P3D - Who's running it?

[crashaz]

I willl be gettting it after I make like the Seven Dwarfs at tax time.

I owe,I owe...its off to work I go.

[AussieMan]

I have been running P3D for about 4 days now and am really impressed. It is not as twitchy as FSX and any stutteers I have had in the past have disappeared.

I have used the SBSLs to port the ORBX regions over as well as installing the OZx sceneries. Ii have also installed several other favourite sceneries and all seem to work fine.

The JF Constellation is a default aircraft and I have ported over the remainder of the JF aircraft plust several others like the WarbirdSim P-51s, Carenado aircraft, RealAir and several others. All seem to work fine with one exception. When I got to load the RA Spitfire MK IX I get a crash.

Only thing I miss is Real Weather.

All in all at the moment I would rate it an 8/10 because of several missing features.

[IanHenry]

Hi Aussieman,
Although I no longer run Prepar3D, I found that when I used it after running FSX and Active Sky 2012 (which I'd forgot to turn off), Active Sky was injecting real weather into Preper3D. Jsut an obsevation!

Regards,
Ian.

[AusWilko]

Well I own it and in around 18 hrs I should be able to install it, living in regional centers is great for some of the scenery and peace of life but the d/l speeds are bad :mixedsmi:

[modelr]

Hi Aussieman,
Although I no longer run Prepar3D, I found that when I used it after running FSX and Active Sky 2012 (which I'd forgot to turn off), Active Sky was injecting real weather into Preper3D. Jsut an obsevation!

Regards,
Ian.

I wonder if REX's active weather will work on it. I haven't installed any of my add-ons, yet, but am getting ready to. REX and SHADE first. (Shade does work, doesn't it??) (And UTX)

[ZEUS67]

I wonder if REX's active weather will work on it. I haven't installed any of my add-ons, yet, but am getting ready to. REX and SHADE first. (Shade does work, doesn't it??) (And UTX)

I would test SHADE first. LM has updated the shader and there may be compatibility issues.

[Dangerous Beans]

I've been using it for a few days now and I'm quite impressed.
I don't see any FPS improvements over FSX but it runs smooth and looks good so no problem there.
I had to splash out on EZDOK so I could use TrackIR (cant fly without Tir) and I'm impressed with that too.

Haven't ported any scenery over yet but I have ported over quite a few planes and other than some minor problem with two of them, one of which was easy to fix so far its been a breeze.

Only bug I've found so far have been with the ATC window.
When I open or close it my screen goes black for a second and moving and resizing it reverts when I open it next.
I posted about them on the LM P3D forum and one of the dev's acknowledged the move/resize bug and said theyed look into it.
The black screen thing could be a driver problem so I'll have to look into that one myself. currently running the 285.62's on my GTX580.

[Lionheart]

Only bug I've found so far have been with the ATC window.
When I open or close it my screen goes black for a second and moving and resizing it reverts when I open it next.
I posted about them on the LM P3D forum and one of the dev's acknowledged the move/resize bug and said theyed look into it.
The black screen thing could be a driver problem so I'll have to look into that one myself. currently running the 285.62's on my GTX580.

I get a 'pause' with ATC when I go to click on a field. My screen doesnt go black but the ATC 'request' will take sometimes 7 seconds roughly, (long seconds) until 'closest airports' popup.

This and Map tend to be very slow.

[norab]

had it for a day now and am quite happy so far. I hadd been hoping to move up from FS2004 to Flight but since that was such a disappointment, I'm glad this showed up.

[Bruce Thompson]

I have purchased the Academic version, dowloaded and flown a few short hops so far.
I have not tried porting any aircraft yet only scenery.
Got the SBSL's from ORBX for PNW, PJF, NZI , can't wait for their migration tool to be released
so I can load up all their other stuff, it's a good time to buy the ones youn ain't got while the sales on.

So far I can see a fair bit of tweaking will be needed, I think a Prepar3d Tweaks section could be rather handy,
could someone set one up please?

[Roger]

Good idea Bruce!
It could be a stickie thread for now and as time goes by we could ask Ickie for a sub forum.

[Bruce Thompson]

Good idea Bruce!
It could be a stickie thread for now and as time goes by we could ask Ickie for a sub forum.

Thank You Roger.:salute:


Bruce.