The Prepar3d Forum

Hi All I have a problem where Prepar3D crashes when approaching New York or on the ground. This has happens with both FS Dreamteam KJFK v2 and the Drzewiecki Design scenery add ons. I have no problem anywhere else. Any suggestions as to what could be causing the problem? Thanks Cheers Craig

I am curious as to if there is a way to turn off P3D's default lighting. I recently purchased Orbx Global and vector and obviously installed the eye candy night lights however, the default prepar3d lighting makes the ground all bright and the sim looks unrealistic. Any fixes to this would be appreciated. :)

Hey guys, I have got a Problem with my EDDL JustSim scenery. Düsseldorf has got two runways and both are Always active (depending on the wind either 23L/23R or 05L/05R) but in the Simulator the runways 23L and 05R are closed for landings. Do you guys now how I can change this ? Thanks in advance! Luca

Hello, Due to some technical limitations noted by Imaginesim and FSDT I had to switch from 4.4 (that I loved very much due to its immortal stability) to 4.5. So far, only the Client has been changed and my issues with the related products were resolved. Just wondering whether I should update the Content as well. I have a set of mainstream add-ones such as AS2016, PMDG, FSLabs, REX Environment, ORBX/Vector etc. I'd be happy not to update the Content unless there are ultimate requirements to do so. Thanks

Using AS16+SF+EF, I get the cloud shadows flickering on the ground on and off, please help. I have tried increasing the draw distance, but that doesn't work. Cheers, ollie.

I am going to buy some scenery and there are two different versions of the scenery. I would like to know which ones are the better ones San Diego - Latin VFR or Orbx Innsbruck - Orbx or JustSim (v3) Chicago O'Hare - FSDreamteam or Drzewiecki Design Barcelona - JustSim (v2) or Latin VFR Seattle - Taxi2Gate or Drzewiecki Design If I buy the Drzewiecki Design Seattle city and/or Chicago city scenery will the FSDreamtean O'Hare and/or the Taxi2Gate Seattle fit in?

Whenever I load up a saved flight in P3Dv4.5 they all start with 06/21/2019. The current time of day is correct though. I think 06/21/2019 is the date that I installed P3Dv4.5 on my computer. If I set my options to start the default flight with the current date it will do that but if I load any other saved flight it starts with the 06/21 date. Is there any way to set options so that the saved flights will either start with the last date flown or with the current date?

Why does my logbook for P3Dv4.5 and FSX-SE classify most of my aircraft as amphibious when they should be fixed wing?

Has anyone purchased UK2000 Inverness? Any positive or negative comments? I already have the Sim720 version which is OK, so don't want to spend money on the UK2000 version if there is not much to gain.

I am wondering what kind of performance can you expect with ORBX EGLC, but specifically NOT using GB TE, but just using the standard ORBX Great Britain Region? Is it impossible or does it work? London has always been one of the more difficult performance areas to balance in the sim, even going back to FSX days. Lee

Simple description: I have found that when flying from YBAS to YBCG, at a certain point in the route, my simulator would simply exit to desktop. Tried again, same result, and repeated with different aircraft from different situations, and got to the point where i found that a bunch of airports added by AU V2 were the culprits. After further testing i discovered that ADE_FTX_AUS_YTNB.BGL inside <Prepar3D Folder>\ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAUv2_05_SCENERY\scenery was making the simulator crash. I tested this in another PC with just FTX AU V2 and i got the same result. I am posting this here to whom it might concern as i don't go into ORBX's "perfect world, on…

Hello fellow simmers! I thought I'd treat myself to some P3D add-ons, probably in the form of aircraft, and thought I'd seek some current opinions. I'm looking at the Aerosoft CRJ, or possible the PMDG 747-8 expansion. The latter I'm not sure if there are enough changes from the base package to make the $70 price tag worth while, and the former I know had some issues in the beginning. I'm unsure if those issues have been addressed since then. So, thoughts on these aircraft? Any other out of the box stuff I should be looking at? I'm a true blue flight sim fanatic, so I have a ton of stuff, but always looking for suggestions. Thanks in advance for your time t…

hello, another question about blurries. recently i have had this issue; crystal clear scenery while at high altitude (PMDG aircraft). as i decend it appears that the scenery tiles are not updating, causing extreme blurries and sparse auto gen once at low altitude on approach. is this strictly a hardware problem that i now have in 4.5? any ideas? FPS locked at 45 i-7 6400k 4gh 16g RAM Nvidia Geforce GTX 1070

As the title states, it takes up to 20 minutes to start loading to the main screen where you pick you ac and location. This started a few weeks ago. Gnacino

Did I do something wrong, I just updated to 1903 build 18362.295 with my medium RX-580 2600x stock setup at best and with some Orbx scenery near KHQM getting between 70-100 fps without active sky, the below pic with GPU at 1% CPU at 20% and 1.3Gb vram is 103.1 fps. I didn't change anything, I have never seen P3D this smooth in my sim lifetime on this meager system. Someone tell me what I did wrong so that I can go back to my 30fps.

