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The top left shows the flight with default scenery. The other three quadrants show the same flight using TE scenery with exactly the same settings apart from LOD radius is set to MAX, ULTRA and HIGH. Can you tell which one is which? 😛

Hi all, I am learning the ins and outs of the Maddog X and am really enjoying the experience. I am following Chuck's Leonardo P3D MD-82 Guide to learn the different phases of flight. I seem to be able to understand/apply all of the steps up until the SET UP APPROACH phase and am wondering if I am doing something wrong or missing a step somewhere: The guide states on p. 147: 16. Set SPD knob to 170 kts (FOWLE speed limit). Orange speed command bug will be set as well. 17. Once aircraft has slowed down to 170 kts, set flaps lever to 0 deg. However, setting the SPD knob to 170 kts doesn't slow down the Maddog, even with landing gear dep…

Hi all, Have been considering buying P3D, but not sure if I will be able to run it. My specs are: i5-7300HQ @ 2.5GHz, but normally runs at 3.5 Nvidia 1050 with 2GB of memory 8 GB of RAM 1920x1080 monitor. Will I be able to run P3D? What are it’s main selling points? Will

Hello Folks Anyone know of this aircraft for P3Dv4 from a publisher other than FeelThere? Its the only one I can find and am not familiar with FeelThere. Was on a JetBlue E-190 the other day from KFLL to KRDU; lots of leg room compared to Delta or United. Would like to try flying this plane! If you have the FeelThere plane, please comment!

Hi, I was wondering should I apply the shaders while P3D is running or not? Also should I load the aircraft in night on default airport with clear whether and then apply the shaders,also do I need to load a shader profile every time or is it saved? Thanks,

I am now considering doing a clean install of 4.5. I have all the QW aircraft above in 4.4. Do they work in P3Dv4.5? If not then won't bother installing them for the moment on new version. regards

Check out the list of features. Will be interesting to see how performance is: https://fselite.net/news/latinvfr-releases-new-orleans-kmsy-for-prepar3d-v4

I keep having an issue with the rendering of some aircraft's outside view. Somehow part of the inside is visible from the outside. The problem occurs with all kinds of aircraft (FSL A320, PMDG B744/ 777, TDFI B717 to name just a view). I have tried deleting all shaders but that usually helps only for a while. I do have TOGA ENVSHADE installed. Not sure if that has anything to do with it. Thanks for ideas. Matthias https://www.dropbox.com/s/ztlas92u0cicevr/717.png?dl=0

I've really started loving this plane! https://www.flythemaddog.com/forum/index.php?/topic/11029-fly-the-maddog-x-14b410-open-beta-p3d-v44v45/

I'm a new user of P3D4 and I am experiencing a problem that I thought I would post a question about here. Is it normal for P3D4 to ignore axis control input from a yoke or joystick when its window is not active? This is happening to me. Button controls seem to work whether or not the window is active, but axis controls work only when the window is active. This might be a problem with how I have FXIPC5 set up in the program, but I just don't know where to look to fix the issue.

Up until the recent Barcelona release by Justsim I have been using the Aerosoft Mega Barcelona scenery, which is okay, but the buildings in the Justsim version are superior. However, after installing it I had severe elevation problems. The gates around Terminal 1 seem okay, but there were humps and dips in the intervening ground, with aircraft buried almost all the way in some areas. I tried searching for the culprit elevation BGL, by a long and tedious sequence of eliminations, without success. So, since P3D4.5 has now been released, I decided to uninstall P3D4 completely -- Scenery, Content and Client with AppData Local, Appdata Roaming, and ProgramData P3D4 f…

Hi folks, I have a few add ons which dont use the XML method and was wondering how to force these into XML. I have watched Matt Davies tutorial on it but I am still stumped a bit. Any assistance would be appreciated as I would like to port everything over to seperate drives using XML before upgrading to 4.5. Thanks Steve.

I just went from 4.4 to 4.5 content and client and now I am getting some sky and scenery tearing. It flashes almost like lightening around KPHL. After first installing of 4.5 I had really bad tearing of scenery with black flashes. I never had a problem with 4.4. I renamed my p3d config and let it rebuild and shader cache, that helped, but now getting the white and yellow flashes. It kind of seems to be the sun at times.

