Future of P3D

[miraclemax]

Sorry for the extremely late reply. Yes, I've updated and tried it (deluxe version) multiple times but have always gone back to P3D. Now with HF1 my P3d v5.2 setup is just the way I want it. I doubt if I will ever go permanently to MSFS 2020. Just to be fair, the pc I run MSFS on is a I7-7700k w/GTX 1080 & 16 RAM with nowhere near the performance of my P3D machine. Anyway, I'm just not into Xbox games; seems that ms is going that direction... also WAY too intrusive. My opinion only.
max

[ahuimanu]

Future is not bright I'm afraid; developer interest has evaporated. It is not what I want, but it is what is shaping up.

[JorgenSA]

At the moment, payware developers are going towards MSFS2020, because that is where the money is right now.

When that market is more saturated, I would expect some to start developing for P3D again - but I have been wrong before.

Jorgen

[ahuimanu]

In this case, I'd prefer you to be right. P3D is still an actively-developed platform and is still a bit more "open" than I gather MSFS to be. I did purchase MSFS a year ago, but haven't used it beyond an hour and don't like its heavily-intrusive installation behavior. The king of open-ended installation is actually X-Plane.

[KevinKaessmann]

What I'm missing is a mid to long term perspective about the directions P3D will go.
Not details but a strategic overview or direction or high level roadmap what comes in the next months/year.
Just to provide a feeling "P3D isn't dead" - but also for customer's hardware planning.

[JorgenSA]

I am afraid that what you are asking for is L-M's marketing strategy...... and that is never going to become public.

Jorgen

[comeup101]

I do get what everyone is saying here, I too would love to know something it appears that they never say anything, they could easily say ( Hey we are working on some really exciting things don't give up on us just yet) without details of their secrets, I think that's what a lot simmers are asking...Me personally I love P3d but I do get somewhat frustrated with the video card hang-ups without any solutions and I don't have any third party software installed. Because of that I haven't been flying that much It's been going on for awhile now.

I don't think Prepared is giving up yet or they wouldn't be going to the FlightSim Expo in September next month. It will be interesting to hear what they have to say, those expo's are a lot of fun I've been to two and met so many simmers personally it was great.

Keep it positive

Blake

[JorgenSA]

Blake,

If you have:

1. Updated your Windows 10 to the latest level, and

2. Updated your graphics card driver to the latest version, plus

3. You have the latest level of P3D (v. 4.5 HF3 or 5.2 HF1)

then there are no more video card hang-ups. But the 3 afore-mentioned things are necessary.

Jorgen

[comeup101]

Thanks Jorgen

I'll double check everything


Blake