The Prepar3d Forum

Have anyone tried Prepar3D 4.2/4.3/4.4 in singe pass VR (not stereo mode, setting in P3D menu) with a Pimax 5K+ or 8K?I have just received my 5K+, and no matter what I do in the PiTool or in P3D v4.3 I get these strange white texture flickering ground patches in my far right peripheral vision. They are only present when I set P3D to VR "Singe pass” rendering (in the P3D VR menu), and not when I set “Stereo" rendering. However, the performance in “Stereo” in P3D v4.3 is bad, and the clouds and water dont render correct in each eye when using “stereo”. I don’t have this "white texture flickering" issue on my Vive in "Single pass rendering"Anyone here that have tried P3D v4.…

Hi everybody I use the PMDG 737 NG in P3DV4 and trying to get the procedures as realistic as possible. Here is my questions: "What approach procedure (ILS/LOC/RNAV) does the crew use and who decide it?" "How long is the pilot flying the respective approach by autopilot, from what point does he have to turn of the AP and have to fly by hand? Sorry if my english is not so good, I am originally from Germany :-) Here my "dangerous half-knowledge": - ILS - The plane captures after the satellite-based waypoints of the STAR the two "guiding beams° of the runway for lateral and vertical guidance and could perform theoretically an automatic lan…

hi there to anyone that can help. Around 2 weeks ago i was running p3d with all addons at around 30/40 fps no problems. Then i went to austria for a week, come back and its running on 6fps. I didnt change anything prior. I had a fiddle with a few tweaks and managed to get it working back at 30fps some how however frames have significantly dropped again over last 3 days. I load up p3d and i get good fps, then i close it and reload it and it runs on no more than 8. i have done a complete reinstall of p3d several times and theres no fix, and ive also tired unistalling my addons - orbx etc and theres no effect.Is there any fixes you know of, is this a regular occurrence…

Hello, so I have came across a problem lately within P3D v4.3 at random times I will launch P3D and a popup will appear on the splash screen and it will go to 6% loading terrain data and will not move from there, the only solution I have found is to let P3D build a new Prepar3D.cfg file but It is really annoying how every time it does this I need to fix all settings etc again, I am wondering if there is an alternative solution to solving this. Thanks

I am considering taking the jump into Orbx sceneries for my P3d V4.4...Apparently Global Base is required for all Orbx scenery...Just what does it do, exactly? Almost $100 is a pile of money for me...If I purchase Global Base, will I see any immediate difference in P3d? Is Global Base compatible with Ultimate Terrain or will I have to delete UTX before installing Global Base? I find the Orbx web site a bit confusing as to just where to start, so any advice will be appreciated! Thanks a lot... Steve in Kansas

You all have been so helpful on here, so I thought I'd reach out with one more specific question to my other post, more of a follow up. I can't afford to spend $1000 on a Video card, it just doesn't make sense for me right now. My system specs are below, I don't "think" I'll be going to 4k anytime soon, so just running three monitors, (can just run one if need be.) But wanting to find something to get me some average to good FPS and addon scenery for Prepar3d. I've done some research and will continue to keep looking but..IF you had to pick one of the following cards, what would you go with? And no 1080Ti/2080ti is not an option for me. :) RTX2060 …

I was loading a flight in the Realair piston Duke for P3D Sean Mooney so graciously preserved for us former Duke and FSX/Duke owners like I was, now that I fly P3DV4 instead. I went to start the situation (my situation files are linked to P3DV4 so a double click loads them), and I got an error message saying the visual file was not found, and although P3DV4 loaded it was to just a full window on the scenery, with no gauges, VC, aircraft in spot view... Nada... And other aircraft I tried to load met the same fate even though they were in the aircraft drop down list, the Dukes no longer were. I backed out to examine the proggie and Simobjects/Airplanes folde…

Need a bit of help with this as i've exhausted anything i can think of. I use Traffic Global and have quite a few payware addon airports.Only two won't show any AI traffic one of which is Flytampas Athens. It did have traffic until i updated TrafficGlobal and now the airport is empty .what files would i have to switch OFF to enable traffic to show.I know that duplicate afcads can cause the problem,just can't find anything obvious.please don't suggest any other AI program .i'm very happy with TG except for this issue at LGAV and FSDG heraklion. thanks for any help steve

It came out today. Installed, its very nice. The area included is enough with some very british houses for that area, the estuary is done very well. FPS are also very good. It has PBR also. SimMarket.

This is a VC view looking out of a PMDG 737-800 towards the jetway. There is something that moves with the camera that causes a section of the exterior of the jetway to become transparent. The cutout section moves as well as changes shape as the camera is panned. In the 3rd pic, you can see that the cutout looks like it is V shaped. I personally do not care, but I built this PC for my girlfriend's son, and he will be taking this system with him when he leaves in the spring. It apparently bothers him quite a bit, and I'm getting weary of hearing about it. I searched this forum as well as the internet in general, and haven't found any mention of it. I'm not sure i…

