The Prepar3d Forum

I get an error when I enable more then one connected LCD -- "Invalid Hardware or Driver Detected" Prepar3D was unable to initialize the renderering system and will shut down. Does anyone know a work around? I am using the other LCD for panels and not to extend the cockpit view. Thanks.

The best thing about P3D V2 is the new cloud rendering. The worst part of FSX was seeing all those clouds below you as you descend and then somehow you miss them all or they slide to the side or they are paper thick. When you finally reach the ground and look up at all those clouds you wonder if you they were there when you were descending! P3D V2 + REX clouds is just amazing. I just flew an approach into Bilbao and the clouds were so thick and life like. While flying through the cloud layer it appeared realistic and felt like you were flying through thick heavy clouds - without the weird things you see in FSX clouds close up. Fantastic. Shadows are good also by t…

Aero is off! And it won't be enabled again .. Like most of us Nvidia users, i enabled Aero just after one or two attempts to get vsync working in this new sim. It was one of my first 'corrective' actions ..and well ..Aero On, and vsync worked.. .. good to go.. So, i had Aero enabled and tried to find the sweetspot between EQ / smoothness / fps , et all... for one week. I had good times, i had bad times (sounds familiar?), More trial & error then logical approaches.. Yetsterday i decided to stop tweaking, but wait for LM to deliver an update instead. I just wasn't able to get it right. Stutters, sometimes, more, sometimes less, Really bad! Not to talk abou…

Been around in circles on this one but can't solve. Standard.xml holds the Event Id's that control various panel switching inputs. I have built a cockpit panel using Pokeys to interface with the computer. Copied my working .xml file from v1.4 to v2 but rotary encodes not working. Any clues please?

I can live with everything else but the AA is el crapo, I especially noticed it with the Carenado planes provided as well as the Carenado Baron that I inserted. Anybody have any luck with the settings? This is the deal breaker for me it will go back if I can't smooth it out.

Martin(FlyTampa) is on the ball... Thanks for the update of an update, so to speak. Steven

Both simply demonstrate the difference in coloring, atmospherics, autogen popup, texture loading, lighting, shadowing, etc. between FSX/1.4 and 2.0. He's also got some stress test videos and a video of the Q400 out of Cairns in heavy weather that really shows off the water towards the end. He's using a 660ti if that interests you.

I was just in the FSX forum and looking at vids of the new Active Sky Next weather engine to be released soon for FSX, and then later for P3D. While I have not yet picked up P3D because I am waiting for a patch to clear up some issues, I wonder what the platform priority will be for future third party development: FSX or P3D? In this transition period, will devs continue to develop for FSX first and then later cut a release for P3D? I realize that many addons work in both platforms already, but with the new capabilities for the P3D SDK, will developers leave FSX totally and focus mainly on the new possibilities with P3D? Ultimately, will third party developers bur…

Well, I have done about two hours flying, and here is what I have found: For the default autogen scenery, 5788x1080, sliders at second to highest setting, no external shadows, flying over non-city terrain, my frame rates went from about 22 to about 33. It was also noticeably smoother. Unlike many folks I was still getting stuttering with my old card, and that is better now. It still slows down to the low 20's over the stock NYC scenery. Since I live near NYC and fly a lot in that area, I find that a bit disappointing. Still, there is an improvement in the default scenery performance. On a more positive note enabling shadows did not translate into a very noticeable hit…

As many of us fiddled out now, P3D naked runs very fine. Till the point you copy over some FSX sceneries (which have been in the worst case also been FS9 conversions). Then frames drop .... What I wonder now is, if a conversion of the textures couldn't give us some frames back? I have no clue about that stuff, so the question is to some devs or anybody else who knows which image formats are used in P3D?! So, if we convert to DXT5 etc and so on, would we probably gain something? (the answer could be, wait till the devleopers bring out native P3D installers. But even with that installers we have FS9/FSX portovers and some developers are relatively lazy …

I bought & installed the latest Migration Tool and used it to installed RA Turbine Duke just to have a familiar great plane to play with, and also added FSGenesis USA West Coast Mesh. I had previously installed, w/o Estonia, FTXG & upgraded REX E+, and all was fabulous performance and otherwise, a few bugs aside. Then, and the best guess I have is that I changed textures in REX E+ to 4096 from 2048 which is where they had been which became This became the beginning of seeing performance nearly cut in half! Plus, the black screen hit for the first time. Plus, and this must be a hint to those sharper than I, I noticed AERO would be reset to Windows Basic. GPU…

It's now been a week. A week where every spare moment has been spent playing with sliders and check boxes and visiting many parts of the world in different weather conditions. I've not used any external weather engines until today. In fact, it's all been default out of the box scenery and planes. Only today have I loaded the freeware Norway to give it a spin with what I believed were my best settings. I've done several complete flights all lasting an hour or more today and some with weather injected by Opus and AS2012. I've also used default ATC with these flights and just to try and make the world like my FSX world, I loaded AI and set it 10% higher than what I use …

Hey all I've noticed that when installed into P3D V2 using the airdailyx method I end up missing buildings and such like at OG39 its just the runway and the same at KORS but KHQM works but is missing some stuff as is CZST missing 3d grass. I know that ORBX said to wait but I didn't haha. Has anyone else ran into this and found a solution?

