Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 ...just KILLER! Top FPS, smoothness...(let the reader read all about the new 'made for W2004' update driver...whose new capabilities and features for DX12, are only engaged by W2004.) That has to be the Windows version needed to run the new DX12 supported driver features. I am running W2004 Pro, and the new DX12 enhanced (latest) driver...one word...the mist, reflections.....smoothness, FPS....the word...WOW! Running on a GTX 1070 8GB VRAM Water taxi out or Refuge Cove...with ASv5 for P3Dv5HF2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Just took off....wonderful graphics! Well, here's what's happening....I downloaded the created for W2004 nVidia driver with enhanced DX12 features, like VRAM DX12 Scheduling (only with W2004!), and after installing, I deleted my P3Dv5HF2 SHADER folder...bye-bye....rebooted my system, went and downloaded the new HF2 compatible AS, and then fired up v5 In the nVidia Driver, I have FPS locked down to 31, and in the sim, I have a setting of 120 FPS. With P3D v5HF2 and the W2004 nVidia driver, I have never seen better flight sim performance from my current 8 year old system. I have v5 full right...(except for EA True Sky, not enabled. I prefer Active Sky, (which can't render properly with EA engaged) doing its cloud 'thing'. I have now as you can see, very sophisticated water reflections...whereby not only are the mountain shapes and bodies reflected, but even their color pallet for vegetation and such, and not just a collage color blur in the mountain body reflection. No jaggies...perfect life-like water reflections. P3D v5HF2 is killer smooth, maintains top FPS, and looks #**@(( GORGEOUS! Cheers, Also, P3D v5HF2 is now optimized for Hyper Threading...(the more logical and virtual Cores, the better!) I have a Logical 4 Core CPU, so eight cores seen by W2004 in H.T. I have Core 0 running system backgrounds, and P3D v5HF2 on the next 7 Cores. To achieve that, I run an Affinity Mask setting of: 254 Runs like a dream! No forward animation STUTTER. Oh...a side note...if you use the FXAA feature in P3Dv5, it WILL introduce stop and start animation stutters. I run with 4X SA, only. FXAA is turned off. Flying over a glacier at 14,000 feet... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 Here's more about the new DX12 driver: There is a setting inside W2004 you need to turn on...and then re-boot: https://www.pcgamer.com/nvidias-latest-gpu-driver-lays-the-groundwork-for-next-gen-games/?utm_content=buffer302e5&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=buffer-pcgamertw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottGridley Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hot! I just got the updated driver installed, very pleased as well. I haven't touched affinity mask in v5 yet, so off to tweak! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lifejogger Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Amazing shots!!!!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, ScottGridley said: Hot! I just got the updated driver installed, very pleased as well. I haven't touched affinity mask in v5 yet, so off to tweak! Affinity Mask=254 on a FOUR LOGICAL CORE CPU, will leave Core 0 for BIOS operations, and Core 1-7 for P3D Ops....works beautifully with each core having head room, and resources to process. P3Dv5HF2 LOVES H.T. on...and if you have more than 4 logical cores...of course you will have to do some research for your A.M. setting, and what core you want the system to have predominately use of....so the CPU doesn't get bunged up with P3D render, but mostly---> I/O process. If you are running W2004, be sure to set the Graphics to allow HARDWARE Scheduling and VRAM management, to avail yourself of the new DX12 driver controls. It's been a fantastic flight experience today... Go to Settings/Devices/Graphics (down near the bottom of the page, and then flip on the feature at the top of the second page. REBOOT! Have fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, lifejogger said: Amazing shots!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks! An 8 year old, long-in-the-tooth system...but putting her heart into it...:) Not disappointed,..we'll stay married...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aviator49 Posted June 24, 2020 Share Posted June 24, 2020 Hello Orbx Flyer, Great pics. Thank you for sharing your experience with drivers and stuff. i am about to go and do it now myself. cheers Sam Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 24, 2020 Author Share Posted June 24, 2020 3 hours ago, aviator49 said: Hello Orbx Flyer, Great pics. Thank you for sharing your experience with drivers and stuff. i am about to go and do it now myself. cheers Sam Most happy to post along great experiences! Here's another article to show you what nVidia is up to, starting with this latest driver suite: https://www.pcgamer.com/directx-12-ultimate-is-an-attempt-to-future-proof-graphics-hardware/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Very nice indeed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioSessa Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Hi, can you post your nvidia settings for p3d ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 3 hours ago, AntonioSessa said: Hi, can you post your nvidia settings for p3d ? Sure, here you go.