July 5, 20232 yr Hey everyone, Before I do a quick dive into my initial reactions, let's keep the replies constructive. I have fairly old system (to be honest, it really is keeping well with all the sims including VR on Quest 2 -- there is a reason for this, but that is conversation for another day).  It does appear that P3Dv6 is using an improved mesh (would like others to chime in). It does have VRR (Variable Refresh rate, won't apply to my use) and other all sorts of graphics settings like TAA, SSAO, Custom Tone Mapping, Cubemap Reflections, Planar Reflections etc. Heck you can talk in VR to reset the view by voice (Learning Center has new things listed in it). SDK is amazing....  Default Flight I ran a default flight from KDCA (my hometown area yay) on the F-35A and I changed the settings very little from default. Changes were Texture Filtering to 16x, Texture Resolution to 4096, and Frame rate to Unlimited. FPS was close to 60 on my 60hz monitor. Vram was very high as 4.9 gb used out of 7.1gb (P3Dv5.4 is slightly less). This is DX12, LM should allow DX11 as DX12 is still half baked (you know even in MSFS2020 DX12 doesn't work well).  Third Party Addons Only Addon I installed was Majestic Q400 as the installer has P3Dv6 in it (you still have to find the location yourself when installing). Well, Trueglass didn't work --- no water on cockpit windows. I could not see the fms showing up data but the plane booted up fine etc.  Conclusion: P3Dv6 is really designed for proper procedural training now. With most of the main players not really developing for v6, it is understandable. Sure, you can registry hack lot of things. But I just don't pay for addons, I pay for official support period. No support, I am not buying that is it. I wish LM had released this version as 5.4 or even 5.5 and a bit earlier. It is a rock-solid release, and I am keeping it but I also have all the other sims on my hobby computer.  Looks like the majority of the P3D third-party addon developers will pause at P3D5.4, and maybe things change in the future... PS - I really hope there can be officially G1000 based GA aircraft (steam gauge is fine too) that work with Nav Updates from Navigraph and I can use it with my PPL training.     As of right now I did one of my final P3D purchases (FS2Crew FSX/P3D All Access Pack for 29.99 Euros - it has FSX MD-11 and JS41 which I have too lol) and I will see how the FSLabs Concorde is. I have tons of stuff for P3Dv5.4 which will keep me busy for quite some time. End of an era...but the next era is just starting always keep that in mind     Edited July 5, 20232 yr by Skywolf  How I Evaluate Third Party Sim Addon Developers Refined P3Dv5.0 HF2 Settings Part1 (has MaddogX) and older thread Part 2 (has PMDG 747)
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