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I'm looking at upgrading to P3Dv4 very soon. I have a $200 voucher which I want to use on buying new hardware and can't decide on whether to get more ram or a SSD drive. My current specs: Win7 64bit 1 terrabyte HDD Gtx1080 gaming g1 I7 6700k oc to 4.6 8gig ddr4 2400 ram 4k monitor refresh rate 30hz My current p3d v3.4 is running smooth on moderate settings, however I still get the occasional micro stutters especially when turning in build up areas. I'm not sure if this is due to texture loading and my current HDD is lagging?? Who knows and I've spent just as much time tweaking the damn thing as flying in an effort to get rid of those mic…

I have a 970 4GB and I'm wondering if it's enough. What do you have and how's it working out?

I am talking about the freeware airport pack from OrbX. Does anyone know if they're compatible with P3D v4?

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All and all things are working pretty well and much smoother with higher settings than in P3Dv3. The install of P3Dv4 went flawlessly and launched just fine and ported over all my keyboard assignment profile. I'm running the latest Nvidia drivers 382.33 and used Nvidia inspector to set Preferred Maximum Performance, Antialiasing to Override Any App Setting, and 4x Sparse Grid Supersampling to matching the 4x setting in P3D graphics settings. I also run Vsync and Triple Buffering with a 30Hz 4k Monitor(TV). So far I have SPAD.next running all my Saitek x-52 controllers and panels just waiting on a LVAR bridge for P3Dv4 (a couple of mapped assignments are not…

All of a sudden when ever I go to choose a plane, there's no thumbnail of it at all. It's completely black. However I am able to choose my plane in the list and everything seems to be loading up properly. Does anyone know how to fix this or know what could be wrong?

Will I be missing out on much if I don't upgrade to windows 10 from windows 7, AND, if I do end up upgrading to windows 10 somewhere down the line, will I have to uninstall my sim as well as add-ons and reinstall? My sim is on a dedicated SSD.

Just curious, seems like P3D, and X-Plane too for that matter would go to photoreal scenery like AeroflyFS2, it has a little ways to go before it gets to P3D & X-Plane sim territory, but the scenery it has looks so much more realistic.

I was using the Rex products below (along with Worldwide Airports and Latitude), switched to XP11 and uninstalled everything. Now, I'm back with v4 and want to get set up again. But, looking at the Rex site, the forums and the new products in development, I'm quite confused. I see Weather Force and Sky Force are coming soon (although that appears to be a relative term). Does anyone know what would be the best plan going forward to approximate what I was using below in v3? REX Essentials+Overdrive REX4 Texture Direct REX Soft Clouds

Hi Beta Testers, I was wondering if I can still keep v3.4 on my system once I install v4. I'd like to keep both and fall back on v3 if aircraft or addon patches take time to roll out. Thanks, John

There is a haze layer it looks like near the ground where all the wheels show up white in v4 Is this a P3D thing or caused by activesky? see not just my wheels also the airport wheels in the background on the truck and baggage carts. It happens at all airports.

Do we have any news regarding installers for ESSA and YMML airports, to make it compatible with v4?

I didn't see a thread like this, if it's a dupe I'm sorry, please lock me! With v4 now getting into the general populace's grubby little hands, I'm interested in what peoples' impressions are. Any thoughts, those of you who have had it for all of 2 hours (or longer, as this thread ages)?

Ever since the announcement of P3D v4 64bit and it finally arriving, now actually using it with all these add-ons that are being updated for it has really rekindle my love for flight simming all over again. I knew that P3D was the right sim for my needs. I keep doubting myself saying that I am going to switch over to X-Plane because I got so fed up with the OOM and constant tweaking and tinkering with config files and what not. I tried to force myself to like X-Plane, but in the end I figured that I was lying to myself when all this time my true feelings had always been there for P3D. Right now I am currently flying A2A's 172 with FTX Global, Active Sky P3D 4, ASCA, Chase…

Hi all- Could anyone recommend a GPS that works in V4 (other than the stock one) that I can use in my XtremeLabs Lear while waiting for the GTN to be updated? Thanks, Mark

Hi Everyone, So I bit the bullet and downloaded, installed and test-flew v4 for a few minutes today. I've also been fiddling with X-plane 11 as of late. I would suggest holding off on moving past v3 until the addons come out, as the performance increase I noticed doesn't offset all of the stuff the default sim lacks. The default scenery is pretty much the same- same airports, same crappy night lighting, horrible colored ground textures...Also, we just learned today that PTA is not going to be updated for v4 either. So, unless developers intervene or someone out there knows how to manipulate shaders we're pretty much stuck with default lighting. Without…

In case you are interested, I just noticed that the magnetic field data update is compatible with P3D v4: Version 8.62 (2-Jun-2017) -------------------------- - Adds P3Dv4 detection and compatibility - Few other minor changes https://www.aero.sors.fr/navaids.html Credits and so many thanks to Hervé Sors !

Tried Narita and Sendai. Both working Rgds

Having noticed that on most if not all the FSDT and Flightbeam airports, that the runway lights doesn't look dynamic to me. Even with the newest Charlotte Airport from FSDT. It looks the same as before with the floating lights above the ground. Why is that? I thought these airports, especially the newest one would support P3D v4's dynamic lighting system?

Hello, almost Every flight im gerting oom errors at my landing and im getting very tired of it. So Will my problem solve if i switch to p3d? And so Yes, what version do you suggest to purchase? A lot of people say v4 BUT im Not Sure what addons i can use already for example the pmdg aircraft, activesky, Orbx and flytampa. thx for the help and advice in advanced.

Hello all, I'm new with p3d and love v4 bit I have a question: I see that I have floating runway, taxi and approach lights. The lights "hang" above the ground. Is this a "normal" thing in p3d? Its a problem with all the airports. Only have ORBX global en EU installed. example: https://ibb.co/mBu8na regards, Mike

Hi all, I am new to P3D. Where is the "Addon scenery" file in P3D? And does it work as in FSX? I want to add some mesh there. Thanks, Christos

If I untick it in scenery library all is fine. Did a reinstall of my traffic, still crashing. jabloomf1230 saw your comments on some a/c from fs9 may be the cause. How can I fix that? Thanks for any help.

I'm using v4 and it's working well. One hitch is that when I view the map and then close it the SIM takes about 30 seconds or more to re start with a progress slider showing re loading scenery. It was almost instant in Fsx. Not a huge deal but odd. John

TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=9 BTW, is there a way to see how much VRAM my GPU is currently using?