The Prepar3d Forum

I have been considering adding South America to my Orbx scenery collection but I have been put off somewhat by the screenshots many of which look as if they could be from anywhere in the world and don't necessarily give me personally a feel of South America. For example the shots showing what I assume might be the Amazon jungle do not give me the impression of the lush jungle textures which I expected but look more like a forest in a temperate area. There is farmland which looks as if it is from rural England and there is one shot of a lake that reminds me very much of Lough Ness! I know that South America is a vast continent which must contain a huge variation in 'l…

I use a Madcatz FLY 5 and am on my 5th one. Anyway on WIN 10 the keypresses seem to process too fast and repeat in P3D4. I am also using the profiler to map my keys to what P3D expects. Anyway to slow the speed down? Thanks bs

They look a bit flat and unrealistic with not much detail compared to the ones in the A2A planes. Is it possible to modify the frame somehow, or better yet use the frames from the A2A planes in the realair planes? Here's the frame around the GTN unit in the realair, its completely black with no detail at all: And here's the frame on the A2A plane So as you can see, the A2A GTN's frame looks much better.

Hi all- Can the GTN 750 GPS window be assigned a keyboard sequence to open and close vs clicking on the stack? I wouldn't mind substituting Shift + 2 to it instead of the stock GPS but don't know how to do it. Cheers, Mark

So, I've had the Saitek X-56 Rhino for a while, and it's worked without problems, until about a week ago. Neither the stick or trottle quadrant is working in P3D at the moment, but the wierd thing is it's working in the Saitek program. I've tried most of the usual stuff like changing USB port, I've also done a troubleshooting in Windows, with no results. I am using FSUIPC 4 and I have disabled my controllers in P3D. Very wierd problem, seems like it should be an easy fix. Thanks in advance /Fred

I have Orbx Global base and Global vector installed along with Open LC NA plus add on scenery. if I want to use an add-on scenery such as SCAL, NCAL, etc., should Open LC NA be disabled or made active also, if not using any add on scenery then do I use all three, Global base, Global vector and Open LC NA Using PD3v4 Thanks ress

I've been searching for data to support the idea that running apps via a networked PC actually makes a difference with P3Dv4 (or FSX for that matter). Does anyone have any personal data or a reference showing which apps actually lead to performance increases when run on a secondary PC? My concern is that the networked comms actually hurt more than the extra CPU helps... I usually run a weather app (ASP4 with ASCA), ATC (VoxATC at the moment), TrackIR, and sometimes airhauler2 or FSeconomy, plus an EFB/charts app like navigraph. Which of these functions does it significantly help to offload to a networked PC? I realize this is hardware dependent, but there might b…

In my opinion, the summer textures for ground and trees are too green in V4. Is there a way to change that and make them darker? I have ORBX Vector and all of the North America packages so I am not sure if that has anything to do with it. Thanks

After installing the new Flight 1 GTN Complete version I was able to get the GTN 750 to work in my RA Turbine Duke and A2A C172 in P3Dv4 ! On my system I installed my A2A aircraft into the Prepar3D v4 Add-ons folder in my Documents, I did the same thing for my Real Air Duke Turbine. Ironically the PMDG aircraft I installed didn't use this approach and installed directly into the sim (like Orbx does). There seems to be a problem for the F1 GTN configure app when you open it because it seems to only see default P3dv4 aircraft and the add-ons that went directly into the P3Dv4 install folder like the PMDG in my case. The other add-ons, that work fine in the sim…

Hi P3Dv4 uses, Ive been enjoying P3D version 4 and have for the first time no blurries using FTX Global and NA, EU regions like I did in all previous versions of P3D. But now that Orbx has released their Airports I have noticed the ground textures around the airport is completely blurred. (scenery that comes with the purchased airport) For example KPSP the nearby mountain to the west is a blurry mess and never clears. (Same with all other FTX airports) If I remove some of the terrain BGL's from within the Airport scenery this allows the NA Southern California textures to show which are completely crystal clear. What's going on here?? Because FTX global…

As the title says I want to know what it is, what it does and what scenery uses it? Thank you

