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Changelog: INSTALLATION FIXES: 1.) When a new hotfix is applied add function to automatically restore last saved user configurations. 2.) When a new hotfix is applied if applicable remove function requiring user to have to re-register application. 3.) Fix installer to not reference C drive for space available SETUP WIZARDS: 1.) Fix issue when adding new airport to favorite airport list it overwrites the last airport added only. SETTINGS FIXES: 1.) Update the optimizer function so that users have a better idea of what textures will cost in FPS. Add functions to read flight simulator CFG file. Add function that if user changes sett…

Hi, Getting straight to the point: I get blurries in the distance with FTX Global, I can put my terrain settings to max and I still get these issues! I've tried adding TextureMaxLoad=9, TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9 and FIBER_FRAME_TIME_FRACTION=0.18 all to the CFG to no avail. Nothing works. I'll attach a picture: At EGPF on parking 51, barely zoomed in. Only 4 or 6x. EDIT: I need to add, I have not only reinstalled the sim countless times, but also windows about 2 or 3 times. This isn't an issue that just started randomly, it's happened ever since I got P3D. My Specs: i5 7500 @ 3.4GHz, GTX 1060 6GB, 8GB DDR4, Sim installed on secondary 1TB HDD. …

I didn't really know what title to put on this but I've got a small problem while installing P3D v4. The first time I installed P3D v4 (which was a couple hours ago) I came across a problem regarding the lack of drive space. Upon opening the installer I come to find that it was trying to install some other packages on my C:\ drive which contains the OS and other programs (such as web browsers, Office365, Python, etc.). I cancelled the installation and then tried to look for the remaining files that it had downloaded on my C:\ drive as the remaining files took up quite a lot of space, but never found anything of the sort. Can anyone give me some ideas as to where they…

I like this plane so far though I am still newbie of it. I have flown Boeings and Airbuses. Now I have a question. How do I make Autoland work?? I have chosen "ILS" to capture LOC and G/S then I press "Autoland". However, it always showed "No autoland" Is there any condition before I make Autoland work? Thanks!

Hello everyone, Im recently having a lot of problems with P3D v3 and i'm more and more being told that v4 is better and more stable than v3. But before I really switch, I'd like to make sure that its suitable for my pc specs. First of all im wondering whether v4 is more demanding on GPU than v3, because thats what ive read very often in all the forums. if thats really the case, would that have a big impact on FPS? Im using a GTX940MX and while playing v3, its load is at 100%. My CPU is an i7 7500U and while playing its load is usually at ~75% depending on other programs that are running simultaneously. All in all, i get about 20 FPS in average, sometimes more, some…

Hi Pilots I'm getting this message, "ATC Disabled No electric" for all planes; so I cannot communicate with ATC. I've tried the below 3 things BUT my problem remains! I have started the planes, i.e. power on AND checked I've switched on the Avionics switches. I've gone to the top menu/Vehicles/Failures/ and clicked RESET ALL I've looked around for any obvious fuse that's OFF; none found. Somewhere in the past I think I've seen this message before and obviously got past it but I cannot remember how …..age,hmmm …... So I remain optimistic that this is solvable. Any ideas please (I'm not IT savvy, don't be afraid of being really pedestria…

Has anyone yet allowed Microsoft to update Windows 10 to its latest version 1803 on their Flight simulator PC? I am frequently delaying attempts to update when I am loading P3D for a flight. If I could stop it from doing this I would be well pleased. On my personal PC, I did allow the update to this version - it took nearly 2 hours - and there are a number of changes which may or may not interfere with the smooth running of P3D4. But for the present I am not willing to risk it. I would welcome comments from those of you brave enough to take this step.

Hi there, I have a strange issue and do not find the missing setting :( I dont have any sunglow or lens flare IN the VC. Usually the sunglow should also be into the cockpit and not stop outside right? Do you have anyidea what is causing this? ShowLenseFlare=True in every config i found. BR

I use PFPX to generate my route, payload, fuel etc For PMDG it's super easy to setup the same results that I get from PFPX, but on QW it's weird, I need to insert the balance to cargo areas and take care to balanced CG. Is there a way to make like PMDG? That I insert the payload amount and the fuel amount, the aircraft calculates itself the best way? Thanks

Hi Guys, Hope everyone is well. Im having this issue with P3D v4.2, when on ground my FPS have a range around 30-40 FPS aprox. even on big airports. But as soon as I takeoff and specially when Im on Cruise my performance drops to about 16-20 FPS, I already disabled any PTA preset by restoring the original shaders, as well as reduced the WX settings. Basically this happens with the FSLabs (I know is a high consuming addon) and REX Sky Force running in the background. Now, I must say I have not messed with the P3D.cfg file regarding FFTF so I have not tried that yet. Any suggestions guys? Thank you in advance! Best Regards

Hi, I have a second PC and thought to start using it as a network PC for weather engine, Rex SKy Force 3D to release my flight sim PC to load and probably get better fps for smoother flying. But I need some help please or if is instruction how to set up. please advise George

Hello all, would like to add another Boeing to my collection in P3D v4 and was wondering, for those who have both, which is the more complete at this point? They are pretty much the same price and would prefer the one that is the closest to a finished product. The CS team will be releasing v1.1 soon and I assume QW will (hopefully) be releasing service packs but, just wondering which is preferable? Not looking for which has nicer visuals so much as doing what they're supposed to do. THANKS!

