My first day with P3D

[speedbird591]

The license is sorted now. They thought I was keeping 1.3 on the old laptop as well as 1.4 on the new. I've now confirmed that I've deleted it and they've issued a replacement license for the new laptop. So Ben's right in that the license covers one machine but they can manually issue a replacement if you email them. They're very helpful and friendly, by the way.

The main reason I'm delaying the download is because Cyberbrat is hogging my bandwidth at the moment but he's going back to his Uni digs in Southampton on Wednesday as he says it's too boring at home

Ian

[Paul K]

Hi Paul,

Its likely that 1.4 will be the last 1.* version, so unlikely to see a 1.5.

Right then, full steam ahead with building 1.4 up with add-ons.

Basically, from my reading of the license, its tied to a machine. New machine, new license. So the best way is to say your rebuilding rather than buying a new one.

How would they know one way or t'other, Ben ?

[GHD]

How would they know one way or t'other, Ben ?

All information on installed hardware is stored on your system. They can detect any changes after the initial install.

[Chris Sykes]

Crikey! 10gb? Might do that! BTW whats everyones specs on their PC's who run this? Would like to see whats their systems are running this at? As i keep pricing up a Scan overclocked X79 bundle to replace my Q9650.

Well in true typical style my Media Centre decides to cook itself on Saturday to death! Heatsink came off the CPU and either burnt out the CPU and/or the Mobo! Looks like im going to have to wait for the x79 replacement unless i use my gaming PC as the base for the Media Centre and get the x79!

[Paul K]

How would they know one way or t'other, Ben ?

All information on installed hardware is stored on your system. They can detect any changes after the initial install.

Thanks for that George. I also looked it up on their website, and sure enough you are right. Apparently an email to them sorts it out, so thats reassuring.

[speedbird591]

Paul, this is my email from P3D Licensing:

Hi Ian,
Yes, if you have deleted 1.3, and are not running Prepar3D on two different computers, we can reactivate your license.  We have granted an additional license and you will be able to activate 1.4 on your new computer.
Let us know if you have any issue,

The Prepar3D Team

By which I understand that they granted an extra licence on my existing registration to allow me to install 1.4 on the new machine. It accepted the original license number from 1.3 so the system worked OK.

Ian

[Paul K]

Ah okay Ian.

I uninstalled 1.3, and manually deleted the the folders ( such as those found in appdata ) all as instructed, installed 1.4 and ran it, but was never asked to enter my license or password. Everything is running okay, but that left me a little puzzled. Is it because my machine is 'recognised' ?

By the way, there seems to be a problem with migrating Orbx scenery to v1.4, from what I am reading on their ( Orbx ) forum. I'm going to wait until a new migrator is released. REX Essentials is working fine though.

[speedbird591]

I'm getting the problem with the ORBX migration tool but it's only minor. It affects the 'people flow' dll in the library for a couple of the add-on airports. When I fire up P3D I get two pop-ups asking if I want to run them. You just click run once and they work fine. Which is what ORBX say to do until they come up with a fix. I wouldn't let it stop you loading it - the scenery works just fine.

I have Pacific North West and Pacific Fjords with four enhanced airports and Portland city all loaded into FSX and run in P3D via the migration tool. I haven't had time to do more than a few quick flights yet, though

Ian

[Paul K]

Well I think I'll leave it a couple of days anyway, because I'm just about P3D'd out for today.

By the way, have you looked at this ?

http://janvaane.org/prepar3d/?p=96

I don't know how different it might be from the one he did for FSX, but anyway, I've installed it and I believe it is of benefit. I never fully understood why one would select unlimited frame rates within the sim, and then apply an external frame rate limiter, but the link explains it. I've set the limit to 20 fps rather than 30, by the way, as I'm told anything above 20 is undetectable by the human eye and brain. Going like the clappers in the Texan 2 at 100 ft through downtown Norfolk, and there's not a flicker - phenomenal ! Gawd i love P3D !

[speedbird591]

But if you're using REX (and if you're not, Ben will want to know why ), P3D is started through REX. So you can't use the batch file shortcut created by the limiter. Too complicated! Stop fiddling and just fly! You know you want to!

Ian