For my first experience, I slipped on the Rift and fired up DCS World and was instantly blown away by the fidelity that had been hidden in plain sight all these years. With X-Plane though, I was able to really push up the scenery and graphics settings, and fly even the most complex aircraft through the densest of scenery with very nice fluidity.Ī month or so after I bought the GTX 1080, I doubled down on my early adopter bet and purchased an Oculus Rift. And while FSX and P3D did show improvements, being mostly CPU bound the improvements there had more to do with fluidity and quick loading of textures. The primary reasons I upgraded was that I wanted to push my DCS World and X-Plane framerates up. You can read a bit about my GTX 1080 impressions HERE. A few months ago, for the first time in my life, I went full on early adopter mode and purchased a GTX 1080 video card – quite the significant upgrade from the trusty GTX 760 that had been getting me through the last couple of years. I’ll start this article with a bit of light recent history. Somewhere out there on the internet, someone is probably making you a very nice Excel spreadsheet. I just give impressions and shoot from the hip – so apologies if this article doesn’t appeal to the more hardcore, driven by data and analysis types. Note – Once again, I’d like to emphasize that I’m not a hardware guy.
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