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After recently updating FLAI I have gotten an error when loading in stating, "Vehicle Initialization has failed for: F-22 Raptor - 525th Fighter Squadron You will now be placed in visualization-only mode." After this clicking ok on this error, during the scenario selection screen, many aircraft are absent from choice including PMDG Aircraft, Aerosoft DC 8/CRJ, the MJC Q400, but excluding the Aerosoft A320.

Hi there everyone, I currently have Orbx FTX Global, Vector, OpenLC Europe, and Australia V2 installed into the P3D V4.5 (With Hotfix) I have only just noticed that in the Australia region itself (even before installing Australia V2) there are various black patches when I take a look at the top-down view. I have recently tried deleting shaders, uninstalling and re-installing all Orbx Products, uninstalling Tomatoshade etc... but the issue still appears to be there. I've also tried disabling Frozen Water in FTX Vector Control Panel, this did not change anything either. I have also tried verifying the files of all Orbx Products inside of FTX Central…

Is there a relationship between the Texture Resolution [OPTIONS>WORLD] and Texture Resolution [OPTIONS>DISPLAY] in terms of the visuals represented in sim or do they influence separate elements of the virtual world?

Somewhere there is a box to tick that tells P3D to open at the P3D Scenario screen. Could someone tell me where it is? Thanks T45

The PMDG one is dead. Is there another contender? Cheers.

Hi mates, I'm going to buy a sky/clouds/water textures set (Envtex) and a shader modifier (Envshade). I'm not very knowledgeable in this area... In case things go wrong *, which P3DV4.4 folders should I backup? I've thought about: \Prepar3D v4\ShadersHLSL \Prepar3D v4\Texture I'm good? * I read that Envtex and Envshade are not easy to uninstall or can create problems. Also Aerosoft and PMDG do not recommend the use of shaders of addons that modify the 'core' of P3D.

I know there has been many topics already on the 717. But it seems so scattered, was hoping I could get a few quick answers? Ive been debating on getting the 71 for awhile now, and a clean install of 4.4 seems like the excuse. Over on the tfdi forums quite a few people mention a CTD while changing views? Is that still an issue? I prefer to cruise in spot view...and i like watching gsx do its thing. How worried should i be about this issue? Also, has anyone had issues with 4.4 at all? Its so new, i havent seen specfic comments on the 717. And last, how easy is it to learn to fly? I currently have been obsessed with the QW787. Ive flown pmdg stu…

Hello Risktakers! I am hoping that others have found the secret for even though I have uninstalled and reinstalled the latest software, installed the redist simconnects, plugged and unplugged, run as admin and all that (multiple times), it just goes crazy jumping around like a demented ballet dancer. Mind you, I just changed client and content from 4.4 to 4.5, in case that makes a difference. Has anyone else been successful? Thank you for reading! Kind regards, Spirit Flyer (Stephen)

Is the P3D v4.5 Indago UAS (AKA Drone) flyable, or can it be made flyable....?? I've looked around the forum here, Googled etc, but can't seem to find any info on it. You can select it from the "select aircraft menu" and it loads up with a rudimentary VC and the usual external views, but my throttle and joystick don't seem to have any control effect on it. Using the in sim map, I took it up to 1000 feet AGL, but it just sits there hovering and can't be controlled, but you do get a nice VC and spot plane view... I just thought it would be kind of cool if you could fly it, might be nice for inspecting some of your expensive add on airports "low and slow" to g…

Hi, Yesterday it was released this product for P3Dv4. I have their same product for XP11 and I am very satisfied. Has anyone tried the new one for P3Dv4? I am asking because my shadows at P3Dv4 are not as bad as the XP11 was, so I'm not sure if it will make a big difference. Any early reviews would really help. https://secure.simmarket.com/mwp-projects-trueshadows-p3d4.phtml

I am trying to solve the intermittent flashing I get on exterior views. Not as much in the VC view. I have played around with my graphic settings, but no joy. It doesn't make it unflyable, just annoying. Thanks in advance. P3D 4.5

Hi all, I experiencing lately some issue with water textures in P3D. It seems that in some points close to the costline the textures are missing. I use R&D tomatoshade profile and also ENVTEX for the texture. Have a look at the picture to have a better idea.

