The Prepar3d Forum

Hi, loading the flight (748, EDDM) takes forever especially terrain data. I have an I7, 32gb ram, GTX 980ti, ORBX. Do you have any suggestion of what I can do? Thanks so much. Bernd Jablonka

A subject I think that is rapidly coming into the forefront along with the PMDG B747-8 release, is where on a virtual airfield do we park a massively outsized jet like the B748, and how do you make that work in the many places where there is currently no suitable parking spot already defined for such a behemoth? The B747-8 is not just a B747-400 with better engines and newer electronics. It's also sporting a new wing (a larger version of the B787 wing), and the fuselage has been extended another 18.3 ft (5.6m) in length as well, so the airplane has grown from an already large wingspan of 200 ft (61m) to 225 ft (68.6m), and the length is now a whopping 250 ft (76.2m)…

Hello, I recently moved to P3D v4 and the game seems a bit more fps friendly. I installed ORBX Envtex and all the stuff but I have a problem with the sky. Indeed, with or without Envtex activated, I can see 3 different layers in the sky, which is just awful. I put you a screenshot close to Paris CDG with AS16 weather and without Envtex. You can see those 3 layers. https://flic.kr/p/2bm4uDz So, if you know how to get a smooth sky, I would appreciate it ! Thank you Alex

Hi I'm currently using FsMovMap2 Pro and I'm having trouble seeing some of the features. It doesn't always show the flight plan, and it doesn't always show up the airports unless you're very close. Anyway, does anyone have an alternative to FsMovMap2 Pro? I do like it, but I just would like to see an alternative. Thanks, Gaz

Hello everybody! i've noticed that if i overlay a window, any window, over P3D it runs 10 fps faster. No matter if i set P3D fullscreen or not (actually it is borderless windowed, not true fullscreen), if there is another app window over it, it runs 10 fps faster. How possible? I assume that my pc can go those 10 fps more, but how?! Thanks for any help!

After finding out from fselite about OTHH being compatible with P3dv4, I bought it from simmarket, but I am having problems installing it. Does anyone know how to properly install it? Any assistance will be appreciated a lot! Regards,

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I'm wondering if it's possible to add a red flood light, using the dynamic lighting in P3D v4, to my VC. I'm flying the amazing A1R Yak-55M. It's only a daytime flyer but I'd like to make a pretend red cabin light. Does anyone know if this is possible? Daytime: yakday by ryan b, on Flickr Proposed (I'm terrible with photoshop) red spotlight: yaknight by ryan b, on Flickr

So for the past week I have been trying to track Down a certain CTD issue with v4.3 after I reinstalled Windows 10 on my computer and started fresh. The crash happens after the load screen finishes but the load screen indicator will go away and it’ll just be a black screen for about 10-15 seconds and then my sim will crash. And I will note the CTD doesn’t happen every single time that is what is making this tricky to hunt down. Windows has only logged two crashes out of the probably 20-30 crashes that have occurred since reinstalling P3Dv4.3 numerous times. The log says the culprit is api.dll. What that is, I haven’t a clue. It seems to be happening whenever I am in the C…

Although they have stated that they have been working on this for a while, Just Flight has released the product page for the new 747 Classic. I am personally hyped for this to no end, with the 747 Classic being one of those sims I have longed for but never having had a good version of (the CLS 200/300 series was nice aesthetically and audiably but had almost no systems depth). I may yet be disappointed but let's hope this turns out well. While I'm at it, here's an old documentry from 1990 which follows a BA 742 from LHR to Bankok and then to Sydney while at the same time providing an interesting insight into the changes and developments with regards to aviation…

Hey Guys! I'm looking to get some air in P3D V4**. I don't mind how slow or old it is. I'm going to use it for a cross-america trip and I really want to see everything around me. Let me know what you guys come up with! Thanks, Andrew

I'm currently using ENVSHADE. I just bought PTA and wanted to install it but I got shader file error because my shaders are not original P3D shaders. How do I go about installing PTA? There is a switch "Use PTA" in ENVSHADE but switching it doesn't solve the issue. I also found a ENVSHADE backup folder with supposedly P3D original files. Should I just copy those files over to P3D installation or what is the proper procedure to install PTA and then use either one (ENVSHADE or PTA) using the switch in ENVSHADE? I just don't want to mess something up.

I'm getting 35 to 45 fps but my game isn't smooth. When I pan around my camera jitters a little bit and doesn't feel or look smooth at all. X plane 11 is smooth but I can't get p3d v4 smooth for some reason. Specs: I7 4770k @4.2ghz, gtx 1080 sc, SSD 500gb, 144hz monitor that overclocks to 165hz. EDIT: Forgot to say what addons i'm using. PMDG 747,chaseplane, active sky, asca, fsuipc, orbx global.

