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Hello all and Happy Thanksgiving to the folks in the US I am hoping to purchase some tropicalsim scenery and based on the photos/videos I've seen it looks like default taxiway signs and runway textures are used. Can anyone confirm that? If that is the case I may pick up ENVTEX as well to improve the default textures. Thanks in advance for your help! Dan

Hello, How to enable/disable? P3d or Active Sky? Thanks in advance

Hi friends, I have RTX3090 installed in my machine. And I find some interesting things. The fps in some big and complex airports is higher than that in the sky. After taking off the fps may only at around 30 in sky with ASP3D. And GPU usage is only about 40-50%. I think, however, the fps in complex scenery should be lower than that in simple one. So the fps should be higher in sky. But why would that happen?

I was mostly certain that I was going to get V4 but just a little while ago I saw a picture by GSalden in this post that made me doubt myself again: Anyway, I'm still on the side of V4, but I thought I'd ask just to see how owners here feel about V5, and if there's any apps/addons/enhancements that they had in V4 and will not be updated for V5 that they miss-- or, if there is anything they had for V4 that they find they don't need in V5.

I think Aerosoft is my only choice for a PANC Anchorage addon, correct? Has anyone confirmed it working in P3Dv5hf1? I'm also looking for a Dutch Harbor / Unalaska addon, and I'm pretty sure the Aerosoft/FSDG does NOT work in v5 - am I correct?

Beated the horse and installed Rex SF in P3d v5 and it works. So far no anomalies and beautiful clouds. Anyone tried also? Regards Michael

Flightsim Labs has released the update to make their Airbus compatible with P3Dv5 HF1.

Hello everyone! I am finishing a simple P3D v5 Shader App. I will need some testers and volunteers. So, if you are interested in testing appreciate if you PM me with your email address, Skype (or similar) and your PC specs. Thanks!

Take a look at this screenshot. P3D show far to few RAM used. As it does not switch off EA when RAM is low, I had a lot of crashes I couldn't find a reason for. Is this known? Or am I wrong somehow? https://www.dropbox.com/s/mck6ed3r2zgd3cv/Crashes.jpg?dl=0 Karl

Hi guys, Just bought REX Skyforce 3D for P3D and trying to download the files through their file manager. But everytime I launch it, a black pop out box appears and this is the message... DOWNLOAD MANAGER UPDATER::Connecting to REX EDGE Data Servers... DOWNLOAD MANAGER UPDATER::Downloading latest update from servers... DOWNLOAD MANAGER UPDATER::Error - The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel. Thus meaning I can't download Skyforce 3D. Any help? Cheers, Mark.

Overall a great improvement, so much so i decided to do a flight with EA on. I had set tow visibility layers, one 5 nm to 1100 ft and on above 1100 to 16000 unlimited and a stratus cloud layer overcast from 500 to 1100. All working fine , Memory 5.2 gb from the 7.1 available. After trying to alter the wind i had a CTD. Any ideas? Also as posted in a different post , not able to put in a cirrus layer?

Is anyone having trouble getting the DME and ADF to operate? Despite tuning in to the correct frequencies I can't get either to appear on the PFD. And yes I am pretty au fait with the G1000.

I quite like the slightly hazy look with EA on, but in some conditions, I wish I could reduce the haze a little. Does anyone know if that is possible?

Hello all, A while ago I bought JustSim's Basel scenery, not so much because I think it looks better than FSDT's, but because I prefer airports that do not use the AddonManager, and because JustSim's was simply cheaper at the time it came out. Right now, though FSDT has a sale going on and I'm very much tempted to get FSDT's rendition. Looking over FSElite's comparison cross-referenced with Google Maps my sense is that FSDT is much more accurate, too, especially in the ground markings department. However, I was wondering what people on here have to say? Is it worthwhile to get FSDT's when I already have JustSim's?

Hi guys. I've tried searching/googling this one I remember seeing it in the past but can't find the info, but after installing v5.1 hf1 I have these large Lockheed Martin signs near the runway at least a ton of them at EGE. Im using all Orbx global addons except vector. Can someone point me in the direction? Thank you so much! So far liking the new update but haven't been able to test it much.

I couldn’t find anything on their website so I was wondering if the current iteration works. Thanks, Mark

New update for ActiveSky - RC3 ready to download Version 7633 https://hifisimtech.com/downloads/

Overall it is a great step in the right direction! Good things: 1. NO more flashing clouds 2. Better stability and performance 3. Starts , runway lights, moon and sun are way better proportioned/ sized in widescreen !!!!! thank you 4. Runway visibility is a lot better further out 5. i really like the EA without clouds and at lower visibility! Bad things: 1. EA night water reflection 2. EA clouds 3. EA visibility below unlimited not including lower visibility 4. EA stability , i had one crash EA on , two visibility layers on and one cloud layer. 5. EA no cirrus layer available?? Keep on trucking in the right direction!

This is the scenario, Engine failure on take off As the engine fails, The propeller has to be feathered (ATPCS) system. However, this doesn't happen. Although the engine torque drops to zero, propeller keeps rotating. Which makes the aircraft impossible to control. Is there a way I can send a command via FSUIPC or SPAD.NEXT to set the prop RPM to zero. So, far I have tried almost everything but couldn't do it. Can I edit the failure of prepar3d some how such that when the engine is failed the rpm also drops to zero ? or may be even send a feather command or something?

Before the 5.1 update I was using ActiveSky but not EA. There's been a lot of talk about EA with the 5.1 update, is it time to start using it with ActiveSky or is it still better to keep it off? (Also, what does it actually do??). Is there a performance hit when using it? Thanks

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Hello all, does anyone have ideas about skyforce+enviroforce coming to V5 /5.1 anytime soon, I really enjoyed using this combo in v4 with AS as the wx engine. The reason I ask, a lot people saying AS+Asca+envtex is looking pretty good in v5.1, so Iam wondering when I install 5.1HF1 next week do I abandon REX and go with AS/Asca and envtex (I have all previous versions of the above so no purchases necessary I believe). Iam not convinced yet that EA is good enough to adopt, although LM and Hifi are doing their level best to improve it, anyway that's a long enough, thanks people!

The performance improvement with 5.1 HF was great, except for airports utilizing PBR materials. My frames dropped in half at all PBR airports - LVFR KMIA, KMSY, KBDL and ORBX KBUR. Not sure what the issue is, but even KMIA and KBUR with the PBR materials disabled, and with or without EA, the frames still dropped. All other airports are the same or better with 5.1. Anyone else experiencing this?

ORBX's OpenLC Europe is just not working. I've tried Verifying files a thousand times and yet, no change. ORBX just wont respond to my post. They are a busy group, i get it. The tiles are all wrongly placed (overlapping, cutting off etc etc) and it looks horrible. There are some tiles missing as well which show up black. the street lights (2D) are placed on top, even during daytime. I have no idea on the order the sceneries should be placed in. I installed Base Pack, and then OLC. The third screenshot looks alright, but you can kinda see whats going on. The first one looks perfectly believable with OLC disabled, And the second one is how it looks overall. This is jus…

Hi, I find the HDR mode colors extremely oversaturated, and given that EA works best with HDR, I've decided to experiment with the shaders. Looking at the HDR shader (ShadersHLSL/PostProcess/HDR.hlsl inside Prepar3D's main installation directory), it looks like P3D is using ACES tonemapping, which unsurprisingly oversaturates everything. So, I've replaced the tonemapping function with several others (Uncharted 2, Reinhard and Exponential), which have a more filmic and less saturated look. Sadly, I don't have access to my main PC which has P3D installed right now, and I won't have access for several days. But I was quite impatient and therefore decided to po…