Ending support for older simulator versions?

[pracines 823]

The people who wish to stay with FS4 thru P3D 3.4 as their sim of choice, have nobody stopping them. I fly in older versions on older PC's occasionally, no big deal.  

I hope all developers will drop all 32-bit flight sims fast. Its time we got real serious about achieving realism far greater than the gaming industry.

I believe P3Dv4 is more of a big deal than I think any of us realize at this point; its progress will likely trample 32-bit under hoof....bye 32-bit.

 

[vgbaron 3,668]

13 minutes ago, pracines said:

I believe P3Dv4 is more of a big deal than I think any of us realize at this point; its progress will likely trample 32-bit under hoof....bye 32-bit.

I am in TOTAL agreement here. P3D4 is just the tip of the iceberg. With the beginnings of "standardization" and 64bit it will give developers the confidence to expend the man hours coming up with new fantastic product because they know the will have a stable platform.

Much to be excited about I think.

Vic

[Lenny777 299]

64 bit and onwards. Enough of last generations software. We now have simulations (P3Dv4,XP11, FS2) which have huge growth potential because of the memory access.

[laserit 93]

 

Just touched down with V4 at CYYC with the PMDG 747, Active Sky, Ultimate Traffic Live. Another flight that was flawless and smooth as butter.

 

Bye bye 32bit

[MikeT707 1,181]

As third party developers remove the constraints of coding an FSX-compatible product to fit into a modern platform, and create products to take advantage of the robust v4 SDK and beyond (v4.1, 4.2, etc.) the v4 add-ons we shall see might include:

• Significantly more variation in the size and types of autogen trees within a scene instead of the same tree repeated a thousand times
• A much larger variety of houses that look like houses instead of cubes
• Roads and highways that look more real to life
• Global dynamic lighting that can be implemented like X-Plane
• A weather engine that we all crave
• A much more true-to-life ATC experience
• Ground-level tessellation that displays ground details as one gets closer similar to what is achieved in Outerra, which could include grass, dirt, mountainside rock detail, rain puddles, snow accumulation, etc.
•  Rain and snow windshield effects
• Physics Based Rendering (PBR)
• More accurate and useful aircraft damage modeling
• Realistic-looking runways and aprons
• Lake, river, and ocean water that resembles that of modern games
• etc., etc., etc.

[zmak 331]

2 hours ago, Venturi said:

 

Edit 

Bryan York had just announced an up grade fee for all products v4

 

That's actually  wrong. 

A full new purchase of fs2crew all products is required if you switch to v 4.

[laserit 93]

7 minutes ago, Ando010 said:

 

I do that with my 32-bit sim all day every day and have for years without issues. So not really interested in moving one iota. 

Well.... good for you ;)

[anden145 2,285]

It's my hope that developers as soon as possible drop the older platforms - up and including Prepar3D V3.X! I'm happy to read, that it's going in that direction. It's a necessity for the contentious evolvement of the platform and securing it's future. 

@Ando010 - No one is holding a gun to your head, and demanding that you change platforms - ever! But if you expect to be able to get the latest addons in terms of sceneries, aircrafts and utilities, you will have to. It's the direction it's going and it's refreshing (and quite surprising) that the developers are already talking (and coordinating) it. 

Again, people. It's just my personal opinion. (<-- maybe I should put that in my signature?)

[pracines 823]

13 minutes ago, Ando010 said:

 

I do that with my 32-bit sim all day every day and have for years without issues. 

The 4 GB VAS limit, lets be honest, is an issue for 32-bit sims. It looms when using hi quality add-ons, as you say you fly all day every day. Manageable, yes, but it is an issue.

[GSalden 4,674]

Perhaps this abrupt transition is the reason developers are updating their scenery for free or at the cost of a little fee.

Let us go the 64 bit way , all the way...

[Britfrog 37]

I can understand companies wanting to make this decision but at the moment it is premature. Products made for fsx still outsell all the other sims put together , P3Dv4 is as good as dead they have had how many years to make fsx better ???  in all that time they have slightly improved the graphics and gone 64bit, this should have been done 5 years ago !!!   but like sheep we go and pay for a minor upgrade every year and we are still stuck with the flight dynamics from fs2000 as well as the scenery which when one looks at V4 looks really grim. I am tired of playing the LM game , I have been playing with the XP11 demo for some months now and am convinced that having seen the differences in the 2 companies at flightsimcon the way forward for me is XP11 it is after all currently 2 years ahead of P3D v4 with decent scenery and night time graphice that LM can only dream of and XP will only stretch that lead further and further as LM has only 2 speeds for its development , dead slow and stopped.

 

 

[Christopher Low 5,359]

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.....get off the fence and buy V4 even if it is just going to sit on your hard drive for the next 6 months

I have no intention of wasting money on something that I will not use for six months. I am pretty sure that the flight simulation industry will survive my apocalyptic decision. I appreciate that the 64bit version of P3D is a major step forward, but I will only upgrade when I am ready to do so.

[Britfrog 37]

1 minute ago, Christopher Low said:

 

 

I have no intention of wasting money on something that I will not use for six months. I am pretty sure that the flight simulation industry will survive my apocalyptic decision.

chris i have v4 and believe me you are missing out on nothing

[anden145 2,285]

I'm fairly certain it will... 

[OzWhitey 3,353]

10 minutes ago, captain bligh said:

I can understand companies wanting to make this decision but at the moment it is premature. Products made for fsx still outsell all the other sims put together , P3Dv4 is as good as dead they have had how many years to make fsx better ???  in all that time they have slightly improved the graphics and gone 64bit, this should have been done 5 years ago !!!   but like sheep we go and pay for a minor upgrade every year and we are still stuck with the flight dynamics from fs2000 as well as the scenery which when one looks at V4 looks really grim. I am tired of playing the LM game , I have been playing with the XP11 demo for some months now and am convinced that having seen the differences in the 2 companies at flightsimcon the way forward for me is XP11 it is after all currently 2 years ahead of P3D v4 with decent scenery and night time graphice that LM can only dream of and XP will only stretch that lead further and further as LM has only 2 speeds for its development , dead slow and stopped.

 

 

"P3Dv4 is as good as dead???". That's quite funny, have you not been reading these forums since its release? People are excited, much more so than previous P3D version updates. And, as per the many comments here, developer engagement is excellent.

Enjoy x-plane, it's a decent sim.