Hello all and happy holidays     

I am about to finally upgrade from fsx and i was wondering which prepare 3d to get        Version 4 or version 5?

what i want is default airports with gates like i have in fsx       and i am only going to buy PMDG 737, Qualitywings 787, active sky and GSX

 

I have got a new cyberpower gamer xfinity xlc for christmas      so performance should be no problem

 

Thanks all in advance for your help and advice

 

13ifs40

 

v5.    All the way.

For what you want to run, there's no reason to look back towards v4.

v5

Yes V5, I truely wasn’t expecting it to be such a upgrade from V4.5

The qualitywings 787 HUD is much smoother in V5 too

V5 without a doubt.

Cheers, Pete

Another vote for v5. The performance and graphical fidelity are unparalleled with any previous release. it's also a very stable platform for me in its current incarnation, provided you stay within the limits that your hardware can handle. Definitely I think this is a huge step up from v4! Clearly some aspects need work and refinement, but I think it'd be a mistake to go with v4 because of that.

V5.1 HF1 all the way. I've never been so impressed with any simulator, ever. I started way back in 2004 with FS9.

Version 5. I waited to make to switch from P3D v4 until P3D 5.1 was released, but then I was sorry that I didn't switch earlier. Version 5 has accurate shorelines, streets, and rivers, i.e., everything that ORBX Vector provides for version 4. It also has a very good elevation mesh, so that mountains look much more real. It also has sloped runways and updated default airports.

I would recommend to also invest in ORBX landclass products (Europe, North and South America, Australia,  Africa), then the sim looks almost real.

Peter

What more could I add? V5!

16 hours ago, Benjamin J said:

Another vote for v5. The performance and graphical fidelity are unparalleled with any previous release. it's also a very stable platform for me in its current incarnation, provided you stay within the limits that your hardware can handle. Definitely I think this is a huge step up from v4! Clearly some aspects need work and refinement, but I think it'd be a mistake to go with v4 because of that.

If by "Graphical fidelity" you mean that the world just looks 'more 3D', I'll agree with you 1000%.

I'm not sure why, but v5.1 in particular makes it feel more like a 3D world than any version prior. Rolling down the taxiway now feels like I am actually moving through the airport instead of just seeing what it would look like if I were rolling through the airport. Does that make sense? Must be the lighting, but I think all of the 3D models look better, Even some of the older scenery that I have looks better than it ever did which tells me that the developers made a better scenery than I thought they had. The older sims just weren't displaying it in it's true form.  

19 hours ago, 13ifs40 said:

I am about to finally upgrade from fsx and i was wondering which prepare 3d to get        Version 4 or version 5?

If you're above all minimum requirements, go with v5. My laptop is not, so I decided to settle with v4. I didn't fancy endless tweaking sessions trying to compensate for my weak GPU.

With V4 I felt this was what FSX should have been. I don't regret having gone to v4 instead of v5. So, with either v4 or v5 you'll see an upgrade anyway.

 

20 hours ago, 13ifs40 said:

I have got a new cyberpower gamer xfinity xlc for christmas      so performance should be no problem

Oops, I had missed this part. Go with v5!

4 hours ago, MDFlier said:

If by "Graphical fidelity" you mean that the world just looks 'more 3D', I'll agree with you 1000%.

I'm not sure why, but v5.1 in particular makes it feel more like a 3D world than any version prior. Rolling down the taxiway now feels like I am actually moving through the airport instead of just seeing what it would look like if I were rolling through the airport. Does that make sense? Must be the lighting, but I think all of the 3D models look better, Even some of the older scenery that I have looks better than it ever did which tells me that the developers made a better scenery than I thought they had. The older sims just weren't displaying it in it's true form.  

I think I know what you mean, and I think the lighting is 100% the reason for this. I happened to compare these two screenshots, kind of by accident as I was looking in the wrong folder, but happened to see these shots that happened to be taken in the same area.

Here you see me flying over Osaka in v4 and v5, using TechnoBrain's RJOO and SamScene's Osaka city. I will add that in v4 I'm using v2 of Osaka city and in v5 the v3 of Osaka City, recompiled for use in v5. Also, in v4 the conditions were more cloudy than in v5, which is why v5 has a sunnier appearance. However, I don't think that's the reason that the difference is night and day:

P3Dv4:

 

P3Dv5:

Hello and wishing you a happy new year to all

 

thanks  for your input       V5 it will be

 

13ifs40

Good choice. Every version of Prepar3d is terrible, but V5 is slightly less so in some areas.

25 minutes ago, Chapstick said:

Every version of Prepar3d is terrible...

Where did that come from???  Too much eggnog? 😉

Edited January 1, 20215 yr by Bert Pieke