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For many Airports which have no nightlighting in P3D v2 , you can at this time dowload light fixes at http://simmershome.de/temporary-light-fix-fuer-p3d-v2

Hi all My 3 year old water cooled PC has started to leak at the radiator and I am considering an entirely new Hazwell processor PC. Given that the CPU is no longer the be-all-end-all component for P3Dv2, I am also considering the i5 overclocked processor @ 4.1Ghz. Any thoughts?

Has anyone had success with this? I've made the edits in the .cfg file but it doesn't seem to take effect.

I did reinstall Windows7. Now, I will install FSX and Prepar3D v2. OS is in C:\Program files(86). Can I instali FSX and Prepar3D v2 side by side in C:\Program Files? C:\ 450GB/ SSD my other hard disk drive D:\ 990 GB. What is the best installation way for FSX & P3D v2? Thanks

ASN for P3D V2 FTX Vector PMDG in P3D V2 UTX lights under FTGX for P3D V2 Flight1 B200 for P3D V2 a Carenado BizJet and last but not least P3D V2 V2 (and one recent payware addon which made a hole in my stocking by not working right) MUST ADMIT THOUGH ASN was a BIG gift

Hi, I am thinking of buying the CoolSky DC-9 but wanted to see if anyone is already using this plane in P3D V2 and whether it works fine? I know it's in the compatible thread at the top of the forum but would like some experiences of actual users. Thanks San

Brian had a good thread yesterday that unfortunately got closed.. So.. Let's keep this open and report positive long haul experiences.. Tubes, GA, Choppers.. Bring it all. Much better than hearing what didn't go right this way we can gauge with a very good user experience what is more than likely "ok" to use in the sim since a long haul is a pretty darn good base line to go by. I'm taking baby steps.. Adding in something, testing, rinse repeat.. Starting with planes first. I am adamantly against just dumping tons of FSX addons at it at once. Plane: Carenado Stationair (mipped!) Scenery addons: None Settings: About a notch above default in key areas (shadows/…

Good morning everyone, I am new to p3d and I'm asking myself, where the following problems come from, and what I could do to prevent them: 1. Sometimes it happens, while in flight and fullscreen, that p3d goes into a full black screen. The flight goes on, but I've got a "black out" so to say. Sound is also going on. Then I tried to switch to windowed mode and back to fullscreen - still got a black screen. I also can't see the menu, etc. 2. I can't say how often, sometimes after seconds, sometimes after minutes there are coloured spikes, or flashes on my screen ... I deactivated HDR, no effect. I installed a third party airport which is natively supporting p3d, not exac…

hey, just installed a fresh copy of P3D v2.0 on a fresh Win 7 64bit OS. After appr. 20 mins P3D the whole system freezes. my specs: i5 3570k @ 4,4ghz (totally stable for months and tests while overclocking, no probs with FSX) 8GB Corsair Vengeance CL7 Palit GTX 680 2gb Samsung 27" 2560x1440 I am using HD 4096 textures by REX4 Text. diret. P3D settings, as far as I can say without running it now: Tesselation medium HDR on vol. fog on Texture max load 4096 FXAA on, 2x AA, 16x AF mid maps on, widescreen on, frames unlimited vsync on, triple buffering on scenery compl. full right autogen normal buildings dense What might cause the freeze…

Apparently we are not the only ones complaining about AA implementation in P3D https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/544701/geforce-drivers/petition-for-directx-11-anti-aliasing-driver-profiles/ There is even a petition running from last may... https://forums.geforce.com/default/topic/544701/petition-for-directx-11-anti-aliasing-driver-profiles/?offset=300#3951791 So the problem is not a simple one to solve...

As a number of AVSIM members do not have access to the ORBX forums please post FTX Airport lists, identifier codes and charts here in this thread. Let's keep other comments to a minimum so that the information will be easier to find.

Does anyone else have a problem with the rain coming to an abrupt halt outside the cockpit side windows? I've not seen it behave this way before but then I've only just started spanning across 2 monitors and I wonder if that's the cause. It's an annoying little glitch that takes you away from the immersion of flight. Any ideas would be gratefully received and faithfully applied. Thanks

This may belong at the LM forums, but I thought I would try here first. Just purchased P3D 2.0 and attempted to download at home (I often download add-ons with no worries). But this time, even if downloading the .cab files seperately, I found that once I got to 99%,IE would quit working. So, I tried yesterday at work downloading, and was able to download the entire .zip file with no worries and a fast connection. (I then saved the download to a flashdrive). I thought I would check at work that I could run the .msi file, which worked, and I assume that means that I have all of the components correctly downloaded as the checksum in the .zip must be OK. I transfe…

Not quite sure I've got the sequence right yet... I'm assuming p3d is using a weather engine... The idea of using Rex 4 texture app as the launch pad for P3D is cool... Is this how its supposed to work ? 1. Enter the airport code to get weather conditions 2. Generate the texture theme based on weather conditions 3. Save the generated theme giving it a name; snowstorm in Montreal 4. Go to saved theme screen 5. Select your saved theme 6. Load it into P3D and choose to launch P3D 7. once in P3D... Change your location to CYUL 8. Change date and time to current ?

