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..as I am in the process of a full v5.3 HF1 installation, and had most always installed all my Orbx content in the vP3D (whatever) Root Folder, I am wondering, if that if one is running P3D v5.3 off of a SSD (which I am this xmas time off going to do by a clone operation to a Samsung EVO 870 2TB SSD) well, here's the question, unless you have all those Orbx (Global, this, that...) also on a SSD, rather than a spin-HD, or on the SSD in the P3D Root Folder...you will still introduce read-write speed in-load (pause/stutter/delay) of data to the sim as it runs...(Scenery in-loads, etc), so I'm going to with the latest install, still keep all my Orbx installed within the Roo…

Hi Guys, Looking for a little advice from P3Dv4.5 wizards.I have been having this problem for as long as i can remember and i have tried everything in the book to fix it from deleteding shaders to reinstalling the client,nothing helps. The issue is when i departure either EGLL or EGKK to the East once i reach the Essex coast,mouth of the Thames Estuary or the Kent Coast the sim starts to stutter and freeze for roughly 3 to 4 mins then it clears up and i have no other issues during the flight. I can depart Aerosoft EGLL at night in a payware aircraft (this happens in all payware aircraft and default) fly over the City of London with no problems a…

I recently picked up the VRS F-18E Superbug for P3D V5.0 thru V5.3. Anyone have a PFPX or SimBrief Profile for VRS F-18E? I an looking for a fuel planner that will calculate fuel requirements? Bill Clark

I am trying different settings to see what works best for clouds and visibility options. I am using AS Ver 8016. I applied the shader mod published by LM recently. With EA disabled visibility has now been reduced but with the current AS version it has been reduced to much (10 nm with AS Volfog settings to max even on a clear day) With EA enabled the visibility towards the horison is much better and I see clouds with Volumetric clouds turned off. However when I turn volumetric clouds on (anything from low to Ultra) I see no clouds at all. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Is there a setting in AS I need to set to allow the sim to display volumetric clouds…

Hey everyone, Any ideas if these are compatible with each other? I got a stream deck and want to use it for keyboard shortcuts. P3D is ignoring ANY request coming from the Stream Deck - I've tried to map zoom, sound, a couple of ChasePlane views, nothing..nothing at all. Can get Zoom in/out working in other applications mapping +/- via the Stream Deck software to do this. Try the same thing in P3D, no dice. I've also tried using PRNTSCREEN mapped to a third party application's screenshot function - again, working fine in other applications, but no response in P3D? https://www.elgato.com/en/gaming/stream-deck is product link. It's admittedly geared up primarily to…

I’ve really been enjoying the latest 5.3 as I have tons of content like my beloved Turbocommander 690 and I have my settings dialed in where things are silky smooth FPS, no stutters....but all of a sudden I’ll be flying and there’s a surge or jump or long frame or rubber banding every so often (????) before it returns to smoothness. I fly Orbx TrueEarth sceneries and love the Seattle and LA areas but I do have my detail radius and autogen trees and buildings turned one notch above the lowest and tried lowering my mesh settings as well. I also turned my tesselation from highest to lowest, have vsync on and have tried locking frames externally with no change...its…

Hi I am considering re-installing 5.2 whilst the performance issue in 5.3 gets looked at. I have 5.2.22.27615 saved in my archive. However I don't recall if this was the original release or a fresh install including the hotfix. Does anyone know if this version would include the hotfix? I don't want to re-install 5.2 then find I can't access the hotfix if needed. cheers Ian

Just to let you all know that HiFi Similations have released another update to their open beta for Active Sky today. ( V 8024 ) Get it here:- Updated ASP3D. Change log 'revisions.rtf' within ASP3D folder, AFAIK mainly to do with vis. and haze.

Anybody had any issues with the last NVIDIA driver update (497.09)? I am getting this weird mouse view behaviour - when I select mouse view control for zoom etc, the view snaps through about 90 degrees vertically and about 180 degrees horizontally, in other words one minute your looking at the panel then hey presto you staring at the floor and looking backwards. The mouse control then is unresponsive for a few seconds before you are able to move the cross hair cursor and orientate yourself and get back to normal then turn it off. I switched my controllers on the joystick and reset the calibration and removed any conflicts. It is random, sometimes yes sometimes not at…

Hello guys, It seems that the latest version of P3D is quite unstable, with the dreaded stutter that might come upon any flight in any conditions unexpectedly. Due to that, having an autosave function would be more important than ever to avoid having to restart the whole flight if it occurs, or the sim goes CTD altogether. Now I know FSUPIC has an autosave function, but the software would be quite expensive to pay only for this. Is there any other tools or method to autosave your flight in P3D to avoid having to restart all over? Would be great to know if autosave works with the maddog x as well (saving the panel state, engines running, FMC entries et…

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Hello,Since a few weeks in P3D v5, I have the problem that I have snow in various regions of the world, although there is none in real. An example is currently Hamburg. In reality, it is 9 degrees but in the simulator there is snow. Besides v5 I use the following add-ons: Orbx-Base, -Buildings, -Terraflora, -Europe, Activeksy (as weather source) and Rex (for the clouds). Thanks for the help.

