Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 01 May 2020, 11:08
Load times much much quicker now.
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Prepare 3D Version 5
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Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 01 May 2020, 20:25
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 01 May 2020, 21:35
Flight planner is up the creek. Take ages to load up a flight plan and then is unable to give the routing/flight time and fuel required.
IMHO not a good patch. What next a patch to the patch?
ATB
Allan
IMHO not a good patch. What next a patch to the patch?
ATB
Allan
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 03:13
Judging by the above posts and a couple of reviews on youtube, I think I should delay any plunge into this arena. 
Some of the scenery looks magnificent, but the runways seemed to lack realism, and though the youtubers praised the clouds, I found them rather stiff.
Some of the scenery looks magnificent, but the runways seemed to lack realism, and though the youtubers praised the clouds, I found them rather stiff.
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 09:01
Mike v5 is a leap forward. Apart from the relatively minor niggles I have encountered so far it I a giant jump in the atmospherics department. The clouds are no longer balls of cotton wool, there is a smoke/haze that replicates the real thing and I am very happy with it.
That said, I think this release has been rushed with corners cut probably so it will be established and in use long before FS2020. So, if you can hold off a couple of weeks and then buy the - hopefully - vice-free version then do so.
Meanwhile, I am going to push on and enjoy the good bits of v5.
ATB
Allan
That said, I think this release has been rushed with corners cut probably so it will be established and in use long before FS2020. So, if you can hold off a couple of weeks and then buy the - hopefully - vice-free version then do so.
Meanwhile, I am going to push on and enjoy the good bits of v5.
ATB
Allan
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 09:12
G'day Allan,Buggyman wrote: ↑02 May 2020, 09:01Mike v5 is a leap forward. Apart from the relatively minor niggles I have encountered so far it I a giant jump in the atmospherics department. The clouds are no longer balls of cotton wool, there is a smoke/haze that replicates the real thing and I am very happy with it.
That said, I think this release has been rushed with corners cut probably so it will be established and in use long before FS2020. So, if you can hold off a couple of weeks and then buy the - hopefully - vice-free version then do so.
Meanwhile, I am going to push on and enjoy the good bits of v5.
ATB
Allan
I've had REX Soft Clouds for so long, I don't recall what the default FSX sky looked like, in fact, I forgot that it was still installed.
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 10:33
Anyone with VR care to comment on the visual improvements if any?
My main driver these days is VR.
My main driver these days is VR.
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 11:42
In the youtube reviews, I think both I watched said that VR wasn't interfacing at this point.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5_34DMAoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHuXFda69I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5_34DMAoI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXHuXFda69I
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 13:16
Just spent a bit of time flying around Orbx TE GB in a helicopter in VR. I used stereo mode rather than single pass otherwise true sky is disabled, but even with the performance hit that had it was still a lot smoother than I had in 4.5, and looked so much better. 
Re: Prepare 3D Version 5
Posted: 02 May 2020, 14:31
Cheers Dave.
What's Stereo Mode? Is that a new setting in PrePar3dV5?
BTW what headset are you using?