The Prepar3d Forum

This is another very strange issue that I only notice. When flying with either the PMDG 747 or 777, I see that the ground textures at the airport are flickering. However I don't see this when flying with other planes.

Does P3D v4 support octa core or hex core process as well as quad core cpu? I am currently using the i7 7700k, which is a 4 core 8 thread. However, if p3d supports Octa Core process , I'll purchase an 8 core 16 thread, the Rizen 1700x. I would like to hear advice from those who have used Hex Core or Octa Core in p3d. Thanks.

With all the recent talk about compatiablity issues and "how not to ruin a good P3Dv4 installation" on the PMDG forum, I have a question to ask. How do you know that a commercial or freeware scenery add-on is truely P3Dv4 compatiable? Outside of Orbx and PMDG, I havd not done anything to my new P3Dv4 installation. I will problably keep P3Dv4 restricted to PMDG airplanes; however, I would like to upgrade my scenery and airports, both payware and freeware. Right now, I'm reluctant to do anything. My question to AVSIM and the other freeware hosts, would it be possible to provide a seperate distingisher on the download or library pages for freeware scenery and a…

is there a way to stop 3rd party airport scenery from reloading every time I change view angle in P3D V4?, it was understandable under V3. it keeps reloading buildings, hangers, tower, ground texture .. etc. even while I'm waiting for my take off turn, just change view angle, every thing will start reloading again, very annoying.

So I currently have (and have had) soft clouds for quite a while. I like the textures but they didn't install properly into V4. Yes, I know it's not technically compatible but I gave it a try. It didn't work and now I have no cloud textures. I just got AS16/ASP4 (upgraded from ASN) and I like the idea of having variable cloud textures, and from the pictures, the textures look pretty decent. What do you all think? Upgrade to ASCA or stick around for the Rex update?

I'm just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this. I am running out of total memory (8 GB) (not VAS) in certain situations with V4. Here's what I have running. P3D V4 (2048 texture resolution, most sliders are 1 tick short of ultra/highest) Active Sky 2016 for P3DV4 beta Ultimate Traffic Live (modified to work with V4) PMDG 747 V2 FlightBeam KSFOHD ProATC (modified to work with V4) As I approach KSFO for landing I run out of total memory and get warnings to shutdown software. Resource monitor confirms that I am out of memory I know this is a lot running on one machine. The only thing I know tha…

First, I must have been living under a rock for quite a while not having checked my RAM . I must admit i have a really bad knowledge here and thats properly why i first noticed this now. I have Corsair Dominator DDR3-1600MHZ 4 x 2GB modules with different latency. 2 pieces at CL7 and 2 at CL8. (BUT running at 1333MHZ !!) Now i thought my increased 10-15% performance (FPS) at EKCH FT Gate A20 was about the new installers for V3 BUT its not. I had my RAM speed set at 1333MHZ normally , and just for a test earlier i had increase RAM to 1800mhz (1,65v as thats what they need and stamped on them) before installing the new EKCH v3 installers and the redwine ha…

Alert: I just downloaded and tried to unzip this file off the Library new uploads. Please be aware that received a ransomware alert from Kaspersky AV. Not sure what others are seeing? Shez

Anyone know if repaints done for v3 will also work in v4? In particular, repaints for v4 A2a repaints. Thanks much

The quote above is from Martin at FlyTampa. The list of previous simulator versions is long and many developers struggle to service all of the in-and-outs of each. The list of current simulators gets ever wider - XP11, P3Dv4, etc. We must all suffer from delays caused by developers having to re-visit older versions to ensure upgrades will work. At some point, developers will have to reduce the list of simulator versions being supported. Should we be pushing the developers to announce limitations on the older versions being supported - for example FS9, FSX? Should users of the older simulator versions be given tougher timescales for removal of maintenan…

Has anyone got this yet. I'm thinking about getting this, but wanted to get more opinions on it first. How do these sounds compare to the default PMDG 777 ones? Is it dramatically better? I'm looking for more of a low frequency roar, rumble noise especially when panning from behind the engines. I have never felt that sensation when hearing sounds from any flight sim before. Will this add-on do it? Kinda hard to tell from the videos on youtube.

