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They (P3D Devs) have said in their forums that many enhancements have been done to increase performance. Lets not forget the CPU is used in FSX to calculate a lot of the rendering functions, now imagine that all of this is handled by the GFX card via D3D11. That frees up the CPU to do more important tasks and I would also imagine maybe some new tasks. Dividing up those tasks to multiple cores should be easier now too.

I agree with a lot of what you're saying but I also believe that this is nothing but good news for all of us student pilots. Just wanted to add that there is a HUGE point being missed, many of our existing add-ons will work in P3D V2. This plus moving the graphics rendering to the GFX card utilizing D3D11 is huge. The LM Dev team seems extremely capable of getting P3D to where most people want it to be and this first step is absolutely in the right direction.. in my humble opinion. The amount of work that was required to get over to DX11 and still maintain compatibility with existing add-ons had to have been many 1000's of hours of coding. My hat goes off to the LM team.

Thanks for that, I was looking for this exact quote earlier. I hope they drop legacy support and require d3d11 cards. Focus on the future and forget about d3d9 and 10.

I was one of those on the fence regarding FTXG and decided to get it after getting the A2A 172. I have no regrets at all, FTXG looks great day and night. I also haven't noticed any loss in frame rates. Good luck.

I'm a long time SFX user and have suffered FSX crashing due to switching between full screen and windowed mode many times. I have a question for you and anyone else who experiences this. How are you switching modes? Are you using the Alt+Enter method or do you use the "View" menu and click the "Full Screen" option? I always and I mean always used to use the Alt+Enter method in FSX for switching. Recently, after purchasing the A2A 172 I was still getting the crash after a hour or longer flight. It was never really a big deal since it was at the end of the flight and I anticipated it. Out of curiosity, decided to try using the menu option instead and ever since, not one single crash. Tested this with the A2A 172 and FSX running for longer than a day. After it was running for that long I did some pattern work and changed back and forth many times with no crash. I'm convinced that Alt+Enter is the culprit. I've put several more hours on the 172 since then and still no crash. Hope someone else finds this useful. BTW, I'm still using 1.4, haven't tried 1.5 yet. Maybe today.

Very excited to say the least and truly hope V2 lives up to the hype. If I need a PMDG fix, I'll always have FSX around. The C172 Trainer from A2A installed into Prepar3d v1.4 with no problem. The time and maintenance log files are common for both simulators by the way, very cool IMHO. :good:

Thanks for the comments. Wasn't planning on getting FTX Global but It was worth the wait and I'm pretty happy, FSX looks good.

Here's a few shots taken recently during a shortish hop from KPIE to the East coast of FL in nasty weather. Due to the settings I use, my FPS are 30-50 in busy areas in good weather and low 20's (sometimes lower in certain situations) to the 30's in bad weather. Ground scenery shadows are enabled plus AA is set in NVins at 32x. Credits go to A2A for the C172 Trainer | skyhawk from A2A forums for his amazing N1780C repaint | REX Essentials Plus HD/OD 4096/2048 FTX Global | ENB Series and SweetFX | Gabriel Teles sky textures and ENB color palette FSX looks amazing if you ask me, ENB and SweetFX help a lot though.

Since PMDG is so busy with the T7 release, maybe they won't mind a little help. Short answer is yes.. Here is thread that was answered recently: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/411507-double-installations/?view=findpost&p=2696450&hl=%2Binstall+%2Btwo+%2Bcomputers

If memory serves.. warning, it has failed me before so take this with a grain of salt. Capt. Robert owns a DC-6 and it is or was his favorite aircraft or something to that effect. Again, my memory gets fuzzy but I believe that to be why. They, as in RSR, also mentioned that there was talent being utilized on the DC-6 project that wasn't necessarily directly tied to the T7 development. DC-6 development could have been happening all the while. Of course, someone official will eventually let us all know whats going on.

Great find Ryan, thanks for sharing.

Robert, Thank you for your professionalism and commitment to quality that PMDG is so well known for. Thanks for the update, my money is in the holding pattern! A Fanboi and I'm not ashamed to say so.

One thing is for sure, starting pilot salaries are extremely low and have been for a long time now. "Airline Pilot" was rated #3 most stressful job to have in 2012 with an average salary of $103,210. I think corporate America could do better by the men and women who have so many lives in their hands everyday. My hat goes off to anyone making the journey to become a commercial pilot. It's expensive to get and an under appreciated / compensated career choice that I feel is based on the passion for flight. This is where corporations are taking advantage of people. The entire industry is designed to make as much money as possible off of the students trying to become pilots. I'd love to see the annual earnings statistics from commercial flight training over the last decade.

Great timing RSR. Congrats to team PMDG!

I'd imagine that if there was information regarding the people responsible it's internally know to PMDG staff. I don't recall there being definitive proof released pointing a finger at the alleged. If I remember correctly, it was let known that the attacks came from China and then assumptions were that it must be a competitor. Fact remains, directly following the NGX release came the DDoS attacks. That's how I remember it going down anyways.