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Can anyone provide any insight into how this option works and why it causes clouds to go all stripey when you pan the view please?

Just purchased 5.2, as title says, why so dark ?, the lighting is way off, is there a fix for this ?,

I know there are a fair number of people here using the SunSkyJet KPHL FSX scenery successfully in P3D v4.4 As freeware airport scenery's go, it's about as good as is gets, but the static jetways have always dragged it down a bit for me, so I decided to try and remedy that situation by reconfiguring the entire airport, all 107 jetway equipped gates, with GSX Level 2 SODE jetways. I think it turned out quite well, so if anyone who is using this fine freeware scenery in P3D v4.4 is interested, i'll be happy to share the GSX L2 custom configuration file with you, just PM me.

can someone point me to a tutorial on how to merge the Skyspirit 767 and the QW757? I've looked all over and tried youtube and google to no avail. For the most part I think I have it done, but I cant get the EICAS etc to activate etc. I am trying to merge this skyspirit B767-300ER/F 767-300FER-GE-CF6-80C2.air and this model OSX763FV5_CF6-80C--WLL.MDL with the Qualitywings 752 virtual cockpit.

As stated, both have been released for 5.2. A tease from Maxim as well for something coming later this summer. Hopefully it's a true PTA replacement. https://www.togaprojects.com/post/p3dv5-2-compatibility?postId=4d7a10d2-cb5c-40cc-906f-2ce31a15a142

In case you didn't know, the BN-2 Islander for P3Dv4 by Blackbox Simulation is about to make it's grand appearance. https://www.facebook.com/pg/BlackBoxSimulation/posts/?ref=page_internal

After recent updates, P3Dv5.2 and Windows 21H1, I cannot directly access the desktop from full screen. I could do this usually with win+D or with my down-left mouse key. None of them works anymore. It seems to be a windows rather than a P3D problem. I beg your pardon, but I know we have some techies here around who may have a solution. BTW, "google is your friend" did not help so far. Any ideas?

Enjoy! https://www.prepar3d.com/news/announcements/2021/06/120786/ Prepar3D Client General Platform Updates New Features Added road lights setting to generate lights along roads. Enhanced Atmospherics can now be used with legacy (non-volumetric) clouds. Various graphics settings can now be changed while sim is running. Particles can now be dynamically lit. Added developer menu allowing for shader and texture reloads and viewing models. Added terrain awareness post process effect. Added orthogonal view support to camera system. Can be set in camera configuration and PDK. Added default weather radar view and SD…

Hello all. Performed a complete new install of 5.2 and am disappointed with the lack of smoothness in my Odyssey +. I can push 100+ fps in 2D and 45+ in WMR. If I hold my head straight, the sim is smooth as glass. If I use the hat switch to look around I have no juddering at all. Move my head and it becomes unflyable. All SteamVR settings are default and all SteamVR titles are tracking smoothly (Aerofly FS2, Project Cars 2, Assetto Corsa). I have cleared shaders, rebuilt the .cfg file and tried every setting from low to maxxed with no change in the head tracking. i7-9700K @ 4.6, 16GB RAM, 2080 Super, Odyssey +. Any advice/tips, please? TIA …

Hi Guys. I created a tech support ticket, but also wanted to try here. I ended up going from 5.1 HF to 5.2, then rolled back for various reasons. After reinstalling 5.1 HF I noticed that rex clouds were not injecting into the simulator. So I attempted to reinstall my rex theme. When I click install it immediately acts like it was successful. In the past this would take a couple minutes to complete. So it seems too fast. I then tried uninstalling and reinstalling rex. But same problems. Does anybody know a work around? It also seems like uninstalling rex is not completely uninstalling it, because when I reinstall it remembers my settings from the last time aroun…

Hi guys, bit of a long shot question but I have a particular folder that crashes p3dv5.2 its called FSSI AI Sloped runway and resides in my p3dv5 addon folder of documents. I have got a bit lazy after reinstalling p3dv5.2 from scratch,and missed which program installed it. does anyone have any ideas which airport would possibly installed it?Or at least I'm assuming its an airport. I have UK2000,Flytampa,Orbx,FSDT,Flightbeam,LVFR and aerosoft so far. Sadly the xml file does not give me any clues. Thanks for any assistance.

Hi to all. I cant see the FLAI contrail traffic over vatsim in p3d v4.5 at fl380 above or beyond Do you know why? Very thanks

I have been using EA for a week or two, and it could look quite nice. However, there are just strange things here and there. 1. Dark cockpits (especially for cockpits with PBR textures) 2. Weird cloud texture color with volumetric clouds turned off, especially during sunset/sunrise 3. Sun being cut-off by a fake horizon higher than the actual horizon during sunrise (and possibly sunset) 4. Overly strong ground haze and there are no ways to change it 5. Bright nights and the moon is quite bright, almost like a sun at night I'm sure there are a lot more issues. I find EA acceptable only during daylight hours. Any time other than that it would look a bit strang…

