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DVA8830
Captain, B757-200

Joined on July 12 2010
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Double Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Mount Jackson, VA

242 legs, 463.9 hours
1 legs, 2.2 hours online
242 legs, 463.9 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 05 2016 14:53 ET by Tom Preziuso

Hey Guys, I am abut fed up with FSX and I am going to be switching to a different flight simulator. I have done some reading on them and I would really love some feedback from those of you using a different simulator.

I've looked into X-Plane, P3D and Steam.

I am looking for any kind of feedback, good, bad or indifferent because I want to get the biggest bang for my buck (Doesn't everybody, right?). Any and all inputs are welcome. The ability to add "Add-ons" is pretty important and/or importing aircraft I have already purchased.

Thanks much in advance

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

DVA2887
Senior Captain, A320
OLP, 737-ATP, VFRADV
E-MAIL

Joined on January 30 2006
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Tri-Jet Triumph
US Coastal Club
Millennium Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
US Mountaineer Club
Toulouse 250 Club
Online Eight Century

Charlotte, NC

1,283 legs, 1,792.7 hours
837 legs, 1,044.3 hours online
1,265 legs, 1,770.7 hours ACARS
31 legs, 49.6 hours event
3 legs dispatched, 2.5 hours

Posted onPost created on November 05 2016 17:00 ET by Andrew Vane

If you list yoru system specs, it would help others give guidance.

I love FSX Steam edition
i5 2600
8GB Ram
2GB Geforce 960 Video card
SSD

Andrew Vane (DVA2887)

DVA11021
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on September 13 2012
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
Triple Century Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

Milford, NH

375 legs, 620.5 hours
365 legs, 604.5 hours online
374 legs, 618.9 hours ACARS
21 legs, 51.4 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 05 2016 17:02 ET by Sean Zarella

I love Fs9,

Most stable FS yet !
No CTD !

I7 4790k 4.7 ghz
16GB ddr3 1600 ram
r9 390 8gb card
500 gb samsung SSD
5 23" displays
custom cs757 simpit running 45-60 fps on one PC !

Sean Zarella (DVA11021)

DVA11250
Captain, B757-200
OLP

Joined on January 14 2013
50 State Club
B757 100 Club
Everett 250 Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Quatercentenary Club
Online Triple Century Club

Blaine, MN

440 legs, 881.1 hours
320 legs, 640.2 hours online
439 legs, 879.2 hours ACARS
20 legs, 49.2 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 06 2016 03:46 ET by Joel Salminen

I'm a P3D guy, previously an FSX guy so I will share my transitional experience. The first benefit I received was stability. Another albeit more slight was directx 11 support with newer video cards. This is what really separates FSX and P3D.

FSX would crash (CTD) quite randomly for me. I'm a 'as real as it gets' simmer so I crank my sliders way right which is probably what killed FSX for me. With P3D I have nearly all sliders right, 4096 textures, max autogen, complexity, etc and it works well for me. I use all the same add-ons everyone has like REX, ASN/16, Orbx, PMDG, etc and they all work well, no VAS issues for me.

However the one drawback is that many of the legacy aircraft are not easy to install into P3D as the installer does not recognize P3D. Another major drawback is P3D is pretty costly by itself compared to the other platforms.

Joel Salminen

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on November 06 2016 08:39 ET by Tom Preziuso

Here are my specs.

Intel i7-6700K @ 4.4GHz, 32GB DDR4 2400, 500GB M.2 Solid State Hard Drive, Nvidia GTX 1080 with 8GB GDDR5X, 700 watt PS, 8 channel audio

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on November 06 2016 17:07 ET by Joel Salminen

With that rig you shouldn't have any trouble running any of the flightsim platforms. I think the only trouble you could encounter is if you are running an ultra-wide screen res with multiple monitors. That might actually tax your GPU.

Seeing that you are in the 757 program, do you fly a 757 payware?

Joel Salminen

Captain, B757-200

DVA12719
Senior Captain, DC-8-61
OLP

Joined on July 26 2015
Piranha Club
50 State Club
Century Club
US Capital Club
Piston Prop Professional
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"Let the FO land"
Boca Raton, FL

153 legs, 258.9 hours
32 legs, 43.1 hours online
145 legs, 252.0 hours ACARS
16 legs, 23.9 hours event
12 legs dispatched, 16.4 hours

Posted onPost created on November 06 2016 22:40 ET by Yisrael Wealcatch

Tom Preziuso wrote:

Here are my specs.

