Hi guys,

I have spent insane amount of time tweaking P3D v1.x to 5.x over the years and out of the blue Xp 11.55 gives me the best performance right of the bat especially on my older cpu i7-5820K+Nvidia Super 2070 RTX (OCed 4.3ghz with 64gb Quad config DDR4) with 4K Native Resolution Monitors.  I barely spent any time tweaking Xplane 11 and holy #%%% mind blowing graphics.  I can't even describe on how amazing this is.  P3D always kept me tweaking till the cows come home, I have spent more time tweaking than simming 

Xplane 11 was okay, but it wasn't till 11.55 Vulkan got stabilized - this is the Magic release for me, and I can't wait for Xp12 and see where it goes.  Even the current VR implementation is the best out there.

 

TrueEarth HD versions are just jaw dropping good with insane performance, heck I see road traffic with lights OMG.  Heck in P3D this causes FPS loss and all kinds of poopey things happen.  I am not fighting for 30fps anymore.  I am getting 60+ fps with some complex GA planes.  

Even the installation is super easy - most of them are just junctioned directories into the aircraft folder of Xplane 11 and Xorganizer app does a smashing good job.

 

Just look the Detail of Orbx TE - There is no LOD blurry thing...it is just smooth and full detail all at once.  I can't describe the feeling in words on here unless I can get super creative expletives on here.

 

This is Magic to me 

 

Thank you Xplane Devs 

 

PS - I can't wait to try HotStart's 650 soon.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited January 17, 20224 yr by Skywolf

 

14 minutes ago, Skywolf said:

Xplane 11 was okay, but it wasn't till 11.55 Vulkan got stabilized - this is the Magic release for me, and I can't wait for Xp12 and see where it goes.  Even the current VR implementation is the best out there.

 

I am so glad you discover this. Where have you been? 😊

Edited January 17, 20224 yr by BobFS88

26 minutes ago, BobFS88 said:

 

I am so glad you discover this. Where have you been? 😊

Stuck tweaking P3D all this time.  My wife always says "you love tweaking and setting up" sigh  - that is the sign to change sims

Edited January 17, 20224 yr by Skywolf

1 hour ago, Skywolf said:

My wife always says "you love tweaking and setting up" sigh  - that is the sign to change sims

lol

I guess so. 😃

I am right with you I when deciding to move the Xplane, I took a look PD3 saw and I review the great write up Rob Ainscough procedure that was similar to at the SimForum NickN's "The FSX Computer system: The Bible"

I was a excellent tutorial on how the setup PD3.

However, I thought there's is got to be a better way than this.

I went through that going to FSX for the first time when building my first system. I was not going through that again for another sim. 

So I went to X plane and saw the only thing I need to get familiar with where the setting within the sim. No fs9.cfg to deal with or anything similar. That was with X Plane 10. I got even easier with XP11.

I you haven't a;ready, get xOrganizer for you scenery. It help keep you scenery in the correct order without you having the spend time in the scenery ini file. Plus it allow you as easier way to view and insure you scenery installation are correctly align after you install them. If they are you move them accordingly and it save it. Also you manage your plug in was well. Nice utility to have if you don't want to spend a lot of time make manual adjustments.

Enjoy!!!!!  😊

Edited January 17, 20224 yr by BobFS88

I’m looking forward to XP12 as much as everyone else but I must admit to being slightly apprehensive as well.

XP 11 with all my true earth scenery is running super smooth and reliable and I’m finally at a stage where my new hardware can overpower it even in VR, life is good. P3D 5.3 is running great at the moment as well 

I don’t want my stability and smoothness to end now, I’m quit content with how things are.

I’m not saying XP12 WILL upset my flight sim utopia ….but we’ve all been here long enough to know what new sims can be like😉

1 hour ago, jon b said:

I’m looking forward to XP12 as much as everyone else but I must admit to being slightly apprehensive as well.

XP 11 with all my true earth scenery is running super smooth and reliable and I’m finally at a stage where my new hardware can overpower it even in VR, life is good. P3D 5.3 is running great at the moment as well 

I don’t want my stability and smoothness to end now, I’m quit content with how things are.

I’m not saying XP12 WILL upset my flight sim utopia ….but we’ve all been here long enough to know what new sims can be like😉

X-Plane 12 will initially release as a beta (Every X-Plane version has done this).  I would definitely recommend keeping XP11 for your regular flying, and only purchase X-Plane 12 on release, if you are willing to check it out and/or take part in the beta.  You don't have to take part in the beta and submit bug reports, but go in there knowing that you will likely experience some initial beta issues.  

