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As per the thread here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=6352 So any if you with SLI and game enough to test it out, there may be some beneficial SLI tweaks for you.

Hi guys I really love P3D and especially the new update, but I'm once again facing problems with FPS. Seems its a neverending story in flightsims :-( I have an all AMD system, FX 9370 EightCore CPU, with a 290X Graphics Card, 8 GB RAM, Win 8.1, running the 14.3 catalyst drivers. I'm looking at single digit FPS over Norcal with Rob A's settings. Even dialing down stuff (view distance, autogen etc) doesn't seem to help much. Any ideas what the problem could be? And a few pics to illustrate: One more from the settings screen:

I just installed v2.1 a few days ago. So far, I've only added Carenado's 206. I noticed that landing and taxi lights are not working well at all. Anyone else having this problem?

Can anyone help me get rid of these micro stutters using p3dv2.2?! I've had them with all 3 versions now. I'm going insane. My PC is fresh install of windows 7, with all drivers up to date. It's on a 256GB SSD drive along with prepared and x-plane 10.25. I have a nvidia GeForce GTX 770, 4GB. 27" monitor @ 1920x1080 and it does 60hz. 1080p HD, and it's brand new. I use a HDMI cable. I have a i5 4670k @4GHZ. I have 16GB RAM. I have nothing else installed on the system expect avast internet security. It's in gaming mode, and I disable it during sim sessions. I am literally crying out here for help now.... What am I doing wrong?! …

Folks, I'm looking at making my first few add-on purchases and curious if FTX Global is a replacement for the Ultimate Terrain X products or just an enhancement to them? Should I buy one, or both to get the best visuals? Thanks for any advice!

I can't really say this is specific to 2.2, so maybe someone else can say...has there always been such a huge FPS penalty during dusk/night/dawn ? No AI, no addon scenery (at all), no shadows (at all), no cfg tweaks. Just seems a bit much ? Not that I'm worried about maintaining 100 FPS, I just like to know how much headroom I have, and during these times I'd say not much. Can't say I remember such a penalty in previous versions, but I also can't recall specifically testing for it either.

Well I just installed ORBX regions PNW and Australia SP4 and the new P3DV2.X library with no problem and you have to commend OBRX for being on top of this. However I just tried to install FSDreamteams CYVR (my favorite addon airport) and no dice. My lastest download for this addon indicate that P3DV2.0 or V2.1 where required it let me go ahead but during the install I noticed that it was installing it into FSX. I'll have to remember to uninstall that obsolete piece of junk of my system :lol: . Did see anything posted on the FSDreamTeam website about V2.2 and when I downloaded it again from the PCAviator that was an even older version than the one I had and indicated …

I think this patch really needs to be clarified before I go deleting any folders And where are these four folders located?? Any help would be appreciated as I really would like to patch this sim instead of doing a full install of 2.2 I have hours and hours of addons loaded and I don't cherish the thought of re-installing them Just for the record my Prepa3d is located in the root directory of C: Cheers Paul

hello! There are problems with light at landing headlights, light besides still the very dim. The problem appeared after a release of version 2.1 and didn't disappear with a release of version 2.2. Please, study video, in it it is visually visible a problem. (http://youtu.be/KxVOqqW-wZM) And as the problem is visible in video with version 2.2 Beta (http://youtu.be/Wm3hcupPTbo - from 2:50 till 3:40). I did pure installation of a simulator already several times from scratch. But the problem remained. There is at somebody the same problem?

I just purchased P3Dv2.2 and installed the Majestic Q400 along with the two hotfixes. Everything seems to be OK except my displays remain dark. Is this something that's going to require another fix or is it something else. Otherwise the plane seems to perform well.

A couple things to bear in mind about the changes to shadow settings: - In v2.0 and v2.1 there was one shadow cast/draw distance which was tucked away in the Prepar3D.cfg. I believe it ranged from 3km to 12km, though I'm not sure of the exact number. - Shadow cascade count was also tucked away in the cfg and ranged from 3 to 12 cascades. (each one is 2048x2048 rendering of a portion of the scene from the perspective of the sun, which is why shadows can be so hard on the GPU). Autogen and most scenery objects you would care about are within 12km of the camera anyway so there wasn't much point in going beyond that, but it did make terrain shadows less usable at high alt…

Have not tried in all of my aircraft but have done so in the Default Carenado Beech A36, Default Moody Acclaim and addon Carenado PA28 -- no brakes. Not with pressing the "." or the button I have set for brakes on my Saitek Yoke. The paring brake (CTRL ".") however works fine. Anyone else having such a problem?

...I Don't want to be right. Doods! Get yourself the Orbix Nor-Cal scenery, ASN -using real time weather, a Tomcat, and take off heading east from Pine Mountain lake. Once you're over the valley dial in Time Preview -making sure cloud shadows are enabled, and tell me that isn't one the most incredible sights you have ever seen in the simulated world. WOW!

need help i want one or the other i have been watching prepar3d for sometime now and lots of people say its fsx with higher frames but i also am thinking of getting tacpack or FSpassengers for my fsx my computer specs are intel core 7 (3.5 ghz), graphics Nvidia geforce 765m with 2 gb GDDR5, ram 16GB, :smile:

Just messing around, I noticed that it stays dusk until very late, and then suddenly the sky turns to night, but much too late. I was using today's date and at 11:30 pm it still looked like dusk in Houston Texas. I used the time preview and finally around 1am the sky suddenly turns black. Would anyone happen to know how to fix this? I've never seen this issue before in any previous sim.

I am trying to find it in settings views... but don't see the 2-D 3-D option... do I miss something?

I noticed when I turn the lights on at night the textures become transparent, there's no runway or taxi lights than illumnate the ground and I don't get any lighting effects in the external view. Is there anyway to get overland to work properly in v2.2?

Does your LOD radius affect the range of the lighting or is it a computer resource thing. At the moment, the lights load but they cut off when looking into the distance and sometimes load while I am flying over them. I prefer the lights to preload.

I don't recall if the previous version of P3D had this or not (just installed it), but is there a way to remove the "Academic License" wording displayed on the upper right corner of the screen while in flight? Thanks!

A brand new Orbx FTXG lights configurator was just released today: LINK The FTX Central FTX Light Tweaker (tool) never worked correctly for me with P3Dv.2.x . . . this one has way more options and it WORKS! I can finally have smaller Orbx lights in P3D.

Season changed to Spring and grass colors are no longer green. FSX Spring grass are green. http://imageshack.com/a/img829/585/sm8x.jpg

What are the differences between the academic and professional versions of this program p3dv2.2,in regard to useability Are they both the same if you just want to jump in and fly between any two points in the world or are there less features with the academic version thanks

Hello: I noticed in P3Dv2.1 that while the front panel instrument lighting works good, I don't see the left or right console lighting during a night time flight. Is there a work-around to get the console lighting to work?? Thanks

I've been reading about a new nVidia driver that should be released tomorrow, April 7th, which works with all GPU's starting at the 500 series and which brings improvements to every DX11 game. Anyone already heard about this? This could work with P3D v2 too! Imagine that tomorrow we will get this driver AND the 2.2. update and imagina both deliver what's being promised...! Here is one of the links I found about it. Google for more (GeForce 337.50 Driver wonder) and you'll get lot's of hits about it. http://wccftech.com/nvidia-geforce-33750-beta-driver-7th-april-features-directx-optimizations-improve-geforce-cards-performance/ What do you all think...?

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