K5083
SOH-CM-2024
I don't see a lot of chatter about VR in the P3D neighborhood of this forum. I got my Reverb a couple of months ago and have found it to be a revelation in P3D. In MSFS, I switch back and forth between VR and 2D because I'm not always willing to take the visual quality or performance hit just for the sake of the 3D, whereas for P3D, it's VR all the time now. Setup was trouble free and on a box built to run MSFS comfortably, there's plenty of capacity for smooth frames while keeping the visuals not noticeably worse than in 2D. Everything is also sharper in P3D because you are not starting with MSFS's overprocessed, trying-to-look-photoreal display before breaking it into stereo. There's just no downside. I find myself playing P3D more now than before, and when I want to go flying in VR, I often pick P3D over MSFS for the no-hassle experience. P3D also has a lot of conveniences, like the pop-up instrument panels that you can map to a controller button, the ability to change aircraft and scenarios on the fly, etc., that are great for the VR experience.
And of course there are planes, planes, planes! It is remarkable how good some of our old P3D and even FSX favorites look in VR. With the added ability to see 3D detail, a few old planes are disappointing, but a greater number look so much better that I would almost think they were designed for VR way back when. I'm sure many of us have hundreds of planes installed in P3D and dozens of favorites. If anyone wants to chime in with favorites that are especially awesome in VR, I'd like to hear about them. Personally, I am enjoying the excellent French-VFR Roland D.VI, at least for 20 minutes or so until the engine blows up, and then I salvage the flight by switching to the almost equally good Aircraft Factory Oeffag Albatros D.III to finish. The surprising thing to me has been that the cockpits of the better P3D planes look just as good or better as they do in MSFS. The outside world -- well that's another story, but if you load up enough addon scenery it can be only a moderate let-down.
I was even motivated to do a fresh reinstall of P3D4.5 just for the sake of using VR, the first P3D reinstall I've done since buying the software. Although I think I somewhat regret it, because the effort of re-adding most of my addons was worse than any clutter caused by old unwanted addons. But I do pity the guys who said they were wiping P3D off their systems when MSFS came out a couple of years ago. VR breathes life back into the old sim.
So which P3D planes or other assets are your favorites in VR?
August
And of course there are planes, planes, planes! It is remarkable how good some of our old P3D and even FSX favorites look in VR. With the added ability to see 3D detail, a few old planes are disappointing, but a greater number look so much better that I would almost think they were designed for VR way back when. I'm sure many of us have hundreds of planes installed in P3D and dozens of favorites. If anyone wants to chime in with favorites that are especially awesome in VR, I'd like to hear about them. Personally, I am enjoying the excellent French-VFR Roland D.VI, at least for 20 minutes or so until the engine blows up, and then I salvage the flight by switching to the almost equally good Aircraft Factory Oeffag Albatros D.III to finish. The surprising thing to me has been that the cockpits of the better P3D planes look just as good or better as they do in MSFS. The outside world -- well that's another story, but if you load up enough addon scenery it can be only a moderate let-down.
I was even motivated to do a fresh reinstall of P3D4.5 just for the sake of using VR, the first P3D reinstall I've done since buying the software. Although I think I somewhat regret it, because the effort of re-adding most of my addons was worse than any clutter caused by old unwanted addons. But I do pity the guys who said they were wiping P3D off their systems when MSFS came out a couple of years ago. VR breathes life back into the old sim.
So which P3D planes or other assets are your favorites in VR?
August