The Prepar3d Forum

When I click on the gps, all I get is very faint ghost picture of the expand view. All the airplanes are having the same problem. Any one know what controls the expanded view, when you click on the gps gauge.

I recently had to do a full uninstall/reinstall of P3Dv4.3 and after a month of reinstalling and updating everything again, I am finally ready to take back to the skies... except the flight planner in P3D isn't working right I make flight plans in PFPX and save them to the documents folder as.pln (ex-KSEAZBAA01.pln). Part of my add-on scenery is updated intersections with updated names and locations. As long as that is enabled, P3D tells me it is unable to find a route. If I disable it, it loads my imported flight plan fine. I had the same intersection scenery installed and enabled prior to reinstall and it worked fine. OK, I can live without the installed updated in…

FSUIPC5 for P3D4 is now available on Pete Dowson's forum! This is the free version. Apparently you will be able to get the full paid version on SimMarket sometime today. Russ

I've been running T2G KMCO in P3D v4.3 for some time now with no apparent problems, although up until my last flight all flights had been during the daytime. My most recent flight was a night arrival upon which I found a couple of problems - specifically; black squares around the taxi lights and trees, appearing to indicate some issue with an alpha map. Note that during the daytime everything appears correctly. I've isolated the culprit files to be: Taxi light squares: KMCO-WINDOWS_lm.dds Tree boxes: KMCO-ARBOLES_LM.dds It seems I can remove KMCO-WINDOWS_lm.dds with no ill effect (that I've found thus far) aside from not being able to see taxi…

Does anyone know if the new v4 will finally make full use of SLI?

In Prepar3d V3, some VORs and NDBs are showing much shorter ranges than they should have. I'm trying to fly a route from SBRJ to SBSP using only navaids, but can't do it because NDBs and VORs ranges are too short, even at 30000 ft... Navigation charts show that these VORs and NDBs beacon some airways, but the signal is lost in the middle of the airway... I'm talking specifically about VOR "ADA", which beacons airway UZ44 and the NDB "SAT", which beacons the airway UZ45... Thanks!

I've set TextureMaxLoad=30 under the Display category in my p3d.cfg file, it fixed some of the black textures around the PNW region I was testing. You can see Innsbruck here is pretty crazy looking. Any other things I can try? This was even happening when I just install stock P3D V4. Since then I've added my orbx stuff and FS Global Next Generation. I've reinstall the ORBX libraries and have no other scenery installed whatsoever. https://imgur.com/a/BexK56b

I usually don't do night flights as I really enjoy the daytime scenery. Today, decided to do a predawn departure. The city textures/lighting is dark orange/red everywhere. Looks like Halloween! Does anyone know why? FYI, I have all of the ORBX products installed, if that helps.

I'm looking for the best way to watch replays in P3Dv4. I'm doing all my flying in the PMDG NGX so the method needs to be able to handle the NGX properly with flaps, spoilers, gear etc. The default replay feature in P3Dv4 as we all know won't allow you to see flaps movement during replays for example. I've tried a software called Flight Control Replay Professional but I never managed to get this software to work correctly so I'm now looking for something else/better. I've used FS Recorder in the past which also came with its limitations but all in all I think it was working quite well although it was a bit cumbersome to use. I heard Chase Plane comes with a…

I am interested in maybe buying this program. My question is can I use add on scenery and airports with this?

My pc specs as under : i7-6700k overclocked to 4.5 Ghz KF2/Galax 1080Ti 800W Corsair PSU 16Gigs DDR4 @ 3200 Win 10 Pro on SSD P3d v4.3 on another SSD Single Seat Trainer with 43" single monitor @ 4K displaying P3D visuals (Virtual Cockpit view). Visual do not have any cockpit Settings : FXAA - OFF TF - 16x Texture Resolution - Tried both 1024 and 2048 AA - 4xSSAA Vsync - ON TB - ON Target Frame Rate - 31 (Monitor refresh rate set to 30) LOD Radius - Max Tesselation High Mesh Resolution - 5m Terrain Resolution - 7cm High Resolution Terrain Textures - ON Scenery Complexity - Dense All Autogens - Normal Dynamic 3D Autog…

The default KDEN in P3dv4 stutters when dialing gauges and rolling down the runway every 3 to 5 seconds. It also does this with Flightbeam KDEN but worse. Anyone have an idea how to fix this. KDEN is the only airport that does this. Thanks Randy

Hey, just a quick question I have upgraded to P3D V4 from FSX:SE and I am wondering is the level D 767 compatible with V4 yet? Also as someone who has various PMDG products on FSX the only one I could afford right now is the 737, are there any decent long haul birds with a fairly in depth system modelling in the $60 - 70 range at all? I were looking at the ifly 747 but not sure how that stacks up? Thanks your help guys

So after flying the NGX for awhile, I've decided to switch back to the FSL A320 to switch it up. I popped in to spot view quick and noticed what seems to be translucent textures. I loaded up the Aerosoft bus as well and it seems to have the same issue. The NGX however does not and renders fine. I've never seen anything like this before - any ideas? Pic below for whats happening.

