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  1. Posted

    I am a kindred spirit who has been flight simming since fs9. I have almost every flight sim available to me and in its last iteration, my computer had xp 11, fsx steam and p3d. All of which I have spent thousands of dollars on, over the years. In my new pc I will have multiple cores and a gtx 1080 with 8 gig of ram, assisting in the rendering. Has there been any indication from the Developers, whether the code will support multiple core processors and utilise them for enhanced performance?

  2. Posted · Edited by jonss1948

    I am sight impaired and use the magnifier in windows 10 on a regular basis. I had enlarged the font size and boldness of the print to make it more discernible and I think this may be the cause of my aircraft to load but not initialise the 20 sec countdown. I have searched the ease of access centre in windows and switched off everything I think was causing conflict, to no avail. I have not uninstalled and re-installed the aircraft as yet but have repaired them with complete re-downloads of each aircraft with their expansions. Still the problem exists. Can anyone advise me as to how to fix this problem? My installed 747 v3 has not been affected and initialises.

     

    Jon Shearer

  3. Posted

    I have watched a lot of Plane Spotting videos lately, in the hope I can improve my Flight Sim performance which is hit and miss, at best. I have observed that most Pilots delay landing the nose until quite late in the process of coming back to Earth. All the Pilots of the really ' big iron ', A380's, 787's, 777's, everything employ this technique. Why do Professional Pilots hold the nose aloft for so long?

    Jon

  4. Posted

    Are we talking about the new Maddog MD 80 here? It completely broke my installation of P3D v4.1. Initially. Then I restarted after uninstalling the Maddog which cost me AU 108.00. After 3 restarts my installation came back. I have been really looking forward to this aircraft and I could hold my breath until I turn blue.

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    49 minutes ago, mike4 said:

    Tesla in space is spectacular. But that adds another debris. Even more cool would be to orbit Tesla's roadster around Mars, until a manned mars crew gives it a little boost towards sun where it would burn up.

     

    I've always been a fan of orbiting heat shields that protect the vehicle on re-entry (its like a glove around the craft) Once the craft enters the heat shield (docking in space) ie. the heat shield is a spacecraft, specifically designed to re-enter earth's atmosphere and cocoon a much lighter vehicle, less well equipped and re-usable with this new tech. Musk thinks outside the envelope. The heat shield just goes and lands where its told to. Welcome to the real Space Age.

  7. Posted

    22 minutes ago, mike4 said:

    Tesla in space is spectacular. But that adds another debris. Even more cool would be to orbit Tesla's roadster around Mars, until a manned mars crew gives it a little boost towards sun where it would burn up.

     

    I'm no great fan of Tesla but Musk and his genius must be recognised for his achievements, alone. He is the right man for the right time. God show him the way.

  9. Posted

    On 11/02/2018 at 3:24 AM, Adrian123 said:

    "SpaceX’s successful test launch of the Roadster aboard the Falcon Heavy was less an ad for that rocket than a preview of its planned successor — a booster so stupendous and absurdly powerful that SpaceX CEO Elon Musk calls it “BFR,” for Big F---ing Rocket."

    ...and it is certainly, that. My awe for this achievement is actually attempting it in the first place. THEN! achieving it. My interest will be in the percentage of unsuccessful/successful launches. On its own, this is an amazing breakthrough.

  10. Posted

    On 21/06/2017 at 6:50 AM, NatGeo said:

    Hmmm, I'm not so sure what the FAA would think about a pilot who just had an incident rushing off to a business meeting. Maybe times were different back then. 

    Times were different back then, They were much better times than now.

    Jon Shearer

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  11. Posted

    1 hour ago, Ephedrin said:

    Jon,

    if there are crashes or failures of v4 in any way this is mostly due to incompatible addons installed into v4. I have had this when I had installed scenery addons that weren‘t correctly compiled using the P3Dv4 SDK and in one case I made a mistake updating a scenery. After I corrected those mistakes I had no issues lile an app crash after closing the sim (or failure alerts) anymore.

    Thanks for your reply. I have not had any crashes with 4.1. On my system it performs better than expected and I'm enjoying flying. I researched the problem and found it to be a common occurrence and nothing to be overly perturbed about. Switched off error checking in the sim and all is good. 

    Jon Shearer 

  12. Posted

    When shutting down P3D v4.1 after using the 737 House aircraft, I'm informed that a content error log has been generated.

    [error.0]
    error=Failed to load visual effect "fx_PMDG_NGX_navwhih"

    [error.1]
    error=Failed to load visual effect "fx_PMDG_NGX_navwhih"

    [error.2]
    error=Failed to load visual effect "fx_PMDG_NGX_navwhih"

    The aircraft seems to perform as designed.

    Am I a Worry Wart or should I be concerned? Loading the aircraft with other liveries seems to expand the errors considerably.

     

    Jon Shearer

  13. Posted

    4 hours ago, cyyzrwy24 said:

    I predicted, once we got this 64 baby, that we will have nothing else to do except flying....Seems to me that we are missing FSX days....LOL..:biggrin:

     

    HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU !

    ...and a Happy and prosperous New Year to you. FSX: A considerable amount of my life has been spent editing this and that with the program. CFG file tweaks etc. I can't honestly say I miss those days.

    Jon

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    12 minutes ago, ms2 said:

    On each new addon I add in mine sim, I don't be quiet, because a computer is not a other and nobody have the same configuration. Sometimes I lost few days to correct problems. The way, I choice, is making a complete backup of mine system and sim before some less sure installations.

    Back-up. That's a novel thought. I remember there were two folders needed to be backed up or copied and archived. Wish I could remember which one's. Was it Scenery and World. Anyone know?

    Jon

  16. Posted

    1 minute ago, J van E said:

    Well, you can rest assured that the well known and popular addons won't cause any problems. Or they wouldn't be this popular. As I said I use Active Sky, ChasePlane, GSX, ProATC X and UTL along with FTX Norway + Airports or Norway along with PTA and HDE v2 (and PFPX although that one doesn't connect to the sim) and all is fine here. No, let me rephrase that: all is totally awesome here. Some of those addons I only purchased recently after getting the Majestic Q400 (which is THE BEST plane imho) and I never had any problems apart from the to be expected 'pilot error's' :wink:. Some addons take some time to get used to. But when it comes to the technical side of it all there are no problems whatsoever. Again, it's almost obvious otherwise no one would use those addons!

    So don't fear and start enjoying the sim a bit more!

    Quite right. Now to get into it. Everyone has been so helpful and I thank you for your re-assurance's. Still not looking forward to doing it, though.

  17. Posted

    Just now, AviatorMan said:

    Several weeks ago when I first installed P3Dv4, I had this same concern. So I went slowly, only installed one addon at a time, then loaded P3D to make sure everything was working. So far no issues. I have installed only A2A and PMDG aircraft, Orbx and UK2000 scenery. I would get on with it if I were you. As great as P3Dv4 is for performance and general scenery effects, the default ground scenery in my opinion is mediocre. P3Dv4 only comes to its full potential when Orbx sceneries are installed (in my opinion).

    100% with you there. ORBX are the Man. There are 1 or 2 LC's I have to get, yet but the one's I have are so visually pleasing and such high quality, I'd be crazy not to install them. ORBX Scenery is not a major concern, it is all the other stuff like ATC and Ground Services type programs that fwighten me.. You're never absolutely sure about compatibility. I procrastinate. Procrastination, coupled with past experiences. exacerbates procrastination.

    Jon

  18. Posted

    Just now, shivers9 said:

    Jon....many of us have the same fears. You are not alone. A few months ago I would not even leave my bedroom. I heard about a woman known as "The Chicken Lady" over in New Orleans who had the power to free us from our Flight Sim Fears. With some prodding from my wife and friends I decided to give her a try. Now Jon, I wont say it was a pretty thing that happened there in New Orleans that night, but after about 3 hours of noise, chanting, feathers everywhere and 4 dead chickens...praise GSALDEN (your god) I was cured!! I can now load anything I see into Prepar3d with no fear. It's like a whole new life. 2018 is going to be a great year!!

    So I shouldn't be so twiggered? Do I get a participation medal?

    Jon

  21. Posted

    11 minutes ago, J van E said:

    I don't harbour this exact same fear but I do like to keep my sim as clean as possible. So I would sort of fear to install something just to give it a try or something like that. I only like to install things of which I am certain I will be using them. This sometimes can be a problem with a totally new addon. :happy: But I don't fear installing the addons I love to use, also because I know they won't break anything: they only make things better! This does mean though that I usually have no more than two addon planes installed and only the scenery I actually fly over. Right now I only have the Majestic Q400 installed and FTX Norway (plus Airports of Norway) so no other planes and scenery at all! (Of course that isn't all, I also have ChasePlane, AS, GSX, ProATC, UTL, PFPX...)

    My system is an ageing but very capable 6 core platform combined with a gtx 1080. I can generally turn some impressive frames, so performance is not an issue, unless you're flying into ORBX YBBN in FSX. You have some add-ons I don't have but intend to purchase, Chase Plane to name one. Can you imagine the hours I will spend in the next few weeks, adding them to v4.1? Where's that therapy dog?

    Jon

  22. Posted

    1 minute ago, GSalden said:

    Fly with it as it is now.

    No addon problems , only flying :laugh:

    Yes, I could do that but have you ever broken a sim?  I've been wading through MSFS since FS9. I hate to even think of the amount of hours I've spent porking around with performance problems in flight sims since then. At the moment P3D is a visually pleasing flight simulator but it's no ORBX, scenery wise. I spent quite a bit of money making FSX  look more realistic. I guess the thing that is most daunting is wading through all of them to ascertain they're compatible with P3D v4.1. Thanks for your post.

    Jon

  23. Posted

    I have a virginal installation of P3D v4.1 and I can't bring myself to add all of my sceneries and add-ons for fear of breaking a sensational sim. Does anyone else harbour that fear? I should mention I have installed 3 PMDG aircraft with equally great results. I have a shipload of sceneries, all the ORBX LC's and heaps more utilities and add-ons. I'm twiggered and I'm fwightened. I need a therapy dog. A safe space would be nice.

     

    Jon Shearer

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