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DVA2230
Senior Captain, B777-200

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Posted onPost created on December 31 2019 09:11 ET by Isidoro Attie

Hi everyone. I need an advice.

My system is two years old now, and with the new PBR textures and dynamic lighting in p3d, it’s practically impossible to fly the PMDG birds at night. My frames drop from stable 30s to almost one digit.

I currently Have the GTX 1080 with an I7 7700k OC at 5.0 GHz and 32 gb of RAM

Do you think that the RTX 2080 would make an improvement in this?

Thank you.

Isidoro Attie (DVA2230)

DVA11704
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Posted onPost created on February 07 2020 23:37 ET by Ryan Dewey

Hey Isidoro,

This seems to be a known issue about the dynamic lighting. I personally don't have the bad frame rate issue and I am running a i7 9700k without o/c paired with a RTX2080 Super and 32 gigs of RAM. I have seen a ton of threads on sites like Avsim discussing potential fixes, but they seem to get mixed reviews. For what it's worth, I just recently installed p3d on my computer and haven't really messed with the default settings much. In other words they are in the low to medium range. The only gripe I have about the dynamic lighting thus far is the way they illuminate the cockpit of the Leonardo Maddog.

My advice would be to mess around with your settings before doing anything drastic. One thing I do remember reading from numerous sources was that SSAA (under the graphics section in p3d) wreaks havoc on frame rates in combination with dynamic lighting. Perhaps start by adjusting this. I wish I had a more definitive answer for you.

Ryan Dewey

Captain, B777-200

DVA043
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Posted onPost created on February 08 2020 11:20 ET by Luke Kolin

I would definitely look at your settings first. I have a 1070 (non-Ti) running at 2560x1440 and frames are "decent" except with the TFDi 717 and/or heavy cloud layers. Even then it's around 18-20 fps, and I keep wondering whether I should have gotten a 1080Ti. If Dynamic Lighting is killing you make sure you disable SSAA and use MSAA only; I believe SSAA and DL don't play well together.

Cheers!

Luke Kolin

Senior Captain, MD-11

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