Hi I purchased both the 170/190 & 175/195 packages from feel there. It takes 180knots to rotate and the aircraft feels sluggish. Is there any fixes? -Ollie

Seemingly, there is no shine or reflections on myDA62

A320-X / A319-X for P3D v4.2-4.5 - Update v2.0.2.347 now released!

Hi All. I have been sick and tired of FSX recently... It is just so ugly and old. Now, I am considering buying P3D. My rig is as follows: i5 7300HQ. My System Info says it has a base frequency of 2.5GHz, but realistically it's about 3.5GHz. Nvidia GeForce 1050 8GB of RAM A lot of hard drive space 1920x1080 monitor. I can run FSX with PMDG 737 at about 40 FPS. I would just like to know your experiences with P3D, and whether or not you think it would be worth buying, and crucially would I be able to run it? Another important point for me is that I fly on VATSIM, so which sim is more widely used among that community. Thanks!

While either taking off or landing on rwy 16 at KPSM (Pease Int'l, Portsmouth NH) the sim freezes for several seconds always at the same geographical location, which is about 2000 feet down the runway (16), either airborne or on the runway. It doesn't do it when taxiing to the runway or taking off/landing in the opposite direction. Only on 16 and only at KPSM. It doesn't matter which aircraft I'm using. Anyone have any ideas? I'm running P3D v.2 and using Orbx Global Airport Pack, which includes KPSM. Like I said, it's only KPSM and only runway 16.

Hey everyone, I currently have FSX:SE and I’ve heard lots about P3D. My current addons are: - ORBX Global + OpenLC - ORBX Dubrovnik, Stockholm - UK2000 Newcastle, Belfast, and Gatwick - Aerosoft A318/319 How would buying P3D actually benefit me? What does it give that FSX:SE doesn’t, and would it actually be worth it? My specs: i5-6500 3.2ghz GTX 1050Ti 16GB RAM Thanks everyone! :)

Hi Folks, I've tried to upload an image, but following the instructions and placing picture in Flickr, and then getting it from there to here just does not work for me. My dilemma is, I did the client and Content upgrade from P3dv4.4 to 4.5, and for some unknown reason, I have a floating building, off from the YPJT to the right of RWY 12 apex and in front of RWY 24R as you take off. The building is not part of ORBX YPJT, it sits floating about 3 metres off the ground, up to 500 metres away from YPJT. I have Ozx and ORBX Australia, I disable Pilots Ultimate Terrain, it still remains so its not that. I also use All Global ORBX and BlackMarble. I know a pic…

Hello all. I'm a new P3D user and am using a Lenovo explorer. VR works perfectly with two exceptions: 1. I am always "above" the cockpit when launching a flight. Easy fix by recentering through P3D but a nuisance. 2. ATC window when called appears above and outside the cockpit and I cannot move/access it with the mouse. Could someone please help on these items? Thanks in advance, Glenn

P3Dv4.5 - Is this the time to ugrade?

I am getting reproducible CTDs when I change water reflection in the P3D UI. Prepar3D.exe Stopped working 4/12/2019 9:27:11 PM Exception code: 0xc0000409. Description: The system detected an overrun of a stack-based buffer in this application. This overrun could potentially allow a malicious user to gain control of this application. Fault module: clr.dll Exception offset: 0x0030432c. I've updated client and content. Rebuilt p3d.cfg and shader cache .... Apart from CTDs ,4.5 seems to work good. Maybe fps are lower than before (4.4) at certain situations. Any ideas?

Hello, is anybody using the freeware Slimlights in P3Dv4.5? LM hast changed the Lighting, are the nice slim lights still working? Or do we need to change anything? I've a lot of shimmering with the original lights, I want to get the away. Thanks Urmel

Hi all, I've just received my Realsimgear GNS530 (which is fabulous by the way) but I got a Reality XP problem, I’m using little navmap to create flight that I export as FPL to import in the reality XP GNS530 but a lot of waypoint are not find, guess it’s because the database of RXP is to old in comparaison of LNM ? Is there a way to update it ? cause for this the default p3D gps re way up to date Thank you in advance