I didn't see any thing or hear any thing. but some one maybe sleeping on the couch tonight though if she looks at this thread. lolTomas Linnet wrote:I feel the same.....both for FSX and my wife....., but don't tell anyone. What happens on the A2A forum, stays on the A2A forum!!cessna lover wrote: not for me fsx won't die. I love flying on it. so it's and old simulator so what? she's still loved.
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Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
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Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
wife: why did you change the PIN on your phone???
me: i didn't, it must be broken..........
me going to my simrig:
me: i didn't, it must be broken..........
me going to my simrig:
Kind Regards
Tomas
Sim: FSX SE
Accu-Sim aircraft in my hangar:
C172, C182, P51 Civ, P51 Mil, B17, Spitfire, P47, B377 COTS,
J3 Cub, T6, Connie, P-40, V35B
A2A Accu-Sim Avro Lancaster Loading:............0.000003% complete, please wait.
Tomas
Sim: FSX SE
Accu-Sim aircraft in my hangar:
C172, C182, P51 Civ, P51 Mil, B17, Spitfire, P47, B377 COTS,
J3 Cub, T6, Connie, P-40, V35B
A2A Accu-Sim Avro Lancaster Loading:............0.000003% complete, please wait.
Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
good oneTomas Linnet wrote:wife: why did you change the PIN on your phone???
me: i didn't, it must be broken..........
me going to my simrig:
Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
bladerunner900 wrote:I had all the A2A warbirds running fine in 2.5. They all did right up to v3.4. Except the 377. I could never get that installed. Kept failing with a corrupt FSX message.
Steve.
Disregard my above quote. I decided to try to install the B377 in P3D v2.5 and it worked. The only oddity was that my P3D folder now had a folder named "0" which was part of the install process and I just moved it to where I store my downloaded A2A installation files. The aircraft shows up and loads, everything looks like it works, but I haven't tried a flight yet.Hook wrote:So the Stratocruiser installer is looking for more than a file named FSX.exe to decide to install. Whatever it is looking for it doesn't find and refuses to install.
The normal procedure for installing anything into P3D when it is looking for FSX is to create an empty text file and rename it to FSX.exe in your P3D folder. Then you point your installer to that folder. It finds FSX.exe and decides to install. This has worked for the various A2A aircraft and other aircraft that I installed in P3Dv2.5. If you have some add-on that is looking for a registry entry, visit the Prepar3D site and under the Support tab look at Add-Ons at the bottom. They point you to a free utility that will create or fix the necessary FSX registry entry, sometimes necessary if you've moved your FSX installation. If the A2A installer doesn't find FSX.exe it gives you an error message as described above and doesn't require a registry entry, at least in the aircraft I installed.
Don't expect anything made for FSX that includes any 32 bit code to work in Prepar3D version 4 or later. I've installed several FSX aircraft that had no problems in P3Dv2.5 and others have installed FSX aircraft to P3D version 3.
AccuFeel installs and appears to work properly, but you have to add entries for it in P3D's dll.xml file as this is not done by the installer. This is described elsewhere on this forum.
Hook
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oh ok. man I have not flown that plane in ages. lol or the Connie for that matterHook wrote:bladerunner900 wrote:I had all the A2A warbirds running fine in 2.5. They all did right up to v3.4. Except the 377. I could never get that installed. Kept failing with a corrupt FSX message.
Steve.Disregard my above quote. I decided to try to install the B377 in P3D v2.5 and it worked. The only oddity was that my P3D folder now had a folder named "0" which was part of the install process and I just moved it to where I store my downloaded A2A installation files. The aircraft shows up and loads, everything looks like it works, but I haven't tried a flight yet.Hook wrote:So the Stratocruiser installer is looking for more than a file named FSX.exe to decide to install. Whatever it is looking for it doesn't find and refuses to install.
The normal procedure for installing anything into P3D when it is looking for FSX is to create an empty text file and rename it to FSX.exe in your P3D folder. Then you point your installer to that folder. It finds FSX.exe and decides to install. This has worked for the various A2A aircraft and other aircraft that I installed in P3Dv2.5. If you have some add-on that is looking for a registry entry, visit the Prepar3D site and under the Support tab look at Add-Ons at the bottom. They point you to a free utility that will create or fix the necessary FSX registry entry, sometimes necessary if you've moved your FSX installation. If the A2A installer doesn't find FSX.exe it gives you an error message as described above and doesn't require a registry entry, at least in the aircraft I installed.
Don't expect anything made for FSX that includes any 32 bit code to work in Prepar3D version 4 or later. I've installed several FSX aircraft that had no problems in P3Dv2.5 and others have installed FSX aircraft to P3D version 3.
AccuFeel installs and appears to work properly, but you have to add entries for it in P3D's dll.xml file as this is not done by the installer. This is described elsewhere on this forum.
Hook
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Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
FSX is still mega strong on Steam and this is a big open door that invites a continual stream of new blood, which is something we greatly value. FSX has been the single best platform for flight simulation in my lifetime and the reputation and legacy that is behind the words "Microsoft Flight Simulator" still fuels it today.
While P3D has more features, FSX is still king when you consider cost vs features because it's so easy and inexpensive to install and manage with Steam. You can never underestimate the power of making things easy for the customer.
Sure FSX like ALL software will have a sunset, but that could be 5+ years from now as far as we all know.
If someone is looking for something new and with more power, P3D is a safe place to land. It will likely be around for a very long time too.
One caveat that exists whenever anyone is predicting the future of technology, something could happen tomorrow that changes the entire genre.
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While P3D has more features, FSX is still king when you consider cost vs features because it's so easy and inexpensive to install and manage with Steam. You can never underestimate the power of making things easy for the customer.
Sure FSX like ALL software will have a sunset, but that could be 5+ years from now as far as we all know.
If someone is looking for something new and with more power, P3D is a safe place to land. It will likely be around for a very long time too.
One caveat that exists whenever anyone is predicting the future of technology, something could happen tomorrow that changes the entire genre.
Scott.
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Thank you very much for your answer.
Thank you very much for your answer.
Kind Regards
Tomas
Sim: FSX SE
Accu-Sim aircraft in my hangar:
C172, C182, P51 Civ, P51 Mil, B17, Spitfire, P47, B377 COTS,
J3 Cub, T6, Connie, P-40, V35B
A2A Accu-Sim Avro Lancaster Loading:............0.000003% complete, please wait.
Tomas
Sim: FSX SE
Accu-Sim aircraft in my hangar:
C172, C182, P51 Civ, P51 Mil, B17, Spitfire, P47, B377 COTS,
J3 Cub, T6, Connie, P-40, V35B
A2A Accu-Sim Avro Lancaster Loading:............0.000003% complete, please wait.
Re: the future of A2A and FSX?
I have not thought about it, but I find it really great if FSX is indeed a good door for newcomers into the flight sim, and if A2A can find some market there.
That said, I find it also good news that Bonanza is developed for P3Dv4 first. There is simply so much this developing platform has already allowed, and I'd bet there is a huge list of stuff a high-end developer such as A2A would like to do now as various limitations are lifted.
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That said, I find it also good news that Bonanza is developed for P3Dv4 first. There is simply so much this developing platform has already allowed, and I'd bet there is a huge list of stuff a high-end developer such as A2A would like to do now as various limitations are lifted.
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