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I don't have any other controllers plugged in, only the joystick. Yes, trimming is always an option, however not in ultralights for example. I bought Asobos latest Top Rudder Solo 103 and even at full throttle I have to keep constant backpressure on the joystick otherwise it will nosedive in to the ground. Is this realistic behaviour? I thought sufficient airspeed+lift=positive attitude.

Thanks for the advice, however, it didn't make any difference. Still pitches down.

This is driving me nuts and keeps from wanting to fly the sim. In any aircraft I get a slight downpitch which leads to having to constantly trim just to keep aircraft level. In aircraft i.e microlights, it's worse since they have usually don't have trimtabs. I have to constantly have joystick backpressure just to avoid diving in to the ground. I've tried everything, resetting controller profiles, calibrating in windows, tried 2 different controllers, TM 16000 and Logitech Extreme 3D Pro but they are both exhibiting the same behaviour. In FSX, P3D and X-Plane 11 I have NO issues at all. Maybe I've missed something obvious like if FS2020 has a total different way of simulating flight physics. It's just that I'm so used to, for example, trim my A2A Cherokee with the thottle alone which I thought was quite realistic. In FS2020 however, aircraft are practically glued to the runway at even high airspeeds due to the downpitch problem. It's really bad, please help.

Yeah, on the flipside you are now limited by vram which is untweakable. I'd rather fight fps than vram because you have a hard limit on vram, with fps you can always compromise.

Ok guys, I might just try it out. Thanks for all the input.

Thanks for the input Nyxx but I do believe you get better details with 4k textures on an actual 4k screen. You would have to zoom in an awful lot on an aircraft on a 1080p monitor to appreciate the difference between let's say 2048 textures and 4096 textures.

Thanks for your input guys, no need for 4k textures on my 1080p monitor. Torsen, do report back on your flight, if you ctd or not 🙂

So I really want to get the FlyhtemaddogX for P3Dv5 since I'm upgrading to that platform as well soon but when I read that the MINIMUM vram requirements are 8gb I quickly hesitated since I only have a GTX 1660 super 6gb card. It really is asking a lot from users to buy 8gb+ graphics cards just to use certain add-ons and I won't upgrade my gpu for at least a year or so. If one were to use the MaddogX in 1024 texture resolution with only active sky and not other add-ons, would it be possible to use a 6gb card only? Does anyone have experience with the MaddogX in P3Dv5 using only a 6gb card? Any feedback would be useful.

Cheers!/Andreas

15 minutes ago, tktheo93 said:

What's on today? 

This I think https://secure.simmarket.com/sim-bit-world-sibiu-international-airport-lrsb-p3d.phtml

Thinking about getting the Flysimware Falcon 50 or their Lear rendition, which do you guys recommend

W

2 hours ago, Peter Webber said:

I believe due to the water rendering optimization which you refer to, you are having a "sub conscious" "ooo!" "aaaa!" reflex action. Welcome to the 4.4 club...😊

What I meant was that of course people will see performance improvements when they go from a totally add-on burdened old install of P3D to a completely fresh add-onless install. "Amazing! my sim runs so well withouth 876 add-ons installed to it!" lol!

I love it when there's a new P3D release/update and everybody goes "ooo!" and "aaaa!" about the performance when running a clean P3D install without add-ons. Whilst on the subject of performance, water rendering has apparently been optimized a bit, according to the release notes, so that's good I guess.

1 hour ago, ashepherd316 said:

i have a 7700k and it says im vulnerable what do i do.

You don't have to do anything, Microsoft are already distributing software updates through Windows Update to mitigate these issues. If you're on Windows 7 or 10 you're probably already updated.

17 minutes ago, TheFinn88 said:

Very beautiful paints Jan! They look gorgeous!

As a finn, I would love to see the DC-6 in the colors of Kar-Air (OH-KDC / http://www.globe-air.ch/bigpicture/picture_id/13692).

Sign me up on that one too.

Yes but it only seems to affect pre-Bulldozer (FX-series) CPU's, Athlons and Turions etc. You should have written "Meltdown updates bricking older generation AMD PC's!". Otherwise people might get it wrong and think it affects the newer AM4 platform which it doesn't.

On 2018-01-13 at 7:17 PM, martin-w said:

 

I have a Maximus X Code and 8700K to install. I don't regret this decision one iota. I expect a barely noticeable reduction in performance. Meanwhile. AMD PC's are being bricked by the updates.

