, much better than before, and that you do not need an i9 9900k/RTX 2080Ti powered system to fly over London anymore. I am not really sure why you needed to respond in such a negative fashion

Thanks Chris for pointing this out, I must admit that i've avoided Orbx True Earth exactly for these performance issues, I do have TE GB 1,2,3 for Xplane11 and love it, when I have a bit more spare cash I'll buy it for P3D.

On 2/17/2020 at 12:17 PM, Makinen11 said:

And what is the point of this post exactly?

Clearly the point of your post is to highlight the fact that you didn't bother reading the post. 

The clue lies in the last paragraph

The TE series are developed for Low and Slow with good weather.

And the last update also helped with getting better FPS.

Enjoy !

 

Ooer! Looks like you are flying right across the approach into LHR at approach height! 

You'll be getting investigated! 😉

 

I just skipped all the Orbx TrueEarth line of products, mainly because of performance and space required for the installation. Sure, if you lower the settings and eliminate weather the performance is better but I just prefer real weather and smoother performance over photoreal. Whatever floats everybody's boat, right.

12 hours ago, SledDriver said:

Ooer! Looks like you are flying right across the approach into LHR at approach height! 

You'll be getting investigated! 😉

 

LOL... I just wanted to do a city tour ✈️

5 hours ago, GSalden said:

LOL... I just wanted to do a city tour ✈️

The one area where Simming is better than RL, you do what you what, and don't end up in jail for our reckless actions.

Edited February 20, 20206 yr by eaim