The Prepar3d Forum

I was hoping that the night lighting would be improved in v5 but it still appears the same to me as it did in FSX! Even when taking off at the defalut airport the PAPI lights look like they are sloppy glowing orbs floating in mid air and aren't even attached to the actual PAPI unit themselves. Also runway lighting is the same. I've tried Flightbeam's KSFO HD, and FSDT's airports like KIAH, KDFW, PHNL, and the actual lights look ugly. This has been a problem ever since FSX and up until now it still is the same. There needs to be some sort of centralize lighting system that everyone needs to use. Not sure whose to blame here, the 3rd party developers or LM. I find the light…

It seems that (glass panel) gauges are not as sharp as in v4.5. I have this problem with a2a's C172 which is not yet officially supported, but the gauges of the default F-35 are affected too.

Hello, I have this error, running new Fs Global 2020 installer. MD5 hashes were correctly checked. How to solve it? Thank you

How do I remove this??!? Thanks Ollie.

Had a strange thing happen while flying the Just Flight Turbo Arrow (it has an updated installer for V5). I've taken it on two flights to two different airports and on both occasions the plane slammed into the ground on short final. This was not a sudden descent, one second I was in the air and the next it was bang on the ground. I had crash detection turned off so I was able to go aloft again and swing around for a second shot, which was normal. Very strange. Can't tell if this is a plane or simulator problem, but I've had this plane in P3Dv3 for quite a while and that never happened. BTW I had crash detection off because previously I was flying the C-130 into KJFK…

http://majesticsoftware.com/forums/discussion/735/majestic-software-lockheed-martins-prepard3d-v5/p1?new=1&fbclid=IwAR1HrJUkUce6krx3zL18muWOHaEhDiev1KN24QGjCpbk_MpShU-zF59JEoc Looks like they posted saying they are waiting for the hotfix to drop before they release anything for V5. Probably why PMDG etc is taking longer than expected and I doubt we see anything from FSLABS,PMDG, QW etc til after this hotfix is out unfortunately

I did some flights today and last night. First of all Windows 10 clean install latest build P3D V5 clean install without any addons. Later test with ORBX Global base and LOWI installed i7 8700k OC at 5.1GhZ RTX 2080ti 32GB RAM 3600MhZ Corsair Vengeance Startet to test without any addons Sliders set the same as prior in P3D V4.5HF2 wich was Mid Range for me (especially the Autogen Draw Distance to Medium) Tested enhanced Atmo and normal weather. Mainly without VR (but also with VR - shut that off as VR does not utilize my rtx 2080ti above 10 - 15% wich has to be a bug) First no addons at all - than only ORBX …

The boat actually reacts now to the waves...just awesome, another v5 perk! The WaveWorks engine is just fantastic...not a great day to be heading out...but hey...:

Looking for high quality New York airports sceneries. What are the best in terms of quality and performance?

Hey guys does this great tool also check for duplicate AFCAD files? Thanks Mike

Has anyone seen the v5 God Rays in the sim yet? I have been trying to set up the weather so I can see what they are looking like but I haven't had any luck. If you seen the god rays in v5 what was the weather conditions?

Hi guys, wanted to purchase V5 today via the LM Webstore. But no luck, getting a time-out everytime i'm trying add V5 to the cart. Any infos if this error is on my site or just a downtime from the LM webstore. Many thx and kind regards

Flying around southern New England today in P3Dv5 and came across this tidal wave about to hit KPVD 🙂 https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-WhMJ9l_GwnUfLoMNfogRsurmS9zjK6-/view?usp=sharing

I tried to search online to see if I can find a short turnaround panel state like the one that ships with the default PMDG planes but couldn't find one for the QW 787. I know you can set the plane up and then save the panel state however you want, but my question is, how is the plane exactly configured for this 'short turnaround' state? What needs to be on/off, etc. I would like it to mimic the short turnaround panel state on the PMDG 777. Basically have it somewhere between a cold & dark state and a full ready for takeoff state. Would appreciate if somebody could help me create it.

Hi all, Was using Dan Downs Logbook editor in v4.5, but the flights aren't logging in v5, and I don't know how to get it working. Does anyone know how to get it working for v5, or of another logbook that works in v5? Thanks!

