The Prepar3d Forum

Hello My copy of FSX:SE has ended up completely broken and I have been unable to fix it. I'm still trying to find a solution but I am beginning to think that I am going to need find a new flight simulator. I have been looking at P3D since it might allow me to use some of the addons I have purchased for FSX:SE. I am wondering about how P3D compares to FSX:SE. I am particularly interested in the stability and reliability of P3D in comparison to FSX:SE. Before FSX:SE stopped working, it would crash so frequently that I think I may have been spending more time troubleshooting game crashes than actually flying. It was so bad that it was impossible to make a transatlantic …

A lot of...or a few of...airport downloads have .EXE installers. I'm running P3Dv5.1...and just about all of the freeware airports that use the .exe installer are for everything BUT V5... I've had luck with a lot of aiport downloads for previous versions....because they allow 'manual' insertion of the "scenery" and "texture" files that will load into the v5 Scenery Library. BUT...the .EXE self loader won't work !!! Is there a way I can get into the .EXE file to get the 'scenery and texture' files out ??? Thanks for any help Skip d

How do you remove the static aircraft from the gates EDDL HenningR

This morning I took a short flight from Flightbeam NZAA down to default NZWN. After landing I noticed lots of taxiway signs on the taxiway rather than on the grass. I reported it on the P3D forum and really didn’t expect to get any official response. But to my amazement I had a reply this evening acknowledging the issue and advising it will be fixed in the next update. So if you do find bugs please report them. I’m sure they appreciate the feedback. http://www.prepar3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6312&t=143257

As I have had a break from Flight Simulation (P3D) it appears that v5 is still having problems with EA and cloud textures, therefore, is there a definite performance boost using v5 compared to using v4.5 or is any performance boost negligible compared to the excellence of v4.5? Why does LM continue to use v5 with such unrealistic effects when using EA and cloud structures resembling "waffle or pixilated mess"? Clive alexander

Does anyone have these settings actually working and doing anything useful in P3D 5.1? I'm trying to keep emissive textures on later into the morning and earlier in the evening. I've been playing about with these settings, having added them to my .cfg, but they don't affect the time that emissive lights go off or on, with EA on or off. In my saved scenario at 26/01/21 at EGLC, they go off some time between 0820 and 0825 Zulu. It's maddening. (Really what I want is for developers to stop using emissive textures for cockpit lighting including backlighting, flood lighting and dome lighting, and use proper dynamic lights and effects. It's hugely irritating that FeelThere…

Anyone tried the new Active Sky Beta 7893? Any improvements worth having?

Looks like another retailer dropping P3D products. According to the statement sales have been close to zero and they are focusing on DCS and MSFS. In 2022 they will be offering their products as freeware. They also said they will get back to P3D in the future if things change. FlightSim.Com - IndiaFoxtEcho To End Sales Of Prepar3D Products

How long does it take from AIG to approve my registration request , does anyone know to answer me

Is there any way to correct the taxi lines and runway lines ourselves? some airports like flytampa Dubai rebooted in P3d v5.2 just horrible. thAnks mike

Has anyone heard if/when FFTF Dynamic will be updated to work with P3Dv5.2?

Here's a heads-up to others that may experience this problem. I just installed FSDG's FYWH/Windhoek and FYWB/Walvis Bay, and both sceneries exhibited severe terrain anomalies--no ground textures, buildings sunk deep into the ground, protruding mounds on the taxiways, runways etc. The issues were the same in both P3D v4.5HF3 and 5.1HF1. Several hours of painstaking troubleshooting led me to the discovery that another African scenery (NMG Trading's Johannesburg) was causing the problems at FYWH/FYWB. Moving the NMG scenery and its associated NMG library entry to a position below the FSDG sceneries in the scenery library fixed the problem without having to deacti…

Without further ado... these are ones I have running in 5.2. Just Flight DC-8 10-40 and 50-70. Graphically, they're nice--with those big flaps at 48 degrees they are very impressive on final. And the different engine sounds are great, including the starting howl from the early ones. There are big differences among the various models. With the first pack, you get the original ones. The next pack you also get some more advanced avionics, from FMC only to FMC plus glass instruments. These are not what you'd get in a more complete package (for example the VNAV gives you a + to keep centered on the way down, being advisory only) but they work just fine. In the non-FMC mod…

Hi I don't live in the USA but want to try and plan accurate alternates for major US airports. Does anyone know of a website or have information on commonly used alternates? For example when flying into KATL, what airports are commonly used as alternates for there? Would appreciate any help you can provide.

