My speculation on upgrading is and was upgrade often and frequently.  What I had to learn is that there are limitations that will SNAFU updating.  Finance is usually the biggee especially with hardware.   What about getting ramped up to do a software upgrade?  Usually you can't do one of those from a dead stop.  This is where I found I need to get 'psyched' for any upgrade and that happens after all the limitations (blocks) are lifted.  Finally there needs to be a motivation like 'I don't want to be left behind' or promises of better performance or your existing system is junk.  

So for me going to P3D 4.5 is not a biggy.  Besides I may be losing my uber kewl gaming machine due to life changes so there is no motivation.  But P3D4.4 is running perfectly!

 

Regards
bs

Edited April 10, 20197 yr by bean_sprout

36 minutes ago, bean_sprout said:

My speculation on upgrading is and was upgrade often and frequently.  What I had to learn is that there are limitations that will SNAFU updating.  Finance is usually the biggee especially with hardware.   What about getting ramped up to do a software upgrade?  Usually you can't do one of those from a dead stop.  This is where I found I need to get 'psyched' for any upgrade and that happens after all the limitations (blocks) are lifted.  Finally there needs to be a motivation like 'I don't want to be left behind' or promises of better performance or your existing system is junk.  

So for me going to P3D 4.5 is not a biggy.  Besides I may be losing my uber kewl gaming machine due to life changes so there is no motivation.  But P3D4.4 is running perfectly!

 

Regards
bs

I usually wait for the snow to settle, then upgrade, old habit I have from being a former WAN manager supporting a WAN in three states--I did not want to book travel in those days (we had to use CD's to upgrade our servers back then) until the uninvited "theta" testers--John Q. Public, shared their opinions with us--we called it "Best Practices".  But with Lockheed Martin and Xplane11 I upgrade immediately and confidently, I feel they have not blown any of their releases in their current product cycle and if a few glitches show up they are on it, and have them fixed, immediately. 

I also feel that way about a select group of aircraft add-on vendors I deal with now, I have built up a trust for Aerobask and VSkylabs (Xplane11) and Carenado and other vendors (Xplane11 and P3D4.x).  So I am usually the first to get their products putting the pedal to the metal, so to speak, when they are released.  I have never been burned by these vendors, which is why their customers have them in business. 

Not to mention vendors I have not tried yet, but who have a strong following too, only because they specialize in heavy iron.  I forgot to mention Justflight, a great vendor.  Since I am on disability, first with migraine headaches, then with getting run over by a car, although I can still out sprint most humans, it's just painful, I sit and sim all day long, or create instrumental synth music, my other passion, I have a handful of synth modules from ARP, to Roland, to Yamaha, and Juno, etc, which I've tickled with since the mid 80's.

And later this year, because of the accident I was in, I hope to use my settlement to finish my light sport license.

John