All our products are designed for Microsoft Flight Simulator.
Product modification for Prepar3d is a different story (money).

There is a way, i asked the same question a while back when i tested P3D but i cannot share how i got them to install/work with P3D

I only installed them for testing reasons as part of my one month trial of P3D and at the moment i do not have P3D installed so my CS products are only installed in FSX. The 757 worked like a dream btw

P3D imo needs to mature a little more before i consider to move across to that platform and i hope in time CS will sort something out to allow us to use our CS aircraft in P3D

Lost in Isaan wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 12:57am:
That does sound like good news on the Prepar3d. I would be willing to pay $49, rather than $10 per month or the $199 on the full version! I see that it is an Academic License, so I might not qualify (50+ years old). I might just have to settle for the $199 version.

Lost in Isaan wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 12:57am:
The "other developer" (NGX etc.) had said they weren't going to move to Prepar3d because of legal problems that could occur with the products. They don't want their products to be used for real world training that Prepar3d is designed for. Has this changed? I don't visit their forums much so that is why I'm asking.

Lost in Isaan wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 12:57am:
If Captain Sim are okay on this, I would do it too.

Mark

Lost in Isaan wrote on Apr 2^nd, 2012 at 4:42am:
Well if that's the case, then I would be happy to spent $50 to buy Prepar3d Academic. I don't think an "unobtrusive watermark" is going to bother me too much, if at all.

As you have said, the reports on it are very good. Other than the old pricing, I can't remember any negative remarks.

Mark

Must be me olde eyes, can't see the water mark in either screen shot --- Great!

I'll admit I'm between Desktop PC's in transit from Thailand to Brisbane and looking for them on my less than adequate notebook!  

@Mark, you can get the Academic Version. Just claim you are doing testing of aircraft in simulation and studying bug fixes and cross platforms of FSX and Prepar3D . By the way 50 isnt to old for academics, my 83 year old father in law uses the Academic version and the CS 707 his baby as he call it. He piloted a 707 for American years ago and so the Academic V makes him feel whole and brings back the memories along with the CS707. @ Captain sim my father in law thanks you for making the 707 and making an old RW 707 Pilot happy in the 21st centry

v2 of prepar3d is a long way away Mark, i could be talking well over a year.. maybe 2+ but the best way to look at P3D v2 is the same as you would fs9 to fs10 or ms office versions.

If you did buy v1.3 it will always be there for you even if you brought v2 as LM wont cancel your licence for it.

This does catch people off and they dont agree with LM charging for v2, if Microsoft didn't kill flight sim development and released v11 they would be happy to pay for it even though it would be v11 and its the same thing.

There is issues with P3D that are being worked on so it wont be for everyone and as there is very little software that supports P3D mainly down to the installers its a lot of hard work doing manual installs of your favourite cs aircraft and other addons

I have done a short test ( not a full test ) of the CS 737-200 0.7 in P3D and it works like a dream, just the way it does in fsx so in a way it would be nice if CS added a P3D ready 737-200 as the only thing different is the location of the dll.xml and and the prepar3d base folder so it would only be the installer that needs pointing to the new locations

yeah the Orbx sale is great i want to buy AU sp4 but i have to wait till the end of the month but i did pick up NZ south today. I missed the last sale they had.

I picked up the academic version of P3D as i had the spare money but all we know about v2 of P3D is that it will support dx11 which is not much to go on and does not say anything about compatibility of current addons.

When i post to someone who is thinking about buying P3D i always ask them what they expect to get from it and if there flight sim is running fine is it worth swapping over as P3D is not perfect even though they have already fixed a lot of bugs that is in fsx, Some people do have a performance gain while other might not. While i have had a performance gain and the sim runs smoother than fsx for me some have had the opposite and found it worse than fsx, if i was to put that in terms of fps for me.. in the CS757, 727 and 707 i have seen between 3 and 10fps more in the VC with my current hardware.

Oh the other good thing about P3D, if you ever get board of flying in the air you can fly under water in a sub

Why not get it for a month on the Developer licence, to try it out? Or I believe there is a free trial option (or was, not sure if its still going on now) I am running P3D on the $9.99 per month licence and find it much more stable than FSX and most addons work flawlessly, a few developers are now making addons for both FSX and P3D (some for no extra cost!) and of course Orbx has the SBSL for PNW, PFJ, NZSI and AUS for free so as long as you bough them for FSX you can run them in P3D. Those that aren't made for P3d can be (fairly) easily installed with a little tweaking.
Think I might get the Academic version in the next month or so, was worried about the watermark before, but it took me ages to see it in the two images so not so concerned now!  

