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I need some advice I have a several good monitors on my system and a 980ti card fP3d v3 and v4 My biggest issue is that in the vc when i move the image of the cockpit out a bit .(.ie move back or zoom out) so i can see more of the cockpit the gauges start to get fuzzy. I really need them to be sharp and clear .... When i bring everything close I can generally read them but then i really cant see the balance of the controls. BTW some aircraft are better then others. Im running very high settings in the vc, and have tired everything . I tried this with a 4k monitor and it did not help . it must have to do with the textures that were built for a particular zo…

Hi There Anyone got this working in P3D V4? I cant get MakeRwys to run.

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hey guys I have bought orbx global, orbx vector, orbx newzealand north and south islands and also airports Queenstown, and Milford sound.. and Queenstown has like a wall around the runways like its sunk in the ground. i have tried uninstalling and reinstalling and nothing and Milford sound the ground textures are not looking very good looks like bits are missing not very happy considering the price.. its like all the orbx products dont want to mesh together.. i am not really that experienced with flight sim to make it all work and would of thought orbx would of had a little more support or pointed me in the right direction help would be much appreciated i am running …

I have posted her due to your forum being down, if you could help that would be great. I purchased Aerosoft Twin Otter today for P3D V4 but if I use it at KMEM, KSFO, Couatl fails. I asked at Aerosoft but no joy. couatl v3.2 (build 3823) panic log started on Wed May 31 13:16:44 2017 problem raised by addon <unknown> Traceback (most recent call last): File "couatl\common\__init__.py", line 137, in onSimStart File "couatl\common\collisions.py", line 54, in reloadGeometries File "couatl\common\aircraftData.py", line 1262, in getAircraftData File "couatl\common\aircraftData.py", line 694, in __init__ ValueError: need more than…

The move to 64 bit is thought by many to be the silver bullet when it comes to OOM crashes.. I'm curious if those who know can talk about how the move the 64 bit will affects the following areas Blurries... specifically ground textures like Orbx regions and Global Blurries due to LOD range.. mountains in background often look blurred until you are with specific range. Photoreal... textures and mesh. Will there still be mesh popping and texture blurries. Autogen popping Object texture popping...i.e. Buildings that are black and then their textures come in like in skyscrapers on large city sceneries. FPS... of course I understand that v4…

Has anyone noticed that if you open up the A/C folder in P3D V4 you see the lear45 and the CRJ 700 listed but there is nothing in the vehicle menu to indicate they are there. Anyone know why?? Thanks Nelson

I just got my hands on P3D v4 and went ahead and installed it on the same drive as FSX, which also has Orbx, but I'm running into the problem of installing FTX Global into P3D. FTX Central says I already have it installed and up to date, which is true for FSX but on the same drive (with only 62GB left) I have P3D v4 installed and I can't find the option to install it into P3D's path. I looked at the announcements made by Orbx on doing this, but I already have the latest version of FTX Central and I am unable to select a simulator. Do I uninstall FTX Central and then from there just choose P3D? I can tell that some people are slightly confused by this but everything I've s…

So after alot of hours wasted in testing, switching around graphics settings etc I came to the conclusion 0 improvement = only disadvantages. For normal people at least... Maybe some crazy people who spend 1200 bucks only for the graphics card getting happy, possible but not likely. I did some test flights as some guys know here, with reduced autogen in P3D v4 and still only 20 fps in some cases. I did the same test exact same time and plane (stock King Air) with even more autogen in v3 and voila 35 - 40 fps and zero stuttering, so more or less constant fps. So the same autogen in v4 requires tremendous more power than in v3. 2nd problem is (as you know) 64…

Any observations if we still must be careful using addon aircraft or locations set as our default flight in V4? Is it still recommended to use a standard aircraft at a standard location?

ok heres the deal, because this takes an hour for me to download the full zip, i have resorted to doing single files in the hopes "hopes" of getting the right files. however, for some really weird reason, when i check the md5 hashes on all of these files, i find im getting all the right values at one time, then a couple of different values the next time. i had this same problem i think with rex textures, like 6 GB or something files and it basically came down to pull the lever, lets see how lucky i can get. if i wanted to gamble i would go to the casino or buy some scratch and sniff lottery tickets. im not dumb here i have verified these hash's on all …

We all remember the initial problem of P3D V3.3 in regard of ground layering of sceneries that were done with the SDK2002. Most UK2000 and some Aerosoft GAT airport sceneries were affected: This was then fixed by LM in 3.3.5. Now my question: does V4 support SDK2002 airport sceneries? Cheers, Chris

Hi all, How's the daylight and nightlighting is in P3D4? In 3.4 I used PTA to brighten it up and add effects. Without PTA I'm concerned we're back to the eternal cloudy day. What do you think?

