Jimm

Insults get you nowhere Bob. I see respect is right out the window.

Water? You mean I've been drinking water this whole time? Wow, I thought it was vodka. Well I guess I owe you a huge apology. I had no idea you were so high in the ranks. Man, and to think this whole time I'd been talking to an expert. Come to think of it, I've visited your site and followed your settings for P3D. Unfortunately, those settings didn't work for me.

And I really don't care. Yet another "expert" out there, driving capitalism.

With all due respect Rob, not many common folk are aware of these extras. Well, i should say that they really wouldn't be looking for things like this. You statement about the NDA clause...do you work for LM? Why did you sign an NDA? Furthermore, what is the point to bringing something like that up? This is like a zookeeper telling a pride of lions "oh yeah, I know what you're getting for dinner, but I can't tell you what it is, although it could be meat".

ZDNet? Taken with a grain of salt....

Here's a more productive question: why would a company like Lockheed Martin, buy a portion of Microsoft's Flight Simulator, only to maintain it at 32-bit? They have to realize by now that 64-bit computing is a veritable goldmine to be tapped in to. I mean, if LM is in the biz to produce high-quality flight simulator software, why didn't they jump on 64-bit a long time ago? X-Plane has been doing it for a while now and FSX, while produced by DTG, is moving forward with 64-bit to. What is taking LM so long, or were they only using the ESP rights to create a base to which they can move forward into 64-bit? It almost seems like every time LM releases a version, people get bent out of shape that there wasn't a move forward to 64-bit and so after a release, people spend time in between releases, clamoring for 64-bit. If the vast majority of flight sim users are already working in a 64-bit environment, with higher end systems, plenty of physical memory to handle the demands of 64-bit, then why can't they just come out and say "yes, we are currently working on a 64-bit version"...that sure would satisfy me, as I am sure a lot of others. Sorry, this was totally a rant. There isn't enough time in the day to keep up with every single discussion in the FS world, so when this topic springs up, I gotta see what's going on.

Conspiracy theories aside, in the computing world, it's all about progress. Didn't we just go through all of this when MS decided to end all support for XP? If you read the trades, you'll see the word "fragmentation" come up in discussion. I can wholeheartedly agree that fragmentation is causing problems for software developers because they have to staff people to help fix issues users have with older (legacy) products. For devs to save time and money, they want to close that gap. As far as businesses using Enterprise, my company is not one of them, and it's part of a huge global construction conglomerate. Don't forget about Apple and Linux too, but we aren't here to debate numbers. The OP just wanted to know if there was any performance benefit switching from 7 to 10. To clarify my original statement about that, while there isn't any appreciable difference, it isn't to the negative, meaning that 10 doesn't make things worse.

If I look any more careful, I'll break the screen. Sorry, not seeing it....moving on.

Was the reply to the quote you made from me, directed to me? Not sure how to respond.

What was this application supposed to do? I did a search online for them and it turned up zero products. Did they jump ship and take everyone's money?

I was in your shoes and I can honestly say that I saw no real performance difference going from Win7Ult to Win10. I was able to get Win10Pro last year and after installing everything I had before, including all my sim content, plus running it, everything seemed the same. You may be future-proofing your system by upgrading (plus it's still free to upgrade rather than shelling out $120 later) but as far as better performance, I believe that is left to the application and not the OS. P3D v3 runs very well these days but I couldn't attribute that to Windows 10, that honor goes to the those who work on the application.

Thanks Kyle, that's exactly what I was looking for, good concise explanations. Now that I know what I know, I am looking forward to this more.

I couldn't agree more Christoper. Out of all the airports I current use, from different developers, UK2000 airports are the most sim-friendly. Last I saw, Gary is still feverishly busy developing new airports and re-doing some too. I am looking forward to the new Gatwick myself. This is probably the reason why I fly more often in the UK than anywhere else, both for GA and tubeliner flying.

I am rather familiar with PMDG's capabilities. I have the 747, 737 and 777 from them. I was just looking for a little further insight from the PMDG team.

I am making an attempt here to ask a very intelligent question about the differences in the two flight models. Has PMDG found in their research and development, significant differences between the two, in terms of flight dynamics, as well as internal systems? With the tech testing currently going on, will the user see differences in how the two are set up? I own, but cannot install the the original Queen of the Skies 747, but never bought the expansion, which was just an external model change, so will the new v2 versions be completely re-worked and will the 8 series be a totally separate aircraft model? I am also curious if PMDG will adhere to the current market and have liveries created for both models that match what is flying right now. For example, I see the Lufthansa 747-8 fly overhead everyday, and I know that's the passenger version, but will we see all of the cargo versions too? My apologies if I made no sense whatsoever.