armchair_pilot

Same issue here and I haven't even touched the beta yet. I just hope version 7 will release soon enough, almost can't stand the wait any longer..

That's sad. Wanted to upgrade my Turbine Duke V1 to V2 at some time and also migrate to P3D

Well there are some that are clocked higher/perform slightly better than others and thus more expensive. But then reliability counts too. I went for the Gigabyte G1 Gaming 1070, super quiet, barely hits 65°C and performance is outstanding :smile:

I went from a GTX770 to a 1070 and found that it's total overkill for P3D with 3 1080p displays. It performs pretty much the same as my old 770 except that it is less stressed (around 30% usage at medium settings and payware addons). If you're aiming at 4k resolution a 1060 should be more than enough if you only do flight simming, otherwise it's a waste of money. As for XP11 I'm not sure if it's as CPU bound as P3D is..

I'm seeing the same with P3D v3.4, especially when the aircraft is moving. I've yet to accomplish a smooth takeoff without the occasional hiccup it does to my fps upon rotation..

So they implemented ATC controllers that make fun of you? lol Yeah for me there's no alternative. I'm going to wait until it's released though

Got a question. Apart from some minor bugs, is the beta useful?

Thanks Richard. Going to try this out today.

Yeah the prices are ridiculous, that's what's holding me off for a little while. Back on topic, which parameters in PTA can be played with to make the draw distance less noticeable? I do have a preset that I found here on avsim but it doesn't help. Maybe it's also because I have ground shadows on which makes it more apparent.

I have a GTX770 and planning on upgrading to a 1070. Will that make a difference? My actual card is maxed at 100% in complex sceneries.

From my coding experience you can do both, it just depends on how well optimized your software is. I'm planning on upgrading my GPU but not so sure if that's going to do anything.

That's true, P3D has a lot more to offer but it still has a long way to go I think. If LM is going to fix the LOD issue and increase performance I'd be more than happy.

It's kinda lame, looks to me like LOD 4.5 in FSX is bigger than LOD 6.5 in P3D..

Somewhat late to the party, but this still seems to be a thing with v3.35. I also see a ring of autogen and in the distance everything is blurred. No matter what setting I set my LOD radius at, the ring always stays the same size.

Hello forum members, I've been thinking about upgrading my 3 year old GTX770 4GB to somewhat more powerful and less noisy. The sim I'm using is P3D and my first question is, is it worth it and will I see some improvement in performance? At the moment my card is maxed out at 100% and P3D at times is not that smooth anymore although I'm running a sub-4k setup, so I guess that must be the bottleneck. The card I am most interested in for the moment is this one: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126109 EDIT: Important: At least 1Dvi and 2x HDMI ports are required. What do you guys think?

Ok got it, thanks.

What does 'Non-transferrable' actually mean? Not giving anyone else my account or linking the licenses to another one?

Hello, I wonder if it's legal/possible to sell both my 737 and 777 licenses for FSX? I switched to P3D a long time ago and the only reason FSX is still installed on my machine is because of these aircraft but I want to get rid of that sim. The problem is since there is still no upgrade option for P3D, I'm stuck with it.

Looks fantastic. Are those REX soft clouds?

There is a trick with their Concorde on how to save +- 500MB VAS at high resolutions. My setup has 3 screens with a total resolution of 5980x1080 and I'm running Concorde at busy addon airports without VAS issues. The thing is you have to reduce the window size of every 2D panel to fit a 1080p screen since they can eat a lot of memory when stretched across the display which is the result when going multi screen or any resolution above 1080p. Maybe it's the same with the airbus? That one surely has less panels than Concorde but who knows..

My P3D sim is running on a triple screen setup and changing the value mentioned above to single monitor doesn't do anything for me. What makes me laugh is that somehow people always suddenly seem to find a magical trick on how to gain 5-10fps more with a simple tweak but none haven't worked for me yet, even in FSX times. I must be doomed.. EDIT: Apparently this only works for OpenGL. As P3D/FSX runs on DirectX, no win for us guys.

Noticed something strange after installing REX 4 normal clouds in P3Dv3.3. It looks like a mix of normal and soft clouds: I installed soft clouds just before, but normally, by installing another cloud set they're supposed to be overwritten or am I wrong?? EDIT: This seems to be set-specific if I'm not mistaken. I installed another one (no soft clouds) and it doesn't show these fluffy clouds.

Up until now I can't see what people are hyped about with AS2016/ASCA. I have tried none of them yet but judging from the screenshots and videos there's nothing that would justify the upgrade price. ASN + REX4 has always been the best weather experience so far. This is of course my personal opinion..

So basically I shouldn't have problems with soft clouds when my textures are set to 2048 in P3D and 1024 in REX since they are only 512? I also tried with 1024 in both programs (as P3D doesn't have the option for 512x512) and clouds are still a killer.

Here's something to try: Don't install REX soft clouds but choose another cloud set. I noticed a very bad performance hit using soft clouds when flying through them. Then I installed 2048 cloud textures and did the same test again, no fps hit. Although soft clouds are lower res. textures, there's something odd about them.