I am guessing that this is happening because of the shadows from the dynamic light. is there any way to fix this?

Hello Forum Anyone can assist with some good setup ino to get Linda to work on P3D with my FSLabs Airbus aircraft A lot for FSX but not P3Dv4.3 Thanks Bill Gradwell

Hi, i discoverd some "strange" thing. I have a igpu HD4600 and a gtx 1070 p3d v4 is set to run on the 1070 but everytime i start p3d i can see in the task manger that the hd4600 and the gtx 1070 are about 40 or more % load. For the 1070 it`s clear because the card should render p3d on my 32inch 4K monitor. But the HD4600 is only connected to a 1920x1080 Monitor for EFB v2 ..... which means 2D. When i disable the HD4600 in the device manager and immediatly re-enable it everything is as expected HD4600 5 - 10 % usage, 1070 GTX 35 - 45 %. Do i have some config error? brgds

Got unnoticed to me before, but by using the Windows App Crash Viewer I noticed today that in the last 6 weeks I have almost always an APPCRASH of P3Dv4.3 upon exit, due to an "api.dll" module fault. Looking into the AVSIM CTD guide it looks strange to me that one possible cause is that I was too close to an OOM (being this thing 64bits). I do not have modified the Prepar3D.CFG file to use any Affinity Mask and BufferPools tweaks. Have rebuild the scenery indexes and facilities, but still get the crash on exit. My specs are below on the signature. I'm running P3Dv4.3 together with: - FFTF Dynamic (FSPS) - ASP4 (HiFi) - ChasePlane - FSUIPC v5.…

When I downloaded and installed the Flysimware Learjet 35, it installed fine into P3D v4. But, when I used it, it had no switch sounds. I located folder in which all the switch sounds are contained, so the sounds are on my computer. I checked the APPDATA Roaming folder, looking through addons.cfg, EXE.xml, but no trace of the aurcraft. I checked my ProgramData folder, looked through addons.cfg, exe.xml, dll.xml, with again, no sign of the aircraft. I was looking through the installer, and I didn't see anything being installed in those files. So, I can assume, that this addon doesn't require the addons.cfg, or the exe or dll.xml, so I think that's fine…

A few new paints for the P3Dv4 version https://www.dropbox.com/sh/699j2cb9a9w5wu7/AADzACI0hAmvg0zoIe5JZwOxa?dl=0

Hi all, I need all your experiences to help me with this issue. Up to 2 weeks ago I never had any issues with P3D. Two weeks ago I lost my network connection. The server could see itself and the client. The client could only see the server. It took me 2 days and a System Restore to solve it. Then my server started acting the same. Solution : system restore. Today I was checking for the first in several months the framerate as I found that moving AI aircraft were stuttering. I have locked framerate to 20 ( triple view ) and it was always smooth enough. If you look ate my vids , link below in my signature, you can see that. The moment I enabled PSXseeconTra…

Hi Folks, I have just competed a full install of P3Dv4.3 only, as my windows was corrupted. I have reinstalled all my ORBX, no problem. I'm now trying to install my MCE and Marble Black addons, and the computer sees V2 and V4 when installing MCE. When MCE does install it freezes P3D, when uninstalled P3d Works. When installing Marble Black, it does not automatically identify P3Dv4, I have to manually point to it, then it doesn't install correctly. I have further noticed upon going into FTX Central it asks me which version of P3d I have my installations in V2 or V4. Can someone help me please, I have spent over a week reinstalling all of …

I have an i7 8700k and a gtx1080ti, 16gb 3733mhz 1T, tried every way to make the game run 100% of colors but nothing works, any solution? Another problem, it seems that inside the 737-800 airplane the performance is terrible even in low quality, would be some performance problem of that airplane? I tried very numbers for affinitymask but it not work.

Hi all, So I have the two addons mentioned in the title. I tried to take off with the Bonanza at Darrington Muni 1S2 and found it to be a bit dangerous (too close to the trees top). I took every bit of runway avaible, full flaps, hold the brake until the RPM in the green. However I did not trim for takeoff. Any advice is welcome. In real life (and to some extent in the sim), is it OK to takeoff with a Bonanza from 1S12? From Skyvector I found that the 1S2 runway is 2491 x 40 feet. I was thinking of getting a couple of airstrips in OrbX Pacific NorthWest zone to fly with the Bonanza but I believe that it is a NOGO? The map of available airports is here. …

I've noticed with certain aircraft I get this popping noise that shows up every few seconds. Whether its headphones or speakers, it doesn't make a difference. Is this a hardware issue or something else? I tried updating the realtek audio drivers with no success. Anyone know how to fix this?