No Nav Lights Strobes or Beacon, There must be some file missing in my effects folder but I cant figure out which it is. Can anyone help

My specs are to the left of this post under my profile picture. Needless to say I have pretty darn good PC. One that ran FSX with whatever I threw at it remarkably. P3D on the other hand is unusable for me right now. Here's the scenario: I load up P3d in legacy mode due to using FSinn for VATSIM. Before connecting any weather programs, or FSinn, I select my flight perimeters from the scenario screen. For this example I will load up in the iFly 737, but The problem happens with any plane, even default. I load up at the default PHNL airport in windowed mode and show a decent 30fps. Over the course of 15 minutes without touching anything in the sim or keyboard, the FPS gradu…

Hi, Perhaps this has been covered elsewhere already, if so I apologise for raising it again. Will Prepar3D v2.0 coexist with an existing v1.4 installation? If so, how does it deal with the scenery.cfg and Prepar3D.cfg files associated with both sims? It's taken me a while to reach this stage and, despite some qualified reservations being expressed in these forums, have now purchased and downloaded v2.0. Currently I'm very happy with v1.4 and enjoy flying VFR courtesy of Horizon GenX, Scotlight Photo and Earth Simulation's Treescapes. Performance is very good indeed under Win7 Pro 64bit with my i7 2960XM @ 4GHz, 2xGeForce GTX 580M (2GB each) (eagerly awaiti…

Guys, I am trying to install v2 now but it stops at the end with an error message "Error 1406. Could not write value Complete to key\Products\A8FF3B2933C3CFE458D0FC925E24299D\Features. System error . Verify that you have sufficient access to that key, or contact your support personnel." I've downloaded installation package twice just in case the first one corrupted but I had same result. I have p3d 1.4 installed and working well. I asked this to LM forum. They've suggested that I should run installer as admin which I've already tried and didn't work, and uninstall p3d 1.4 and try again. I don't want to uninstall v1.4 yet because I am using gazillion addons with it. …

Just a thought, but I've noticed that a lot of folks have been screaming bloody murder that they aren't getting what they expected from Prepar3d using their FSX-designed addons. As other have pointed out, some addons seem to work better, and still some seem to work worse when used with P3D V2. I think it's a bit premature for anyone to dismiss P3D V2 just because their year or more old addon that was designed with tools meant to work for FSX (or even FS2004...) doesn't work correctly or better in P3D V2. It is in my firm opinion that once addons are released using the P3D V2 SDK and tools, we will be able to see P3D V2 being used as it was meant to be, not in …

Have found for Carenado a/c (e.g., the P34) you can simply copy the complete folder in its Sim objects location to the corresponding in P3Dv2, and any referenced files in the Gauges folder to the equivalent in P3Dv2 - and it seems to work. Haven't tested if everything is functioning, bit it seems to be. I assume you can do the same for most Carenado a/c and perhaps for other developers.

Back to the shadows again... Anyone has these ghost shadows in P3D v2? I highlighted a few by red circles, but you can see there are lots of them, particularly along the roads. I have FTX Global + Iceland demo installed and this is over Reykjavik. But the same ghost shadows appear outside Iceland demo regions too. I forgot whether I saw them in P3D2 only, but I kind of believe they're there maybe in different shapes. I set shadow at High but they appear in any settings. I can confirm this has nothing to do with shadow draw distance.

Hey guys, has LM said anything about an update for PreParv2 lately?

Perhaps the one menu key combo that my fingers get stuck on most is (Alt + A) then A to search your available aircraft which has been with FS for as long as there has been aircraft to pick from. This option is no longer there and it will take some repetition to get used to (Alt +E) then V to open the Vehicle menus. Is anyone else hitting other key options that have changed with P3D? Keith :excl:

I just purchased the A2A C172 after carefully comparing with other 172s available. The aircraft is amazing. I am having an issue with my CH Yoke though. It seems fine in flight but whenever I land the plane it veers off the runway to the left regardless of yoke movement, this also happens on takeoff. I have gone through the calibration at the driver level and even have attempted to set it to default settings but no luck at present. I have only installed the following P3D v2 A2A 172 Estonia Migration Tool Nothing else. Any ideas would be appreciated.

I have browsed over the website and cant see any differences that maybe in game ?? Could anyone help clarify this Much appreciated

Here is the query I sent to LM. Hi, Can you add a "Load Flight" button on the "Scenario startup screen" ? Like that for exemple: Thanks. Regards Aimé If you agree with me, go to the forum LM and press my request. http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=4123.0&notify&id=4123 Thanks