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PrePar3Dv4 64 bit FS

Alabeo Piper Tri-Pacer

 

FSX is off my computer, I made the move to 64bit FS. The sky is a little to bright, I'm waiting for REX and Active Sky and there new 64 bit program at the moment. I'm also fooling around with PTA, tweaking different Prepar3D shaders.

 

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Bravo Adam, your post just reinforced what I have been thinking the past two weeks. BTW, I have been also fooling with PTA, trying to get it just right, let me know if you want a preset.

There is a texture program that goes great with PTA, clouds, sky mainly, you can look it up at the PTA forum.

It is just so noticeable better, performance wise, looks wise, and everyone is developing for it now.

BTW part II, I looked at Xplane 11 with their ortho scenery, but not many developers are going there.

BTW part III, great post:cool:

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Thanks for the info Bernardo. What a difference from FSX in every respect. With the default scenery I was getting 100+fps and with Orbx i'm getting 50fps with all graphics sliders to the right, not to shabby. To top it off a lot of my payware planes are already updated for V4. :D Aerofly2 is another keeper, pretty amazing stuff. Anyway, i'll let you know about presets.

 

Didn't know there was a P3D screenshot forum. :rolleyes:

 

Maybe Piper made them that way Allen, don't know. ;)

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There is still one thing preventing me to jump to P3D4 and it has to do with TrackIr, more specifically the inability to auto-disable TrackIR in external views. For FSX and up to P3D3, I use a utility called JAB_FSX.exe which automatically disables TrackIR when you switch to external views. This enables you to move the external camera with keyboard keys or joystick hat, instead of the camera swinging about wildly with your head movements. (Most other flight sims do this natively, like X-Plane, Aerofly, DCS World, even FS9)

 

Unfortunately JAB_FSX is 32-bit and the author has stopped supporting it, so no luck getting it to work in P3D4.

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Lovely shots Adam, you have a thing for the Tri-Pacer... On a related note, couldn't help noticing the P3D virtues brought up. Is it really faster? I have FSX will I get any advantage by moving to P3D? What about my FSX add ons, will these work on P3D?

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im curikous about this to..im building a 737 home cockpit and I was going to use FSX for the scenery with add ons... should i go a different route.?

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Peter, unfortunately that's what happens when you upgrade. I have a lot of scenery, planes, you name it that will never be made available to a 64 bit FS, but for better performance and cool features that could never happen with FSX, so be it. :)
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Thank you Khalid. :) Yeah, I have a thing for the Tri-Pacer, great plane for taking in the scenery and it plain just looks. :D

 

V4 is a lot faster and smoother and none of the OOM stuff. I'm getting 50+fps with Orbx scenery and sliders maxed. Out of the box so to speak, I was getting 100+fps. I don't know what you have, but a lot of things are already available to V4. Carenado, Alabeo, Milviz and others to name a few. You will probably lose something along the way, but, you can chauk that up to progress. :D

 

Jim, ;)

 

Ohio, I wouldn't waste my time with FSX, the future is with a 64 bit FS, whether it's P3Dv4, Aerofly, FSW or something else. :)

 

Thanks for the info Bernardo. :)

 

Larry, ain't that the truth. :)

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There is still one thing preventing me to jump to P3D4 and it has to do with TrackIr, more specifically the inability to auto-disable TrackIR in external views. For FSX and up to P3D3, I use a utility called JAB_FSX.exe which automatically disables TrackIR when you switch to external views. This enables you to move the external camera with keyboard keys or joystick hat, instead of the camera swinging about wildly with your head movements. (Most other flight sims do this natively, like X-Plane, Aerofly, DCS World, even FS9)

 

Unfortunately JAB_FSX is 32-bit and the author has stopped supporting it, so no luck getting it to work in P3D4.

 

You can just use the TrackIR hot key to disable it - personally I use Voice Attack to verbally turn it on or off... Chase Plane is also a must...

 

Superb set there Adam and you're just getting started - wow... I made the jump straight from FS9 to P3Dv3 and never looked back...

 

Regards,

Scott

 

 

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V4 is a lot faster and smoother and none of the OOM stuff. I'm getting 50+fps with Orbx scenery and sliders maxed. Out of the box so to speak, I was getting 100+fps. I don't know what you have, but a lot of things are already available to V4. Carenado, Alabeo, Milviz and others to name a few. You will probably lose something along the way, but, you can chauk that up to progress.

 

I am surprised to hear that, as I have FSX running faster and better than FSW - another 64-bit sim. Also had to reduce overclocking of my I7 960 CPU from 4.0 Ghz to 3.8 Ghz to avoid BSD's with FSW and DCS World 2 - both 64-bit sims.

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Thank you Ted. :)

 

Much appreciated Scott. :) Did I mention, I removed FSX. :D

 

John, I have FSW as well and it runs much much better than FSX. Must be a problem somewhere along the line. :confused:

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Thank you Ted. :)

 

Much appreciated Scott. :) Did I mention, I removed FSX. :D

 

John, I have FSW as well and it runs much much better than FSX. Must be a problem somewhere along the line. :confused:

 

 

Thanks for your comment. I am puzzled at this - FSW runs at 5-15 FPS over busy scenery and 20-22 over easier landscapes. FSX - with Orbx generic scenery added - runs at 20-60+ FPS with very high settings. I tried the XP-11 demo, which runs solidly at 38-40 FPS at default settings, so the problem seems to be exclusively with FSW.

 

Sorry - didn't mean to hijack the thread.

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