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Prepar3D V5 installers instructions

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Greg Goodavish:
On a couple of the airports, on the download button, it shows P3DV4/5.  The others just show FSX/P3D.  Will those work in P3DV5 as well?

truthknown:
Is it possible to have a separate installation for P3Dv5 with a separate addon manager? In effect having this installed in v4 and v5 separately?

Richard McDonald Woods:
All of my 7 FSDT sceneries installed without incident  :)

virtuali:
Quoting from the original post:


--- Quote ---- Download the latest full installers for all your FSDT products. Their names are unchanged so, even if you see something like "xxxx_setup_fsx.exe", if it's the latest version, it supports from FSX to P3D V5. And if something is named "xxxx_setup_p3d4.exe", if it's the latest version, it supports both Prepar3D 4.4 and 5.0.
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virtuali:

--- Quote from: truthknown on April 17, 2020, 05:19:26 am ---Is it possible to have a separate installation for P3Dv5 with a separate addon manager? In effect having this installed in v4 and v5 separately?
--- End quote ---

They are already installed separately, that's the main advantage of using the add-on.xml method, which we have been using since P3D4:

- All products are installed OUTSIDE the simulator, so no files of the sim are ever altered.

- They use a single installation folder, so no useless duplication of files happens, if not needed.

- The installer obviously know what to do so, of course, when you install into FSX, P3D4 and P3D5 at the same time, the add-on.xml files will be slightly different ( and FSX config files ), each once pointing to different files or folders, which are of course correct for the sim in use.

And yes, there's IS different Addon Manager for each version:

Fsdreamteam\Addon manager\bglmanx.dll is the 32 bit version which works in FSX and P3D 32 bit
Fsdreamteam\Addon manager\bglmanx64.dll is the native P3D V4 version, compiled using the P3D 4.4 Simconnect and PDK
Fsdreamteam\Addon manager\bglmanx65.dll is the native P3D V5 version, compiled using the P3D 5.0 Simconnect and PDK

So yes, the installer knows exactly what to do, and it does it in the best possible way, in the most SDK compliant way, without wasting a byte of your precious HD space too.

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