Young Ntr09 reported to us that the new Nvidia 295.73 drivers increased his shadows performance, so I gave it a burl last night, without much performance difference.
Then tonight I had more time, so was able to test the shadows performance more, and wow! I definitely notice an improved ability to run with medium shadows, possibly even high if I don’t want the silky 25-30 fps.
I filmed the above video much as I first experienced the flight – had a ‘pinch me’ moment, looking out and seeing my plane’s shadow follow me and even the gear retract on takeoff.
Go gettit if you are able!
Nice.
@AMD users… If you want to voice your opinion about the bad OpenGL performance of Raeon cards on X-Plane directly to the creator of AMD Catalyst, tweet him at @CatalystCreator
It seems it will take more than just LR to fix this.
Awesome. I was a little hesitant to try the new drivers, but since you posted this awesome video i will now have to go get them right now this instant, ok ,by.
Same here, but more research revealed many are happy in the gaming community. Plus…u can always rollback.
I too would be pissed if I had those AMD issues, go twhinge!
Simon
Without these new drivers I can run HDR and high global shadows with some room left over for tons of buildings and tons of roads. The default 747 runs a little slowly with all of that though.
Just an update to what I’ve said previously, I went to KCSV (my home base) and turned global shadows ALL THE WAY UP to Melt your GPU and with HDR on and “very high” res, I was getting 25-30 FPS in the Caribou you guys reviewed earlier (And I run a GTX460!!). It was an amazing experience.
-NR
Sounds great, and thanks for your reports! This is getting complicated! I did try the melt setting, but I could smell melting!
But in country settings with fewer objects, yeah, very high is doable for me.
Simon
So glad I went to Nvidia!!!
Yup! Simon
I would have done the same… if only NVIDIA supported a 3-display setup from one single card. Hopefully the upcoming cards will do it