Prepar3D v5 | First Impressions | With Max Settings Test 

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.

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

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

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.

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

Q8: "I'm retiring" COVID-19 Quarantine: "No you're not."

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

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!

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!

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

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

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

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.

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

Wow. Thanks Q8. This is emphatically the best summary and overview of P3Dv5 I've seen. Glad I made the jump from v4. I learned good stuff here.

Great to see you posting again, I always love your vids, and especially your commentary. This is a very exiting year for simming, I primarily use X-plane, but I am always open to try other sims as well. This looks very good and the frame rate is impressive. I am a GA com pilot, retired, and I really enjoy simming. I like going back to my old log books and recreating memorable flights. I hope to see many more of your videos in the future, thanks, good luck, be well, safe and strong in these difficult times.

Q8Pilot, Nice to see you back, Love all your past videos as well as this PD3DV5 video. Thanks for your post!!!

Thanks for this upload Q8Pilot. However, I am not that sold on v5. Textures, albeit improved a lot, still look too cartoon-ish to me. Another evolution, rather than revolution. X-plane has its weak spots (major one: no default winter textures), but otherwise still feels and looks better (to me at least; especially ground textures and flight model wise). I am holding on for FS2020, that seems to be the real game-changer. If that can deliver on its promises, and today's PCs can deliver stable fps/performance, it is no-brainer really. Only thing at that point is to link it to Aerowinx PSX and I am set.

Thank you for such a thorough review of both platforms. I love your videos as they are so polished & professional. I do hope this means that you are back in the flightsim community.

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

Welcome back, the flight community was missing you and your great videos

Welcome back. I appreciate getting another video from you. But looking at the vid I am pretty happy with X-Plane 11. I don't know why but the aircraft as well as the scenery are unsharp and not at all crisp.

This is a really well done review. I gave up P3D 4.2 when I switched to X-Plane. Honestly, I didn't expect v5 to offer much and, even though I do see quite a bit good about v5, I'm not thinking to spend any time with it. Their Achilles Heal's here are 1) the lack of photoreal (hugely important). 2) The number of addons you have to install to make it look good and usable (I hate maintenance). Still, visually, apart from photoreal, it looks really nice. Seems much clearer than the previous versions and the sky is nice (want to see what flying in solid overcast is like...want to see what night lighting is like up high and down low). Very impressed by how much they've improved performance. But is it enough to drag me back? Not unless they get photoreal and make maintenance simpler.

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

Nice to see an update review for P3D! Well done and glad to see you are doing another video on all things flight simming. From a loyal fan.

I'm glad to see you here again, my friend!🙂 Great video, by the way .😉

So glad you're back. As all the sims show signs of moving forward, and the videos proliferate, I still ask myself, after all these years: Why do I care what the sims look like from outside the plane in flight? I mean, while these views look nice, I doubt if I were to buy a real plane I'd ask, "Yeah, but how does it look from 50 meters away while I'm flying?" Just wondering!!

Hey Q8! Glad to see a new video of yours! For the best fps/smoothness tests try to use msi afterburner combined with a RTSS. You will get a frame time graph and cpu/gpu graphs utilization. I mentioned here a kind of "saw" from mid 30 to 60+, witch is totally uncomfortable laggy and unacceptable IMHO. BTW, your CPU is bottleneck here, for sure.

Ditto on all of the comments on seeing you back. I am surprised, but it is a very good surprise. Hope to see your reactions to MS Flight Sim 2020.

Despite your many and valid reasons that made you decide to stop producing videos a while ago, I see you are back! I kind of missed your videos, and this is a nice one as well. I am glad to see you are making reviews for the flight sim community! Thanks, man, and I hope this time you won't be bothered by the same people who made you stop for a while...I am one of your fans...

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.

Delighted to see a video from you! Seems like old times! Many thanks!

Welcome back! Glad you're here!

Thank you for another very well made video. IMO lighting and overall atmospheric impression is still better in X-Plane.

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

Very glad you're back! You're site is the best!