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I'm looking at buying this one for my cargo ops, as it's one of the largest and busiest cargo hubs in the world, and home to UPS air freight.. One thing I noticed when reading the product description at Simmarket is this feature... "Custom UPS Worldport Cargo loading system" https://secure.simmarket.com/fsdreamteam-louisville-international-airport-fsx-p3d.phtml What does that mean exactly..?? I don't currently have GSX (though i'm considering it) so if this is a feature that requires GSX to work i'm out of luck, at least for the time being, but it wouldn't be a deal breaker for me either way. Any info is appreciated, thanks...🙂

Hi all, I just bought a new soundbar and got it connected to my flight sim PC via USB connection. Unfortunately I noticed annoying intermittent “click” sound glitches in-flight no matter where I loaded the scenarios in P3D into: * https://soundcloud.com/user-691081649/demo-of-sound-crackling/s-StcCt (~0:02) * https://soundcloud.com/user-691081649/demo-of-sound-crackling-2/s-lgPg9 (~0:02) * https://soundcloud.com/user-691081649/demo-of-sound-crackling-3/s-d0aGI (~0:02) I have tried everything I could, including re-installing audio+GPU drivers and P3D clients, resetting CPU default clock from overclocking, configuring Windows au…

Are they planning to release the TBM900 for P3Dv4 some time in the future?

hi there to anyone that can help. Around 2 weeks ago i was running p3d with all addons at around 30/40 fps no problems. Then i went to austria for a week, come back and its running on 6fps. I didnt change anything prior. I had a fiddle with a few tweaks and managed to get it working back at 30fps some how however frames have significantly dropped again over last 3 days. I load up p3d and i get good fps, then i close it and reload it and it runs on no more than 8. i have done a complete reinstall of p3d several times and theres no fix, and ive also tired unistalling my addons - orbx etc and theres no effect.Is there any fixes you know of, is this a regular occurrence…

It's on Simmarket. Not a big fan of sceneries developed for both FSX and P3D, but I guess this is better than a stick in the eye and expands the Asian destinations a bit.

I wanted to know if I were to upgrade my current academic version to the professional, would I have to completely uninstall and then reinstall from scratch, or can I just install on top of my current one. I would hate to reinstall from scratch and have to re-do everything all over again such as reinstalling all my add-ons and reconfiguring, etc.

Hi, It may be too soon for anyone to have definitive answers and this may belong in a hardware forum (if so, I apologize.) What is your opinion of the following statement? P3Dv4 benefits more with hi-end hardware than P3Dv3. Put another way; as P3Dv3 is limited by clock speed more than your video card or memory speed, is this still the case with P3Dv4? I've been holding off updating my system since I'm running at 4.3Ghz and the best I can hope to see is about 5 Ghz (14% difference) with a new processor. Not really worth it, as I see it. However, if P3Dv4 is more efficient in its core utilization and the added graphics options available...I'm sure …

hello i am getting really bad fps with orbx true earth great britain also i have aerosoft heathrow installed and now it doesnt show up now i also have have ftx global base, vector and open lc europe is there something i need to do to get it to work properly

hello. today i updated to v27. and i tried to apply RD preset but this error was printed Shader integrity invalid for PrecipParticle.fx previously , i had installed REX SKYFORCE,ENVTEX ,ASCA. maybe these addons cause of problem? (cannot access to restore original shaders , apply preset)

Hi All, I am just trying to update the content part of P3D. My issue is with the .cab files that are also required as part of the download. They don't remain as .Cabs and instead become winrar files, I've tried extracting them, but how do you get them to remain as single .cab files? The content will not update without them. I have watched videos but they all seem to show the files downloading successfully as 2 single .cab files. Any help would be greatly appreciated! Many thanks, Anthony

I've seen screenshots of it in use in V4 but it is not working for me. I installed, See both versions plus the Buffalo one I added in my library but no preview. I select it and get an error. Anyone know if there is a fix I am missing or something? My search did not get me anywhere. Thanks.

Hi All, I have a new install of Prepar3d V4 on a relatively new Windows 10 install (no P3D on this system install prior to V4). With all settings untouched at default, everything runs fine in the default scenario (100+fps), but when I switch to a new view (such as Spot), the fps drops to ~2fps. To regain smooth FPS I have to reset the scenario, but will be restricted to the default cockpit view, unless I want to see a massive FPS drop again. Interestingly, once the FPS rate has dropped, pausing the game sees the FPS rate return to normal, but unpausing sees it drop again. Brief system specs are: Windows 10 (on SSD) P3D V4 (clean install on SSD) …

Hello, I have uninstalled the old Content and successfully downloaded the new Content, cont1 & cont2 files in order to do the update. When trying to install the Content I get this error... https://ibb.co/4SJCX9p I thought an error may have occurred when downloading the cont1.cab file so I have downloaded it again but this did not solve the problem. Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be? Many thanks, Aaron

(copied from my post in the UTLive support Forum, but hoping I'll get more suggestions and a fix from here) OK, so I've had a ton of issues with UTLive since I updated P3D to 4.4 (not blaming P3D or UTL, but something happened when I upgraded). Here's the short version of whats been going on, then I'll get to my findings as for where I am in testing right now and HOPEFULLY someone will know whats happening so I can get this issue resolved. Prior to updating P3D from 4.3 to 4.4, I had 0 issues with UTLive and all my assignments were showing up perfectly. Short version: Upgraded P3D from 4.3 to 4.4 and UTLive from 1.1 to 1.2. At that time I had a few iss…