TrabantDave

HaHa I already have a cunning plan! I'll sell my drone, the cat, and a few other bit and bobs; buy her an electric blanket and a GTX 2080 for me....If I drop GBP 1100 on a GPU you can guarantee I'll be doing a lot of solo niteflites - in the garden shed, and Mrs. Trabant will be cozy and warm in bed with the door locked.....

S'okay; the AMD is a choice I made on the basis of multi-threading capability, and the re-use of a 1070 is a compromise reached with my wife, who has said I can upgrade the graphics later in the year.......

Hi guys, Here is my new build for P3Dv4 and TS2019; any comments welcome, good or bad..... Case FRACTAL MESHIFY C BLACK GAMING CASE (Window) Processor (CPU) AMD Ryzen 7 2700X Eight Core CPU (3.7GHz-4.35GHz/20MB CACHE/AM4) Motherboard Gigabyte X470 AORUS Ultra Gaming: ATX, USB 3.1, SATA 6GBs - RGB Ready Memory (RAM) 16GB Corsair VENGEANCE DDR4 2933MHz ~ (2 x 8GB) Graphics Cards 2x 8GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1070 sc - DVI, HDMI, DP - in SLI! Storage Drives 240GB ADATA SU650 2.5" SSD, SATA 6 Gb (520MB/R, 450MB/W) I'll also be re-using a couple of almost new Crucial 1tb ssds internally DVD/BLU-RAY Drive NOT REQUIRED - Already got an external USB drive if needed Power Supply CORSAIR 750W TXm SERIES™ SEMI-MODULAR 80 PLUS® GOLD, ULTRA QUIET Power Cable 1 x 1 Metre UK Power Cable (Kettle Lead) Processor Cooling CoolerMaster MasterLiquid Lite 240 High Performance Liquid Cooler Thermal Paste COOLER MASTER MASTERGEL MAKER THERMAL COMPOUND Extra Case Fans 2x 120mm Black Case Fan (configured to extract from rear/roof) Sound Card ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD) Wireless/Wired Networking WIRELESS 802.11 AC1300 867Mbps/5GHz, 400Mbps/2.4GHz PCI-E CARD USB/Thunderbolt Options 2 PORT (2 x TYPE A) USB 3.1 PCI-E CARD + STANDARD USB PORTS Operating System Genuine Windows 10 Professional 64 Bit - inc. Single Licence Operating System Language United Kingdom - English Language The main elements are from pcspecialist in the UK, the second 1070 I already own, similarly the additional SSD's. Tell me what you think folks Dave

I can only give you my own experiences but hopefully they will help; I run P3D v4 on an Alienware 17 gaming laptop and an external monitor, all drives are SSD, the processor is the Intel Core i7 4930MX, and the GPU is the GTX880M. Once upon a time this was a leviathan of laptops, but is now 4 years old. I hung back from v4 because in the past I have messed up badly by being an early adopter, and as everything worked reasonably well and a lot of add-ons were not v4 compatible. I finally upgraded to v4.1 as more add-ons became compatible and some new ones were not useable on earlier versions. Having done a bit of homework it became apparent that the update was a no-brainer, although to hedge my bets I fully backed up v3 to an external drive and kept installed on my laptop, albeit compressed to reduce the size somewhat. I'm glad I took the leap, as the improvement in framerates and fluidity was immediately apparent, especially in complex sceneries such as Mega Heathrow with detailed planes (PMDG 747, QW787, FSLabs Airbus) and GSX ground services. Many add-ons were a free upgrade, some not, but overall I'm happy I made the change. Sorry I don't have FPS comparisons, but I would say that I have had no issues with blurries, stutters, or CTD's since going 64-bit. I've stepped back from v4.2 as I can't see any issues to warrant the risk of my favourite add-ons giving up the ghost. OK, that's more about the practicalities of switching to v4 rather than any specifics or technicalities. Regards D.

Hi, I've been using the Francois Dore version of the Project Airbus A320 and it seems to work well with no problems in P3Dv4

Hi Simbol, I have PM'd you about an issue I am having Regards Dave

I am a man of few words and fewer postings, but I have been running V4 alongside V3 and rarely fire up V3 now; as my chosen add-ons have been upgraded, V4 has been my go-to sim, and I'd expect that to accelerate - especially now that Aerosoft have made EGLL V4 compatible. My hardware is not cutting edge anymore; an all-SSD Alienware 17 with i7 4930 Extreme, 32gb and GTX880 is not exactly state of the art, but EGLL looks great and with AI traffic and a few bells and whistles I get a fluid experience at 30 fps. I have already abandoned FSX, and I would imagine that within a few weeks/months I'll have uninstalled P3D V3 too. P3D has matured nicely with V4 and I'm now looking forward to 4.1 and future iterations. Dave

Hi all, Still happily using v3.2.3. due to certain issues with the later iteration, I have had a very peculiar occurrence the past couple of days, in that the panel with the loading ribbon has become the same size as the flight/aircraft/weather selection screen; it covers 2/3rds of the screen! Similarly the exit screen with the Yes/No buttons..... I am sure I haven't changed anything deliberately but being a daft old buzzard I could have changed something without realizing..... but I don't think so. Has anyone else had this happen, and how did you remedy it! Regards Dave

I'm sticking with 7 for a good few reasons; I did have a drive with Win 8.1 installed on it when I bought my system - Alienware 17 laptop which I chose for the (semi) portability of it and the hardware which is pretty adequate for most needs including FSX, and latterly P3D. When at home it is attached to a 30" Dell monitor and a number of FS-related controllers. I just couldn't get on with Windows 8.1, it simply 'didn't suit' and as I had bought 2x 2.5 SSDs and an mSATA SSD and had a licence for Win 7 64 Bit, the Windows 8 drive was popped into a drawer with the intention of popping it into an enclosure and using it as external storage. In the event, this didn't happen as my wife bought me a USB 3 External drive as a present so the drive has sat idle for a few months until W10 poked its spotty snout above the parapet. I switched out the primary drive and installed W10 as an upgrade from 8.1, but decided after a bit of faffing about and trying to install some legacy programs that W10 will not play nicely with, I couldn't be bothered, and since then I've done everything required to prevent a crafty 'upgrade' to 10 from happening; it became a war of attrition and I've used the GWX control panel, as well as a couple of other tools, registry fixes and so forth; if anything my resolve has been strengthened against W10 by the continual reissues of KB3035583 and its friends, all components of the forced install of W10. So to sum up my reasons for not going over to W10 are: preferring the Win7 interface, keeping the ability to choose which updates to install, a dislike of MS use of telemetrics, spyware, targeted advertising, invasion of privacy...... the list is endless.