The Prepar3d Forum

I would like to know what happens when you have both REX4 Texture Direct Enhanced Edition AND REX Soft Clouds? Does one take precedence over the other? If I open the Texture Direct Program and pick a cloud formation, THEN open Soft Clouds and pick one of the 12 choices of clouds, does the one I open first or second work in the sim? OR...do they both combine to make a composite for the clouds in P3dV4.1? I see that there's a single program that has both of these programs combined? I bought Soft Clouds separately so I have 2 program icons on my desktop. I have been unable to find the answer to this anywhere when I search various forums. Apprec…

Is there a program that will tell/show me where all ai aircraft are parked at large airports at any given time? Thanks, Mark

4th Jan "Hello, time for some info. Unfortunately no release date and no pricing available at this moment. We want to be clear for what you can expect on initial release and in the near future. FlythemaddogX is the simulation of the McDonnel Douglas MD-82 powered with JT8D-217/A engines, with cockpit configuration EFIS + FMS in the "pink" background variant. We have no plans to make the rest of the series (-81/-83/-87/-88 or -90) or an analogue version, neither to have the blue background variant or other power plants. Shared Cockpit won't be present on intial release, we need to add the EFIS + PMS (Canadian Marconi) configuration before. This will be done w…

Hi All My Aerosoft Airports always seem to be paler and more washed out looking than my Orbyx installations Is this just my setup -can I do anything? Do others find this? xxd09

When I start up P3DV4, the interfered from which you select your options such as aircraft, scenery, etc is very dark, black in color. Can this be modified or altered to a background more like what is illustrated in Rob's guide? Thanks Dom

I have researched Airport design videos and am not sure I want to tackle that yet. Are there any designers that would be interested in correcting the Gate assignments for Delta at Flightbeam KDEN? Thanks

I want to know if the P3d default 300S aircraft canopy glare option can be turned off as a default with some sort of aircraft config mod. I find the glare to be unacceptable in VR flight and don't want to have to use the Shift+2 option every time to set the glare off. I also drop the instrument glare and the wing add-ons as well. I have looked through all the files in the "Alabeo Extra 300S P3D" folder under Airplanes but can't find anything that would allow me to reset the default to no glare. Are plane options like this something that can be hard coded, I assume some file get changed when I select the canopy glare off option? Any ideas? T…

Hi.I have Sky Force, Active Sky,ASCA,PTA .Rex TD with soft clouds and Envtex..Have people reached a conclusion as to the best way to integrate each program that works.Obviously peoples themes will be different but its the actual dovetailing that confuses me .Reed at Rex has said that it is strongly NOT recommended to use another texture product with Sky Force.That has completely floored me I hope what I'm asking is clear but I'm really confused now. At the moment I'm running active sky-I have deleted asca-havent toched Rex TD and soft clouds for a whilel ,a PTA set and Envtex with all cloud boxes off. I try to use google and you tube for answers but I cant se…

Hello, As of right now am using P3D V3. I am having some issues with my terrain. I have to go into my scenery settings and change the level of radius from 2 to 5 and which it haopens again i have to go from 5 to 2. Its very ugly looking at it when its blury (Very ugly). So i was thinking if anyone could help me on here. This happens everywhere in the world in p3d. Its even more annoying trying to land with disgusting terrain that i have to do it when on approach. I would do it before connecting to ILS and just before removing autopilot around 1000-3500 feet i remove autopilot. Using: P3D V3 ORBX GLOBAL ORBX OPENLC EUROPE …

Hello, I'm running Prepar3D v3.2.3.16769 and I'm having problems with blurry ground textures. When I initially load up at an airport, the ground texture/mesh is clear : http://prntscr.com/c26k8d As I fly around to other airports, or slew to another airport nearby, the ground mesh/texture becomes incredibly blurry. When I stop slewing or moving, and stop aircraft motion, I try to let the textures load to become clearer. Nothing happens, and the ground texture stays blurry, as shown here : http://prntscr.com/c26kzt I have no idea what's causing the blurry textures. I have the latest NVIDIA graphics driver. I'm using Predrag's Realism Shader Pack, PTA 3.3, and ReShade …

