***BLUSH*** Thank you. :)

P3D v2 is very good. The way P3D v2 can handle the newer graphics cards and utilise DX11, make its performance very good.

I have not gone to great lengths to tweak the sliders to improve things much in P3Dv2as I am happy with what I've got and would rather spend the time flying than tweaking! :o. As an example of the way P3D works with my current system, switching from an external view, back to the VC, there is no delay in loading the textures, so no black VC while waiting for the textures to be loaded. I don't remember seeing any black patches/squares on the default scenery, but I haven't really looked for them either (I'm too busy flying).

I bought the Academic Licence, and although there is the watermark at the top right of the screen, I don't really notice it, and that is the only real difference between the Pro Licence and the Academic Licence as far as I know.

At the moment, I only have the CS 777 (P3D), CS L-1011 (P3D), CS 707 (FSX), 737 (FSX) & 767 (FSX) and the C172R Trainer (P3D ) installed. I will eventually get around to installing my other products that are for FSX and/or P3D, as well as the CS Weather Radar and Weapon for FSX. Unfortunately. P3D was installed on a partition on my 1TB HDD that suffered a catastrophic failure a couple of months ago and I haven't bothered to install everything for it yet (only those I fly the most in P3D).

Because I don't install very many FSX products into P3D, I still spend more time flying in FSX rather than in P3D, and I spend most of my time flying Captain Sim aircraft. I spend even more of my time in P3Dv2 flying Captain Sim (the ones I listed above). ;D