Bessere Performance für die 717?
Collin Biedenkapp (Lead TFDi Design programmer) announced the released of a significant performance update for their Boeing 717.
The focus of the update to version 1.0.9.27 is on performance enhancements including: a new display rendering system, a new texture processing system and a clean sheet sound system.
TFDi Design states “preliminary testing results have shown remarkable improvements.”
In order to get the update users will need to join the Community Opt-In Beta program. Once opted in, the update and future updates are pleasantly easy and automatic upon opening the TFDi Design add-on manager, similar to Precision Manuals Development Group (P.M.D.G.) Operations Center.
Folks, as promised, we have made several changes in 1.0.9.27 to improve performance, and preliminary testing results have shown remarkable improvements. I've detailed the specifics of the changes below.
We introduced a new display rendering system that is not only significantly clearer, but also faster and less resource intensive. We created a bridge that allowed us to render our displays using the same system RealLight and TrueGlass use to render at higher refresh rates with low performance impact. This is good all by itself, but even better when it replaces the archaic, horrendously slow gauge rendering system that was previously required.*
We created a new texture processing system to allow better compression without reducing visual quality of RealLight textures. This has allowed us to reduce texture memory consumption by approximately 66%. Users experiencing issues due to video memory consumption should notice a reduction of around 300MB from the 717.*
We also rewrote and re-optimized the custom sound engine to reduce unnecessary resource consumption. This change is minor, but should help edge case performance drops and FPS stability.
Remember, we are testing new technology with the displays. There may be some hiccups - if so, we will fix them. Please let us know your experiences with the new version.
*These items apply to the Prepar3D v4 version only. We are investigating options to further help both other simulator users and Prepar3D v4 users who still have sub-par performance.
