The Prepar3d Forum

Am a GA flyer. The Turbine Duke and the Mu-2 are the largest ac I have flown. If you fly the Q400 how much time and effort did you spend learning to fly it? Is it hard to fly well? Am trying to decide if i want spend the time learning and not park her in the hanger. Simmarket has her for 40 bucks. Thanks for your response.

Hello all, I recently discovered an elevation issue at HAAB by WhiteDotSim. When I first installed it (must have been under 4.5 before the hotfixes) everything appeared to work fine. However, I now have a persistent elevation issue that is characterized by the taxiways sunken a couple meters into the ground, or, perhaps, the ground surrounding the taxiways defined in the AFCAD to rise up. You can sort of see it in the below image, especially closer toward that hangar that is positioned relatively closer to the aircraft. I thought it might be caused by the default airport background somehow gaining precedence over the HAAB addon airport background, and so amended…

Hi, I can remember there was some "setting" for the p3d config file to "reduce" the issue with the black autogen buildings in the distance. But I cannot find it anymore. Can anyone help me out ? 🙂

Looking to purchase an Antonov An-2 However it seems there is a plethora of them... e.g. AeroSoft, Sibwings, ATSimulations. Which one? Or are they all the same one being resold? SibWings looks like FSX only, AeroSoft version looks to be resoid by a number of vendors and ATSimulations looks to be the newest. Anyone have any insight? Cheers R

Hi everyone, I'm noticing that many streamers use reshade with presets, my problem is that when I go to install reshade on Prepar3D.exe, selecting directx 11, it starts up, but then the game goes much more slow on menus and crashes most of the time. Why? How can I solve? I await response, thanks, greetings.

hi, i do notice performance improvements vs p3dv4 enabling this is this also your observation? Thanks Michael Moe

I have recently installed P3Dv5 which runs fine but I have a problem with the weather. Every time I fly (both before and after I installed the latest version of Active Sky). I cannot change the weather no matter what I do when I start a flight the weather is universal and appears like a fog (max visibility about 3miles). I haven't been able to change this by using the inbuilt weather or active sky weather, I just get this fog like visibility. Everything else is fine. Any pointers or suggestions would help relieve my frustration, thanks.

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Hi... Using Flightbeam's KSFO (which is a brilliant scenery!) I just pulled up at the International Terminal expecting to park in A9, but when I approached it appeared to be in the A11 position (according to Navigraph). Are the gate numbers wrong? Many thanks, Ben

Hello, those familiar with the Bombardier Q400 will know that it's customary to feather engine #2 with the GPU still connected, then disconnect it and commence the pushback. Replicating this SOP with GSX and the Majestic Q400 has proven to be difficult. If I start/feather the engine right away I can't even request pushback, if I do it while the tow bar is being connected, it is aborted, so I can only wait until I'm told to release the parking brake. It works but this command is repeated every five seconds or so, which I find rather annoying... (And of course I'm never officially cleared to start the engine anyway.) So my question is, is there any "smarter" way to do …

Hi, i hope you are all well. I have just purchased p3dv5 however I also have p3dv4.5 on the same drive. The idea was to slowly move everything over but it occurred to me that all my scenery is on the same drive. My question is, do I need to re download all my scenery again and point it to p3dv5 or can they all be accessible without re downloading them? I dont have any experience with xml which I read was a much easier way to move things over. Any help is much appreciated. Thanks in advance Ash allen

I would like to know if the Flight Replicas Heron, North Star and Halifax are fully compatible (no errors/glitches and all systems works as should) with P3Dv5 ? Thanks!

Hi all, Using Drzewiecki Design's KSEA, at the gate I can get jetways to dock using the SODE menu, but when I use GSX it just says, 'No Jetways Here'.# If I go into the gate configuration page, it says 'No Jetway' even though I can clearly see it and it works with SODE command. If I click '1 Jetway Here' in the GSX gate it just places a random jetway in the wrong place...! Can someone help? Cheers, Ben

Dont know how it happened, but i probably messed something up with my shaders, now at any fog i can see tree's, houses, any type of scenery object through fog, is there any fix for this?

Well after looking at the PMDG website and reading their advice that it was possible to install the P3DV4x version into P3DV5 I went and payed nearly $100AUD for the download. Before that was possible I had to jump through about 4 different password-user account resets to even do that despite having an account and despite having a PMDG Forum account as well and having already been a FSX user of the product. Here is the outcome - the so called navigation method to get the installer to recognise P3DV5 does not work and aborts the install continuously saying there is no P3D simulator installed (which there is). I tried several methods to get around this, none suc…

How is Skyforce working in 5.1? I was thinking of trying to install it but wasn't sure about compatibility. If it works, should you turn off EA? How does it impact frames/performance? Is it working well with the latest Active Sky? Thanks!

Just FYI -- there has been a new open beta release for both ASP3D and ASCA -- version 7660. See https://hifisimtech.com/downloads/.

Hi, A couple of times recently, I've called up the ASP3D Weather Request box, but when I click on 'Close Window' it won't disappear. It means I have to restart the entire sim. Any ideas? Thanks Ben

Greetings all, Can anyone pass me a clue on how to bring up an ATC window while in VR? Is it possible or am I just missing how to do it? Thanks in advance...

Hi everyone, The new Istanbul Airport (LTFM) scenery is now available in Simmarket for who were waiting for it. It's really looking great with all the details, wish you all a happy year! Here is the link and some previews! https://secure.simmarket.com/scenerytr-stanbul-airport-ltfm.phtml

Hi all, I've got these strange blocks on the taxiways at FSDT's KDFW. Anyone got any ideas? I've tried reinstalling, to no effect. https://imgur.com/a/Y3qOrO8 Thanks, Ben

Hello All, Just wondered if anyone else had experienced this issue and found a solution: Thought i'd try out Envshade but after installing and updating with patch to 1.1.6.0 when I launch P3D I get the dreaded 'DXGI Device Hung' message at 90% loaded/processing shaders stage. However if I disable HDR in P3D the issue goes away. This is with P3D 5.1 & Gigabyte RX5700 XT graphics. Prior to this I had no problems getting decent performance out of of P3D with all the usual addons. As I have a bit of time on my hands i've tried various things: clean install of video drivers, clean install of P3D, all imaginable combinations of graphics settings, even fi…

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I heard about RealEngine v1.4 on Sim OutHouse and thought I would give it a trial. Besides that fact I'll need to replace the Doug Dawson gauges it uses with his x64 versions, has anyone at all played with it and have any configs / hints / tips? Cheers R

Hello, As of today, I am having horrible FPS in P3D v4.5 HF2. Even at the lowest possible settings, every single slider and setting at minimum, I'm getting no more than 8-9fps. Before, I could run medium-high settings at great framerates. I've tried letting the CFG rebuild, I've tried letting the folders in Programdata and Appdata rebuild, reinstalling drivers, all to no avail. I have a system that is more than capable of running P3D at good settings, so I have absolutely no idea what changed. I do have the usual slew of addons, PMDG, full suite of ORBX products, tomatoshade, reshade, REX, active sky, airports, etc... But it hasn't proven any issue at all until sudde…