P3D v5 is DX12

[rob0203 689]

Will buy it immediately! Performance increase, new clouds, water, DirectX 12!

Great!

Edited April 9, 2020 by rob0203

[YoYo 374]

16 hours ago, simbol said:

Cloud shadows are still present don't worry.

Simbol 

What about shadows on borders/angles of the picture? They gone like it is now?

[simbol 5,821]

40 minutes ago, YoYo said:

What about shadows on borders/angles of the picture? They gone like it is now?

Could you be more specific? I will try to responde the best I can..

S.

[YoYo 374]

P3D generates external shadows only to front and something like 100 degress from front, so if you move head you see the same part or area with shadows, a little move and no shadow in the same place. Result of this = disappearing shadows if you change angle of view. Its very visible on mountains area even with max shadow range.

something like on this vid: 

its very annoying ... 

Edited April 9, 2020 by YoYo

[YoYo 374]

1 hour ago, simbol said:

Could you be more specific? I will try to responde the best I can..

S.

I did one topic about this some time ago, here You have more 🙂 :

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Edited April 9, 2020 by YoYo

[simbol 5,821]

15 minutes ago, YoYo said:

I did one topic about this some time ago, here You have more 🙂 :

The clouds are all new with True Sky.. hard to compare with 4.5.. their were new bugs with this since early Beta and LM is still tweaking the new clouds as we speak. 

S.

[YoYo 374]

5 minutes ago, simbol said:

The clouds are all new with True Sky.. hard to compare with 4.5.. their were new bugs with this since early Beta and LM is still tweaking the new clouds as we speak. 

S.

Thx but any words about this disappearing shadows 😉 ? Does this issue is present still? Do You know it, maybe ...?

Edited April 9, 2020 by YoYo

[simbol 5,821]

Just now, YoYo said:

Thx but any words about this disappearing shadows 😉 ? Does this issue is present still? Do You know it maybe ...?

I will check on the next beta build.

In the meantime a here is a Video showing V5, credit to Maurice from Aviation Lads:

Regards,

S.

[YoYo 374]

Sometimes the clouds look great ... sometimes like a tragedy  , luckily we will have REX for v5 I suppose ...

[Sticky 267]

1000x better trailer.  I liked the rain shower passing over the airport in the beginning third of the video.  But, yeah..MSFS is a tough act to follow that is for sure!  I still will 100% buy P3Dv5.

BTW..did I see clouds moving in different directions at about the 1:10 mark?  Higher layer seems to be moving differently..cool!

Edited April 9, 2020 by Sticky

[threexgreen 3,139]

After being disappointed watching the initial trailer, everything else I have seen so far makes me think trueSKY alone is worth upgrading to v5. I remember when I first watched demo videos of trueSKY. I was stunned. And I'm having the same reaction now when looking at the sky in v5. The fact this is actually default P3D makes this seem pretty surreal. I'm thinking I won't need PTA anymore for all things sky and atmosphere because that looks even better. The new water engine also looks really good and the overall world lighting seems to be more natural as well, which seems to play well together with the trueSKY atmosphere and PBR terrain. I didn't think I would ever be that excited about P3D again since MSFS showed up.

Edit: PBR world textures (terrain etc.) seems to be another new feature which seems to be missed by many. If Orbx implement PBR in their Global and Landclass products and regions I think we're going to have a stunning world in P3D, even though not on MSFS standards. This seems to be a load of work, though.

Edited April 9, 2020 by threegreen

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 540]

That is a trailer!

[curt1 79]

23 hours ago, virtuali said:

I'd say video memory is the most important thing in V5, and 8 GB is the probably the absolute minimum. Below that, you'll really have to play with settings to memory usage under control, because the sim cannot even use all of it, the OS reserve some for its own use. With 8GB, you have about 6.9 GB free, and we managed to exhaust them by raising settings, and we didn't use many add-ons.

Don't want to spend too much for a 2080 Ti ? Do the smart thing, and get a USED 1080 Ti, which has 11GB. P3D V5 doesn't support RTX anway, so the 2080 Ti is a bit wasted. Or an used Titan, or maybe the AMD Radeon VII, which is the only consumer card I know that comes with 16GB.

I appreciate knowing what V5 requires, but this post dampens my enthusiasm.  My system is 4 years old now with a GTX 970 card (4GB), and apparently it won't be able to handle the new clouds this version offers.  That's really a shame, but I guess that's the price of progress.  I read you can use the older cloud model in V5 and I sense a lot of simmers will have no choice unless they upgrade their cards first. 

[kevinfirth 1,396]

10 minutes ago, curt1 said:

I appreciate knowing what V5 requires, but this post dampens my enthusiasm.  My system is 4 years old now with a GTX 970 card (4GB), and apparently it won't be able to handle the new clouds this version offers.  That's really a shame, but I guess that's the price of progress.  I read you can use the older cloud model in V5 and I sense a lot of simmers will have no choice unless they upgrade their cards first. 

Software advancements necessitate hardware upgrades, which in turn drives software progress...the wheel forever turns but you only have to look back a few years to see what strides in realism have been achieved - I'd love to see LM drop some hints as to whats still in the v5 roadmap!

[pmb 5,137]

6 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Software advancements necessitate hardware upgrades, which in turn drives software progress...the wheel forever turns but you only have to look back a few years to see what strides in realism have been achieved

At least, Prepar3d5 seems to be usable if you have up-to-date hardware. Some previous simulators - including the original FSX - were barely usable even with a state of the art system at release.

Kind regards, Michael