A cheesy way to find out I know, but I'm a little short on free time right now and appreciate the recommendations of early adopters.  Thanks...

If this helps, here you go.

Spirit

The Jury is out on this one. for some it seems to improve things, for others, myself included, quite the opposite. If you are happy with v2.3, personally I'd stay with it.

However, mine is only one opinion from many differing views.

 

Phil Murfin

^{Go for it - the people who have no issues are busy enjoying P3D and not posting in the forums.}

 

^{We complained that FSX was no longer being developed and now we hesitate when P3D *IS* releasing updates???}

 

^{My take is that anyone who is not ready to commit to the updates should forget P3D and stay with FSX where you don't have to deal with them.}

 

^{A general statement - not picking on YOU Noel!}   

 

^Vic

Full 2.4 install, that's what I'm going to do. I tried the patch but things started to go wonky, and I have no clue what causes this. Like my custom contrail effect suddenly spawns sprites at 50% of their intended size and this evening the FTX vector lights jumped kind of into the scenery, only there where my view would go. At the arrival I got the OOM warning dong, which I haven't had for month's.

 

Next step: Full, clean install 2.4

 

 

We complained that FSX was no longer being developed and now we hesitate when P3D *IS* releasing updates???

 

No Vic, it's not all or none.   With the pace of 'updates' coming, each so far having significant downsides here and there, it's totally valid to NOT install EVERY update coming out of LM.   These are ongoing beta-updates essentially, this IS NOT a polished, finished product.  It's a work in progress and that all well and good, but paying $200 for the 'privilege' of updating w/ every beta release?  If it adds A  LOT more than it takes away, then I'm ok w/ it.  It's sometimes hard to tell which is why I created the poll.  Thanks to everyone willing to test out releases as they appear.

Disagree Noel - P3D is as finished a product as FSX and in fact is a better finished product. The difference is that MS took month or years to release an update and people were complaining about being beta testers then.

 

You've been around - like it or not it is the way of the software industry today so it's STANDARD release procedure for many vendors.

 

P3D is running perfectly on my system and so was FSX. The forums get the majority of users who are having issues. Read enough of them and you can pretty much tell that many, NOT ALL, of them shouldn't be allowed near a keyboard.

 

I hear a lot from people who are like me, having no major problems but we're too busy enjoying it.

 

As long as LM keeps developing it, P3D will be a work in progress but I maintain that as it stands right now, it is far better than the "finished" FSX.

 

Vic

I don't know what you're disagreeing about.  I'm only fishing for opinions about whether 2.4 was worth the time and trouble.  I'm not complaining about LM Vic, I'm just not particularly inclined to patch 2.3 w/ 2.4, that's all, and wanted to hear some opinion, that's all.  What's to disagree about?  2.3 works quite fine for me though I'm not happy w/ the dampening they did w/ cloud lighting, contrast and color reflection.  It became very blunted w/ 2.3 and I haven't heard if any attention was paid by LM to address restoring some of what they took away.

Just applying the patch didn't work for me.

A clean install of 2.4 worked.

 

I have all addons from my v2.3 working incl SweetFX.

I patched and have had no problems since doing so, and therefore see no reason to avoid this update. The platform for me is 100% stable and is looking amazing.

I patched it took a while and seemed like it was failing but i left it and it did finish, have not used much but i have had no issues

 

 

I'm only fishing for opinions about whether 2.4 was worth the time and trouble.

There are always people seeing a half glass of water as "half empty" and others see it as "half full". That's human and has to be known.

Spirit

Have to add that HDR has issues with bloom.

LM already knows it.

 

See my Topic about Bloom and v2.4

I'm holding off for the moment.  System is running great and I don't feel I am missing anything too much by no updating.  Will wait a few months to see more feedback.

I am on 2.4 now but probably going back to 2.3 because ezdok works and with 2.4 it wont start