

Here's NZWR - with over-done cloud shadows and no terrain shadowing to soeak of: my only affordable option (a 6GB GTX1660) may fare hardly better than my trusty old GTX970. Apparently even 8GB on your GPU isn't enough (what planet are these people on?). Not sure whether this feature/tickbox was present in 4.5, but the landscape lighting was full of relief.Ħ) Performance: I've re-installed only around half of my addon aircraft and scenery, yet each time I go into *any* P3D menu, the sim takes over a minute to bring up the option - no matter what it is - not just the aircraft list panel (which always took a while in my P3D).ħ)VRAM: v5 seems to eat it up, so the only way I can run the sim is to knock back my settings (across the board) a lot - well below what I could easily run in 4.5. Terrain can cast shadows - but not receive them, so hilly landscape looks flat and featureless. Too contrasty and totally unbalanced.Ĥ) Lighting: even with bloom disabled, you get bleaching out when viewing near the horizon - or overly dark anywhere near looking down - with or without the new "beta" atmospheric option.ĥ) No terrain shadowing. They could have "fixed" these by now - Shirley?Ģ) Water: disgusting as ever - and the dreaded "oily black water" remains. Obviously, my new v5 is missing REX, PTA and what-have-you, but I think there are many core visual problems that none of those will totally cure:ġ) The dreaded blobby clouds.

everything.Ī bit like me - verging on the old and decrepit: it was sh*t or bust! After having read so many glowing reports about how you actually *gain* performance, I thought "what have I got to lose?". Sadly, I don't have the HD space (or spare SATA slots) to have both P3Dv4.5 and 5.0 on the same system.