I forgot where I saw this, but I watched a youtube video a few days ago where you're able to switch to the airport's tower view, it sets you inside the tower of any airport in the sim (if the airport has one). Now I can't figure out how to do this.

I am using Prepar3d V3. I like the way I can set up a big outside view over three monitors and make the aspect ration look right, but I have trouble setting up the instrument panel. Many models do not show a panel at all even though they are supposed to work with Prepar3d. Another problem is that the instrument panel for a Rotor Wing Model always includes the center column. I have a three screen display for the outside view and a second monitor below for the instruments. In order to display the actual instruments on the lower monitor I need to pull it up which puts the column into the outside view. Even the panels that do not have a big column included still have to…

I am not sure if anyone already post this already David

I'm looking at this as a possible addition as it feels like a centrally located airport in the states. Can those who own it comment on the quality, performance, and any outstanding issues I should be aware of? Thanks in advance.

Now that User's of this aircraft have had a little while to use it in Prepar3D v4, I was wondering if they could give an opinion/report on how it goes in this new platform. I'm on the fence as to whether I should pay for the upgrade from P3D v3 or wait the the free PMDG NGX release. The Captain Sim 737-200 v4 update will be released shortly as well but I'm not ware of the time frame.

No more OOM now its Bragging Rights After landing at FSDT's KJFK_V2 with Aerosofts' ManhattanX in the view I topped 12+ Gig RAM though that is likely less than 9 gigs RAM for P3DV4

I'd like to hear from a few of you on if your P3Dv4 logbook appears to be working. The logbook is now opened via the Analysis > Pilot Records menu item. I've noted a problem over in the LM forum and I got one other user also seeing it but there seems to be a much more active crowd here and I would appreciate feedback. I'm not seeing the ICAO codes for orign and destination on any flight record, and I'm not very confident that the times are correct. Also, the landing location appears to be incorrect as well. I started digging into the new v4 logbook.bin to update the LogEdit application when I started noticing problems and I want to make sure the problems are r…

-After downloading all programs and all add ons GSX stopped my prepar3d V4 . I am getting a message saying there is a duplicate SOUD program and I need to close it from the task manager. Done that 4 times prepar3d doesn't start getting same message . Went in the App data deleted files for SOUD , restart no luck prepar3d cannot start I have been reading for the past 5 hours all forums and tried to follow up lost of steps still no luck. Before I delete everything and start building again is anyone knows a solution. The sim was running perfect till this issue Thank you Amr

I've just re-installed P3D (v3) after a long time of using XPlane exclusively. remember a while ago having installed some sky textures that, in my eye, looked very close to reality, but for the life of me I can't remember where I downloaded them. The only payware texture mod I have for this is REX 4, and I don't think they're from that program, and they don't look like any of the numerous freeware textures I've tried out. I did take some screenshots with them. Do these look familiar to anyone? These shots were taken around noon in-sim and I'm using the following lighting settings: Brightness ~1.30, Bloom ~0.55, Saturation ~1.33. I know that colors can look different becau…

Does the water in v4 look better than in v3

I am trying to utilize P3D v4's multiplayer functionality to connect with another simmer over the internet. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a way to connect with another player outside of a LAN. We have tried connecting directly to each other's IP address with "unable to connect" messages. Has anyone had any success with multiplayer? Any thoughts or ideas would be much appreciated.

Hope everyone has had a chance to update to the latest releases for P3Dv4!

This is excellent advice! http://www.simgazine.com/how-not-to-mess-up-a-perfectly-good-prepare3d-installation-by-rob

Enabling ground vehicles enables both service vehicles as well as those that randomly roam around the airport, and while the former is nice addition to realism the latter causes frequent annoyances with coming in the way of taxiing or causing object collision. Is there a way to only enable gate service related vehicles only? Also can the push back logic be tuned to automatically detect the distance and accurately turn plane 90deg on to taxiway rather than user guess work, since the data of node positions is already available to the sim?