On 8/26/2018 at 7:21 AM, Rob Ainscough said:

P3D has always supported Multi-threading.

Probably best to wait for the V4.x series to complete before talking about V5.

Cheers, Rob.

Makes sense Rob...

I'm also very content with version 4.3.  Wish it had a more robust record/playback ability like Xplane11, but that is really all I miss.  P3D is my platform for flying over photoreal scenery and it is the platform that has the majority of my aircraft add-ons, I fly Xplane11 mostly for its default autogen, landclass placement, mesh, and atmosphere rendering, and the FDE's of a few aircraft.  In P3D I find city centers more realistic, with Xplane11 I have had to seek out freeware add-ons to complete the many city centers they left out in favor of generic buildings.

Each sim has its own strengths and few weaknesses.  But to focus on P3D I just love the hour after hour of smoothness and reliability I get from the sim, next to none CTD's whereas in Xplane11 they happen, especially with greater and greater amounts of AI.  I have sent crash reports to the Xplane team using their built in feature but not one word as to the cause or how to prevent them.  That is the bad news, they do not come often in that sim is the good news, but P3DV4.3 is a winner in the sim stability department, and at a higher performance level with more in depth cockpits in the light jets and tprops I fly in (but I have never gone all out to get commercial tprops or jets, just not my interest, I like commercial for being along for the ride and general aviation for the freedom of choosing my airport pairs, times of flights, and aircraft).

John

Prepar3DV5 supports Electronic Flight Bag and Ultimate Traffic Live.  Looking good so far.  You need a Graphics Card that supports DXT 12.  My Titan GTX supports this.

Edited April 16, 20206 yr by jfmitch
added P3D number

I was wrong about UT live, must wait for UT Live Version 2 which will be free to UT Live users. EFB now supports P3DV5.

Edited May 8, 20206 yr by jfmitch