I have full and quite redundant FSX and P3D installations. The installations fill nearly 700GB of my 1TB drive. Storage is cheap, but maintaining two installations is a pain. I think that P3D v2 will signal the beginning of the end of my flight simulation dualism. Other than leaving behind the PMDG 737 and 777 (which I rarely use), I can no longer see any reason to keep my FSX installation current. Once I have P3D v2 up and running smoothly with all of my favorite add-ons installed, I plan to retire my FSX and P3D v1.x installations and run one well maintained P3D v2 setup.

 

Any thoughts?

 

Scott

i intend to do the same. V2 will be a good opportunity to clean up my disks, and to reinstall only the things i really use. But, cause i'm paranoiac, i already did a complete copy of Fsx and 1.4 directories on an external disk. Just to be reassured

Any thoughts?

 

Scott

 

Don't confine your elderly relative (FSX) to the nursing home, until you're sure your young nephew (P3D 2.0) can make dinner.  :wink:

Don't confine your elderly relative (FSX) to the nursing home, until you're sure your young nephew (P3D 2.0) can make dinner.  

 

A very wise suggestion!

But, cause i'm paranoiac, i already did a complete copy of Fsx and 1.4 directories on an external disk. Just to be reassured

I did the same thing... better safe than sorry...

 

Don't confine your elderly relative (FSX) to the nursing home, until you're sure your young nephew (P3D 2.0) can make dinner. :wink:

Great point... I'll keep the backups until the young whippersnapper is seated at the dinner table :-)

Don't confine your elderly relative (FSX) to the nursing home, until you're sure your young nephew (P3D 2.0) can make dinner.   :wink:

 

Here in the 55+ community, I have had a couple of people offer to introduce me to some of the single female residents. I try (politely) to explain to them that I would rather be introduced to a couple of 28 year olds than one 56 year old.

 

FSX has been good to me for 7+ years, but I'm looking for some new stuff to play around with. C'mon, Monday morning...

Someone ought to compile a list of all the P3D V2-vs-FSX, old-vs-new metaphors that have surfaced since with the approach of V2.

Second child over first child.

New girlfriend over old wife.

New car over old car...... we're such a fickle bunch

:lol:

I can't wait, though. It's kind of a dual sword for me. Im looking to upgrade my computer but am waiting for the news about V2. But if performance improves, I may not have to.

Howz 'bout "out with the old - in with the new".   :lol: 

I'm still using FS98

For me it will be P3D 1.4 + P3D 2.0 side by side. Haven't kept FSX installed since I switched to P3D 1.4.

I'm still using FS98

With a 386 @ 200Mhz at 640*480 ?  :rolleyes:

Never understood the problem with multiple sims and installations... I'm gonna enjoy FS2004, FSX, P3D1 and P3D2 - all on the same computer.

I have no real choice in the matter. None. I have to keep FSX+Acceleration as well as P3D v2.x installed, since I will continue to be developing and testing for both!

 

For that matter, I still have several flavors of FS9 installed and available on a few of my backup dev computers on the local area network. :LMAO:

Never understood the problem with multiple sims and installations... I'm gonna enjoy FS2004, FSX, P3D1 and P3D2 - all on the same computer.

 

Sounds like good, old fashioned common sense to me :-)

I am sure there was no malice intended by the topic starter but I have a son with Schizophrenia and I would like to draw attention to this issue, that there is no relationship whatsoever between flight simming and this most debilitating non curable mental illness.  It is not an adjective, adverb or other descriptive term that should ever be used to describe anything other than the disease itself and certainly not anything to do with flight simulation software challenges.

 

Perhaps the moderator can look to modifying the title to something else which shows a sensitivity to situation.