Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - P3Dv4 shakeout flight

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DVA043
Senior Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on June 10 2001
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"Col. Panic"
Marietta, GA

2,306 legs, 9,290.0 hours
240 legs, 553.9 hours online
1,964 legs, 8,083.1 hours ACARS
75 legs, 196.3 hours event
2,342 legs, 9,424.9 hours total
91 legs dispatched, 66.4 hours

Posted onPost created on June 11 2017 17:11 ET by Luke Kolin

Did a shakeout flight with ACARS Build 120 Beta 5 and the PMDG777 in P3Dv4. Graphics are pretty stunning and the frame rates are great to acceptable in most situations - I think I have the autogen a little too high.

FSDT JFK and ZRH, PMDG777, AS16. Running on a i7-4770K at 4Ghz with an 8GB 1070.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA11584
Captain, B737-800
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on June 16 2013
50 State Club
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Huntersville, NC

388 legs, 453.1 hours
259 legs, 313.6 hours online
387 legs, 451.7 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 11 2017 17:47 ET by Charles Blankenship

What were the framerates at the airports and what airport scenery do you have loaded?

I ask because I have an i4770K@4.5GH with a GTX780 video card and the FSDreamTeam Charlotte/Douglas drops my framerates to around 13 to 15 ... running the PMDG 737-800 NGX.

I'm wondering if I should switch to P3Dv4 and give up on FSX Acceleration.

C. T. Blankenship

Charles Blankenship (DVA11584)

Posted onPost created on June 11 2017 20:53 ET by Luke Kolin

Charles Blankenship wrote:

What were the framerates at the airports and what airport scenery do you have loaded?

You should be able to check by viewing my logbook and downloading the CSV data from the flight. In most cases it's 15-25 fps at the airports; certainly fast enough most of the time that I'm not complaining.

I ask because I have an i4770K@4.5GH with a GTX780 video card and the FSDreamTeam Charlotte/Douglas drops my framerates to around 13 to 15 ... running the PMDG 737-800 NGX. I'm wondering if I should switch to P3Dv4 and give up on FSX Acceleration.

You should definitely get better performance on P3D, but purchasing the PMDG again isn't going to be fun. At least the FDST sceneries are free from FSX to p3D.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP

Joined on July 26 2015
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"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on June 11 2017 22:31 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Wow. It's beautiful. I may pick this up.

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

DVA7171
Senior Captain, B757-200

Joined on March 14 2009
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"Walk away from all your landings..."
Sebring, FL

725 legs, 1,676.2 hours
573 legs, 1,401.2 hours online
716 legs, 1,660.6 hours ACARS
56 legs, 127.6 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 12 2017 20:09 ET by Sergio Lopez

Not seeing the picture for some reason....

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA9545
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP, 737-ATP

Joined on March 03 2011
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"YUPIIIII"
Goiás Brazil

2,492 legs, 5,039.3 hours
2,321 legs, 4,760.9 hours online
2,484 legs, 5,009.7 hours ACARS
271 legs, 683.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 13 2017 12:29 ET by Thiago Braga

Sergio Lopez wrote:

Not seeing the picture for some reason....

Try cleaning your cookies.

Thiago Braga (DVA9545)

Posted onPost created on June 13 2017 20:55 ET by Sergio Lopez

There they are! Very nice!

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA12946
First Officer, CRJ-200
OLP

Joined on April 10 2016
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Moncks Corner, SC

166 legs, 397.7 hours
10 legs, 18.7 hours online
165 legs, 396.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on June 14 2017 03:07 ET by Matthew Frazier

AMAZING. I think my wife would kill me if I spent what I have on FSX SE again!!! Too bad FSW doesn't have what P3D has!

Matthew Frazier

First Officer, CRJ-200

Posted onPost created on June 14 2017 18:54 ET by Sergio Lopez

That's about what I'm getting as of last night. V4 is amazing.

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA1190
Senior Captain, B777-200
OLP

Joined on April 21 2003
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"Never try, never fail"
Greenville, SC

524 legs, 1,777.8 hours
490 legs, 1,650.8 hours online
144 legs, 373.3 hours ACARS
35 legs, 89.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on June 14 2017 19:35 ET by David Schaum

Does anyone have any tips on installation of V4? For example, I have V3.4 I plan to clear everything off my computer of version 3.4 before downloading V4. Should I clear all addon's and reinstall them as well? I'm actually thinking of doing a reformat on my Flight simulator drive to have a nice clean slate.

Any comments?

David Schaum

Senior Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on June 14 2017 19:57 ET by Sergio Lopez

Luke, is there a special way to make ACRS recognize V4, or em I missing something? It won't recognize it right now...

Sergio Lopez (DVA7171)

DVA10641
Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200
OLP

Joined on March 29 2012
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Rosemount, MN USA

1,987 legs, 4,456.2 hours
1,865 legs, 3,929.2 hours online
1,967 legs, 4,422.4 hours ACARS
638 legs, 1,290.5 hours event
18 legs dispatched, 157.2 hours

Posted onPost created on June 30 2017 11:16 ET by Jason Boche

Beautiful and hope you enjoyed Luke!

For me what started out last weekend as an experiment with P3D v4 has quickly transitioned into a full blown commitment and a lot of joy this past week. Coming from FSX, P3D v4 is amazing and breathes new life into flight simulation. I'm running on my older 4 year old rig, going from memory here Intel core i7 (3770k?) overclocked to about 4GHz, MSI GeForce 660Ti, 16GB RAM, Windows 7. Getting 25-60 FPS depending on view and location. Add on airports like FB KFSO, JFK, etc. which used to make FSX crawl at 7-10 FPS, P3D v4 runs so much smoother. Best and probably most important of all, OOMs are gone (keeping my fingers crossed). It's not a cheap transition (what hobby is?), but for the amount of time spent and enjoyment I get out of flight simulation and the community, the dollar stretches very far.

Don't get me wrong, FSX was great and accomplished far more than what should have been asked from it. Very appreciative of the years I spent on that platform, but also glad to shed all of the baggage it had.

Jason Boche

Assistant Chief Pilot, B757-200

DVA2496
Senior Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on July 13 2005
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"Delta Connect - Antigua to world"
Cassada Gardens, Saint John Antigua and Barbuda

1,906 legs, 6,062.5 hours
1,810 legs, 5,801.5 hours online
1,766 legs, 5,647.3 hours ACARS
76 legs, 159.2 hours event
641 legs dispatched, 253.3 hours

Posted onPost created on July 06 2017 18:05 ET by Perez Howson

Very nice.

Perez Howson (DVA2496)

DVA5857
Captain, B767-300

Joined on April 23 2008
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Northeastern United States

515 legs, 1,054.0 hours
502 legs, 1,022.2 hours online
513 legs, 1,050.8 hours ACARS
15 legs, 33.0 hours event

Posted onPost created on October 27 2017 01:08 ET by Chuck Angle

I am using P3Dv4 with the Aerosoft CRJ, all the visuals maxed out, ASN, Rex soft clouds, stock airports. I never realized there was a difference in frame rates when comparing the cockpit views to the outside views. Up at altitude outside i can get about 70fps. At the same location but inside it drops to about 46. Then on final to an airfield it drops to about 36. Is the frame rate in ACARS an average? Do you like the FSDT P3Dv4 airfields?

Chuck Angle

Captain, B767-300

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