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I have updated to P3d v5.3 HF1+. I use Onlineflightplanner.org to make my flightplans. When I try to load a pln flightplan using the Flightplanner in the sim, it hangs and crashes P3d. Does anyone have the same experience, and is it a bug or a way to solve it? Tor Arild Danielsen

I had been using MyTraffic for P3D, but it was only aligned with v1 and v2. Had to hack the install. What can one recommend for a clean install of great A.I. depiction and routes...that installs as it should in v5.3? Thanks..

I know it just launched but idk if it's normal there are so little repaints for the 195 more particularly. I searhced in the library with only one result or two. I thought this post could be useful to inform people of the available liveries for all v3 e-jets. regards, charly

Hey there everyone, I have make an old topic about how I can make liveries for P3D v4.5. And many people saied photoshop is the best paint program, and yes it's perfekt but to pay on time in the month is too much for me, so I search og google an find an other paint program Affinity photo. And when I get to downloade PMDG paint kit stood there you can use photoshop, and Affinity. Great but my question is, and I use Affinity to pain on Aerosoft A3xx (A318 to A330), Aerosoft CRJ, QW146, QW787 and Majestic Software Dash 8-Q400 paint kits??? Best regards Jammin16

I have a load of ORBX scenery and it has been working great. A few days ago, I loaded up 6-8 new ORBX airports and P3Dv4.5 is throwingtransparent blue boxes and green boxes at various random locations around the scenery. I have verified files are not corrupt. What possibly could have gone wrong please?

Does anyone have any news on this plane for p3d v4? Is it going to be released any time soon? Paul

Dears, Do you have any idea/tool which would allow me to display only FPS and/or VRAM? The 'native' way is that I can only get these along with entire bunch of data in top right corenre - location, wind etc, Now I see on YT some folsk who have just clean FPS shown. Apparently from external tool. Thanks, &

OK, so like a few here I was super excited for 5.3 when it appeared out of nowhere. I was on 4.5 that had been stable for years but figured it was finally time to make the jump. Installed on a brand new M.2, clean windows install and nothing but nightmares a lot of which appear to be self induced since... It started here: So interestingly enough even with my system once I tried the settings in Mitch's thread I loaded up the PMDG 777 at DD KEWR it absolutely crushed my system. Not Mitch's fault clearly but the loading was so delayed with just a white screen showing I thought it was hanging but it was just loading. Once I got it loaded it looked incredible but…

Still loving my P3D install and can’t stop flying it...such a smooth FPS of about 50-60 with my 10900K and RX 6800 16GB. Two observations.... 1) I made some room on my SSD and moved my Orbx TE regions to it...this has dramatically reduced load times and quite a few repeatable stutters on takeoff at Renton etc (my clue was my HDD making a racket during those stutters presumably loading what it needed too slowly) 2) Some planes seem very FPS heavy...for example my Carenado Shorts 360 and Turbocommander 690 seem much easier on FPS than the Citation even at the same speeds...A2A seems stellar on FPS. Some questions...I’ve been spending the past year wi…

Hi all, I am happy with P3D performance overall, but for some reason I cannot get total clouds as they would appear in real life. As I type this on a cloudy overcast morning in Northern IL, it is completely cloudy. But, this is what I am seeing in the sim. Software includes P3D v5.3 with latest hotfix, EA, VC OFF, ENVSHADE, ENVTEX, ASCA. No matter how I set clouds in AS or P3D, I still see horizon light. Is this fixable. BTW, I am posting two pix, the first with VC ON, the second VC OFF. Thanks for suggestions. Sherm

In real life, I like flying VFR at night. If you’re ever flown a light GA aircraft over a mall parking lot on a hot day, you know what I'm talking about. I can't see airport beacons in P3D unless I'm right at the airport. They're no longer visible as soon as you leave the field. VASI and MALSR lights are visible at altitude from a distance, but not the rotating beacons for some reason. I've flown hundreds of miles at night IRL and you can see the familiar "green – white, green – white" flash from 30NM+ away on a clear night. Questions: 1. Is there a fix for this? 2. If not, is it possible to create your own beacons? Thanks in …

I am considering the purchase of a new computer to dedicate to P3d...I understand the technicalities of the processors, etc...My question: The unit I am considering has a 560gb SSD and a 1TB HDD...Do the members of the forum think this will be sufficient for a P3d install? Is it possible to run the primary, basic program on the SSD and place the scenery on the HDD? I know that the basic P3d install will easily fit on a 560gb driver, but will the performance be adequate given the "split" drives? Thanks for any advice given...

