The Prepar3d Forum

Gah, i thought i'd maybe seen the back of this, but it still persists.... running a 3930K with a 1080 ti card and everything runs smooth on a 30hz monitor, yet when i'm panning my view in the VC the cloud shadows pop in and out like crazy sometimes... so annoying! Anyone else getting this and anyone know of a tweak to make my hardware try and deal with it better? cheers!

I always reduced the AI level within P3d 3.4 to save resources, but noticed recently at larger airfields like London Gatwick I had no AI aircraft on the parking gates or taxying. I increased the Airline AI to 50% and still no aircraft at the airfield although sometimes if I'm lucky I might get one. When looking at the Options -View-AI menu I had 34 aircraft in flight. I only use default P3D AI and have recently updated to the latest version of FSUIPC4, could that be causing the problem as I believe it now has some kind of AI limiter built in, although I haven't touched any of the settings. How can I get more AI to appear closer to my aircraft especially when parke…

I cannot believe what great performance I am getting from my newly installed P3D v4. My system is as below: Asus Z170-K M/board Intel Skylake i5 6500k O/C to 4.3 MHz EVGA GTX 970 with 4g gddr5 not overclocked 2 x 4gb Kingstone Fury Hyperx DDR4 RAM EVGA GTX 970 XFX XTR 750w PSU Corsair Hydro H80iGT cooler Samsung S32D850 32" LED Monitor 2560 x 1440 Thermaltake V71 Case Samsung SSD 850 EVO M.2 500GB with P3D v3 and 4 on it. SanDisk 240GB Extreme Pro SSD with Windows 10 Home Creators Update 64 bit on it. Here are some Pics I took with a test flight around Seattle and most of the sliders over to the right. …

Hi Everyone I am a long time vanilla FSX user that never swung across to previous versions of P3D. I have just paid for and currently downloading P3D V4. My intial question is should I install it in the default location or some other place. I have access to all the FTX Global, OLC NA and EU plus a number of FSDT sceneries. Once P3D is installed are there any tips or traps in regard to setting all this up or is it as simple as following your nose? Any advice for a totally novice P3D user would be appreciated. Regards Barra

the difference between the following: 1) AUTOGEN_DRAW_DISTANCE (also in the menu settings) 2) LOD_Radius 3) TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP I have seen videos where the autogen goes out very far (even to the horizon). I am just trying to figure out which of these three parameters makes that possible. Thanks for any help with this.

Anyone using it yet ? https://library.avsim.net/search.php?CatID=root&SearchTerm=design+grass&Sort=Added&ScanMode=0&Go=Change+View They now fully compatible with v4 and they have just released it ! I wonder if there's any performance hit with those giant 4096x4096 textures set ? =) LM is still holding to, many generations old, 128x128 textures for grass. Maybe they could make a turn there too. I mean since they already done it with rain and snow effects, this would be much smaller step so I wondering ...how did they missed it ?

Hi guys, I read a lot about which addons may be compatible in the future. I installed V4 yesterday and found that almost no addons are yet ready for V4. So I want to start this to have an overview which addons already work (without copying stuff, fidling around in cfg files etc). So here is my very short list what I installed yesterday into my naked V4: - GSX - FSDT KCLT :-) Best regards, Stefan

Hi guys, I bought FTX Global and installed it. I also have some custom scenery. Unfortunately my Eindhoven freeware scenery does not show up properly. I get double airports when inside P3D V4. So one airport is overlapping another one and also the placements are mismatched (airliners standing in the terminal etc.). I tried to change load order in scenery library. Testing is getting annoying because of the CTD's that occur when making changes to the scenery library. Any help on this issue possible? Thanks. Peter

I've been waiting to complete world coverage with vector and land class for quite some time, or at least that I can add a decent Africa, next to Europe and America, but it doesnt look like either FTX, nor UTX will come this far anytime soon. And besides that, both promise accurate water features, but the water ways around Schiphol, my home base for the bigger aircraft, are absolutely awful and totally unrealistic. They run crisscross through everything, while those are actually man made to run in between the fields. What other options are there for P3D v3/4 vector and land class, that do cover the whole world (Or at least add a decent Africa, next to Europe and America) a…

