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Hello, wondering if someone could give some advice for an issue I'm having with Taxi2Gate OTHH scenery. I get shadows on the lighter colored tarmac next to the gates but not on the grey taxiways or any runways as shown in the first two screenshots. What's weird is I can get shadows on the runway but they only appear on the painted lines (3rd screenshot). I'm guessing it is something to do with a certain material not receiving shadows. I have everything selected to receive shadows in the settings page of P3D. Many thanks in advance for any ideas, Aaron K 3rd screenshot showing shadows appearing only on painted lines:

Hello all, I just ordered an 8TB drive and plan to start creating photoreal using the Ortho4xp for P3D. I am wondering if there is a limit, either in P3D or even maybe in Windows 10, to the number of files that can be inside a <scenery add-on>/scenery and <scenery add-on>/texture folders? What I'd like to do is just create a scenery folder called Europe and then dump all bgls in the scenery folder under that and all agn files in the texture folder. Then there would be just one entry in the scenery library for all of the EU photoreal. As I continue to build tiles, I can just continually add them to this one location until the entire continent is comple…

hi guys Is there any solution for this graphic problems for these 3 party planes in p3dv4 https://imgur.com/a/Eq8Qwgv only happens too these Realair planes,B60 and duke turbine,and only happens outside not inside I use Ezdok camera add-on thanks

If I try setting water to ultra in the sim, P3D immediately crashes. Any setting below that is fine. Does anyone else get this crash? I have GTX 1080, not OC’d, and I’m on some slightly older drivers to avoid the DX device hung errors.

I have 2 worries about such a move I'm hoping some you kind folks can shed some light on. 1. Cost; I'm a long time FSX'er with LOTS of add-on's. Just duplicating my A2A and PMDG aircraft alone is over $1000 in new licenses. I haven't checked into the many other sceneries I have (I know ORBX is free), utilities, and other aircraft, some of which come with both installers, I know. Apparently, some of my favorite aircraft will never be P3D compatible. (RealAir, DoDo sim, etc.) . then there's the large amount of my time involved. Am I off base here, or is everyone else just sucking it up and paying/doing it ?? 2. Continuing incompatibility: When…

Coming from a very long background in software development and IT I've found it is very rare to buy software these days that does not have some form of automated updater to save chasing down the latest versions or patches to the product. This is true even for most open source software which is free. Just think the Apple App Store (both Mac and iOS) and Visual Studio Code (which is open source freeware) for examples of what I am describing in terms of totally seamless, efficient, software upgrades. While these are big companies that produce these products I also have lots of software from 1 person developers that automatically detect that updates are required and download …

Morning: Per their forum: "REX WORLDWIDE AIRPORTS HD - STATUS UPDATE: PRE-DEPLOYMENT PHASE 7/28/2018 - We are VERY excited to announce that we will be releasing Worldwide Airports Technical Update 3 on Wednesday, August 1st. This will be a mandatory update for all users of Worldwide Airports. This update will include the compatibility fix for P3D v4 +. The official fix list will be released on Monday. For more direct discussion follow us on our dedicated discord channel: https://discord.gg/2BvRRda"

Hi Guys. I have just build a new computer for P3D, but I am suffering very extensive stuttering even though I have 60+ FPS. Could anyone give some advise/suggestions on why this happends? The PC specs: ASUS Maximus Hero 10 MOBO, i7-8700K 3.7 GHz CPU, 16 GB DDR4 PC300 RAM, M2 SSD HDD 1, for windows 7, one for P3D - only the GPU is an old GFX 670 as I am waiting to see if it would be worth getting the new GPU from Nvidia or "just" go with a 1080Ti. I have not yet overclocked anything. I was aware that I would not have very high FPS without OC´ed CPU and the old GFX GPU, but even if I have 45 - 60 frames, on some airports, I can still experience severe stutters. Som…

Hello Avsimers, I have a weird and probably fruitless request. Do any of you know of any Tri-Prop aircraft currently in Prepar3d V4? I honestly have no idea if any have been made, but I am very curious. Please feel free to respond, as any help is appreciated. Thanks, Andrew

Folks, I'm having a problem with realism settings in P3D v4.3. Everytime I try to set the settings to "Detect crashes and Damage", the systems does not keep them, and go back to "Ignore crashes and damage". I've tried to change my Prepared.cfg to no avail, also I deleted the P3D client and reinstalled it, but the problem remains. This is happening with A2A aircraft, as well with others. I don't know if A2A own settins are messing with it.

