P3D 5.3 Hotfix 2 released

[Mejjo 33]

Hotfix 2 out with a bunch of fixes.

 

https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2022/01/120955/

[KL Oo 694]

Excellent news! lets hope it fixes the major issue of stuttering and massive FPS drops. 

 

Thanks again to the beta testers and especially @Rob_Ainscough for the work that went into troubleshooting the issues and providing LM the required data.

[pgde 571]

Here are the fixes:

Client Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed issue causing intermittent stuttering and performance drops in some cases.
• Fixed issue causing atmospheric scattering to be misaligned from the sun position in some cases.
• Improved performance when processing vector shape data.
• Fixed issue causing stars to be dim when Enhanced Atmospherics is disabled.
• Improved HTML5 panel performance.
• Fixed bug where having mouse yoke active when entering full screen would keep mouse cursor confined to window’s previous size.
• Fixed crash when reloading a scenario after entering and exiting VR using HTML5 infogen.
• Added documentation for new affinity mask capabilities.
• Fixed issue preventing visual runway approaches from being available for all runways.
• Fixed issue where OpenDIS VariableDatum class did not support more than 128 bytes of data.
• Added acceleration to DIS Entity State PDU.

Content Fixes and Improvements

• Fixed issue preventing HIMARS textures from displaying correctly.

Scenery Fixes and Improvements

• Removed several unused textures.
• Fixed position of PAKT runway.

[joepoway 241]

The question now is how many add-on updates do we need again like GTN750 etc..

Joe

[simbol 5,767]

AI Lights Reborn Professional 1.36.0 is already compatible with 5.3 HF2..

Regards,
S.

[Damian Clark 948]

ASP3D B8054 just posted with 5.3 HF2 compatibility...

[virtualstuff 750]

AS 8054 also released for 5.3HF2

[micstatic 4,294]

Looking forward to trying it out

[raymie 81]

1 hour ago, joepoway said:

The question now is how many add-on updates do we need again like GTN750 etc..

I am thinking about holding off for now regarding this latest hotfix update until I see if the F1 GTN Update Tool will register this latest updated version. I cannot help but to wonder how much longer will the F1 GTN be updated; its time maybe running out. I hope I am wrong on that.

 

5 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Client Only update is needed, don't need to do content or scenery, just client.

Thanks for that helpful information as I was not yet sure what all needed to be updated. It looked to me like all three again. I am still pretty new to the updating process.

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

Perfectly smooth...no more pauses and animation freezes on my system. No changes in sim, to achieve this other than I replaced the Client and the Content, leaving Scenery alone, and deleted my Shader Folder, before first run wit HF2.

Edited January 19, 2022 by Sesquashtoo

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

27 minutes ago, Rob_Ainscough said:

Client Only update is needed, don't need to do content or scenery, just client.

Cheers, Rob.

I did Content as well, as a just in case....left Scenery alone.  Results?  Perfectly smooth performance, no more pause and animation freezes.

[raymie 81]

1 hour ago, Sesquashtoo said:

I did Content as well, as a just in case....left Scenery alone.  Results?  Perfectly smooth performance, no more pause and animation freezes.

Thanks for your helpful comments and glad all is going well regarding your sim update experience. 

[Sesquashtoo 2,846]

36 minutes ago, raymie said:

Thanks for your helpful comments and glad all is going well regarding your sim update experience. 

Yeah, they fixed it.... 🙂

[micstatic 4,294]

I noticed a change is mentioned in regards to PAKT Ketchikan.  Anybody know how if this change works ok with Orbx PAKT?

[spilok 1,132]

I replaced Client, Content and Scenery.  Flew a quick 300 mile flight from Allentown, Pa to Detroit (KABE-KDTW), and this is my conclusion:

I did not think THIS level of "smoothness" was possible in P3d.  UNBELIEVABLE!  Not a stutter or pause from takeoff to touchdown.

Thank you LM.  EUREKA...you have found it!

Stan