I really like the way I've got P3Dv5.1 running now, but NEVER with that EA (TrueSky BS).  EA destroys colors and lighting, and yes I hear the "wait until the next update" but in reality I've seen their futile attempts to make TrueSky work since they introduced it in v5.0... they key trying but really not much LM can do, they made the decision to base the quality of their product on a third-party developer that doesn't have anything to loose if they can't fix it for LM.  LM can live with that I guess.

51 minutes ago, Chapstick said:

Cherry picked screenshots aside, yes EA is currently trash

You can be negative as most of the time, but on both my pc’s it does not look like trash.

I do not make cherry picked screenshots, I simply pause in a flight and make a screenshot. Not a setup situation as you suggest....

I do however use my anti-grid tweak as I posted in another thread.

And to solve the milky white water select User aircraft in Bathemetry.

Edited November 15, 20205 yr by GSalden

CTD's that I never had before are suddenly started happening!!! Sound goes down and Sim just shuts down....So not sure if anyone can confirm if it could be issue with sound (?!) and how to solve this. But as far as I can see, based on performance this is not good. For lack of better words.

EA I won't even discuss here because is unrealistic and miles away from 4.5 looks, so now it's some performance issue and lighting that we have to solve it seems.

Edited November 15, 20205 yr by cyyzrwy24

31 minutes ago, cyyzrwy24 said:

CTD's that I never had before are suddenly started happening!!! Sound goes down and Sim just shuts down....So not sure if anyone can confirm if it could be issue with sound (?!) and how to solve this.

I've also had a sound-related crash (according to event viewer) for the first time this weekend.

51 minutes ago, flycln said:

I've also had a sound-related crash (according to event viewer) for the first time this weekend.

I am not sure if is sound related but prior to CTD i lose sound and than just shut down. I read somewhere that might be sound driver isue. But not sure. Now I repaired all three to see what happens next.

19 minutes ago, cyyzrwy24 said:

I am not sure if is sound related but prior to CTD i lose sound and than just shut down. I read somewhere that might be sound driver isue. But not sure. Now I repaired all three to see what happens next.

Just tried again and again CTD....Second time and at the same pleace I thing after take of off FTCYYZ....not sure if anything to do with scenery but happens after I switched view from outside to VC.

I am out off any any solution at this moment.......

@SAS443 All your "issues" go away when you turn EA off and just use AS or another weather program with the sim.  EA is not ready for us yet.  Who knows when it will be.  Enjoy the sim without EA.  It really is possible.

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by Ray Proudfoot
Removed linked post as unnecessary to quote in full.

Check that you don't have multiple sound devices active--this is very common now with the HD sound device on the nVidia GPUs.  Every time you update the driver, you should check that the nVIdia HD Audio device is disabled in Device Manager, as the driver installation will, by default, enable it again.

The nVidia HD Audio device services the audio that feeds through the HDMI channel from the graphics card.  It's superfluous unless you happen to be running programming to a TV using HDMI audio+video, which is probably not too common, even with folks that use 4K TVs as large-format computer displays.

I had a number of problems with instability a while back, and after seeing something Rob Ainscough posted about conflicts related to this I started paying more attention to this issue, and I've not seen a sound device related problem since I started keeping the nVidia HD Audio disabled.

 

7 hours ago, spilok said:

All your "issues" go away when you turn EA off and just use AS or another weather program with the sim.  EA is not ready for us yet.  Who knows when it will be.  Enjoy the sim without EA.  It really is possible.

Workaround noted,  thanks.

But I am a bit disgruntled and believe that it's not an acceptable solution for a sim that has been out since april whose second most hyped feature (after DX12) is the "Realistic sky, clouds, and atmosphere with Simul trueSKY integration'", and a big reason why at least I purchased V5. 

Why they even removed beta-label is beyond me. 

5 minutes ago, SAS443 said:

Workaround noted,  thanks.

But I am a bit disgruntled and believe that it's not an acceptable solution for a sim that has been out since april whose second most hyped feature (after DX12) is the "Realistic sky, clouds, and atmosphere with Simul trueSKY integration'", and a big reason why at least I purchased V5. 

Why they even removed beta-label is beyond me. 

I too see this exact like you! Now, 7 months later, EA is still not well integrated. I am a little bit concerned, that LM will not raise the bar high enough to satisfy most of us. Like with NvidiaWaveworks for water and like speedtrees for all sorts of flora (yes it is for: trees, grass, bushes, etc.).

I really hope they will nail it now with HF1 on V5.1. Because 7 months is a lot of time compared to their iterations of regular updates (6 months V5.X and most of the time 2 years for VX.X). More than 25% of the time is passed....

I understand it takes time, yes. And they have done a lot under the hood for sure. I do also appreciate this. But they SOLD truesky with V5.0 back in april........they sold maybe "....sky" but not "TRUE...sky".

Marcus 

 

Amsterdam, just after take off

EA on / EnvShade tweaks / custom Shader tweaks / FSGRW weather engine 

All sliders maxed except for AG ( both very dense ) and the 3090 is running it very easily 

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by GSalden

Again, what's your point? We can all take nice EA screenshots once in a while.

That doesn't cure the awful dusk and dawn colors, common cloud pixelation and so on and on.

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by flycln

1 hour ago, GSalden said:

 

Amsterdam, just after take off

EA on / EnvShade tweaks / custom Shader tweaks / FSGRW weather engine 

All sliders maxed except for AG ( both very dense ) and the 3090 is running it very easily 

I get same results with similar weather. But as soon as we have OVC (which is very common during fall in sweden with warm most air masses from the ocean moves over colder ground surface and creates a OVC-lid that can stay for weeks) my simulator looks like a potato and trees/airport buildings shimmer with the background cloudscape.

Just watch how EFHK tower/terminal buidings are rendered during my final approach. It is a farce with EA on. 4:00mins into the clip.

 

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by SAS443

...and another point on the list is the usual simmer has 8GB max Vram which is limiting EA use a lot. Shots with a 3090 are not the spread base. I'm a day one v5 user but EA is limited to GA flying in rural areas. Even with EA off the enhanced lighting and performance paired with AS and the usual rest is enough for me to stay happy on v5.1 😉

Cheers

Thorsten

30 minutes ago, SAS443 said:

I get same results with similar weather. But as soon as we have OVC (which is very common during fall in sweden with warm most air masses from the ocean moves over colder ground surface and creates a OVC-lid that can stay for weeks) my simulator looks like a potato and trees/airport buildings shimmer with the background cloudscape.

Just watch how EFHK tower/terminal buidings are rendered during my final approach. It is a farce with EA on. 4:00mins into the clip.

 

It indeed looks different from what I see here. Hopefully HF1 will solve this for you.

Edited November 16, 20205 yr by GSalden