The Prepar3d Forum

I have now used SF together with AS some flights and for most of the time I like what I see. Two issues that I have so far: 1. Had a not so good experience yesterday. Started at ESNN and the METAR said overcast 2500ft. The overcast looked nice from the ground. Took off and got into the cloud at about 4000ft, continued the climb and got out in the sun at about 15000ft. So the cloud was more than 10000ft thick. This time of the year such a thick cloud would have produced at least a moderate snowfall, nothing reported in the METAR. So the question is; how is the cloudtop determined? No information about that in the METAR. Is it random or is it an educated guess? An educ…

Starting flying in Oculus Rift VR, and Flyinside, so far liking it a lot and as a real pilot I fly into the same backcountry strips in Idaho as prepar with ORBX, and its very realistic. Only problem, I get square clouds. Any ideas on how to get them back to normal (used to look good) i7 4770 GTX 1080 Prepar3D V 4

I joined a VA about 2 weeks ago and really like it. I noticed, that it seemed my P3D 3.4 was running a bit jerky, as the flights progressed. I went into Task manager, performance and saw something called cefsharp.browsersubprocess.exe that was running and eating my CPU cycles, to the tune of around 20+ percent. I used task manager to end the process, P3D again ran smoothly, and I had no problem with the Acars from the VA.I then started the Acars, and as soon as I did, this program started up again, and ran between 15-22% CPU percent I reported this to the folks at the VA, but so far haven't heard anything back from them. I have no idea what this exe does, but everythin…

Me again! Anybody know why the below is happening? It doesn't just happen in cockpit, happens to shadows on the ground as well. Whenever I pan my head, they change. To the point where, for example if it's cloudy/sunset, it can be dark one minute, then I pan my head and there is golden sunlight and long shadows. Addon list below the video. OrbX FTX Global BASE PACK OrbX FTX Global VECTOR OrbX FTX openLC Europe OrbX FTX openLC North America OrbX FTX openLC South America OrbX FTX Trees HD OrbX England OrbX Northern Ireland OrbX Ireland OrbX Scotland OrbX openLC Mesh South America Rex4 Texture Direct with Soft Clouds Enhanced Edition REX…

Hello Guys, I'm using Prepar3D V4 and my Clouds always resizing and this looks very weird.How can I fix this and make them look nice again ? :) Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCJ_vuDclYc

Installed Aerosoft Trondheim - Vaernes v2 inside of P3D v4 and worked fine. But, when I install outside of P3Dv4 I get black textures as shown in screenshots. I have all my payware sceneries outside and all working without issues so far. Any ideas to fix Vaernes v2 to make it work outside of P3D?

I'm running Prepar3D v4. How can we make the beacon lights from the tower at night look better? I've tried upping my graphics settings as well as tried to use Prepar3D Tweak Assistant, but no dice.

Hi, I'm looking for a new "small" commercial aircraft. My choices are Aerosoft CRJ 700/900, Majestic Q400 or maybe the new captain sim 757captain III, or any other suggestion. ( I really don't like the Q400 FMC programming though). FYI : I already own PMDG products Thank you for you suggestion or comments about those products !!!

Hello. I just upgraded to Prepar3D v4. I tried to install one of the sceneries that has a installer for V3. I set up a fake P3DV3 install path refferring to V4 folders, using regedit and symlinks. When I clicked install, the installer copied all the files, but then threw an error that said "Error:failed to read texture count from terrain.cfg" Upon investigating the p3d files, I found out that the installer created backups of terrain.cfg and scenery.cfg, but had not modified the file in any way (I can say that because I generated a checksum for one file, and then compared it to the other backup-ed file. When I manually added the addon via p3d menu, it accepted the new…

Hi everyone, Little confused here with the add-ons.cfg files. I seem to have 2 of these files within P3D V4. One is located in Users / AppData / Roaming / Lockheed Martin / Prepar3D v4. The other one is located c / ProgramData / lockheed martin / Prepar3D V4. I don't understand why there is two of them? Both have addon scenery listed in them. I just imaged it would be one single add-on.cfg file, But because there are two in different locations it has confused me. One of them my FSDreamteam scenery is listed, The other my UK2000 scenery is listed.

