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To those that have migrated; I am always open to the 'new horizon', but with that in mind, here is what I have right now with FSX running in DX10 mode (by Steve's DX10 Fixer Program, latest build); Water bodies: 1. Ocean swells that are wind driven, with great depiction of white-cap activity 2. Cloud shadows upon the water bodies, with different color-tone for that water body as the sun is being blocked by the cloud, etc Graphics: 1. No popping in of graphics, with graphics out to the horizon at a LOD setting of 5.5 2. Light ORB popping (street lights, etc)and forming into the view-scape has been eliminated by use of adjusting the lights to VERY SMALL, …

Can you use the FSX default C-208 engine sound for the Kodiak Quest in P3DV2.2 and if so how do you go about doing this? Any Help will be appreciated. Regards, Lamar Wright

We just posted the hotfix for the Flight Planner crashes, the Prepar3D forum link is here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=6453 Again, apologize for the crash in the first place, but we are glad to bring a hotfix this quickly to fix a crash like this.

Dear all, is there away to save to size and window position when using a 3 screens nvidia surround set up ? Every time I start P3D I need to reposition/rescale my window. Regards

I know that I can install all my OBRX purchases for FSX by re-downloading my software with the triple install...fine but: 1. How do you install ASN for use in P3D 2.2 so it will also not screw up your ASN for FSX 2. Same question, but with REX 4 Direct to install or have it see P3D v2.2 Thanks for any help...I don't want to screw this up....and have absolutely no experience with any version of P3D to date.

For an insight into my less than happy introduction to V2.2 please follow this link: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=6934.0#postid-36706

Hey guys. Is there a good simlauncher tool around that lets me select a ) my aircraft b ) airport and gate c ) time and season before launching p3d v2.2? It's great if it's free, but I dont mind paying for it if I have to. Sincerely, Andreas

Hi all I am overall happy with 2.2 However I just noticed that flying an airliner at CRZ ALT (FL320 in this example) after some time, holes appear, in a kind of square pattern Reloading the scenery does nothing, deleting my prepar3d.cfg nothing too. Have you ever seen this ?

Just installed the new dll's and decided to try the CS 777 again. Using the normal icon to launch the sim, the 777 loaded OK but none of the buttons worked. No battery power, no APU, nada. Tried it using Legacy Mode, and everything worked!! Took a short flight and everything seemed good!! Just FYI :excl: Russ

Does anyone get trees and buildings casting shadows that seem to shimmer or flicker? Pretty much anything small that casts a shadow. The shadows just don't look static. Cloud shadows don't exhibit this. I am thinking maybe it is just in need of some antialiasing. I am not using NV Inspector, just the in game options. I just want to make sure it isn't something with my system (I just bought P3Dv2 the other day). I have all the shadow options checked. Thanks, MikeD

Just heading and following Highway 17...and OMG....is FSX-G beautiful in the area near this northern Ontario town, and airport. If you stay at 2,200 ft...you will see it all! Wow.....

Hello everyone. Just tried wonderful BMW with FDE for FSX By Rob Barendregt and found it is impossible to turn left/right. Steering wheel and wheels are turning but car continues to move forward. In FSX everything works perfectly. Any suggestions to amend the problem... Thank you

Hello, I'm attempting to use ProFlight Emulator in P3Dv2.2 but when I initialize PFE I don't get the multiline display window. I get a single line display with just d in it. I've tried turning it off and on in FSUIPC 4.931 but no luck. What what I've read, PFE does work in P3Dv2. Any help would be appreciated.