Great to see your videos again! Thanks for sharing. In my opinion a nice upgrade for P3D V4 customers. But for me personally: I will not go back to P3D, will stay on X-Plane (I am really happy how the sim looks) and waiting to get my hands on MS simulator later this year. But good to have this competition in the flight sim community, really good for all of us - no matter which sim preference you have.

Great to see you back. Missed your videos.

Very happy to see you posting videos again!

Hey Q8 Great to see your videos again mate! The best flightsim and most quality content out there !!

Always great content. Glad to see you here again, captain.

Hi Q8pilot - good to see you back👌😁 Hope to see more P3DV5 video’s!

FS2020 people in the comments is worth the wait.Even though its in Alpha I haven't gotten bored at all!!!! Some people think Microsoft will disappoint but not this time and if you don't know who Asobo studios is time to do some homework!

Hello! I realise this vid is a bit older, but I'm glad to see you still make videos. I also wanted to respond to a lot of the disappointed comments. I partly disagree. Sure, a lot of the world textures and the way land classes are used is somewhat outdated, but I think that goes past the point of what Lockheed/Prepar3d is trying to do here. If you look at their website you can really see that what they are aiming for is a multi disciplinary simulation platform that can bring together all branches of the military. Private simmers are a nice source of income but never were the primary reason for them to buy FS from Microsoft. The contract in fact explicitly forbade that. And so far the majority of changes have been under the hood: 64b, DirectX12, improved weather engine, better support for multi-modal simulation (land/sea/air), VR support etc. It may not look much better than it did 4 years ago land-wise but do not underestimate the work they have put in. So I think that explains and warrants the price. And I agree with you the weather and atmospheric conditions look absolutely great. Having served in the navy I feel this comes closest I have seen so far to actually looking in the distance on a ship. What they have created so far is a basis that is ready for future development. I think it holds a lot of promise. And let's be honest, companies like OrbX were always much better at making the world look good anyway. Thanks for another great vid!

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

Very nice mate! I really like watching your high quality videos. :)

Hey glad you're back ;-)) Keeping on these nice videos!

So glad you are back!!!

@2:08 that feature has been there since FSX

So good to see your content and point of view! This is like hearing the voice of an old friend.

Thank you for another video. Hope you and your family are in good health. On topic; imho P3D performs a lot better overall.. still the age of the way the terrain is portraiyed is showing. Loving the TrueSky implementation though

V5 looks nice, but I'm having fun with 4.5, GSX, FS Captain, and several add-ons. I wouldn't consider moving until they are all compatible. V4.5 looks and plays well with add-ons, so I dont see V5 as a revolutionary product like FS2020 or XP. I do like the higher frame rates, but that's really the only thing that has my interest.

Glad to hear from you again!!! I think it looks pretty good...looks to be an upgrade from v4...did they ever make the night lighting look better for the ground? Thanks as always!!!

Wow impressive actually. FSX has never looked so good! Basically all it is, is FSX with a slick coat of paint.

Good to see you back sir

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.

Nice video Osama! BTW how do you move the camera freely, does chaseplane allows that?

Lovely to see you back.

Great video!!! Thanks for sharing... quick question, what Power Supply you have in your PC?

Using P3Dv4.5HF3 with all bells & whistles... in no rush to upgrade as yet!

It’s so cool to see q8pilot again at RU-vid!! I hope you make a video of the best settings of v5? And can you back turn on your website to see you p3dv4 cfg?

So happy to see you are back, as a long term FSX user i have dabled with P3D v2 and v3, i didn't go with v4 and must admit this looks really nice and i am very tempted to go for it. I have read tgat quite a few people are having crashes due to Vram issues. Have you had many crashes?

Welcome back Sir:-)! As usal a great watch!

Amazing video! - I picked up v5 ofc haha. You have a new subscriber :)

It made my night to see a new Q8 video on my feed :)

You're back!!

Liked before the intro was even over. Good to have you back!

Wow, you're back in the captains seat! Glad to have you onboard again. You have been missed.

