Steve Cannell

My 4k Samsung TV's, 55" and 78" look absolutely amazing. My ASUS 27" 4k is nice but picture quality doesn't compare. I would have had to go with a more expensive IPS monitor to get the colors I do from the Samsung tv's. I couldn't find an IPS monitor locally with a VESA mount. 4K makes gaming and flightsimming not only possible but look great on a 78". I think that alone says alot. :-)

About a month ago while picking up a new evolution kit for the samsung 78", I had to walk my wife over to see the shocking price for our TV. Yes it was $13,000. I see today it's on sale for $9,999. CAN . Still crazy. There are many good deals on 50" + 4k tv's out there and more and more content coming all time from Netflix, youtube and gaming titles. Thanks Rob for your uploads in 4k !! Cheers This is crazy too !! Samsung 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray Player $599.

Just from my own personal experience, Bigger is much, much better !! I have three 4k's to choose from, a 28",55" and 78" curved. I definitely love the Samsung 78" curved, especially for simming. Amazing color, performance and immersion. We got a great deal and us it for everything living room. However the price is absurd, $13,000 CAN. A 55" to 65" 4k (curved a bonus) I think gives an exceptional gaming experience at a reasonable price. I've tried 3 monitor setups and think they're horrible. Even when large enough to install vertically. Ultra wide screens are not much better. Cheers

Been at this flight simming a very long time, now I can add Star Citizen to the mix. VR is amazing !! It's incredible how immersive it is. It fools the brain into thinking your there. However at my age, as much as I would like it to be ready for prime time, it's NOT ! The screen resolution just isn't enough for serious flight simming. Not enough good game titles and game development, yet. There is some very exciting "new" VR hardware technologies coming in the near future. Many of the big tech companies are already working on it. Cheers

I think, for me anyways, is the whole point of going 4k was to go bigger. Bigger is better. :-) Cheers 6700k @4.8 2 x gtx 970's in SLI

I think our flightsim hobby has become a bit of a mess. None have any future. Performance can be appalling. Forget sufficient performance to ever adequately run Virtual Reality. However, I really like this Aerofly 2. After seeing Rob's 4k videos my jaw dropped in amazement. Right away I had to get in on this Aerofly2. It's an awesome start as far as I'm concerned.Sure it's a limited coverage area but what's covered is spectacular. Consistent throughout and performance where it should be. I only wish they could have covered my Vancouver BC. Flightsimming now 35 years and really haven't flown much since Star Citizen 2.0 was released as I love what CGI are doing and how their doing it. :-) Aerofly2 I hope has this potential, and please don't go overboard and produce a sim that's to far ahead of the hardware. Cheers

I didn't care much for my triple monitor setup. It's impressive to look at the setup, it seems to make sense but simming itself is not so immersive. When I moved to a large 4k curved tv with TrackIR the experience is amazing. The only thing that might beat it would be VR but I doubt that will ever happen until FSim is re-writen to allow optimal use of our next-gen rigs. Cheers Steve.

I find there to be only a small improvement with SLI configuration. Although being basically stutter free is a big bonus!! One GPU works fine. I watched a video a while back showing that with the Skylake processors and a compatible MB and ram, there was better SLI performance. So I took the plunge. :smile:

I am running P3DV3 with all the addons on a 78" Samsung curved 4K @ 60hz. I first ran a GTX 970 on a water cooled 2600k @ 4.7, 20-30 fps Added later another GTX 970 and setup SLI. Better performance for sure. More fps and less stutters. However, upgrading to a new Skylake i7 6700k @4.8 and a ROG Maximus motherboard and DDR4 memory was a significant boost bringing fps to 40 +

Dummied down for mainstream. It's hilarious how they spin it (bring aviation simulation to a whole new generation).

I've been flight simming about 34 years and without going into all what's wrong with this pastime, it has evolved into quite a mess. Yes, there are some amazing sim combinations of platform and addon, but it's all so fragemented. I have orbx addons i'm stilling waiting for updates to, while they're probably busy working on the next cookie cutter airport. All I can say is thank goodness for Star Citizen and the vision of one man, Chris Roberts. Our flightsim would benefit from this same kind of approach. Cheers

ASUS ROG Maximus motherboards are great!!, and 5 way optimization really works to simplify the overclocking process. RAM designed for Skylake and the Corsair H110i water cooling. I had no trouble getting my 6700k a stable 4.8 overclock using ASUS AI Suite. Cheers Steve

