The Prepar3d Forum

I have both P3D v3 and P3D v4 installed on the same drive. When I choose to fly v3 I get numerous messages stating: "Multiple Object with Same Title name. They Must Have Unique Title Names." I don't get this with v4. What do I have to do to get rid of these messages (about 35)? Jim

Hi, I deleted the "Mouse-control view direction--Leer" because it stood in conflict with ezdok middlemouse view change. Now I just can change the locked aircraft view just with the middle mouse (ok for me). But I noticed that its limited to the x-axis view (left and right) Is it possible to also control the z-axis (up and down) via middle mouse control at ezdok? Hopefully you understand my request. Everything with Ezdok beta 2.5 in p3dv4

Just a heads up for those who haven't checked the global aiAI ship thread in the FSX sub forum but Henrick had a patch to replace the FS9 ship models in the package: https://www.avsim.com/forums/topic/459116-global-ai-ship-traffic-fsx-and-p3d-news-and-support/?page=80 Cheers Steve

Hi, Just reinstalled my OS and was wondering if Nick N's Bible is still relevant for P3Dv3 OR v4? Regards, Skips2

I just spend some time playing around with sliders and settings to see which of them make a noticeable difference on my system when using dynamic lighting at FB KMSP. While doing this, I noticed that performance differs drastically depending on when I select night time. If I set the time to night via the toolbar while at the airport I get around 7 FPS which puts me close to a nervous breakdown. (Okay maybe not so much). When I select night on the scenario setup screen before loading I get 17-19 FPS. Any ideas why? Btw: If anyone is interested, this is what gave me noticeable performance boosts: Lower AA setting (nothing new), special effects to low/medium…

Link to Tim Arnot's announcement at TA Software http://www.tasoftware.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=3550.0

I am a fan of photorealistic scenery. I think that for US coverage, Megasceneryearth is the only thing out there. However, I have heard their support is bad and it is pretty expensive. 2 questions... I see that they have "high altitude" series. Given that photoreal is pretty bad at low altitudes, how much worse is the high altitude series at low altitudes? I see that you can buy the eastern or western half of the US at a discount. Does anyone have any experience in buying these packages? If so, how long is the install process? I ask because I have Utah installed as a test and that took very long to download and install. I'd have to assume half of the US woul…

Now instead of people focusing on the flying , people are focusing on the bragging rights of having the best looking sim. At my flying club the pilots there can't believe that a basic feature of all landings and takeoff's is not there and that is sloped runways. Look how long FSX has lasted and even if P3D V4 last for 25% of that time that will mean in 2020 we still won't have sloped runways. We must accept this is a game, P3D V4 allows me to do everything i could do in FSX which is practice Procedural approaches and practice R/T on IVAO / Vatsim which both help me in my real flying. We have seen great advancements in weather programs , dispatch planning a…

I can't disable dynamic autogen even though it is checked off in the sim. I've tried deleting my CFG file. I'm on the latest hot fix. Any suggestions? Edit: Never mind, this issue seems to have resolved itself, though I'm not sure how.

2 quick questions... Does anyone have a good Ezdok profile for the TFDI 717? I can't find one and I am having trouble creating one myself. The views seem too close. If I have the paid version of FSUIPC for v3, do I get the v4 fersion for free or do I need to buy it again? Thanks

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Any idea why I cannot change the fuel or payload for any of the non-A2A aircraft in P3Dv3? Going to the fuel/payload menu, I can adjust the numbers click ok but the changes are completely ignored. Happens in all planes default or not except for A2A aircraft which are the only ones working correctly. Thanks in advance if you can help.

Frankly, i'm not satisfied with p3d v4 performance. My system is a top-end AlienWare with a 4G i7 and GTX 1070. After hours of tweaking, there is just no way for me to achieve 30+ fps with a PMDG 777 during take off and landing at a major add on airport. And this is only with MEDIUM settings like 4xSSAA, NORMAL autogen and meidum autogen load distance, 3d trees off, dynamic lighting off, 20% AI, etc... During a long haul I got 130 FPS in external view but only 27-33 in VC (offensive initials not allowed seriously) and only 18-25 during landing and taking with apparent lag. I know some of you would say smoothness is more important blah blah blah... the thing is even …

Hello, all. I run P3D v3.3. I recently installed the newish "Bar Harbor" airport scenery. It is beautiful - I love the realism it gives the whole area. However, I noticed several "land tiles" in the water just SE of the Harbor; heading out into open ocean. One has trees! There is also another on on the SW side of Mt Desert Island; in the Narrows. Google did not turn up anything; so I'm wondering what would cause such an issue? I use UT for roads; but everything else is Orbx; and Central and the Library are up-to-date. Thank you! Ron

I like to fly the long hauls overnight, so I will start one in the evening then wake up and land. When I depart my P3D is running smooth, but when I wake up, I get a stutter every second making it really hard to land. Has anyone had this issue? My VAS is fine, left everything the same when I departed.

I've installed the hotfix on P3Dv4, uninstalled the client, then downloaded and reinstalled the "new" client. When I open P3D I get the initial Prepar3d logo and the spinning wheel of death. It acts like it wants to open then just disappears. When I go to restart the computer it says P3D is running, however its nowhere to be found on the desktop. Tried opening and restarting multiple times with same result. Never seen this before.

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Since FTX Central 3 doesn't recognize P3D v4, I was wondering how some of you guys are running FTX Global, Vector, OpenLC, etc? Is there a workaround to get it to install and work under P3D v4 fhat I'm unaware of? Also wondering how some of these people are also using REX Textures/Clouds with P3D v4 as well.

Hi, Can anyone suggest why I dont have any thermals in P3D v3 ? I have ThermalDescriptions.xml in the root folder. I have selected 'schematic' thermals in the weather settings and have confirmed that this is set in Prepar3D.cfg i.e. Thermal_visuals=2. Also in the weather setting I do not have 'Disable turbulence and thermal effects on aircraft' ticked. I have also tried CumulusX but this doesn't seem to work in P3Dv3. Anyone have any suggestions I could try? Thank you, Barry Wells

I wanted to bring in a small quote from Mir at FlightBeam into this discussion from one of the posts in the PMDG's thread. It appears that this comment is referring to current hardware capabilities. I wonder what we're in for in the future based on this statement?

Hi, I've got this Nivida GTX 970 graphic card. Will it be recommended to upgrade to GTX1060 6 GB or "bigger" ? BR Lars

From a GTX 970... So my system is now i7 4790k 4.4Ghz, GTX 1070, 16GB RAM. I've only swapped out the graphics card and had a couple of hours last night to set it up. I find in P3D, I previously used FSX Steam edition anything less than 4xSSAA produces terrible shimmering, something which really annoys me. On my 970 with 4xSSAA the GPU load would quickly reach 100%. I'm hoping the extra VRAM gives me a bit more breathing room. Anyone else performed a similar upgrade and what have been the results? Cheers Sid

Interested to hear if anyone has managed to get P3D V4 to display any textures in BC7 format? I have converted some aircraft textures to BC7.. they look absolutely perfect in a Direct Draw window, exactly the same as DXT5 (with obviously the higher quality). Use it in P3D and black texture. The same base uncompressed bitmap was used with exactly the same format. Into BC3 (DXT5) it works fine.. BC7 nope. Slightly disappointing because the quality of BC7 is indistinguishable from the base bitmap, DXT5 has all the usual artifacts. If we could use BC7 we would get bitmap quality at DXT5 filesize.

I use a 46" 1080p Samsung for my simming using DSR. It's cool but I'm wondering what it would be like if the monitor itself was 4K.

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