48 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Mr A’s actual words, not paraphrased by me….

”HotFix 1 for P3D V5.3 today ... fixes bugs and fixed issue with AI road traffic ... performance is exceptional.”

Where was this posted? 

First run was a bust...Shaders compiled...had me set to my Sea Base...and then the Loading Sea and Land Traffic screen came up...sat at 2 percent, and that was that....   Now going over what could have caused that. Always something....sigh...

 

Post Edit:  WOW...now all is good...and the FPS performance wit HF1 is spectacular!  I even cranked the top Scenery Complexity to full right, and only fluctuate from my locked 33 FPS, about 1-3 FPS...but they fluctuate (not drop down to) and no stutter or delay as in v5.3 (non HF1).  Excellent results, am really enjoying the sim now...out over the Keys...and lovin' it!

Edited December 21, 20214 yr by Sesquashtoo

1 hour ago, Balint Szarka said:

ASP3D is now updated, see this thread and the link for the changelog: 

 

Thanks

2 hours ago, Ray Proudfoot said:

Ah yes, the nuclear option. I won’t be bothering with that one. I made that mistake with v4 and it took ages to get my scenery.cfg back to its correct state.

Lorby-SI P3D addon organizer takes care of this. Press the backup button in the freeware tool before uninstalling your current version of P3D, and it takes a snapshot of *all* the key files of P3D, no matter the installation location.

Then after the new version is installed, open the backed up files using anything other than WinZip, e.g. 7-zip. All your generated files from the previous install (and more) are available for you to use as you see fit.

My one problem with my first run of a locked sim, is now corrected...and having fabulous results, great FPS,  even cranked to Max Scenery Complexity...and a fluctuation of only 3 FPS,  but not a total drop down...just great visuals...very happy!

Did a complete  4 component uninstall of the non HF1,  and then did a SET UP install of HF1.   Great results...

8 minutes ago, F737NG said:

Lorby-SI P3D addon organizer takes care of this. Press the backup button in the freeware tool before uninstalling your current version of P3D, and it takes a snapshot of *all* the key files of P3D, no matter the installation location.

Then after the new version is installed, open the backed up files using anything other than WinZip, e.g. 7-zip. All your generated files from the previous install (and more) are available for you to use as you see fit.

I have it and have made a backup but I fail to understand why it’s necessary to purge all the critical P3D files for a point update or hotfix. This is just LM covering their backsides.

When I updated to 5.3 I didn’t touch any of those files and everything worked fine. I’ll be repeating that procedure for this hotfix.

As I just got home from my 4 hour procedure and 7 hours in hospital with strict orders to take it easy the next few days this sounds like the ideal time to FINALLY move to 5.3 from 4.5 🙂 

Any word on the PMDG birds and QW 787 with the HF?  

Great news indeed!  

@Ray Proudfoot any chance this could resolve the device hung issues as well?  Fingers crossed. 

i have a brand new clean Win10 install on a new M.2, sounds ideal for this.  

17 minutes ago, psolk said:

As I just got home from my 4 hour procedure and 7 hours in hospital with strict orders to take it easy the next few days this sounds like the ideal time to FINALLY move to 5.3 from 4.5 🙂 

Any word on the PMDG birds and QW 787 with the HF?  

Great news indeed!  

@Ray Proudfoot any chance this could resolve the device hung issues as well?  Fingers crossed. 

i have a brand new clean Win10 install on a new M.2, sounds ideal for this.  

PMDG never locks their aircraft to a specific .x version. They function as advertised, including in v5.3 HF1

They said to run the "Delete Generated Files" shortcut, I rather not do that because last time I did it wiped out add on sceneries I had. I rather delete the necessary files by hand. Does anyone know what files would need to be deleted?

I see no need to update Content. Will do Client and scenery I reckon.

Nice to fly into and out of KMCO again.

Stan

FYI, a "hotfix" for HF1 will be released soon

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=144125

Edited December 22, 20214 yr by PinkPony

If only they could fix the green stutter bar issue too. 

4 hours ago, Joseph29 said:

They said to run the "Delete Generated Files" shortcut, I rather not do that because last time I did it wiped out add on sceneries I had. I rather delete the necessary files by hand. Does anyone know what files would need to be deleted?

Just uninstall and reinstall, without deleting any files. If you get problems, you can still delete some files afterwards. Mostly, you won't have a problem if you didn't have problems with the version before. 

Dan

7 hours ago, psolk said:

Great news indeed!  

@Ray Proudfoot any chance this could resolve the device hung issues as well?  Fingers crossed. 

Best wishes for a speedy recovery Paul. I have left the Registry entries alone and remain with 471.96 with EA=Off. No DXGI errors at all except when adjusting a visibility slider in ASP3D. None when flying.

LM have not mentioned DXGI issues at all. I’ll be updating to 5.3HF1 this morning.