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I'd like to make sure I correctly understand the relationship between some of the Nvidia utilities. 1. My understanding is Nvidia Profile Inspector and Nvidia Control Panel do the same thing; Nvidia Profile Inspector is 'just' a GUI that makes it convenient to adjust the Nvidia Control Panel settings. Correct? 2. When you load P3D, the Nvidia profile for P3D (perhaps modified by the user) is automatically loaded as well. Correct? 3. As best as I can find, the latest version of Nvidia Profile Inspector is ver DmW 3.5 (don't know what the DmW stands for), and the latest version of Nvidia Inspector is 1.9.7.8. But when I open the Profile Inspector from within …

Fast forward to 27 min. and watch what happens as the aircraft approaches the runway. Look at the lighting. This is P3D v5: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAsS-gJRSMw XP 11 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EFoOMaA5OgE The P3D v5 approach could have been significantly better he would have chosen XP11 to do the flight.

Yesterday I purchased and installed P3Dv5. Today I flew it for the first time after a sample flight yesterday.. The Good This morning I installed Orbx Libraries and Northern California. I have a flight I use to test things after making changes and/or tweaking a few things. Today after setting things per my P3Dv4 settings I fired up the Mooney and flew from Gnoss Field in Novato California to KSFO. I normally fly with my FR set to 32, but for this initial test I set it to unlimited. The flight was very smooth and the frame rates never varied from 148fps to 155 fps thoroughout the flight. And while there were a few problem spots with skips and one pause …

I have a clean machine, which now has F3Dv5 utLive and EditVoicePack on there. Touch wood, they are working well. I'm wondering what to test next; I only use Aerosoft Airbus aircraft, but I can't test that with P3Dv5 (not released). So without Aerosoft aircraft, what aircraft do I use to test GSX if I installed that first (it's already available). One of the built-in planes would be best Has anyone test GSX on P3Dv5 with handles aircraft that aren't too small to get a message saying that the ATS on such small aircraft?

Hi, I have a curious problem. I cannot fly, not even load a plane on my fresh installed P3D V5.024 when I want to start from Europe. I only installed V5 compaible addons (nearly all Orbx regions, and some airports. Yesterday I could fly KIAD to ESSA with a QW787 without any problem. This morning, I would revert the fly (ESSA KIAD). I can just load my AC, see that I use about 3.2 Go of VRAM, then CTD. Have I done something wrong? Is there a problem with P3D, with Orbx? I would find a solution, but after 3 days, I give up and ak for help. Thank's Yves

Anyone notice that the default F-16 is a fps hog? Most default aircraft I can get 50+ fps but with the default F-16, 23 if I'm lucky.

Over the years I have purchased the RealAir Scout, DukeB60v2, DukeTv2 and the LegacyV2. I was able to download all but the Scout from the RealAir site. Installed all 3 into P3D v4.5 with no problems. I was surprised that the Scout was not there. Does anyone know why the Scout was missing? I would like to get it to complete my RealAir aircraft. I was sorry to see they closed. They always had good products and support. Thank You. Bill McCracken

So the subject title was released with latest GeForce drivers from Nvidia. I enabled it for P3D 4.5H2 with the default setting to start with, which are Sharpen: 0.50 and Ignore Film Grain: 0.17, and I have to say the I like what I see. At the departure airport I saw a tiny bit of aliasing on very thin surfaces like GSX jetway handles(subject of 'Sharpen' value)), but overall it looks great. Looking down at the terrain from FL340 is noticably improved and looks a lot sharper. I will play around with the values and see if I can find a sweet spot that suits me better, but even at default settings, I find it very nice. Can't observe any hardware impact from using this feature…

After some issues, both with FSLabs and Aerosoft airbusses, i am wondering what is the best solution for FMS data ? I took FS aerodata subscription, then i took also Navigraph and sometimes the Aerosors files. Maybe better not to mix and certainly not necessary to deal with all of them together... I can read postings about issues with ATC-comm frequencies being not 100% correct but i must agree this is without importance for us as we are not communicating irl, so comm frequencies are less important,but i am having difficulties with incorrect ILS frequencies, at different international big airports, so how to deal with this ?

Hi All Just upgraded to v5 and wow, it is so smoooooth. IMHO, one of the reasons for this might be because v-sync in the previous versions never worked properly but it is in v5! The problem is, now it is fixed you can't undock panels without the dreaded halving of frame rates. In previous versions, this only happened when you used an external frame rate limiter such as nvidia inspector, but now it happens if you just use v-sync in the sim. Before I report this to LM, I would be grateful if someone could confirm it for me by trying to un-dock say a GPS panel in one of the default aircraft. If you are using the in-sim v-sync to run a…

Okay so i bought Aerosoft Mega Airport Oslo a year ago, and had some issues with it. I eventually managed to get the problems fixed. But like always, new problem. Every single time i fly into ENGM (Oslo Gardermoen) at around 10,000 feet depending on my STAR my sim freezes, and the most important thing i can do when that happens is not touch anything. If i do touch anything however my sim freezes forever, if i manage to not touch anything it doesnt freeze. And i know what youre thinking, cant you just not touch it when it freezes? Well yes i can but if im in the middle of a busy approach im always switching camera angles etc. with Chaseplane. And if i change cameraangle ri…

