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I've been watching too many YouTube videos that have thoroughly confused me with all of the timings and latency, overclocking, etc. I do have four DIMM slots, 2x8 installed. So, it sounds like I just need to pop out the 8GB sticks and snap in the 2x16 sticks, and fire up the sim and go? Hopefully :D Thanks!

I recently purchased the following rig for P3D and then MSFS2020 when it comes out. As you will see, my system only has 16 GB memory. I'm wanting to upgrade now to 32 GB in anticipation of the Microsoft release. I don't know much about over clocking memory or all of the other lingo, but if I understand right, I can't just snap my memory out and snap the new memory in and go fly. Which is actually what I did with my old computer when I added memory to it. Also, my system has been overclocked to 5.2 GHz. Does anyone have suggestions on what I need to do as far as getting the right memory and installing it correctly? I don't think I want to mess with RGB either. I just want it to run smooth. Thanks a lot, Dack Processor: Intel Core i7-9700K Coffee Lake LGA 1151 Motherboard: MSI Z370 SLI Plus LGA 1151 8xSATA6 USB 3.1 ATX Intel Memory: Adata XPG Gammix 16GB (2x8GB) 288-Pin DDR4 3000MHz (currently installed) Cooling: Cooler Master 240 AIO CPU Liquid Cooler Dual 120mm Fans Hard Drive: HP EX900 500Gb NVMe Solid State Drive (SSD) Drive Power Supply: EVGA 750 G3 80 PLUS Gold Certified Computer Case: Thermaltake G21 Dual Tempered Glass Black Mid Tower OS: Windows 10 Professional 64-bit GPU: EVGA RTX 2060 Super

Appreciate the comments. I read today that Active Sky will be releasing P3D v5 in the next few days, so I'm going to wait on it. I'm curious to see what they can add to TrueSky besides a weather engine. So far, I'm happy with the default clouds in v5.

I just recently deleted P3D v4 and installed v5. I had Rex Skyforce and Active Sky for v4. Just wondering if anybody has tried out the first v5 offering by Pilot's? I'm wondering what Active Sky can do with TrueSky besides adding a weather engine, which is all Pilot's does. Can they improve anymore on the clouds? Rex? I'm ready to get started with "real weather" using one of these add-ons. But, maybe I need to exercise patience and see what AS and REX come out with, hopefully soon. Any thoughts out there?

I've searched for a solution to this problem and I've seen where some in the past have had the same problem with FSX, but could not find a fix. The force feedback is on and works until you launch P3D v5, then the joystick just goes limp and the stick does not return to the center. I've checked and unchecked all of the boxes in the options, still the same, as well as trying the calibrations. I think it is flight surfaces I checked on as well as forceback and the plane was unflyable as the joystick forces were all over the place. Any ideas? Thank you

I'm sticking with v4.5, spending extra money on hardware only, and waiting to see how MSFS2020 turns out.

The media has blown it out of proportion. How many have died from the flu? The main thing people need to remember is keep spending your dollars. Support the flightsim community and buy some addons. You don't even have to get out and interact with anyone. The worst thing that could happen now is if people start stuffing money under the mattress as if the apocalypse is going down. We've got to regroup and get on with life.

Has anybody heard a timeframe on the release date? I don't know how long Alpha and Beta testing take. Just anxious like everybody else to try it out.

Stated another way, use the textures from Rex Sky Force and Active Sky for your weather engine. I also use Envtex and Envshade and have gorgeous skies.

I'm currently looking at the following barebones computer and wondering if it will work well with all of the main add-ons: https://www.portatech.com/products/product.cshtml?id=57374&o=92334 As you will notice, i think I'm going to choose the i7-8700. It doesn't look like I would gain much more performance with an 8700k, and it looks like it runs hotter. I also don't know how to overclock nor do I really want to. For my GPU, I want to get the Geforce GTX1660 - 6 GB. Ram, I will probably go with 16 GB - DDR4-2666. I already have a 500 GB SSD. Will I be happy running P3D 4.5 w/ add-ons? I'm also not sure which power supply I need. Any comments, much appeciated!

If you don't find an ATC program you like, which I still haven't, then EditVoicepak is a good substitute. It allows you to speed up the ATC voices (more realistic) and add your own modifications. You can find further information at http://www.editvoicepak.com. It's also a try before you buy program.

So there you go folks. I went ahead and updated the Client, Content, and Scenery. Everything is running fine including my add-ons. I'm not a dunce as was insinuated. I really don't need a terse answer and talked down to because I had a simple question. I notice this happens a lot in the sim forums. Are these forums made up of 13-year-olds and immature people? Here we are all trying to enjoy the same hobby and share our interests and recommendations with each other. For God's sake, this is a sim, a hobby. Can we just have fun?

https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6322&t=120861

I've read all of the directions and steps on how to update P3D, and its almost always advisable to update the Client only. If that's the case, what is the purpose of the Content and Scenery update, and what are we missing? The newest update for the Content and Scenery I believe, mentions a fix for the airport beacons. That is something I proposed to Lockheed that needed updating a while back and I would really like to see what it looks like. What I don't understand, is the only way to update the Content and Scenery by downloading the 12 gigs or so of data, uninstalling, reinstalling? And will this have more of an effect of my add-ons, stability, if at all? Right now I'm using 4.5 with Hotfix 1. I updated the Client only and everything is running fine, so I'm a little hesitant about touching the Content and Scenery. Any recommendations or better clarifications? Thanks, Dack

I have installed the new 4.5 Client and Content without any issues. I also have a lot of ORBX addons, but I have not noticed any fps loss at all. I just haven't taken the time to download the new Scenery because it doesn't look like there was much change that affects me. I do however highly recommend using an MD5 checksum utility to make sure your download from Prepar3d is complete, accurate and not corrupt.