chris512

Yes, I'm using the FSX to Prepar3d Migration tool that I bought. I mentioned that above and in the previous post you're referring to. This is a thread about what Doesn't work. The table that the OP has made states that the Quality Wings 757 doesn't work in P3D. It does work. So I'm posting to let him know to take it off the compatibility table.

Quality Wings 757 works for me. I use the FSX to P3D Migrator tool. The Livery Manager doesn't work but you can add them manually like in the old days!

Is this a Cost Index thing? What are you setting that to? I was getting loads of overspeed problems with it. I set it at 50...

Yeah the future development of the platform on Prepar3d is a big lure. Another good feature of it is that the level of detail radius in Prepar3d is larger. FSX was 4.0, Prepar3d is 6 or 6.5. I can't remember exactly. I run it halfway between the two at about 5.5 I think. Looking out of the window is a much better experience now. The textures look sharper for much further. Along with Rex Essential creating a hazy horizon hiding the distant low textures it looks amazing. You can make FSX draw sharper textures but it's a cfg edit that gets deleted every time you change a setting in the fsx menu. Very annoying. I don't have fsx any more, don't need it. Prepar3d hasn't crashed on me once in over 6 months. As far as the 2.0 version of Prepar3d goes, I don't care about backwards compatibility. This is the price we pay for advancement. A good sim platform that supports direct x 11 and runs fast with lovely graphics is more important to me that being able to run my existing add ons. I'll just buy new ones. I appreciate that not everyone can do that though. It's very exciting to have the prospect of a sim built on new modern technology after over 6 years of being saddled with fsx and all of it's problems.

I use the FSX to Prepar3d Migrator tool from Sim Market. It creates a dummy FSX install folder so you don't need to install it. I've managed to install everything I want so far without any problems. Apart from the Quality Wings 757 Repaint Manager. The actual 757 works though. It's about £10 I think. Great little utility. I do find that I still have to add scenery manually with the scenery manager in Prepar3d after the install of the scenery itself but this takes no time at all. I don't have any Aerosoft scenery, just UK2000 so you might not have that issue.

I think that Prepar3D and FSX use the same textures for inland water as oceans. There's no getting around it as far as I know. I remember reading a post where one of the REX developers said that.

I'm loving Rex Essential. It does have a few issues but the total cloud cover is just amazing. I can put up with a few issues for that. The weather injection is instant for me. The initial loading of weather data when you start the Rex app takes maybe a minute but I just start it up and start plotting my route etc. It's all loaded up way before I'm ready to fly. It takes 2 mins at most to do the initial load and then each injection takes no more than 3 or 4 seconds for me. It pays to read the manual and get your setting right. I wouldn't fly without it.

I've set my Rex Essential stop injecting weather below Ten Thousand Feet. So on approach I know I won't get any weather injection problems...

Last time this happened to me I uninstalled it and ran the installer again. I made sure to use the full Flight1 wrapper install rather than the install file from the EZDok website...

Did you run the EZDok config program? It scans your system for installed aircraft. You have to do this after you've installed EZDok the first time and then after every new plane install. It should be under the EZdok folder in the Start Menu...

I installed the Turbine Sound Studios pack for my Level D 767. The guys are right, they sound very dramatic compared to what the real pilots will hear in the cockpit. I don't care though, I like the dramatic turbine sound. Real planes don't have a 46" HD screen with satellite TV but mine does :) It's all about the enjoyment for me. I can forgive a bit of non realism if it makes my hobby more enjoyable...

I'll second CoolP's answer. Bojote's tool and follow the guide in the PMDG general forum to use nVidia AA natively rather than the AA in FSX. Works like a charm for me. Oh and an "i" series CPU overclocked as high as it can go!

Yes you can just install various textures from Rex and AS. When you set your preferences you put a tick next to the textures you want to install. For example "Sky" and "Wave Animation" If you want Rex ocean and wave textures but AS runways, then selct the options the the respective programs accordingly. Once you've installed these textures you don't need to do it again. All Rex is doing is replacing the FSX textures in the scenery folders with better ones that Rex have designed. A good trick from this point onwards is to de-select all of the options you don't want to change in the future. I, for example, only ever change my sky textures with Rex. I only select these. Then when I choose my new sky textures it only installs them. Keeping the others all selected just means you sit there waiting for Rex to re-install a load of textures you already have. This saves a great deal of time. De-selecting the options you've installed that you don't want to change doesn't mean they'll get uninstalled. They won't. At this stage you now have a nice FSX install with better textures. You can use any weather generator you like. Some people chose to run AS2012 weather generator with Rex textures. There's even a freeware weather generator but I can't remember what it's called. Make sense?

I installed the Quality Wings 757 Collection with my FSX to P3D Migrator tool and all works apart from the Livery Manager. Has anyone had any luck with it?

Try the little app called FSX to Prepar3d Migration tool on Sim Market. Works flawlessly for me. Best £10 I've spent on my sim for ages.

I think you can use the AS2012 Weather Engine with the Rex textures...

I looked into the Flight1 module but until they revise their policy towards Prepar3d I won't be spending any money with them.

Try a little app called FSX to Prepar3d Migration Tool from Simmarket, it's very good. Otherwise, REX Essential supports Prepar3d directly from the installer.

One of the major advantages for me is that I don't lose the sound of my cockpit by having to click on a different window on my Sim PC. If all of my Nav progs etc are on my secondary pc then I don't lose my "FSX/P3D Focus" makes it feel more realistic to me. I think it helps not having loads of progs all competing for one hard drive too? Surely that must be true right?

I run my Prepar3d install on one computer and run pretty much everything else on a 2nd networked pc. I like to run my NGX across 3 screens with nVidia Surround so it makes it easier to view navigation software etc. My ENB data supplier app still runs on the main Sim PC but the display part of it runs over the network on the 2nd pc. I find Windows 7 networking is still harder to do than on a Mac in terms of permissions etc. Maybe I need to do more reading about it though!

I've been doing some reading recently as I'm thinking of upgrading my system. I'm running an i7 930 at 4.2Ghz but wanting to go higher. It seems to me from all of the research that the 2nd generation i7 2700 is the best cpu for fsx/prepar3d. Looking at your specs you could overclock that 960 to at least 4.5ghz. Your video card is a good one too. Unless you've got money to burn I'd stick with what you have. I think I've decided to stick. Most of the talk on the web about the Ivy bridge is that it's having some temperature issues, making it tough to overclock it. I think this is why the i7 2700 is still the best. Performance to cost ratio wise.

There's a program called "Shade" that does this. It's about £10 if I remember right...

I've just read a thread on here where you recommended REX Essentials to a new FSX user only two days ago... What's changed?

Hi Overflow, I'll try your method tomorrow. I need to have a think about what small 32 bit Application to use to rename to fsx.exe. One that uses next to no resources would be good. Maybe one of those minesweeper games that come with Windows that I never use would do the trick?! I think the dev for EFB is working on a patch for Prepar3d so we won't have to do this kind of thing for much longer...

It will if you have the right system. I have nVidia Surround. There's also TrippleHeadtoGo and AMD cards do it too. It's more down to the hardware you have. Prepar3d will do the same resolutions as FSX did.