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How is your Orlando KMCO airport rendered in P3dv4? I have all the ORBX addons: Global, Vector, etc. but my KMCO is loaded with trees everywhere and bears no resemblance to reality. I had a beautiful rendition of KMCO when I used FSX (payware),,and I would gladly pay for a realistic version for P3dV4 if one were available. Since I enjoy flying into Orlando, I would like a solution if any of you have one. Stan

I have a test scenario/config where i'm only loading a small subset of my scenery from scenery.cfg using the sceneryconfigeditor.. I've found that if i put back the "default" Autogen folder, created with the bare install and not modified by ORBX (i think only orbx modified the files) with ftx central.. my load time is around 1min50 sec.. I then opened ftx central and it did its thing to the files.. now suddenly my load times are around 5min almost 3 minutes longer. Granted, i do have a ton of orbx scenery, but barely any of it, except the libraries is enabled in scenery right now. I didnt have this issue maybe a week ago (pretty sure).. not sure what c…

LM has officially announced the reddit event tomorrow and also said new information available before hand? https://www.prepar3d.com/news/2017/09/114513/

Are scenery libraries like Rwy12 and EZ Scenery usable in v4? Are there any other more updated/modern libraries?

I’m starting an integrated ATPL course and just wondered your thoughts on using Prepar3D as a training aid. Will using it realistically help me when it comes to my real-life training. Thanks

I have both the FSX SE and PREPARED v4 so when I open FTX Central there are two choices to pick from. When I click on North America in both sims all seven regions that I have there is an ' N/A 'in each region. All of my airports don't have that. Is this normal?

Hi there. So i've been wanting to write this question/problem for a long time now but i've been to lazy to actually do it. So yeah as the title says, i have uninstalled, downloaded and installed the new update for ENGM that was published some time ago in which it features SODE and animated passengers. Thing is, i have been uninstalling and installing over and over again, yet i'm not getting SODE or anything like that. I hope there is a solution to this. Regards.

Hi all I have recently started doing some night flying and i'm trying to get the right balance on the settings. It seems when flying at night with Dynamic Lighting enabled i get this horrible sutter / sluggish performance and poor FPS. I have noticed that if i change my anti aliasing setting from 4MSAA to 2MSAA it improves but then the look of the scenery / aircraft becomes jaggy. Is there any way around it or a way to find the right balance? Or will i pretty much have to compromise and lower the AA setting if flying at night. Just want to make sure that others are having the issue too and its not just me. I always worry that i have either installed something wr…

Hi Guys, I was wondering if there is any less expensive alternative for FTX Global Vector land class... I am about at my $limit for addons! Are there any land class addons that you guys use instead of vector? I already have FTX Global installed Thank you

I saw a youtube clip of some guy doing a flight into ORBX KJAC for V4. I thought that wasn't available yet. Was this just released or is there a roundabout way to get it installed? thanks

Are there any recommended PTA settings (I forget the official name of the files) out there that can be shared with me for realistic settings for tubeliner flying? Thanks!

I seem to have a strange issue that I can't narrow down in regards to stutters. I have 3 monitors running, center one being for P3D and the rest are for external stuff, things like teampseak, ASP4, AH2 etc etc. For whatever reason when P3D is focused on (clicked into it) I get stutters, however when clicked out of it it all seems to go away. I'm curious if anyone has run into this issue at all before? Tried searching around google to no real avail except for some references to V2. Also, happens in most of my addon aircraft, wondering if maybe it's a sound issue but all my drivers are up to date at this time. Specs: i7-7700k 4.8GHZ GTX1080 Z270A 16…

Lately I've noticed that P3Dv4 goes through the motions of "building database for new scenery files..." and occasionally "generating indexes...." each time I start the program even though I haven't actually added any new scenery. Is anyone else experiencing this? The last new scenery I added was Mega Airport Frankfurt v 2.0 Professional. Thanks for your attention!

