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Merry Christmas all! I found the default turbulence (wind & turbulence effect) settings in Active Sky too aggressive on the aircraft so was looking for recommendations and found people are using the FSLabs recommnedation of 20% (where default is over 70%) and now I encounter no turbulence effects throughout my flights (on any aircraft). What is your recommedation? Do you get turbulence while flying through clouds in EA mode? Thanks. Shomron

I wasn't going to but I did purchase and install P3DV5.3, I can't even get it to load without a CTD, its a complete vanilla install, no addons at all, nothing, no modifications, no shader apps nothing, it will load to 100% and then it completely disappears, updated nvidia drivers to the latest, no logging of any kind in the event viewer, not able to load anything at all, I just don't understand when you purchase something that has or will give you grief, P3D4.5 runs perfectly with no issues at all, is there a problem running V5 alongside V4.5? uninstalled and reinstall and just the same, loading to 100% and CTD straight away. where the hell would you start to look for an …

EnvDir is automatically installed on my C drive Both EnvTex+Expansion and EnvShade have been installed on my F drive to save space on my C drive. EnvDir does not see them. Their Licenses are installed on the C drive. I have searched on the ToGa forum and someone else posted the same issue several months ago. However the topic never got a reply. Help is appreciated.

Has anyone else experienced stutters in "windowed mode" but smooth as can be in "Full Screen" mode which is actually a borderless window mode? I can toggle the behavior back and forth with great regularity. I'm running with: 497.29 Nvidia drivers and a RTX 2080ti. I run with EA on but no volumetric clouds and use ChasePlane, ASP3D, ASCA and Orbx Global, LC, Regions as well as Orbx and Flightbeam airports. It doesn't seem to matter what is activated or not. Also I have disabled full screen optimizations etc... and run Win 10. I did not experience this with v5.2 it started after the initial update to v5.3 and has held consistant through the la…

Setting up PMDG 777, entering details in the EFB and the whole thing stops responding. Haven't had a problem in more than six months until now.

Did a complete reinstall with the hotfix of the 5.3 hotfix last night, downloaded new ActiveSky, switched EA on. I'm getting the strangest cloud 'movement'. It's like they're moving or regenerating in the air. See here: https://imgur.com/Wykx1Ua

I cant believe I didn't know about this before. it's a game changer for night time flying, and will be useful in day time too as the cockpits can be pretty dark in P3D.

There are some good bargains for Christmas, so, if Santa is allowed to fly in this year or you get some change from grandma, I recommend looking at the really cheap P3Dv5 scenery from Sierrasim and Wingsim. I mean, we're talking less than $10 for some decent looking and interesting South American or Caribbean scenery. Maybe Columbia doesn't come to mind for flying, but there are a lot of cheap sceneries that have tons of flavor and some cool approaches. For the price, they're better than most stocking stuffers. Try one out for $6.79 U.S. (I looked up the exchange rate against the Euro; but you better move fast, not only because of the sales, but I'm not confident that's g…

In previous versions, Shift + Z used to give a different line of info on each press and then combined them to show all. Now it seems that I cannot get just the FPS/GPU info unless I have all the other heading, weather info as well. Any work arounds?

I have added the IniBuilds dynamic lighting updates to a handful of airports in P3Dv4.5, but the instructions for FlyTampa Corfu are not perfectly clear. The Readme states that I need to disable the following effects in the FlyTampa/Corfu/Effects folder:- flytampa_DynamicFlood_lgkr_white.fx flytampa_DynamicFlood_lgkr_white_small.fx The problem I have with this is that this folder does not exist, and those two files are not in the main Prepar3d v4 Effects folder. I have not tested the upgrade yet, but I just wanted to know if anyone else here uses the IniBuilds dynamic lighting update for FlyTampa Corfu?

---------- EDIT. Sorry ! I currently have v4.5 installed. ‐--------- Simple question. Apologies if it's in the wrong section. I do like MS Scenery Simulator but I need some realism. Is it worth the cost and effort upgrading to v5? I run Active Sky, Radar Contact, PMDG, A2A and Majestic (Dash 8). Thnx for advices.

