Hi there,

 

Could any you fine people tell me if OpusFSX works with P3D, and also (as I understand P3D does not have native TrackIR support?), does OpusFSX allow TrackIR to work with P3D?

 

Many thanks for the help.

Hey Helen,

 

What brings you down here? Are you thinking of coming to the " dark side" :diablo:

 

To answer your questions, I have Opus on P3D and works just great. Also have TrackIR and that works also just fine in P3D. There's a little free app called Jab_FSX that when applied it let's you "freeze" your views from TrackIR when you are outside the plane and resumes when you are back inside (all automatic). I use that too in P3D.

 

Clutch

Opus works perfectly with P3D and also with Track IR. You should have no issues whatsoever. You just need to follow the OPUS installation instructions which call for disabling two Track IR files.

Hey Helen,

 

What brings you down here? Are you thinking of coming to the " dark side" :diablo:

 

To answer your questions, I have Opus on P3D and works just great. Also have TrackIR and that works also just fine in P3D. There's a little free app called Jab_FSX that when applied it let's you "freeze" your views from TrackIR when you are outside the plane and resumes when you are back inside (all automatic). I use that too in P3D.

 

Clutch

 

I guess so :smile:

 

I had not even heard of this platform 2 hours ago, and saw some references to it on the FSX forum.

 

I quite fancy giving it a pop, and as I am a genuine student of flight, the academic licence pricing is quite tempting!

 

But I am a 100% Opus and TrackIR user so thanks to you both for the heads up that they still work with this one.

Opus works perfectly with P3D and also with Track IR. You should have no issues whatsoever. You just need to follow the OPUS installation instructions which call for disabling two Track IR files.

 

Not only that, the 3 programs work perfectly under Win 8, which is almost a miracle of software coding. Opus has one of the best open beta testing program of any FSX add-on. The author is constantly updating the software, based on user feedback. I have to add that Opus and Track IR are my two favorite improvements that have been made over the base FSX system.

While I am truly a fan of Prepar3D (P3D), and feel this is truly "flightsimNEXT", you probably won't notice anything right off the bat when you run it. In fact, you may say "hey, a few things are missing", which is true: no startup flight launcher, no built-in, real-time weather, and a few other little things. But there are already some apps (freeware and payware) that fix these. But it's really about what is under the hood they are working on to improve performance where FSX , as good as it is, and will be forever stagnate in it's development. And like 99% of your FSX add-ons can be used in P3D so your investment lasts longer.

 

Most feel version 2.0 (expected release this year or early 2014), will be the game changer with the improvement in the areas of multi-CPU use, multi-GPU use, and DirectX 11. Still with you going for the PPL, it still may be worth investigating/installing now.

I can confirm the above. OpusFSX works great with Prepar3d - I had to fiddle with some settings to get it working initially but the support from the guys at Opus has been amazing and combined with external cloud textures (I use REX) means that this add-on is the best I have come across in many years of flying.

 

For TrackIR I got mine working through the FSX2Prepar3d Migration tool which I also used to install my FSX add-ons into Prepar3d. Again, support from the guys a Flightsim Estonia has also been good.

 

These smaller add-ons are really showing the big guys how it's done in terms of quality and customer service!