Hey there P3D V4 Enthusiasts, and more... I'm sure that this question may have been though of before, or thought of... I was on google maps the other day, looking at some cities in it's amazing 3D... and it got me wondering... could we ever export a full 3D city from Google Map's Date into P3D V4? I've thought of this before, but I thought it would never be possible due to a 32-Bit simulator limitation.. but now with 64 bit.. I wonder if it would be possible to have a full 3D city...? Here is a pic of Downtown MSP.. in full 3D.. just image this in P3D V4?? Maybe we aren't quite there yet in terms of hardware.. but it's good food for thought... …

hello i saw somthing strange in my p3d in the last few days i flew from tel aviv to london for 2 times and its crashed above austria,wein every time today i did the flight from london to tel aviv and agan.... crashed above wien do you know how to fix that ? this is my flight path if its help you LMATC2B MATCH Q295 DAGGA M85 ITVIP UL10 DVR UL9 KONAN UL607 AMASI UM149 BOMBI DCT TENLO DCT LAMSI DCT SASAL DCT BABIT DCT NISVA Y505 NIKTI UN127 IMR UG80 BANRO UN128 RDS UL609 ALKIS UG18 APLON UG183 ASPIS UN134 SOLIN LIMKO3 i have orbx ftx global but its the first time that i see somthing like that

Win 7 P3DV4. When I try to install autostarx I get the following error. Missing MSVBM50.dll. Any ideas where I get this and where to install and does it have to be registered? After I clear the error win 7 asks if the program installed properly? Thanks Jim CYWG

Hi, I was wondering if anyone knew where to find this mod? I think it was on AVSIM some years ago, but I cant seem to locate it again. Currently, I am not satisfied with the current lightning. When comparing with real life lightning, the PMDG NGX is to white/bright.

A perfect explanation of some basic settings with Active Sky together you can find in this fine review i found.

Since Prepar3D v3 add-ons should be made to install outside of the P3D folder structure, preferably in the folder of choice of the user. An xml file in the My Documents\Prepar3D v4 Add-ons folder is all that P3D need to make it work in the simulator. Now, for some reason, some developers continue to make life miserable for the user by ignoring good practice by making a mess of the main P3D folders with completely unnecessary negative side effects. Many developers have been graciously awarding us with P3Dv3 and v4 upgrades, only to stumble on the finish line by providing us with poor install routines. So what can be gained by following the prefered method of inst…

Hi all, Anyone know of a small amphibian for P3Dv4, either freeware or payware? I have the Beaver and Twotter but would like to have something smaller along the lines of the RealAir Scout amphibian. Thanks in advance

Curiousity, wonder if anyone else encountered this: I was flying in ORBX AU scenery (also have FTX/ORBX Global and Vector), on descent through 4000 feet into YBHM. I was getting 35 FPS at that time. When I turned on FRAPS video record, my FPS dropped to 2. Is this a common problem (I realize that this sounds like a FRAPS issue, but thought someone else using AU might have experienced this)? I love FTX/ORBX, this is the first glitch I ever had with your scenery. Thank you for any insight. bob

Install or not? Heard issues about frame rates and other issues.

hi just recently installed p3dv4 and when prepare starts up the ui screen seems too large after making aircraft selections I am unable to click on the select buttons at the bottom as the are mostly hidden my desktop resolution matches the resolution in prepare any help please. thanks

Hello, anyone please advise how to sync the B737 ngx cockpit clock with the systems time? because I use for my flights my systems time and the clock in the cockpit is not sync Also the FMC while enlarged is not a backlighting thank you Georgios

Hi Folks, I would like to clean out some of my saved Display Settings profiles from the P3Dv4 UI. Anyone know how to delete a previously saved profile that is no longer wanted? Thanks, Jesse

Just curious if their site is open to all. I registered a couple of time over the past year but never received any response. Is it only for developers? Regards Bill

Hi guys. I read a lot of post here but also elsewhere, but had no luck. I just installed P3Dv4. My PC has a GTX 1070 8Gb GPU with 3 FullHD monitors connected via Display Port. I want to simulate a cockpit view all across the 3 monitors, but I didn't succeed... Do I need any external add-on? Any help? Thanks

I would imagine this post may be immediately closed, but it appears there is A LOT of misinformation being spread about what Sky Force does. I have seen this here, in social media, and here. So I want to take a moment to clarify the process. BEFORE SKY FORCE... You had two types of processes. Product A would inject weather and textures at the same type based upon weather conditions while in-sim. Again let me stress the word "textures". Product B would inject textures prior to having the sim open, but this process was one time only. This process was limited due to the focus on textures only. AFTER SKY FORCE... Sky Force is not dependent u…