So I read up on this tomato shade thing from a post at the a2a bonanza forums. There were some incredible screenshots posted and I'd like to get my P3D looking at least similar to what I saw. This post is here in case you're wondering: http://a2asimulations.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=500186#p500186 Anyway I watched a tutorial video and everything ran ok. But what I'm seeing is way too dark. The VC, especially, is unreadable in the daytime... something doesn't seem to be working. I do have HDR enabled now, but it doesn't really seem to be kicking in. Any ideas on how to fix? Nearly Full Sun tomato_BE35_ext by ryan b, on Flickr tomato_BE35_int…

I am trying to optimize performance in P3D, and know that AI is pretty CPU hungry. I know there are the basic options like "turn it off" or "fly on VATSIM", but I would prefer not to do either of those. I also have road traffic relatively high, just because it looks good, and I didn't notice a huge difference with it off. I was wondering if anyone knew settings that could be turned down for better CPU performance. I believe my GPU is more than capable because it can handle Dynamic Lights with little performance loss. Usually, I am getting 20fps inside the VC of the NGX. My Current Settings: https://imgur.com/a/WxuPe0g

Back in 2005 or 2006, during the days of FS 2004, I've been using FSPassengers to manage my virtual airline. I've been waiting for over a year for Dan to release the 64 bit version of FSPassengers for P3D v4, and while I have great respect for Dan and his work, I've grown increasingly annoyed to be waiting so long for the new version. At this point, P3D v5 will be coming out, and I'll probably end up waiting over another year for a newer version. I'm thinking if the new version of FSPassengers doesn't come out by mid October, I'll get Air Hauler 2 for P3D v4. But before I do that, I had a few questions for those familiar with the product. Most pressing is c…

I am considering the purchase of the Aerosoft Stavanger X. The Aerosoft website indicates that it will work with P3eDv2 but there is no mention about v4. I checked with Aerosoft and they didn't know. Has anyone that owns Stavanger X been able to get the v2 version to work in v4?

I migrated all of my Turbulent Designs airports over to orbx FTX Central. After doing so I proceeded to install them on v4.3 with my other native orbx products. When it was all finished my TD airports were now orbx native and everything was good. Soon afterwards while loading a flight I ran into an issue with a corrupt .dll file causing my sim to crash on occasion so to isolate the issue I went through the helpful Prepar3D debug tips and wiped the add-ons and introduced them one by one. I never really got to the bottom of the issue, but I suspect an airport had gotten messed up somehow. Anyways, upon reintroducing my orbx scenery and airports back onto my sim, a few of my…

It's kind of hard to describe, but I made a video. You can especially notice it about halfway through the vid when I bank right. The ground goes by in this rhythmic pulse, speeding up, then slowing down. Display settings don't seem to have any effect on this issue. I can bring them all the way down and it still pulses. I can bring them most of the way up and the pulsing doesn't get any worse. Nothing is maxed out in performance monitor. The vid card never gets above 40% utilization. Ram use is between 50 and 70%. None of the processor cores get above 80%. I did go into processor affinity and uncheck core 0 so that other things using that core wouldn't create overhead for …

Hello everyone, does anybody have the AFCAD for this airport? Thank you

I just installed Nielson Shipping and I used Erik's fix for the wakes that rise thousands of feet into the sky but still had some ships that exhibited that unwanted feature. This is tedious if you are going to install all the ships for world-wide coverage but it works, although while you get the bow wakes you lose the long stern wakes. The trade-off is acceptable for me. Someone might have a better idea. I went through all the fx files opening them up and using edit/replace replaced all the Temp with //Temp. There are a boatload of boats (no pun intended) and I didn't want to clutter up the Simobjects/Boats folder any more than it it already is with all…

Hi, Can anyone throw any light on this unusual happening please ? On the startup screen where the aircraft (Vehicle) is spinning even that is stopping and starting in conjunction with the fraps frame rate going from 40 to 20 then back again I don't want to lose all of my installation work if possible by having to uninstall P3D as I have a mountain of software in there. Regards Keith

Looking forward to this bird!!!!

I have reinstalled AS twice with no luck. AS shows it is connected to the simulator, but P3D no longer shows AS as an option on the startup screen. This has not been a problem for me previously. I think the error may be P3D not having the correct path to AS - but I have been unable to find anything about how to change this. Is AS treated as an add-on for P3D? SOLVED - I pointed AS4 to the wrong simulator.

I have stepped away from flight sim for quite awhile. I have FSX steam. I also have a bunch of addons that go with it, but I am thinking about going back to flight sim and maybe starting over from scratch. What is the current state of P3d? Are there still VAS issues? Should I just go ahead and make the jump over tp P3d? I was also looking at xplane. I fly mostly jets and like PMDG/FSLabs planes which is why I was thinking P3d. I'm thinking about the future and which sim is worth the investment.