P3d 'Academic' license $50

ColinT46 said:
So there's no real justification for Dev's to charge $$$'s in making their products available for use in P3D.
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thats what im wondering, correct me if im wrong, theres devs who offer a once off payment for lic and there are devs who want money for each of their addons ?



anyway what are the frames like in cities? (in case i missed it) is it a remarkable improvement, can you increase the AG

Can you modify the cfg like FSX?
 
just thinking about it

can we get a list of payware addons ( all types) like the aircraft thread, that works in P3d with or without a side by side lic

I think that if people can see what works without paying extra, might help in deciding whether to go ahead with it
 
jeansy said:
just thinking about it

can we get a list of payware addons ( all types) like the aircraft thread, that works in P3d with or without a side by side lic

I think that if people can see what works without paying extra, might help in deciding whether to go ahead with it
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+1. Would certainly help my decision process.
 
jeansy said:
anyway what are the frames like in cities? (in case i missed it) is it a remarkable improvement, can you increase the AG
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As we have been saying, P3D runs smoother then FSX. We have been getting no studdering, no hopping, no blinking clouds, etc, etc. The P3D engine has undergone 3 code mods so far and it can be seen in the sim. I am totally impressed. It lays FSX away if you have a non-super computer.


jeansy said:
Can you modify the cfg like FSX?
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Yep. Same thing. In alot of ways, its exactly like FSX. It has some improved ground textures (changes in colors, some new tiles, etc, its not like all desert now in some mountains, etc, etc).

The Aircraft models are the 'same'. (same... ) So you have no worries on FSX models going into P3D.


[INCLUDED AIRCRAFT IN P3D]
One note; P3D only comes with a handful of planes, like the Maule and the Mooney as well as some classic Lockheed planes like the P38 Lightning and the classic propliner Constellation in all versions. It comes with a Piper Cub (FSX version) and the Robertson helo, and also a mini Research submarine. (You can explore the ocean in this sim). The sim comes with most of the FSX planes, but only for AI traffic, so they need their Panel folders. If you add the panel folders from your FSX planes to the P3D planes, they will all be functioning.


Its like a 'next generation FSX' if you think about it. They have revised the sim engine 3 times now. MS would never have reinvested this into a sim. So this is an awesome thing. In a year, we might see version 2.0 and that would be a huge thing. But for now, we have PrePar3D 1.3.



For those of you that would like to demo it, why not sign up into their forums as humbly ask for a 1 month trial, $9.95. See if they will OK that and allow you to see what all it has and test its performance.



Bill
 
To go slightly off topic. I have always wondered about the name; PrePar3D.

But....... If you see the 3 being a backwards 'E', then it becomes Prepared. Defense or 'training'. I love it....

Who would have thought that a mogul super aerospace corporation would have jumped in to help make FS a super simulator... :D wooo hooo!


From the makers of the SR-71 Blackbird comes a 'training simulator'! This is NOT entertainment! This is the real deal. SCHWEEET!
 
Day two since install.

As a test I have ran this full sliders, all traffic at 100%, everything on ultra high settings (underwater settings=off) and my machine gets a few stutters and/or blurries. I backed all down traffic to reasonable settings (15-20%) and this program responds far better than my tweaked FSX. I am running Orbx PNW and a few others made by Orbx.
I don't have many planes installed due to I'm too engulfed flying around seeing all the detail I've been missing.

This is very impressive.
 
OleBoy said:
Day two since install.

As a test I have ran this full sliders, all traffic at 100%, everything on ultra high settings (underwater settings=off) and my machine gets a few stutters and/or blurries. I backed all down traffic to reasonable settings (15-20%) and this program responds far better than my tweaked FSX. I am running Orbx PNW and a few others made by Orbx.
I don't have many planes installed due to I'm too engulfed flying around seeing all the detail I've been missing.

This is very impressive.
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What does Orbx add that's not already there......??
 
An announcement from Orbx

The Orbx team is pleased to announce that effective immediately, all SBSLs currently on sale will be now given away for free. Please hold off purchasing any SBSLs from the Flightsimstore until Adrian sets the prices to zero.

For all customers who have already purchased SBSLs, Orbx will arrange with FSS to provide a store credit for your purchases which can be used against any items in the FSS store.

We firmly believe that the future of flight simulation is Lockheed Martin's Prepar3D. It is the most mature and robust code, and has a world-class development team actively maintaining the code and planning many exciting new features coming including DX11 support, a new rendering engine and many of the visual enhancements you would expect to run on today's hardware. We are indeed very excited to be working closely with LM as they move to the version 2.0 release.

Of course last week's announcement of the $49 Academic versions removes the main barrier for anyone wanting to migrate to the best platform.

So in support of this exciting new pricing, Orbx will immediately roll all our SBSL development efforts into a new single application called the "Orbx P3D Migrator Tool". This tool will be given away for free, and will enter beta testing in the coming week or so.

This tool will automatically detect your complete Orbx library you have installed in FSX. You have the choice to activate (a la SBSL) or migrate (remove from the FSX side) all your Orbx products. This tool will work for all Orbx products from 2008-2011 and you can run it as many times as you like. For all 2012 products onwards (i.e. 2W3 Swanson and beyond), we will release dedicated seperate FSX and P3D installers. We will also release dedicated P3D DVD editions, so for every new release there will be four editions:
  • FSX Download Edition
  • FSX DVD Edition
  • P3D Download Edition
  • P3D DVD Edition
We want everyone of our customers to move to P3D and we're removing all the barriers to doing so.
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So in case you are still hesitating...

Jean-Paul
 
I tried the $10 per month download

There was a improvement over FSX but I has getting errors trying to save the default flight and other settings weren't saving for me

among other little things that worked and didnt, i think I might wait for this V2 people seem to be talking about before spending anymore money on this
 
luckydog said:
What does Orbx add that's not already there......??
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A smile. Default Prepar3d scenery/autogen looks just like FSX with generic similarities to Ground Environment.
Orbx PNW enhanced the visuals dramatically throughout the whole region as it did to FSX.
 
ColinT46 said:
So there's no real justification for Dev's to charge $$$'s in making their products available for use in P3D.
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I wouldn't say that there is no justification at all, since it does require a totally new installer package, as well as the time invested to make certain that the new installer works correctly...
 
Has anyone tested this with a new version of FSX? I mean install a fresh new FSX and then intall PrePar3D and then test them. That way you are not comparing an old, sometimes corrupt version of FSX to a new install of PrePar3D.
 
I hear that there is problems with ECZA and trackIR . Can anyone confirm that ECZA works , which for me is more important that Trackir
 
I think i will be hanging back and wait until i can read reports of of how sims are going when fully loaded with complex add on aircraft and FPS intensive scenery.

It's early days yet in this product.

Cheers.
 
No. But, my FSX install has always been minimal considering all I ever do in FSX is repainting.
Besides, how something runs on one machine, another of the same specs could likely not be the same anyway.

I've always ran the same things. FSXA, Orbx PNW/Anacortes/KHQM, and a dozen aircraft. 18 at most.
To include the weekly defrag.

I experience a substantial increase in performance all the way around.
To me, the $49.00 cost (2 decent add ons) of which I should not have spent. And my wife chewed on my already small arse for buying :icon_lol:, is/was a well reserved investment towards my needs for immersion and virtual expectations. :wavey:
 
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