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Hi, I have had issues with slow loading of AI textures for quite a while. Some aircraft will remain black for a moment. Once they appear, if I pan away and back again, they are black again. I admit, I do have a ton of AI, so I am pushing my system, but is there anything I can play with to improve loading times? This problem really only exists with AI and not all are impacted. Settings are not too high - 4xMSAA, FXAA off, AF 16x, 4096x4096 texture resolution. The vast majority of AI are from AIG. config is pretty clean / tweak free. Thanks Jeff

Hi, can someone please tell me which settings and which program I need to move the camera in the same manner as in this video at for example 1:45min? I have seen this so often already but never figured out how to do it. Thank you! Best regards Andreas

Good afternoon/evening, When I first installed 4.5 the rotating beacons rotated the white and green with the dynamic lighting working on the scenery. Now the green and white are on the same side (on top of each other). This is only for the lighting of the scenery around the beacon, the beacon otherwise appears normal when looking at it. Any reason why this would happen and any way to fix it without doing a full scenery re-install? Let me know if this is confusing.

Hello, i want to ask if anyone can confirm or knows that TakeFlight Air Alaska add on can run on Prepar3d 4.5, at the web store pages it says that it supports p3d 2.5, i really like these kind of missions and got a really nice performance with 4.5 p3d so i want to stick with it, any other similar type addons suggestion would be welcome , thank you.

I have a nice P3Dv4.5 plus Hotfix 2 which works well However on Action replays the flight mode is always “stuttering “ This has always been the case with my P3D versions I have an XPlane 11 setup and it is smooth in all modes Anything I could try xxd09

Hello everyone So recently i noticed a problem and i don't really know where the problem ist, so i decided to search for help in this forum. Sometimes (not always) i don't hear the GPWS Altitude callouts during landing with my Boeing 777 (PMDG). All the callouts form 2500-100 (incl. "Minimum") work just fine. Just the "50 40 30 20 10" callouts don't work. It could be a problem on the 777 (as the other planes like fslabs seem to work fine regarding the callouts). It also could be a scenery problem as it happens only at a few airports/runways (So far i noticed it in EDDP and EDDM). It does not seem to be the addon scenery because it also happens without the sce…

So I was making some photoreal yesterday for the small Channel islands in the UK for default P3D v4.5. When my photoreal was applied I noticed the coastlines in many places were a bit off. In other words, where the photreal ends (at some coasts) the default landclass can be seen leading down to the ocean. These are small islands so it becomes kind of apparent 🙂 I assume a product like Orbx UK can solve this easily with its updated vector data, but since I dont fly in mainland UK at all and I dont need the landclass, updated airports etc that the product provide I figure I am better off with any freeware alternative that basically just fixes the Channel Islands coastl…

This is the 3rd time I buy this bird (FSX/P3D/P3D update) and the FD is still broken. I realy thought they would have looked into it, unfortunately nothing changed. Besides the better look and sound, the NGXu is a slight dissapointment at this time to me. I hope the MSFS variant will be better (but I doubt they will fix it).

I have noticed an issue with some of my flightbeam airports. whereby I have blue grainy washed out puddles and some textures at terminal building. i do have tomato shade installed with R&D preset with reflections on cleared shaders. but haven’t restored original shader and retest as I has to leave for work. anyone else have this issue? regards mike

hi every time I set p3d to a night time flight I get banding and the clouds look like watercolours, i use as4 and asca ,cloud textures in asca are set to 256 to help with performance I am using 32bit colour, daytime is ok, checked for a solution on previous posts but didn’t help,what settings in the NVIDIA Control Panel should I be using. thanks,jim

Now understand how the P8 Compass works, after reading the description in the Pilots Handbook, but have additional question. If I set my course and turn to it the gauge reads as it should...however if I then want to change course (for a second leg of a flight) it still shows direction to original course. I can't find any way to get it to indicate to the new course. Any idea how more than one course can be used? Also, question on autopilot...If I set a heading the Tiger Moth will either turn hard left or right and end up about 70 degrees or so off the set heading. Any ideas? Thanks,

Hi to all, today i have purchased new release from pmdg version ngx u. I don't find pmdg operation center!!!! Have you any idea? Regards

Just purchased subject aircraft (1st one from Anthony) and it is great. Lots of animation, ground crew and pilot voices and lots of customizing possible...and the price is great at $17. This model really caused a WOW. Check it out at https://www.antsairplanes.com/tigermothpro.html Now my question...1st aircraft with this type of compass (WW1 style) and I can't figure out how to read it. Doesn't seem to rotate as the aircraft changes headings. Hope someone can tell me how it operates. Thanks

Any news for TomatoShade compatibility and P3D v4.5?