I would like to set up my wireless headset for vpilot and talking to controllers on Vatsim only. I would use my computer speakers for p3d and all other sounds. Can anyone explain how to do this if possible? I have pedv4.1 in Windows 10. My speakers are Logitech which plug to the back of computer in the green hole. My headset is Logitech H600 wireless with a usb jack.

Hi. I will very soon be investing in a completely new rig designed specifically for P3D v4. On my existing computer I have been using Pilot's FS Global 2010 mesh with FSX. From what I have read I believe that my existing mesh would work with P3D v4, but that it is officially supported only up to P3D v3, and Pilot's FS Global 2018 is designed for P3D v4. However the latest product is of course Pilot's FS Global Ultimate. The question I have is which product to go for? FS Global 2018 is the successor to FS Global 2010 and apparently has the same resolution of up to 9m (LOD 8 to LOD 12). FS Global Ultimate has a much higher resolution of up to 1m (LOD 8 to LOD 15). Pilo…

As I and probably many others are still on the fence for the QW787, i would love to hear your first impressions. Everything went smooth? Survived your maiden flight? Does it meet your expectations? Tell us! 🙂

I have noticed the AA in my P3D is fairly terrible. I run 8xMSAA in sim and nothing in the inspector. I notice, watching flight sim streamers, that when they have 8xMSAA set their flight decks look amazing and actually readable. Mine, however, is something else: I can barely read the text, and even looking in the distance, my night lights flicker and in the day my trees/buildings flicker too. The only fix I have found for this so far has been to enable 4x SGSS in NI, but that just kills performance in clouds. My Specs: i5 7500 @ 3.4GHz, GTX 1060 6GB, 8GB DDR4, Sim installed on secondary 1TB HDD. Thank you, Luke.

Dear All, Has anyone encountered displaced terrain where tarmacs, buildings, etc. are below a clipped plane? I've come across it before but don't recall the fix. https://drive.google.com/file/d/13WVt8IvhHHNGS0bWthxYeqZVTvaN-izw/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-nlVLFEiTMF32WzaNmPWgsJ6niTAoEmG/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/13OmL8RGWHqTaoLop78dDJPPfIrjCMYbu/view?usp=sharing Thanks in advance, Howard

Hello, recently I performed a clean Windows install. Quite often, the sim just shuts down without loggin any event. So I have no idea what causes it. It doesn't show the "P3D has stopped working" message. It just shuts down as if I pressed ALT+F4 or something. I'm thinking if it could be because of my 8 GB RAM. Also the HDD is performing very badly, often being at 100 %, bottlenecking the PC. I usually complete the first flight with no trouble, often even the second. But I don't think that I was able to finish 3 consequent flights yet. Add-ons: FSLabs A320, ORBX Global, AS4+ASCA, FSGlobal Next Generation, ChasePlane, GSX, FSUIPC, TerraFlora and paywa…

I am running P3dV4 and I have attempted to do a flight several times in the QW787 from Boston but after I get to my cruise altitude it always crashes to desktop. I went to my Event viewer and saw this: Prepar3D.exe 4.2.21.24048 5a7c832c ntdll.dll 10.0.17134.1 207580e2 c0000374 00000000000f4eeb 3498 01d3f69e87a21aa3 D:\Program Files (x86)\Prepar3D\Prepar3D.exe C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\ntdll.dll 635d3214-daed-4d46-82bd-b06d56453f06 Any ideas on how I can solve this issue?

Hi, my sim get's brighter after looking down. I haven't installed anything except the PMDG 737, I just reset my computer so it's a clean install. Anyone have a fix? https://gyazo.com/1c7eb6379472e1ea84ada8ff920e7a95

As said in the title, the LEVEL D 767 crashing when selecting "Ground operations". I looked in event viewer, and something about ntdll.dll and a fault code of 0xc0000374 I went to this one: and people say to uninstall MS Office but, i'm running Windows 10 and I don't even have MS Office. (At least i don't think so) So, what's going on?

I have not been able to complete a flight since upgrading to V4.2 from 4.0. It was stable and perfect in v4.0. My simulator crashes on descent into FlyTamapa Sydney around 14100 feet, this is the message in the event viewer. Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 26/05/2018 2:30:07 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: DESKTOP-0PI2N0H Description: Faulting application name: Prepar3D.exe, version: 4.2.21.24048, time stamp: 0x5a7c832c Faulting module name: panels.dll, version: 4.2.21.24048, time stamp: 0x5a7c8292 Exception…

Hi, I have had several posts with CTD, and all are on the PMDG 777. I have consulted PMDG without any luck on resolving the issue. The errors vary from time to time, but are always when I fly the PMDG 777 on longhaul flights. The .dll vary everytime. Why? why? why? I am very tired of it due to the amount of money invested in the game. I use the P3D v3 and all of my drivers are "up to date". There are no conflicting software (I checked). My PC: Windows 10 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-770K CPU @ 4.20GHz 16 GB RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070 P3D settings https://imgur.com/a/S1aE5wc Can anyone help me please??? Best regards

The Level D 767 FMC is having a wierd texture problem. The default 767 textures aren't doing this. Here's a picture:

Hi All I am having a problem with ORBX ENG and UK2000 Manchester where there are some duplicate buildings being caused by FTX. This results in buildings being put over jetways so aircraft appear half in and half out of buildings. Have confirmed FTX is the problem by taking a shot with it disabled and enabled as seen below. Does anyone know how I can resolve this? I'm hoping I can just delete whatever files correspond to those particular buildings? I have my UK2000 entries above my FTX entries in the library. Many thanks in advance