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I have posted this issue at the UK2000 forum but decided to put it here also, as there are many Avsim people who seem to have experience in this area. These issues may have been discussed before, but in searching nothing seems to be quite my problem. Have recently updated to P3D v4.5, after being on v4.4 for quite awhile. (Flying in Orbx FTX England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, and NI.). It seems that all of my UK2000 vfr airfields were working okay in v4.4. I also had issues with some Xtreme airports - Manchester and Birmingham, but just flew elsewhere. Now in v4.5, it seems that the VFR Airfields Vol 1 work great, but VFR airfields 2 and 3 cause the sim to crash if I…

Hi all, I'm using P3D V4 and I have recently just purchased JUSTSIM LTBS Dalaman airport and upon landing discovered that there are no taxiway markings and runway markings are also minimal. When arriving at the gate the terminal is missing the glass windows and you can see straight through it. I have seen other youtube videos and their scenery appears to be just fine with all the taxiway markings etc that are even shown in the pictures when you buy it. There was no error during installation only something popped up saying I already have a newer version of sim object display engine. I'm using ORBX global+vector+europe and I have used the airport elevation correction t…

Hi, I wanted to go from PTA to Tomatoshade. Installation went very easy. I have all of my liveries (TDS etc) outside op P3Dv44 root folder. Via my sinmobjects.cfg. When I start the reflection maker, I cannot find my TDS aircraft. Did I do something wrong? Do I have to something so reflection maker cab find my aircraft via simobjects.cfg? Regards, Jeroen

Hi, I have P3D Professional. I notice that it does not have the watermark at the upper right corner of the screen. Is this a distinctive feature of P3D Pro? Or did I do something I was not aware or I do not remember?

Hi I used to use REX SF but gave up because I got too many glitchy clouds 😛 Purchased AS16 (WOW!!), and still want to use SF for the textures and EF for the environment stuff, how do I set everything up correctly? Currently, I have disabled REX sky force weather engine in SF and that's it. Thanks, Ollie

Hi all, Hope you’re all doing well! I run P3D on my iMac with boot camp (yes I know 😞 but I can’t change it) My GPU is the thing that’s affecting my performance the worst as the processor and memory are still within range at by current settings i am thinking of getting an external GPU, which sold have a Radeon RX Vega 56 with 8gb of HBM2 memory which is compatible with Mac and is double the gpu memory of what I currently have my question is would I see any performance improvement with this external gpu? My Specs are 3.0GHz 6-core Intel Core i5 with Turbo Boost up to 4.1GHz RAM: 8GB Radeon Pro 570X with 4GB of …

Hi I recently bought Rex SkyForce 3D and set it up together with ASP4, ASCA and Envtex, as described here in the last option (REX Sky Force 3D and Active Sky plus ASCA for dynamic skies with ENVTEX sky textures) Now, whenever I start a flight, my Clouds are pretty much have this greyish look as seen below: I'm getting this when I choose the normal "Fair Weather" settings as well. I already restored my Shaders to default for testing, however it didn't change anything. Are the clouds supposed to look like this or does anyone have a clue for me? Thank you!

Hey, I installed P3D v4.4 this week and when I tried to install scenery it stayed normal.. I tried some scenery's and it's not work.. that's what I get in EBBR attaching pictures https://prnt.sc/ommm38 https://prnt.sc/ommmcv

Hello I have been with P3D uninstalled for a while and I will start installing it again with my add onds, with P3Dv4.4 I had a great performance, but I was wondering if finally P3Dv4.5 Hotfix 1 is better performance and if all the add onds are already compatible with 4.5hf1. Thank you

Hey ! I don't really know where to add this thread so feel free to move it if needed. I'm experiencing issues with P3Dv4 GPU and CPU behavior, actually I never paid attention to it before but when I fly over heavy sceneries or with a heavy on framerate Plane, both of my GPU and CPU don't run at 100%. My CPU cores are also not working equally, like the CPU0 work way harder than the others. (All tests are made without Vsync obviously, so framerate is not limited) CPU : I7 4790K without OC GPU : MSI GTX970 4Go The problem might be coming from my CPU since when I fly without any autogen, Vsync still off my GPU run at 100% with 140/150 FPS…

I know there is little in the way of forum discussion re this outstanding plane however I'll ask the question anyway. I'm trying to link my what would normally be my L & R prop levers to the L & R Fuel Selector Levers in the DA 62 via FSUIPC, but it appears there are no appropriate control option available in FSUIPC. Is this possible? Thanks in advance

I know posting this issue here is out of place, but no replies have been forthcoming from Aerosoft forums regarding flight oscillations after reaching cruise altitude in auto flight in all models of this aircraft in P3D v3.4, Windows 10 platform. latest Aerosoft versions. I experience no performance problems with PMDG's NGX, 777 & 747v3. which of course are more demanding CPU & GPU wise. Has anyone else come across this problem.

Anyone expierience with Blue skystar addons ? Blue Sky Star They should have nice engines soundfiles for airbus But unable to register at their site, no answer. Not very commercial.....

All, When I took off in "Winter" from Quito (SEQM), I noticed a very dark scenery with almost black airport grounds etc. Runways and buildings looked normal with normal colors. I tried to change that by turning dynamic lighting on. It worked. The scenery looked as it should be with green airport grounds and everything. I started a flight from Orlando (KMCO) with the dynamic lighting still active from that flight out of Quito. The scenery looked dark and the airport grounds almost black, similar to the previous Quito situation. I turned off the dynamic lighting and everything looked and was normal again. It made me wonder what happened and how this works; one tim…

Hello, Some weeks ago I installed tomato shade and reflection profiles to all my aircraft. But I've noticed a problem. In the PMDG 777 for example, the joystick and the pedestal gets a weird color. Same in the PMDG 737, all the buttons on the overhead panel gets a weird color too. Here are some pictures: https://imgur.com/a/UXxFAnK

Greetings, I am not certain if others have discovered this but I thought I would pass it along. I run locked frame rates (30) with the Riva frame limiter and most of the time my flight experience is very smooth. When its not, I use SHIFT-Z to see what is happening, where it now displays MIN/AVG/MAX. The MIN value is of interest, and when things are "bad" the FPS will go to less than 1.0. The MIN value holds for about 10 seconds and then resets, making it a "living" value versus the absolute worst FPS encountered. Here are the mods to the CFG file. [TextInfo.1] // Latitude=1,1 // Longitude=1,2 Altitude=1,1 Heading=1,2 AirSpeed=1,3 WindDirec…

Hi guys, It has troubled me a lot that for all these years no matter how I upgrade my computer I receive very limited results on P3D. I recently got my PC upgrade to a system built on I7-8700k and RTX2080 with 16GB 3000Mhz RAM, running on liquid cooling. Previously it was on GTX980 and I7-5820k at 3.7ghz where P3D actually runs faster. While all other games have been working great with this config, I am constantly getting 15fps on any angle on P3DV4.4. An example of such a running scenario includes the list of softwares below: FSL320 FSDT Charlotte REX5 Skyforce+ Environmental force, Aerotacto preset PTA 2.63 with preset by Matt Davies, 12/20…

I just found out milviz released their porter.I ran a search on here.Only a few posts about it. I'm wondering how come just a few people mention it ? Is it bad ? I would be interested in the pc6 but to me when nobody talks about it it only means one thing. All opinions welcome. Thanks

Hi Mates, Until recently, my habit was to buy 1 or 2 Navigraph AIRAC cycles every year or 2 years, mainly for my PMDG 777, PFPX, and FSTramp flight planner. Especially for PFPX flight plans and FMC programation to be consistent. That is to avoid the FMC issuing messages like "waypoint unknown'. I vaguely heard of Fsaerodata now and then but did not pay much attention. Now I know that Fsaerodata updates the stock P3D navdata to current AIRAC. For liners, I use only the PMDG 777 together with PFPX and I've never had any issues or consistency with my flight plans or FMC programmtion. For general aviation, I only use FSTramp that reads the P3D navidat…

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So, I've been having this issue for a while now and it's starting to bug me. ORBX night lights are very sparse. I use ORBX Global/Vector/openLC NA/openLC EU and a few ORBX airports but the night lighting seems very sparse. And yes i use the latest ORBX libraries and used the night lights configurator yet the lights are still sparse. It seems like there are lava colored patches in some areas where lights are supposed to be but they aren't there. Library insertion points are set as default. The first screenshot is at KVPS and the second screenshot is at KFLL. The issue persists in Europe as well. For comparison, here's a user named flywithdiduch on reddit and his …

While PF3 does see my install of FSX It does no see my install of P3D and craches when I hit connect to FS. Did I miss something in the install? Anyone else have this problem??

Hi every one and reads, I recently got a brand new M.2 SSD hard drive for my PC, and I have added windows 10 and P3D v4 to this M.2. And now it has gone completely wrong for me, I have QW 787 for P3D v4 and I cannot edit and edit the txt file called Aircraft. I have also found that many of my other aircraft / sim objects are not below local disk (C:) > Programs > Lockheed Martin > Prepar3D v4 > SimObjects! But they are under other files, so I do not know if it is me who made a mistake or whether it is my PC that roams in this ??? I have the feeling that it is me who made a mistake. But to be 100% sure I just wanted to hear, is it stupid to put …

Hi all, I am currently running Rex sky force 3D for my textures and ASP4 for my weather engine. i am getting dreadful performance with the Rex clouds and am considering switching to ASCA but do you guys think active Sky cloud art is better visually and performance wise than Rex?

I recently moved from FS9 to P3D and loved the Flight 1 ATR 72-500 on FS9 How does the new Aerosoft 72 - 500 compare ? Can you put the throttles into the Auto Slot and climb on IAS mode ? all videos I have seen on YouTube show V/S climb which is not realistic and possible dangerous. I will buy it if it is as good and as realistic as the FS9 version. Anybody used both? Thanks Steve Cooper