Does anyone note any differences in using the lod_radius at 6,5 or 10,5 changing it via the p3d.cfg file ?? Thanks

Hi Guys Apologise for asking a question that I know has been asked before, however I have been away for a couple of months and wondered whether anything had changed with upgrades to ORBX Vector? Last time I got a consensus, the general opinion was that it offers no improvement over UTX Europe (for VECTOR data only) within the UTX Europe coverage area (where I do 95% of my flying). Can anyone who has used/compared the two let me know if this is this still the case? It seems a pointless investment for me to splash out on ORBX Vector to get the "global" coverage, when in reality I will likely do almost no flights outside of the UTX Europe coverage area, espec…

Hi, I hope that you can help me. I tried to copy all standard airplanes from FSX to P3D. I copied all files ...:\FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes ....:\FSX\Effects ....:\FSX\Gauges to the same folders in the .....:\Prepar3D\..... Unfortunately, I don't see the 3D virtual cockpit for the Learjet 45 (and CRJ700). Could you please help me????? thanks. bye CNC

Dear All, I'm thinking of installing REX on my P3Dv2.2 system. I'm running nVidia surround 3 screens i.e. 3x1920x1080 , with FTX global , a few add-on airports and the 737 from prosim. I typically get 60 to 30 fps (the lower end reached in bad weather + dusk/dawn type of scenario). I'm afraid REX might jeopardise my fps: would you recommend it ? i.e are there REX settings that would generate nicer visual than stock texture at same FPS ? Kind Regards

Hey guys, just bought and installed P3D 2.2. Everything works fine, except all the terrain textures are missing. Completely vanilla. Anyone have any idea what's going on? EDIT: Tessellation was the issue, it works now. If anyone else has the issue, to get DX10 cards to P3D all you need to do is disable tessellation.

Half the FPS as the rest of the areas in prepar 3D 2.2 Pacific North and Global using Hibryd mode. Any tips on how to incraease FPS?

From a post by Rob Ainscough: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/441318-apart-from-dx11-what-has-improved-over-fsx/ Here is a list of items/features FSX does NOT have: Tessellation HDR (not the same as Bloom) Special effects distance Water reflections user vehicle Water reflections SimObjects Water reflections Terrain Water reflections Vegetation Water reflections Buildings Shadow Map Count Terrain Shadow Cast Distance Cloud Shadow Cast Distance Object Shadow Cast Distance Internal Vehicle Cast/Receive shadows (partial Aircraft cast only in FSX) External Vehicle Cast/Receive shadows (partial Aircraft cast only in FSX) SimObject Cast/Receive shadows Vegetation Cast/Receiv…

How does it compare to FB KSFO? Thanks in advance

Wow i was surpriced by the performance in this very Dense area where i struggle in FSX to keep up. For reason i cant think of my FPS has dropped in this areas to 18-22fps in the T7 on Final Approach 27L where i used to have 24-28fps.(FSX) Now in P3Dv2 i was sceptic but very postive surpriced to have 25-32fps in the A36 and 28-34fps over the city of London at night and at the airport 24-30fps. Even more surpriced throwing in a thunderstorm via ASN did not drop in FPS. Dont know why the FPS did not drop but the night lightning is great with FTXG without Vector though. Michael

A question for those using P3D V2.2--when I had 2.0 on my system, there were some really ugly AA problems with runway edges and markings, resulting in a lot of flickering and poor image quality for the runway itself. Question--has this been fixed in V2.2? Thanks

Hi all I spent most of my weekend flying the B200 around the Med in P3Dv2.2 using SweetFX, Orbx Global and Vector. What a superb experience. The B200 - by Carenado standards seems extremely well done. It seems to fly very plausibly and largely by the numbers although there are a few items in the VC that dont work. I'd also like to add A2A's strobe and becaon light effects to the aircraft. Before I go mucking about, has anyone successully used the A2A Shockwave lights in P3D? Cheers eric

Hey all, sorry if this has been posted elsewhere, but I'll be darned if I can find it. I just picked up Prepar3d and want to use 3 x 19" widescreen LCD monitors. With FSX, I always just used SoftTH and lived with the mouse click issues. If I understand correctly, SoftTH isn't an option in P3D and I'll be darned if I can find any information on how to setup multiple monitors. If somebody can point me to a post or a website that gives me instructions on how to do this, I'd greatly appreciate it. Thanks, Jim