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To FSX or not to FSX, that's the question...

What is your main flightsim program ?

  • FSX (all editions)

    Votes: 118 64.8%

  • P3D v1/2/3

    Votes: 11 6.0%

  • P3Dv4

    Votes: 50 27.5%

  • XPlane

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other (Aerofly2, FSW, DCS, etc. )

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • Total voters
    182
  • Poll closed .
I have both FSXA (Gold Edition) and FS 2004. FSXA is my primary sim and occasionally I'll fire up FS9 and attempt to port something over to FSX.

Perhaps down the road I'll move onto P3D, but to be honest it's getting a bit hard for me to consider it seriously. I've spent so much money and effort to tweak and get my current sims running the way I like, that the thought of having one more is not in the cards. There are days it seems that I spend more time playing technician on getting things installed and tweaked, than just firing up the sim and flying.

I still have Win 8.1 as my OS. If ever I replace my current computer and migrate to Win 10 (shiver), I will likely start all over again with FSX and possibly go to P3D. This is if the old folks home will let me have a computer in my padded room. :untroubled:
 
P3D4, but keeping FSX Gold installed as well, both for testing and for stuff that isn't 64 bit compatible (yet?). Both SDK's as well.
 
FSX almost exclusively. P3Dv4.1 has potential but way, way, too many $$ invested in FSX, AND too much is still not compatible with P3DV4 (at least not yet). Once the lack of compatible AI gets solved, and more of the many flyable airplane options available in FSX become available for P3dv4, maybe would actually fire it up occasionally. Right now it just sits there on the hard-drive, unused.

Bill
 
I have P3D V4.1 as my primary, I still have FSX-SE on my system for development purposes. I had to re-install everything on my machine last month and have not found a reason to re-install P3D V3 yet.

BTW, I wonder if the fact that this poll is in the FSX section of the forum skews the result in favor of it.
 
I used P3D4 primary, but I've kept FSX for the P3D4 incompatible additions and
for all my beloved and expensive payware addons, which i had bought before
P3D4 was in sight.
I'm currently not able, to buy all those great addons again,( PMDG,A2A,AS,FS Labs,CS . . .)
so FSX will stay for quite a while on my hd.
 
Interesting side note.

If you go to the Aerosoft forums, look at their Annual Platform poll.

Their results are totally opposite what I'm seeing in the SOH poll and puts P3D V4 way out in front.
 
FSX-A for me. I can't afford P3D. This rules me out anyway "Prepar3D is not to be used, offered, sold or distributed through markets or channels for use as a personal/consumer entertainment product."
 
2 computers old one which serves as a joinfs server with win 7 and FSX:ACC... bare bones only with a few ships and Tacpac
2nd one... new killer I7 7700 & GTX 1080 and sliders jacked all the way to the right with P3Dv3( so i can run the VRS Hornet & Tacpac) and P3Dv4 so i can fly everything else. I'll probably delete v3 once v4 has the Super Bug and Tacpac are released for it... still deciding. depends on if i have any more issues with the v3
 
The "new version every couple months" issue with P3D is definitely a factor for me. It's an interesting problem. If they don't come out with new versions, then it gets old and falls behind. Like FSX. But setting a new flight sim environment, scenery, planes, weather, controller assignments, is not a trivial thing. P3D looks nicer than FSX, but not nice enough for me to go through all that setup every time a new version comes out. I guess I'm stuck with FSX for a while then!
 
I'm still with FSX as well. I bought P3Dv4 but my computer is a bit too weak for it. It sure looks nice but I can't say that it impressed me in a way that I feel the desire to buy a new computer and rebuy most of my addons. Especially as all the core parts of a simulation e.g. the weather system, flightdynamics, ATC, etc. are still the same as in FSX. So as long as all the the interesting addon aircrafts will be available for FSX too, I think I will stay with FSX for the time being.

Greetings
Tim
 
When it first came out, FSX was simply too demanding to run well on most home computers.