Any one tried this guide? AVIATIONLY - NO MORE CRASHES GUIDE P3D5. Its at simMarket. I didn't post a link I think the rules here say I cant. After using the pinned solution posted at the top I still get errors every other flight.

Guys....I just finished installing the V5.3 on Win 10. My P3d is on its own drive with nothing sharing. I have Orbx and UTX USAv2 as scenery. But on my first flight from my home KEZF....I noticed traffic "floating" above the road....some traffic were on the pavement....but others were in the air above them !!! Did NOT have this feature in v5.2....so I'm wondering if I did something wrong ?? Any ideas or help will be appreciated !! Thanks Skip d

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Looks like iFly is close to releasing a new version of their 737NG aircraft for P3D v5. Check out the gallery. Looking sharp. I wish it was a B737MAX. Gallery

From Beau Hollis: https://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=143957&start=30 Here is a copy and paste: Hello all,We have a shader fix to bring back the horizon fade behavior while maintaining the improvements made to fog blending and curvature correction of layers below the camera. Since it's is a shader-only change, I will post instructions below for those that want to try it before we put out an official fix.Note this instructions assume default P3D shaders, so if you are using an add-on that modified our shaders this may not work as exptected. Also note that you will need write permissions to your install directory which may req…

As promised, here is the report of my experience in a full motion Airbus A320 simulator in Manchester, together with a handful of photographs of myself and my cousin, Carl. For those of you who do not know what I look like, I am the person in the last two photos. The camera in Carl's mobile phone is better quality than that in the "hand me down" phone that I use Christmas presents are few and far between for me these days, and I am rarely surprised by any of them. However, last year was an exception. I was very surprised to receive a voucher for a 30 minute session on a full motion flight simulator in Manchester. I subsequently discovered that my cousin (Carl…

Hello guys, I have been away fronm simming for about 3 month because of another mooving. When I shut down my computer after my last flight in August, all was fine, but since I have fired up again, my FPS have dropped from a strong solid 30 to 10, even 2 in view from outside. What have changed since I fired up, Win10 got some normal updates, I have installed lates nvidia driver, but it was the same results with 466.77, I have uninstalled and reinstalled Navigraph and simlinks, and that is it. As for graphic card settings, what ever the settings, the results does not change at all. FPS are below 2 digits, wether I have stock or PMDG or FSLABS or otherrs. The only …

I seem to be missing the runway and taxiway lighting at Digital Design Liverpool in P3Dv4.5, and I am not sure how to get it back. Can anyone help? It worked fine when I had the airport installed six months ago, but it has stubbornly refused to show itself since I reinstalled P3D and all my addons recently. I have SODE version 1.71 installed (from ORBx Central), and it is active in the Addons menu.

I have gone back at present to a full re-install of v5.2.22. I'm wondering if one can have the CLIENT at (for me..) installed at v5.2.22 but...sneak in both Content and Scenery from v5.3? I wonder if that would work... Has anybody ever tried to keep a current Client, but then 'sneak in' the next version of both Content and Scenery? If so...did it work...could they even be installed without a warning 'cut off' that this version could not blah, blah... If you did do so...did you find any visuals better, or did you find worse performance because of the hybrid content. I'd love to know...as I might try this, for you know what and giggles...but don't want to bot…

AN-142, MD-11,DC-10 i have issue with heavy park at medium parking spot for 757 the wings on heavy aircraft hit's the other ai aircraft airplane_geometry i have try this but it not working wing_area= wing_span= do anyone now how to fix that its Radius that bother me

Hello Guys, I have dedicated SSD NVMe 1Tb for the P3D and addons. However the space available is shrinking. I am thinking about buying few HDD to put mainly the scenery on it. My aim is to keep P3D SSD NVMe, but scenery like Airports/ORBX, etc. on new HDD drives and link it using the Addon XML method. My question is, will I notice a significant decrease in loading times in P3D booting using these method? Or the booting times does not matter as long as the P3D is installed on the SSD? Thank you for your help.

Some days ago, I have built a brand new PC (see signature) and have just installed P3Dv5.3. No add-ons are installed so far. I've only adjusted the settings to High-Ultra as I was used to have it on my former build. Loading P3Ds default flight with the F35-A and take off gave me just a bad experience. As soon I was airborne stuttering started. Continuously, every 5-6 seconds I get a so-called long frame ... Monitoring my hardware shows reasonable values, CPU usage of all cores, temperatures around 50 °C, graphic card and RAM usage are within the limits, temperatures are fine too. Can it bee that P3D doesn't like the 12900K and its novel core structure? Or is the…

What is your decision on using EA in 5.3? Are you using it or not? I generally did not use it in 5.2 and I find that NOT using it in 5.3 that my water and sky look excessively blue and unrealistic. I've reinstalled the scenery module and I've reinstalled the Libraries in ORBX. I've tried everything to make the scenery looked better in 5.3 without using EA. I've also changed graphic drivers and deleted my config. I've played with all my settings in P3d and still the overall look of P3d without EA is very unreal. However, I find that when I use EA, everything looks so much better. However, I still dislike the excessive haze that seems to be prevalent when I use EA. A…