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P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby cowpatz » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:16 pm

Good reviews so far and working well with the just released Geforce 347.52 driver (although STILL not optimised for P3D).
A full download and install though :(
Unless you are a pioneer then it may pay to wait a little while so that some 3rd party vendors can get their products to work as intended.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:35 pm

The P3D appears to be outta the ball game in many areas, its either STEAM or P3D .. going to be interesting who takes the charge.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby cowpatz » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:44 pm

Ian Warren wrote:The P3D appears to be outta the ball game in many areas, its either STEAM or P3D .. going to be interesting who takes the charge.


P3D is going from strength to strength with each update. Some help from Nvidia with video drivers would be a bonus though. LM are also working progressively towards a 64 bit upgrade which will really be a game changer.
FSX, even the SE version, is dated code and I can't see it going any further than it is. As add ons get more complex OOM errors due to poor VAS utilisation will only get worse.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Feb 11, 2015 2:47 pm

I do wonder about the people who brought Version 1 .... then had to pay again for Version 2 .... sorta a little Hmm for some <_<
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby cowpatz » Wed Feb 11, 2015 4:18 pm

If it is P3D you are referring to Ian there was an initial cost for version 1 and then upgrades were free up until the release of 2.0. The updates have been free from then on.
At US$45 it is not really a great cost......much less than the US$90 (until March then $135) PMDG want to charge for a 777 which required virtually nothing altered to get it to run in P3D.
There are those that are still quite happy with 1.4.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby AdrianPetford » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:43 pm

cowpatz wrote:P3D is going from strength to strength with each update. Some help from Nvidia with video drivers would be a bonus though. LM are also working progressively towards a 64 bit upgrade which will really be a game changer.
FSX, even the SE version, is dated code and I can't see it going any further than it is. As add ons get more complex OOM errors due to poor VAS utilisation will only get worse.


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I think it's telling that LM developed Microsoft's ESP source code for two years before P3D was even released, and that was version 1. Version 2 is light years ahead of FSX in any iteration. I still have FSX (and FSX-SE) but once you're used to flying in P3D, there really is no going back.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby Ian Warren » Wed Feb 11, 2015 9:50 pm

It will be a change for the better, I have seen the difference in a PAC-737 NG simulator and it was impressive.
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby deeknow » Thu Feb 12, 2015 11:17 am

AdrianPetford wrote:I still have FSX (and FSX-SE) but once you're used to flying in P3D, there really is no going back.

Mmmm... methinks it's time to switch. :huh:
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Re: P3D Version 2.5 released

Postby SeanTK » Fri Feb 13, 2015 1:18 pm

I'm very tempted to switch, but I think I may wait until the 64 bit version is released.
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