Hello, I've recently switched over to a different monitor, which does not have a very good backlighting. It is very difficult to see things at night without the dome/storm lights on. Strangely, with the dome light turned off, even the outside scenery/clouds are also very hard to see. If I turn the dome light on, then I can see the clouds much better too. Currently I am on default shaders. Is there any good PTA/Reshade preset or such that I can use so I can fly without the dome light on ? Cheers

Hi All I have just formatted my lap top up to windows 10 64 bit. So I have reinstalled prepar3d v4 with ORBX scenery addons. My system is a Toshiba Qosmio X770 CPU intel i7-2630QM 2.0 GHz Ram 8.0 Gig Graphics Nvidia GeForce GTX 560M I have messed about with graphic options, followed suggestions from youtube clips, tried default settings. However the best I can get in frame rate is between 5-10 frames/sec Is this the best this machine can do, or is there something, or some settings that are seriously wrong. Regards Paul

In my opinion it is a joke, still in a too much early development state. It just mess up things.

Is there such a thing? I'm looking to adjust the lighting shining down on aircraft from lamps at jetways. Thanks, Mark

Hi Guys, I am wondering if anyone is having issues taking screenshots over the the sim in windowed mode? I seem to have an issue with this every time i use GYAZO or even using the snipping tool. Every time I highlight the region I want to take a picture of, the sims window flickers. I am not sure but, I think it might be an issue with lighting. When i look at any shadow or reflection this issue seems to happen. Please inform if anybody has encountered this? Thanks! https://gyazo.com/8a9c04759f8c030909f0822840dbf64c

Hi, I am a relative newbie to P3D and would like to find out how I can remove (not display) the default Military aircraft in the Vehicle selection. I DO not fly any military aircraft so they are just in my way. Thanks

hello to everyone!! i am new here and this is my first post. so I am sorry for any mistake regarding the topic.. mi issue is as following.. i have the PD3V4.1 with windows 10 and my problem is.. that except for the 320 and the 737 from pdgm.. i can not see the camera view of the cockpit. i see the runway but no dahsboard at all.. I can only see the dahsboard in the virtual cockpit view.. my problem is the same with many plains..so i guess it might have something to do with the simulator settings? any ideas, any help please, because it sucks not to be able to see the dashboard. thanks!!

I'm putting a scenery location in at Circle City (PACR). If you look at the community there, there is no shoreline for miles. So I used SBuilderX to put in a "line tool" shore line and it looks fine. EXCEPT I get black rectangles on the water that have a HARD surface. If I "slew" over it the plane's gear locks down. Just wondering if anybody else has seen this and if there is a fix for it. Thanks Doug

It has taken awhile but P3D v3 and v4 provide all the good stuff now. So I "uninstalled" FSX-SE but kept my Steam account. Then, to my surprise, I discovered that FSX is still on my PC. Has anyone here had that experience? Can I just delete all the files related to FSX rhat do not have an uninstall routine?

What is the state of the Aerosoft CRJ? I know they have had several patches since release and the release wasn't so hot..... Looking for something about that size to tide me over until the JS41 is ported over (already have the TFDI, love it! Also have the Majestic...great sim but I hate the dash 8 in general, kind of fugly to me but that is my $.02)

Good news on OZx for P3Dv4 users. (As of November 27, 2017 – old news to some, but new to others.) Jorge Roldan over at OZx has compiled a new set of OZx libraries for P3Dv4.1. This is a "BETA" but it seems that he's done a pretty good job. He did the work over the years by using ModelConverterX. Some objects just did not compile so they are missing. We lose some aircraft, vehicles, and animals. But much does come through nicely. The OZx announcement and discussion thread (with a download link) is here: http://aussiex.org/forum/index.php?/topic/27004-ozx-p3d-libraries-open-beta-updated-27112017/& At first glance, it seems that most of the freeware OZx airport…

Anyone know of a halfway decent AFCAD or freeware KATL scenery for P3D v4? All the previous AFCADs I used to use in FSX to add the 5th runway, taxiways, and new terminal, unfortunately don't work in v4 (uneven terrain, autogren through taxiways, etc.). Thanks.

Hi Folks, Anyone have a decent solution for the double bridges - I'm assuming the high one is default and the low one is an ORBX Vector extruded bridge ??? Thanks... Regards, Scott

Hello fellow simmers, Ik had a question. when I start a flight in the dark the runway lights look very unrealistic and very bloomy. I have a picture where you can see the problem. I have a 1080 ti and a i7 7700 CPU. If someone could help me with this it would be amazing! Thanks again. Job Kolsteeg Link to picture:http://www.mediafire.com/file/bj0btbok9a49nr1/Untitled16.png

Just went to 3.4 after a long run on 3.0. Performance is fully restored and excellent for my needs despite my 5y/o PC. OOMs have never been a significant problem for me so this concern isn't relevant at least for the time being. So what I'm after is really, what improvements could I expect to appreciate rather immediately in going from 3.4 to 4.x? PC: [email protected], GTX Titan original, 32GB of 2400DDR3. Thanks!