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Folks, I am having since installing from 'virgin', and reapplying one by one, all my purchases over the years for FSX/P3D (X), SUCH A BLAST! Over the last couple of days...I have reworked my 'out-take' on every and all my flight sims. What I mean by that...is simply this. What do you want to do today from the moment you turn, or flip on the battery(s), to the time you land, and flip off the battery(s) THAT (if you have a few flight sim titles all sharing your system hard disk(s)....should point you to a particular sim that shines for that flight parameter, perhaps over all the others. Man..they are all good..all of 'em... Human Nature, is that we tend to p…

Hi all, In multiprop planes (4 engine planes) i observe that only startup of engines no 1 and 2 (left ones) initiate plane (cockpit) shaking. As a result when executing standard 3,4,2,1 startup sequence the first two engines does not make any effect on the the cabin and then when starting third engine the aircraft shakes/ vibrates like it was the first engine in a sequence... Any ideas how to ensure each engine creates same level of vibrations when started? P3D v4.5, EZCA (happens both with ezca V2 and V3). Kind regards, Kris

I noticed something odd with the 787 from Qualitywings, maybe someone knows a solution. The date in the MFD's is incorrect by a day. No matter what you put in your Sim for the actual date, the QW aircraft always is a day late. Not that it matters much in terms of usability, I just found it odd that it reads the time correctly, but is a day shy of the real date.

now that we have tomatoshade would pta be still worth getting ? All opinions of course welcome

My Usual driver update procedure is to to go into my P3D directory and run "Delete Generated Files". Then reboot in safe mode and run DDU. Then reboot and do a clean install of the new driver. After doing this 441.87 I discovered that although the driver installed, Nvidia Control Panel is missing. In fact I got a popup on reboot that said Nvidia Control Panel is missing and a suggestion to download it from Microsoft Store. After googling this I found 3 solution including the one above. Once was to find in the Nvidia corporation file and the other was to find it in the control panel and add it to desktop context menu. …

Hi All I have ORBX installed @ (C:) / Prepare3D v4 /ORBX/ FTX Vector when I try to run the Vector Configuration tool I get an Error flag " No installed simulator was found on your system ! FTX Vector Configurator will now exit!" Grateful for any advice please

Here is my two screenshots The second one was taken 1 week ago and the first one is taken today. What sould i do to fix it . Thanks all best regards (i realize it when i look the registiration of the plane 'TC-CPP' )

Hi Everyone, Happy New Year to everyone and hope you all had a good Christmas! I am posting this as I believe I've posted this before but I don't think I've been able to fix the problem. After flying nearly 4 hours today to Sheremetyevo Airport in Russia with the new FS Labs A321, when approaching the airport I noticed that the surrounding areas were very flat with no tree's, building etc showing. This was quite a disappointment as it just made it unrealistic but however when on final approach, they all started to appear albeit very slowly in front of me. This got me thinking that maybe something could be reducing the rate at which the 3D objects in my sim are genera…

Hello, hast anyone already the new Pilot's LEST Santiago de Compostela Airport Addon? On the Homepage there are nearly only area and overview screenshots, nothing close by where you can see the textures. Can anybody provide already some close by screenshots and can share the opinion? When I can't see close by screenshots on the sales page is makes me a little bit wondering if the textures are high quality. Thanks Urmel

I built a new computer and installed P3D 4.5. Requesting guidance for setting up P3D I7-9700K - no overclock, will consider at later date Gigabyte Aorus z390 Pro Wifi 32GB 3200 RAM - XMP set in BIOS - 16GBx2 nVidia 2070 Super 2x - Samsung EVO 970 1TB M.2 - OS on one, P3D on other Samsung EVO 860 1TB SSD 4GB HHD - repurposed from old box 27" 1920x1080 primary and 19" 1280x1024 secondary Looking for baseline FFTF and AM settings, along with any other settings to look at. Any specific programs to use for setting Vsync, frame rate, etc? Hoping maybe @SteveW and other knowledgable members will chime in. If more specifics are needed,…

I really have no idea what is going on with my system! Just did a flight in the CRJ 700 from Ottawa to Boston. In Ottawa my fps was around 50 and all the way until final approach it was good right up until landing when it nose dived to around 10!! When I checked in MSI afterburner I found the GPU usage had plummeted much to my surprise (really would have thought it would be opposite) CPU usage was not maxed out at anytime either. I'm running medium settings across the board on pretty much everything. Really not sure what is going on!! Spec is 1 TB Seagate (1000 GB) SATA-III HDD 7200 RPM 64MB Cache EVGA 750W (Modular) PSU - Low Noise 256GB Samsung PM961 M.2 S…

Has anyone tried getting their Lionheart fleet working in V4? I'm hoping that the Lear 24b works in v4. I'm going to give it a shot.

