The Prepar3d Forum

I thought I'd give everyone a HU that Pacsim released their SLC scenery and the screenshots look amazing. Since I'm a DL guy I've been waiting for this one for a while. I haven't bought it yet but I will this weekend and give it a test run. If anyone has bought it already please give your thoughts! It sure has been a great month for releases with more to come. http://www.islandsim.com/salt-lake-city-int.html

I've been using FSE:SE for some months with the following specs: i7 4790K (no OC as my MSI H79M-G43 motherboard doesn't allow it), 8GB DDR3 RAM, Sapphire Radeon RX 460 Nitro 4GB, Windows 10 64 bits). Flying with the PMDG 777 at KPHL (Sunskyjet scenary) with reasonable AI traffic (about 16% airline traffic) and foggy weather I get around 25fps during taxi. I use settings that I found to be the best compromise: No lens flare, Texture resolution: 15cm, Water effects: high 2x, Autogen: Very dense. Do you think that moving to P3D with the same hardware would enhance the quality of the sim or help me in getting better performance? Thank your for your feedback! Louis

Hi all, Here is a big issue (according to my minimal knowledge): In a previous installation of P3D v3.4 I have accidentally deleted Venice X (installed using migration tool). When I tried to reinstall it, I got the message: "Venice X is already installed. Please uninstall Venice X before running this installer again". The strange thing is that I had checked my computer and removed every trace of Venice (disks, registry etc.) And this the first part of the problem. Part II: I have decided to uninstall P3D, reinstalled it and - guess what! - trying to install Venice X to the fresh P3D, I got the same message!!!! Any help would be very much appriciated Regards to all, …

Hey guys, So recently purchased a 4K monitor! Just wondering if anyone can give me some advice on how to set it up! When i go into P3D there is a huge drop in frame rate. Does anyone know how to fix this ? So its set to 3840 X 2160 with a HDMI cable, in P3D i have selected the 3840 X 2160 resolution, the sim look fantastic, its just the FPS! Any suggestions ? Graphics card is a GTX1070 ROG Strix 8GB

Captains, I made a post on this a couple months back but I seem to have the problem again and the previous solution does not work. I cannot get my 3D night lighting to work in Orbx. Instead at night I just see the autogen houses slightly illuminate. I have tested many locations around the US and nowhere seems to work. I am using P3D v3.4 (I believe) with the latest release of ORBX FTX Global and FTX Central 2. Other addons I use include Active Sky Next, Rex Soft Clouds and a variety of airport scenery such as FSDT and Taxi2Gate. My PC specs are more than enough to run P3D, I usually get around 50 - 60 fps in cruise: 4790k @ 4.4 ghz GTX 950 SC 2GB 8GB DDR3 RAM…

Hey all, Quick question for all you experts out there. Having a menu problem with GSX in P3D v3.3 and I was told to update both the Client and Content. I have downloaded both from my accoint. So once I uninstall both of these, is there an order to which the updated installers are to be installed? Client then Content or content then client? Also, and if I read he forums correctly, both the client and content are standalone installers and would only need to other larger files if I was updating the scenery? Can someone assist please as I've only ever update the client and the of course the full install from V2 to V3 or when required Thanks in advance p…

Hello I am considering installing P3D, ORBX (global & Vector for Europe files) Active sky, PMDG and FSLABS aircraft on my existing SSD drive. I have 91Gb remainig on my drive wil I have sufficient disk space to install and operate my SSD Drive? At the moment I have FSX SE installed on my SSD drive, can I share the installation of ORBX files with FSX SE and P3D or do they have to be installed within FSX and P3D? Clive Alexander

Something to do with meshes// afcads. Aircraft sinks through the taxiways and runways. Googled around a bit, no other amsterdams installed, scenery library is as flytampa says to be. Something annoying happens everytime I buy a new flytampa scenery, can someone help.

