November 20, 201411 yr Moderator Prepar3D v2.4 works just fine under Win 8.1... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
November 20, 201411 yr I think that the OP is referring to the Prepar3D site that states that the recommended operating system is Microsoft Windows 7 (64-bit) http://www.prepar3d.com/product-overview/ Gerry Howard
November 20, 201411 yr Yep, works no problems. Disclaimer: [email protected] on Asus Maximus X Formula, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB 4266/17 XMP, EVGA 2080 ti Kingpin (8400/2160Mhz), Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD , 28TB HDD total - 4TB+ photoscenery, Romex Software PrimoCache RAM and SSD cache (must have!), 3x1080p 30" monitors, Samsung Odyssey VR HMD, Pimax 4k & BE HMDs, Samsung Gear VR '17, Homdio v1, Cardboard, custom loop 2x 360x64ML Rads, Thermaltake View 71, VRM watercool, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut CPU (naked die), Fujipoly / ModRight Ultra Extreme System Builder Thermal Pad on MB VRM. 8x Corsair ML120 (slight positive pressure). 🙂
November 20, 201411 yr Moderator Gerry, I suspect that either the team haven't explored Win 8.x as a viable platform, or they are simply being conservative just to be "safe." Probably both are true... Fr. Bill AOPA Member: 07141481 AARP Member: 3209010556 Avsim Board of Directors | Avsim Forums Moderator
November 20, 201411 yr True. Also I imagine any commercial users will need Prepar3D's assurance before "betting the system on Win 8.1". Gerry Howard
November 20, 201411 yr Commercial Member Win 8 isn't a viable OS for training platforms... no matter who makes the sim software. Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 20, 201411 yr I also use it, no issues. David Graham Google, Network+, Cisco CSE, Cisco Unity Support Specialist, A+, CCNA
November 20, 201411 yr Commercial Member I should clarify... it's not that Win 8 isn't something you can use at home. It's that Win 8 is not a viable interface in a training simulator. Simple as that. Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 20, 201411 yr Ummm...you can boot to desktop, which is practically the same as Win 7. Hardware and Driver support is where I see issues arising.
November 20, 201411 yr Let's face it! Win 8.1 is the de-facto standard Microsoft OS even though they support previous versions. Any company worth its salt needs to move towards 8.1 as they upgrade their products. In my experience Win 8.1 runs everything smoothly once you understand it and it runs faster than previous versions of Windoz. Add a clean interface like Classic Shell to Win 8.1 and you have the best of both worlds. James M Driskell, Maj USMC (Ret)
November 20, 201411 yr Yeah, they really botched it. Like they did FSX, they ignored their core users, desktop users. It's "unstable" in that it tries to be a touch screen OS, and in an desktop environment, it's too buggy from a user interface perspective. It breaks with their own conventions on what a desktop should deliver when it comes to what a user expects from experience to experience, program to program, for a desktop. FAIL. But as far as P3D, I have no issues, it's very stable. Classic Shell is a must have for Win 8.1 to be acceptable as a desktop. Disclaimer: [email protected] on Asus Maximus X Formula, G.Skill TridentZ RGB 4x8GB 4266/17 XMP, EVGA 2080 ti Kingpin (8400/2160Mhz), Samsung 960 EVO 250GB PCIe M.2 NVMe SSD , 28TB HDD total - 4TB+ photoscenery, Romex Software PrimoCache RAM and SSD cache (must have!), 3x1080p 30" monitors, Samsung Odyssey VR HMD, Pimax 4k & BE HMDs, Samsung Gear VR '17, Homdio v1, Cardboard, custom loop 2x 360x64ML Rads, Thermaltake View 71, VRM watercool, Thermal Grizzly Conductonaut CPU (naked die), Fujipoly / ModRight Ultra Extreme System Builder Thermal Pad on MB VRM. 8x Corsair ML120 (slight positive pressure). 🙂
November 20, 201411 yr I use P3d 2.4 with Win 8.1, but the OS still has the joystick bug, which is probably why LM recommends Win 7.
November 20, 201411 yr Commercial Member Let's face it! Win 8.1 is the de-facto standard Microsoft OS..<snip> Uh... no it's not: http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share.aspx?qprid=10&qpcustomd=0 Ed Wilson Mindstar AviationMy Playland - I69
November 20, 201411 yr I use P3d 2.4 with Win 8.1, but the OS still has the joystick bug, which is probably why LM recommends Win 7. disconnect problem you mean? did you change the energy save settings for usb devices? (disable all energy saving on usb) -Roland
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