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I have done a clean install of p3dv5 HF1. Addons: Active Sky Beta 1 7432 ORBX Global and Chase Plane. ENVTEX and ENVSHDE Loading P3D splash screen appears but after a few seconds closed. Any idea? Windows logs show nothing. Dekel

Hi guys, I am wondering which developers are not following the P3Dv5 SDK for their sceneries Below is from PMDG statement posted by RSR "Scenery Update Notes:During the transition to P5D, we found that many scenery developers are quickly updating their installers to make them P5D compatible, but many are not *also* taking the step to re-export the scenery BGLs in order to make them compliant with the P5D SDK. This would cause the 747 to be unable to read those airport scenery in order to display the airport moving map on the navigation display. We have created some logic in the EFB that will use some heuristics to attempt to determine if the scenery file i…

Hi all, I am currently running P3D V4.5 HF3 and am having issues with the blending of shadows on the fuselage's of aircraft. It's important to note that I was also experiencing this issue in HF2 and have had no improvement since updating to HF3. It is happening on all aircraft, both default and addon, with some being worse than others. The issue occurs with and without using PTA. I have attempted repairing my P3D Client, deleting P3D.cfg, deleting shaders as per: https://helpdesk.aerosoft.com/portal/kb/articles/rebuild-p3d-shaders, and have performed a clean reinstall of the latest Nvidia drivers. I have set OPAQUE_SHADOW_TEXTURE_SIZE=8192 and TRANSLUCENT_SHADOW…

Of course as I can not find the aircraft above for FSX/p3d, and I will be beginning my PPL on it, is there any other aircraft with similar systems/flight model, to help me get ready? thanks, bill

I'm curious if this is true. Cause I need all the VRAM I can get in P3D v5. I have a 1080 ftw 8GB, and in the sim I get a max of 6.6 - 6.7GB of VRAM. I know that the other is taken up by windows, but with the latest 2004 update I heard you gain an additional 1GB which should give you a max of 7.6 - 7.7GB of VRAM, for those with 8GB GPUs. If that is true, how can you get the new 2004 update?

Form the facebook page https://www.facebook.com/groups/FlythemaddogXpilots/announcements : "P3D v5 hotfix 1 improved vram management compared to first release, but it's not enough when it comes to handle complex demanding addons. The problem borns with the choice of switching to DX12: on one side there are benefits for sure (and you can see them with the increased fps average), but memory management isn't provided by the directx environment itself anymore, like it was in DX11 (just to make an example, when you went out of vram in 4.5, fps dropped because gpu/vram data feed was sent to cpu/ram instead as a 'recovery action', which is a considerably slower bus but kind…

With AIG-OCI, FSreborn AI Lights Reborn Pro, and FSXPAI models. I would like to setup my P3D primarily to load up at a busy airport and spot planes. I would like to set my AI traffic sliders to 100% and hopefully be able to have most sliders to the right since I won't be flying but just be around the airport area pretty much. So hopefully my CPU/GPU will have the resources necessary for AI. What's the least resource intensive plane I can load into? I'm assuming any of the default planes would do since I won't be flying. Is there a better method perhaps I can load an extremely low texture/low poly simobject so it doesn't take up any valuable ram or resources?

Hey guys, Is anyone else seeing this with GPU and CPU. My settings are pretty much the same as in P3D4.5 but what is going on with the mismatch. Yesterday night the CPU wasn't getting hit 100% and today it is and GPU is like well barely moving. What gives??? I got same results with true sky off and using standard ASCA Even Sim is reporting different values as compared to Windows GPU VRAM. It should be kinda be same don't you think?

I'm looking for something between a GA plane (Cessna 172) and a tubeliner (Boeing 777) for P3D v5. Something good for short to medium haul flights. Faster than a GA plane but slower than a full blown commercial tubeliner. Please recommend some high quality ones.

Many times I encounter a strange, blurry ground, while the autogen house and trees look normal. If I "stop" midair (pause the simulator) it takes up to 30 sec. until everything is loaded and better looking. I think I do have a really fast PC (see below) with all the latest drivers, incl. the latest Samsung NVMe 3.3 driver... Of course the PC was setup completely fresh before the P3Dv5 setup. Is there anything I could improve? I already tried to switch from 4096 to 2048, reduced some sliders, but it doesn't really help. I hope your Browser is still capable of showing GIF-Images: (image is reduced in size) Thanks Ralf

Tried installing the Phenom 100 and 525A CJ2 both have part of the VC textures missing in V5 . Anyone know how to fix must be an individual texture. No doubt there will be updates from carenado in due course and I will be ok with the Cj2 as brought from simMarket but unfortunately the phenom I purchased from Orbx old reseller that went bust and no way now to get updates . Carrenado only do updates through there reseller.