My guess is Brokerage fees. Any product moving from USA to CAN that is not brought in through large distribution companies is going to cost much more than what is the normal. Once the Rift and Vive can be purchased at Best Buy, Newegg, NCIX, etc, we'll likely see our prices lower. I would love a VR headset, however this is a perfect example of some tech that will mature over the next couple years. Makes sense to wait at these prices as well. Cheers

You nailed it. High oil prices and our economy relied to much on it's production and export. I'm optimistic too for the future as hopefully our Gov stimulates the economy and invests in infrastructure and technologies. In the meantime FS purchases will likely halt. I'll sell some used tech on ebay, taking advantage of the dollar and buy a spaceship for my new love, Star Citizen. :smile:

Thanks for the really good tips !! I think my challenge now is determining which problem aircraft are where. I'll give those tools a try. Cheers Steve

I am using UT2 in P3dV3 and it seems my GA AI ( only about 50%) have this texture problem. They don't even load or appear later. I have searched the internet and these forums but I can't seem to find a similar topic. Any ideas ? Cheers Steve

Two GTX 970's in SLI, with my setup a little smoother and about 5-9 fps better. I can apply up to 8x sgss with little if any affect on fps. Think I'll just stick with some NCP settings as 4k really eliminates the need for AA and SS settings in NVI. For a couple of weeks though I kinda went crazy with settings and tweeks, trying to figure out the cause of my FPS drop from 40 + to teens. Thought maybe one of these many tweaks or a scenery was the problem. Turns out it was a few nasty processes running in the background. :Shame On You: The addition of Simstarter to create costume settings profiles, tweaked for the style of flight, and it's jumpstart feature really saves me time and fuss. Cheers

Thanks for the video Ron. Based on that video an upgrade wouldn't be worth the extra cost. 970 sli is actually looking very good and his fps at 4k are around where mine are in P3dv3. It does look like I should certainly wait for the next crop of hopeful GPU's. Cheers

:smile: 2 are just a little bit better. Yes, I'm interested in what I might gain going to a single better card like the 980 ti

I currently have 2 GTX 970's in SLI , on a i6700k @ 4.8. Works very good with my 4k screen. My question is for those that have upgraded from 970's to single 980ti or the Titan X. What are your experiences, did you get any significant performance boost ? Was it worth the upgrade cost ? How would you compare them in terms of FPS. I have an interested buyer for my cards, however it's still a significant upgrade for me in cost $ Cheers Steve

I believe I've heard from other simmers here that anything above 60hz in P3D and FSX will only increase stutters and possible tearing due to their below 60 fps performance. Other games might be a completely different story. IPS is definitely much better color. However I couldn't justify the cost when really I think the secret to immersive flight simming is 4k big screens up close. :smile:

Using Razor Cortex to help simplify the task of reducing processes before gaming. Looks like relying on the default game boost isn't enough, now obvious. There were quite a few processes I clearly didn't need. One in particular was interesting, some skype.exe that was in the startup. I can even recall a strange unwanted skype notification a couple weeks back of someone wanting to chat. I brushed it off at the time. Then the real kicker was after shutting down P3d and Razor Cortex begines to restore processes, I get a warning that a suspect skype.exe is trying to start and I selected to disable. Wouldn't doubt that was my offender. However, looks like I may want to do a system restore from one of my many images to remove a possible Trojan. Or wait a little longer for 3.1 to season before I do. To think that I could gain more than 28 fps just by being reminded to recheck my processes, rather than just continuing to assume it was p3d and it's addons. Thank you forum. :smile: Simstarter is another program that gives me more time to game, less tinkering. A little time to learn and setup but what a great program. Cheers

It really is time to move on from an unsupported, outdated OS like win7. Don't let tiles and apps scare you. I boot to a desktop that looks and works just like 7 only better. Cheers

If your priority is flight simming I wouldn't recommend 1440p or g-sync. I would suggest 4k. I have both a 28 " 4k, 1ms monitor and a large Samsung curved 4k tv and the tv is a ridiculously better experience. There is no comparison. Contrast, sharpness and color are extraordinary. Cheers

Well, went to work on my fps loss this evening thanks to this post, got me motivated. The FTX Central tip I gained a few to the 24 fps range. Next, processes :smile: . Although I use Razor Cortex I only utilized the standard default settings. Decided to go a little further and I eliminated about a dozen more. Can't believe that with the same scenario it now went to 45 fps. So I'm off to a good start and I'll continue to pick away. Keep in mind I'm still on v3.0 Cheers