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Hi Wanting to move to P3D from FSX. I have the A2A Cessna 182 and want to know if it will install in P3D or will I need to buy anorther version. Thanks Mike J

Oh dear, this is frustrating. I have posted this issue on the LM forum, but the last time I posted on the forum, it was over a week before I got a response, so I hope some of you guys on Avsim may have some ideas. I posted about this problem back in 2018, after moving to 4.4. There was no problem with any other versions, just since going to 4.4 and now 4.5 the issue remains. To summarise: it is only apparent on photosceneries and photoscenery textures. It happens across every addon I have, including Flytampa, Orbx, Simware etc. The issue has been tiresome and has made me consider binning P3d all together. Before doing so, I decided to do a complete reinstall of P3d v4.5! …

ok - If you have non support comments and general questions - this is the place. Support questions should go to the Rex support forum. Thanx, Vic

Two days ago I installed the latest batch of Win 10 updates. P3D runs fine but UTLIVE which I run fails. I have tried starting UTLIVE both in auto mode when I start P3D or before I start P3d. In both cases I get a message that UTLIVE has failed before P3D completes loading. I am lost for what to do now. Any suggestions would be appreciated. This is the first time I have had any problems of the combination of UTLIVE and P3D. The screen message I receive is "UTLive Client has stopped working". .

I accidentally found a way to make AFX work in P3Dv4. If this is redundant I apologize, but my browsings have never found a way to make it work. Enable the Estonia Migration Tool. Open AFX, click FSX and watch the airport collection bar start loading airports. It takes quite a bit of time but once you're done you're done. From now on the tool will work on P3Dv4 with or without Estonia enabled and as far as I have taken it you can delete, add, and move parking spaces, taxi lines, and all the rest. You must save the file to Addon Scenery/Scenery and have it at the top of the scenery library. Noel

Before this all happened, everything was running smoothly, i installed envshade and tomatoshade as i like the shaders. I do some tweaking around, but then when i start P3D it stays on the splash screen for few minutes then it crashes completely without any warning. I've done everything i can such as delete the C drive P3D files to let them regenerate back in again, no hope. I disconnect a few USBs from my computer as they can cause some problems sometimes, no hope. I uninstall P3D and reinstall it, no hope. At this point i have run out of thoughts. Anyone help out please?

I like flying around Las Vegas and recently noticed that a couple of the buildings on the strip and the tower towards downtown no longer have texture applied when i fly at night. Not really sure how long its been like this. Running 4.5, Orbx global, vector and NA landclass plus Southern California scenery. I installed REX environment force shortly before noticing and had it running on automated mode whilst flying in the local. As far as i know this just adjusts the shaders on the fly but doesnt change the textures. I verified (reluctantly) the files for Southern California and as usual it finds something to download but didnt fix the issue. Any ideas, im not to…

I have an odd problem My A2A planes plus some Carenado planes with weather radar will not load in European Alpine areas Very discrete problem. I have many other planes Milviz,Flysimware etc -all good I am aware of CMeteo files from Carenado which caused some similar problems and are now disabled in my sim This seems to be a problem along similar lines Flying in all other regions-mountainous or not is OK Any thoughts or anything I could try Win 10,P3Dv4.5-no hot fixes xxd09

Trying to install the TBM 850 from Carenado as I loved it when playing FSX however with the installation of P3D v4.4 the TBM 850 not only has missing textures but refuses to create any thrust no matter what I try (something that never happened in FSX). I have tried reinstalling multiple times, I'm out of options, my other P3D airplanes work fine (from what I can tell). Included is an image of the textures: https://imgur.com/a/eWs5aAL Some other users noted similar issues online but none provide any workarounds or fixes 😢

Anyone know of P3dV4 compatible airports for Japan? Kansai RJBB, Narita RJAA, Chubu Centrair RJGG, Haneda RJTT. Could never understand why Japan always seemed to be ignored in the airport scenery category. I saw some over at SimMarket but are old and outdated.

Hi all, I seem to be having issues when landing, particularly at YSSY and RPLL. About 50ft or so before touch down, the aircraft seems to slam into the runway and it becomes very hard to stop. It seems like an elevation issue when the aircraft think it's at touch down point but its still 50 ft or so above. The only new program I have added was upgrading to GSX level 2. I am currently overseas at the moment but am still running P3D v4.5. Any help would be much appreciated. Kind regards, Ash allen

Is this program still working well with P3D v 4.5?

I installed the plugin and added the entry in the exe.xml but the radio stack is not working. All I get is 000.00 on all the displays. Worked fine in v3.

