Why make this move?

[troyboy66 66]

37 minutes ago, RoboRay said:

<citation needed>

Seriously, what are you talking about?  I haven't had a single CTD yet in v4.

Just watching reports from Avsim front page. But thats good to know.

 

Troy

[troyboy66 66]

Ok sounds like P3D it is. Thanks everyone for your input. I thinki I will start working on the change ASAP. I know that a new hardware might not be neccessary, but I like new stuff...Im a sucker for it :). Are there any objections against the i7 7820X? I've read some good repports about it.

 

Troy

 

[jabloomf1230 2,445]

48 minutes ago, SpiritFlyer said:

Hi Troy,

Welcome to AVSIM's major pre-occupation, "sim-wars".

Most of us (these guys above) could not agree that water is wet.

For us to agree that for the most part P3Dv4 is a game-changer is like a break in the law of gravity, but we do. 

P3Dv4 is a major event, and in my opinion, a singular victor in the sim-wars, for now.

If there is a second place, it belongs to X-plane.

Have fun, whatever you decide.

Kind regards,

Like you're not adding to it by referring to it as "sim wars".

[JYW 2,980]

Hey Troy,

If you go for P3Dv4, even considering the PMDG re-investment costs, I doubt you will regret it!

3 weeks ago, I was a "FSX only" simmer.  Now my time is split (almost 50/50) between P3Dv4 and X-Plane 11.   I am the happiest with my sims that I've ever been, in over 15 years of simming.

P3Dv4 and X-Plane compliment eachother by having strengths in different areas.  It really in "Simheaven" having and enjoying them both. 

[RichUK 474]

17 minutes ago, JYW said:

P3Dv4 and X-Plane compliment eachother by having strengths in different areas.  It really in "Simheaven" having and enjoying them both. 

This man speaks the truth! :)

[himmelhorse 1,276]

Troy,

Nobody has yet mentioned this but....

Why not keep FSX (with all your lovely add-ons) 

Buy P3Dv4 (three month trial) .... suck it and seelol

Maybe even take a peek at XPlane11 ..... lots and lots of lovely freeware (dont know about money back if  not satisified)

You can run all three on the same computer and your new system should keep all of those platforms in line.

Your options are endless and initially fairly cheap.  As stated before, you can utilise many of your previously purchased add-ons with P3Dv4.

For me, this is a no brainer. Good luck ... sit back and enjoy all of 'em

Regards

Tony chilcott

[vgbaron 3,627]

Since you'll likely be reinstalling a lot of stuff, consider GEXP3D and UTX ans an alternative to FTX Global & Vector.  I have both on two similar systems and my preference is the GEXP3D UTX combo for accuracy, performance and visuals.

Vic

[beachdog2001 21]

2 hours ago, vgbaron said:

Since you'll likely be reinstalling a lot of stuff, consider GEXP3D and UTX ans an alternative to FTX Global & Vector.  I have both on two similar systems and my preference is the GEXP3D UTX combo for accuracy, performance and visuals.

Vic

+1

[Lenny777 299]

6 hours ago, troyboy66 said:

Ok sounds like P3D it is. Thanks everyone for your input. I thinki I will start working on the change ASAP. I know that a new hardware might not be neccessary, but I like new stuff...Im a sucker for it :). Are there any objections against the i7 7820X? I've read some good repports about it.

 

Troy

 

Several tests I've seen the i7-7700k is still king over this cpu particularly in gaming.

[Egbert Drenth 250]

8 hours ago, troyboy66 said:

Are there any objections against the i7 7820X?

If I where you, I would go with a i7 that has less cores but a substantial higher base clock frequency. Like the 7700K 4.2-4.5Ghz.
Half the price and most likely for P3D equally as fast, if not faster. 
Even more, the price difference I would definately spend on a GTX 1080i instead of a 1070
But I'm not a CPU specialist, maybe others can chime in.
 

 

[ms2 184]

Be quite... Keep in mind, most of post on avsim are reports of questions or problems that concern some configurations or evolutions ( each computer and sim are a strict personnal config.)

Most happy simmers don't write about success. (Big majority)

Avsim isn't a shot of the strict reality of the sim state, just keep a eye on avsim's informations to prevent to buy 'no-ready addon's" or to do yourself bad manipulations.

I have the p3dv4 from the first hour... No ctd, no OM, ... only tracking solutions for Milviz dhc2 and gtn750 integration.

with de v1, v2 and v3, only one ctd ... and as in fsx a lot of OM.

Marc, a happy simmer ;-)) ... with more of 900 addon's installed.

 

[Anxu00 176]

17 hours ago, SpiritFlyer said:

Hi Troy,

Welcome to AVSIM's major pre-occupation, "sim-wars".

Most of us (these guys above) could not agree that water is wet.

For us to agree that for the most part P3Dv4 is a game-changer is like a break in the law of gravity, but we do. 

P3Dv4 is a major event, and in my opinion, a singular victor in the sim-wars, for now.

If there is a second place, it belongs to X-plane.

Have fun, whatever you decide.

Kind regards,

Since the OP was helped greatly already... But I could not help to add one more to this "war".  If there is one sim to rule them all, the winner is the one that provides to most a trouble free sim, where simmers are free of the tyranny of tweaks, of being slaves to pay the crazy taxes to the continuous upgrade of HW (and SW, LM, I speak to you).  We are not all getting younger, for the 6-7 years of simming, I have spent more time and money on upgrade, reinstalling, tweakings than actual flying, perhaps I suffer from OCD, but ever since I read about "As real as it gets" I keep asking when will I have it LOL.

Enjoy your new P3Dv4 sim, Mr. OP, until LM releases P3Dv5 next year, and all upgrade hell starts again

[WotanUK 289]

11 minutes ago, Anxu00 said:

Enjoy your new P3Dv4 sim, Mr. OP, until LM releases P3Dv5 next year, and all upgrade hell starts again

It will be a couple of years before P3Dv5, no different to the old days of MS Flight Sim or X-Plane.  Simmers on the MS side are used to a static platform, that really has changed with P3D and (at the moment to a lesser extent) FSW.  X-Plane users are of course used to the platform changing every couple of years.

What is interesting to me are two questions that i haven't really seen answered:

What will LM offer to tempt people onto P3Dv5, with the advent of 64-bit and my substantial investment on that platform; i am struggling to see a reason I would consider an upgrade??

and the second, will FSW be a continuously updated platform (like Windows 10) or will they drop it at some point for FSW 2...or probably FSW 2018.  If train sim is anything to go by i would expect major number changes with fairly minor content differences.  But recently they tossed that out of the park with Train Sim World a major break from the Train Sim progression.

These sim wars are utterly pointless, ...DCS is the best sim!!!  

[mtrainer 136]

At some point you're going to have to bite the bullet, whether it is now or later- simply because FSX is a dead product.  It has no real future.  In the long haul you'll save more money switching over the P3D vs. investing another red cent in a FSX 32 bit add-on.

And in time, some future version of Windows may not even run FSX....I have every version of MS FS they ever made, and the only ones that work on Windows 10 anymore are FS9 and FSX.  

Mark

[ESA_Dodo 1]

Those are good points Mark. I agree with you that is better to invest for the future. I started to have problems with FSX and W10, so I grounded myself for a while till V4 showed up.