Any one knows?. They seem to be extremely silent about updating their products for P3Dv4. Cheers, Ed

I tried posting this on the Lockheed Martin forums but I'm still waiting for a reply. Whenever I open panels with the shift-1, 2,3,4 etc. the corresponding number in the atc window gets selected. Ie. With ATC window open Press shift-1 to open panel - option 1 in atc window will get selected Press shift-2 to open panel - option 2 in atc window will get selected Press shift-3 to open panel - option 3 in atc window will get selected Etc. This is frustrating me no end. Doesn't matter which aircraft I use. Happens all the time. The only time it doesn't is if I undock atc, but this is no good as doing this halves my fps. I have to make sure I cl…

As requested, here's a copy of the message when trying to install GBP v1.41. Thanks.

From what I read in the Orbx forums, the delay in updating Vector has been due to a third-party (Pilots). It appears, according to a post by John, that Orbx now has 100% ownership of Vector and its source files. I hope that means that we will see it soon for v4!

Hello Captains, I recently purchased ORBX Pacific North West Scenery, and in an effort to take a break from the high-flying PDMG tube-liners and long hauls I'm looking to swing the other direction- that is a high quality simulation of an Aircraft that is something much smaller and lighter, something I can use to explore this new region and get into and out of the smaller airports. Airplanes with floats will be equally considered w/ other General Aviation Aircraft. It's all good! Given my current stable of high-quality add-ons, I'm curious as what is available in this segment. Thanks, Mark Trainer

I've been flying RealAir's Duke Turbine as of late. However, I find it incredibly difficult to maintain a steady altitude when the is autopilot OFF. Sometimes, I get lucky, and I am able to tweak the elevator trim to where I can fly with a mostly steady altitude. For this reason, are higher-powered GA aircraft such as the Duke normally flown with the autopilot ON?

Hey all, I use P3D v4 developer, When i'm in the normal 2d monitor environment, everything is perfect as can be, but as soon as i put on my VR headset (Oculus Rift) i start to see these white texture squares on the ground. The only way to make them go away is to restart P3D and not use my Rift. Does anyone know why this might be happening? Any and all ideas or opinions are welcome. I run P3D using a Xeon E5-4650v4 and a GTX 1080Ti and 32GB of DDR4 so my hardware definitely isnt the cause.

Hi Just a quick question. The auto-route can be questionable at times. I use flightaware for RW routing in the US, what can I use outside of the US for routings? Thanks

Hi AVSIM community, please help me. I own the CRJ since one day after release. Yesterday, I wanted to perform a flight, which is a bit longer and so it went dark during flight. unfortunately I had to cancel the flight as I wasn´t able to switch on important lights. I was able to switch on the flood and floor light. But no integration light for example. Could you please help me out? That would be very much apprecciated. Thank you for your help. Cheers

After the output of ObjectFlow2 Beta that allows using a procedure to install apt Orbx for P3D v3.4 in v4 LOWI give problems and Orbx says to wait to buy it to install it in P3D v4 until it resolves these problems.

Hi guys, I am trying desperately to convert an old scenery that I loved into my P3D. (V3). The developer did a new version of the scenery a while back for "FSX", but the objects are invisible in P3D, which means they are FS9 SDK. I am trying to convert them using modelconverterX but when I try to export the files, nothing is saved, when I try to batch convert, it just gives me like 20 errors saying "ImageTool not found". Does anyone have any expertise in modeconverterx that could tell me why they won't convert? Or any other program that can convert these files??

I ran the switch tool and selected the F1 GTN unit, but it still doesn't show up in my plane. Does anyone know how to get this to work?

HI all I just came back from 4 weeks holiday, and wanted to get onto the v4 hype train. So, after installing the FTX global range, and making sure my fps at my home airport (EHAM) is at 30, I installed the beautiful Fly Tampa EHAM. However, now, my fps dropped deep deep deep into the 10. Does anyone experience this as well? I checked my hardware usage, and neither cpu, ram or gpu are used at 100%., but is there something I have to pay attention to when using an "older" p3dv3 airport? (I did the patch already) vkr victor