The end of FSX is near

[Norberto Rivera]

Unfortunately that's not the intent of Prepar3d. Lockheed wants to supplement their already huge cash flow from government contracts by enticing FBO's, schools and colleges into purchasing the sim for trianing and teaching purposes. They are not concerned with us at all. I'm not completely up to date on what aircraft can be ported over and which can't. I have heard that PMDG has flat-out refused to allow the porting of their aircraft over or develop for it. The fact remains, that if aircraft can't be easily ported over into Prepar3d it might as well not exist for me. No sense in paying $200 to be limited in what I can fly. I'm already limited by the developers I don't like and won't patronize. LOL

[Wayne Pierce]

How did this turn into a software piracy discussion?

They did not steal the program from Microsoft. Microsoft sold their platform, as an instruction tool, to Lockheed Martin to develop this and now it is going up to 64bit, V.2, from the old 32 bit.

Prepare3d is the new flight simulator. Following the program's discussion for quite awhile on another forum, this will be the way to go in the close future.

It is costly, as the "student" license is $50.00 and the Professional is $200.00. I pay now more than that for some of my FSX addons.

Most, key word here is most, all of the scenery and payware A/C will work with it, after using the instructions given. RTFM.

So far after looking at the program I cannot tell the difference, in looks, from the current FSX.

WLP

[Wayne Pierce]

64bit, V.2 is what I have read about. I hope it wasn't wishful thinking on someone's part.

[Tom Pletzke]

i am currently using xplane and so far it is pretty good. But there are a lot of issues with xplane too. Price is high because it does not even come with airports. I am still researching to see if there are free airports. The xplane flight engine seems pretty good.

[Michael Blakely]

... but most of the USA now has beautiful airports.

"The World is not Enough"

[Barry Theodore]

I have the student version and until mentioned in this topic I had not noticed the watermark. I haven't used it much as it has a virtual cockpit only and I find it has slower frame rates than FSX. I am looking forward to their next generation as removing the graphics processing and putting it on the graphics card should make a bigggggg difference. I believe there are some very fast "gaming" processors coming out soon including the just released AMD FX9370 4.7 Ghz. There is also a very fast graphics card about to be released from AMD-Radeon the R290x. I hope we will find that with the Lockheed Martin upgrade and the new equipment frame rates will no longer be a problem and we will be able to use photo realistic scenery and maybe one day have scenery linked directly to Google earth or something similar.

[Barry Theodore]

Sorry Sergio I can't at present as I had to rebuild my FSX, and while doing it I had to also remove Prepar3d. I wasn't running Prepar3d in full screen mode and I had the task bar at the top "ALT" and it just showed Academic Version in the task bar. I actually hadn't noticed it until it was mentioned in this topic.
Hope that helps.
Barry