The Prepar3d Forum

...here i am in the Bonanza...from Flint to Myrtle Beach...and about over the mouth of the Detroit River dumping into Lake Erie at late Dawn. I am looking out onto the wing...and with the HDR and reflective shadows and sunlight playing out upon the upper wing surface...well...it looks so real...so real...that you truly, actually, feel you are in that plane and flying. Everybody was right....nothing compares to this. Not XPX...not even DX10/FSX. Nothing... P3D is the champ...and will get you up there, as real as it will get.... Good morning, all....and heading for some sunshine, beach, and then great seafood that Myrtle Beach has to offer....oh...golf if yo…

Well I am downloading P3D now - time to move on my passion for FSX has expired - I feel this is the future and the countless hours of tweaking for me is over.

I think what was a large part of my success to bring P3D to great performance results this morning, was adding the following to my P3D.cfg file: [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=84 This setting would open up all 8 virtual cores in HyperThread mode to use by P3D. This was one of my main weapons to bring FSX up to fabulous output. So, if you are running in HyperThread mode, or would wish to check that mode out...you do need this tweak. Put this at the top of your P3D.cfg file (but only if you are in hyperthread (8 virtual core) mode.)) I wanted to add on my custom.nip N.I. settings to this post, as a zip file. How do you do that?

Aircraft carrier FLOLS is missing in P3D v2.2 This is one topic that I and other pilots have not seen a reply from LM. http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=6151 Anyone happen to know about the FLOLS being added? I have no understanding of why LM has not (since March 22, 2014) provide some feedback on this topic.

1. Bought P3dv2 last week. Installed it. Tried it. Initial impressions were very good. 2. I upgraded CPU and MB afterwards, reinstalled. 3. Needed a new activation. Asked for it by email. Received the OK for a new activation. 4. However, P3dv2 fails to re-activate everytime I tried (must have been a dozen times since sunday). 5. I get error 13 in a red pop-up. Activation failed. Could not communicate with the server.(my web access is ok and the P3dv2 is allowed to go through the firewall) 6. Posted this in LM forum, no answer yet, not even a suggestion. And I am not the only one. (so that feels good!) 7. Uninstalled, reinstalled: no joy. 8. I forgot, tried the e-ma…

Have been flying around P3D 2.2 for about an hour or so...and nobody could easily convince me, that ORBX was not contracted to supply the base world graphics. They look so ORBX'esque, like a finger-print, lol Hmmmmmm.....

First, my system: i7 3770K @ 3.50Ghz (stock) 16GB RAM 256 SSD Corsair 1TB Seagate 7200 EVGA 670 FTW 2GB (All 4 monitors connected to it) Monitors: 3 x Acer G235H (23.5") 1 x Acer X162W (16") Equipment: Saitek Everything (Yoke, Pedals, TPM, Radios, Panel, Throttle, Switches, BIP) using SPAD Add-Ons: REX 4 Issue: I recently switched from FSX to P3D. So far I love it. Graphics are way better, better optimization of resources in new systems, my FPS don't drop from 30-35 and compared to FSX it shows how well optimized the game is in comparisson and I know they will introduce to even more optimizations (better SLI, Xfire, multi-cores, etc) Now, I've been str…

P3D v2.2 HOTAS Thrustmaster joystick When I installed the patch for v 2.1 the joystick problem had been fixed, now I have installed V2.2 my aircraft turns right or left when I advance the throttle on the tamac or in the air, I have tried twisting the joystick and doing a calibrate, still cannot control the aircraft, I have to twist the joystick to keep the aircraft on the runway, all aircraft are the same.

WOW! My system is handling feature ramp-up's with no sweat. I'm maintaining 30 FPS with most items at 70 percent...and folks were right...just the plain vanilla sim...has a seriously different atmospheric 'feel' to it...that IS NOT translated by any video...or screen grab. No sir! You have to have it on your monitor...in real time. I now can't wait to start loading in ORBX...and sleds.... It's gonna be a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong night...... See ya...

I cannot get the new Triple-installer for Alaska South, downloaded from Flightsim Store today, to install to the correct folder for Prepar3Dv2. It insists on installing to C:\FS\P3D, when it should be installing to E:\FS\P3D My registry entries are correct, P3D works fine and lots of other payware has installed, I've searched the registry for any occurrences of C:\FS\P3D and there are none. I've also checked for incorrect shortcuts and config files but can find nothing. C:\FS\P3D doesn't even exist, in desperation I've let the installer create it and install, which it does, but FTX Central fails to run as there are missing files. The installer must be gettin…

Good morning gents. Im having difficulties installing WOAI packages into my p3d v2.2. Ive made a thread over at the vatsim forums, but im not getting replies over there. I hope by posting here that i might get some help The thread i made over at vatsim: http://forums.vatsim.net/viewtopic.php?f=132&t=64830 Thanks alot for any help!

