The Prepar3d Forum

Hello all I've just noticed that for some reason, as soon AS P3DV4 connects, any rain that is currently falling from the sky immediately stops. Leaving me with rain sound effects and, where applicable, 'wet' airport ground textures, but no rain ! If I shut down AS, and manually set the weather to heavy rain, then I see rain, so I'm pretty sure that it's AS related. I've been using AS for some time with FSX, then FSXSE, but have never encountered this problem ? Anyone seen this before and know how to fix it ? Many thanks Gary

just received an email from Just Flight that the hawk is ready for V4,just downloaded and installed it and had a quick look around but not a flight.the graphics look brilliant,top notch to me,beautifully sharp and crisp,but I seem to have lost the click sounds from the cockpit,as it is sometime since i flew it in P3d i cant remember if the clicks were very quite or do i have to enable them,any one else installed the new version and had a similar situation many thanks Peter

Hi all, We've just released updates for the Turbulent Terminal and all of our airport sceneries. These updates address issues on documentation, blending and the installation process. You'll no longer be asked to install SODE when installing the Turbulent Terminal. As SODE is an airport feature, it will be included in the airport installers only. Good news for TerraFlora Customers. :) All the details of the update can be found here, along with some screenshots of RealFlora blending in to TerraFlora: https://www.turbulentdesigns.co.uk/terminal-2o3-l35-kmbs-kida-updates/ We're currently finishing testing a new TerraFlora update, which will be released soo…

Anyone know of such please, hard to find good info. Cheers.

Hi, I was wondering how ORBX, REX and other add-on's are integrated into p3d v4. Currently I am using P3D v3 and the above add-on's and they are taking nearly 175GB of disk space all together. I now have approximately 130GB of free space left on my 500GB SSD. Now I planning to get P3D v4 and do not want to uninstall v3 yet, till I have a stable v4. I am curious if add-on's like ORBX utilize the same set of scenery and related files/folders or do they take up additional space. I am afraid the latter might be the case (because of 64 bit codes) but was not sure. I would appreciate if someone can shed some light on this. Thanks in advance. veemaniq

Using P3Dv4 on my system, I've encountered unusual behavior at KBWI. When I approach the terminal and gates after a flight, the program reports the aircraft has crashed when I reach a point a couple hundred feet from the gates. Oddly, there is no vehicle or other obstruction present that would explain a crash occurring, and I am only taxiing at a very slow speed when the crash occurs. Initially, I thought it might be my A2A Cessna 182 and overly sensitive AccuSim, but the same behavior occurred with the default Bonanza A36. Deactivating "detect crashes" from the Realism menu avoids the crash, but this seem silly for just one airport. Has anyone else experienced this …

I'm a bit of a newbie when it comes to computer hardware. Will there be a noticeable difference in performance in P3D v4 when having a dual Nvidia GTX 1080 8GB GDDR5X, in comparison to having just a single 1080?

I have been having a ton of issues with ORBX and open LC. My add ons are: FTX Global - 1.41 OpenLC Europe - 1.31 FTX England 1.60 Latest ORBX Libs downloaded directly from ORBX last night. I have never had an issues with ORBX but after a HDD failure I had to reinstall P3D. After reinstalling ORBX i have these issues. I'll attach a photo. https://ibb.co/dwuizQ Does anyone have any suggestions as I have run out of ideas. I have reinstalled oall ORBX products. I have migrated with the troubleshooter showing no errors. Any help would be great.

Hi All, I'm struggling to get LIMJ looking OK in P3D V4. At a couple of screenshots below you can see buildings in water, waves on the taxiways (ramp) and odd scenery right next to the airfield. One thing that is difficult to see is what looks to be a flashing intersection between two buildings. I think my scenery layers are correct: I am using My Traffic 6a, so found the AFCAD there and disabled and that didn't make a difference. Any thoughts on what to do or how to troubleshoot? Appreciate your support. Cheers, Mark B.

Hi all, I'm having a bit of trouble with my wave effects. My wave effects are inverted on the coastline, I have disabled ENVTEX's waves as well. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Is there a way to have the autogen in p3dv4 fade in rather than pop like fsx had that annoying popping autogen.

Has anyone used FSUIPC5 and WideFS with P3DV4? If so, could advise which specific folders you setup Map drives to? This is supposed to be simple but has cost me hours and hours without success. I realize there is some documentation, but much of is dated and applicable to older systems. I did look in the AVSIM P3D Guide but only saw reference to Simconnect. Thanks / Les Parson

Can someone provide me with lighting settings that appear the most realistic for Prepar3DV3.4? Thanks!

I got it working using the xml method. Its a bit quirky though. SOme houses and trees on RWY 34L, STC doesnt recognize RWY34C but very usable. GSX gets a little wierd too but it is very usable considering how old it is and no one is working to update it.

