Prepar3D v5.3 released

[kevinfirth 1,394]

10 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

If others want to experiment and report their findings I’m sure many of us who are hesitant to update will appreciate their efforts.

I tried the settings I posted yesterday for my own use, but work intervened and I was unable to establish any results conclusively yet.

[simbol 5,819]

4 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

And no doubt Mr Kok would spend his entire week remote troubleshooting Aerosoft add-ons for customers 😁 (for nothing of course, other than the warm fuzzy feeling you get from satisfied customers 😛)

lol

[D-man 10]

No runway lights in VR...

Sorry if this has been brought up already but, Is anyone else not seeing runway/apron lighting in VR with 5.3? 

I'm running Oculus Quest 2 with Orbx addons

Thanks in advance

Edited December 3, 2021 by D-man
more detail added

[Fiorentoni 4,224]

Just to let you all know: Your enthusiasm (and MSFS's recurrent temp spike bug of 240 Celsius above FL240...) made me spend my entire day reinstalling P3D! However just loading the 737 and GSX-ing a bit made me really feel like home 🙂
I think it's time for a couple of weeks/months of P3D serious airliner flying. MSFS is the future, but sometimes I need that good old safe harbor of P3D, free of any serverside bugs and what else.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,954]

17 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I tried the settings I posted yesterday for my own use, but work intervened and I was unable to establish any results conclusively yet.

It's a pity you don't have my CPU as the number of cores is very different on yours.

[zkerr8 12]

15 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

I wonder what the feedback from their beta testers told them?

This looks to be one to leave alone until the experts come up with a strategy that helps users with their settings. Expect numerous YT videos to follow in the days / weeks to come.

ABSOLUTELY RIGHT.  5.3 is not viable (for me) in its current iteration - too many performance issues to work out, and with frame rates in the single digits, it was practically unusable. Not to mention I had cockpit texture issues w/ PMDG for some reason - the entire cockpit was black!  Fortunately when I reverted the client back to 5.2 performance was restored (cockpit textures too) and I am now back in the skies w/ frame rates in the high 40's.  I will sit on the side lines until these issues are sorted.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,954]

5 minutes ago, zkerr8 said:

Not to mention I had cockpit texture issues w/ PMDG for some reason - the entire cockpit was black! 

Did you clear the shaders folder?

[kevinfirth 1,394]

7 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

It's a pity you don't have my CPU as the number of cores is very different on yours.

I could always mask off some of my cores to emulate your core count, what I can't do is account for any difference in the cores themselves.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,954]

9 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

I could always mask off some of my cores to emulate your core count, what I can't do is account for any difference in the cores themselves.

I appreciate the offer Kev but let's wait until you've completed your tests and established if the new release is faster than 5.2HF1.

[kevinfirth 1,394]

NGXu, default airport, default weather, no traffic, same settings, not GPu limited, vsync off, unlimited

So, I tried:

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=349525
P3DCoreAffinityMask=21845
MainThreadScheduler=0
RenderThreadScheduler=2
FrameWorkerThreadScheduler=4

52fps

Then:

[JOBSCHEDULER]
AffinityMask=21845
P3DCoreAffinityMask=21845
MainThreadScheduler=0
RenderThreadScheduler=2
FrameWorkerThreadScheduler=4

52fps

Edited December 3, 2021 by kevinfirth

[Dirk98 354]

16 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

NGXu, default airport, default weather, no traffic, same settings, not GPu limited, vsync off, unlimited

So, I tried:

Any thoughts or conclusions yet?

Thanks.

Edited December 3, 2021 by Dirk98

[kevinfirth 1,394]

2 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

Any thoughts or conclusions yet?

Thanks.

Just loading a flight with different cfg settings seems to produce no discernible difference.  I need to enquire at LM but am busy on the school run!

[Dirk98 354]

4 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Just loading a flight with different cfg settings seems to produce no discernible difference.  I need to enquire at LM but am busy on the school run!

How about performance compared with v5.2?

[SimeonWilbury 220]

Am still in the process of setting up my Install, but no problems for me so far. I have heeded other advice on this forum and not turned on road traffic (not that I looked at it much anyway). Loaded in at Simwings EGLL and so far FPS is comparable to 5.2

I did a clean install because of a mso20win32client.dll problem that was dogging my 5.2 install, which may be helping things.

Edited December 3, 2021 by SimeonWilbury

[kevinfirth 1,394]

41 minutes ago, Dirk98 said:

How about performance compared with v5.2?

No hard comparable data to go by from me sorry.

Anecdotally, feels about the same.  In all my aircraft I fly the most, I can maintain 50fps vsynced.  Its really only the NGXu that slips below that.

EDIT: Ive asked Beau here about my test New Job Scheduler Entries - Prepar3D Forums

Edited December 3, 2021 by kevinfirth