How many V5 users still using V4.5?

[Samaritano 304]

Still on v4.5. Bought v5 and have not even install it.

[regis9 4,014]

Less and less lately, FSLabs is really the only thing pulling me back.

[Patco Lch 1,465]

Still use 4.5. Some time I get tempted to uninstall V5 and fold it away until maybe next winter then get it out of the drawer and see if it has been refined to a less frustrating condition. It's beautiful in stock condition but I fly mainly tube liners into addon airports and that's where the fun ends.

[Wise87 1,281]

I’m remaining on 4.5 until at least P3Dv5.1. I figured by then most programs will be fully working and the bugs should be worked out. Also the 3080 series should be out by then.

[Chuck Dreier 75]

I purchased v5 Professional the day after it was released. I saw the potential but there were just too many problems and no add-ons.  I uninstalled, then reinstalled after the update.  I’m back with v4.5, very content with a stable and fully functional Prepar3d.  My Version 5 is bought and paid for, but this is one time I refuse to be an early adopter or beta tester.  Life is good for now.

Edited June 3, 2020 by Chuck Dreier

[webranger 186]

Happy with P3D v4.5 for now.  Actually got my settings the best they have ever been.   Reading about all the P3D v5 issues, I can wait.

[vp49p3 216]

3 hours ago, alepro21 said:

I’m  back on 4.5, and have been since about 2-3 days after the HF was released.
 

I have no time for beta testing and view the posts claiming that v5 can be made to run “rock solid” as wishful thinking based on my testing. It’s a mess for now, so I’ll wait for more updates before going back.

I concur.  I think it's prudent to wait until very few problems are reported before jumping to a new sim.   I'm holding off on v5 until it settles down.

[mwa05 108]

Me too... I am flying 4.5 HF3 and my (reinstalled to) stock vanilla V.5 HF1 is sitting idle on a separate hard drive.

Just too many issues for how I use the sim at this stage.

I bought it day 1 (as I have every previous release) but this is the first time I have discontinued using the new version.

It is actually disappointing and I was sad to read that a well respected person on this board who is a LM Beta Tester had recommended it not be released but it was anyway. Other releases have had issues but not like this.

[BIGSKY 316]

As I am on 2020 Alpha,I am soon to uninstall FSX ,P3DV4.5,and XP11, I already purchased PMDG 737 for 2020,looking forward to a great chapter in Flight Simulation ,been simming since 2000.

[bbain1187 118]

12 minutes ago, BIGSKY said:

As I am on 2020 Alpha,I am soon to uninstall FSX ,P3DV4.5,and XP11, I already purchased PMDG 737 for 2020,looking forward to a great chapter in Flight Simulation ,been simming since 2000.

Wait, are you saying PMDG is already selling the NGXu (or whatever they call it for FS2020) for FS2020? Because that would be a load of BS. The only thing they have done is said that the $100 purchase price for the NGXu will go TOWARDS the FS2020 build. You will still have to pay the difference, when it's released. 

[airforce806 18]

Haven't tried version 5 but version 4.5 is running well on my system.  Seems be too many frustrated simmers yet for me to give it a shot.  Just don't feel like spending the hours tweaking.  Hopefully hotfixes will solve the issue.

[Mace 1,927]

I've found myself only completing one flight using v4.5 since v5 came out.  v5HF1 is that good.  RTM wasn't.

I'm presently playing around with LatinVFR KMIA and the Maddog.  That's how you really learn the limits of P3Dv5HF1.  I have a feeling with HF2 LM will introduce mechanisms short of a crash to handle a VRAM issue, and once that happens, the floodgates will open.

[rickjake 243]

Since I fly mainly in VR, v5 has much better performance in VR then v4.5.  So I have not looked back. Still have v4.5 on my system, but haven't used it since V5.  I have a fairly high end PC with a RTX2080Ti, So I  have not experienced a lot of the problems others are reporting with V5.  Plus, I also only installed v5 compatible add-ons. 

Quite happy with v5.  As with most stuff, should get even better with time. 

[Brianwhtn43 28]

2 hours ago, webranger said:

Happy with P3D v4.5 for now.  Actually got my settings the best they have ever been.   Reading about all the P3D v5 issues, I can wait.

Exactly the same here. Still too many issues for me to ditch 4.5 just yet.

 

[GEKtheReaper 364]

@spilok you should have inserted a poll (you will have to read all comments and make your own list now....maybe a admin could set it up...).

Back to v4.5HF3. P3D v5 is way to buggy and costly for me. It's the first app (game) that req users to buy mid to High end GPU's to fly with mediocre settings.