This is more a software question, but I guess it is hardware too.
I've seen some cool stuff with C3 rendering (Apple recently bought out) and a few others too. I was wondering that with D3D11 enabling better GPU rendering compared to relying mainly on CPU rendering, will it enable more realistic addons for scenery as well as FULLY utalizing a second or third GPU? The scenery with, for example, games like BF3 or Crysis 3 look much more realistic than even Orbx and they use GPU's heavily for rendering. The 2 exampled games do not represent real cities I know and were only used for examples. People are and will be coming to the table with 500/600/and even 700 series GTX as well as 6900/7900 and 8900 series and above Radeon in crossfire and SLI, or just as one GPU. This is especially true with professional deployments. These new systems can handle much more realism than even the latest games of today provide.

I was wondering how D3D11 will set the stage for Lockheed's developers, and also third parties to really bring more emmersion to the simulator? Flight simulators still live back in mid 2000 graphics wise because of the coding from Microsoft which is a shame especially when many users invested 1-3k on hardware bought after 2007.

I've attached a youtube link of C3 in action as an example:

maybe things can be taken even farther than C3. FSX is locked back in time, but Prepar is free to continually develop to incorporate the newest technologies.

One final question is will D3D11 utalize more than 2 or 4 cores effectively?

Sorry for the confusion. I only mentioned it as I read from a Prepar developer that Lockheed was in the middle of finishing D3D11 rendering for their new system and wondered what it could open up. That's all. I know nothing about programming and was thinking that if users brought the graphics sliders down from the highest settings, the program would again utalize more CPU for processing compared to GPU. Again, I'm not a developer either, just building off what I heard. It's like when DX10 came out for FSX, I'm sure hundreds of people were wondering how it would better the game graphics wise. This is no different.

Hey Guys,
Massimo pretty much hit the nail on the head there with his assessment of the problem. We are indeed working on a new DX11 rendering system, and the goal is to allow the system to better take advantage of modern hardware. Moving from DX9 to 11 allows us to architect the rendering pipeline so that we can utilize the GPU more efficiently, but doing so while maintaining backwards compatibility with third party content is an extremely complex problem. One more thing to note is that DirectX11 is just the interface that the application uses to communicate with the graphics card. Switching to the newer API allows us to do some cool new things with special effects and the like, but it will not change the content that we are drawing.

What I mean is that changing the rendering system will not effect the quality of the models and textures being rendered, it will simply allow them to be rendered more efficiently. This in turn would allow for higher quality content to be used within the simulation.