Doing a re-install in P3Dv45.hf2 with the DA62 but can not get the port engine to run normally: it behaves erratic on and off. Re-install, re-download, tried all start up config. No joy. Searched the forums here but could not find any subjects related to this problem. Anyone? Pierre

I currently use Active sky with Sky Force, ASCA, and Envtex and feel as though my clouds don’t look very realistic like I’ve seen pics of or videos on YouTube from others using the same thing. My clouds look very fake and cartoonish and not very thick. I have to think there is something wrong in my setup but I am not sure where since I followed everything correctly in getting everything to work. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I should be looking for to get this working correctly? Right now I start AS, that automatically starts ASCA and then I start Sky Force. I load the sim and choose AS weather. I also use tomatoshade. I hope someone can point me in the …

Hi, I brought 2 days ago the update for Switzerland professional from Mailsoft for 27,50 Euro, I had the serial number from the boxed version years ago. The new download Version cost 108 Euro. I installed the 14 GB and was very disappointed. The images are unsharp, than you have dark shadows in the mountains from the aerial images, looks strange when you have clouds or if the sun comes in the sim from the other side. But the worst ist the stuttering and the reloading: the area jumps up for some meters if you come closer. In the cities the buildings standing on unsharp streets, looks strange... There might be some issues with my computer, ORBX o…

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The new Ops center that comes with the NGXu has an installed product that says PMDG 777X. The listed variants are still the already released 777-200LR and 777F. This tells me at some point we can be certain the 777X is coming. We all assumed this. But is there a chance that another surprise product is released?

I recently upgraded to Windows 10 Home, so I have also had to reload all flight sim software. So far, all has gone well, except for getting P3D v4.5 to connect with Foreflight Mobile. I can get Foreflight to connect with P3D by enabling the GPS Out feature of P3D. Unfortunately, while accurately depicting my aircrafts position, it does not display any simulator or VATSIM traffic. I believe this is a restriction of P3D. in the past, I have used both FSXFlight and the Flight1 Foreflight plugin to connect Foreflight to P3D. These plugins also allowed traffic displays. Unfortunately, I don’t think the Flight1 plugin works for P3D v4. And when I try to install FSXFli…

This is a really nice feature. I use Simbrief to plan my flights. After I generate the briefing I usually either print it, or email it to my phone so that I can use it to configure the flight (I really need a 2nd monitor). As you know, once you've put everything in the FMS you are (mostly) done with the briefing packet. I've wasted a lot of ink and paper in the last year. The NGXu offers a much better solution. Simply place the .PDF briefing into the \Prepar3D v4\PMDG\EFB\EFB Documents Library\Common folder. On the EFB, select the Documents option from the main menu and then select Documents Library. You'll be able to see your briefing on the EFB while programming th…

Hey guys, As the title suggest, how do I move my current or reuse the same directory (even copy is fine) on a different system with Prepar3d. I have 32gb of AIG data (all of it), and I do not want to redownload again on the new system. How can I use the some directory again. I tried copying and ran the new installer - pointed where the OCI AIGAIM folder is and it does not even read it and then at times just deletes it. Any ideas? I tried looking on their site for any post but I did not find my solution. I was reusing my directory before what happened? Thanks

I use various sims for various flights (P3D v3, v4, Xp11 and AFS2). That said, I have really been enjoying a certain route lately and I wanted to share why and it all boils down to all the addon components that make up the flight. To start off I'm using P3Dv3 using FlyInside for VR, ActiveSky for weather, PilotEdge for ATC, FSEconomy for flight jobs, PMDG JS41 with FS2Crew, FSPassengers, GSXv2, Ultimate Traffic Live for AI, Orbx and Flightbeam for scenery. When all these addons are combined it makes for a perfect flight. I start the flight in the sim, I do my flight planning and weather briefs in SkyVector. I get my dispatch report from SimBrief. I log on to PilotEdg…

So I decided to get Rex's environment force care of their fall sale - and Im just wondering - whats the best way to use it? I know there's a post on using sky force with AS and ASCA ect - but is there something similar for this? From what I understand this would be a replacement for ASCA - so I'd use something like ASP4 for weather, and Skyforce and Env force for everything else? Or am I just way off base on what apps do what these days?

Hi, I am using right now in P3Dv4 - Ultimate Terrain X - Europe, USA, Canada, Tropical America and Caribbean - Ground Environment Prepar3D World Edition in P3DV4. - FS Global Ultimate from Pilots In the last years I got some ORBX Scenerys like (Germany North and South, England, NA, AU V2 etc. and Airports) Yesterday I brought LSZS Samedan and learned later, that ORBX OpenLC Europe or ORBX Basepack is required for the Airport to work properly, I could refund the Airport, thanks to ORBX !!! But that was the reason to think about using global ORBX products? In my understanding there are different layers in a flight sim …