Tried v4 but some things are just not doing it for me. I cannot get it to run well and no matter what settings or how I adjust those sliders mini pauses plague me. I have tried new drivers, all settings from zero to full on, set fps at 30, 20 and such but nothing makes this new version run smooth. I still have v3 so I go back to that and with most settings pegged it runs smooth in the same setting and location that v4 stutters and mini pauses. Also this problem with some devs now charging for their upgrade to v4. I have payed twice for the GTN 750 so far (FSX, P3Dv3) and now just learned they will charge me again for v4. Maybe I am just tired of buying the sa…

Hifi just updated their Facebook- should be out next week The beta is going well, however we do have some relatively serious issues to resolve that have come up, so we are working on that and continuing to test. We'll evaluate our status early next week, make some decisions and post some updates. Thanks again for your patience all!

I have seen the recommended specs that LM have published, but will the present set-up of an i5-4679K o/c'd to 4.2GHz+16Gb DDR3+GTX970 Windows 10 Pro 64, suffice or am I looking for a serious upgrade? If the latter, guess I will wait.

Hi. I have installed FSDT Zurich. With the new Installer for V4. Now i noticed some strange scenery/terrain flickerings/crossing around LSZH. Is there anybody else with the same problem? It looks like a terrain cfg. conflict or something else. ps: the same problem is in LSGG. Kind regards Stefan Mühlemann

I'm trying to pinpoint as to what is causing my sim to crash. Every time I switch to outside > spot view and then use my hat switch to pan around it crashes. And I am noticing it always crashing when the AI planes are loading. So I am thinking it has to do with some of the models? Can anyone perform a test to see if this happens to them as well. Start with any plane, and start at PHNL with Active Runway selected... and then switch your view to "Outside > Spot", and then pan to the right of the plane where you can see the airport terminals and planes. Let me know if this will crash your sim. BTW, I am using the latest FSDT Honolulu Airport as well. Not sure…

I'm running P3D on a 4K display, should this option be on or off?

It works fine in V3.4 Any ideas?

ivap work's, weather works mtl aircraft works tcas works all well

Tried a couple of my Megascenery Earth titles with their associated Nuvecta Landscapes addons, and they work perfectly, near as I can tell. I did not re-install them, but just added them in the scenery library from their location on another drive. Sweet! I also activated some Instant Scenery enhancements created in v3 using objects I created myself in Sketchup, and they work as well. I have not, as of yet, tried activating any other object libraries. I'll report back when I do. Lastly, I activated an AFX airport enhancement that I use in v3 and that works too. I opened AFX and directed it to v4 and it loads stock airports, as well as my modified ones. Seems good…

My 1st crash. Came after increasing level of detail of radius from high to ultra. Everytime I tried to load, prepar3d crashes. So, I deleted cfg file and all is well. Tim Log Name: Application Source: Application Error Date: 6/1/2017 10:34:46 AM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: (100) Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: PietroFamily-PC Description: Faulting application name: Prepar3D.exe, version: 4.0.23.21468, time stamp: 0x59279be2 Faulting module name: ntdll.dll, version: 6.1.7601.23796, time stamp: 0x590296ce Exception code: 0xc0000005 Fault offset: 0x000000000004f2a2 Faulting process id: 0x121c Faulting application star…

Haven't bought V4 yet and was wondering if anyone already using it could clarify a question. Will any existing sceneries which do not contain dll files and photoreal sceneries work in V4? Obviously I'm referring to those sceneries already installed in version 3.4 which could be copied across to the V4 scenery.cfg. Grateful for feddback.

Hi all- I see that AI AC now have little fps hit, on my system anyway. Is there a way to replace the stock models in V4 with say the models that UTLive uses in V3? For what I do, losing all the UTLive overhead and just having new(er) models using the existing built in program would work fine. Cheers, Mark