I just bought a new computer and set up P3D v4.5 and downloaded the latest Track IR 5 but cannot get it to work. I went into P3d and installed simconnect but that didn't work. I don't understand computers very well so I'm hoping someone can help me get Track IR going. Thanks Rodger

Title says it all. Happy flying.

I just have noticed (yes, I know, I know...) that UTX is now officially supported by F1 and I would like to combine it with ORBX products. ORBX is good for textures, coast/river lines, but UTX provides the best road network and night lighting. Would appreciate if someone provides a hint how to deal with it. Thanks Dmitriy

https://slc.lanilogic.com/ https://slc.lanilogic.com/changelog Anyone heard of this yet? My virtual skies have felt pretty empty without FS Passengers. No subscription either. Thats a W from me. Would definitely have to create my own soundpack though 🤣 If you watch any of the videos you will see what I mean but he is working with what he has though!

Hi all, somehow rather surprising but I really do not find anything on this topic. Are you guys not bothered by the fact that dynamic lighting does not cast shadows? Just last night I was flying out of ImagineSim's WSSS, an airport with lovely dynamic lighting, and I realized that all those dynamic lights do not cast shadows (or more precisely, objects lit by DL do not cast shadows). Is this something I can change by using a certain setting or modifying the config or is this simply not provided? What do you think? Would it ruin the performance totally? To me, I am happy that I did not notice it until yesterday, because as soon as I notice such a flaw, I will always recogn…

Has anyone had success in migrating the Sibwings O-1 Bird Dog platform to Lockheed P3dv4.X? As a former Bird Dog driver, I worked with the two Russian developers (Andre and Alex) back in 2009/10 in the development of their FSX O-1 offering to the Microsoft FSX flight sim community. Their visual modeling techniques were about as good as it gets with the main problem being flight dynamics. Ultimately that was resolved and they produced a final product that flew much like the real bird and was uncannily realistic!! Since the Sibwings team broke up before the advent of the Lockheed platform, the bird was never modified for the 64 bit architecture. I really miss flying …

Can anyone who has purchased thie above scenery package let me know how well AI planes perform at this airport? Based on my experience with UK2000 London City Xtreme, this is a difficult airport to sort out with respect to smooth and realistic traffic flow. The two main problems are the "back tracking" along the runway, and also the "face on" positions of the parked planes.

Hi all, I decided to see if the Lagos airport payware worked in P3D V4 and to my surprise it seems to work (so far). I also discovered the scenery is almost 3gb but I can't see why that is. The textures are not that great so I am thinking it's photo scenery but the folder only says photo files are about 125kb each and there are only 5 files. I would like to know if anyone else has this scenery and if they took out the photo scenery to help and is it really that size. It's a big size for an airport I only fly to once in a while so I am not sure I want to use precious computer space for it. There are so many more airports to be released (I hope) and I don't want to miss out…

I have searched in several threads about the issue i have without success. Randomly i have the issue, that my aircraft doesn´t lift up into the air while take off and i have absolutely no idea what could be wrong. Everything else works as it should. ´So i start with a pushback via GSX, taxi to the runway, line up and set take-off power. The aircraft advance to V1 and at Vr i pull the stick. The aircraft rotate normal but stays on the runway whilst acclerate more and more. At the end i "drive" with the aircraft-butt on the ground into the fence of the airport and into the next trees or houses near the runway. If i pause the Sim and lift the aircraft into the air via …

I recently bought the product REGIONAL PACKAGE COLOMBIA (39 REGIONAL SCENARIOS) PREPAR3D V2 V3, V4, V4.5 from the company Fly Simulation of Medellín-Colombia. Many of the airports contained in the package purchased have been defective. The seller is completely silent and has left me with the problem on my shoulders. I am addressing you because I know that in this forum there are very wise people who could suddenly correct the technical problems of these scenarios. I have Wiindows 10 and P3D4.5 Here are the links to some of the images to give you a better idea of the problem: https://imgur.com/r87UFJf https://imgur.com/r87UFJf https://imgur.com/r87UFJf https://i…