The Prepar3d Forum

My computer is i5-3570K@ 3.8ghz, 4GB 1600mhz, can't overclock (dont have cooler) Did anyone tested p3d2 only using Intel HD4000?? how was the performance? I run fsx(all tweaks) with ngx at medium to high settings(4096 tex.) + enb and many other graphic addons. I get little low fps but smooth enough for me(20-30fps) but in addon airports it drops to 15 or even less. I get better fps with AXE though, also with high res. overcast clouds, those hit little on fps.. as speaking of performance of intel HD4000, I have played other dx11 games like farcry3(low), assasin creed 3(med), cod bo bo2 mw3 (all at med settings), bf3(ultra low) and some other several dx11 ga…

Whenever I load a plane the flaps are always down two positions. Tried resetting it on the default flight and I changed the null zone to zero in the XML control file but no luck. any ideas?

What does this allow me to do, exactly? I have a rough idea that it distributes the rendering across multiple computers, but that's about all I can find on it. I currently have two networked computers sitting side by side, one has FSX on it, the other is used for other daily things, but hosts the weather and flight planners for the FSX computer. Pretty typical setup. If I were to buy 2 licenses of P3D, what are the possibilities here? For example, if I wanted to run 3 monitors, one way to do it would be eyefinity/nvid surround and need a really good video card to ease the extra performance penalties that likely come with that. I'm going to need to a much be…

Hi I just pasted in the LM tuning proposal into prepar3d.cfg and had a much better simulstion experience. I now have fluid 60FPS in external view and 45-50 FPS from the VC of a well knowned B737 The tips is from the Menu Bar .

http://www.prepar3d.com/news/2013/10/4507/ What do I gain for selecting HDR in my graphics settings? Any link to screenshots with HDR and without HDR keeping everything else in context? I don't have access to my P3D machine for me to try this out.

HI All, I have a GTX 470 and as thery're relatively cheap was thinking of adding a second and SLI them together. Would this improve performance? Cheers Daz

So after a week of flying with my (what was up to now) perfect insallation of P3D v2, I got a little cocky and installed QW 757. But of course, the Conguration Manager needed Framework 2.0 in order to work (I only had 3.5 and 4.0 installed). So off I went looking for FW 2.0 and found a runtime that includes 2.0. After installation, P3D failed to load. Surprise surprise! So I uninstalled all my add-ons (FTX Global, OPUS, UT2, QW 146 and 757) and got rid of the framework runtime, did a defrag and started fresh. Now, when running QW 146 (I gave up on QW 757 for the moment), after about 30 minutes of flying I get the ever-popular CTD with the following entry in the …

Okay, changed planes and starting airport to run a test flight. I screwed up the flight and wanted to restart. I hit the "restart flight" option, then I'm in the F-22 blating down the runway (as in the default flight). that could be a problem for me! Can anyone try this to see if this is the norm? Thanks

Can I please ask what is everyone using for weather when flying? The temperature issue means payware weather add ons are unusable. Sent from my Mobile thing

So I was allured to P3dv2 by her sexy figure and I am having an affair with her, but only part time. Ms P3dv2 is great to visit, she gives me what my wife doesn't give me anymore. She is fast and smooth. Nice and young. Likes to dress up and is fun to spend time with…for a few hours. She appreciates the size of my GTX780 like my wife never has. Gives me great frame rates and lets me go on a beautiful interface. Her nice big clouds are a joy to spend time in and I could look deep into that water for days. But after a while there is just a little bit missing. The depth of her airports and the depth of her planes, the lack of scenery and the scope of her addons leaves me …

I have just flown what would definitely be up there in my Top 5 all time flights in the last 15 years...... :cool: I installed the Orbx Iceland Demo and set up VC shadows and HDR on in P3D2, I had Opus weather which was providing heavy snow and freezing temps. I had autogen one notch down from max, and I was flying the Twin Otter X Extended v1.11. I didn't even know this aircraft had ice / snow effects in the windscreen!........ So I'm on the ramp at Akureyri doing my start up and the snow accumulation effect on the windscreen was just amazing. Wipers on, and screen heat on and slowly the screen cleared. Took off and MY LORD! .... the scenery looks AMAZING. …

I wondered if anyone else also noticed that when you have autogen at extremely dense and you fly over trees that you repeatedly see a few trees popping up and go away again. It's as if the render engine can't decide if it wants to show extremely dense or very dense and it toggles between the two all the time. Apart from performance reasons this is also a reason why I keep autogen at Very dense for now. Anyone else noticed this too? I had this with my first install of P3D 2.0 but also with my current install.

I have tried to install the New York City X and the new tree texture add on into P3D v2, but both tell me that P3D isn't installed in the registry. Of course it isn't because this is P3D v2 lol. So, to get those to work do they have to be installed in FSX and then ported over, do I have to use EMT, or is there another work around? Thanks! Bill

Just curious anyone has seen this too? I wonder this is an east egg thing in P3D2? Don't know how I get it and it lasted for quite a few minutes. Agree that the modeling on fireworks could be better. I have been flying out of KSEA more than dozen times for the purpose of tuning P3D2 since this area is absolutely brutal to P3D2 due to its huge number of autogens.

