About Prepar3D v3, let’s test it

This post title could be something like “A wise man changes his mind, a fool never will”. Few weeks after the disappointment carried by the release notes (see my September post), simmers release feedbacks. Serious one. I tried to put away simple fan’s reaction and analyze the others. They are some interesting videos like this one :

Despite Jordan King’s video focused a bit on memory management (VAS⁽¹⁾ and OOM⁽²⁾), an area I wasn’t much concerned (not flying huge aircraft addon like PMDG), one thing was reminded to me within the video : the SLI⁽³⁾ support. The King’s video was made with a SLI configuration and clearly shows that artefact disappeared. See by yourself erratic lightnings for example started at 26min22 and author’s comment at 31min50s. Did I forgot I bought - some time ago - a second nvidia GTX 770 connected in SLI ? Yep, some kind of because of the annoying SLI artefacts created by the 2.5. So I fly with the SLI feature desactivated since a while.

Just to keep you update, I finally bought my Professional* Prepar3D licence last Sunday and downloaded the 10Gb files. Now it’s time to evaluate it.

Let’s keep in touch.

* The only license available to me as I’m not student anymore nor am I a developer :

Source : http://prepar3d.com/product-overview/prepar3d-license-comparison/

(1) Virtual Address Space

(2) Out Of Memory

(3) * Two or more video cards connected together to get extra graphic power