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Hey y'all, If I install the REX 4 texture pack (which includes soft clouds) for the runway and water textures, but want to keep using ASCA for sky textures, do I need to re-install ASCA after running the REX installer, or will the ASCA textures still be in the file?

So, the aircraft is a p3d stock airplane and has the G1000 GPS in it. I remember reading a post a while back that mentioned needing an addon to get the avionics and GPS working on this one but, I have lost that post and can't remember what was needed.

The moment i enabled lens flare and tried some REX sun presets (and others) with the Sun i am getting this.. Tried restoring suneffect.cfg and bmp's but no luck.. Any ideas?

Would someone with V4.1 go to KFSM (Fort Smith Regional) Gate 2 and see if they hear an engine running while cold and dark? Thanks, N99WB

So I have finally got my graphics settings in a good place to where I consistently get good FPS both on the ground and in the air. Now I'm thinking about trying out Ultimate Realism Pack. If I install the texture pack but don't touch the rest of my settings, will I take a hit to my FPS?

Hi! Im experiencing something weird in my P3D V4. When looking outside there are shadows from the clouds on the ground. But when i move around the shadows kinda follows my movement. They get bigger, smaller, changing shape and so on. I think it looks really bad and im wondering if anyone else see this in their sim? Here the shadows look good. But just when i look either left, right, up or down the shadow changes it shape: http://i.imgur.com/6KxSHdY.jpg

I was having the slow loading textures/autogen issue in V4 and i thought i would give a try on this tweak, what i noticed was a huge difference, the autogen goes beyond what i can see... magic, however the loading time increases a lot and 50% of the time i get an out of memory in that loading, im talking about a out of memory from windows 10, but i still have at least 5 gb of free ram in 16gb total so i guess this is windows related. TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9 reduces loading time, the autogen is still far, but with a good zoom i can see it popping, no out memory with this value. Any thoughts on this? anyone having this also? My specs below.

Hi all, I have a really goodV3.4 install but my V4 is stuttery so I have tended to not bother with it. Every now and again I see something to help with the stutters so I give it a try. After loading up the default F22 at the default airport my view is not central in the cockpit but is also looking off to the left & zoomed in. I tried rebuilding the cfg, changing screen resolutions, & changing from wide screen view on & off. Nothing so far has put the view right. Any ideas anyone please ?

Hi there, I saw a thread but cannot find it that was explaining the benefits changing ground resolution from 7cm to 1m? Offcause this is not in ORBX world related Thanks Michael Moe

Imagine, the first flight of the day; it is 5:30am and it's pitch dark in the cockpit. The ground crew have connected external power. But, where the heck is this master battery switch again? I know this has been raised a couple of times over the years since FS9 - a means of simulating a torch light. In two years Flight simulation for PCs will become 30 years old - quite mature by human standards; by then the virtual cockpit will celebrate it's 18 anniversary. Still we (I) miss a torch light tool in P3D ... anybody else does so too? Cheers Frank

Anyone in here tried Orbx Pula airport? In my experience Orbx usually equals high quality and this specific airport has an interesting features list with things such as Multi-elevation airport model.

Does anyone know if KBZN works with 4.1? Thanks

If you have the 717 update now available.

Free update for owners of KSFO-HD and no Couatl. Clicky

Hello, does anybody know if it is possible to show a KML/KMZ path in the sim itself? I do not mean to show the flightpath in Google Earth, I mean, if there's a possibility to import a Google Earth KMZ/KML path into the flight sim. A scenario would be to follow a recently flown path again (or share between other simmers) or follow the route I have made with my motorcycle during the last holidays, e.g. for sightseeing? If anyone could give a hint would be nice, thanks

One big drawback to desktop flying is the sensation of up and down. Wonder if someone might get their thinking cap on and somehow create an app that would visibly and unobtrusively advise one of horizontal fluctuation. Even something akin to an AOA indexer, It seems totally unnatural to to me, to have to constantly check gauges during a turn and not have a more convenient way of interpreting elevation changes. Just wondering. Possibly something already exists that I am not aware of.

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I downloaded from P3D 3.4.22.19868.zip Normally I expect the first digit to be the Version. In that case this is version 3 and I want 4. Are there two places to download depending on version? Dick

Preview in the TFDI forums. Really excited to see this. Also noticed that they restructured the pricing. It went from being 3% of all previous sales to $2100 for the project. Still free for freeware. Again can’t wait to see this in action.

Just want to ask if I am the only one that is unable to import flight plan in F1 GTN 1.11 Garmin Trainer 6.21 using P3D 4.1 in W764. Unfortunately, the support did not come to a solution on my side. Maybe someone has some hint.

I'm running P3D V4. I fly out of the Reno-Tahoe international airport a lot and am quite disappointed in the way the stock scenery represents the high desert terrain... just looks like a muted, solid, coloration on the ground. So, I'm looking to improve that representation! Some brush and realistic trees would be nice. Better looking, and better represented, rock formations too. However, I'm fairly new to all of this so, I'm really sort of unsure what to look for, where to look for it, and what I might get out of any addon that I would chose. A bit of advice is greatly appreciated! Thanks Al

I noticed today when flying out in the early morning, the outside of the NGX stays extremely bright. I am using UT2 for traffic and the AI is dark, but my airplane isn't. I have PTA installed with the Thopat preset. I've attached a few pictures to illustrate my issue. Does anyone have a fix? I was thinking it could have something to do with the specific livery I have used. At night in general, the aircraft is always too bright. Also, when flying through cloud at night with dynamic lighting on, I can't see the clouds with landing lights on (should reflect quite brightly), I use ASCA for clouds and Envtex for everything else. . /

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I want a nice Airbus but the FSLabs is a lot of dough for me, esp. with some of the performance concerns that have been expressed. Any thoughts or insight into what we can expect from Aerosoft A320/321 with their updated bus line for V4?

I have a problem with the Majestic Dash 8 in P3Dv4. It worked fine in fsx so I invested in the version for P3Dv4. The problem is that this sim doesn't recognise my Thrustmaster hotas controls. They do not appear in the "Control panel". The controls work fine in all the other aircraft i.e. the PMDG 737 etc. I have uninstalled & reinstalled the Dash 8 a couple of times without success. There seems to be no link between this aircraft & the controls. Any suggestions will be much appreciated. Tony Merry