I saw a recent post (titled "Is this what next?" http://forum.avsim.net/topic/427995-is-this-what-next/ ) that had a video of cloud shadows. Apparently LM is working on it but it didn't make it into v2.0. Nevertheless, the post indicated that cloud shadows could be forced by the following CFG tweaks: CLOUD_SHADOWS_CAST=1 TERRAIN_SHADOWS_RECEIVE = 1 So, I tried this out of curiosity just to see what it looks like and couldn't get any cloud shadows. Has anyone successfully tested this out? Besides the CFG tweaks are there other settings required? Thanks-

http://majesticsoftware.com/mjc8q400/support.html Bad new is it won't be incorporated until 1.008 and who knows when that will be.

Hello.. I tried to install the PNW region in P3D v2 with Estonia migration tool.. and seems he did it.. but when loading it in an airport of the region I have a crash to Desktop. So I have to first run an airport outside the region and then change to a PNW one. Once there.. I see some tress with builiding textures.. and the taxiways below the ground. Only the lines of the taxi are seen. For the trees there is a recomendation to lower the texture size go to sim, enter the options again and then up the size to the one we had.. but this don't work for me. Does anyone fixed it? Thanks!

Hello, I am using sweetfx 1.5 in p3d2 and it looks great! The problem is when I hit the V key, the screenshot I get does not have sweetfx applied. In other words I can see sweetfx in the sim but not in the screenshot. I have seen some version 2 screenshots with sweetfx and the difference is obvious. It's like the screenshot for me is happening pre-sweetfx. I could post the screenshots with and without sweetfx, but I don't see the point as the screenshots with and without it look exactly the same. Does anyone have any thoughts on this issue? Thanks for your time.

I think most of us fly in full screen mode and this has meant we had to give up the old fs navigator style flight planner where you could hit f9 and the map would show with fs itself. This was because from fsx onwards it was only possible in window mode. My understanding is that prepared v2 works in a hybrid mode and so this should not be an issue anymore? For example, to display the ezdok config screen I would need to switch to windows mode in fsx. In p3d it's showing in full screen too. So I am wondering if any of those flight planners built into fs as a module would now work like fs navigator did. Fs tramp springs to mind. Anyone know or tried?

Just did a nice and calm flight in Norway and when I came close to water, it looked as if the terrain reflection didn't work. All I could see were clouds being reflected. When I came closer and compared the reflection to the actual clouds, I noticed the terrain was being reflected but EXACTLY as white as the clouds! It wasn't until I got very close, passing the scenery, that I could see the terrain actually being reflected. Do you also have this? I was using special effects at medium and set them to high but that didn't help. I have the water quality at medium but changing that also made no difference.

I have the current version of FSUIPC and Go Flight configurator. But I can't get PD3 to recognize the GF-T8,GF166A and P8 modules. Created a config file for PD3. I have this modules for a long time working in FSX and XPlane. Is there something I forgot to setup in PD3 to let it recognize them. Thanks in advance to all who reply. Bill

I've just gone through Rob Ainscough's video (thanks Rob !) and, like some other pics/video, I find the daylight a shade darker in P3D than in FSX ? A harder AA or HDR in play ? Now,I use a laptop with a somewhat grainy screen and the issue may be on my side. Getting back to history, 2004 brought us a better dayight than 2k2.

Just an 'FYI' really - I have both of these installed and the fps difference is massive. I get more fps in Iceland with REX severe weather than I do in England with no weather at all. In England, turning in particular causes horrible fps drops. Obviously something to do with the FTX Iceland demo being V2 ready, and England not - worth bearing in mind if you're using 'non-official' addons. The good news is I can fly in Iceland and get super-smooth 40 fps +, with great scenery, great sky and cloud textures and real time weather. That'll do me for the time being.

Hi! I am using P3D2 since day one and I currently have mixed feelings regarding the software. It is smoother than P3D1.4 but it still has, IMHO, a long way to go before it will stand out from the earlier version (FSX ESP). My particular question has to do with a way to eliminate object popping like small ships or airport vehicles and jet ways (they are even more visible when I fly over payware airports like FSDream Team KLAX, KJFK, KLAS or Flight Bean KSFO). I tried the [sCENERY]SmallPartRejectRadius=0 tweak with no luck. Any tips or tweaks found regarding this issue? Regards, AK

Hi all, I've been trying to get the PA A319 working in P3D but am having some issues with the AP and AT. I need to investigate a little further but the issues seem to be as follows: Standard P3D flight planner not loading plan into the GPS. Autothrottle doing something but not operating correctly - it seems to throttle back but not back up again. Any ideas? I'm thinking it may be to do with something referencing the default FSX A321 (which is in P3D but unflyable as 'Commercial Airliner' right?) but am unsure how to fix. The A319 came from a large multi-livery download from SimViation.