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Hello all! I just saw an article that P3D V4.4 might support Physically Based Rendering (PBR). Could someone please explain the benefits? Thank you! Clem

Hi, in this video beginning from 10:20 Philipp is explaining how to use the autopilot NAV function to automatically fly to a VOR on a desired radial. The plane is turning left and then right onto the desired radial automatically :) I have tried this successfully on the XPlane standard Cessna 172 but its unfortunately not working for me on the A2A cessna under P3D :( I have attached a picture of a quite similar situation under P3D where its not working when I press NAV. I'm pressing NAV out of the roll mode. It says NAV armed but the plane is not turning left to fly in direction of the 10° radial. https://imgur.com/a/EGV8DQ7 What am I …

I fly P3D HF1 with ASP4, SF3D, EnvDir/Shade/Tex, EnvForce. FFTF Dynamic, RTSS. I use almost exclusively RealAir/VertX planes and UK photo scenery with UK2000 airports. Rig is 8700K delidded clocked to 5Ghz at all times with AVX offsets at 0, 32GB ram, and a clocked GTX980Ti. This is all running very nicely. Smooth 30fps Should I upgrade to HF2? What benefit is there? Are there any drawbacks? Do my addons work well with HF2? Is the frame rate still dropping in HF2 as I see reported here? If I go for HF2, which parts of P3D do I need to update? Cheers

New installation of P3D v4.5 HF2 and I get this phenomenon with default start. Holes in the ground. Also found at other airports. Does anyone have a suggested solution?

This is frying my head. Just spent an hour trying to update RTSS from 7.2.2 to 7.2.3. Should take more than a few seconds huh? We the update fails with RTSS in use - install process aborted. So I tried an uninstall. Same problem. So I renamed all the exe's in the RTSS prog folder to .old and rebooted the machine and tried again. Same problem. So I googled for a while and found many others with the same problem, but none of the suggested fixes worked. I even tried renaming the entire RTSS program folder and rebooting. Same problem. I killed all of it's apparent tasks and processes. - EncoderServer.exe - RTSS.exe - RTSSHooksLoader…

Looks it's finally available via their website. I'm glad that the dev took my simple suggestion to use Paypal and deal directly with their customers.

Hello everyone, I have Taxi2Gate's OTHH scenery installed and for some reason the jetways do not animate. They aren't SODE but instead are 'default' jetways that come with scenery. Does anyone have any idea if there is a file somewhere that might somehow stop the animation of the jetways? Or any other problem that could cause this? I have the jetways.bgl file in the scenery folder for the scenery so I'm not sure why it won't work. It was working normally before I had to completely reinstall Windows and P3D/addons. Many thanks in advance, Aaron K

IhavehadGAccess now forquiteawhile. Why can I not get most aircraft that are indigenous to the US, and some from othercountries,that make one or twostops in the US. I have Southwest everyplace. Very few American,Delta, pots full of Orbit that I can't get rid of.No Frontier. For me as opposed to Traffic360 which whenyou downloaded it,everything is ready to go,This program is very hard to decipher. How do I get traffic period. Take DFW Dreamteam. Should be loadedwith American. Maybe on my program 5-6 gates, and few something else. Chicago. You shouldplay you know what to find a gate.

Hey, Everyone! I'm a long-time lurker here and have benefited greatly from the knowledge you've shared. So, thanks, Avsim. MilViz recently began releasing unofficial betas of the King Air 350i which was initially released in alpha in 2015. As you may know, development seemed very slow, but it's hotting up now. I made a YouTube video tour of the latest unofficial beta with the permission of MilViz. You'll quickly realize that I'm not a professional videographer (it took me 5 tries to get it "right", if that's what you want to call it!), but you may find it interesting anyway. I'm not affiliated with MilViz or anyone else; I'm just a flight simmer. I thought some o…

Gday gentlemen, An issue with the Queen popped up recently out of the blue whereby the night lighting that surrounds the switches (those lines and markings that help you see in the dark, not sure what's the proper name for those) seem to be half broken. Randomly, they will fail to illuminate fully. The following screenshots help to illustrate my point: NORMAL/WORKING LIGHTS (this is the level of brightness that is expected) PROBLEM/DIMLY-LIT LIGHTS (exact same settings, brightness knob maxed, applies to all panels) NORMAL/OFF LIGHTS (this is what they look like when switched off) In addition, there is also incongruity between VC and 2D panels s…

Upgrading the GTN complete from Flight 1 and the associated Garmin Trainer to the latest version installs into P3D V4.5 HF2 just fine but then does not configure properly and keeps failing any attempt to configure. Posting on the appropriate Flight One forum results in no answers, and there are several posts there already with the same problem. Sending a support ticket only gets you sent back to the forum where there are no answers. I am hoping someone here might have an answer. Any ideas? Any thoughts? Lee

As many of you know that PDF Kneeboard no longer works in V4, I was looking through internet to eliminate that problem and have found the program called "Always-On-Top". Here is the video on how to use it, easy as 1-2-3. You can download it here: https://img.labnol.org/di/always-on-top.zip?_ga=2.172835363.1086715399.1510970198-244909298.1510847850

Hi guys, now the old thread has been closed, it might be time to open a respectful new one. Now offence to Sean. He's come up with something ground-breaking initially, especially when one is using DAs and the G1000 in the real world all the time. All that would be appropriate would be one single official announcement whether there will be further development or not. The user base, may it be pros or other users, would then know how to proceed with the aircraft. Cheers Baz.