What do you mean "AMD PC's are being bricked by the updates."? Haven't heard anything about that. I've heard that people who are using old Athlon and Turion CPU's (from like 2008?) are having performance issues, sure but just as you I haven't noticed much of a difference either and I'm on a AM4 platform with an AMD Ryzen CPU.

Good to know that I won't be upgrading my whole AMD platform to an Intel platform in the foreseeable future. I know AMD is affected too, to a certain degree but it's Intel who's playing a shady game right now. I have an Asus B350-F board so I don't have to upgrade that part, or any other, when I will upgrade to the next generation (Ryzen 2) of Zen-based CPU's. Feel sorry for Win7 users still sitting on Haswell, which are still relevant, or older platforms, they'll most likely have some sort of noticeable performance degradation. 

Easily the GPU. That Haswell i7 still has life in it but even something like a GTX 1060 6GB would be a noticeable improvement over that GTX 780.

Beautiful jankees!

DCS gets old real fast if you don't enjoy flying over the same few, limited maps over and over again. It's a combat sim and it does just that very well but for GA you can't even compare it to FSX/P3D.

19 minutes ago, downscc said:

1Gb video memory is the absolute minimum required for P3D, according to their system requirements page in the LM website here, where the recommendation is for 4 Gb: https://www.prepar3d.com/system-requirements/

This looks like either a low memory problem or you have a poltergeist in the panel.  Perhaps you could try different display options to see if that clears... or just don't zoom into the region where higher resolution is obtained.

I just re-installed the latest drivers and cleared my PTA "infected" shaders cache and it now seems to have resolved itself. Hopefully tomorrow MS will also release that update to fix the "error creating child window" error that ruins most addon airplanes in FSX and P3Dv3.

Cheers!/Andreas Andersson

So I was just zooming around the cockpit from the captains view and noticed that the FO instrument textures goes all crazy when you zoom in on them at a certain level. Looks kind of like what an old TV set would display when nothing is broadcasting. This screenshot was taken in a fresh, vanilla P3Dv3 installation, latest nvidia drivers. Graphics card is an Asus GTX 1050 2GB.

Cheers!/Andreas Andersson

I guess it's the same story as always, P3D might be somewhat better multi-threaded than FSX but it's still pedal to the middle on that first core. For modern game titles, the 8700k shows huge performance gains thanks to the extra physical cores. I doubt you would see a large performance gain, I guess the minimum fps would better with all those cores creating a somewhat smoother experience. Since the IPC is basically identical to the 7700k I still doubt you'll see any bigger gains.

The day flight sims moves to a truly modern API like DX12 or Vulcan, where workload is shifted more to the GPU, we'll see truly great gains in performance, just like in newer well-optimized game titles. Just look at Doom running with the Vulcan API, you could run that thing on a potato CPU, 60 fps high settings, as long as the GPU is somewhat decent.

It's no longer a question of obtaining better hardware, we have truly powerful PC hardware already. It's the flight sim software that is lagging behind, platforms that still carry parts of over 10 year old legacy code.

56 minutes ago, rooitou said:

Just be careful of PC Aviator. I have bought a ton of stuff from them before, but find that they are either the slowest with product updates, don't update at all or don't notify about updates (and take very long to answer support requests). The Australian PCAviator site is even worse, they dropped several products for which there are now P3D4 updates, but unavailable from their website. I have to resort to begging the developers directly, which is not always successful.

I can attest to this, don't be fooled by slightly lower prices. Download speeds at pcaviator are slow and often the downloads fail so you have to use a download manager. I've had to mail them several times to get some products updated. They are helpful though but it's not worth the bother, I'd rather spend a few euros more at another vendor that I can trust to get fast and up-to-date downloads from without having to remind them about it every time. I buy most stuff from justflight.com, great download speeds, fast to update products plus a bonus reward program. So don't always go for cheapest.

A few things to remember beforing bashing FSW. First off, it's in EARLY ACCESS! This means that it ISN'T FINISHED YET. It's closer to an alpha version of the game rather than a beta since they are still adding completely new features to it, i.e Truesky etc. Secondly, you get a whole lot for even the standard price, a flight simulator with a handful of PAYWARE aircraft AND Orbx FTX Global which alone costs close to 100 aussie dollars (half price right now because of Orbx sale) so a bit of perspective before you start thrashing it. I haven't bought it yet but for so cheap right now I'm thinking about getting it just to get on the early bird train. The more sims on the market, the better. ATM I'm mostly busy with FSX:SE and P3Dv3.4 (yeah haven't even upgraded to P3Dv4 yet) and it's fantastic when you think about it that there is still XP11 AND FSW to try out, when time and money permits. Never been a better time to fly airplanes or helos virtually!