General FSX/P3D Thread

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(2017-06-16 18:26)Raphi Wrote:  Hey guys,

I'm seriously thinking about buying FSX Steam Edition on Steam. Indeed, it is at €7 or something at the time of the message; though I have the boxed version (in German, thanks Saturn) I'd like to be able to buy addons and sceneries which are available on Steam.
I'm already playing others sims (FlightGear, and I've tested X-Pkane on a friend's PC) however I want to make sure that actually buying FSX: SE is worth €7 compared to a boxed FSX.

(and actually it'll enable me to have a game in English but that's not really a problem as I study German lol)

It depends mostly on if you use addons outside of Steam as Dovetail updates steam edition quite lot. Every time a update comes, it breaks some addons and you have to download them. Also a option for you is P3D V4 as it is the first version to come 64 bit. It looks nicer and has better FPS (at least I have heard that). But the Academic license costs 60$ and it also has quite a lot of updates so it has basically the same problem that FSXE has. Also most devs, that are active, are still updating their addons to v4 as they have to change addons from 32 bit to 64 bit. That is one reason why I at least currently use FSX boxed because the addons don`t break because of new updates. Also it has quite a lot of good freeware stuff to use (Usually not aircraft).

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Going to add up that thrustmaster showed us their new F-18 stick. Its some sort of mod for the Warthog