Intel i7-6700K @ 4.4GHz, 32GB DDR4 2400, 500GB M.2 Solid State Hard Drive, Nvidia GTX 1080 with 8GB GDDR5X, 700 watt PS, 8 channel audio

Sick build!

Yisrael Wealcatch (DVA12719)

Posted onPost created on November 06 2016 22:55 ET by Tom Preziuso

I fly Quality wings 757. Any preference as to Steam, P3D or X Plane

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 02:16 ET by Joel Salminen

I certainly prefer P3D any day of the week over FSX. However, there have been some rumors that DTG is releasing their new full flightsim platform before the end of this year. Considering that's a matter of weeks it probably would be worth waiting to see what comes of it. If you're solely a 757 pilot there is a good 757 available on XP. When XP 11 is out I will be dipping my toe in that water.

Joel Salminen

Captain, B757-200

DVA10785
Captain, CRJ-200
OLP

Joined on June 02 2012
50 State Club
Piranha Club
Double Century Club
Everett Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Established on the localizer..."
Lugoff, SC

273 legs, 698.0 hours
64 legs, 158.9 hours online
270 legs, 685.6 hours ACARS
18 legs, 34.7 hours event

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 05:16 ET by Michael Koger

I use FSX:Steam, used to use boxed FSX. Steam is much more stable than boxed. Don't have the frequent CTD that I used to have with boxed FSX.

i7 4770k
Asus Z87 Pro
16gb Corsair Vengeance Pro
GTX 760 SC ACX
150gb Crucial SSD
4 x 1tb HDD
Windows 10

Michael Koger

Captain, CRJ-200

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 08:21 ET by Tom Preziuso

Without sounding totally ignorant, what is the DTG flightsim platform?

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

DVA11445
Senior Captain, B727-200

Joined on April 12 2013
50 State Club
Globetrotter
Commuter Conquest
Long Beach 500 Club
US Coastal Club
Flying Colonel
US Mountaineer Club
Online Fifteen Century
DVA Five-Year Anniversary

"Amici e vini sono meglio vecchi..."
West Monroe, LA

1,808 legs, 2,793.5 hours
1,716 legs, 2,499.9 hours online
1,755 legs, 2,711.3 hours ACARS
1 legs dispatched, 1.9 hours

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 10:23 ET by Ronnie Jacola

Tom Preziuso wrote:

Without sounding totally ignorant, what is the DTG flightsim platform?

It's the new sim that Dovetail Games (DTG) plans to release soon as Joel mentioned above. DTG are the ones who brought FSX to the Steam platform. According to Dovetail, the new sim they will release at the end of this year will be quite different from the original FSX platform. We'll see razz

Ronnie Jacola

Senior Captain, B727-200

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 10:26 ET by Tom Preziuso

Thanks for the feedback, it might be worth waiting for before I plunge into a new platform

Tom Preziuso

Captain, B757-200

Posted onPost created on November 07 2016 10:29 ET by Ronnie Jacola

You're welcome, bud. And I'm in the same boat as you. I am going to hold off for a bit and read some reviews of these new sims once they are released before I take the plunge. However, I am pretty much prepared (no pun intended razz

) to jump on X-Plane 11 once it's released.

Ronnie Jacola

Senior Captain, B727-200

DVA364
Captain, A330-300

Joined on October 23 2001
DVA Twenty-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club
Double Century Club

"COWBOY UP!"
Carrollton, GA

261 legs, 480.8 hours
5 legs, 6.5 hours online
221 legs, 363.1 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on November 11 2016 12:25 ET by Ralph Templeman

hey guys, i'm looking for a new computer. mine shorted out and blew everything. I have to start over new computer. I was using fsx, I had a quad core asus computer with 750 gighard drive and 8 gigs of ram. it just blew... any suggestions? HAD NVIDIA I THINK 680 I would like to keep it as inexpensive as possible. under $1000 if possible?

Ralph Templeman

Captain, A330-300

DVA11473
Captain, A320
OLP

Joined on April 25 2013
DVA Two-Year Anniversary
Century Club

Desborough, United Kingdom

117 legs, 170.4 hours
44 legs, 66.8 hours online
117 legs, 170.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 18 2016 07:42 ET by Steve Cox

I run both XP10 and P3D, had big problems with P3D initially, so completely re-built my system last week and have tried P3D again and it runs really nicely.