Hi Has anyone else had this problem I am trying to change the default flight but p3d just crashes on me.I change my airport and aircraft to what I want but when I click on save p3d crashes on me I'm using default a/c and tried at addon scenery and default scenery but result is still the same. Any ideas?

Well have to thank Novation as He mentioned [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=15 I placed this at the end of my p3d cfg. file This is a game changer for me much better locked at 30 fps worked instead of unlimited also - before it was a mess now its actually enjoyable - thanks so much if you have a 3770k this cfg tweak works wonders - yeah now I have something to work with even clouds were working - I also shut down my anti-virus and I use older version of game booster for a long time now - new one is a bloatware - also I was using NI and noticed Rob stopped using it so I did I think that helped also - anyone have an idea on best settings in nvidia control panel …

I have NRM and it doesn't seem that well done...a pretty high amount of cut and paste. I have PNW and NCA and they are far better (especially NCA). Every so often I ponder about getting NRM and I'm always sitting on the fence. It has a couple of (look like really nice) airports but not much else going on...pretty much like NRM. What are you thoughts? Gregg

Have just installed P3Dv2.2. What payware aircraft are available right now that works directly with 2.2? Thanks!

Hello all, I am looking into the purchase of the above said AC. Did anyone try it out in P3Dv2.x already? Carenado states it would be compatible with P3D. But how about the latest version v2.2? Similar question: did anyone try out their Seneca II in P3D v2.x? I am interested in that one, too. Regarding this AC Carenado guarantees 'only' FSX compatibility. Thank you for your time and your feedback. Best Regards Frank

Hello fliers, I was flying today around Arlington in the PNW and it was a very cloudy day and my fps were like 8-15 fps. I do have rex 4 with asn as a weather engine and I think that asn is real hard on my system. Sliders are all at mediumn. The clouds were beautiful but was like flying a slide show. Anyone else experience this with asn and rex 4?

I was doing some testing last night to try to improve performance while recording with FRAPS and noticed that the default Affinity being used for my system was 1364 (all good). For the most part this works well, but when FRAPS is recording I can get some stutters here and there (you'll notice them in my videos every once in a while especially with TrackIR also running). So I started looking at AffinityMask and did some testing. What I discovered is that Core 10 (real CPU) is not always doing any work ... it's very inconsistent ... sometimes it'll be working sometimes not (does nothing, not even a blip). So I messed around with AF values and found that 2388 will …

I have p3dv2.2 running with asn, all usa orbx regions ( native p3d installers ) fsglobal etc, all to satisfaction. Again no migration tool needed for these products. But I can't wait anymore before the producers for tubeliners come with native installers. Actually I don't understand, because the first will have lots of sells for p3dv2 I think. now I am looking at the Majestic q400 and the airbus extended from aerosoft, how are they installing in p3d? do I need the migration tool in legacy mode?

The water in various lakes and rivers is rendering an ugly greenish brown instead of the correct color. Sometimes part of a lake will be discolored and the rest OK. I have recompiled the Shader indices to no effect. HDR On or Off makes no diference. None of the Water settings has any effect, or the time of day or season. I have had this problem from the beginning with v2.0 and I had hoped that one of the updates would fix it but they have not. I don't know how to post screenshots but will do so if someone can instruct me. I tried to cut and paste from my Pictures folder but the paste didn't work. Running Win64 with i5-2500K @3.5 GHz, 12 GB RAM, GTX 760…

Hey guys, Since upgrading to 2.2, prepar3d has been running very sluggish on my rig. I thought that my GTX680 was responsible for getting low performance. But it seems that the moment I load a weather theme (or use ASN in an area with rain, overcast, etc.) I get major degradation in frame rates and/or pause every couple of seconds. I would think that with that kind of hw I would have been ok: Upgraded GTX 680 to an ASUS GTX780TI CPU is i7- 3770K @ 4.1 Ghz 16GB RAM All BIOS upgraded to latest. To eliminate any OS Issues, I re-installed Win7 64, Prepar3D, etc. I am using the default config, runs OK, but as soon as I try adding shadows and moving the sliders…

Edit: Have A.I.....had to make an adjustment to the fsx.cfg ported for use in v2.2. Lots of A.I. and ATC...

Just a heads up for those that use FSUIPC, Pete had released another update. http://forum.simflight.com/topic/66139-updated-modules/ Glad Pete fixed the traffic zapping, I was having that issue. Cheers, Rob.

I am doing a fresh install of Prepar3d to a new 480GB SSD. I have Orbx FTX Base, Vector, FS Global and other add-on scenery. Should I move this to the SSD as well? If so how do I go about uninstalling a re-installing the scenery products? Thanks in advance.

I just re-downloaded Orbx PFJ, NRM, and CRM on my account from the Flightsim store and they all had the triple installers for P3DV2.2 and they all installed fine... Have not seen a formal announcement yet, but I am flying in them now... B)