The Prepar3d Forum

This has been driving me nuts. Almost always my clouds are very dark, a blue-ish grey color. Time of day will change them one way or another but only slightly. I'm a little embarrassed to say I'm not sure if they are default textures or not?? How can I get them more white? Top is the sim obviously and the bottom, more or less what I've seen when flying for real. There are parts that are dark from the shadows - the bottoms of the clouds, and middle portions in shadow, but overall they should be so much whiter with such sparse cloud coverage. Can anyone offer some suggestions? Is this a texture thing? I also refuse to fly with HDR - can't stand what it does…

Any idea which is the most comprehensive tutorial for this bird? Bought a while ago and never really used and I think it's time to learn it and since I'm more of a visual learner, I prefer video. Any links would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

I have been reading that V4 does not need any tweaks, but runs great out of the box.. To my surprise, I found this entry in the Prepar3D.cfg file: MAX_VC_TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=1024 That is while I have 2048 selected for texture resolution in the sim. Changing this to MAX_VC_TEXTURE_RESOLUTION=2048 gives me crisper textures in the cockpit... Hmmmm [email protected], GTX770.

Hello, P3D V4.2 here. Purchased the Maddog earlier this afternoon. After installing I found that calling for the GSX on-screen menu (CTRL+F12) the menu opens in full screen and not in the the usual small pop-up form. Searching the Internet I found a similar report from 2016 when someone experienced the exact same issue after installing the TFDi 717. I am wondering if anyone else had this issue and if there is a know solution to this please. Cheers kityatyi

I did a flight from VNPK to VNLK ( Lukla ), both in Nepal, flying the DHC6. About fifty-three miles out from my destination there were two areas close to each other with big letters that spelled SPRING. They were large green letters. Also at my destination Lukla was in a large hole which made in very difficult to land safely. The real airport has a mountain on one end of the runway and a cliff on the other end. I have ORBX Global and Vector with PREPARED v4. If someone is up to flying that route, I would like to know if that is a flaw in PREPARED or if it's just me. Thanks

Hi there, is there any good Landclass for P3D V4 U.S/ North America? I am searching for any other land class other than Orbx's outrageous $42 land class add-on. I refuse to buy overpriced addons just because "It's Orbx" Are there any others that you guys use and enjoy that is realistic?

Hi all. I have been playing MS FSX for quite a long time now. I have an i7-7700HQ and a GTX 950m. I get around 20-50fps with the PMDG 737 and Rex4 texture direct. everything else is vanilla except a few freeware airports and Simstall. I'm looking to change to P3D before I go crazy with purchasing add-ons (i know purchasing more add-ons will affect my FPS but ill cross that bridge when I get there) but I want to know, will changing to P3D affect my performance, if so how much? Whats the biggest parts that factor in.I'm looking forward to what people have to say thank you.

Released at Simmarket, interesting timing with the recent Carenado release. For far less money than the Carenado S340, you get both the Saab 340 and Saab 2000 with a large number of liveries. They have redone the virtual cockpit and I have to give them credit it looks like a substantial improvement over their previous work. It's not mentioned in the features list but the screenshot show rain on the windshield being cleared by wipers. I haven't bought either but am in the market for one. Given that Carenado doesn't exactly excel at systems depth I wonder if we have a true competitor here?

Hi All, I have a home built Yoke and TQ and trying to setup the buttons and switches with little luck. I have configured the control axis via FSUIPC and that works all fine. I can't figure out how to set up the following: A/P Disconnect on yoke L and R Trim Switches on the Yoke Mic and Int Buttons on the yoke Fuel Control Switches on TQ STAB C & R Norm / Cutout switches on TQ Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Hi everybody, I'm searching for some tweaks for the default Maule. Does anybody know if there is a source for a better flight model? Or is there somebody willing to share his optimizations? Or other tweaks? I found a lot about this topic in the internet, but always the suggestion is to use another aircraft. This is not the solution I'm looking for. Apart from some issues, the default Maule is not so bad for beginners, in my opinion. Unfortunately I have no knowledge how to do improvements to the flight model, and no access to real data. Cheers, Rudi

Hello all Apart from the usual suspects of Nice and CdG, can anyone recommend a P3DV4 compatible, quality French airport, preferably reachable within 1.5 hrs of London ? Many thanks Gary

Huge fan of everything ORBX, and really can't fly without it. Now....my "shameless" plea: Would ORBX consider adding KABE (Allentown, Bethlehem, Easton International Airport), my hometown airport, to it's North American Sceneries? KABE is close to New York, Philadelphia and New Jersey airports, and an important one based on its location. Looking forward to a positive response from ORBX. Please! Stan

