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Orbx Flyer

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  1. I just checked my BIOS...nope...won't be going to W11....
  2. Dell XPS 730x -------------------------- CPU: i7-970 Extreme (Four Core) running in HyperThread Mode (overdrive'd to 4.3 Ghz GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 8 GB non overclocked. 12 GB's of System Ram (in overdrive) On the Dell XPS 730x motherboard, you only can install 12 GB's, so I can't go to what I would want, which is at least 32 to 64, if I go to another motherboard. I can...and still keep the chassis. Haven't felt performance 'pressured' as of yet to make the move. I basically to get what you see rendered here Wain...is this: In P3D v5.2, I have all the sliders, all the effects at 100 percent. I have Shadows at Medium. I have water at either High or Ultra, depending on if I want surface 'fleck'. I never set below High. I have L.O.D. set to High, and don't go higher now than that. I have Tess at 100, I have the other's set to 5 and 7cm. I have a locked FPS setting of 33. I use no V-sync, but do have the nVidia mask set to 1/2 enabled. I run with MAXIMUM Performance also on the nVidia mask, as well as the first setting for Sharpness. The rest of the nVidia mask is Let App control. I use to have the LOD at full right...but a posting suggested that I'm wasting GPU/CPU rendering in what you 'can't see WILL HURT YOU. So, I started culling it back...and running a familiar (like the PNW) flight...from High, to Medium...and then finally back one notch to High, where it will be left. That was a great tip, and the power of a Forum! I have the other lower side set to all the 4x's...with Dynamic Texture Streaming as 'off'. I run with 16x for A.F. That about chalks it all up. What you see actually on my screenshots (in my opinion) hardly does the real live eye view justice. There is very much a loss of fidelity and quality when taking a shot to send up to the forum. I'm not ashamed one bit to say that this is truly (if I had to make a choice)...my preferred sim now. It just looks fantastic...runs fantastic...all the 'fantastic' rolled up now into one. I love water Wain...and this is the sim to bust all others for anything to do with marine, and marine operations. We'll see what MSFS does over the coming months/years with water...but for now...nothing (in my opinion) touches present v5.2's nVidia WaterWorks 2 for realism at Ultra. Planes rock in the waves, ships rock in the waves....and I'm loving it! Cheers!
  3. Dell XPS 730x -------------------------- CPU: i7-970 Extreme (Four Core) running in HyperThread Mode (overdrive'd to 4.3 Ghz GPU: EVGA GTX 1070 8 GB non overclocked. 12 GB's of System Ram (in BIOS overdrive/overclock) On the Dell XPS 730x motherboard, you only can install 12 GB's, so I can't go to what I would want, which is at least 32 to 64, if I go to another motherboard. I can...and still keep the chassis. Haven't felt performance 'pressured' as of yet to make the move.
  4. Thanks everyone for your comments. Next...Aussie 2.
  5. Stillwater, I'm having a MEGA blast...deeking now, low and slow over all the islands...near KORS....and if I see something...like that Kayak Cove...I drop to the water and taxi in...and check it all out. I never KNEW that Orbx had salted so much in, amongst and around all the islands...but they sure did, and having a blast discovering it all!!!! You need your top right Graphic Sliders jammed full right to see this...or you won't.
  6. Thank you, John...I'm now totally hooked on this version. I can't stop flying it! I'm next today going to hit Oceana...Australia II.
  7. I have a very modest (by today's standards!) system....and all this is being generated in v5.2 by a GTX 1070 (non Ti) 8 GB. All graphic sliders to the right, but for LOD at High. I'm getting very much pegged to my FPS lock of 31. This is the best looking, the best performing M.S. based (non scenery server) flight sim, out there! From FSX RTM to P3D v5.1. This was the 'knock out' punch we all have been looking for....for those that love their FSX/P3D experiences. This TRULY is the 'Holy Grail'...of all FSX/P3D prior renditions. Even a 6 GB card will make this look good! This would be (I feel) the sim-of-choice to run on a laptop. For sure!
  8. I have more detailed Carib scenery, but just wanted to start off sort of Orbx 'base' and see how it scales up. This is Orbx Base for the area The water colors and masking, small reefs under water is totally P3D v5.2 no water add on's. All my atmospherics in any of my postings is via a running A.S.
  9. I have seen this to some degree when very close to what Orbx might want sand and gravel patches to look like. In the scene though, it doesn't take away from the whole picture, at least for me. This is not all the time, but on some of the smaller islands, where green forestry is sparse, you might see this. Not a game stopper at all. I hardly focus on it, as a singularity. If I had to guess, I'd say that that was a low rez texture asset, and not an inability for P3D 5.2 to realize better and more formed/clear. I think this has to be tweaked by Orbx....
  10. Thanks, Lifejogger...and I found something interesting today. In that Kayak Camp scene, and little cove, I was on Ultra Water...and with A.S. in play, there was little wave action...but..as soon as I cleared the cove and more into open water...where the wind enacts upon nVidia WaterWorks 2.0, the waves started to roll. So..it is not 'canned' water animation...the water surface is truly driven by the wind...and most importantly, I found out now...is that land mass, islands, etc...blocking the wind, will cause less wave, or little wave action, until you are clear of structures. How's that for water/weather realism?
  11. It is the 'look' that has me...and now totally in. If Orbx keeps coming up with great stuff for it....I will certainly be interested in purchasing!
  12. The water shallows to my right have 'depth of field' that you can see 'down' into the water at the bottom sand. This abounds everywhere. I can't wait to try out flights in the Caribbean. I haven't even left PNW much. Having a blast...thanks Orbx for great scenery, and THANK YOU L.M. for FINALLY somebody putting out a full feature flight simulator, that you can SEE what you paid for those many years ago! Thank YOU! (bowing, hand's touching ground...) Thank you!
  13. Why, I'm discoveirng such Orbx GEMS...and 'finds', amonst the islands in the PNW, that I didn't even know there were art assets for it! The water masks, are the best I have ever seen, from any version of ANY flight sim platform. Lockheed Martin...should win an award with this release. My gawd..they 'knocked it outta the park HOME RUN! Baby...HOME friggin...RUN!" Orbx Flyer 'easter eggs', everywhere! Orbx all in, running inside P3D v5.2, is just a most beautiful, graphic world...(all 'content' sliders at full right)what they have done with this release, is amazing!
  14. .....arriving at my Charter's kayaking excursion's and base camp... "Hey...nice little place...I'll have to remember this to take my wife for the same!"
  15. ....and we are away! Great day for a tour of the PNW...with PAYING passengers....!!!!
  16. What a beautiful morning, it is! What Jackie Gleason use to say; "How sweet, it IS!" ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  17. I still have ten fingers and no broken hands...so "Thumb's UP!" Wait a minute...why is my thumb not wiggling?"
  18. "Well, I know for myself...totally hooked through the mouth...and L.M is just reeling me in, LOL! A HotFix 1 is in the making for a few 'swats'...very minor, but will be attended to."
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