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First Time Considering P3D

Daube said:
In P3Dv4, I'm using the freeware HDEv2.1 package to replace my sky textures and my cumulus textures (I didn't use the other textures for cirrus and stratus...).
I also use an utility named TomatoShade which alter the shader to make the colors way more vibrant and the atmospheric effect more blueish like in my region. I like it so much.
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Currently in re-building mode of everything :banghead:

It is good to hear that HDEv2.1 works in P3D4. Thanks for the tip.
 
Daube said:
Concerning the migration, just move the folder as you want.
Xplane does not use any registry key. You can move the folder anywhere anytime, the sim won't care.
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Both your posts, awesome stuff. I can't believe that they would make it that easy. I'm sold so hard LOLOL easy to move it I'm so good with that.
 
You guys are terrible putting forth all this X-Plane propaganda in the P3D Forum.

As someone who has tried both and have stuck with P3D, mainly because of usability, since I have used the MS flight sims for a very long time moving to P3D was a no brainer, while I continually struggle to figure out how to do simple things in XP. While I agree v11 is better than those before, (I have tried every version since v8) remember the slogan for v11 is "More powerful. Made usable", meaning they admit all previous versions were unusable and I think they still have a way to go, but since this is a p3d forum I wont go into detail.

As to using FSX aircraft in P3D, the vast majority I have tried work great in V4, and I have a lot of them in my collection. Notable AC that did not work are those by Captain sim and CLS. I have seen some missing gauges, mostly in 2D panels I can live without.
 
blanston12 said:
You guys are terrible putting forth all this X-Plane propaganda in the P3D Forum.

As someone who has tried both and have stuck with P3D, mainly because of usability, since I have used the MS flight sims for a very long time moving to P3D was a no brainer, while I continually struggle to figure out how to do simple things in XP. While I agree v11 is better than those before, (I have tried every version since v8) remember the slogan for v11 is "More powerful. Made usable", meaning they admit all previous versions were unusable and I think they still have a way to go, but since this is a p3d forum I wont go into detail.

As to using FSX aircraft in P3D, the vast majority I have tried work great in V4, and I have a lot of them in my collection. Notable AC that did not work are those by Captain sim and CLS. I have seen some missing gauges, mostly in 2D panels I can live without.
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It wasn't the goal initially. I said I'd be happy to move over there. I do agree with you on P3D being a no brainer, hence why I was seriously considering it. I don't like that X-Plane doesn't have many features it should. I also hate to pretty much lose my personally built payware fleet. That saddens me. No More Waco YMF-5, which I JUST Bought, and many others, including my brand new Xtreme Lear 20 Series.

I can't keep both sims installed, as of right now. FSX is on my bigger SSD, by itself. XP is on the smaller one, so I'm going to have to Nuke FSX to make room for it; With my four MSE States, it won't fit anywhere else. I could, however, move it to my HDD, but I have no idea where to start on moving an FSX installation and have it remain crash free, no pun intended. I wish moving FSX was as easy as X-Plane, without the registry stuff.
 
"I can't keep both sims installed, as of right now. FSX is on my bigger SSD, by itself. XP is on the smaller one, so I'm going to have to Nuke FSX to make room for it"


If you have enough room and connections in your case, have you thought of getting an HDD to clone your FSX:SE onto, and then using
the now freed up SSD as a new drive for the new sim?

Good quality HDD's are pretty cheap these days, and there's usually not much reported difference in fps between HDD's and SSD's once
the games are loaded. Just make sure to get an HDD with 7200 rpm speed and 64 mb cache.

-Rob
 
RobM said:
"I can't keep both sims installed, as of right now. FSX is on my bigger SSD, by itself. XP is on the smaller one, so I'm going to have to Nuke FSX to make room for it"


If you have enough room and connections in your case, have you thought of getting an HDD to clone your FSX:SE onto, and then using
the now freed up SSD as a new drive for the new sim?

Good quality HDD's are pretty cheap these days, and there's usually not much reported difference in fps between HDD's and SSD's once
the games are loaded. Just make sure to get an HDD with 7200 rpm speed and 64 mb cache.

-Rob
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Agreed. However, when I cloned FSX from this smaller test drive, to this bigger SSD, I initially had some issues. That was a month ago, when I had just decided to get back into simming.

It wouldn't boot up, and after restarting the PC a time or two, it seemed to be stable. Me being me, I nuked it and reinstalled on fresh format, since the install was still pretty new and limited in terms of addons. I also don't have resources or extra SATA connections left on my mobo for more. I'll have to google SATA splitter here in a minute. :D

I haven't decided yet. I hate having to clone it, period. Registry keys are annoying.

EDIT: Honestly, easiest thing to do, would be get a bigger Drive and just Copy XP over to that, and done. LOL
 
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