A word of encouragement, hardware wise.

[OldAirmail]

From the Prepar3D Application Support » Hardware Specific Questions came this post from arecee;

"Kalop, I have an older system and I'm quite pleased with the way P3Dv2 runs. My system is Q6600, 4 gigs RAM, nVidia GTX660 2 gig, Win7 64bit. Most of the sliders are in the middle to mid-high (except traffic, airlines @40% others are off). I not using HDR only becuz I don't like the way it looks (too dark).

I am using nVidia Inspector for certain options, lock frame rate at 30 and run FPS in P3D set to 33. Other than that, P3D is pretty much a plain vanilla install (no tweaks).

Main planes I'm using are Iris C-27J, Rollus Mirage 2000 and Dino Cattaneo's T-45C, plus WOAI for airline traffic.

My FPS are stutter free and stay in the upper 20's, even on this 7 year old system.

Compared to FSX... well I can't even bring myself to use FSX anymore.

Hope this puts some of your concerns to rest."

[zswobbie1]

Darn!!!! My laptop just does not make it!! No DX11, only DX10.1. When I run the program, it comes up with a 'render error!'
P3Dv1.4 works very well tho! (i5 laptop 4gb ram, ATI Mobility Radeon HD 4570 , DDI version 10.1)

[OldAirmail]

There are a surprising number of people with marginal laptops that can get it working. But the one absolute imperative is that it have DirectX 11.

[zswobbie1]

Yup, I got excited with dxdiag on page 1 when it said directx 11, but then page 2 said DDI dx10.1.

Oh well, a nice try!