I've been using Rex 4 TD+SC since P3D v3, but it hasn't been updated for P3D v4 compatibility yet. I'm willing to wait a bit longer for that, but I also heard good things about ENVTEX as well. For those of you who have used both products, could you tell me which one is better for P3D v4? I am also using Active Sky P3D4 and ASCA as well. I really miss my REX4 TD, especially the sky colors. But then I heard ENVTEX was designed to go hand in hand with PTA and Active Sky/ASCA. I'm not sure if I should purchase PTA/ENVTEX or wait for REX4 TD+SC to be updated and use that instead with PTA.

So I just cleaned out my logbook in Prepar3D V4 because it was full of a lot of partial flights and broken bits I accumulated while getting my Prepar3D setup just right. I deleted all the entries in the Logbook (under analysis) to start from scratch. Problem is, now none of my flights are being recorded. Did I screw this up? Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, jason

Hi all, Flying the PMDG 737 today in v4 for the 1st time..flying the famous Gatwick-Amsterdam flight, and I was really stunned / disappointed to see the flashing light blue blocky texture chunks over the ocean AGAIN. I used to see this in v3 and I am really surprised its back again. Is this a common occurrence ? Perhaps a rogue piece of add-on scenery that causes this ? I am stumped (and really want this to go away...I fly a lot of over-water flights). I have ORBX global, vector and several LatinVFR airports, as well as some FlyTampa stuff. But I feel like this is a resource issue. Any advice appreciated ! …

Hi all. Looking for a very realistic turboprop aircraft for P3D. I already have the Majestic Dash-8 Q400 and like it very much. But it may be a little big, it can't fit into smaller fields. I am a stickler for realism and do not care much about graphics, but I do care a lot about correct implementation of avionics and things like beta range etc. I can't stand aircraft which do not behave like their real world counterparts, it just drives me nuts. I don't mind if the graphics are poor as long as the simulation is accurate. I do not mind flying aircraft with old avionics. I learned to fly in real life before GPS was very common and my first GPS was an…

Being a fan of older liners and such, there are a few I really hope become v4 compatible. 1. DC-10 2. 757 3. 727 4. Airbus 340 5. EMB-120

I think i've run into the first visible issue with doing things using this method. I created a folder v:\p3d addons\aircraft\alabeo (and another up there in the root of aircraft for carenado).. When i run the installer for either publisher i set the path to their root folder, alabeo or carenado. (i do this for every craft.. same root folder install location, alabeo, carenado etc) Take for instance the c404 alabeo.. it then puts effects, sound, simobjects\airplanes in the root folder among others. I created either by hand or via Lorby's tool.. the addon xml with the entries for gauges, sound etc.. For the sound folder it might have subfolders.. …

Today, I purchased P3DV4 after years of FSX. I installed the program in Win 10/64 in C:\\ rather than the default Program Files (x86). After inspecting the explorer C drive, I was surprised the installation did not create its own master folder. Instead, the installation installed all the required .dll, .exe and standard P3D folders unbundled. A few minutes later, I purchased a FSUIPC5 registration and that installation created the familiar Modules folder. My question is - going forward with other add-ons (i.e. AS16, Ultimate Traffic, etc) is this going to be a problem? Should I create a new P3D folder like: C:\\P3D ? Or, leave it as is. Prior to purchase, I did rese…

I have enjoyed the Jet Blue A-320 Mega Pak planes in v4 for a few months now. ALL OF A SUDDEN, I can't accelerate any of the 320's to a decent take off speed. They are sluggish, move like turtles, and nothing I've tried seems to make them move as they used to. What could have changed? I've uninstalled them and reinstalled them, but they act the same. What can I check to see what has caused this sluggishness to occur to all the planes in this pak? I downloaded them from Rickooo which assures they are P3dv4 approved. Stan

Hi Folks, Well... I am new to P3D (3 days) and using v4. I have a bit of problem with the speeds for lowering landing gear and approach flaps. It seems that some setting is preventing their operation above the landing flap speed (white arc). I think this is true of all aircraft but I mostly have tested in the Carenado Cheyenne and the RealAir Duke B60. As you know, most aircraft allow deployment of gear and approach flaps at much higher speeds than the white arc landing flap speed. It all worked fine for me in FSX but I am a little lost at what may be influencing this in P3D. I suspect a realism setting may be causing this behavior but have not identified w…

Hello all, I have been flying out of FSDreamTeams KMEM a lot lately with UT Live, but it's painfully empty without any sort of FedEx AI. I tried to compile my own package using the models, liveries, and schedules available in the library, but I found out most models were incompatible with P3Dv4. Does anyone have any suggestions or tips to get FedEx AI working in v4? Thanks

Hi All - I recently moved from FSX to P3D v4. II downloaded some freeware airports to install, but unlike FSX, I believe there is no add-on folder with scenery and texture subfolders to install. We are required to go in and create XML files to add the scenery into P3D v4???. Which is very confusing. Does anyone have a guide or instruction s how to install them?. FSX was way easier. Thanks