Hi All, I downloaded the Enterprise Carrier from Rikoooo and wanted to know what the following frequencies are (assuming they support them): TACAN = ? ILS = ? I can't find this information after looking around the internet. Here is the Rikoooo link: https://www.rikoooo.com/downloads/viewdownload/8/203 Bill Clark

I've seen in several youtube videos people using a tool that shows core usage, GPU usage, FPS, etc etc overlayed on the screen of P3D. Does anyone have recommendations to what that is?

https://imgur.com/a/FM1b9HF is there a way to ge tthis fixed? i've done all the fixes to get it to work in v4 yet it sill does this...

Hi, I have a problem when loading P3. Instead of a full screen I get a little window, Prob 2x4 inches in the left top corner of my 4k monitor. I reinstalled P3 but that did not help- Does anyone have an idea what I can do? Thanks so much Bernd Jablonka

Hi, I have still have FTX 3 installed, and I noticed one of my purchased products isn't installed (LDDU). I tried to install it via FTX Central, but it looks like it no longer works (downloads go directly to pause). I know there were a lot of issues with the transition over to Orbx Central - I don't recall the details, because I didn't follow it closely. Does anyone have any instructions for switching over when you have a number of products already installed? Do I have to uninstall everything first? Thanks. Happy Holidays.

Friends, As requested, we have created this thread is a place to notify others of free Repaints (Liveries) created for the Leonardo Maddog X. PLEASE DO NOT POST REPAINT REQUESTS IN THIS THREAD (such posts will be removed). There is already a Repaint Request Thread here in the forums. This thread is for notifying people of existing freeware repaints for the Maddog X. Repaints may be uploaded to the AVSIM Library or anywhere else the author chooses. Please post a screen shot of the livery and a link to the download along with a description of the repaint. All repaints downloads should include a text file containing the author/creators name and conta…

I find, that 4.5x is the most smooth animation so far, of any version of P3D since it came out. That is the biggest, most stand-out in-your-face, difference. Nothing more truly stands out, as an 'oh'..or 'wow' notation. Thirdly, I do believe that there were some Shader reworks, resident, because (as least to my eyes and preference of visuals) the water surface (clutter and sophistication when using the ULTRA water setting) seems much less pronounced within 4.5x as it did (and much more to my preference as a 'water guy'...) within 4.4x That's about it...nothing too, too outstanding (at least to myself as the user) to write home about. Nothing bad...just no…

I have fresh install of P3D4.5 with REX Sky Force as texture provider and Active Sky for weather data. I have no sun glare, my sun is blunt and does not look as on screen shown in REX Sky Force. Also starring at the sun do not cause bloom and dazzle ( if that is a proper word ) I use HDR

In the newly-released Aerosoft A330-300, once the After Take-off Checklist is called out by the PM, and the male PF calls out Lights Off, is anyone else getting him instantly then saying, 'Lights On', and he switches the LANDING light switch on, and no matter what mouse click is used, it refuses to be switched off? So, if effect we have a scenario of a FL39000, yet the Landing Lights are on. Is it a bug or whatever?

Hey Pilots, Can't remember what last was installed on my Sim, but load time has increased significantly... (in excess of 3-4 minutes)...I mean flash page only. Once I choose vehicle, APT all good. Terrain loads blazing fast. Just initial load.I searched forums but nothing exactly the same. I believe last thing I installed was CYUL but I don't think that has anything to do with it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I recently installed the free released version of Radar Contact and it works beautifully. I have been able to utilize all aspects of it and interact with it fine. However I cannot get the interaction window to appear in VR. I have contacted both Pete and LM regarding the issue and it comes down to only "Scaleform Windows" are supported in VR by P3D not SimConnect Windows. I can use and interact with windows like the default ATC and add-on SODE windows in VR because they are apparently "Scaleform" windows whereas Pete developed the user interface window for Radar Contact as a simple SimConnect window and he is not able to turn it into a Scaleform window. Is ther…

Hi, do you also use the cloud textures from envtex intergration? or cirrus clouds unchecked in envtex and all checked in ASCA? thanks mike

Anybody know how to get the jetways working with this one? It's the only scenery i have that I can think of where i can't move the jetways with GSX.