Hi guys, Just a heads up that I purchased the pksim Bogota airport scenery for p3d v4 recently and after installation I had a few issues with black night lighting tiles bleeding through the scenery north of the airport. I have Orbx South America LC and Orbx South America Mesh installed....so I verified the files, but that didn't correct the problem. So I contacted the developer at the support email given, but that email has been totally ignored for more than a week. For the price of this scenery, I do expect support......since there doesn't seem to be any support, I won't buy any of this developer's scenery ever again.....be warned and purchase at your…

Wondering if anybody has any ideas. I recently had my HD crash. Replaced it, and upgraded a few components at the same time. Reinstall of P3D went smooth. spent hours installing all the add-ons, and AI. After a few tests, went to do my first flight, and I had extreme texture flickering. Odd, black triangles, and odd shaped, flickering over textures. After combing the net, tried every fix out there (shaders, CFG, full screen optimizations, shadow settings, autogen settings, etc). All to no avail. Did a uninstall/reinstall (spent hours again). No flickering this time (well some in the distance, but not too much that its bothersome). I make it thru a test flight, next time I…

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Hi, I'm worried that this may contravene AVSIM license discussion policy - apologies if it does, please shut this down if so. I'd ask in the Prepar3D forums, but they seem overwhelmed at the moment (not to mention their forum is unbearably slow) I've been trying to conduct a total re-installation of P3Dv4.5, including a complete wipe and reinstall of Windows 10. This is due to CTD issues I've been having with the Aerosoft A330 Pro and D3D10Warp.dll It's been an odyessy, to say the least, that has chewed up a number of weeks, and has included something like 15-20 tech/support people from Aerosoft, Microsoft, ASUS, etc. - some of which…

Hi, i own the "old" PMDG 737NGX with the 700/600 expansion pack, Immersion cockpit and turbine sounds and remote CDU for my tablet pc. Everything works fine. Regardless of the savings for the MSFS 2020 model - are the technical and visual innovations so impressive that it is worth the 99$ if you consider it as an update? Raller

Is there any good airplane available for P3D V5 ?

I have both v4.5 and v5 installed. Simconnect is working fine in v4.5, but not in v5. I deleted simconnect and reinstalled, but no good. Non of the addons like chaseplane or SODE are working. The logs say they cannot connect to the sim because of no simconnect running

if not, I would rather stick to EnvShade. Anyone knows if there is any chance that PTA gets revived for V5? Karl

Notice it in V4 and V5. Actually it's nothing new. I just didn't know if there was a setting that made the terrain look less pixelated. If you look at the hill you will see what i mean. https://imgur.com/a/MMpvmzp

I've just done a clean install of Windows 10 and subsuquently P3D v4.5 to sort out some issues; I am having trouble with simconnect and my iPad EFB as well as certain add-on's such as Leonardo's Maddog. I looked at these two files and they don't contain any add on information; I am assuming this is problematic? Here are the files, currently: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SimBase.Document Type="AceXML" version="3,0" id="dll"> <Descr>AceXML Document</Descr> <Filename>dll.xml</Filename> </SimBase.Document> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <SimBase.Document Ty…

Does anyone know why my runway lighting looks like huge blobs? This is taken at FSDT's KIAH in P3D v5. If I recall correctly it was the same in P3D v4 all the way back to FSX. Why are runway lights so ugly at night. free image hosting site

I just installed P3D, also installed ORBX Global, NA LC, Buildings HD, and Trees via ORBX Central. I just renamed p3dv4 to p3dv5. And everytime I go to the sim settings I am getting this message. Anyone else encountering this so far?

When does the v5 of P3D come out?? Does it supports multi thread??

Hi, I'm fairly new to the P3D world and in need of some help with my settings. It seems my CPU is working a lot harder than my GPU (Usually CPU 80%, GPU 20%) although has improved since I turned off Hyperthreading My specs are i7 8700k, 1080ti, 32GB ram running a ultra wide 1440p display. Images of settings - https://flic.kr/p/2iYM5SH https://flic.kr/p/2iYPPrz https://flic.kr/p/2iYM5T4 https://flic.kr/p/2iYM5Tu