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DVA11652
Captain, MD-11
OLP

Joined on July 22 2013
50 State Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary
Iditarod Club
US Coastal Club
Long Beach Century Club
Quincentenary Club

Twinsburg, OH

545 legs, 1,471.1 hours
6 legs, 8.3 hours online
542 legs, 1,466.7 hours ACARS
3 legs, 3.8 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 17 2019 22:03 ET by Jason Spiskey

Over the past several months I have not been able to complete a flight. I had a long run of over 4 years without an FSX issue, but alas, it appears my FSX has finally stroked out and it is time for a complete reinstall. I think now is also a good time for me to pull the trigger on P3dv4 and start the transition. There are some aircraft and scenery I love that will never be on P3D. How well doesFSX run on Win 10? I eventually plan to build a new rig and it will have Win 10

Jason Spiskey (DVA11652)

DVA12617
Chief Pilot, A350-900
OLP, VFRADV
DISPATCHER
E-MAIL

Joined on April 23 2015
B757 100 Club
Eurocap Club
Millennium Club
Toulouse 500 Club
Online Triple Century Club
DVA Ten-Year Anniversary

"Go Utes!"
Herriman, UT

1,280 legs, 2,967.8 hours
391 legs, 810.3 hours online
1,261 legs, 2,925.6 hours ACARS
25 legs, 78.6 hours event
39 legs dispatched, 174.2 hours

Posted onPost created on January 17 2019 23:35 ET by Joe Burner

Jason,

Which version of FSX? I was able to get Fsx steam to run okay. I ran into several issues after flying for three years mixed on windows 8.1 and windows 10. I will say if you don’t have a lot invested in Fsx such as PMDG and captain sim then yeah go for it. You won’t have any OOM’s with P3Dv4.4 at least I haven’t had any.

I was able to get a bunch of my scenery’s to work with P3Dv4 I had to modify the taxi ways for my addon airports. There is a bunch of already properly converted scenery on avsim library. (Search P3D scenery and if it says P3Dv4 it’ll work)

Anyways I hope this gives some insight. Feel free to reach out as well if you have any questions or need anything. I myself recently made the change to P3D. And it’s amazing.

Joe Burner (DVA12617)

DVA13576
Captain, B777-200

Joined on December 11 2018
US Capital Club
50 State Club
Century Club
Stock Car Racing Club
Everett Century Club
Online Century Club

Midwestern United States

188 legs, 430.1 hours
114 legs, 203.3 hours online
186 legs, 426.8 hours ACARS
19 legs, 33.3 hours event

Posted onPost created on January 18 2019 08:40 ET by Tom Pletzke

Hi Jason, P3Dv4 is the way to go with 64bit and some of the planes like the PMDG series, Captain Sim, Aerosoft, all look and feel great. However, you mentioned new rig and I think that is something that would help with the transition from fsx. P3D requires a little more under the hood. But to get started with your existing rig you can review the sliders and make sure there are not any background jobs hogging resources.

Tom Pletzke

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on January 18 2019 08:47 ET by Tom Pletzke

I recommend getting MSI Afterburner to review what is happening with CPU, GPU, Memory. I used it on p3D and found with my addon's I need to upgrade my memory to 32GB. My memory usage was at 12.5GB and I have 16GB. What I found was that my virtual memory was still getting hit and the swapping of memory was causing some slowness at congested airports. Most do not require 32GB. I just have a lot of addon's like GTX and ORBX and Active Sky. MSI Afterburner helps with this because each system is different and the tool will help you find trouble spots.

Tom Pletzke

Captain, B777-200

Posted onPost created on January 18 2019 09:11 ET by Jason Spiskey

Thanks. I am still using the boxed version fax. I did purchase a copy of FSX Steam when it first went on sale for 5 dollars but I never installed it. Mainly because everything was working so well for me, I didnt want to change anything.

My current computer is 7 years old and is an i5 OC to 3.8ghz from 2.2ghz. (I dont remember the ghz honestly but those numbers are close.) Running on win 7 64bit and I have a Nvidia Geforce GTX560ti and 16gb of ram. I have my sliders at medium and I run many add ons including the orbs global packages, PMDG and FSDreamteam airports and I get about 14 fps when on the ground. Nothing amazing, but usable.

Jason Spiskey (DVA11652)

Posted onPost created on January 18 2019 09:11 ET by Jason Spiskey

Thanks everyone for the input. I just finished uninstalling FSX and have purchased P3DV4 along with Active Sky P3D and the Majestic Q400 Pro edition to get me up and running. I have a good set of scenery and some aircraft as they are cross compatible with one purchase. I wish PMDG did the same or at least would offer a discount for the update, but oh well. In due time I will buy their aircraft to update it. I have a brand new hard drive for P3D that will only have P3D on it. Hopefully Ill be able to complete a flight with DVA within in the next week or so.

Jason Spiskey (DVA11652)

DVA2682
Captain, B757-200

Joined on November 16 2005
Million Mile Club
B757 100 Club
Eight Century Club
Online Quintuple Century Club
Everett 500 Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"Fly Like An Eagle!!"
Dallas, TX

871 legs, 3,342.6 hours
530 legs, 2,388.7 hours online
826 legs, 3,095.8 hours ACARS

Posted onPost created on March 04 2020 23:30 ET by Keith Hall

FSX Steam is the best because its in the cloud and runs great pending the power of your PC.

Keith Hall (DVA2682)

DVA3931
Senior Captain, L-1011-100
OLP, COMM

Joined on January 19 2007
50 State Club
Tri-Jet Triumph
Million Mile Club
Online Quadruple Century Club
Flying Colonel
Globetrotter
Burbank 500 Club
Eurocap Club
DVA Fifteen-Year Anniversary

"De oppresso liber"
Surry, ME

1,882 legs, 3,806.7 hours
478 legs, 767.8 hours online
1,107 legs, 1,674.5 hours ACARS
55 legs, 114.8 hours event
195 legs dispatched, 134.4 hours

Posted onPost created on April 08 2020 14:56 ET by Andrew Kaufmann

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