The Prepar3d Forum

Thank You Andrew for LINDA version 3.2.0 ! Thank You Pete and John for FSUIPC6.0.2 to enable Andrew's efforts ! Note: there is actually a version 6.0.3 of FSUIPC to use as of today so better to use that one. You guys are amazing "I am pleased to report that an initial release of LINDA 3.2.0 is now available for P3Dv5 and FSUIPC6 6.0.2. Be careful to follow the installation instructions in the release notes." P3Dv5 is getting better every day slowly but surely, Joe

My new computer will be delivered tomorrow, I'm looking for advice on how best to install P3D and other software. The storage is as follows: 1TB SDD 2TB HDD software I'm looking to install is: P3D Rex ORBX Global Office suite anti virus (Avast) Epson printer software Ashampoo (cd burning) Photo editor Do I install it all on my SDD and use the HDD for data? what have others done? Your help is appreciated.

Hi. Is there a way to force the textures to load at a faster rate? I have super high FPS, but the texture loading time’s seem low. Like they can’t keep up with the high frames. Are there any tweaks to make the textures load quicker?

Hello, Since changing the motherboard/CPU of my P3D computer I am having a problem with the viewgroup / FlyElise warping in P3Dv4.5: I am using 3 projectors. Only the main (left) screen is showing a warped picture now. Center and right projector show a normal "straight" perspective for their field of view. What is giving me a headache, is that I am using the identical viewgroup.xml in P3D and identical multicalib files and identical settings within Immersive Display Pro, which used to work before the hardware change. What I already tried: reinstalled Display Pro updated graphics drivers created new frustum files and viewgroup.x…

HI, I'm having a problem since day 1 with P3D5 as it CTD without any error message. Checking the Windows Event Viewer I saw that that cause of the error was always the same: StackHash_2264. After almost a week of test and a bunch of format, install, uninstall, tests etc.... The exact same error occurs with P3D5 and P3D4.5 HF3. This error only happens when I have ORBX stuff installed. Some of the error logs are here. Maybe some with the same problem can test out? Regards.

Hi, desided to spin around Holywood with FTXSCA and FSDT KLAX and could hold up 25fps in a silver thing Carenado but after return to KLAX the screen whent bananas like i was about to CTD or something. VRAM was about 5gb/9.2gb and load around 37% on the GPU. Anyone seeing this? Is LOD Distance slider different from v4?I have it at high as in v4 but seems sharper in distance. Could be that my I7-4770K likes HT on until I installs PMDG/FSL etc. Thanks Michael Moe

First successful attempt to create sloped airport today in V5 I must say that I'm quite pleased with this new release of Prepar3D. I Finished the installation of all Orbx products witch already transformed the out of the box experience. Then I installed A2A Cherookee and Flight 1 GTN 750 that mimick my real world airplane setup. Also transferred my Garmin database for my plane to P3d so I'm now current on cycle 2004. I then made in the last days several tests with up to 5 layers of clouds and the FPS was solid and Vram usage quite reasonable. The engine seem very robust as there is little difference in performance between 1 and 5 layers of cloud. My…

Hello all, first off - this is not in any way P3D bashing, I have always been a huge P3D fan and absolutely adored v4.5. But,with reluctance, I uninstalled and had a refund of P3D v5 due to the fact that, even with a GTX 1070 and 8GB of vRAM, I kew I wasn't going to make it. I hadn't even installed any "big guns" yet and I had multiple OOM which made my blood boil. And yet, I see some with 1060s saying it runs great etc etc. So the favor I am asking is: can someone with a similar card try LatinVFR Miami with a GA aircraft and let me know the vRAM usage upon loading? I tried this with the RealAir Turbine Duke and the Alabeo M20 and the sim loaded with 6.2 vRAM usage o…

I have my P3d v5 and v4 on the same pc. When I started up v5 I got several errors that popped up for Dublin and Lisbon. I didn’t install these into v5, and they were already previously installed in my v4 setup. Once I uninstalled Dublin and Lisbon the errors disappeared. The errors said something about SODE entires with the same name. Anyone else have this error? I would like to keep these installed into v4 but I don’t want these errors in v5. Cheers, Pete

