Note that the money-back guarantee can only be used *once*. People like me that already took advantage of the return policy during the great OOM fiasco of v2.1 cannot use it a second time. The same could happen if you decide to give it a chance now, hoping that they fix the current issues without introducing new ones.

While that is a true fact, quite honestly the better alternative is to sign up for a one month "Developer's License". At most you'll have spent $9.95 + sales tax for your one month trial. If you like it, then go for the "Professional" or "Student" license as applicable to your status, or renew your "Developer's License" for a full year.

 

You'll still have a sixty day period for a more full evaluation...

 

How's the water these days?  I haven't upgraded to 2.4 but in 2.3 it's quite nearly black or, if it does have texture, it looks frozen.

 

The water is not good. I am waiting for an update from the REX guys that will apparently provide better animation at altitude, and also add white caps. At the moment, the water is like a block of ice at anything above a thousand feet (completely static). At other times, it looks like wet sand next to a sheet of glass (textured next to super smooth).

 

The water needs sorting. FAST.

 

I was hoping that the REX guys would have released the update by now, but I guess they are either having teething problems, or else they are adding lots of other goodies to the same update.

Why Should I move to Prepar3d? What's better?

 

Because:

 

 

Why Should I move to Prepar3d? What's better?

 

As Rhett Butler said "Frankly my dear I don't give a d..n."

 

Three pages of advice freely and generously given by members all because YOU didn't want to spend the time researching yourself.  And then you want to offload the decision-making to others as well.  Some people are like that however, "even though I have more money than I can count" perhaps you could have hired someone to do that research without imposing on the goodwill of others.  As Rob alluded to in his first reply searching the forum would have answered all your non-unique questions.

You will most likely tweak something because you'll have a specific goal/requirement that will not meet your needs.  My personal experience is that P3D has required the least amount of "tweaking" compared to FSX and XP10.  But I don't really have a big problem with making adjustments, they can be very rewarding at times.

 

Rob, when you say X Plane needs more tweaking than P3D I was wondering if you mean adjusting the Renedering Settings as opposed to messing with GPU config and other config files. As far as I am aware people do not find doing the latter helps in anyway with X Plane - same as P3D - i.e it works straight out of the box without stuttering etc [although cities with add on airports still hits performance big time in P3D for me].

 

If you do have settings other than in-app settings that you find help performance I would be interested to try them if you are happy to share them.

 

I use both sims by the way [XP10.31 & P3D 2.3] and have stopped using FSX now as I spent more time fiddling than flying. XP10 still retains the cup for fluid flying though [iMO] but the gap has narrowed considerably.

 

Thanks.

Peter

 

 

Rob, when you say X Plane needs more tweaking than P3D I was wondering if you mean adjusting the Renedering Settings as opposed to messing with GPU config and other config files.

 

Hey Peter ... this will inevitably lead to a XP vs. FSX vs. P3D ... do you really want that?  I don't ... I can provide details of what I'm talking about but I'd rather not to be honest.  Just isn't productive and "tweaking" doesn't really bother me ... if it enhances the flight sim experience that's all good to me regardless of platform.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Hey Peter ... this will inevitably lead to a XP vs. FSX vs. P3D ... do you really want that?  I don't ... I can provide details of what I'm talking about but I'd rather not to be honest.  Just isn't productive and "tweaking" doesn't really bother me ... if it enhances the flight sim experience that's all good to me regardless of platform.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Hi Rob,

 

No I don't want to get into that. It is always horses for courses. That's why I use both depending on what I want to do.

 

It was more the tweaking aspect of X Plane - I just wanted to know if you have found a tweak that adds performance which is not a standard rendering option config (which is heavily reliant on system spec) as it sounded like you had. But if not no worries.

 

Thanks

Peter.

 

 

It was more the tweaking aspect of X Plane - I just wanted to know if you have found a tweak that adds performance

 

The same tweak as all simulators ... more Ghz and the hope for SLI support.

 

Beyond that the only "non-standard" I use is use_multilayer_fog = 0.

 

Cheers, Rob.

The same tweak as all simulators ... more Ghz and the hope for SLI support.

 

Beyond that the only "non-standard" I use is use_multilayer_fog = 0.

 

Cheers, Rob.

Okay thank you Rob.