Vertx DA-62 In P3d V5

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

On 3/19/2021 at 10:41 PM, djbully said:

Definitely worth picking it up before it disappears!

Why would it disappear? Plenty of people have v4 and it can be configured to run in v5. No such performance issues with my hardware. Running a 4K monitor at 30Hz and performance is silky smooth.

[djbully 210]

On 3/19/2021 at 10:49 PM, Ray Proudfoot said:

Why would it disappear? Plenty of people have v4 and it can be configured to run in v5. No such performance issues with my hardware. Running a 4K monitor at 30Hz and performance as silky smooth.

Hi Ray, maybe I’m putting 2 and 2 together and making 5. I’m good at that. 

Just looking at Realair which are no longer available to purchase. And Sean was one half of that? Plus Sean has been going through difficulties. Reading between the lines I wouldn’t be surprised if it were to no longer be available at some point. 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

20 minutes ago, djbully said:

Hi Ray, maybe I’m putting 2 and 2 together and making 5. I’m good at that. 

Just looking at Realair which are no longer available to purchase. And Sean was one half of that? Plus Sean has been going through difficulties. Reading between the lines I wouldn’t be surprised if it were to no longer be available at some point. 

The way I see it is it's making him money. There's plenty of support here at AvSim should anyone need it and we all hope that Sean can return to the community when he feels up to it.

[djbully 210]

I completely agree, would be wonderful to have some more of his very excellent work! 😎

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

Has anyone worked out if the default FPA of 1.7° can be changed? I was hoping it might be in a configuration file rather than being hard-coded.

I’d much prefer a 3° FPA and having to change it each time is a pain.

[onebob 125]

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Has anyone worked out if the default FPA of 1.7° can be changed? I was hoping it might be in a configuration file rather than being hard-coded.

I’d much prefer a 3° FPA and having to change it each time is a pain.

Hi Ray, you should be able to scroll down to the 'current vnav profile' and highlight the FPA and adjust it to 3°, make sure vnav is enabled.

bob  edit ... just tested, works ok

Edited April 12, 2021 by onebob

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

27 minutes ago, onebob said:

Hi Ray, you should be able to scroll down to the 'current vnav profile' and highlight the FPA and adjust it to 3°, make sure vnav is enabled.

bob  edit ... just tested, works ok

Bob, do you mean making the change inside the aircraft? If so, I already do that but it only lasts for the current session. What I'm after is changing the default value which I was hoping might be stored in a file. If you're changing an entry in a file where is it located?

[onebob 125]

36 minutes ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

do you mean making the change inside the aircraft

yes, I think its this way because in the real g1000 there is an option to use the 'VS TGT' or the FPR,  but in the DA62 I wasn't able to adjust the VS TGT so I think its set to a default value to start with. 

regards bob

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

42 minutes ago, onebob said:

yes, I think its this way because in the real g1000 there is an option to use the 'VS TGT' or the FPR,  but in the DA62 I wasn't able to adjust the VS TGT so I think its set to a default value to start with. 

regards bob

That’s a pity but thanks for investigating Bob.

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

Having installed the Vertx DA-62 into P3Dv5 I am in the process of uninstalling P3Dv4 and all its addons and scenery.

No problem with the scenery but I'm concerned that if I uninstall P3Dv4 that will affect the licence info for the Vertx.

Has anyone who installed it into v4 and then copied files and folders to v5 successfully uninstalled P3Dv4 without it impacting on the Vertx DA-62 in v5?

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

Looking through the Registry all the registration info is held in this location...

Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Vertx Flight Simulation\DA62 P3D4

So logically changing that path to P3D5 should satisfy the code running the aircraft. I'm not sufficiently brave enough to uninstall P3Dv4 just yet. My P3D software is installed on a 931Gb SSD and v4 is taking up just 34Gb or 3.4%. I have 60% still free so space is not the issue. But my tidy mind would like to remove all trace of v4 given I still have v3 installed.

It would be nice to hear from anyone who has uninstalled v4 and still has the DA-62 running in v5.

LATER: Looking at the info in the Config App it holds the version number of P3Dv4. So if I was to uninstall it that info would be lost. It would seem v4 has to remain.

Edited May 11, 2021 by Ray Proudfoot
Additional info

[djbully 210]

Hi Ray, can you not uninstall from V4 and then re-install into V5? 
 

Would you lose your flight time in aircraft? I’m not sure what else that you might lose? 

[Ray Proudfoot 8,955]

@djbully, I suspect it looks for a P3Dv4 entry in the Registry and won't install if there isn't one. But maybe it also looks for the existence of a Prepar3d.exe in the v4 root folder and then checks the version number. Unless it's v4 it won't install.

I'll physically move the P3Dv4 folder to another drive and see what happens when I load it in v5. If it doesn't work then it's looking in the Registry for the path to the exe which is now different of course.

If it does work then I'll have a think about what to do next. Moving an unused P3Dv4 to a 2Tb HDD isn't a problem really.

[djbully 210]

@Ray Proudfoot

ahh yes, it’s only a v4 installer. 
 

I installed into V5 with the registry trick, see page 2 of this thread for a decent video howto.

That should do the trick.

[djbully 210]

Another thing to bear in mind, you will need to have XMLtools64 installed. There is a version for v5 now I believe. Google for xml tools 64 it should come up, if you dont have it already.