If you want an excellent VR experience with P3DV4 - here is a starting point: 1) Download the BlueSky photoreal scenery for the Grand Canyon - not necessarily all of it http://www.blueskyscenery.com/AZ.html 2) Use the Alabeo Extra 300 and fly down just above the Colorado - FPS single monitor >190 and locked at 90 in VR 3) Graphic settings - mostly standard except: - 8XMSAA, No FXAA, Aniso = 8X, LOD = MAX, Water Detail = LOW, No Reflections, HDR = off, No dynamic Refl/Lighting 4) Shadows = LOW, Clouds = minimal, no traffic , Vsync = off, Target Frame rate = unlimited 5) Use Oculus Tray Tool by ApollyonVR http://bit.ly/2s0vsDS to set Pixel Density = 1.5 …

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I know almost every post on the forum is about version 4, but I think there are probably 3 or 4 of us left that are still flying 3.4 Anyway, I decided to get a new GPU for my 3-4 year old PC that has i5 CPu at 3.1 Ghz, to replace a GTX 750 Ti that is a couple of years old. I bought a GTX 1060 6 GB card, and installed it last weekend. Right now I am flying a Cera Sim helicopter, an AS 365 over the Orbx FTX Northern Rockies Region, which looks superb, at about 1500 AGL, with most sliders cranked to the right , and I am looking at FPS of around 75-80. To say I am a happy camper, is an understatement. BTW, this is with AS16, soft clouds, GTN 650 x 2, UTX USA and Cana…

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Hi, can anybody tell me if there is a Pilots Mesh forum? Cant seem to find one on there website or maybe just cant see it. Cheers Rod

I figured this would interest a lot of people since I see threads all the time over at the major developers boards practically begging for a PDX. Ask and ye shall receive. http://flightbeam.net/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=2479

I have P3D v3 installed and FSX. I would like to copy FSX over to a second drive. Then delete FSX from the first drive. I'm not uninstalling FSX just moving it to make room on the first drive for P3D v4. This way I could copy FSX back to the original drive. If I wanted to at a later date. Which I doubt I would do. Thanks to all who reply Bill McCracken

I've found that when using ORBX SCA region in P3DV4 with FSDT airports we still must do the compatibility fixes found in the ORBX forums to KLAX, KLAS etc. The problem is that if you should happen to run the FSDT live update program it will undo all your compatibility fixes and go ahead and overwrite everything. Found this out after I had to run that Live Update to fix another compatibility problem that was going on with Couatl and Aerosoft Twin Otter. I don't think i will be running that live update anymore unless I'm impacted by a glitch or bug.

In previous versions, it became a ritual to regularly delete the contents of C:\Users\(name)\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v4\Shaders. Do we still need to do that in V4?

Microstutters, a common problem in p3d but are there any in V4. I liked to hear what you seen so far. I'am tired of microstutters and hate it. So hope they fixed it

Anyone else seing this? Running 2 x titan sc 6gb each un sli I7 4790k Ssd x2 16gb ram

Hello Everyone, I made a clean install of Prepar3d v4 and experiencing some strange low quality zig-zag squares at the edge of the horizon. I have LOD Radius set to max. This problem did not occur in v3. These start to be visible at about FL320-FL380. Thank you for any tips! Image Example: (click for bigger version)

Turbulent and Russ White appear to have a winner here and its V4 ready at time of release https://www.turbulentdesigns.co.uk/product/kmbs/

Has anyone heard anything about Carenado updating any of their aircraft for v4? Russ

Hi everyone, Can someone explain the difference between Envtex and PTA. Are they the same thing? and which one would you recommended for P3Dv4. PS. I've been looking at Envtex SP1 Beta and the new PTA that's only just released

Hello all. i have a very end pc with GPU nvidia GeForce GTX 1070 . I have connected two Acer monitors 27 inches each at 1920x1080p resolution plus a 4K 49 inches tv as my main monitor. Please is anyone CAN HELP ME? What resolution shall I set up my tv to get the most of it and what resolution in the P3D V4 options? Why it looks for some objects in the Sim shaking? Is it something to do with incorrect settings? Thank you in advance