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Prepar3D Not Ready for Prime Time
- Thread starter falcon409
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I have had no problems, aside from my credit card expiring and starting a new Dev account. I have 2 Dev accounts for my 3 computers.
My FSX and P3D installations do not effect or overwrite each other at all.
Naismith, I find it hard to believe you coud say that. P3 was (was) ESP, which was selling for a massive amount of money by Microsoft and was a reduced version of FSX. ESP was also still being improved by MS for contractors. Lockheed saved its life and have updated it 3 times now with the latest being 1.4. It works very well for me. Even MassEffect 3 had bugs, Apple OS and iOS have bugs. Most all software is either abandonware or 'work in progress.
Yep.
Ed, you told me later that you had accidentally installed P3 into your existing FSX folder, and that you had a backup folder of FSX which you repaired your FSX with. If I remember correctly, by changing the name of your folder of FS, you effected the name of the My Documents Apps folder location source for settings, (recalling Golden Wings and Silver Wings installations where you created new locations with those folder names for the configs for the diff sim versions). mind you this was for FS9, not FSX, but FSX and P3 share existing features of FS9.
My guess is that if you were to totally delete P3, and reinstall all of it from scratch, in 'new' folders, you would have no problems, but if you have created, recreated new root folders in the App sections, then there are probably fragments left in there that will screw things up again, so much cleaning would have to be done.
My humble advice is that if FSX is running fine for you, stay. If you intend to mix FSX with P3, that will be bad, as the core of the sims are different in many area's. You cannot load up P3 over FSX and expect it to work. You will have extra file fragments in it that P3 will be effected by.
I have never had the mixing issues that have occurred with yours, thats my expeirience with it. I have also had exemplary customer service and I have heard of others having questions answered where the team at Lockheed had answers. I still support them, I think they are pretty cool and I still love the sim. Its nothing like FSX was.
Bill
My FSX and P3D installations do not effect or overwrite each other at all.
P3D is an unfinished product and I am just a bit annoyed that they released it as such and had the audacity to charge money for it. The next version is likely to be and we will be invited all over again to hand over cash. Perhaps their Beta testers in V1 will be offered V2 at a discount. But I shall not hold out much hope in that direction.
Naismith, I find it hard to believe you coud say that. P3 was (was) ESP, which was selling for a massive amount of money by Microsoft and was a reduced version of FSX. ESP was also still being improved by MS for contractors. Lockheed saved its life and have updated it 3 times now with the latest being 1.4. It works very well for me. Even MassEffect 3 had bugs, Apple OS and iOS have bugs. Most all software is either abandonware or 'work in progress.
And FSX was a finnished product? Have people forgotten so soon, it was an $80 nightmare for me. P3D cost $49 and it actually works; at least they're updating and supporting their product. Did MS ever do that for FSX.
Yep.
Ed, you told me later that you had accidentally installed P3 into your existing FSX folder, and that you had a backup folder of FSX which you repaired your FSX with. If I remember correctly, by changing the name of your folder of FS, you effected the name of the My Documents Apps folder location source for settings, (recalling Golden Wings and Silver Wings installations where you created new locations with those folder names for the configs for the diff sim versions). mind you this was for FS9, not FSX, but FSX and P3 share existing features of FS9.
My guess is that if you were to totally delete P3, and reinstall all of it from scratch, in 'new' folders, you would have no problems, but if you have created, recreated new root folders in the App sections, then there are probably fragments left in there that will screw things up again, so much cleaning would have to be done.
My humble advice is that if FSX is running fine for you, stay. If you intend to mix FSX with P3, that will be bad, as the core of the sims are different in many area's. You cannot load up P3 over FSX and expect it to work. You will have extra file fragments in it that P3 will be effected by.
I have never had the mixing issues that have occurred with yours, thats my expeirience with it. I have also had exemplary customer service and I have heard of others having questions answered where the team at Lockheed had answers. I still support them, I think they are pretty cool and I still love the sim. Its nothing like FSX was.
Bill