Uninstalling p3d

[Kapitan]

I'm thinking of uninstalling P3D

I have a total of 500gb in ssd and thou still have space for MSFS2020 in the 1 tera ssd i would like to do a clean format for the august 18th release.

 

There is no motivation to use p3d knowing a better sim will be out, i have pre-ordered msfs2020 and now just need to wait few weeks

 

Its a whole new platform that will require its learning curve getting used to menus and configs.

I thought of keeping the payware plane addons but it seems obvious they (or any scenery) will not be compatible.

The orders will always be available at the payware site for re-downloading but like I have seen in the past, owing a licence will be of no use cause the argument for all companies is

 

"its a complete different platform and we had to build the addon from scratch so you have to pay the full price...again"

 

fair enough, but then why should i keep P3d installed? or Xplane if you own that.

 

Any good reasons?

Edited July 23, 2020 by Kapitan

[loki]

fair enough, but then why should i keep P3d installed? or Xplane if you own that.

 

Any good reasons?

 

Is there a particular plane you really enjoy flying in P3D? Especially something from the likes of PMDG? If so, it may be a while before it, or an equivalent, comes to the new sim. The same also goes for many of the freeware historical aircraft that people like to fly in FS2004 or FSX.

[Kapitan]

You are right there.

But its the overall platform graphics, world, weather, cimate, aerodynamics, shadows, traffic, route live maps, etc that make it such a large difference that you dont feel the point of pressing the P3D.exe again.

 

Yes, the good paywares and specially classic planes will be very much wanted. It will take even more than a year I know. Guess I will just spend that time learning the new sim and systems and flying stock planes or bush flying

[jeroen79]

If you're certain that you're not going to use it then there is no reason to keep it installed.

 

But it will take some time for the quality addons to come to FS2020.

Scenery and weather in FS2020 may be better but the classic or quality planes may not be there at the start.

Keeping P3D at hand would be useful if you ever need to get back to those special planes in the mean time.

 

And if you still have enough room on your PC then what would you win by removing P3D early?

P3D and FS2020 will not bite eachother.

[dogdish]

I got P3Dv5 even after the FS2020 release reveal.

 

I love it because I was able to reuse all my FSX add-ons without charge.

 

ORBX (just about everything, some most likely will be updated), ALL of the Carenado/Alabeo aircraft, ALL four of my RealAir aircraft, had 3 A2A (P-40, P-47, P-51). A2A gave away a P3Dv5 P-40 update. The FSX P-47 and P-51 were installed using simple registry entrys and work fine. EditVoicePack XL was updated for V5. Ultimate Traffic Live will be updated to v2 with a FREE update.

 

Only thing I had to buy for it was FSUIPC6.

 

Naw, I'm keeping BOTH P3Dv5 and FS2020 :)

[degeus]

Hello Kaplan,

As you say the emulation of P3D/FSX aircraft in FS202 will probably be poor. On the other hand, the offer of aircraft in FS2020 is very limited and is in majority only light GA's.

So I am thinking of keeping two sims, one for the scenery, e.g. flying along coastlines and in mountains, valleys etc and one for still experiencing the goodies and specialisms of our beloved aircraft as WW2 bombers (Lancasters, B-17's, B-25's etc), transporters (C-47's ), fighters (Spitfires, P-51's, ME109's) and piston engined airliners (L049, DC6 etc), the investment beeing done.

reg.,

Piet de Geus

[Kapitan]

Piet, a good idea, probably will do the same

my hope is that some user finds a temporary workaround that would make some aircraft-panels compatible by porting them to MSFS2020, I will keep P3D with this hope

[Elvensmith]

I never bothered with P3D as I didn't really want to go through the charade of stating it was for educational purposes, when it most emphatically was not. However I did quite recently purchase XP11 which has turned out to be rather disappointing. That will probably get uninstalled to make way for FS2020, if not before. However having finally got my Level-D 767 working in FSX-SE I don't think I will be uninstalling that, though I might prune some of the unused add-ons to free up a few 100Mb of HD space.

[g7rta]

I never bothered with P3D as I didn't really want to go through the charade of stating it was for educational purposes, when it most emphatically was not.

 

I bought P3D (v4) two or three years ago. Like you I didn’t want to say it was for education so I paid the full price, which was the right thing to do (nearly £200 if I remember correctly, certainly over £150)

I enjoyed it for a while but then XP11 came along.

Don’t think I’ll be using either now though because of MSFS

 

Regards

Steve

[Kapitan]

Steve

good luck in your Beta ride, remember you are doing it for all of us.