Hi Last night i installed the hf1+ light fix, update the 320x fsl and park my plane lfrs Gate 5. After clear shader and p3d.cfg I setup the game as it did before the HF. Was able to maintain fps @ 50 but start ear my gpu blow strongly. So i check with gpuz gpu ran at 100% with anti aliasing set 8ssaa, visually the best when i was looking jestways détails. But when i pan view in the cockpit, lag lag... i try limit my fps until gpu utilization down. 30 FPS gave me 75% gpu utilization but After set my screen at 60hz instead 165 i wasn't happy with the result. so now i use unlimited with 8 msaa. my graphic card 3090fe what …

Hi everyone, I have a lot of external scenery and was finding with P3D 5.1 and 5.2, it was taking a long time to get to the loading screen with all of my additional addon.xml files - even when they were disabled. So I moved all of my scenery to the scenery.cfg file and moved things folders like 'Effects' to the core directory which seemed to work fine. Loading times were massively sped up so kept the structure I read a post on LM website that they were looking at speeding this process and was wondering if anyone had noticed loading times increased in 5.3 HF 1? I don't want to move everything back to the addon method if its gunna be a 10 minute load each time vs …

I've downloaded the new AS version for the 5.3 HF 5.1 with the lights fix. When trying to run ActiveSky I get the following message: We were unable to located requried folders/files. Please browse to your Prepar3D Application Data Location in the next screen. If you are running in a networked configuration, select the proper share. Can someone tell me where this folder is / what I should do next? It was fine on the hotfix, but with the hotfix update and the new version of ActiveSky I get this.

Hi pilots On the 21st of December there was a sale action from CaptainSim. The homepage was extremely hard to reach. The purchase was an adventure. I bought the 737-300 and the 757. Now I have an activation problem until today. I have deactivated the windows firewall and my activirus program and still both planes cannot be installed. I always get the following message: Error 33: Internal server response error. I have been trying for 3 days without success. Does anyone here the same experience??? P.S I would like to use an Instant Online Activation Regards Julio Garcia

This recently started happening... I would load into an airport such as IAH shown in the screenshot and my textures would go black. Some terminals and buildings and my entire plane. I would wait 30 seconds, building textures would come back but half of the plane would still be black along with the airport. To fix this i'd go into the display settings and change the textures from high to medium then back to high, that for whatever reason works for me. After a little bit i'd setup the GSX experience get all the boarding done ext. at a nice 30-45fps. After a little bit my fps would just suddenly drop to 15 fps and will not go over 15. I tried repairing the sim, tried to gene…

HiFi Simulations has released ASP3D Open Beta v8027 supporting: P3D v5.3, P3D v5.3 HF1, P3D v5.3 HF1 + Lights Fix Update, P3D v5.2 with HF1, v5.1 with HF1, P3D v5.0 with HF2, and P3D v4.5 with HF3)

During the load of the scenario I get the message of incompatibility of P3D connector of ASP3D ver. 8024 with P3Dv5.3 HF1 5.3.15.28131.

Just a 'heads-up'........... The v5.3 HF1 compatibility updates are now available through Envupdater. Check them out here:- 5.3HF1 Update.

All P3Dv5.3 flyers I hope you will have a very happy Christmas and New year and all stay safe from outback Western Australia 😀

Just made a full uninstall, deleted the recommended folder by LM's Prepar3D_Download_and_Install_Instructions_v5.pdf, full re-install of latest. Effects are always on in add-on airports that have apron effects for example. I'm specifically referring to light effects and during day (did not test other effects), they will stay on. Anybody else have this? Thanks

Hello Guys! I have a question because I bought orbx the other day but I don't know where to install it. I tried to just put it in the P3d folder but p3d has changed 0 can anyone help me? (sorry for my bad english i hope you can understand me)

Hi guys, I accidentally deleted the add-on.xml file from my p3dv5 folder and I do not have a backup. I have some orbx stuff but also a lot of airports, freeware etc. I haveo idea if my scenery is displayed correctly now but concerning my deleted file I guess it doesn't. How can I get this file back? I wanted to install misty moorings alaska stuff but I screwed up. I noticed that p3d does not create this xml file by itself. The backup version of this file is also gone. How can I recreate this add-on.xml file? Any help would be great! Jozeff

Has anyone experienced black screen loading with the latest version of Taxi2Gate KMCO? Worked fine with 5.1 and 5.2. Regardless if I use a payware or default aircraft it won't load.

https://hifisimtech.com/asp3d-open-beta-update-with-p3d-v5-3-compatibility-now-available/