Hi everyone haven't been around much . But during the latest update for Sky Force 3d and Environment Force I notice a new feature that was tick by default when I installed the latest update . I've just now notice I've been running p3d with Active Sky + Sky Force 3d + Environment Force . with Enable Grid Weather Engine (Preview) this was tick on. Should this be set to OFF if you are using Active Sky as the Weather Engine? Also do we still have to run Sky Force 3d at start up so texture sync can work with Environment Force ?

Hello, My fps are between 3 and 7 from yesterday, and before my fps were at around at least 30. I really don't know what could be the problem. I installed all over again my simulator today, at the beginning it was working very good (between 25 and 50 fps), and suddenly it dropped to between 3 and 7 like yesterday. I am desperate and I really don't know what to do, so if someone could help me it would be great. I have GTX 1070ti, with 16GB of RAM and I7 last generation. The Addons I have: ORBX products ChasePlane GSX Tomato Reshade FSUIPC Active Sky PMDG (B737) I have tried to open the simulator afte…

Hello there! I've got a major issue respective the groundtexture of Orbx ESSA is missing completely. Instead, there's a kind of a low-resolution sateliteimage visible. Further I noticed all sode based components disappeared aswell. Current P3D V4 version has been installed. Kind regards and thanks for your help, Aaron

I have a lot of Orbx scenery add ons - which I think are one of the causes of the delay loading P3D 4.5. My question is ' how should I organise my scenery?' - currently I just let P3D take care of it - but should I be doing something to manage it more efficiently? Any tips or thoughts will be appreciated.

Hi all: I wonder if someone could clarify an auto throttle question. I have read all the auto throttle threads and I understand how the MADDOG works here and the importance of a null zone on the throttle hardware. The question I have is this: at altitude when the auto throttle is in FMS speed or FMS over ride, the hardware throttles have no effect on the sim. I can move 'em back and forth with no effect. Much like the usual FSX auto throttle sim. However, on the take off roll as we've seen, after selecting auto throttle and TOGA, with the TRP in TO, the auto throttle is affected by the hardware, hence the need for a null zone. So as another poster mentioned, if we ad…

Hi all, I've updated this AFCAD to have correctly aligned ILS frequencies - However the PAPI's are now off. Could anyone help me with this, or even edit it for me to function correctly ? https://ufile.io/chqwukgo Thanks

SimSkunkWorks have recently transferred their website to a new server. I cannot see any way to re-download my purchases as an older customer of theirs. Apparently SimSkunkWorks is no longer marketing its products from its own website using instead e.g. simmarket.com. Has anyone else experienced similar issues and have you found a way to grab back your older purchases? I have emailed SimSkunkWorks on this subject but if anyone can preempt such a response with your own findings then so much the better.

I utilize just one of the P3d default A/c as I have installed the payware that I enjoy and use. It takes 2 minutes to boot P3d to my default flight ready to go. Wondering if, 1. deleting default A/C which I do not use will create problems. 2. If no problems, will the boot time be affected.

Doing the Cross the pond event.... Anyone know how to receive a selcal check? no HF radios installed in this thing What would my Selcal code be? Thanks

change log; https://forums.flightsimlabs.com/index.php?/topic/22921-a320-x-a319-x-update-v202415-now-available/ Compatibility update with Prepar3D v4.5.13.32097 Crash bug fix under certain conditions with FSLSounds.dll ATSU RMP logic improvements Several updates BSCU Brake temp and strength tuning Display Units ND wind arrow now appears at 2kts EFCS ELAC redesign (detailed change log below) Effects Fix for wing lights flashing External model Landing Gear updated (A319 only) - left spoiler skin animation fix (A319 only) - right wing fairing and main gear door skin an…

I just came across this new update because I had some CTDs caused by SingleObjectAnimation.dll.

So back when 4.0 was released I had an issue that prevented me from flying to or within Hawaii, I would get a CTD. I seem to recall several others mentioning this in different forums at the time. Speculation as I recall was it was an AI ship that was from fs9 or something? I just gave up flying to hawaii for awhile. Fast forward to 4.5, and I still can't fly to Hawaii without CTD. I have all of the default AI ships removed, I use that awesome package. I keep my FSDT sceneries up to date. I'm not sure what the issue is. I tried googling and searching the forums, to see what the ultimate fix was, but nothing came up, almost as if it was never a problem in the first place. S…