Some Questions For P3Dv6 Users

[chapstick 2,758]

On 7/6/2023 at 12:13 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Gents, when discussing performance it would be instructive to know your hardware specs. 👍

5800X3D/3080ti/32GB

On 7/6/2023 at 12:30 PM, DChockey08 said:

And also a fully tweaked and optimized v5 =/= an out of the box v6 with sliders fully maxed out. 

Apples to oranges. 

My observation is not based on running sliders in V6 maxed out. With mid to high settings in the default scenario, my experience so far is that perf is worse in V6.

[djbully 210]

My observations re settings:

Seems that all water reflections are on by default. There are no settings to change them in the options. So everything is reflecting in the water, clouds, trees, terrain and buildings. I would have all that turned off in v5 which gives much better performance. 
 

Same with shadows, no options to select what is casting and receiving shadows. All  on by default, I would have most of those also turned off, again a good chunk of performance there. 
 

I was not able to see any settings for those in the cfg either, they seem to be gone. I think this is where the performance difference is coming from. 
 

Pretty sure if I could turn the above off then I would be getting performance much similar to V5. 
 

Cheers 🍻 

Bully. 

Edited July 6, 2023 by djbully

[cowpatz 243]

8 hours ago, djbully said:

My observations re settings:

Seems that all water reflections are on by default. There are no settings to change them in the options. So everything is reflecting in the water, clouds, trees, terrain and buildings. I would have all that turned off in v5 which gives much better performance. 
 

Same with shadows, no options to select what is casting and receiving shadows. All  on by default, I would have most of those also turned off, again a good chunk of performance there. 
 

I was not able to see any settings for those in the cfg either, they seem to be gone. I think this is where the performance difference is coming from. 
 

Pretty sure if I could turn the above off then I would be getting performance much similar to V5. 
 

Cheers 🍻 

Bully. 

Could you maybe try looking at your V5 cfg file and copying any relevant entries over to the V6 cfg and see if that turns them off? Just a thought.

Edited July 6, 2023 by cowpatz

[djbully 210]

1 hour ago, cowpatz said:

Could you maybe try looking at your V5 cfg file and copying any relevant entries over to the V6 cfg and see if that turns them off? Just a thought.

Yes, I did think of that, but no time to tinker tonight. I will investigate this tomorrow 😎

[spilok 1,136]

1 hour ago, cowpatz said:

Could you maybe try looking at your V5 cfg file and copying any relevant entries over to the V6 cfg and see if that turns them off? Just a thought.

Should we HAVE to do that with a new version?  Just a question.

[simfan1983 185]

Apparently the slider will affect the amount of reflections, and similarly for the shadows - but it isn't quite as configurable now.

[djbully 210]

Aha, kind of makes sense I guess.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 542]

How is the night sky, the stars and planets?

[philmurfin 73]

For anyone wanting to run Orbx True Earth in v6, here's how to do it  -----

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X24uXaXxulo

[DChockey08 299]

On 7/6/2023 at 7:54 AM, djbully said:

Same with shadows, no options to select what is casting and receiving shadows. All  on by default, I would have most of those also turned off, again a good chunk of performance there. 
 

I was not able to see any settings for those in the cfg either, they seem to be gone. I think this is where the performance difference is coming from. 
 

Pretty sure if I could turn the above off then I would be getting performance much similar to V5. 
 

Cheers 🍻 

Bully. 

Did anyone ever figure this out? This is my biggest pet peeve with v6 right now. 
 

Why would LM take away a customization feature like that. 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,980]

On 7/6/2023 at 12:43 PM, chapstick said:

5800X3D/3080ti/32GB

How long do you think that’s going to remain visible? The best place is in your signature.

[djbully 210]

On 7/20/2023 at 12:19 PM, DChockey08 said:

Did anyone ever figure this out? This is my biggest pet peeve with v6 right now. 
 

Why would LM take away a customization feature like that. 

Ok, so the planar reflections slider controls the reflections in the water and the shadows slider now controls all the shadows. I turned planar reflections off and I have shadow slider on medium. Seems to work quite well for me. 

Edited July 23, 2023 by djbully

[mikeymike 366]

I am Wanting to install pv6

as I am getting missing my 777

and flying solely on msfs right now 

is my hardware ok for it?

7950x3d 3080ti 32gb ram

2k g5 monitor or  should I wait till things smooth out with v6

thanks 

[djbully 210]

You should be fine Mike. 

[mikeymike 366]

2 hours ago, djbully said:

You should be fine Mike. 

Thank you 🙏 

I have watched a couple videos on YouTube .

Cockpit lighting in the PMDG aircraft looked really dark.

is this still Case  like v5?

or will PMDG update it ?

thanks 

mike 

Edited July 25, 2023 by mikeymike