(i'm also over what would normally be considered Academic age, but I take the odd flying lesson now and again, so that i feel should satisfy the licence requirement!)

Adamski_NZ wrote on Apr 14^th, 2012 at 5:25pm:
I agree. It's hardly noticeable at all. I had to look very closely to see it.

I am installing P3d Acade3mic, could CS consider making an installer to support P3d for all of thier FSX products, or alternativly posting instructions on how to port?

Thanks

you don't have the 757/767 to test under P3D Markoz ?

Thanks, I'll waiting for your inputs before

Thanks Markoz ! Enjoy your flights with the new 1.0

One more question Markoz, you have the student version of P3D ? The full is too expensive (200$)

And do you have a watermark on the upper right side ? I think that I'm going the make the jump for it...

How are the lights effets ? (I love the dynamic lights on FSX but this option take to CPU power)

It's in DirectX 10 ? 11 ?

The watermark is no problem at all. I never eve notice it. I am busy with flying but it is so unobtrusive that I don,t even notice it! Honest!
I was showing it to a friend yesterday, and as I was turning up the sliders, my frame rates were increasing! I swear I kept saying to him, "Let's see how many frames per second raising this will cost me". Follow by "Well I'll be! I've just gained one or two frames per second". In P3D I'm getting better frame rates with my sliders set above what they are in FSX, that I'm surprised it has!

I haven't put Orbx or REX2 in it yet, but I really expect to lose frames per second with them. Oh! And the comparisons I mention above, are using default scenery at KSEA and flying around there. It was better than anything I've seen in FSX on my computer!

Later, I'll try and do a video (if I can get the two programs I use to do what they should do) on the 757 in P3D so you can see how it performs.

Mark

Cthulhus wrote on Apr 21^st, 2012 at 11:21am:

I almost didn't buy it. But I gave in and bought it. It's definitely worth the Academic price.

The only real problem I had/have with Prepar3D is my MS Sidewinder FF2 joystick only had a range 50% with the throttle. At idle the aircraft throttle tooltip showed 25% and at full throttle, tooltip only showed 75%. I solved this by installing FSUIPC (I have a registered version) and set the throttle movement there.

Mark

gandy wrote on Apr 21^st, 2012 at 12:24pm:

I spent an hour adjusting the Throttle sliders, from all the way up to all the way down, and the best result of the settings tried still only got 50% movement. I had to search for some help in the forums for help, and another person, with the same joystick as mine, found FSUIPC to be the solution his problem. As did I.

Morten wrote on Apr 23^rd, 2012 at 4:06pm:

I figured it is like FSX ATC so I haven't tried it yet.

I finally just got P3D but for me the performance are terrible ! FSX is fastest... I have to do something?

I have a very fast SSD DD and all Windows, FSX and P3D are on the same disc.

FSX avergage FPS : 20/30
P3D avergage FPS  : 15/25

... 

Markoz wrote on Apr 24^th, 2012 at 12:03pm:


From what I've learned from NickN, FSX should be entirely on it's own disc and partitions are not particularly welcome in this context.
Also, especially regarding to FSX, Disk RAID and Crossfire configurations are baned!!
Apart from the partitions, I see that Mark's harddisk arrangement is exactly the same as mine, which runs nice and smooth here.

Morten

 

fsland wrote on Aug 11^th, 2012 at 9:53am:

On my computer Prepar3D IS much more stable than FSX and the list of compatible addons are growing by the day.

Hi João.

I have the CS 777 v0.8 running in P3D. It works fine as long as you comment out this line: gauge02=Captain_Sim.x777.update!Main, 0, 0,  3, 3 from in the panel.cfg, under [Window00]. Like this:

[Window00]
file=bg.bmp
background_color=0,0,0
size_mm=1024,768
window_size_ratio=1.00  
visible=1
ident=MAIN_PANEL
render_3d_window=0
window_size= 1.000, 1.000
window_pos= 0.000, 0.000
gauge00=Captain_Sim.x777.sys!main, 0,0, 1,1
gauge01=Captain_Sim.x777.sound!main, 0,0,1,1,Captain_Sim\777\sound.ini
//gauge02=Captain_Sim.x777.update!Main, 0, 0,  3, 3

That line causes a CTD in P3D.

EDIT: I have added a pic of the 777 v0.8 in P3D.


Although you can't see it, the RAT is deployed.