XP 10 is 64 Bit and will eat whatever system you have, the more you have, the more it will eat, but it's a great sim, very busy user community with more free stuff available than probably payware, some of the free stuff is frankly as good as some payware.

My Ststem Specs
I7 6700K o/c 4.5GHZ, liquid cooled
32GB DDR4 3000MHz Corsair RAM
Gigabyte Z170 Mobo
Samsung Evo 250GB for XP and FSX now P3D)
Samsung 240GB for OS
Win 10 Home 64 bit
Case Phanteks Enthoo Pro M

Both sims run well, XP does take some time to get the settings correct, not in to Beta versions so will wait for V11 to be released, wait for early reviews on it before taking the plinge, P3D still playing with settings to get the best of it, but happy with the current results on a 32" LG TV at 1920x1080.

If you consider XP seriously, would strongly recommend a system that has an Nividia GPU as they just run better with opengl, I would say absolute min is 16GB, 32GB is very much more desirable though by the time you add some HD mesh, payware scenery / planes etc, the more the better.

Steve

Steve Cox

Captain, A320

DVA8657
Captain, B737-800
OLP

Joined on May 19 2010
50 State Club
Globetrotter
South American Samba Club
Million Mile Club
Events Millennium Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Everett Millennium Club
Flying Colonel
Online Fifteen Century

New Hyde Park, NY

1,818 legs, 3,966.2 hours
1,697 legs, 3,717.7 hours online
1,592 legs, 3,434.7 hours ACARS
1,394 legs, 3,092.1 hours event

Posted onPost created on December 24 2016 21:52 ET by Brian Kelly

My FSX became unusable because Microsoft stopped all tech support for it. Just yesterday I got FSX Steam edition. It's just like the FSX we all know and love with a few extra aircraft and additional missions I'm trying to install the Squawkbox on it but I keep getting a message that it isn't supported. As long as all the add ons you want are recent everything should work out. If you buy before Jan 2nd 2016 it's only $10.00. Good luck! smile

Brian Kelly

Captain, B737-800

DVA10830
Captain, A320

Joined on June 20 2012
Century Club
DVA Two-Year Anniversary
Everett Century Club

"There is always a silver lining."
Australia

162 legs, 924.5 hours
28 legs, 98.5 hours online
160 legs, 921.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on December 26 2016 07:37 ET by Antonis Kastrinakis

Squawkbox seems to be dead in the water. Have you tried vPilot?

http://vpilot.metacraft.com/

Cheers and Season's Greetings!

Antonis Kastrinakis (DVA10830)

DVA6118
Captain, B777-200

Joined on July 08 2008
50 State Club
Everett Century Club
Double Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

Southeastern United States

253 legs, 368.5 hours
150 legs, 206.5 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 22 2017 11:17 ET by Robert Thompson

FSX has become unstable for me too on Win 7 so it feels like FSX Steam would be the next progression. X-Plane dogged my PC really bad so I had to uninstall it. Any other pointers of FSX Steam vs more expensive P3D? Thanks

Robert Thompson

Captain, B777-200

DVA13173
First Officer, A320

Joined on May 17 2013

Western Europe

2 legs, 4.4 hours
2 legs, 4.4 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on January 23 2017 16:53 ET by Andrew Cade

I have just moved to P3D and love it so far. I've copied most of my fsx sceneries across and most of them work even though not listed as P3D. My only gripe is with PMDG since they have set their installer to recognise P3D and if it's a FSX installer it won't install. Aerosoft have the P3D working without the need for a key so that's what I'm using.

Andrew Cade

First Officer, A320

DVA2527
Senior Captain, B737-800

Joined on August 15 2005
50 State Club
Two Million Mile Club
Quad-Millennium Club
Online Thirty Century
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary
Everett Tri-Millennium Club

"Flying Delta's Western Hub"
Salt Lake City, UT USA

4,896 legs, 9,425.8 hours
3,639 legs, 7,098.6 hours online
4,317 legs, 8,264.1 hours ACARS
22 legs, 49.5 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 24 2017 01:20 ET by Joe Porter

I made the move to P3D and happy so far. Still reinstalling several add-ons and have moved all on-line flying to Pilots Edge (PE) and all works well together so far, running AS2016, ASCA, GEHD, PE, EFB and FS2Crew of course . .. (PE expensive but worth it for full ATC service from Clr Del to shutdown . . these guys are pros)

JP

Joe Porter

Senior Captain, B737-800

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