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You are MOST welcome...and I would love to read a few months from now...that it was the 'miracle solution' as for us....and you then pass it on to your suffering friends and family! Good luck, Jack!

Jack we first tried that...and unfortunately for us, it did not do anything, even within the Placebo Effect. The mentioned CosaminDS has the only lab and test certified, results that show a markedly favorable outcome. We are just one of those that are living 'testimonials'. Jack...after two to four months (everybody's body is different) you and your wife, will be dancing around the Living Room... Jack..G.C. didn't work, after 6 months, which led us to CasaminDS after at a dinner party I complained of that very fact, and then our Friendship Circle friend suggested we try CasaminDS and follow the recommended capsule dosage for start, and then life day to day maintenance. You take this every day, as it will rejuvenate the lining of your joints and cause lubrication to be between the bone support surfaces, once more, for the rest of your days. It works! Thank the Lord!

Jack, the following post might be a joint 'life saver' for you. Certainly is for myself and my wife. I used to have also, severe R.A. In the mornings, great pain to move about. A doctor friend of ours, offered his advice for the following, and both he and his wife take their (to start, 3 capsules per day for 2 months eight hours apart with food, and then 2 capsules per day, 12 hours apart with food, for life-time usage maintenance.) Both my wife and I no longer hobble, or feel tight or painful in our hands, wrists, elbows, knees, ankles, and shoulder blade joints. Full range movement and that took about 4 months in, from the very first day of starting the following. Be patient if you choose to explore this, for BOTH you and your wife. Jack, the following is not cheap, but if it gives you back Quality of Life...what exactly is that worth to you. It was worth it to us...we can now move freely, hike, camp, everything....before though, both our advanced R.A. limited our quality of Life. Here is what we are taking daily, and will be for the rest of our lives. You can get it at Costco. (about the best price, we've seen). CosaminDS (joint health supplement by NUTRAMAX "Protect your cartilages with the ONLY BRAND proven to reduce joint pain" ----as stated on the plastic bottle. Jack...the above statement is 100 percent TRUE. I hope you at least check this out. If so, and you find relief, pass it on...we do. Most of our friends in the Friendship Circle now also take CosaminDS as well, both spouses. Cheers,

Hi John, I actually timed it, with my cell phone 'stop watch' app, and I as soon as LOADING TERRAIN mask comes on, it goes to 5 percent for about 4.5 minutes (I put eight originally, but only was guessing...) and then takes about another one minute or so, to go from 5% to 100% and then I get a black screen, for about 5 seconds, as the Shaders are initializing, and then wham bam, at my airport. I have been flying extensively out of KORS, and all over the PNW...and OMG! To see Orbx..FINALLY...as it was actually created, the artwork, and other graphic assets...CLEAR...no morphing...and add in HD Trees, HD Flora, HD Buildings, all those titles, I have them all, and I can actually state right now...that (aghast!) I now actually PREFER Orbx's SYNTHETIC graphics elements, to the graphics engine of MSFS. At this time. Things could change on the MSFS maturity front, but it's like I got the RTM version of OrbxFlyer Sim v1.0, LOLOLOL. Everybody is all over different forums talking about how they only load in 3.0 or 3.5 GB's...and stay there...no matter what they throw at P3D v5.2 (non EA on, and only Active Sky running the atmospherics show). I can live with a 6 minute-to-airport load in...am now just loading up, and walking away from the computer for that time, to make a coffee, grab a sandwich, give the wife a kiss, not exactly in that order...lol. I then come back, and there's KORS looking fantastic now...so crisp and clear, I could cut myself on the top wire of the fence post.... You'll get yours sorted out...

I understand what you meant....one of your life's great interest and passions. I'm about to jump in the shower, and then pack my motorcycle for a day or touring with my wife. If I told you what all my other interests, you'd fall asleep, or pass away from old age, before you got to the bottom of the list...lol! Ok...now to put morning and coffee flight simming to bed, and get out there to the garage, to back out the 'ride'.... Cheers!

Jack...flight simming is back in the saddle....lol. The version rocks! To put it another way...imagine one, having dirty finger-printed, and lens-smudged glasses on for all the years covering since the FSX RTM release...and then someone lifts them off your face...cleans them, polishes the two lens, ...and puts them back on. Your jaw drops with how the 'world' looks NOW! For myself, a good analogy. Cheers,!

Yes Brad, P3D v5.2 has nVidia WaterWorks 2.0. It was introduced with v5.0, but now...has matured, and the wave animation at High or Ultra, along with the more advanced Special Effects, You need to have both at full right) is STUNNING! I'm now in flight sim heaven....and now in actually SEEING what Orbx Global, Vector, and openLC is all about...it all seems to be snapping at MSFS's 'heels', LOL! I am thrilled with v5.2! Orbx also now once more has a dedicated (looking for) P3D title purchaser! They can thank P3D v5.2 for that!

