the flight simulators today, have become very complex. not only as a game but also as a word. what is a flight simulator today? is it x plane? is it prepar3d? is it microsoft flight simulator? for me, all these simulators are the background. the platforms, where the airbus simulators or the boeing simulators runs. but nowadays, even the airports or the sceneries are somehow a simulator. we can see people walking, birds flying, animals running, cars, boats etc etc. of course (now at least…) the sceneries are automated simulators. everything is running based on the developers will, leaving on us only small changes. like how much traffic we will have, winter/summer graphics, sounds etc etc.
the “worst” simulator i ever used, as a background, was the prepar3d v5. i downloaded it, i installed it, i installed also the planes, utilities and scenery that was p3d5 compatible only, and every 10 min, i had a crash to desktop. i also had similar problems with p3d v4. should we hate it? should we hate the programmers? no of course not. let’s do this: we install p3d v5 and we use it as it is. with no addons, nothing. is it going to crash? no it will not. i tried it many times. not only it didn’t crash but also i had very high framerate. it was a pleasure to fly on it.
so we arrive at a point where we wonder: the chicken made the egg? or the egg the chicken? the crashes are the fault of p3d programmers? or we can blame the addon programmers? we must understand that there is no answer. we must have good faith, that both of them, do their best. i often read in forums, bad words about the developers because a plane crashes while we fly with it. if i have such a problem, the first thing i do is to fly the plane with the simulator only. for example i was having a constant crash with toliss a321. i couldn’t fly more than 10 min. i removed all the addons from x plane and i flew with a321 only. i had no problem at all.
the solution in these problems are the updates. and of course the communication between the developers. that is why after sometime and some updates, we have no more problems. so … we must be patient.