Folks, Tried a search, and posted on the FlyTampa site, but haven't had much luck. Any advice on getting Amsterdam to work? Just purchased and having an issue with installation into P3D v4.5. I've downloaded the two files (Installer and DAT) . I unzipped the Installer into a folder and placed the DAT file in same. However, when I run the installer, I keep getting an error message saying the DAT file is missing. Thanks!

Hi mates, Does anybody have news from Taxi2gate? What are they working on? Or have they stopped activity for whatever reason? I wish they could update LTBA and VHHH to P3Dv4.

Hi I have posted this on the PMDG forum, left it for a month and have been ignored-Thanks PMDG, good customer support 👍 (very annoyed) I have an issue, where every time I start the engines on the 777 & 737 I get a stutter, any solutions? Thanks, Ollie.

I recently got an Oculus Go and was wondering how well it would work with P3d 4.4 and specifically with Fslabs. I’ve never done VR so I was curious. Thanks.

Hi Guys, Wondering if you could advise me the the proper setting for AffinityMask. I have i9-9900x cpu 10 core/20 thread processor. Not sure what I should change it to in P3D v4.5. Any help will be appreciated.

Hello all, when i set fps to unlimited, ground textures is getting blurries as flying. But with limited fps texture loading is very good and textures is very crisp. Is this normal behaviour with p3d v4.4?

Hello, I was recently changing some settings with my Logitech controllers and my screen started flickering black. I have searched for similar posts but they seem to be concerned largely with overclocking. I have also switched off shadows being cast as other suggested and yet the problem persists.I am new to a lot of this and I've generally stayed away from taking the visuals too high but this seems to have occurred without me changing any visual settings. I have confirmed that it is limited to the P3D window when minimised. It occurs randomly every few seconds at inconsistent but regular intervals. I have a K7700i Processor with a GTX1070 card and nothing is o…

I wanted to install tomato shade for p3d v4.3 but I´ve had problems after I installed it. I've already put the reflection profiles on some aircraft. First, the model of all aircraft, regardless of whether they had been configured or not with the profiles, was transparent and seemed to be missing, later when loading a scenary the textures of the ground seemed to be affected as well: https://imgur.com/2apaY9c https://imgur.com/uARQxID I read some things on reddit and someone recommended unchecking the option of extended reflection rendering in tomato shade. At first it seemed to fix the problem, the planes that had not been configured with profiles had bee…

Looks great https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/172454-australia-v2-for-p3d-and-fsx-official-announcement/

How effective is renaming a flle with an .off ending in P3D 4.5 Can it be used to systematically search for an malfunctioning Scenery or Airport? (I have used it successfully for a targeted .dll file and the Carenado Meteo files) xxd09

Helo, please someone could help me and give me some advise according texture in p3d. While at high altitude and look outside I see the ground textures loading in the distance and for me looks very unrealistic. See buildings and trees loading . i7 6700k 32gb Ram Nvidia GTX 1080ti Tv 4k 60htz unlimited FPS Thank you Geo

I did 2 flights today in 4.4 without issue. I shut the sim down and fired it up a little later to check something. When I started the sim, Chaseplane had an update and it installed whatever the update was. However, when loading the plane and airport, I kept getting messages from windows saying "Chaseplane Disconnected" and then it crashed the sim. Anyone else seeing this? Thanks!

I'm still on 4.3. I was spooked by some of the 4.4 problems. Then 4.5 came out and needed an immediate HF due to the performance hit and many incompatibilities. The HF seems to have only helped some and not others. Worrisome stories around about upgrading, then out of frustration dropping back to 4.4 or 4.3. Will there maybe be another patch or fix for 4.5 ? Advice/comments on going ahead and upgrading would be appreciated. (Devs like Milviz are only selling planes that work with the very latest P3D versions, problems or not.) Thanx in advance. I know this is a hard question to answer.... Jeff