I am having trouble with the color of my skies. No matter what I do, until I get to a high altitude, the skies look grey or bright white. I use PTA with Gerald’s (I think that is his name) monthly presets and suggested settings. I am also using Active Sky and Rex Sky Force. I get a bluer sky at higher altitude but the horizon looks grey. I also get a brighter white when panning views and that generally fades away eventually. What settings do I need to get rid of this? Sitting on the ground today the sky in real life should be a crisp blue. In P3d, it is too grey and white without clouds. Additionally, until I get closer to the clouds, they are hard to contrast t…

Installed this scenery after purchase from simmarket. Scenery has installed no problem but the user manual also says I must install the Justsim Autogen lib. This folder is easy enough to find but it suggests I place it in my simulators "Landscape library"? The folder contains sub folders for scenery, texture and autogen. I placed the texture and scenery contents in the relevant P3D folders and copied the contents of the autogen folder to the P3D autogen folder and the scenery works fine but my concern is that the autogen file I have placed in my P3D autogen folder (named Default) only seems to cover this scenery as its file size is tiny in comparison to the one it replace…

I found videos of this on YouTube, and upon checking the A2A site, found that it had been released last month. I’m surprised that this warbird was released with so little fanfare. I’ve been waiting for the A2A Mustang just about as long as I’ve had P3Dv4, so I’m excited to give it a go. Is everyone else just not that excited about a port-over?

Cloud shadows disappear when i zoom in on a view! P3D V4,3 Anyone have similar problem and has fixed i would appreciate a solution! Thanks!

FYI, Leonardo has release the Maddog SP1 beta on their forums. Sure has been a busy few days with all these releases and updates.

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Howdy Folks, I came across an issue recently where the clouds go almost completely dark at night, even under a full moon, once I start playing with my NVIDIA color settings to calibrate the sim. It's annoying because I get the clouds tweaked just right in Tomatoshade until I start moving sliders in the NVIDIA control panel, then the colors change accordingly on the screen, but the cloud lighting gets really, really dim, almost imperceptible. At first I thought this was a problem with my TV setup (I replaced my 4k monitor with a 55in curved), but the same thing happens on the monitor too. I'm pretty sure I have this isolated to the NVIDIA control panel, but I can't…

I've run into an issue recently that's quite annoying, and I'm not sure what's causing it. I use the latest version of P3D with native Oculus VR, and randomly, while using the simulator, I'll experience moments where the sim will freeze for periods of 10 to 20 seconds. Once it unfreezes, the sim continues from where it was just before it started freezing. Sometimes this will happen at very inopportune times, like as soon as the wheels touch down on the runway. I'll use various addons, like third party aircraft (PMDG, Aerosoft, A2A, CaptainSim, etc), or even default aircraft, but it's the same issue. I also use programs like ActiveSky, ChasePlane, ORBX, REX,…

Hello, Anyone knows where to put the navdata_native_1810 into the P3DV4, I heard that P3D's navadata has not been updated and still using the FSX data. Is there any way to update the sim data, not the individual airplane's navadata. Should use this navdata_native_1810 for the simulator, or for some other uses. Thanks.

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I am exploring the purchase of one of these products primarily to get the motion effects of the camera. Plus, I use TrackIR. Do you still have to set up the camera presets or does TrackIR eliminate having to set specific presets? For instance, when I look at the overhead panel I do not want to look at it straight on, I want it to look as it would if I were in the Captain's seat. Can I assume that by now you can download camera presets eliminating the need to take the time to do so? I would be using the basic views since I do not plan to video. I have not made up my mind on which to purchase even after watching several videos and tutorials. It appears the Ch…

Hi I'm sorry about posting here, but I can't find a place on their site where I can post (http://www.uk2000scenery.com). I bought one of my favourite airports from there, but can't land and find a place a park. P3d does not give me an option to park when I'm off the runway - it just suggests a takeoff. It's odd because I can visually see empty gates, it's just doesn't want to assign them to me. Is there anyone else got this problem? Does anyone know how to contact the developer? I would appreciate it. Thanks, Gaz

Hi! It's the very first time, I guess, I participate on this forum and I have the best opinion about it since I have already found here several answers to many problems in earlier versions and simulators before, but this time even P3D forum itself has not given me an answer yet. The issue: I was trying P3D v4. I tweaked my old Windows 7-PC for this new platform installing a new graphic card, an NVIDIA GEForce GTX 1070. This, with an 8-core AMD FX-8350 processor should give me enough power to deal with the new V4. Even with this old OS, I filled up requeriments. Sadly I could never get a good decent FPS in earlier V4 versions using highest quality and e…

Just recently sitting at gate Fslabs 320, but doesn't matter which aircraft, the view changes by itself and the freezes, everything else works just can't change a view and have to close the sim, control a are Saitek X52 if that is a problem, this phenomenon has just started, nothing has changed in the sim, P3DV4.3. Regards Rod

So, I have used 4xSSAA since I started with P3D v4.1 as I despise jaggies, shimmery gauges and 'flickering' terrain lighting at night... resembling a swarm of angry ants ! I run on a 32 inch 2K monitor - not brilliant but a good balance between immersion and resolution... and of course performance with my GTX 1080. Messing around with settings yesterday, I accidently set 4xMSAA instead of 4xSS... and OMG, although I could immediately see a few jaggies and my GTN 750 had a little shimmer, it wasn't bad at all... previously, with 4.1 it would be horrific and unusable for me without 4xSSAA. So, I put it up to 8xMSAA (from 4x), and they are all but gone. Light…