Hi,

Most of the time I fly with P3D5.3 and now 5.4. I own MSFS since the release of it, but only have flown for 89 hours since I bought it. Now I wanna give it a serious try. And perhaps I will stay with it. Depends on what P3Dv6 will bring. Okay, I have two simple questions.

In a week or two I will build a new state-of-the-art PC. I do that every 3 years. I wanna do a fresh install of MSFS (Steam version). Download it from Steam and install it on a M2 ssd with enough space. Last year I bought a scenery from MSFS marketplace (EGGP from digital design). I don't know if I have to make a copy of that scenery for myself and reinstall it or is my scenery saved somewhere at the MS Servers? And can I just install it again from marketplace without buying again.

A few weeks ago I thought it was a good idea to delete the default version of eggp (which came with WU3). When I go to the contentmanager and search for EGGP, I see the digital design version and WU3. So when I delete WU3 then all of WU3 is deleted, not EGGP alone. How can I delete only EGGP which came with WU3.

 

Thank you. 

 

Rein

1. You can just re-download from MP

2. There’s two icons at the top of the screen - one is dots and the other is a box. Just hit one of those and it expands the world updates into individual components. 

I would suggest waiting for MSFS 2024 and then reinstall from scratch on your new PC. It appears to be a significant step forward.

Peter

2 minutes ago, qqwertzde said:

I would suggest waiting for MSFS 2024 and then reinstall from scratch on your new PC. It appears to be a significant step forward.

Peter

Uh that's a year away at least? You think he should just mothball his state-of-the-art PC until then?

Hi Rein,

 

I would agree with Peter, like you I was going to build or buy a new system as a total upgrade but will hold off until next year now and see what MS 2024 is like and it's requirement.

As an interim I am just going to upgrade my graphics card..

 

Dave

6 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Uh that's a year away at least? You think he should just mothball his state-of-the-art PC until then?

Well, nobody knows for sure when they will release it. My personal impression is that it will happen much sooner. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in September or October, but that is purely based on speculation.

1 hour ago, Rein2 said:

I will build a new state-of-the-art PC.

MSFS 2020 runs well on lower-end hardware. MSFS will probably, too. 

1 hour ago, qqwertzde said:

Well, nobody knows for sure when they will release it. My personal impression is that it will happen much sooner. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in September or October, but that is purely based on speculation.

Have you watched the talks. It is not just the name of the product, they mention a 2024 release date.

2 hours ago, qqwertzde said:

Well, nobody knows for sure when they will release it. My personal impression is that it will happen much sooner. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in September or October, but that is purely based on speculation.

They literally state "coming in 2024" here: https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024/

41 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

They literally state "coming in 2024" here: https://www.flightsimulator.com/microsoft-flight-simulator-2024/

I stand corrected.

3 hours ago, Bobsk8 said:

My guess is that P3D V 6 will be V5 with just a bit more lipstick. 

Correct, it is a guess. For the cost of a few addons, Ill be buying it.

On 7/2/2023 at 1:10 PM, Fiorentoni said:

Uh that's a year away at least? You think he should just mothball his state-of-the-art PC until then?

Your assuming he has purchased all the parts...the replies assume he hasn't.

 

My reply was based on parts NOT being purchased, in which case I still say save your money and wait until next year.

 

Dave

Okay, thanks for the answers to my questions and the suggestions of building a new PC now or wait for MSFS2024. Every three years I build a new PC. The only thing I keep is the case (a big tower). My last pc was built arond a I7-10700K and 1080Ti GPU. I started with this  habit about 12 years ago. I will sell my old CPU, MB, RAM en GPU. My new pc will be built around a 7800X3D. One of the best CPU's available now. It's the first PC I build with an AMD CPU. This is my way to keep up with the newest hardware.  

So I made the change from P3D to MSFS. I hoped P3Dv6 would bring a significant number of improvements. Although the changelog is quite long, the improvements in graphics, atmospherics, clouds are just too minimal in my opinion.

I read a lot of negative messages about P3D at the avsim forums. That's not right; we can't blame LM for that. We all know the history. Closing of ACES studios by MS, LM bought a licence and made improvements for the ESP platform (64bit, dynamic lighting and so on). ORBX and others made great scenery and AC. And most of us were happy with it. Now I think the ESP platform has reached its limits in what can be achieved with it, if you also want to sustain backward compatibility. And for LM the hobby simmers were never a target group; that no secret. But the last 10 years we were still able to make flights on the ESP platform. LM and all those developers deserve credits for that. 

Time and technology moves on. MSFS is now the state-of-the-art flightsimulator for the consumer market. Lets enjoy it. 

 

Rein

O yes. I keep P3D5.4 on an SSD. Just for nostalgic reasons