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A friend and long-time supporter -- and I think a member here -- had recently upgraded his computer, and out of the blue he 'gifted' me his graphics card -- originally he said it was a GTX 760, which would have been a big improvement on my old GTX 650, but when it arrived it was actually a 770.
Just installed an hour ago, and wow, just wow, I've never seen Prepar3D -- or any sim, for that matter -- this smooth and buttery. I normally have my settings too high for my system, as I do like the scenery, but with this I get the best of both worlds.
Thanks, J, that's certainly a great gesture!

toprob wrote:Just installed an hour ago, and wow, just wow, I've never seen Prepar3D -- or any sim, for that matter -- this smooth and buttery. I normally have my settings too high for my system, as I do like the scenery, but with this I get the best of both worlds.

Now, my ancient GTX580 did pretty well with Prepar3D given I also crank everything up to its absolute limit. I got a really great experience out of it, certainly enough to make me a total P3D convert. I was able to run virtually everything at high or ultra, with the only compromise being turning off cloud shadows.

The 580 shuffled off its mortal coil a couple of months ago in the middle of a flight, so I finally replaced it with a GTX 970. I also can't believe the difference! Exceptionally smooth even on very high density scenery like FlyTampa Dubai and as I'm still using my old settings I should have plenty of overhead to push the GPU-based rendering settings upwards. Certainly the new dynamic shadows feature in 3.1 runs at Ultra without P3D even breaking a sweat.

toprob wrote:originally he said it was a GTX 760, which would have been a big improvement on my old GTX 650, but when it arrived it was actually a 770.

Man, I wish I had an "old" 770
Have just upgraded to P3D, currently running with a 560/Ti which seems to be coping well