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why p3d 2.4 does not support windows 8.1

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Prepar3D v2.4 works just fine under Win 8.1...


Fr. Bill    

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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...


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True. Also I imagine any commercial users will need Prepar3D's assurance before "betting the system on Win 8.1".

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Win 8 isn't a viable OS for training platforms... no matter who makes the sim software.


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I also use it, no issues. 


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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

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Ummm...you can boot to desktop, which is practically the same as Win 7. Hardware and Driver support is where I see issues arising.

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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.


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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.

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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.

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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)


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