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I like seeing something positive about v5! Although, isn’t it still a little early to say the improvements are major? I’m sure a vanilla v5 runs awesome, but how is it going to run once all the add ons are brought into it? That’s what I’m curious about. 

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39 minutes ago, spilok said:

I can't believe Sky Force and its weather component work so well in P3dv5

Does SkyForce need to be running in the background in order for the weather engine to work?

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7 minutes ago, pvupilot said:

I like seeing something positive about v5! Although, isn’t it still a little early to say the improvements are major? I’m sure a vanilla v5 runs awesome, but how is it going to run once all the add ons are brought into it? That’s what I’m curious about. 

We'll be able to better judge once we're able to test with AS4 and/or complex aircraft (e.g. FSLabs or PMDG); I think some people forget that wx is huge burden on FPS.  Still, I have no doubts it preforms better; I just don't think it's as significant as some are portraying...

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4 minutes ago, newtie said:

Does SkyForce need to be running in the background in order for the weather engine to work?

Yes it does, it will minimize to system tray. I haven't noticed any performance issues though.

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5 minutes ago, Peter Z KCLE_EDDN said:

Yes it does, it will minimize to system tray. I haven't noticed any performance issues though.

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Has anyone tried Environmental Force?


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I completed my first flight last night in v5 with the PMDG 777 from FSDT KORDv2 to FlyTampa Las Vegas also with Orbx Global and Orbx landclass NA, and it was a steady 30fps without a single frame drop.  I use 30hz refesh rate and vsync so it will never go higher.  All I was missing was wx which now that I know REX works I'll use that for another test tomorrow

It was the most enjoyable flight I've had in a long time with how smooth it seemed to me.  The only issue now is the brightness of PMDG gauges do not adjust but they are working on new installers and fixes so I can accept that.

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I'm assuming that everyone singing it's praises is not running trueSky with multiple cloud layers with 3rd party aircraft and scenery?


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32 minutes ago, B777ER said:

I'm assuming that everyone singing it's praises is not running trueSky with multiple cloud layers with 3rd party aircraft and scenery?

Or using VR. 😄

How many cloud layers does P3Dv5 allow with trueSky?

Stan is running Orbx.  Other people have mentioned third party aircraft. sgreen91 is running FSDT, Fly Tampa, Orbx and the PMDG 777.

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Is REX Skyforce 3D and Environment compatible with P3D v5 yet? I may purchase it. Does Skyforce 3D replace REX Textures Direct?

Also what plane is that you're flying in your screenshot @Peter Z KCLE_EDDN? Looks nice!

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2 hours ago, captain420 said:

Also what plane is that you're flying in your screenshot @Peter Z KCLE_EDDN? Looks nice!

That appears to be the default Maule.  I don't remember it looking that good in earlier P3D... I'll have to check it again in that sim.

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1 hour ago, B777ER said:

I'm assuming that everyone singing it's praises is not running trueSky with multiple cloud layers with 3rd party aircraft and scenery?

Correct. 

People are gonna be mad once they start installing add-ons and realize they have to turn off any new graphics enhancements in v5. 

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2 hours ago, pvupilot said:

I like seeing something positive about v5! Although, isn’t it still a little early to say the improvements are major? I’m sure a vanilla v5 runs awesome, but how is it going to run once all the add ons are brought into it? That’s what I’m curious about. 

No it is twice more fps

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I have read somewhere that if you disable the Armopheric feature you can use third party clouds ...


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12 minutes ago, GSalden said:

I have read somewhere that if you disable the Armopheric feature you can use third party clouds ...

Yes, I don’t use the beta

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