W2DR Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 (edited) Over the weekend I decided to clean up some of the "junk" on my 47TB of HDD. On one of the drives I ran across my old FSX add-on files. All 927GB of them. As I hadn't used FSX in years I started to delete them. But then I looked again. There was some really good stuff in there. Sort of like old friends. But now it's a whole new ballgame. Or is it? The lightbulb suddenly came on. Why not just reinstall P3Dv3 and use all your favorite FSX stuff there? And that's what I'm doing. I don't know how much of the FSX stuff will run in P3Dv3 but I suspect most will and it's looking good so far. Fingers crossed. Edited August 10, 2021 by W2DR 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rodger Pettichord Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 Hey W2DR, I tried MSFS and felt very confined by the limited selection of aircraft available. So I reinstalled FSX with its limitless range of aircraft. But it was frustrating to have the blink-on scenery tiles and the 32-bit limitations, so I installed P3D4 for the scenery with hopes that I could bring forward favorite planes. To my delight, almost all FSX planes can make the jump. I went to my supplier account purchase libraries and reinstalled many fresh in their P3D4 versions. Others, I just dropped and dragged FSX as-is with no problems. The only ones that didn't jump were those freeware planes that had been ported forward into FSX from FS9 with FS2002 components. But they still worked in FSX, so I just fly them there (C-7 Caribou, for example). With the the full Orbx global and regional scenery packages installed, I'm finding P3D4 really nice to fly. And,as you say, it's sure nice to have access to all your plane friendly favorites. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullfox Posted August 10, 2021 Share Posted August 10, 2021 A lot of FSX stuff can be ported over to p3d5.2hf1 and still works ok. Its one of the advantages of P3D. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 Hello, I find that all of the "FSX stuff" works in FSX, which is why I still have it installed. 3 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bullfox Posted August 11, 2021 Share Posted August 11, 2021 When I built my new computer three months ago I saved the SSD with all the FSX "stuff" on it and installed it in the new machine as one of the drives. I can access all the files but FSX won't run on the new machine. I still have the original installation disk and some day I may reinstall FSX, but for now I am enjoying P3D. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted August 11, 2021 Author Share Posted August 11, 2021 I just reinstalled FSX and it won't run here either. CTD's on full screen and I have to reboot to get the box running again. When I get a chance I'll set up the Win10/7 dual boot again and go from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Hello, for the record only, I have also recently made a clean installation of Windows 10 and of FSX. Also for the record, I was able to activate it at the Microsoft servers and almost as expected, I had to make the PartMgr registry fix before Acceleration would activate, but then it did also. This is at variance with numerous posts in other forums that allege that Microsoft have switched off the online activation. It works just as it should. Here is is in full screen, see if you can identify the airfield. 2048 click to enlarge 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 (edited) 1 hour ago, Nick Cooper said: Here is is in full screen, see if you can identify the airfield. 2048 click to enlarge Edited August 12, 2021 by wolfko 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted August 12, 2021 Author Share Posted August 12, 2021 KLAX? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condor Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 Gotta be....Bonners Ferry in Idaho USA 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfko Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 1 hour ago, Condor said: Gotta be....Bonners Ferry in Idaho USA Wow! How did you guess? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 2 hours ago, W2DR said: KLAX? This one? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
W2DR Posted August 12, 2021 Author Share Posted August 12, 2021 Oh yeah, I remember now. KLAX is one of those places where the big jets land. I should have known that wasn't KLAX because I didn't see any of them there and there is no smog obscuring the mountains. Silly me. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Condor Posted August 12, 2021 Share Posted August 12, 2021 9 hours ago, wolfko said: Wow! How did you guess? I just threw a dart at the board mate.... 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts