PC6 Reduced Texture Set for those with framerate issues

[doodlebug]

PC6 Reduced Textures
Download, unzip and run the exe as admin


Please DO NOT UNINSTALL your PC6 , the installer here will overwrite the 4096 resolution textures with a 2048 set throughout.
Night lighting revised as well .

Total reduction to the graphics card is 50 % , if your GPU has a 2 G Memory this is your ticket to nirvana with total load at 1.5 G

You wont be horrified , it looks good , we got the reduced set from our originals , not just resized .dds files

Please Run the MVAMS after installing these textures

Please let us know the results

Best CJ

[RMF]

Hi there!

Would it be possible to update as well this texture pack to avoid the RealLight Initialization error?
Because I just installed it over the latest SP you released today or yesterday (v1.2.1.0 according installer file name), and the issue happens back again. And I checked, there are again Thumbs.db files created/copied in the the RealLight Texture folders after this texture pack install...

Thank you!

[doodlebug]

Thanks for the heads up - original link has now been updated

[RMF]

Great! Thanks guys.

[flykorni]

Hi Guys!

Installed latest build and the Reduced Texture Set thereafter, still I suffer from low FPS...especially when there are lots of clouds. I don't have this issue with my other payware, e.g. PMDG QOTSII, FSLABS A32X..

Any thoughts about that?

Regards, Wolfgang

[roland_pohl]

Great, this pushed my FPS from poor 9 to 20. But I also reduced the size of the livery textures with photoshop to 2048.
With this set the FPS are in line with Vertx DA62 or PMDG 737NGX on my system.

[Rickgo]

Im not seeing any results with these reduced textures. I recently installed the 1.2.1 (latest mv pc6 version)...My texture folder size was 1.45gb and
gpu memuse was 3.7gb. After applying the reduced texture I see no difference..

Yes I followed the instructions for installiing reduced textures...Rick

[roland_pohl]

Hi, I'm sorry to say that, but that's not true. The 4096 are not replaced by 2048, but instead of bmp format the dds format is used. It will also be exchanged only the Reallight textures.
At the folder size nothing changes, because the dds added textures and replace nothing.

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<Configuration>
   <Settings>
        <Setting Name="FileType" Value="dds"/>
		<Setting Name="TextureSize" Value="4096,4096"/>
		<Setting Name="LuminanceInAlpha" Value="false"/>
                                <Setting Name="sRGB" Value="true"/>
    </Settings>

Nonetheless, the change brings some improvement, especially for users of weaker hardware.

[bob-m]

I have an EVGA GTX 980 SC with 4 GB vram.

I just installed the latest PC-6 update v1.3.0.0_190815, along with RealLight and TrueGlass. As before with the standard hi-rez textures,
I was only getting 8 fps in the vc and 10 fps outside (whereas the usual for almost every other plane is low 20's in the vc and 30 fps outside
in the same location, same conditions). The video card was running at 100% and using all 4 GB of vram.

I then installed the latest lower rez PC-6 texture pack, Texture DDS HD Pack 1 PC6. Previously, the pack had more than doubled the fps,
bringing it into line with other planes. But this time around there was no change. Fps inside and out remained at single digits.

I uninstalled and re-installed twice, making sure to wipe out any remaining folders and files after each uninstall, and running the MVAMs
again after each re-install. But no change in the single digit fps.

I could re-try again without installing RealLight and TrueGlass, but honestly I'm getting discouraged, and may just uninstall the plane to free
up drive space until I can afford a new card.

Thanks anyway -Bob