P3D V5.4 is available

[Christopher Low 5,376]

That post annoyed me. I saw it on the main forum page, and was totally surprised, but looking forward to reading it (after reading the latest posts regarding the MSFS 2024 announcement). Then I accessed the P3D section of the forum, only to discover that it was a fake post

A part of me thinks that people posting rubbish like that should be given a short holiday.

[Juliett Alfa Romeo 548]

Exactly. When I saw it I thought "wow"... but it turned out to be something else.

[Patco Lch 1,473]

I agree. Very bad taste. Moderators should act on that one.

[okupton 310]

wow that is annoying.  Glad I saw these posts first before I saw the v6 post. 

[Sparkrite 190]

On 6/6/2023 at 6:21 PM, Sparkrite said:

Further to my previous post above, now that ChasePlane has been updated I have re-installed V5.4

and it appears that FFTF works fine with it, despite saying its for version 5.3.17.28160.

Anyone else finding the same?

 

And even further....FFTF has now been updated to cater for V5.4

The only one left, AFAIK, is surprise, surprise Toga Projects.😞

[simfan1983 185]

2 hours ago, Sparkrite said:

And even further....FFTF has now been updated to cater for V5.4

The only one left, AFAIK, is surprise, surprise Toga Projects.😞

Well hardly a surprise 😉 when I sent them a support request they replied saying they don't support Windows 11.

[Ray Proudfoot 9,026]

6 hours ago, Patco Lch said:

I agree. Very bad taste. Moderators should act on that one.

It’s now been hidden.

[Luke 782]

On 6/12/2023 at 12:35 PM, spilok said:

Overall, 5.4 has not caused any negative change in my running of P3d; it has improved it for me.

This is why double-blind trials exist. 🙂

Cheers

[IanHarrison 524]

My last word. On MY system I now can confirm that 5.4 decreases the overall vRam from 7.1 to 6.9 BUT at KLAX (FSDT) with AI planes aplenty and PMDG 747, the ground AI traffic moves much more smoothly and my HIGH settings (nearly all to the right, instead of mid way) are pushing vRam to only 6.3. Previously this would have been perilously close to a CTD.

[Luis Hernandez 577]

I felt no difference between v5.3 and v5.4... until I updated the FSL A320 and found annoying sound pauses while switching cameras. I'm sure it's an FSL issue, but this precludes me from using v5.4 for the time being.

Edited June 14, 2023 by Luis Hernandez

[pedrotrindade 335]

On 6/12/2023 at 2:16 PM, Balint Szarka said:

Hey,

 

While with P3D v4 you might get away with it on the laptop because it’s using DX11, however with v5 you will have issues with the vram as v5 is using DX12. I am running v5 on my RTX2070 Super (8gb vram) on desktop PC with texture resolution of 1024 and in some areas I’ve got close to 6 gigs of vram usage out of 7.1GB usable vram. Now with your GPU’s 4GB vram won’t be enough. Especially that the usable vram is a bit less than 4GB as Windows reserves a small bit for itself.

 

On 6/12/2023 at 4:03 PM, shermank said:

I am running v5.4 on my desktop with a GTX 1660ti video card. It has only 6 gigs of onboard ram, but I am usually drawing not much more than 4. I do not fly ram hungry tubeliners…and am very happy with the long overdue upgrade…very curious about whether this is a preview of v6 and what it may or may not offer. 
 

see my specs for more info about my hardware software setup.

 

sherm

Thanks for your input guys, I see it's a no go on my laptop.

Cheers 

[DrumsArt 270]

21 hours ago, Luis Hernandez said:

I felt no difference between v5.3 and v5.4... until I updated the FSL A320 and found annoying sound pauses while switching cameras. I'm sure it's an FSL issue, but this precludes me from using v5.4 for the time being.

I've just completed 2 flights with P3D v5.4 + FSL bus. I've had no problems whatsoever with sound pauses while switching cameras.
Do you have Chase Plane?

Richard.

[Luis Hernandez 577]

3 hours ago, DrumsArt said:

I've had no problems whatsoever with sound pauses while switching cameras.
Do you have Chase Plane?

Negative: I just edit aircraft.cfg manually with the view coordinates and angles, and bind it to any of the P3D camera hotkeys. How do you do?

I raised this issue at FSL forums, but all I got was radio silence.

Edited June 15, 2023 by Luis Hernandez

[ark 1,295]

On 6/13/2023 at 8:17 AM, Sparkrite said:

And even further....FFTF has now been updated to cater for V5.4

WIn10 Defender finds 2 files with Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml (sever) when I download and try to install the new FFTF.

False positives?

Al

Edited June 15, 2023 by ark

[Patco Lch 1,473]

29 minutes ago, ark said:

WIn10 Defender finds 2 files with Trojan:Script/Wacatac.H!ml (sever) when I download the new FFTF.

False positives?

Al

Same here.