Hi Guys Hope you are all well.

Am looking for some advice, have been a long time FSX user (don't shoot me🤣) and have just bought P3D 4.5. Have been away from P3D since V3 and judging from the optionsin the sim I have alot of catching up to do. I wasn't quite brave enough to go for v5 yet, maybe I will in a few years.

Now my FSX set up runs pretty smooth locked at 30 and I am not ready to ditch it yet. I run with a single 1080P screen which is only capable of 60 or 50Hz. Can anyone offer some advice regarding the settings i should be using. Idealy I would like to be running at 30 and above all i am looking for a smooth experience. ( the last time i tried with V3 I could never get it to run as smooth as FSX so left it alone).

The set up is running an I5 9600K at 4.8Ghz 16GB Ram on Windows 10 with a GTX 2080.

I have alot of ORBX sceneries and gather I can use ORBX Central to download these for P3D aswell, Would i also be right in that i can use the two sims with no problems? ( they are on different drives).

Take care and stay safe

Daz

 

 

 

 

 

You can definitely run the two sims side by side.

And yes, Orbx Central will make the work of installing the sceneries in P3D easy.

As for settings... they are different from FSX.. suggest you start with these:

SETTINGS
within P3Dv4

Display:
FXAA off   
AA:  4XSSAA
texture filtering: anisotropic  8X
texture resolution: high 2048x2048
Vsync  off
Target framerate: unlimited
Wideview aspect: off
mipmap VC panels off
Screen resolution:  1920X1080

World
LOD radius:  high
Tesselation factor: high
mesh resolution:  5m
texture resolution:  1m
high resolution terrain: on

Scenery complexity: extremely dense
autogen draw distance:  medium
autogen vegetation density: normal
autogen building density: dense or normal
Dynamic vegetation: unticked

water detail:  medium
Reflections: user vehicle only
Special effects: medium/medium

Lighting
shadow quality:  high
draw distance: low
casting and receiving: Internal vehicle only

Dynamic lighting: on or off

HDR on:
Brightness 0.85
Bloom 0.05
Saturation 0.97

Dynamic reflections: off

 

Outside P3D, use the nvidia NCP to limit fps to 29 as a first test.

That should give you good visuals and smooth flight.

 

 

If you get blurry scenery in flight, either add an FFTF line to the prepar3d. cfg file, or use the payware FFTF Dynamic app.  The unlimited setting in P3D limits the texture loading capability in flight..

For general use,

[MAIN]
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.15  (or 0.20)

should work nicely.

53 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

If you get blurry scenery in flight, either add an FFTF line to the prepar3d. cfg file, or use the payware FFTF Dynamic app.  The unlimited setting in P3D limits the texture loading capability in flight..

For general use,

[MAIN]
FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.15  (or 0.20)

should work nicely.

Bert,

I could not believe that while testing v5HF1, I found that an affinitymask settings was actually beneficial.

I never needed one for v4.5. 

Jose

6 minutes ago, DJJose said:

Bert,

I could not believe that while testing v5HF1, I found that an affinitymask settings was actually beneficial.

I never needed one for v4.5. 

Jose

Is that not off topic?

5 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

Is that not off topic?

I quoted a working tweak. I posted a tweak and yes maybe the OP could care less about tweaks. 

Update: I just noticed it's for 4.5. My bad!

Edited May 3, 20206 yr by DJJose

Thankyou Bert , I will give the settings a try.  Re limiting the frame rate any reason for limiting to 29 rather than 30?

 

 

58 minutes ago, Dazkent said:

Thankyou Bert , I will give the settings a try.  Re limiting the frame rate any reason for limiting to 29 rather than 30?

 

 

I honestly do not know what is better... but some have reported better results with this, and I just tried it, and am still using it.  There may be some connection to trying to avoid the 60 Hz  monitor refresh rate /2 =30  boundary.. but I am not sure..