As I'd been thinking about trying a clean P3D install to let me use some of those old favourite aircraft that I miss in MSFS, when I saw that there was an update I grabbed it and went ahead. Complete removal of my unused 5.1 system and full fresh install of 5.2. Kept the folders from 5.1 in case I want to stick much of the scenery back on, but so far I've only bothered with the global Orbx stuff and TE Washington.

Been very impressed, in the sense that all the stutters and pauses I was getting with 5.1 seem to have gone, and I'm getting smooth 30fps (capped) with everything maxed out in the settings and with EA and volumetric clouds on high. What's interesting (ish) is that I can see my cpu is hitting maybe 70% utilisation, with all 32 threads in use, but my Titan is cruising at maybe 20% and using only 5-6gb vram. Feels like LM have done some major work internally, and gets me all buzzed up about how MSFS might be once it goes to DX12.

I can even wander around maxed out over London in TE GB without it being a slide show, but it looks so bad in comparison to the other sims that I have no desire to. Still way below MSFS in terms of looks, as far as I'm concerned, but at least I now feel it's worth getting it set up with all the aircraft I want to preserve for that environment. It's still #3 on my sim preference list though, after both MSFS and XP.

Over Seattle in TE Washington

Heading south from KHQM

EA on (as in the above two shots) -

and the same shot with EA off -

I guess with a bit of tweaking it might become quite reasonable, but like I say, the main thing for me is having a usable platform for a whole currently idle hangar full of aircraft.

If you've got room for it and you have a P3D license, even if you've given up on it, I'd recommend giving it a go.

cheers,

Andy

Edited June 11, 20214 yr by andy1252
typo

EA definitely looks better in 5.2!

Edited June 11, 20214 yr by Pugilist2