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Prepar3d 2.5 is out

falcon409 said:
Sounds like you should stay with FSX then.
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The water issue has been thoroughly documented by others. I've seen it myself but maybe the new features of REX4 help, just haven't had enough time to play with it. As far as sticking with FSX, I'm using both, but am going to install 2.5 since I invested in a new Vcard for P3D. And there are certainly things that I do like, such as improved frame rates and cloud shadows. I can now fly around Seattle without a stutter fest.
 
With tesselation maxed, water maxed and ground textures resolution maxed, plus REX 4 "White Caps" animation the water is the best I've seen in both FSX/P3D IMHO. Wave 3d height is also variable according to wind speed:



 
TeiscoDelRay said:
What kind of horsepower does it take to run all those set to high?
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Depends where you are flying.
On P3D 2.4, on OrbX sceneries like PNW, I was getting excellent performance with my old GTX480, coupled with an i7 960 @ 3,7GHz. Performance was always smooth as long as I stayed away from major aiports like Seattle or Portland. Since I'm more a VFR/military flyer, this restriction was not problematic for me. In nicely detailled airfields like Bowerman for example, it was nice and smooth :)
 
TeiscoDelRay said:
What kind of horsepower does it take to run all those set to high?
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With a few exceptions, all my settings are to the extreme (cloud reflections in water drag down my fps) and my system is hardly a "beast".
AMD FX-4300 Quad-Core
3800Mhz
Win7 Home Premium 64bit_16mg RAM
NVidia GTX650Ti 2gig
2-21" flat screens

If I fly aircraft that are specific to P3D my framerates can be as high as the mid 30's depending on where I fly (cities are a strain as usual)
If I fly FSX Native aircraft the fps dips a bit to high 20's
If I fly FS9 portovers (I have less than 5 like that) then I'm lucky to get 18fps

The nice thing is that even at 18 it's still relatively smooth. One other thing I want to mention about the water. . .Snurdley mentioned that he saw no animation with the water in P3D. It must be set to "max" for that to show. Also, when you do that, if you have a boat (or even if you don't) get right down over the water and take a look. . .that's animation FSX will never have.
 
Ok where is the Addon Scenery folder in P3D tree?? How I am supposed to install CYFB Iqaluit and Acapulco and KSAT, KLAS??
 
There isn't one. Doesn't stop you making your one yourself though. Doesn't have to be in the P3d main folder, can be anywhere.
 
falcon409 said:
One other thing I want to mention about the water. . .Snurdley mentioned that he saw no animation with the water in P3D. It must be set to "max" for that to show. Also, when you do that, if you have a boat (or even if you don't) get right down over the water and take a look. . .that's animation FSX will never have.
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Thanks. I left the settings the same as FSX and expected to see the same effects. I'll give that a shot. Hope it doesn't hit the rig too hard.
 
Right!

I have now installed version 2.5 and I am having problems with external canopy reflectivity. In previous versions I had very nice reflective canopies on the F-35. F-22, the aerosoft F-14 and also Dino's MB-326. Now they are all dull showing no sign of diffuse alpha reflections (glass-like) at all. Does anyone else have this issue?

Best
Dag
 
DagR said:
Right!

I have now installed version 2.5 and I am having problems with external canopy reflectivity. In previous versions I had very nice reflective canopies on the F-35. F-22, the aerosoft F-14 and also Dino's MB-326. Now they are all dull showing no sign of diffuse alpha reflections (glass-like) at all. Does anyone else have this issue?

Best
Dag
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Not on my rig. have you checked the reflection settings??
 
Dag, I am (almost) sure you did these checks yourself already but just in case:

Are all required global environment/specular/fresnel maps present in the P3D .\Texture folder ? Many FSX addons use these global files:

Fresnel_Ramp.dds (or .bmp)
GlobalEnv_AC_Chrome.dds
GlobalEnv_AC_Glass_T.dds
GlobalEnv_AC_Glass_spec_T.dds
GlobalEnvTest.dds

And this is a long shot: I would delete/rebuild the shader cache (located in "C:\Users\your username\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin").
 
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