I have always stayed away from EA as I've had ASP3D for weather and I was very conscious that EA only created one cloud layer and wouldn't give WX radar returns on the QW787 and PMDG777. So, my questions are: 1. Does EA work well with ASP3D? 2. Does it create more than one cloud layer? 3. Can I get returns on the WX radars (when using alongside ASP3D)? 4. What is the performance impact? Thanks, Ben

Well, Wed June 23rd is one month out from the beginning of the Tokyo Olympic games, and that's about the time the serious inflow of Olympic-related cargo begins, and the initial ramp-up of passenger traffic (officials, teams, support staff, and in other years, spectators). Since the '96 Atlanta games I have made it sort of a simming tradition here to fly a bunch of cargo and pax flights into the venue...having been to most of the places IRL it fires the memory neurons back up and gives a sort of a sense of being there (or maybe just have-been there). So, in that spirit, I've got Tokyo in my sights. I've got Drzewiecki's RJAA (Toyko Narita) and a modded Technobr…

From the HIFi Website: ASP3D update 061921 (B7840) is now available as an OPEN BETA update. This brings new P3D v5.2 compatibility and various other fixes and improvements. See the article with details including download link and changelog: https://hifisimtech.com/asp3d-update-for-p3d-v5-2/

I'm experiencing a lengthy app freeze when I try to cycle coords, vram and fps. It eventually unfreezes and then works normally until I cycle it off for a oeriod of time then it hangs again. So far it has only caused a CTD a couple of times. Also opening the ATC window will cause a slight hang when first opened or after a lengthy time of being closed during the same flight. The hang appears associated with opening and closing extra windows. V5.2

I must say that with UTX mesh and Orbx Base, NA LC, Buildings, and Airports P3d v4.5 looks in most areas around here I know mostly as it looks. My setting are fairly high but I have most of GPU extras low or off. The flight models seem good. Very nice for an FSX Child.

I had been using the PMDG 737 Bravo Throttle config for a long time with no issues. I downloaded the PMDG 777 yoke/throttle config and used that no issues. When I went back to the 737 I would get an error that said: L:AS_PMDG_T7_EVT_YOKE_AP_DISC_SWITCH was requested but could not be found. I have tried for days to figure it out. I tried: 1. Deleted the T7 Yoke profile via the config tool 2. Disabled PMDG support via the config tool then re-enable support. 3. Re-added the PMDG T7 profile. 4. Re-load profile settings via P3d menu. Nothing seems to work., the message will not go away. I tried to contact via Honeycomb support but ha…

Hello, I seem to be having trouble keeping this puppy from skidding on touchdown in one direction or the other. I have no issue landing PMDG, FSLabs and other models. Some trouble with the Q400, but it still never drifts like this on landing, to the point where it tilts over to one side. What exactly should I not do, that I perhaps take for granted with PMDG models? Should I not be using the pedals after touchdown? Should I not touch the brakes at all? I am on the 64-bit P3Dv5 version.

Hi ...... wondering if, by creating a VM, is it possible to get around the pointlessness of trying to run 5.2 with sliders to the right ... in laptop with soldered 4GB VRAM GPU ....??

Hi gents, Over the last few days, I´ve been testing and flying with the new P3D version, I´ve experienced some stutters. After investigating a bit more, I´ve realized that the stutters are happening when: 1. I press shift Z (I think this is identified and I´ve read about this in some Forums...) 2. When I press the brakes, either if I press the joystick button I´ve assigned to brake either I press the parking brake on the airplane (PMDG 737, for example). I think it is directly related with the SHIFT Z issue becouse when I press the parking brake button on the airplane, for example, the text that appears if I press SHIFT Z, appears for a while, and then …

Only discovered this problem this morning attempting a comparison of True Sky at varius locations with some real time photographs from Sky Cams at airports. Several changes of view ok, bit of lag, then slew mode, same. Change airport and location, will do it once or twice, again hangs between window view changes, then bang black screen of death on about the 3rd iteration or airport change. Restart will only get the sim back and operational, just hangs un responsive including the menu bar! I checked the sim settings noted the sim default is set to pause between task switch, I turned this OFF and now no crash between switch views a little lag but if you switch to …

Hello, In another thread (about P3D 5.2 and rounded clouds horizon and weird haze), I posted pictures of the current weather that I took in real world 10km southeast from airport UUEE and compared that with how the live weather looks in P3Dv4.5 and MSFS. For P3D, I use ASP3D, Envshade, ASCA for clouds and Envtex for skies. In the said post, I took pictures during dusk. In this new, separate thread, I want to post pictures that I took just recently at 14:00 local time. In the simulators, I placed the airplane on runway 24R at airport UUEE and directed the camera to the northwest (what I also did from the window). Here are the pictures: Reality: …

Running into a head-scratcher, maybe someone else has some insight on. At seemingly random intervals when loading into the sim (can happen instantly when changing aircraft or loading into the sim, or after a several seconds), I'll have aircraft textures load wrong, runway/building/tree textures go missing, and visuals just general "glitch out" for lack of any other term or correlation. I did a full update client/scenery/content, do not have any modified shaders installed(shader cache rebuilt), no FPS drops or stutters like some have, and have tried to isolate this toggling EA, dynamic reflections/lighting, etc. to no avail. Even a reinstall of each of these …