This issue started happening recently, I use to not have this happen to me. For an example I'll use my most recent flight. I load into DEN in the FSLabs A320. When I first load in my FPS is around 30-40. As I just sit there and setup the aircraft I see my FPS slowly drop. By the time I'm ready for pushback my FPS has dropped now all the way to 15fps. I try to look at different areas and see if my FPS changes and it just seems like it caps at 15. It will no go over 15 no matter were I am. For the PMDG 777 its a different story. I can make it to cruise in that without a big loss of FPS, but a while at cruise it would go down to 15 as well. My P3D settings are around medi…

I've been searching different forums seeing if the Captainsim 707 FSX version could work in Prepar3d v4 and from what I can gather it can be done with the FSX to P3D migration tool, so I went ahead with the installation, no problems there but as I expected when I got into the 707 the anti-piracy measures have kicked in and there were no landing gear, little to no animations, and a bunch of other things. I tried uninstalling it via control panel, running CCleaner to clean up my registry, deleted the installer, restarted my computer, and then went back to my Captainsim account to redownload it. I still encountered the same thing as before. I know that the 707 was never real…

Still has a bug. If you set to All Roads..you actually don't get much on any road... If you leave it to Freeways Only, you will actually get most freeways and quite a few secondary roads... I was on a small island in the Carib...and had it set to ALL Roadsl...and there was no traffic on any of them (on the island!) I then on a hunch set to Only Freeways...and the whole island road network was spawning traffic. Just a head's up....

Every so often, I get the strange problem of yellowish, muddy looking land appearing off the coast in P3D: Installing P3Dv5.3 HF1 gave an opportunity to find out what was going on since I had to re-install. It was definitely an Orbx problem as it didn't happen with a "stock" P3D setup with no extra scenery and mesh installed. Yellowish, muddy looking land showed up again off the Florida coast after doing a re-syncronise via Orbx Central. After lots of searching, I found this: h…

...for v5.3 HF1 (light fix). Just got my notice and now have it running with the sim. Be sure to set your FPS limit to 120, and not unlimited, or it defeats the program. 120 allows FFTP to control the fiber dynamically in real time. Unlimited sets to a defined non dynamic factor.

New install of p3dv5.3 but it continues to revert back to control mouse drag pan and are unable to get it to keep my Saitek x52 settings, any ideas.

Is there any way for view from pilot seat to track down center line of runway? My view from left seat is at an angle down runway. Thanks percy

I hope you get to see this. Thank you very much for your product and all the updates over the years. I was a day one customer of the original Flight 1 GTN 750 and have always appreciated it. After years in service you decided to sunset the product. You gave your customers ample warning that you would be retiring the product. You gave a cutoff date (Dec 2021) for an end to all support and updates. But what I appreciate the most is your Flurry of last minute updates while LM found thier way with version 5.3. With your last and I assume final update today (Ver 1.25) you have ensured a lot of simmers a lot of happiness today and into the future. THIS was excep…

https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2021/12/120951/ There was a bug introduced in the v5.3 hotfix which caused airport lighting to remain on during the day. The hotfix has been updated with this fix. If you already downloaded the hotfix only a client update is required to fix this issue. The original hotfix version is 5.3.15.28130, the updated version with the airport lighting fix is 5.3.15.28131. The hotfix post has been updated to reflect the new version and this is also the current version available in the downloads page. https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2021/12/120943/

Hello, I'm new in this forum and since I've used the 4.5 version I just installed the new 5.3 Professional_5.3.15.28130 version. Unfortunately I have some troubble: 1 - Plants especially trees looks graphically badly - it remaind me FS98 but worst. 2 - Problem using the view around the Virtual cockpit using the key combination Space + mouse movement to move the view all around the cockpit as usually used with the preview 4.5 version. I linked my video record to show accurately the troubble. As you can see in the video It seems a problem caused using multi screen view. I always used dual screen with P3D: the Main monitor to view the cockpit and the…

Dec 23, 2021 I have not been able to find a definitive answer out there in my inquiry. 1) What Carenado aircraft, am I able to put the Reality XP 750 unit into? (A list of them) 2) I have Navigraph. I tried updating the airac for the GTN 750 unit but my Navigraph airac updater doesn't recognize the GTN 750 unit's existence on my computer 3) Has Jeppeson change their Approach charts, like I've notice now some LOC DME's have blue arcs around the LOC beacon Any help from someone who knows these questions thoroughly, but short effective response preferably. Thank you Brutez

Seasons Greetings everyone! All the best as we wind down 2021 and look forward to a healthier and happier 2022! I’m still browsing for scenery addons despite having a worn out credit card from family Christmas purchases. I’d like to hear from others about their recommended and favourite scenery designers. I have many but the following really have impressed me for quality and support: Flightbeam, FlyTampa, FSimStudios, Orbx, Paulo Ricardo and Dreamflight. Thanks in advance for making the time to read this and sharing your opinion! Dan

Hi, with the new version of P3D 5.3, there is a new section for Job Scheduling [JobScheduler] AffinityMask=1023 P3DCoreAffinityMask=1023 MainThreadScheduler=0 RenderThreadScheduler=2 FrameWorkerThreadScheduler=4 I have a 10 core cpu running Hyperthreading. According to the Affinity Mask Calculator - 32 Core Edition my AffinityMask should be: Affinity Mask [ Binary = 11111111111111111100 ] and I should change the AffinityMask to: [JOBSCHEDULER] AffinityMask=1048572 should I also change the P3DCoreAffinityMask? Pierre