April 12, 20206 yr Commercial Member I read that some are going to install both versions of the simulator on their computer. How then to switch DirectX11 to DirectX12 and back? In jurisprudence, there is a principle - you look for the person who benefits.
April 12, 20206 yr It's always been invisible to the user. DX is a windows thing, we don't have to worry about it at all. i7-13700KF, 32gb DDR4 3200, RTX 4080, Win 11, MSFS 2024
April 12, 20206 yr Author Commercial Member Is it possible to install both? In jurisprudence, there is a principle - you look for the person who benefits.
April 12, 20206 yr I read that it is possible to have both versions, don’t know about the directx Edited April 12, 20206 yr by rob0203
April 12, 20206 yr Yes it is, but I cannot recommend. I did this with V3/V4 but ended up in a mess of add-on installations ... and I had to uninstall everything before installing v4 again. Edited April 12, 20206 yr by Nemo - Harry 9800x3D (Strix x870e-E) - 64GB RAM (DDR5 6000, CL 30) - RTX 5090, 34'' 1440p OLED HDR - Windows 11 Pro (1TB M.2) - MSFS 2024 (MS Store, 4TB M.2).
April 12, 20206 yr I for one will be making a clean install of P3DV5 when it comes out have done with all versions of P3D and then there are no stuff ups
April 12, 20206 yr I am making space and will install v5 on a seperate drive. Hopefully possible Michael Moe Michael Moe
April 12, 20206 yr I just purchased a new SSD for V5. I will continue to run V4 on its current dedicated SSD until V5 takes over as the primary sim, then the V4 SSD will became a scenery drive. Greg Greg Morin Commercial ASMEL Instrument CFI Beta Tester i Blue Yonder, Flightbeam and Milviz
April 12, 20206 yr My understanding is that a parallel installation creates a separate set of .cfg files on the "c:" drive, therefore I cannot see a cross-install happening. If it does, I may have to get creative with the install. 🙂 Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
April 12, 20206 yr 34 minutes ago, Mace said: My understanding is that a parallel installation creates a separate set of .cfg files on the "c:" drive, therefore I cannot see a cross-install happening. If it does, I may have to get creative with the install. 🙂 Not sure I follow? Seperate installation of v4 and v5 on dedicated drives should make seperate folders on c drive. guess its up to 3rd part developers to allow and create dual installers . Michael Moe Michael Moe
April 12, 20206 yr Two weeks ago I installed FSX to use Scenery Enhancer and put objects onto my pr scenery and copy the files in the P3Dv4 version. No issues with the FSX / P3DV4 combo on the same drive... 5950x3d 5.4-5.7 GHz - Asus ROG 870 Crosshair Apex - GSkill Neo 2x 24 Gb 6000 mhz / cas 26 - MSI RTX 5090 Gaming Trio OC - 1x SSD M2 6000 2TB - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 1Tb - Corsair 5400 case - Corsair 360 liquid cooling set - 3x 75’ TCL tv. 13600 6 cores @ 5.1 GHz / 8 cores @ 4.0 GHz (hypterthreading on) - Asus ROG Strix Gaming D - GSkill Trident 4x Gb 3200 MHz cas 15 - Asus TUF RTX 4080 16 Gb - 1x SSD M2 2800/1800 2TB - 2x Sata 600 SSD 500 Mb - Corsair D4000 Airflow case - NXT Krajen Z63 AIO liquide cooling - FOV : 200 degrees My flightsim vids : https://www.youtube.com/user/fswidesim/videos?shelf_id=0&sort=dd&view=0
April 12, 20206 yr 14 minutes ago, Michael Moe said: Not sure I follow? Seperate installation of v4 and v5 on dedicated drives should make seperate folders on c drive. That's exactly what I said. Rhett 7800X3D ♣ 96 GB G.Skill Flare ♣ Gigabyte 4090 ♣ Crucial P5 Plus 2TB
April 12, 20206 yr Commercial Member No problems having both installed. For FSUIPC, for example, the new installer will allow you to have one FSUIPC installation for both sims, sharing the settings/config, or you can install twice to have separate copies for each sim. I've also manually installed some other add-ons to be shared between v4 and v5, and have not encountered any issues so far. John
April 12, 20206 yr 10 hours ago, argosafe said: Good opportunity to clean install W10 and p3dv5 I think. I've thought about this as well, been putting off a cpu/mobo upgrade due to reinstalling windows 10 and wiping out appdata etc. Now with p3d v5 it gives me an even bigger excuse to redo the whole enchilada.
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