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by bullfox »
I mostly fly A2A in the western US and Canada. I don't much fly into the bigger cities like Portland or Seattle. Most of the time my vram is around 3 or 4 gb in P3Dv5. I only once exceeded 8 gb of vram and that was in Tacoma. I had to restart at a bit lower settings. and flew out at the lower settings with no further problem.
I went with P3Dvd rather than MSFS because of A2A and I had a lot of Orbzx scenery from FSX. I was able to port over the Orbx scenery with no problem and added all the western True Earth regions. They work well and are worth the money. The other advantage of P3D over MSFS is that a lot of stuff can be ported over from FSX with little difficulty and a lot of what I learned flying in FSX is applicable to P3D. However, as good as the visuals are in P3D over FSX, they are even better in MSFS what what I have been able to tell. Frankly P3Dv5 is worth it just to not have to worry about running over the FSX 4 gb ram limit.
I think if you are really into flight simming you are going to want both P3D and MSFS.
Ryzen 7 5800X3D liquid cooled, OC to 4.5 ghz, Radeon XFX 6900XT Black edition, 2 tb M2 drive, 32 gb ddr4 ram, Asus Hero Crosshair VIII mother board, and some other stuff I forget exactly what.
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