With the release of Prepar3D v2.0 coming out Monday and assuming (a terribly naive assumption, I know) that it's configurable via menu-options alone, how many of you would miss the hours of tweaking and prodding your systems and FSX itself for hours on end? 

 

I ask this because over the years, many of you have written with great pride and enthusiasm on the constant efforts to get FSX to run as efficiently as possible. The sheer amount of knowledge in computers (memory, CPU, GPU over-clocking, BIOS, modifying config files etc) an FSX simmer amassed with FSX was pretty remarkable. Surely, it had become a part of FSX flight-simming whether one wanted it or not.

 

So, would any of you miss this aspect of our humble little hobby? And, again, I stress, IF Prepar3D 2 is an out-of-the-box simmer.

No, I would not miss it one bit. Not even the tiniest, tinniest shred of sadness in me for the dismissal of tweaking, honestly. 

 

Then again, I'm a lazy SOB, so, who am I to say any of that?  :lol:

I sure enjoyed not having to tweak Flight.

I have been involved in the hobby for less than 2 years. Naively, started just wanted to learn to fly, emulating as much as possible, real world procedures and training curriculum. If all my time had been tracked, pretty sure, 40% would be tweaking, fiddling, and learning software ancillary to actual flight instruction. Mostly, I have attacked all of the issues peripheral to flight training with enthusiasm and patience. But, on any given day, I just want to be able to fly a specific plane, at a specific airport, with real world weather and procedures. On some of those days, FSX can be a real buzz kill.

 

FSX has been it's own impediment for my personal goals.

 

I am looking forward to P3D v2. The technical improvements should help remediate a good bit of the "FSX futz with" syndrome. That said, there are still many unanswered questions, and even some known limitations that will keep me in FSX for a while longer. Sigh....

(WARNING: ASSUMPTION BELOW)

 

I'm just happy I can now buy the absolute fastest GPU in the market, or add another, and see gains of more than 1-2FPS without repeatedly slamming my head into my keyboard and sacrificing a goat.

 

(ASSUMPTION OVER, YOU MAY NOW RETURN TO YOUR REGULAR SCHEDULED PROGRAMMING)

 

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The hardware knowledge will remain, since we know that P3DV2 will still (obviously) be dependent on hardware.

When I installed P3D 1.4, it run better than FSX right from the start, with no tweaks. I certainly wont miss having to learn basic MS config coding just to fly, I just wanted a program that worked the moment you installed it and added your third party software. I am certainly looking forward to this.

 

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umm...you know, I haven't tried sacrificing a goat yet. sounds like it may not help though. :rolleyes:

you really don't know until you try :diablo:

Ate mutton curry after buying my 780, hopefully it counts

I won't miss it at all. During the last years I only tweaked whenever something new was discovered that might help performance. I spend quite some time with the DX10 Fixer to figure out what worked best. And I have to say, it can be fun doing all that. But I usually end up with the same tweaks (only one real performance tweak) and that's it. I think I will however spend quite some time in the P3D 2.0 options menu, testing what works well or not and which combination of settings still gives me a nice performance. And when someone discovers a brand new P3D tweak I will of course give it a try: if a gain in performance can be had for free, I'd be crazy not to try it. But I honestly hope that P3D will simply run satisfactory 'out of the box' on my newly installed OS (which I installed yesterday evening).

 

 

newly installed OS (which I installed yesterday evening).

Look at you, all ready for Monday.

Look at you, all ready for Monday.

 

^_^

 

Well, actually I don't expect being able to fly on Monday already. I really wonder if the servers will be fast enough that day in order to download a few GB within a few hours... (I hope the LM download servers are better than the LM forum server...!!!!!!!) And then I will have to install it all, together with FTX Global. (I won't install any other addons right away.) I expect being able to actually run P3D 2.0 somewhere around Wednesday. Obviously I only expect and say this to prevent disappointment... ^_^

I will not miss it one bit. It's the most frustrating aspect of being a flight simmer.

I have an idea for a completely new program:

Tweak Simulator 2014!

 

Instead of a tiny number in the upper left corner, it will have a H U G E fluorescent green number in the center of the screen! You won't go blind trying to see success!

 

With 242 separate configuration files scattered around your hard drive in cryptically named folders, and around 32,510 separate settable parameters (some of which actually do something), you can spend hours, nay YEARS tweaking to your heart's content, all while chasing that impossible goal of maximizing the magic number on your screen!

 

Adding to the excitement, the program will be coded to randomly scramble configuration files by rearranging and sometimes swapping parameters between files. As a further challenge, some of the configuration files will require the tobj editor, a cryptic tool already being used successfully by SCS in their European Truck Simulator 2 program to provide endless hours of frustration enjoyment for their customers.

 

I'm soliciting ideas now for further improvements and suggestions for obfuscation, so feel free to add to the madness! Once all of the ideas have been finalized, I can write the prospectus for a Kickstarter Campaign! :LMAO:

LOL!!!