I can't find an Orbx forum here and I'm banned (I guess for life) from the real Orbx Forums so I'll post it here and you can move it where-ever, Born and raised in the San Francisco Bay Area and learned to fly there so I am kinda partial to it. Never thought much about the Atlantic Coast. But Orbx's Bar Harbor and Block Island and now Nantucket have me flying there more and more. It's a wonderful area and I would to see more. Several years ago my wife and I took a month off and drove up the east coast, crossed into Canada, and drove west across Canada. While in upstate New York we spent a couple days in Lake Placid. I think that would be a wonderful airpor…

HI all I remember the old 32 bit days, fsuipc had a dynamic plugin thingy which made aircraft 772 e.g. with way less thrust, same for the 736. Idle taxi was actually possible..yeah! But, now with the 64 bit, it isn't anymore, is there? Not dynamic lua thing or such? vkr victor

Hello ALL, I just can't make the moon smaller, I changed the .CFG extensively (up to 2 digit numbers) and it still appears enormous in the sky. The same for the sun, but the sun I understand there's a flare factor and all, but the moon size really bothers me and I can't find a way to make it smaller. I have a 55 inches screen @ 4k resolution and I use the 0.7 zoom factor inside the virtual cockpit and 1.0 (or whatever ChasePlane makes it default) outside view. Am I missing something? Thanks.

Hello all, as the title suggests, can someone recommend a high-quality, major Italian airport? Preferably with dynamic lighting and Sode.

I feel quite stupid but I can't find a way to change the default vertical speed on the AP of the default Maule. It's 700 by default which is a but too much. Anyone knows how to change it on the AP...?

Currently, I have the Prepar3d v4.1. I want to buy the FSlabs A320 but it's too expensive. I can't really wait for the Aerosoft A320X so I think the freeware Project Airbus A320 can be an alternative. My questions are... Does the Project Airbus A320 work in P3D v4.1? How do you make the Project Airbus A320 work in P3D v4.1? Thank you.

Hello, This is my first topic in the forum. I run Prepar3D v3 in my computer (Windows 10), usually with PMDG 737NGX and 4 displays. The main display is connected to a GTX 1070 graphics card, which shows the scenery. All the other displays are connected to the integrated video card (Intel Graphics 630). Usually I fly in windowed mode, with detached displays (overhead, DUs, radio panel...) distributed in the monitors connected to the integrated video card. I know that it can reduce the FPS, but most of the times they are around 30 FPS, which is good for me. I realised that a second dedicated GPU could improve performance, so I installed a GT 1030 that was not being use…

Hi everyone, I installed just the Ezdok V2 2.6 for P3D V4 but after few minutes the Midle Mouse button is stopping working and I can't move my view. How can I fix my problem...why is heppening after few minutes does anyone know ? Please help to fix my problem. Thanks.

Thought I would try using the ATC in P3Dv4 just to see if it might add some further training/challenge and got a very interesting surprise! Having been sent by Larnaca Ground to threshold of 04 for a departure into the circuit for touch and go’s I was continuously cleared for touch and go on 04 but the ATC and AI are using 22. This means at one stage, having been cleared for touch and go and on finals for 04 I find myself watching a learjet hurtling down 22 towards me and soaring over my head! Is this a one off or is this the kind of thing the native ATC does? Would a program like Pro ATC X provide a better, more realistic and intelligent ATC AI?

ORBX has released their first TrueEarth photoreal scenery for P3D, EU Netherlands. Anyone purchased it yet? Really interested to hear about performance impact, and how it looks and works in the sim.

Hello everybody - I hope someone can help: P3Dv4.2. My topdown view is corrupted. Please see 2 screenshots below. I'm sure it's one of my scenery addons that is the cause of this. I have made a backup file of the Scenery and Texture folders, after a clean install, and from before everything went crazy. So i can easily restore individual default files. But which ones I wonder,,, My question: does anybody here know which file/s are the default global base texture file/s (I assume .BGL?) I know I can uninstall all scenerios - or do a clean install of P3D - or reinstall scenery from scratch - etcetc - and then install one scenery addon at a time, and check …

I noticed while on the ground whenever I pan the camera around while outside, or in the cockpit, my cloud shadows will disappear and reappear making the terrain obviously lighter, then darker and vis Vera’s in the background which is really annoying and kinda kills the mood. Is this normal? I’m new to P3Dv4 so I’m still learning what quirks are from my settings or computer, and which ones the whole community is “suffering” from while waiting on patches and fixes. Thanks!

Hello guys i have one question regarding my cpu and p3d v4.I use AMD fx8320,also I have 8gb of RAM and a ROG Strix gtx1050 O4g.I've noticed that when I fly pmdg737 in 2d cockpit I time to time get green blue and other collors which is weird.In the VC as well when I look near the panels i have some white flashes,same happens when I look outside of the aircraft.Regarding default aircraft I've got no problems in VC but when I look outside I've got the same problem with that flashes especially when I look towards water.I will be getting a new PC but not soon more like in 2020/2021.With version 3 I didn't have those problems.Should I switch back to v3 till I get new PC? Maybe …