Q8 I like your videos and following you since a long time, and your videos are best guidance for me, as I have a problem with X-Plane 11. May I ask something if you don't mind?

Very nice and fair first impression. Personally I think it's a big improvement going to dx12. It definitely put p3d back on my sim shelf.

Keep up the good content bro, Awesome videos like always. you've inspired me to even start a channel of my own so thank you.

Wait, you are back! Let’s goooo!

I love your Videos and I thank you for sharing. One thing I have noticed about all the simulators is ..the clouds do not move..the wind does not effect the trees.. there is traffic.. and those little men and women that look like robots..but.. clouds do move and the wind does effect the plants and trees

Glad to see your videos again! :)

Can you switch to external and internal cameras without having this navbar ??? Can you assign all those buttons, to the joystick / throttle ?? Thanks, nice video

I'd this the base game or with add-ons? If there are add-ons, which ones? Awesome video btw

omfg you are back!!!? :D

2 or 3 years ago there was another FSX-based sim called "flight sim world" with TrueSky and other features with smooth fps and graphics. So, P3D V5 now looks like FSW from 2017. Is there any future for FSX-based sims, whe we already know about FS2020?

I've just asked for my money back. Scenery popping everywhere even on low settings with/without orbx. My pc should easily be able to run Direct X 12 applications. Disappointing.

Q8 pilot WELCOME BACK!!! I SOOO GLAD YOURE BACK!!YAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!

Really great to see you back online again..... but.... ...the airfield you took off is not Mollis.....by no means... looks more like Buochs or Alpnachstad....

As a Passion for someone especially for you, I know you will be back one day ;-) , as always thanks for sharing.

I'm glad Covid brought you back! I have missed your content.

Great video 👌

Hey, what monitor do you use? I’m on a 35 curved 100hz Gsync and find that it’s actually too quick for p3d! I’d be curious to know what one you use for xplane and p3d and what settings? Many thanks!

Welcome back q8!

LM should be able to sell at least 15 copies of this to reviewers. 🤣

Do you think your i7 7700K will be good enough for FS 2020 when it gets released?

Welcome back!

Welcome back, I missed you.

I saw the Microsoft flight sim 2020. I don't think P3D V5 came even close to scenery graphics against MFS2020.

A-haa as I said before you can not stay away from SimWorld at least this year :) Happy to see you again ;) ! Also I couldn't catch the name of this airport, which was it ?

nice 1 glad your back

You didn't change any display settings, your using 4K textures with 2K display res. Try 2k textures with the 2k display. Going to Prepar3D's website there is no "upgrade price from V4" you have to pay the full amount again which is crazy as showing support for those who have invested in your product is respect. I can buy say a $20 video encoder and when the version gets updated i get a discount for owning the product. So i'm on the fence about upgrading as i'm testing FS2020 as well and it's awesome. Having said that i'm a helicopter flyer which FS2020 won't support for a long time. If there was a update price i'd be in P3D v5 today. For now i'll have to stick with what i have until something wonderful in the P3D V5 helicopter addon department arrives. thanks for the review - cheers

I think active sky and REX should quickly patch their product to use old clouds (not the beta option) to get users going while they develop systems for trusky.

Mollis Airport, LSMF. Would just like to make sure because nothing resembles anything. I live about 15 minutes from that airport and I have to say, if that was in fact LSMF, it's quite bad, sorry to say.

Seems that fps will be dropped a lot at max setting if PMDG and Airport add-on both are loaded. Even though using RTX2080 .... If much concern the texture and scenery, waiting for MSFS2020 Xbox version is a MUST

Hey buddy i want to ask, You are using RTX 2080 TI with 11 GB vram, but at the red sentences at left corner inform that your GPU vram only 9.2 GB. how can it be?

oh WOW, you're back again, I'll take it any day, it's worth my time, so thank you sincerely for this video. totally loving the surrounding area, as you said, lots of mountains, very nice. What's the name of the airport, I could not get the name clearly.

Will you do any flights in X-Plane 11 with the 777 or IXEG 737-300 flight from KMIA to MKJS?