Prepar3D v5 | First Impressions | With Max Settings Test

Lockheed Martin recently released Prepar3D v5. In this video, we will perform a first look at P3D v5 to assess performance and explore the new changes in the flight simulator.

Please note that this is not a review video of P3D v5, but rather a First Impressions video. It is what my initial thoughts are based on very limited time spent using the new platform from Lockheed Martin.

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[slotigy]

Lockheed really has a lot of balls to be charging full price and not giving previous owners any discount for what basically is new clouds and runways.

[fsxp]

So glad that you're back! Great to see that flightsimming is still a Passion for you!

[DasPenguin]

Q8: "I'm retiring"

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[willembont]

LM could not convince me this time. Uninstalled p3d v4. Waiting for MS2020. Using x-plane11.5b3. Not stutters at all. Thanks for sharing.

[frankymino]

I appreciate the vid and the optimism. Though all I see is the same old FSX assets being sold over and over again with no gain in stability and performance. Same old platform. FPS in this vid were fluctuating constantly from 30 to 50 and even in the 20's in brief moments, which indicates lag... stutters and lower than average performance even without maxed settings. Not to mention the sim crashing. There is nothing smooth about it unless you look and fly straight in one direction and never pan around or turn the aircraft and fly at a higher altitude. Could only imagine what would happen on a flight from say Vancouver to LAX. Lockheed have exhausted this platform long ago and just keep cashing in on it. I stopped supporting the company long ago.


X-Plane may have it's quirks though it performs solid as a rock and is very well optimised. And you can't argue it's flight dynamics and it's atmosphere out of the box. You can achieve 60 or 75FPS constantly ( Depending on your specs) when synced to your monitors' refresh rate of either 60 or 75. No stutters or lag whatsoever. Not trying to rain on Lockheeds parade but they really are cashing in on their re-releases of P3D. There's only so much paint you can spray on a panel before it becomes too thick and begins to run. They need to just charge a small fee for an upgrade because that's essentially all it is. There's nothing revolutionary about it and never has been. I will continue with X-Plane until MFS2020 is released.

[TheFlightSimDeck]

He’s back!!! I think you should keep it up. Maybe not the weekly stress of getting an upload out but drop one whenever you feel like it : D

[philippegenoux]

Glad you are back, Q8Pilot! I have missed you for these last months, as your movies and comments are so informative. Kind regards,

[removebeflight]

Sky is better now but it requires too much work indeed. Ground textures are horrible again! looks like from FSX era. You need to install lots of add on again and then your P3D V5 seems okey. Thank you. Wait for MS 2020.

[BeelzebubLXXV]

It`s so nice to see some videos again q8. You`re my favorite.

[leiflavebrink]

I don't want to repeat myself from my comment in your previous video, but it is so fantastic to have you back, even if it is just at random occasions. Your reviews are so professional and appreciated, the best that has happened to the community for decades! Keep safe and healthy!

[thegood]

LOVE that you're back! Thank you! i purchased v5 (once i FINALLY got through on P3D servers on 4/14--they were DEF overloaded!), and I'm enjoying it!

[folcaljet]

Thank you Q8 Pilot! So good to hear your voice again. Hope you are well.

[Boothbees]

Thanks for making more videos for us to watch. I really missed your YouTube presence and I'm so happy you're back.

[AlexWBKK]

All i see here in most comments (not talking about the video) are XP fanboys without any idea of the tech behind either sim. Its bad.... amazing comments... the ones says MSFS is build from ground up fresh, the other one tries to tell us XP would run in 75 fps throughout, the next one says v5 has same performance as fsx and the next one is just mimimiing.


Noone is forcing you to fly in p3d but everyone who has it himself realized by now that the performance, in every situation possible, is WAY higher than v4.5. While at the same time the terrain is more detailed, loads in a further radius and has more atmospheric stuff happening.


If you turn off Truesky the performance is near double of that of v4 in quite a few situations.

Besides that... (this one really makes me mad some time) why is everyone always judging pure P3D in vanilla when it comes to visuals? What is your XP without ortho or XVision and AS/Xenviro and whatnot. Please, if anyone is trying to tell me that vanilla XP looks amazing i wont take him serious. No reason to discuss with such ppl.

You XP guys have exactly 1 argument that i let count and that is that there is way more freeware available. And that maybe the flightmodel is better (though this one can be discussed either.... so many planes behave like wild gooses in XP.... theres not too much that can called realistic. Infact there is 1 known to me, the TBM.). Does the sim have more possibilities for the flightmodel? Probably. Do devs use that potential? Not at all...

A full blown P3D will always blow any XP out of the window, doesnt matter how much ortho he has installed. Ortho is flawed anyway, different colors in tiles, lowres when near ground (if one doesnt have X TB of free space to make ZL18 tiles), looks even worse than P3D in night and many more flaws.
90% of freeware that always everyone is talking about looks bad, its that easy. It simply looks bad....And besides that, ortho isnt everything either.... Why we not talk about weather? I know i know.... Xenviro is amazing. (...).

Is a sim like i talk about immensely expensive? Yes it is.... But if someone doesnt want to pay the money he should always put the word "vanilla" in his statement when comparing XP to P3D. Otherwise some comments are laughable.... sorry.


Just a few words from someone who HAS X TB of ortho, all 4 sims and is using P3D 80% and XP11 10%, the rest goes into DCS. And this 80% i choose for many reasons.... not because im biased.

[MatrixMaverick]

The system required to run these modern sims smoothly is becoming crazy high.

[craigmillar]

Another great video from Q8Pilot and good to see you back. THANK

[EVELYNEMIL]

I'm glad you are back..., phenomenal.

[timtetiva]

Welcome back friend. We missed u a lot. The flight sim community needs people like u. Don't leave us again.

[jacqueslauzon]

Glad to see you back and your comments about P3D V5.

[giebby]

Nice to see you back.

While I am not a P3D pilot myself (xplane/DCS) I really enjoy your "talks" about the platform. Getting your perspective on this is very informative.

Just as you stated, it is nice to see that P3D is not going away anytime soon. Competition is vital in this niche as it will only expose more people to simming.