Edited January 17, 20224 yr by GoranM

2 hours ago, jon b said:

I’m looking forward to XP12 as much as everyone else but I must admit to being slightly apprehensive as well.

XP 11 with all my true earth scenery is running super smooth and reliable and I’m finally at a stage where my new hardware can overpower it even in VR, life is good. P3D 5.3 is running great at the moment as well 

I don’t want my stability and smoothness to end now, I’m quit content with how things are.

I’m not saying XP12 WILL upset my flight sim utopia ….but we’ve all been here long enough to know what new sims can be like😉

Same boat in here. I am keeping my XP11 installation and I don't intend to due any tuning and troubleshooting with XP12.  I will just delay my usage by few months when I am pretty sure few patches will happen, more addon will work and things will smoothen out. I been a an early adopter for a bit too long. Time to enjoy "flying" and not "tinkering" for a change 😇

I am keeping my Xp11.55 for a while as this will be the stable foundation for a while till Xp12 comes out of beta and then things start to normalize.

 

With visuals on what I am seeing right now, there is no way I am leaving

Strangely, Vulkan performs worse than OpenGL on my system. FPS is the same practically, but I have huge fps drops (50% of fps drop to be precise) in Vulkan mode, huge amount of data gets written to page file, eating most of CPU cycles = huge fps drop.
Doesn't happen in OpenGL mode, and luckily same fps.

The last time I installed X-Plane 11, already with the new rig powered by a Ryzen 5600x CPU and a GTX 3060 8 GB GPU, I was still in Win 10, but it was a true performance experience.

I wonder if I could get further from Win 11 which is what I now have, and don't look back in as far as the operating system goes...

But indeed X-Plane 11 had Vulkan as one of it's major steps forward in the history of the platform, and I look fwd for ED to migrate DCS World to Vulkan too.

Vulkan also made all of the difference when I used "Enhanced Skyscapes".

 

 

Vulkan, on areas where I'm not limited by my 2600K CPU or my Titan (Pascal) doubled my frame rates. I was in the low 20s in certain areas and now I'm reading 40s. It's amazing! XP11 has matured with some outstanding add-ons and it's currently my preferred sim for personal refresher training.

I'm looking forward to XP12 and hope that my add-ons work, but if not, XP11 will continue to give me years of satisfaction while MSFS matures.

On 1/23/2022 at 8:28 AM, DJJose said:

Vulkan, on areas where I'm not limited by my 2600K CPU or my Titan (Pascal) doubled my frame rates. I was in the low 20s in certain areas and now I'm reading 40s. It's amazing! XP11 has matured with some outstanding add-ons and it's currently my preferred sim for personal refresher training.

I'm looking forward to XP12 and hope that my add-ons work, but if not, XP11 will continue to give me years of satisfaction while MSFS matures.

I just took a flight in XP11.55 the other day, out of months of not using it...have been focusing on P3D v5.x.  Well, I set myself up in Orbx's  Key West, and flew to Miami, where I have been fooling around with a P3D Miami X recent install.   I had obviously forgot how good and smooth XP11.55 is....and really enjoyed the eye candy and performance.  So...for myself...along with the recent MSFS W7, which I found to be really good....I'm all set up. I have three choices now, that in my view,  all have their few perks over the other.  So...time to cycle through them on a regular and not so much sporadic basis that I have been for a couple of months.  For sure though, I will be buying XP12,  as I have always been an XP supporter since v8.x

What TE region is that? I really love how it looks.

On 1/18/2022 at 3:49 AM, Skywolf said:

I am keeping my Xp11.55 for a while as this will be the stable foundation for a while till Xp12 comes out of beta and then things start to normalize.

 

With visuals on what I am seeing right now, there is no way I am leaving

Welcome to X-Plane, here are my visual add-on recommendations:

• ALES v2 and AEP for airport environment
• SFD Global for ground textures
• SAM 3 for seasons
• https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/70060-gandalfs-sky-preset/ for sky colors and https://forums.x-plane.org/index.php?/files/file/40952-cloud-art/ for clouds.

I know that you are not a fan of tweaking but these are all very easy to install and gives a major visual improvement with no performance impact.

For aircraft, I recommend:

• Zibo 737 and LevelUp 737, they both are great and for free.
• iniBuilds A300
• FlyJSim 737-200
• FlyJSim 727
• Hot Start TBM
• Hot Start CL650, it is easily the best business jet add-on in any simulator.
• JRollon SF-260
• Flight Factor 757

Edited February 3, 20224 yr by BiologicalNanobot

1 hour ago, BiologicalNanobot said:

here are my visual add-on recommendations:

Traffic Global if you want airport traffic. Easiest and best IMO.