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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: virtuali on July 05, 2023, 03:10:36 pm
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FSDT is happy to announce all our installers now supports Prepar3d V6, so they can simply be downloaded again from our site, with no extra charge. We also sent updated installers supporting P3D V6 to Simmarket, so you can download them from there as well.
A few notes about compatibility of our products in Prepar3d V6:
GSX and GSX Level 2
Thanks to the usage of the Couatl scripting engine, which handles all eventual differences between simulators, GSX runs in P3D V6 exactly as it does in V5.
EDIT:
Since version 1.8.0, SODE supports Prepar3d V6. The GSX installers has been updated again now, to include SODE 1.8.0.
FSDT Airports
We updated all the airports installers to support P3D V6. However, there might be visual issues, especially with older sceneries originally made for FSX, which can be mitigated as follows:
- Some partially transparent objects will not show correctly if SSAO is enabled. We suggest disabling it when using a scenery not specifically made for P3D V6 anyway, since using SSAO on a scenery that already has baked-in AO (due to the lack of realtime AO in previous versions of the sim) will result in objects too dark, because the AO would be applied twice.
- With some of the older sceneries, those issues can't be fixed everywhere, even without SSAO. We'll try to work with LM to see if this can be fixed easily, and possibly on their side (those sceneries worked up to V5), but we are not planning extensive updates to fix these issues, which happens mostly on older sceneries made for FSX, which should be considered Legacy now.
The Future
We'll continue to keep GSX updated and as much in sync as possible with the MSFS version, likely for the whole P3D V6 product life.
About airports, we'll keep trying to make them usable in P3D V6, as we did with V5, but that would stop at the installation/update level, we are not planning major updates to fix compatibility issues like visual problems affecting the older sceneries. We are not currently developing any NEW airports for P3D either.
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This is great. Thank you for your continued support of P3d users.
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Thank you virtuali, much more than we could ask for at this time.
I have a quick question about the SODE entries, mine are where they are supposed to be in v5, but instead of saying ACTIVE=true, mine says ACTIVE=false??
But everything seems to be working in v5.4?
Is this a problem? Should I change them?
thanks
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I have a quick question about the SODE entries, mine are where they are supposed to be in v5, but instead of saying ACTIVE=true, mine says ACTIVE=false??
Maybe you have SODE in two add-on.cfg files ? Check my post, it says you might have it in two different location, possibly one is set to True. Of course, to have an add-on started with the sim, it must be active in the add-on.cfg file.
Note that, this is functionally equivalent of setting its checkmark in the Options->Add-ons menu of the sim.
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Umberto,
Could you make a comment about v6 and FSDT sceneries and reflections ? Are they working as they did in v5?
One or two developers are reporting reflections are not working for them in v6.What has been your findings?
Thx.
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I have a quick question about the SODE entries, mine are where they are supposed to be in v5, but instead of saying ACTIVE=true, mine says ACTIVE=false??
Maybe you have SODE in two add-on.cfg files ? Check my post, it says you might have it in two different location, possibly one is set to True. Of course, to have an add-on started with the sim, it must be active in the add-on.cfg file.
Note that, this is functionally equivalent of setting its checkmark in the Options->Add-ons menu of the sim.
Got it, thank you!!
And thanks again for taking the time to do this for us, everything seems to be working well so far.
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I have P3Dv5 and P3Dv6 installed on two separate drives on my PC. Since v5 doesn't show up on the drive where v6 is installed, is there a way to get the SODE fix to work? Thanks.
Pete Locascio
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Since v5 doesn't show up on the drive where v6 is installed, is there a way to get the SODE fix to work? Thanks.
It doesn't matter where P3D V5 is installed, if you read the instructions carefully, you would see you need to set the P3D V5 ( yes, V5! ) path in the add-on.cfg line for V6, so the fix should work.
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I've tried the procedure several times with no success. There are no jetways or cabs at any of the pay ware airports I have that use SODE. I've read the other posts in this thread, but still no luck. The FSDT jetways show up, but I'm unable to get the GSX menu to appear which allows me to move them as I can in P3Dv5. I use the GSX menu in the menu bar in P3Dv5 and it works as it should. Any ideas? Thanks.
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Hey folks,
I have updated SODE to support Prepar3D v6: https://sode.12bpilot.ch/?p=5429
Best regards,
Jeff
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Hey folks,
I have updated SODE to support Prepar3D v6: https://sode.12bpilot.ch/?p=5429
Best regards,
Jeff
Thanks very much for the update Jeff, really is appreciated.
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Could someone lock this post please? SODE has been updated for P3Dv6.
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I installed the latest SODE version, 1.8.0, plus the required Sim Connect version. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling all the FlightBeam airports I have, but KSFO is the only one that has jetways. I checked my other addon airports from other developers that I have installed in P3Dv6 with SODE jetways, and there are no jetways at any of them. Is there something else I need to do?
I tried posting this on the SODE forum, but I'm unable to log on with the credentials I have. Thanks.
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Hello friend Umberto, i just installed P3D6 and wanted to install the sceneries for V6 but all my airports in P3D5 have custom files (dynam light, gsx jetways for older airports etc..) will the V6 installer overwrite all those files to original ? i have all 'dontupdate' files in there but im afraid it will reset all those airports to default? Is it possible to backup the FSDreamTeam folder?
Greets
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It shouldn't overwrite it. Worst case scenario, just back it up if you wish.
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It shouldn't overwrite it. Worst case scenario, just back it up if you wish.
Ok good to know, thank u sir Kevin for the answer very kind of you,
greets
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I installed the latest SODE version, 1.8.0, plus the required Sim Connect version. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling all the FlightBeam airports I have, but KSFO is the only one that has jetways. I checked my other addon airports from other developers that I have installed in P3Dv6 with SODE jetways, and there are no jetways at any of them. Is there something else I need to do?
I tried posting this on the SODE forum, but I'm unable to log on with the credentials I have. Thanks.
Pete, check the relevant Jetway.xml files in your SODE folder. Some developers have set a value for the Sim-version check for their Sodejetways. You have two options, to delete the simversion entry in that xml file or you add V6 to it. both will work.
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OK, call me stupid, but I can't get GSX to work in P3D6. I,ve updated everything twice, but there is no Addon Manager or Couatl to be seen in P3D6. I can't find the new installation files, and using the old ones does not lead to the desired result. So, what am Imissing and/or what am I doing wrong? Pleas help.
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Of course P3D V6 is not supported using an old installer. You must download the latest one.
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Hello Umberto,
Of course, that's the way to do it. One small advice though: it might be useful to change the names of the installer files; now they are both called "gsx-p3d4-setup.exe". This explains my confusion.
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it might be useful to change the names of the installer files; now they are both called "gsx-p3d4-setup.exe". This explains my confusion.
What do you mean by "both"? There are only two installers and are:
- The 32-bit version for FSX and P3D1, 2, 3, which is has always being called gsx_fsx_setup.exe
- The 64-bit version, for P3D 4, 5 and 6, which has always been called, since the first P3D 64 bit came out in 2017, gsx_p3d4_setup.exe, didn't change name with P3D5 came out and didn't change name when P3D 6 came out.
It's not as if you could install the wrong version in the wrong simulator. If you start the 32-bit installer, it will show only the 32-bit simulators you have installed (and if you have none, it won't install anything) and if you start the 64-bit installer, it will only show the 64-bit simulators you have installed.
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OK, that's all very true. Stiil, it would be helpful - if not for me then for the community - to mention the destination-sim-versions the installer is suitable for.