April 13, 20206 yr 10 minutes ago, G-YMML1 said: Why it's so difficult to wait 3-4 weeks, while the things with add-ones settle down. Then the same gang of "early adopters" will be crying river of tears blaming developers etc. 😂😂😂😂😂 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 13, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, gregmorin said: My plan as well. I have ordered a new 2TB M2 SSD that will be P3DV5 only. Greg Is there any performance impact from having P3D on an external SSD drive such as your doing? I wouldn't mind installing version 5 on a external SSD drive and keeping everything on that but I'm concerned with the performance as far as scenery and texture loading, etc... Eric
April 13, 20206 yr 27 minutes ago, B777ER said: Is there any performance impact from having P3D on an external SSD drive such as your doing? I wouldn't mind installing version 5 on a external SSD drive and keeping everything on that but I'm concerned with the performance as far as scenery and texture loading, etc... No FPS gain, but faster start-up and loading times 9950X3D, X870E ROG CROSSHAIR HERO, Corsair Dominator Titanium 64GB DDR5-6000 PC5-48000, ASUS RTX 5070Ti 16GB, 9100 PRO 4TB Samsung ,990 PRO 4TB Samsung, AX1600i 1600 Watt 80 Plus Titanium ATX, ASUS 360 ARGB EXTREME 360mm Liquid CPU Cooling Kit.
April 13, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, B777ER said: Is there any performance impact from having P3D on an external SSD drive such as your doing? I wouldn't mind installing version 5 on a external SSD drive and keeping everything on that but I'm concerned with the performance as far as scenery and texture loading, etc... Faster loading helps with avoiding blurries and might make the sim smoother.. 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 13, 20206 yr 2 hours ago, B777ER said: Is there any performance impact from having P3D on an external SSD drive such as your doing? I wouldn't mind installing version 5 on a external SSD drive and keeping everything on that but I'm concerned with the performance as far as scenery and texture loading, etc... Actually, I will be adding another internal SSD not external. John at Orbx has used an external SSD successfully. Greg Greg Morin Commercial ASMEL Instrument CFI Beta Tester i Blue Yonder, Flightbeam and Milviz
April 14, 20206 yr 11 hours ago, gregmorin said: Actually, I will be adding another internal SSD not external. John at Orbx has used an external SSD successfully. Greg I get that add ons should be installed in a different directory from p3d, but it shouldn't matter whether they're on the same or a different drive though, right?
April 14, 20206 yr 3 hours ago, Drebin8 said: I get that add ons should be installed in a different directory from p3d, but it shouldn't matter whether they're on the same or a different drive though, right? It is a space issue for me. I have only 260Gb left on the dedicated 1TB SSD for P3DV4. No way I could run them together which is my plan until P3DV5 has all the add-ons updated. I also have a 250 GB SSD which is used for P3DV4 scenery and it only has 45 GB left. I do not want to fill the hard drives. The M2 drives are much faster than a standard SSD. My C drive is a M2 500GB drive which is used for all non flight simulator computer tasks. I expect the 2 P3DV4 drives to become dedicated scenery drives for P3DV5 considering the size of scenery now being produced. You are correct in that it does not matter if add-ons are on the same drive. Greg Greg Morin Commercial ASMEL Instrument CFI Beta Tester i Blue Yonder, Flightbeam and Milviz
April 14, 20206 yr (Raise your hand if you have absolutely no clue what any of you are talking about) (Raises hand!) Hey guys, can you explain this to me like I'm an word not allowed, please? I'm going to wait for updated installers for my addons and do clean installs of everything. What is the best way? Whatchoo guys talking about with this outside the root folder stuff? Thanks!
April 14, 20206 yr 12 hours ago, Drebin8 said: I get that add ons should be installed in a different directory from p3d Hi, I'm somewhat slow. What is the simple explanation as to why?
April 14, 20206 yr Will we be able to have both V4 and V5 on our machines? It would be nice to have both installed and build the V5 as everything catches up while still being able to fly V4. Then once, V5 is up to speed, just uninstall V4.
April 14, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, sivart2000 said: Will we be able to have both V4 and V5 on our machines? It would be nice to have both installed and build the V5 as everything catches up while still being able to fly V4. Then once, V5 is up to speed, just uninstall V4. Yes, you will be able to... PC: AMD 9850X3D, RAM 64GB, Geforce GTX 5090 (32GB), MSFS 2020, MSFS 2024, Pimax Super 50PPD, Quest 3
April 15, 20206 yr 1 hour ago, flyblueskies said: Yes, you will be able to... Nice. Ordering a 1TB M.2 right now.
April 15, 20206 yr On 4/13/2020 at 1:22 AM, Lorby_SI said: OK, so here is the recipe how to link your old V4 addon packages and scenery to V5 Copy "C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\add-ons.cfg" to "C:\ProgramData\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v5\add-ons.cfg" Use P4AO to add a DiscoveryPath to V5, pointing to "C:\Users\...\Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons" Use P4AO to import your V4 scenery.cfg as a new addon package (there is a button for that on the "Backup/Restore" tab). That's about it. This will not affect addons that don't have an add-on.xml, which will mostly be aircraft, shader- or texture replacements. Best regards Followed this process and now I am running into this issue. Seems to be the only problem so far. Any ideas I could try? Edited April 15, 20206 yr by Alcides Segovia Image Follow me on : Instagram See my Trailer: A Year Of Flight
April 15, 20206 yr Commercial Member If you're using FS2Crew the flight crew program or UGCX or RAAS, please do not try manually moving our products over into P3D v5. Please wait for the official installers. If you try manually porting stuff into P3D v5, things will likely get messed up, causing us big support headaches! Cheers, Edited April 15, 20206 yr by byork B. York FS2Crew Web Site / FS2Crew Facebook Page / FS2Crew Discord
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