Find as many bugs as you an find or improvement bits.

[Rupert]

Personally I can't imagine anyone doing away with what already works well without knowing the newer is or isn't as good as what you have!! Vegas, Edsels, etc. all had their early buyers who threw caution to the wind. NEWER ISN'T ALWAYS BETTER!!

 

If I were you I'd offload what you know works onto a mechanical hard drive!! Be it the one on your computer or a cheap one you can buy anywhere, copy and paste all your working stuff to that hard drive. THEN DELETE FROM YOUR FAST DRIVE. IN A SCENARIO WHERE YOU'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE NEW SIM, YOU CAN GO BACKWARDS IF YOU NEED TO!! ;):cool:

 

Michael

Edited July 28, 2020 by Rupert
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[Kapitan]

Yes, you are right, I`ll do just that, all Simobjects/Airplanes to sata hd

Will wait until 18th and see which planes port easy

Regarding scenery probably the new sim is the only way to go

 

rgds

k

[kahngrotbo]

I posted this in another thread but will repeat it here. I will personally be keeping P3D if for nothing else Lockheed made significant improvements to Flight Sim and this hobby as well as helped keep it alive when Microsoft abandoned it in 2009. I design supersonic aircraft for Flight Sim, mostly for my own use, so will definitely check out FS2020 but will be taking a wait and see attitude with it to see if this is a new MS that will keep their promises or abandon it once again.

[Rupert]

I posted this in another thread but will repeat it here. I will personally be keeping P3D if for nothing else Lockheed made significant improvements to Flight Sim and this hobby as well as helped keep it alive when Microsoft abandoned it in 2009. I design supersonic aircraft for Flight Sim, mostly for my own use, so will definitely check out FS2020 but will be taking a wait and see attitude with it to see if this is a new MS that will keep their promises or abandon it once again.

 

I agree! I was shocked when Microsoft made the decision to just close up shop on the thousands upon thousands of sim customers! Not to mention the hundreds of additional suppliers tied to their product. Maybe not enough return on their dollar anymore?? Or perhaps they wanted 100% of our dollars with no outside suppliers making a dim!! Yes, after years hugely supporting and promoting the Microsoft products, I did feel we were intenionaly left high and dry.

 

Perhaps you have noticed. Many of the posters on the Microsoft Screenshot Forum on other Microsoft named forums as well mostly fly P3D. Others fly some of both. I am one of those. There are things about FSX I prefer and also things about P3D I'd really hate to lose.

 

I post most of my flights flights on the Microsoft Screenshot Forum because there is little, almost no, P3D participation on the Flight.Sim.Com threads. Since P3D has been out for several years I don't know why more people aren't as outgoing on the P3D sites?

 

I share your concern about the long term commitment to simmers of Microsoft as well. That's the primary reason I'm actively encouraging people to not do away with what they already know they like!;) I/we might be prefer what I/we have to what we're about to be offered.

Edited July 31, 2020 by Rupert

[pugilist2]

I will leave my current simulator which is now XPL11 installed and definitely purchase MSFS when released on the 18th. If it is as good as the hype, I will uninstall XPL11 just like I already did with P3D. I am not loyal to any particular simulator and will use the one that gives me the best overall experience.

[Kapitan]

I agree! I was shocked when Microsoft made the decision to just close up shop on the thousands upon thousands of sim customers! Not to mention the hundreds of additional suppliers tied to their product. Maybe not enough return on their dollar anymore?? Or perhaps they wanted 100% of our dollars with no outside suppliers making a dim!! Yes, after years hugely supporting and promoting the Microsoft products, I did feel we were intenionaly left high and dry.

 

Perhaps you have noticed. Many of the posters on the Microsoft Screenshot Forum on other Microsoft named forums as well mostly fly P3D. Others fly some of both. I am one of those. There are things about FSX I prefer and also things about P3D I'd really hate to lose.

 

I post most of my flights flights on the Microsoft Screenshot Forum because there is little, almost no, P3D participation on the Flight.Sim.Com threads. Since P3D has been out for several years I don't know why more people aren't as outgoing on the P3D sites?

 

I share your concern about the long term commitment to simmers of Microsoft as well. That's the primary reason I'm actively encouraging people to not do away with what they already know they like!;) I/we might be prefer what I/we have to what we're about to be offered.

 

Nonsense. Its a business. You support by buying.

Besides, thou there was a gap of twelve years, no ther company has done so much for flightsim as Microsoft, just look at the history, so my commitment is still with them in that case