Just about the same time, we were really beginning to maximize FS9 in long strides, all sliders maxed. The range of creative addons (freeware & commercial) was amazingly broad and diverse. (It still is!!)

But knowing that time would go by, and we'd be able to run FSX at speed...eventually.....I started squirreling away FSX downloads as I cherry picked the FS9 stuff.

Presently, the current computer setup runs FSX with a surplus of juice, and for me is wonderfully tweaked and fine tuned with Nvidea Inspector, Steve's DX10 Fixer, and his most excellent cloud shadows. Easy stuff....now.

I have just entertained a flight in Lago/Aniserial's lovely Fiat CR.32 that was originally created for FS2002.....now running in FSX, thanks to Steve's DX Fixer....with kinetic shadows in the cockpit. (Huh.......)

That model probably won't work to any satisfaction in P3D V4.....and that's just scratching the surface regarding nearly a decade of FSX stuff yet to be unpacked.

...Mehhhh....there's time yet. Maybe I'll load up P3D V4 (or it's successor) in a few years, when I've finally gone through my FSX wharehouse to some satisfaction.

......And........FS9 still exists on my HD. It gets fired up when I want AI filling the air like somebody just swacked a wasp nest with a big stick.
 
I "ticked" FSX, but Purchased P3Dv4 just a few weeks ago, and have been focused on that since.

I will certainly be flying in FSX for some time due to the add-on's I enjoy there, that are not compatible with P3Dv4.

I have found myself visiting both the FSX as well as the P3D forums, and don't have a problem with that.

I do agree that there should be a dedicated P3Dv4 forum, as it's platform is so different from FSX/P3D1,2,3.
 
P3D V4.1 here, and only that. I switched to P3D as soon as it was released in it's V1.4 version some years ago. Never started FSX anymore since then, and don't even have it installed.
It's not that I think it's bad, I'm just too lazy to administrate two sim installations.


Cheers,
Mark
 
I fell in love with FSX:SE. I bought it the day it came out. I was just curious what the big deal with FSX was, and for $5.00 I could afford it if I didn't like it. Having said that, the first time I took the default F/A-18 out and found a carrier, that was actually MOVING, well, I never looked back. I got Javier's carrier, and AICarriers to start, then found the FSDT FSX BA Hornet, and I was in love. Since then I've added every ship I can find, military or not, especially including all of Mr. Henrik Nielsen's I could lay my hands on. Every iteration of the FSX BA F/A-18C too. I can modestly even say I helped with some of the development of that amazing bird.
Anyway, I do still use FS9 for some of the RWR plane's, but I mainly stick to FSX:SE. I really enjoy that sim.
I may try out a version of P3D, if someday it's ever sold for $5.00, but, as they say, figure the odds. I know Lockheed. Worked for them for nearly 10 years, and I don't see their sim ever being sold for that price. They're too greedy...money-hungry...

Have fun, whatever you use :D
Pat☺
 
P3Dv3 because my system is to weak for v4 and I'm not sure all the installed add-ons will work on v4.
Two solutions :
- hoping having money for a top system
- back to FSX (or to buy Steam if still compatible with the add-ons)

PIerre
 
My main sim is P3D V3, although I do still have FSX Steam installed and use it regularly. I would say I use P3D V3 75% of the time, but I still use FSX for aircraft that only really work in that sim. I have Flyinside (for Oculus Rift) installed for P3D V3 and FSX.

Other sims I have installed and still use include DCS World (lots), Aerofly FS2 (sometimes), and Rise of Flight (infrequently right now).
 
purely p3d v4.1, and havent had fsx installed since v3 first came out

95% of addons are now supported, and i can run everything like scenery and aircraft without OOMs

there are only a few addons that im waiting on ie QW787, AS A320 & A330 and instant scenery other than that im happy I have 671GB thats just in P3d folder alone (70GB is just global ultimate next gen mesh) not including all the files in the my document addons folder or programs like rex and UT2 Live and their contents

in fact I think I have more installed in P3Dv4 than I did with FSX
 
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