I`ll always love P3D but If this is true and pending I suspend all P3D and associated purchases for now. Sorry but there is no denying it now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fj8h6yibHHc

Does anybody know if Bajasim is still in business? Since I live in Tucson, I like to fly in Mexico and they have the only MMSD (San Jose Del Cabo) airport available. I tried sending them a support email and never heard anything. The problem I am having is all the 'predefined' locations (such as selecting 'Active Runway' in the airport selection menu) as well as the GPS and VOR approaches are offset (which they are not in real life according to Jeppesen). I have a screenshot available at https://www.dropbox.com/s/fo9cbdhj491bn44/mmsd.jpg?dl=0 that shows the problem at the departure end of the active runway. I am not an ADE expert 😞 Otherwise it works fine in P3D v4.x …

Is it not possible to fly the Boeing 717 with no cargo or passengers? The upper limit for the COG is 34.7, but to get down to a value just below that I have to fill the forward cargo hold (1814kgs) and add 5 passengers! Is that correct, or am I missing something?

All, I have posted scenery for New Providence Island (Nassau) for download. This is the first part of Bahamas Scenery Pack 2: Western Bahamas. I decided to release it as a beta release so that you enjoy this area now, instead of having to wait for the whole W Bahamas pack to be complete. This pack includes new vector, land class, water class, and static object scenery for New Providence/Nassau and a replacement for the default Lynden Pindling International Airport. All static objects are taken from the default object libraries in P3D. This is a beta release so please let me know how it works. I would be especially curious for feedback on how Aerosoft's Nassa…

I am running P3Dv4.5 with various addons (scenery, airplanes, textures, etc) and I am very happy with it! WAY better performing and WAY better visually than FSX, which I flew for over 10 years on several different computers. That said, I was looking back through some old FSX screenshots and I knew this to be true, but it struck me again how much worse the water color, water textures, airport lighting textures, and bloom effect are in P3dv4 vs. FSX. The water and lights look WAY better in FSX. Why is that? Why hasn't either P3D improved that or REX improved that? In FSX, I used Steve's DX 10 fixer, REX Essential plus Overdrive, and REX 4 Texture Direct plus Soft …

Anyone using P3D v4.5, ASC & Toga projects Envdir/Tex/Shade been able to come up with settings within ASC or Envdir to generate a magical crimson sunset as the sun dips behind the horizon? If so, would appreciate knowing the relevant settings. Thanks T45

They've rolled out photoreal ground textures, run your live update application. https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=7993629c-e43d-11e9-b9b8-0edaf8f81e27&fbclid=IwAR1QLx1ZGbF6NacTXpJn0bmce-AZcJgmuTkjhKhqgEuBqcJjvSkqq8xPp-s https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=6ce680e2-e43d-11e9-b9b8-0edaf8f81e27&fbclid=IwAR1ORGpn7Klt3vC5eEyyR3YvjnRwe4uYaQ16pEFO-LwsfnLW--mwV7fPA_E https://cdn.knightlab.com/libs/juxtapose/latest/embed/index.html?uid=4b432ca6-e43d-11e9-b9b8-0edaf8f81e27&fbclid=IwAR09QA1F_wLAnRuBikExvRRe3mLbbcMGQvXht-UDPHf_oBRzEtQAF728zzI

Hi folks, I've just got into VR with HP Reverb, WMR Steam, SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality for SteamVR. When I start up and open P3D and enable SteamVR, glory be there I am with the helicopter and I can look all around. Trouble is my head is above the main rotors! I can't fly like that, for a start I can't engage the clutch and if I could I'd lose my head. Usiing P3d's lower eye-point keystrokes doesn't work. Any ideas? Cheers, Brian

https://prepar3d.com/news/2019/09/115750/ Release notes say it fixes the PBR anti-aliasing bug. Edit: the link above is now working again (0945 EDT)

I'll try not to sound too inexperienced, (been simming for years), but after the subject line upgrade, I had to drop my texture filtering from Anisotropic 8X to 4X, and my AA from 8xSSAA to 4xMSAA, or my frame rates plummeted from 30 FPS (fixed rate) to ~7 FPS at dusk or night at my home airport with the F22. Am I experiencing the expected results of the hotfix or does something sound amiss? Thanks Michael

I stated up P3d v4.5 for the first time in a week or so. I got a series of error messages pertaining to the scenery config. I had put all of Orbx on my D drive with a connection to P3d. It was working just fine. Well, today this problem showed up. I haven't gone to the new Orbx installation program. I'm wondering if a Windows update messed it up or if somehow its an Orbx problem. No new scenery installation or any thing like that. I guess I could reinstall with the new installer, but have notice others having problems with it. Any thoughts?

I just got tomato shade and i need to make dynamic reflections on aircraft, but theres no profile for lets say the thomas ruth a310... how do i do this? because i got a lot of planes wich people dont make any profiles for, or is there no way to fix this?