First: also posted this on LM Support. Anyone else seeing this? IN VR it is clearly visible (at least to me) Setup to see the two issues:VR only seen in the HMD not on the normal screenBest seen on flat landscapeExample works good at higher Flightlevel like 350Enhanced Atmo onCloud layer 10.000 - 13.000 (just as an working example to show the issue) 2/8 few clouds view must be unlimitedBest seen at Dawn and Dusk when the sun hangs low. Below the cloud layer the scattering light can be seen.Also the horizon or "end" of the earth is visible.1.IssueIt looks like in VR via the HDM the "view/drawing" isn´t right. The clouds look like a flat layer wich rises up to th…

Hi, In this new V5 I'm noticing lots of light pols allover, including growing out of the water. Is anybody else experiencing this issue or a fix? Even some airports have lights like that on taxiways or aprons. I mark some of them with red dots. Thank you. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1xz4LkdYIAZXTLM_tl-UB0d52h9qhcaJZ/view?usp=sharing

The Parthenon, ancient Egyptian pyramids and cities, ancient Mayan pyramids, Cahokia, eastern Native American Indian mounds, Angkor Wat, Great Zimbabwe, Teotihuacan, ancient pueblo mesa/cliff dwellings, Nasca Lines, Machu Picchu, Tihuanaco, the great Moi on Easter Island — is scenery for anything like these available?

I had HT disabled in my old CPU i7-4770 due to thermal concerns and no actual benefit from enabling it on P3D V4 and lower as was advised by experts, today and out of curiosity, I decided to enable it under P3D V5 HF1 for testing and noticed that auto gen loading (buildings) are much improved, it still happens but at farther distance and not very annoying as it used to be before enabling HT. I think it worth a try if you are annoyed (like me) by auto gen loading in the shape of square zones one after the other as I get closer to it.

I just migrated from PTA to TomatoShade. After installing the RD Preset, I don't have PBR textures. In fact, I think my shaders might be botched because I'm not really seeing changes post-preset application. All the colors, shading seems exactly the same. To remove PTA, I first restored the original shaders and configuration files, then deleted the folder. With TomatoShade, I deselected the extended reflection option, and did not use any reflection profiles. Because I was having issues, I uninstalled/reinstalled the client and deleted the Shaders folder. I am still not seeing any graphical changes whatsover. Thoughts? I should add that I have REX SkyFo…

Hey folks - Just wondering if the out of the box p3d settings are good for the Thrustmaster Warthog. It feels a little sluggish in P3D to me for some reason, almost like it needs alot of input to manage the FSL A320 sometimes. In XP on the FF320 - it feels a tad more responsive to where I would think the real thing would respond.

Greetings. I need some help with scenery repairing. I installed DD KORD v5 and then I uninstalled it. I liked FSDT better actually. DD does not offer uninstaller, instead I had to remove bunch of files manually per scenery manual. I deleted files per manual but something went wrong and default KORD does not look right. Is there a way I can restore default KORD? Thanks

Error Code: 0x80004005 If anyone reading this has encountered this perhaps you'd share what you did to correct it. It has killed sound for both P3dV4.5 HF2 and XP-11.40. Other sound for things like you tube i can still get to function. I've googled it and thoughts on how to correct it vary to say the least. Thanks for any help. Dave

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So, I've read most of the threads on here and other sites with the known issues with v5, though some were just too long. What I haven't seen talked about yet, are three issues Im having. Just curious if anyone else is noticing these. 1. In both the base v5, or with custom mesh/orbx, there is a giant square mile 1000' box sticking out of the Narraganset Bay. You can see this clearly from PVD. This may be location specific or it may happen random other places. Though, I've only seen it in RI so far. 2. Bridges. Anyone else notice bridges from v4 aren't in v5? The tobin in boston for example. Some bridges are just roads flat on the water. They were decent looking …

Hi, While the dust settles on V5 with HF in few weeks; I will see if I really need to move to it immediately or not. It could look like LM is gonna support 2 platforms P3D4.5HF3 and v5. Can someone confirm? Why release HF3 if you are not going to support it. I installed on a brand new os build, and performance was good. It feels very stable and smooth. I will post my settings shortly. Using 2070 RTX, 4K and Overclocked to 4.4 - HT ON (12 cores total) 1) Orbx Install - I mean everything was installed outside. This was a surprise, looks like Orbx fixed the Global bugs (Global and openLC NA) and it allowed me to install outside. I skipped Ve…

Hi all, which of those planes would you more recommend? Regards Marco

Every few seconds with P3Dv5HF1 when in Window Mode some of the labels ( World, Options, Views, Tools, etc) in the menu bar flicker as if the menu bar display is being updated. I see this even just sitting on the runway with both default and payware aircraft, and the sim/aircraft display itself does not flicker in any way. I can't seem to find any settings that make a difference as far as this menu flickering is concerned. This does not happen in P3Dv4.5HF3. Has anyone else seen this? Any ideas what the cause might be? Thanks, Al

Hi Guys Hope you are all well. Am looking for some advice, have been a long time FSX user (don't shoot me🤣) and have just bought P3D 4.5. Have been away from P3D since V3 and judging from the optionsin the sim I have alot of catching up to do. I wasn't quite brave enough to go for v5 yet, maybe I will in a few years. Now my FSX set up runs pretty smooth locked at 30 and I am not ready to ditch it yet. I run with a single 1080P screen which is only capable of 60 or 50Hz. Can anyone offer some advice regarding the settings i should be using. Idealy I would like to be running at 30 and above all i am looking for a smooth experience. ( the last time i tried with V3 …