Hi, I am working on a historical scenery and want to get rid of a couple of man made lakes that weren't there in my time frame. I tried to exclude with a standard water poly exclusion but it does not work. Are the lakes or water bodies custom vector objects? The lakes are in the bgl 7525_WTR_waterbodies.bgl. I could put that into a separate scenery folder and activate/deactivate it in the scenery database, but then also a lot of other stuff and a part of the Mekong would be gone. Is there any way I could get rid of the lakes? Cheers, Mark

Hi, I'm looking to upgrade parts of my rig to gain more performance. What is the best thing to upgrade, the processor or graphics card or something else Thanks

In P3D v2.x what are the tools available to change the way street lights are displayed? (I believe it the file Halo.bmp in P3D Texture folder) that is used? I currently have FTX Global Light configurator. I used to use REX for this.. This is what I have for P3D V2.4 and I am not happy with them. I like my FSX Lights. If you look closely, they are tiny and sparkly (thin Star light rays)

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Anyone have any tips on how to make your FSUIPC calibration for elevator and Alirons (i know i spelt that wrong) more accurate with real life. from what i have heard X plane has way better physics and because i have tried the demo its WAAAYYY more sensitive than P3D so is it possible to replicate that via FSUIPC? Thanks!

Hell all, Just installed the SoCal region package, however, I do not see it in the Scenery Library, should I ????? (It doesn't seem like ORBX is loading at all) Tnx Yair

Hello All, I'm currently on P3D v3.4 HF2, and my current GTN750 isn't compatible with it. Is anyone aware of any updates for the GTN to get it properly working in 3.4 HF2? As well as where/how to download it? Cheers,

Hi there, I have been trying to find OMDW scenery files that will work on P3Dv3. I tried the below to packages from Avsim libraries. After following the instructions in both packs, after adding the scenery to the scenery library in P3D I get an error for both where P3D cannot find associated scenery files and asks to either unload the scenery or ignore that error. Filename: omdw_adex.zip License: Freeware, limited distribution Added: 10th June 2013, 13:13:11 Downloads: 2209 Author: Victor Nauta Size: 1163kb Filename: omdw_fsx.zip License: Freeware Added: 22nd May 2015, 10:36:02 Downloads: 571 Author: Menno C. Robert Size: 1325kb If anyone has successfully i…

I have been using FSFK for PA, I even customized different profiles for different airlines. But today it suddenly stops working due to no directx 8 or later installed error. Not sure why it happens but since FSFK does not officially support P3D, I wonder if there is any up-to-date add on does the same thing?

Does anyone else think there should be an updated or a brand new version of Dubai. The Flytampa one is spectacular but its getting out of date as every year Dubai does its 1B$ update (IRL) what do you think?

Heard that you can get another 200MHz out of your overclock in some situations using AVX negative offset in bios. Does anyone know if P3D uses AVX? If not, this might work? Thanks in advance AVX Instruction Core Ratio Negative Offset: This setting reduces CPU core frequencies by the applied value when an AVX workload is run. The thermal output of AVX workloads is an order of magnitude higher than for non-AVX workloads, which is why this setting has been introduced. In theory, we can utilize a higher operating frequency for light-load applications while heavy-load applications that contain AVX code will downclock the processor to help keep core temperatures below t…

Hi all- Has anyone got this to work as a popup in the VC? The GPS appears in the 2D window fine, but no stack in the VC to open the window. Thanks, Mark

Hi All, Whilst messing around in Nvidia Profile Inspector i noticed that even tho i had G-sync to work in windowed mode set in NCP, it was not set in Inspector (showed fullscreen mode only). After correcting and applying the setting in Inspector i was amazed by the change in P3D smoothness especially when taxying around Payware Airports. I also have triple buffering and V-Sync set to on in NCP and in P3D. Kind Regards James

Hi all, I thought I had a problem with my UK2000 larger airports with scenery shading. During my investigations, un installing re installing, moving scenery priorities etc I finally decided to disable all add on sceneries and it would appear the fault is with the default scenery shading as well. Any clues how to fix this please ? https://www.dropbox.com/sh/g0bwvet1s7dj02v/AAAFSWyrTOF1c_nTsZAJAcz9a?dl=0

A new hotfix 3.4.22.19868 is released promising to resolve the SLI problems :smile: You need nvidia driver 378.49 or later !

Started adding default taxi and runway lights. Currently only have LPPT finished. LPPT Lisbon https://goo.gl/xdG2EB Expect Madeira, Faro, Malaga, and Frankfurt soon. Any other you need ask for it bellow, do not expect me to do it, I just might.

I know you can adjust the default eye point forward/backward, up/down, left/right for an aircraft by modifying the eyepoint parameter under the Views section in aircraft.cfg but does someone know if it's also possible to tilt the default eye point? I do all my flying in the NGX and I would like to tilt the default view down a bit to see all of the PFD and NAV displays.