Hello, after installing FTX global on an existing Ultimate Terrain EU I have a problem with Cloud9 ENBR. The scenery sits above the FTX Global scenery and it look like this. Does anybody know what to do? Kind Regards Tom ps. I have the same discussion on FSDT forum and ORBX forum http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,9612.0.html http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/70113-problem-with-ftx-global-and-cloud9-berggen-enbr/

Just a couple of short videos to show that the A2A Piper J-3 Cub and the Cessna 172 work quite well in P3d at a resolution of 5760x1080 This is default scenery + FTX Global only. These are instant replay videos so any jerkiness in the videos showed up only during the instant replay and not during the actual flight. Both landings were deliberately done with aggressive forward slips to lose altitude and without using flaps in the Cessna (Piper Cub has no flaps). I just wanted to see how both planes behave while doing a slip. Note: the speed gauge in the Cessna does not move during the instant replay but the rate of descent gauge works ok. All & all, grea…

...in the same OS where the same add-on was installed into FSX? I've encountered serious performance issues w/ FSDT's Hawaiian airports in V2 so would like to uninstall them. I see them listed in the Control Panel > Program applet so can uninstall them from there if it won't corrupt my FSX install of those. I unfortunately just noticed those add ons have a new V2 installer which I did not look for first. When I load flights into the FSDT Hawaiian airports in the Super MD-80 frame rate will be around 50, then very steadily over several minutes they will steadily decline all the way down to 10 w/ the plane just sitting at the gate engines running. It would seem t…

I previously posted this with a misleading title (unintentional), and now I know more of the problem and wish to learn if anyone else has it. Have now installed the new FTX Ireland in both FSX and P3Dv2. Seems to work perfectly well in FSX, but there is a problem in my P3Dv2 install that so far ORBX has not been able to get to the bottom of. The problem is the graphic rendering of the trees: they look like rectangular modern buildings rather than trees. Evidently Ireland has a lot of trees, because these boxy building-like objects are everywhere! Have re-installed twice and still the problem persists. And everything is beautiful and works well in FSX. Reminds me o…

I've tried to install the CS 727 in P3D twice with the Migration Tool, but but no sound. Then, in the Master Compatibility list I noticed that someone posted the "B727--works in P3D2, need to add sound gauge to dll.xml(Dutch727)" Can anyone explain that recommendation and suggest how to do it? Thanks.

What settings are the best to simulate this? What I want is to be in the clouds and also have low visibility at my destination airport

Hi all, I am using Win 7 64 bit OS with 8 gig ram and a AMD 8 core cpu. Can someone tell me just how much ram and how many cores PerPar3d v2 is able to use, or just how will it be used. I have been told v2 is a 32 bit system, same as FSX. I was under the impression PrePar v2 was designed for a 64 bit system, which is recommeded. Thanks, Larry

Along with FSX version, Razbam has a dedicated P3D version (not a port over).

I do not usually leave bad reviews but the way FTX has promoted their products with some high quality screen shots made me spend my hard earned savings to try some of their products. I was fairly 'happy' with Iceland demo and decided to buy England and Scotland expansion pack but both of them turned out to be nothing but utter disappointment (Scotland more so than England). I don't know if it's my settings or if it's in general I didn't notice a huge ground scenery improvements in both day and night mode. - Vegetation and farm lands are not as vibrant in colour as it looks in some of their screenshots. - Big cities like London/Edinburgh looks considerably dar…

I've been running a stable flight sim setup for months, but after installing P3Dv2 I'm back to the days of reinstalling and tweaking. While my FSX and FS2004 have been running without a glitch, P3D 1.4 finally decided to act up on me. A dreaded kernelbase.dll error accured, and there was no way I could get rid of it. It happened when trying to save or load a flight. After an hour googling and working on fixes there was nothing more I could do than a reinstall. Since I was in the mood, I took a reinstall of P3D v2 as well. I had polluted it with tons of addons just to see what worked. To my amazement P3D v2 was running fine as long as I avoided the known problem ar…

I've posted an updated topic about the Norway freeware here: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/430091-norway-updated-v2-fsx-and-p3d/ Since it also applies to and works in P3D 2.0, I decided to post this link here so those who don't visit the FSX forum anymore won't miss it. ^_^ So far everything seems to work fine but if you run into a problem that may be P3D 2.0 related, please post it here!