Few more personal comments; -------------------------------------------------- Well, I only realize now, in all these years of flight simming and buying and using Orbx titles/products, that up and until P3D v5.2 was released, I had never actually 'gotten my money's worth'. Nope. I have been using P3D v5.2 exclusively since it was released, and simply am stunned at to what performance it is rendering under my long-in-the-tooth, computer system. I only realize now, over the last couple of days, that since the very first RTM of FSX, and until P3D v5.2, I have always had some graphic deterioration, blurriness, ill-formed graphic elements....that one over those so many different released, just thought..."Well, this is what it is....". Not any more! I find, that locked away all those past years, was absolutely GREAT graphics work and artistry coming from the Orbx camp, but I never, never got to see it, clear, fully formed, and staying that way over the course of hours of flight path. P3D v5.2 seems to me, to truly be qualified to being called v6.0. So many great rendering advancements, like the water, at High or Ultra, simply now stunning in color, depth, animation, clarity, and the special effects have been dramatically improved, so much so, you only have to view the wakes (three layers of them, and combining to a totally true world effect of a large ship passing and cutting through the water. Now, simply stunning to view! I feel , there were so many refinements and improvements to P3D, that that is why it took so long to release. You only have to RUN IT, to see how much prior video degradation of previous sims and versions, was left in P3D's v5.2's 'wake'. Orbx Global, Vector, and openLC Land Class products together, and when CLEAR...and WELL FORMED, is truly a pleasure to fly over. So much so, that I am going to just let MSFS mature for a year. It's no longer the 'only game in town'. Not now... The nVidia WaterWorks, blows away any of the other sim's rendering's in color, depth, animation, and now wake and special effects. I would say now...with so enjoying P3D v5.2, that MSFS is not the DEFACTO 'latest' and greatest. Personal opinion of course...but to be able to sit slacked jaw, and my head moving back and forth in disbelief at the graphic quality output, from only seeing a 'step' release of P3D....is simply a pleasure to be responding in that manner. The fixes, and new features, reads like a novel...lol! Whatever you fly, enjoy...but if you had liked P3D, for any past feature...you owe it to yourself, to update, or to even reinstall P3D, and see just what I am raving about! Orbx...simply has never looked so good, and the sad part...the very sad part, is that IT HAS ALWAYS LOOKED GOOD FROM THE START, but VRAM system management in all prior sims, never allowed it to shine.... P3D v5.2 never now goes over 3.0 GB's out of 7.1 available to DX12. In v5.1 and lower, it would climb to as high in the same settings I like, to 5.5 or 6 GB! Now...clear graphics...clear everything...and the entire session fits into 3.0 GB VRAM (DX12). Cheers,

A question for other adopters. I very much like the performance of the v5.2, but in TERRAIN LOADING, my sim starting sessions sits at 5 % for almost 8 minutes, and then slowly, very slowly climbs to 100 percent and then the airport. All the time, the busy light of my computer is ranking on. Has anybody else experienced a much longer load in time, before dumping to the chosen airport and/or scenery? That's my only 'critique' so far.

Active SKY BETA is out for P3D v5.2 and you should SEE, how the cloud banks look now....just deadly, and your VRAM usage never changes. I don't know what Lockheed Martin did using DX12 with this version...but WOW oh WOW..... MSFS you'd better get your act in gear...for LM, is climbing up your '6' with their latest release...ground textures (Orbx Global, Vector, open LC North America at stark crisp and clear always!), atmosphere, CLOUDS....oh yeah...you'd had better look behind you....LOL!

Well, I don't know where to really start...other than this sim P3D v5.2 is simply STUNNING! They have just killed the VRAM usage....I have the sim pretty much flat out, and am only using ever....3.0 GB out of my 7.8 GB. All Orbx scenery because of no longer any VRAM exhaustion, stays absolutely sharp and clear, from any altitude, and Orbx P3D is NO DOG, when not blurred, but crisp and sharp graphics. I can certainly tell you, that I have never seen such graphic FABULOUS performance, from FSX, right up until now...not any other version of P3D, not even the last version 5.1. Orbx scenery still started to deteriorate (or should I now more properly state, under VRAM system exhaustion) to a blurry mess, that I'd have to press PAUSE for 3 or four minutes before you'd see the graphics start to morph and 'crisp up'. Not EVER is this happening now with v5.2. From the first minute, until even two hours trans continental....every graphic element of all my Orbx stuff...Global, Vector, all of it....stays sharp as a tack! I am absolutely thrilled, and most certainly, P3D is back in the time slot for my hobby flight time, and most certainly to challenge MSFS for sure! I will be back to buying Orbx P3D titles, as I have a fabulous reason since yesterday morning, to do so. Orbx...get those P3D titles on sale! Lockheed Martin...KILLED it...with this release, absolutely KILLED IT! Cheers,

I haven't come across anything of my extensive Orbx P3D purchases that seem wonky...not so far after a day and a half. I do believe that this version of P3D 5.2...will have renewed interest once more in Orbx P3D titles...yeppers.

Iain, have been having a blast with it. This is a major 5.X...meaning .2 update event. The sim looks great!