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioSessa Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Tnx a lot Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 3 hours ago, AntonioSessa said: Tnx a lot https://www.windowslatest.com/2020/02/16/windows-10-v2004-hardware-accelerated-gpu-scheduling/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoseCFII Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Beautiful pics Mitch. Thank you for your continued inspiration. I'm already on win 2004 and will update to the latest driver ASAP. It's hard to believe that my i7 2600K is still kicking... BTW, I upgraded my 1070 to a Pascal with 12gigs of VRAM and added 16gigs of system RAM. Now I have 32gigs of system RAM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 25, 2020 Author Share Posted June 25, 2020 4 hours ago, JoseCFII said: Beautiful pics Mitch. Thank you for your continued inspiration. I'm already on win 2004 and will update to the latest driver ASAP. It's hard to believe that my i7 2600K is still kicking... BTW, I upgraded my 1070 to a Pascal with 12gigs of VRAM and added 16gigs of system RAM. Now I have 32gigs of system RAM. Jose, your system blows mine clear out of that water I took off from, lol. My system...12 GB's of System RAM, seriously over-clocked. EVGA F.T.W. 1070 8GB i7-Extreme 975 4 Logical Cores at 4.5Ghz The beauty of it though, Jose...is that it still pumps out the visual goodies, at 30 FPS, with my sims 'cooking'. Unless it has an infarction....happy to stay with the status quo. If something does fatally go south...I'll go full hog, one last time....64 GB of hot system RAM, probably a 16 or 18 Logical core monster, and will pair that with the nVidia 3000 series-whatever's soon coming out. That would be my Swan Song, my dropping to dust...system. Happily though, that is just something I threaten myself with....and fortunately don't yet have to put the money, where the mouth is... Cheers! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy1252 Posted June 25, 2020 Share Posted June 25, 2020 Just want to add to the general chorus of wowness here. I'd pretty much stopped using v4 due to the inability to run it anywhere near the levels of detail I like. I'd ordered a new machine anyway, primarily in anticipation of FS 2020, when LM pushed v5 out with its DX12 upgrade. I've now got that installed and everything reinstalled on it, plus the win 2004 update, and today I put the new Nvidia driver on. And yes, the results are incredible. These pics give you an idea of the level of complexity I can get now. 4k screenies, if you can blow them up do so because this is all about detail. I really do have all the sliders maxed out and pretty much everything turned on (apart from speedtrees, of course). This used to be a slow sideshow for me, now I'm hitting 15-20 fps over the very worst bits of the city and mostly hitting my target rate of 30. And that's at this level of detail and with the camera drawn back to this focal length. In the last picture, the aircraft is over Hoddesdon (if you know the area) and I've annotated a couple of locations and their distance from the aircraft. Not perfect though. I do still get occasional stutters and pauses in scenarios like this. I'm experimenting with affinity masks to see if that helps, but I'm not really sure of any improvement yet. If anyone has got any advice on that I'm all ears. But yes, for me v5 is a real winner. V4 is functionally dead on my machine and will be removed once I'm sure I've saved all I need from it. (And this isn't even my favourite sim! The same sort of flight in X-Plane really is like sliding on a greased tray across a butter lake (but not as messy <grin>)) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightsWithJoel Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Just wondering, why delete shaders file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FlightsWithJoel Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Nevermind, found lots of info. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hauer Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Superb images and thanks so much for the extra settings info. Herman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orbx Flyer Posted June 26, 2020 Author Share Posted June 26, 2020 4 hours ago, Hauer said: Superb images and thanks so much for the extra settings info. Herman P3D v5HF2, is now a real treat. When MS2020 comes....it will get installed, but until then...most happy to wait it out. P3D v5HF2 is NO DOG! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taph Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Grand set of shots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack Sawyer Posted June 26, 2020 Share Posted June 26, 2020 Nice shots but since installing 2004 I haven’t seen one bit of improvement. Sorry to be a wet blanket but I got nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AntonioSessa Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 On 6/24/2020 at 8:35 PM, Orbx Flyer said: Just took off....wonderful graphics! Well, here's what's happening....I downloaded the created for W2004 nVidia driver with enhanced DX12 features, like VRAM DX12 Scheduling (only with W2004!), and after installing, I deleted my P3Dv5HF2 SHADER folder...bye-bye....rebooted my system, went and downloaded the new HF2 compatible AS, and then fired up v5 In the nVidia Driver, I have FPS locked down to 31, and in the sim, I have a setting of 120 FPS. With P3D v5HF2 and the W2004 nVidia driver, I have never seen better flight sim performance from my current 8 year old system. I have v5 full right...(except for EA True Sky, not enabled. I prefer Active Sky, (which can't render properly with EA engaged) doing its cloud 'thing'. I have now as you can see, very sophisticated water reflections...whereby not only are the mountain shapes and bodies reflected, but even their color pallet for vegetation and such, and not just a collage color blur in the mountain body reflection. No jaggies...perfect life-like water reflections. P3D v5HF2 is killer smooth, maintains top FPS, and looks #**@(( GORGEOUS! Cheers, Also, P3D v5HF2 is now optimized for Hyper Threading...(the more logical and virtual Cores, the better!) I have a Logical 4 Core CPU, so eight cores seen by W2004 in H.T. I have Core 0 running system backgrounds, and P3D v5HF2 on the next 7 Cores. To achieve that, I run an Affinity Mask setting of: 254 Runs like a dream! No forward animation STUTTER. Oh...a side note...if you use the FXAA feature in P3Dv5, it WILL introduce stop and start animation stutters. I run with 4X SA, only. FXAA is turned off. Flying over a glacier at 14,000 feet... Hi OrbxFlyer, can you post your P3D settings (Graphics, Lighting and World) ? Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dario Posted June 29, 2020 Share Posted June 29, 2020 Top class water effects! Really lovely shots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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