Hello All, I'm relatively new to the P3D scene, and have heard of a hotfix that has been released. Unfortunately I have had routine CTD's on the ground and want to update to this hotfix. I'm quite confused where to start. I have the FSL, which i am aware the has been updated to the hotfix. I intend on buying the QW787 in the next few days when I get round to it. Is this compatible? Would I need to re-install my addons, would I need a P3D reinstall? If someone could just give me the scope of something like this it would be much appreciated. Thanks! Canine

W10, i7 4.0 - 32 ram -SSD PC with P3dV4, i just upgraded to RTX2080ti. In FSLabs Airbus at gate, when switching over to outside view, there is no airbus... it takes about 10 sec for all te parts of the bus being assembled, and then, there he is... normal with this setup ?

I left P3D a few months ago as I was fed up with the sinusoidal performance of my sim - one flight it looked amazing and then the next flight I suffered from slow loading scenery textures and micro-stutters. Switched to DCS and kept my passion for simming going. Reinstalled v4.5 there last month and accepted it for how it performed. Along comes Xplane vulkan and P3D v5. Great, time for smooth flying finally right? Only one sim is delivering that and its not v5. Default aircraft in P3D v5 (tested Cub and coupled with Orbx LC + region. FPS is good (expected with no add-on). Nothing but micro-stutters in external views and scenery textures constantly loading in as I fl…

Today on 3 of 3 flights I have gotten the same CTD that I have never seen before. The flights I did were ORD-FLL (CTD on decent), FLL-ORD (CTD on climb out), and PHX-SFO (CTD on descent). The message came up as the following - DXG1_ERROR-DEVICE_HUNG and mentioned that my 1080TI stopped working or being recognized. Anyone know what could cause this? I have never seen this happen and I don't think I changed anything other than updating REX Sky Force this morning. Could something with that cause this? Thanks! I am on 4.5 and this happened in the FSL320 and 321

I found a couple of nice freeware FSX airports by Shehryar Ansari (KLGB Long Beach and KONT Ontario) that look great with the Orbx SCA region installed and P3Dv4.2 EXCEPT for some mesh anomalies- KONT along the side of the airport, KLGB is good except for a weird sheared off mountain caused by some giant "flatten" polygon I can't find using ADE. Has anyone found a way to make these two airports useable with Orbx SCA region until Orbx (or other) payware versions come along? Thanks, Steve

I have enhanced Atmospherics (True Sky) and Cloud Shadows set active. First I realized them at some ORBX airports: Very large shadow-like squares on concrete ground, barely visible on grass or soil. My first thought it would be a ORBX thing as their add-ons are not yet free of issues. But then I realized them over water too: Very large squares not easy to see on dark or strong reflecting water. But it are cloud shadows. As soon as I disable Cloud Shadows in P3D, these squares disappear. What does it mean? IMO, clouds in TrueSky do already produce shadows, but they are badly rendered. Perhaps it is only a wrong setting in the p3d.cfg but I fear it is more than this. …

is a hand's down WINNER! I am thrilled, man...thrilled. On my 7 year old modest system, I have the sim cranked right out...every feature on...sliders bending the far right...and while I am getting around 22-30 FPS depending on what's happening, it's dead smooth...NO STUTTER and the output man oh man...is just ACE! I'm dumping my v4.5 this afternoon and freeing up the room I do not come close to having a vRAM OOM..for with the sim features BURSTING at the seams...I never go past 4.4 GB out of a total available on my system of 6.7. No matter what...storms...whatever...my vRAM doesn't spike past that! I had one CTD but not because of vRAM exhaustion, but because I wa…

P3D v4.5 vs P3D v5 (Beta) - Side by Side Performance Benchmark by Jordan King

Whenever I point my camera towards the ground or mountain a weird outline of my aircraft starts to appear. When i point my camera up to the sky, the outline doesn't appear anymore. It only happens when the camera is zoomed in. If i zoom out far enough the outline goes away.

Greetings! I installed a clean version of Prepar3D V5 without any addons. I've put almost all sliders to the right. Yet this is what pretty much how all of the airports look like. Obviously there is something wrong with my installation because the runways and taxiways and the surrounding terrain look like FS98 graphics. Everything is just straight lines and the buildings look like some 16 color clipart from MS Word and there are even some kind of small houses on the apron here and there and the grass is some blurry ugly texture. The runway lights are just round red dots that are sometimes on the apron and sometimes on the grass like on the screenshot. I reinstal…