Have it installed, been flying it...they have done a lot with this one...E.A. has never looked so good...and now no longer a memory hog. Very nice so far.. Did the Content uninstall first Did the Client uninstall second Installed Client Installed Content Deleted SHADER Folder Brought up Orbx Central and did a 5.x resync. Got the green on that. Been having fun ever since. Not loading in v5.2 Scenery, have no need.

"I think that I'll just fly...and 'mutter' the names below me...LOLOLOLOLOL! Really lovin' this purchase! Brings the entire place to a true sense of what you WOULD expect in the month of July...boats...boats...ships, yachts...more yachts....and people enjoying those boats...boats...yachts...more yachts...and me in the Cub Float...meandering about at taxi upon the waves,...hoping someone will hand signal me over...to side berth...and enjoy a cold beer! Yep...computers, flight sims, add-ons, and looking at my Super Loto ticket with longing...."

St. Martin...not St. Marteen...geez!

...and for the asking price, very highly recommended. It truly is the shot in the arm, to convince you that the two Islands are totally populated with persons of MONEY! LOL. The boat selection is great. The marina's...the animation...and the dusk and dawn time with the boats lit up and reflecting upon the ocean...is rather breath taking! Very well done...and will certainly for $11.95, start populating the marine sites that I frequent, if the developers offer that area. For sure...very well done, and they CERTAINLY don't renege on detail, or depth of scope. Very well done! Again, for the asking price, and if you fly in the area of the islands...this purchase is a no brainer!

There are cruise ships! For instance, they spawn out in the channel around PNW. Fly out of Orbx KORS, head west over the channels, and you will see them dispersed within cargo ships and ships under sail. Be sure to set both pleasure and ships and ferries to 6 percent on the slides. Just a reminder, for both P3D 4 and 5, you set the slide to no more than 12 percent. That will give you all the custom boats, and will not spawn 100 percent of the P3D native.

Be sure to transfer over these files to also, your P3D 4 and 5. More boats...! More Routes! Backwards compatible! Add all content from MSFS zip Effects to Effects 4 and 5 MSFS zip Scenery to Scenery/World/Scenery 4 and 5 MSFS zip SimObjects to same MSFS zip Animals to same and place contents into: their P3D 4 and 5 counterparts. When asked to overwrite, agree. You now have the most current A.I. Boats and added animals, into---> P3D 4 and 5 as well!

"Ready to go to sea, when you are!!!!"

Can't wait for this...I mean...the REAL DEAL, from you, the Dev. Can you please post a link to your download for your official package for MSFS, on this thread. That would help a lot of us out to download and be amazed at your stellar work! Thank you so much, in advance, sir! Cheers!

happy to post..and to encourage...

Just as an addendum, the Dev, is most likely trying to overcome whatever it is, that does not have his entire package produce and render all within V2, in any parts of the world, he has created the .bgl files for. I have taken A/B flight (A) being P3D and (B) being MSFS, and for instance, where ships would be steaming up the Detroit and Sarnia River, towards Lake St. Clair, and Lake Huron, no matter what date I have set, I have yet to see any craft or sailings generated. I hope that he (if that is what is delaying his official release) can overcome that. I have seen ships (lots!) in and around Washington State (KORS, etc) out in the open Channel, around some of the Carib, in European waters...but to date, have not had much luck seeing ship traffic on any of the Great Lakes. So, for right now, hit and miss, I guess, and that is (or one of the reasons) what is causing the Dev to not release a literally---->un-zip and drop in Community Folder...and done. The above in this thread WILL give you (where it displays to date) ship traffic, moving, doing its thing...but again, nothing wrong with your installation, if no wakes, bow wave spray, etc. There ain't any....another MSFS need-to-do...:(

The ships were all moving across the strait...turning to follow the planned course for them by the developer...and the best months to see as many ships as you can, in an area you wish to fly, are during the Summer Months, for right now, in December, the Shipping Season is over, and for the most part, even as far back a few years, most of the Great Lakes, would freeze over with ice three or four feet thick! So, if you install, change the Month to May, June, July, August , September (and whatever day...for instance try mid month in each...make it July 15th, and start your flight....

The most ships I have seen, has been around KORS and FRIDAY HARBOR. If you decided to just play around with this, until the OFFICIAL download, start there, and if you don't see any ships where you'd like...play around with the date and time of day. I think that has a bearing... Obviously, this is a work-around until an official release of the package is available. Of course this work-around for the time being, is not to be considered, a polished and 'approved' version, that the author would produce, knowing the in's and out's of his creation! This is just for the time being, to get some 'life' out there, until an official and 'approved' version is offered to the community. But while we wait for that....if you try the above installation, make your first flight out of KORS or FRIDAY HARBOR, and take a scenic flight out over the waters. These pics was such as that... Have fun, until the 'real deal' hits the streets! By the way, to have water like this, you have to create a WIND layer, and crank the wind slider fully to the right...to see swells, fleck, and whitecaps. These pictures had the Wind Slider about 90 % to full right....