Does anyone know why my P3d V4 has messed up water textures like this? I do have alot of addons. I have PTA, (Tried tweaking it), I have REX with the water textures turned on and off with no difference, I have AS P4 still does it on or off. ORBX GLobal, NA and Vector. Tried many suggestions, still doing it. Tried Bathymetry on and off, no change. Reshade on and off, no diff, URP on and off still does it. I have KSFO HD by FLightbeam, San Francisco by aerosoft, on and off, still does it. Tried different library layer settings using Add on organizer. Just dont know where this is coming from? Any specific bgl files attributed to this? ANy ideas out there? THanks

Hi guys! Taxi2gate EDDM for p3d v4 is out now. live link removed Best Regards Mohammed Kaafar

Hello everyone, I have a really bad problem with P3Dv4. I just installed it yesterday and I'm getting horrible fps. At first I thought it was about my settings but playing around with the sliders, I noticed that independently from any change in setting, I only get about 5-12 fps. Furthermore, my CPU is only at 20-40% usage all the time. As mentioned: it is NOT because of my ultra high scenery settings as it didn't improve at any settings. I'm currently only using P3D clean install without any addons. Please help me!

Since Little Nav Map supports exporting flight plans to the native GTN 750/650 Units. Does anyone know how to get the flight plan to load into these units?

Hello folks, Suddenly and without any reason seems like the ''afcads'' are messed up and when i choose a gate it shows out of the airport or inside a building or in any other strange places (specially Orbx freeware europe airports). I updated before my graphics driver to the latest but i cannot see how it is relevant. Any ideas? Thank you for your support.

Hello together, Can someone send me Spai Traffic Program exe. best regards

Does anyone know what the holdup is from FSlabs releasing the update for V4? They have been silent on their site so I was wondering what the delay is. I am not asking for a release date but I am just curious on what is keeping them from releasing. The info over there is basically it will be ready when ready but that can mean a number of things!

Any thoughts?: I started with a perfectly running P3D V4 yesterday. I purchased PTA Tweak Asst, PTAbsolute (free) and ENVTEX. Installed PTA T.A., then loaded the ENVTEX textures, then used the PTAbsoute Natural Set .ini file. Everything is GREAT!, except.... I have no drop down menus, PLUS, I hit Shift Z and I don't get my frame rate information in the top left, I hit Q and the sound is off but no message, I hit P and the sim pauses, but I don't get Red Paused message any longer. Oh and I can't open my FSDT GSX menu. I have checked my cfg and all messages should be showing. ShowInfoText=1 Maximized=2 HideMenuNormal=0 HideMenuFullscreen=1 I h…

Hi simmers. Tried out some new CPU configs after Robs experience. I7-4770K@ 4.7 HT OFF 1.25V 55-70C 4.9-4.7-4.6-4.6 HT OFF 59-80C 4.7-4.7-4.5-4.5 HT ON C 60-95C 4.8-4.7-4.6-4.6 HT ON 88-104C Clearly not a work day basis but I manage to test at ORBX FTX NZ NZQN with ultra texture resolution. Seems that FTX NZ is not that high in terms of resolution. Stayed around 3.8GB. But All cores was working including virtuals? I Think the terrain was more crispy with HT ON. Thanks Michael Moe

I am studying for my PPL. Want to use Prepar3d & my Oculus Rift as an adjunct to my real world flight training in a 172. Need help setting it all up ( yoke & pedals, ATC simulation, Rift,etc). Can be remote unless you are near Naples, FL. Will pay reasonable rates. PM me. Thanks.

I'm looking for the default suneffect.cfg values/content for P3Dv3.2 meaning the way it looks before you allow add-ons such as ENVTEX etc to mess around with it. Anyone?

A Lockheed account just made an iAmA announcement over on the Reddit flightsim sub. In this announcement, something interesting was said; "PC Pilot Magazine just published an in-depth user review and we just released v4.1, so we thought this would be a great time to answer any questions you all might have." So perhaps 4.1 is being pushed at this very moment?