Remember when I asked about Kosta removing the performance comparison shots? Well, he has updated his blog, explaining that step. My hat goes off for his honesty. http://kostasfsworld.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/fsxp3d-performance-comparison-removal/


Quote:

Dear simmers, Unforunately, I had to remove my review on performance comparison. I made a mistake in the review, something I really don’t do often, and this time the error was so deep, I didn’t have a chance of noticing it, only suspected it. What happened: I had Windows 7 installed with full FSX, everything I was using for a long time and flying. Apparently this installation was broken – it yielded way less FPS than FSX is capable of. I had no comparison to run! So after I have seen such high FPS in P3D, I believed that FPS are higher in P3D in general. I reinstalled W7, put P3D on it, which had the same performance as my old FSX under old OS-installation. It was not an OS fault. It was simply bogged down FSX, which ran slower. Couple of days after I did the test, I got suspicious after some have reported same speeds, so I installed FSX – and hold and behold, I had similar FPS in FSX. After not being able to believe how stupid the whole thing went, I cleaned up the machine ONCE again, ran both FSX and P3D setups, in the clean environment I ran the tests and came to a simple conclusion: P3D yields the same FPS or a bit better FPS in some scenarios. It is a bit smoother though. But if you are heavy armed with my tweaks under FSX, you can also come very close to the smoothness in P3D. Nevertheless, P3D is not bad, it is the way forward, it already offers features that FSX doesn’t offer (sound on lost focus for instance…), and it’s going only to get better. Yet again, I am very very sorry for what happened, I stand by my mistakes and I hope such error will never happen again!

Regardless of that, I still think that a tweak&fiddle guy (which I once was) doesn't do bad with trying P3D (not for 200 bucks though  :o). Personally, I'm more looking for version 2.0 if it ever comes up. But expect me to read everything on 1.x too.

Either way, please keep reporting and helping on this and that addon. That's the spirit of a community.  :)


On the g3d.dll crashes, I only saw those getting reported quite regularly over Orbx scenery, especially PNW and some another company stuff like Brussels. As always, not all folks received them and also not with all planes, but only the super fancy ones.

The funny thing then was that Pete Dowson (the guy behind FSUIPC) received those crashes sooner or later and then started working on a fix. That's how the special FSUIPC version came to life, in FSX and later P3D, not being immune to that.

Now his free version of FSUIPC already includes that fix, which is as fair as it can get. The guy deserves support for that policy, so whoever hasn't bought FSUIPC yet (which can go a lot of tricks, not only that one) should go ahead!  :D