RWC clouds distance

[Tinamus]

Hi Skymax staff,

Please let me know how it works RWC, because i'm a little bit confused: this is my settings and my pc spec you see on signature.

Looks the image too.

As you can see the clouds are alway "near to me", if i go on high altitude i see the clouds on the little square where i'm.

I guess that the RWC borned to change this and show us the clouds as real (according to metar obviously) and so i should see clouds on the horizons....or i'm in wrong ?

is there some settings no good for you ?

Thx you so much

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[Cameron]

29 minutes ago, Tinamus said:

I guess that the RWC borned to change this and show us the clouds as real (according to metar obviously) and so i should see clouds on the horizons....or i'm in wrong ?

If you want to see more clouds ahead of you (assuming there even are any) you will need to increase the "cloud area covered" setting.

[Tinamus]

Yes of course, but if i do it, my fps drop down immediatly......

[Cameron]

6 minutes ago, Tinamus said:

Yes of course, but if i do it, my fps drop down immediatly......

Well, yes. That's a factor of your video card, sir. Same consequence of upping rendering settings in X-Plane!

[Tinamus]

mmmm, fast answer, but no good answer cameron, it seem to be it's necessary a computer of NASA department to run skymaxx+RWC togheter and so have everythings the product promise....

btw, thank you for your response.

Edited April 16, 2016 by Tinamus

[Cameron]

11 minutes ago, Tinamus said:

mmmm, fast answer, but no good answer cameron, it seem to be it's necessary a computer of NASA department to run skymaxx+RWC togheter and so have everythings the product promise....

No offense, but a GTX 770 is not a monster of a graphics card. It does the job...exactly as you're getting.

Want better performance? Buy the nicer cards. This is why Nvidia creates so many levels of them!

You couldn't run X-Plane itself on max settings with this card, so I'm not sure why you're calling this a not so good answer. Hardware is important!

[Tinamus]

xplane'hobby is going to be ruins my financial.....

thx you cameron, i'll wait for next video card to see skymaxx+rwc in action 

[Diego747s]

2 hours ago, Cameron said:

No offense, but a GTX 770 is not a monster of a graphics card. It does the job...exactly as you're getting.

Want better performance? Buy the nicer cards. This is why Nvidia creates so many levels of them!

You couldn't run X-Plane itself on max settings with this card, so I'm not sure why you're calling this a not so good answer. Hardware is important!

Even with a GTX 970 or 980 you can´t max out settings without having a massive fps drops, and we are talking about one of the most expensive and nice cards you can get on the market.

[Cameron]

40 minutes ago, Diego747s said:

Even with a GTX 970 or 980 you can´t max out settings without having a massive fps drops, and we are talking about one of the most expensive and nice cards you can get on the market.

What's your point? I have a GTX 980ti. I didn't buy it thinking my FPS in X-Plane would stay at 100fps if I moved X-Plane's resolution settings to max; with or without SMP/RWC...would you? There's consequences to every action; in every game. Ever seen the crazy FPS hit when you move the cloud slider for default clouds? Trust me, I can uninstall SkyMaxx Pro and RWC and bring my FPS in X-Plane down to a crawl with NO third party items even on my card if I wanted to.

This is called future proofing hardware. Sometimes this "argument" cracks me up. I hear about the stuff people at Laminar have to go through dealing with customers expecting crazy performance with the latest and greatest. Simply unrealistic!

What you CAN do is find a happy medium and be more than satisfied with the results, especially with the high end cards!

Start understanding your hardware and not having unrealistic expectations and you'll live a far happier life.

[sundog]

For the record, I have a GTX970 can can run at around 50 FPS even with SkyMaxx Pro's cloud draw area set to the maximum setting, in cloudy conditions with RWC on. (Proof below for the doubters!) We carefully selected the maximum setting of this slider so that you could still get good performance with it all the way up on a modern PC, as we know a lot of customers just turn everything to the max and expect things to keep working smoothly.

Where people get into trouble is when they install things like HD Mesh that consumes all of their video memory, leaving nothing left over for SkyMaxx Pro.

[Tinamus]

I'll try to remove hd mesh and photoscenery, I'll report again my performance.

[Tinamus]

Nothing new. My system loss too much fps on demo area too.

I have to rollback to v2 version that was pretty good.

Unfortunately I paid for a sw that I'll not use anymore (connector )

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[MercuryMat]

This is the problem of not having a demo version or a trial to test before buying. I agree rwc is a fps killer and vram eater, even with small numbers of clouds in the sky the vram is almost full (200/300 mb free on a 6Gb 980 ti, almost 2gb more than without SMP/RWC).

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[sundog]

Tinamus, turn up your cloud detail setting in X-Plane's rendering settings to 80%, and tell me if your performance is any better in the same weather conditions compared to using Skymaxx Pro. If you aren't running out of memory, I'm pretty confident that it isn't. Skymaxx Pro is not a "FPS killer" people - running out of memory is, and turning up all of your settings in general is.

Mad Mat - SMP does not consume 2 gigabytes of VRAM in any circumstance. As a test, I turned up SMP's cloud draw area to its maximum setting, and measured memory usage using GPU-Z with SMP enabled and disabled. Even in this worst-case scenario, SMP consumed no more than 500 MB. Using SMP's default settings, only a 7MB difference was measured.

[Cameron]

This is the problem of not having a demo version or a trial to test before buying. I agree rwc is a fps killer and vram eater, even with small numbers of clouds in the sky the vram is almost full (200/300 mb free on a 6Gb 980 ti, almost 2gb more than without SMP/RWC).

...sent from TapaTalk.

I have the same card. Over 2GB free with the IXEG 737 and RWC in use. Setting above 10,000 on the distance for clouds.

There are tons of settings in X-Plane. Using them to your advantage is helpful!

[MercuryMat]

I know. Yesterday I put the drawing distance to max and tested. I used my airport LIMC that is very heavy on ram and CPU, i put HDMesh V3 with full photoreal. I know it is really a heavy setting, but when measuring the vram i noticed a high increase in usage compared to standard clouds. and the sky was absolutely not full of clouds.

[gcharrie]

17 hours ago, Tinamus said:

Nothing new. My system loss too much fps on demo area too.

I posted a topic on the SMP forum (here) saying that when increasing my cloud view distance, my FPS drop... until I reboot my computer (using RWC too with a gtx 980 4G ram).

Have you tried REBOOTING your PC just after changing the SMP settings ? I go from less than 15 FPS to 25 / 30 FPS

 

 

[Tinamus]

17 minutes ago, gcharrie said:

I posted a topic on the SMP forum (here) saying that when increasing my cloud view distance, my FPS drop... until I reboot my computer (using RWC too with a gtx 980 4G ram).

Have you tried REBOOTING your PC just after changing the SMP settings ? I go from less than 15 FPS to 25 / 30 FPS

 

 

Thx for the trick, for the moment i have to stay on 3.0 version, i've no any time to spend on this sw.

[mpedroni]

Hi sundog, may you post also your x-plane setting so we can try to reproduce on us system?

Ciao

Marco

[sundog]

1 hour ago, mpedroni said:

Hi sundog, may you post also your x-plane setting so we can try to reproduce on us system?

Ciao

Marco

I was using the "medium" render setting preset at the time.

[mpedroni]

Thanks