Hello. I‘m having a problem with ORBX Germany north and addon airports in that area: Airports such as EDDV and EDDH are depicted twice ( simultaneously ). So I got two control towers ( default and addon ), terminal buildings and so on. As soon as I uninstall ORBX the problem disappears. What do I need to setup in order to get ORBX and addon airports properly? Best regards, Toto

Hi Does anyone know how to turn off the overspeed buffet of aircraft in P3Dv5? Thanks

I have been using envshade to change the cockpit brightness by reducing the HDR contrast but I believe it is linked with darkness of the night which is reduced as well. I have been playing around with envshade settings but quite unsuccessful so far. Also, I have been advised to uncheck cockpit receive shadows but it is no so great as I can’t see shadows in the cockpit anymore. I know as well that I can manually disable HDR via p3d.cfg, it gives a nice cockpit lighting but also gives a reduced night darkness and p3d rain effects become almost invisible. would there be a way to decrease night darkness via shadersHLSL perhaps ?

Hi, after using ASCA again for some weeks i wanted to go back to Skyforce 3D clouds, but i can't get the cumulus clouds to show in my sim, it's always the default P3D cumulus textures. Cirrus textures are working fine. The textures are 100% installed, even after i put them manually in the texture folder they do not show up. I had this problem in the past but i can't remember how i fixed it. Reinstalled Rex like 3-4 times now without success, cleared shaders and repaired P3D Content file... Any more ideas? Sim version is latest 5.2 HF1 with latest Rex version (also tried older ones). EDIT: Ok, it seems like the sim just completely ignores th…

Hello! P3DV5.2 is definitely a step forward, but I noticed a strange and excessive Mist with EA and Rex Sky Force 3D weather injection, also different sky colors, I'm not sure what is causing since I made a full reinstall. Here, you can see the difference: Standard EA colors: https://imgur.com/ESmat8i Weird Sky EA + REX Weather injection: https://imgur.com/a/YLLIiI1 Ho could I solve that?

hey guys, I am having a very strange issue when running in VR (Reverb G2). The moment the application is in focus, no matter whether I am in windows mode or full screen, I am having terrible stuttering/lagging and the moment I put P3D out of focus (clicking on the desktop or on my 2nd monitor, P3D runs smooth as silk. I tried everything I could think off, deleting shader files, starting with a default p3d.cfg, NVidia CP 3D app settings set to default, and a complete reinstall of P3D. Nothing works, I dont understand, I tried to google and cant find anything specific, has anyone seen this before? Thank you in advance for any tips! John.

Hello, Since few months I was thinking about getting the 757 for P3D and was really close buying the CaptainSim one. However due to recent news regarding CaptainSim policy (abandon of 767 Freighter and 777 for MSFS scam - sorry cant find another word) I will not support that company anymore. The question is, is the QW 757 any good (I am using version 5 of P3D): Is it compatible with v5? With what aircraft and developers will you compare that aircraft? Any opinions are welcome 🙂 Best regards, Arek

On my P3D v4 without AM on a 8 core CPU the core 01 always runs about 40% and the others around 100, so I decided to use AM=255 all cores but still core 01 around 40% could it be that is the way P3D v4 utilizes the preocessor and it doesn't matter what AM is in the config?

Hello, I've been experiencing extremely slow loading autogen while in-sim (not initial loading of the sim) for quite a while now, even though I run a fairly good PC (i7-9700k @ 4.7GHz, RTX 3070, 16GB DDR4-3200MHz) and have my p3d installed into a Samsung 980 SSD which is pretty fast. I've tried de-bugging this issue but to no avail. Help would be appreciated, Addons; ORBX BASE pack, ORBX Terraflora, OpenLC Europe, OpenLC North America, OpenLC Africa, AU v2, Global Buildings HD, and various other airport sceneries MY SETTINGS :https://imgur.com/a/sH4eRU8 Thanks',

Hi... Is there a Doha airport scenery that works with v5? Thanks, Ben

I have been flying my A2A Constellation in Prep3Dv4 using SPAD NEXT to control my Saitek Multi panel and all works well. Now I have been introduced to LINDA. With Linda I can control all of the buttons on my ProFlight yoke and quadrants and Goflight panels and also the Multi Panel. My question is, do really need to keep Spad Next and will Linda and Spad conflict if I do? daveEboy