I have many add ons working fine and detecting. However there a number of these (all Orbx sceneries or airports) (9 so far) where the next time I restart P3D it is asking again - and again - and again. Some of the Orbx items are in the P3DV5 folder and some in the Orbx library? Also, I have Chase Plane set to autoload with the launch of P3d V5 but each time is it prompting me to click a button to authorise it. Is this normal? Thanks

I reinstalled P3Dv4.5 h2 and lost this installation Cannot now reinstall 3 very pretty little airstrips for bush flying Like Tipella -FSX only now -unless anyone has more ideas of how to reinstall xxd09

I am not using enhanced atmosphere. Clear skies and I'm getting a solid 60FPS but the addition of a very sparse layer of clouds and it is dropping me to 20FPS. Turning off cloud shadows doesn't change a thing. I haven't seen any one else complaining about this so I'm thinking I have a isolated issue with my system.

Hello is REX ID compatible with P3D V5? Is Groundhandling V6 Compatible? Thanks in advance

If you guys find the sun to small : search for the suneffecf.cfg file and change the default moon / sun according to your liking. For my real size home cockpit I use : Moon 1500 ( default 900 ) Sun 6072 ( default 2072 ) I tried all the usual suspect locations...can you point us to it? Is in AppData?

...run Central 4 and go and git er....

Given that you have your v4 ORBX installed via Libraries (add-on.xml method) it is very easy. 1. Open and update ORBX Central. Close it. 2. Go Do your Library Folder(s) and rename the folder(s) therein from p3Dv4 to p3dv5. 3. Open ORBX Central and you should see all your add-ons active (green circle). Download/install Global Base, update ORBX Libraries and Object Flow. 4. Start P3Dv5 and confirm each add-on to be used. This can take a while, depending how many ORBX titles you have. 5. Enjoy

While I can't speak for anybody else on this Forum..I have definitely seen a 'changing of the Guard' with P3D v5 with daily usage. Bullet Points: My Orbx setups are now 40-60% less loading times before getting to where ever. That leads me to believe that the Shader Cache gets tuned with each run of the program?!? My vRAM load in's are dropping...by about .75 of a GB, over when I first started running the program with the same untouched settings. So much so that by an hour into running P3Dv5 this morning, I am back to 4096 textures...where by that would have me up at 5.9-6.0..but now, settled in at 5.3/5 and holding I think that P3Dv5 sort of self-tun…

I have yet to hear anything specific about updated airports. Some of them that come to mind that are way outdated and/or totally missing in V4 (I'm talking strictly default) are: KSTL, KORD, KIAD, KSEA, KATL, FAOR, SEQM, and I know there are others. I know there are 3PP options but I want to know about default only.

Can someone recommend a decent Cessna 150 or 152 that will work in P3d V4.5? Your help is appreciated!

Hi guys, Is there a tool out there which can scan only the sceneries/locations I want and randomly create flight plans that I read and enter manually etc into the plane fms and fly. I am looking for something which just scans all my orbx areas and some payware airports outside the orbx regions - and then randomly give me flights - This is with only payware locations only no default ugly airports. Fly from KSAN to KJAC (as I have those sceneries). For example it find routes with airports with runways were MD-80 or 737 can land only or airports where 747 can land only. Randomly thinking out of my head and creating a flightplan is no fun. Sure I can…

Hi All, I would like to find out on how to install the HF3 on my existing setup and also do i need to update all my addons to work with the hotfix. Thank you in advance Regards

I enjoyed the DO 27 in FSX. It's a good STOL, low and slow AC. I'm a bit surprised that something isn't in the works to bring her back in P3D v4+. Will keep my fingers crossed. Regards, Eagle

The last time I did this was a good 2-3 years ago in the old build, so I kind of forgot about it as a last resort (or first resort) means of fixing weird problems that might surface and are refractory to every other thing one might do to restore normal behavior. Just 5 weeks ago I assembled a brand new machine and install of v4.5. Very nice upgrade in performance from the prior build. I run UNLIMITED/vsync to 30Hz refresh, and as long as CPU and GPU don't go over 97% or so all's totally smoot. And that was always true in the old v3.4 build as well. Very predictable: liquid smooth provided you're not maxed on either CPU or GPU or both, as you well know if you run P3D…