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Ms flight simulator: Xbox PC

I'm a little in shock over this. I just got a hand-me-down new PC from my son (now I KNOW I'm getting old :stung:) and was planning on loading Windows 10 and P3Dv4 on it, now I'm not so sure. It'll still get Win10 on it, but I've got so much invested in FSX I'm not sure it's worth it to upgrade to P3Dv4 knowing I have to repurchase a bunch of stuff and will need to do that again with FS20 comes out. I may still do it and just limit my upgrading to P3Dv4 to just a few of my favorite planes....
 
You don't really need to repurchase a lot of stuff for P3Dv4+. Orbx FTX Global, Vector, OpenLC all upgrades for free which is a big bonus. AI carriers, Plan G, Little Nav Map, even TTools! all work. Most of you FSX native planes can be dragged and dropped into it. The cost of the sim itself is less than one over priced payware aircraft which I have a few too many of!
 
FlyingsCool said:
I'm a little in shock over this. I just got a hand-me-down new PC from my son (now I KNOW I'm getting old :stung:) and was planning on loading Windows 10 and P3Dv4 on it, now I'm not so sure. It'll still get Win10 on it, but I've got so much invested in FSX I'm not sure it's worth it to upgrade to P3Dv4 knowing I have to repurchase a bunch of stuff and will need to do that again with FS20 comes out. I may still do it and just limit my upgrading to P3Dv4 to just a few of my favorite planes....
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Uh sorry But are you truly considering not upgrading to p3d v4 because of a trailer of a simulator which is a year ( at least ) away that

a. Will most likely not run well on your hand me down pc ( the specs needed to run it at what you saw in the trailer are going to be big )
b. May very well not have full content at release
c. May not have 3rd party support built in.
d. May not have 3rd party support ( eg the other way round ) .
e. Will most likely require an always on internet connection

000rick000 is very hopeful for the future of all things flight sim. and rightly he should be . He has the requisite high end computer to run it. For us mere mortals ( and that is you unless your son has handed you down an top end i7 or i9 with a 2080 Ti!! ) the new flightsim is nice but my little i5 and 1060 is not going to run it anywhere close to that.I can run p3d v4 well enough. I cant tweak it ( it is a test machine ) but the programmes exist where I could get some really convincing video and look and feels on a system that I can run right now and a system that I still understand.

Just a little perplexed at the thinking.
 
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If I were to commit to this version of MSFS it would run on my current system, certainly if I follow my next upgrade over the next couple of months.
But (there's always a but) given that the projected roll out is a good 12 months away, and if it follows the usual Microcrud crash and burn patching I will be holding well off.
Of course, P3Dv5 is lurking in the wings so a new MSFS might be a non-event for me.
However, it is supposedly 12 months away, so there's absolutely no reason to get all warm and runny at this point in time.

:devilish:

Just for the moment DILLIGAF?
 
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