The Prepar3d Forum

Anyone? DIRECTX.EXE remains loaded in the background but nothing happens after hours and hours... The green progress bar just keeps midrange and don't go anywhere from there. Thanks!

Basically, I put in DAL for the Flight, and it "GRG L" for the Callsign. It also spaces DAL very weird, as you can see here. My question(s) are first, what is the difference with Flight and Callsign, and second, why is it putting the "GRG L" in the callsign? Regards, Grant

Is there a specific method on when to hit the loc/app button on a boeing 737/777/747 and airbus a318-a330 to capture the localizer and glideslope on an ILS runway? Do you do it at the IAF/IAP or FAP/FAF? and do you intercept it at an angle or can you still capture it if you're goig straight towards it?

I have a question for those who are using P3D with AS16. I'm confused about the "disable default haze layer" setting in AS16. If I turn that off, do I also need to disable 'Volumetric Fog' setting in P3D as well? My AS16 'disable default haze layer" was on by default, but after I unchecked it, I cannot seem to re-enable it anymore... not sure why. Can you guys try unchecking 'disable default haze layer' in your AS16 and see if you can re-enable it again after?

I was just doing some random testing.. i've had this happen twice now, in two different regions. Im on 3.4.9 + win 10 x64.. Testing in the NYCX area in a simple p92 aircraft.. loaded the flight and began.. 30 seconds later.. "your computer has run out of available memory" I look at the title bar at this point, i see the IPC:024C s32 shows 93,360.. how can this be possible? Does it run out of memory then report back a different number after the OOM occurs.. in other words, does it suddenly reduce once that box appears? i would have expected a value close to 4GB but now this has happened twice. I'm using an LOD of 4.5-5.5 nothing fancy here either. …

Running windows 10 x64 + p3d 3.4.9 + latest simstarter ng.. I'm using ForceVRMode = 1 (flyinsidefsx setting) to make it so when launching saved flights from the desktop, it goes into flyinside vr mode automatically and loads the saved flight. WIth simstarterNG if i pick the saved flight from the picklist and launch profile, it just loads the "default" saved flight, not the one from the picklist.. Anyone know of a workaround to this? I've tried making flyinside's exe be the exe that launches instead of prepar3d.exe but that also did not help. Thanks

All, Wondering if you have come across a tool that allows you to move from photoscenery to autogen as we get closer to our landing elevation. Thinking it would be cool to have this capability in our sim. Tim

Curious for anyone using Flyinsidefsx with the rift (or vive) and p3d 3.4.9.. I'm finding the seated position is not always quite right and i need to move the position of the pilot forward and/or up/down, using the keyboard commands.. which works ok.. But how do i make it so that anytime i enter the same cockpit the settings are saved.. i've forgotten where/how this is done.. i think it may require manually editing settings files and knowing the exact values though? Anyone have any input thanks

Folks I've toiled with FS9, FSX and P3D for sometime now and I've come to the conclusion awhile back that 3rd party developers are pushing the limits of these aforementioned sims to much. The rush to 4096 has it's ill effects when ran in a 32bit arena. If developers focused on 1024 textures (such as VRS Superbug) scenery and aircraft would look as good and run without issues with respect to VAS. Again it comes down to good programmers to make 1024 textures beautiful. Even Rob alluded to the source of the problem when he stated the following..."LM can't replicate any VAS issues in their base no add-on setup, neither can I replicate any VAS issues on a base install. It…

Just wondering if someone was able to successfully run these two in P3D v3.0? Thanks Dmitriy

It is here: http://www.dwvac.com/index.html Having broken my neck I cannot sit long enough to get into systems and checklists, etc, bu the time I get an aircraft started by the numbers I am hurting too much to continue. Its the same with ATC, SOP's, etc. When I sit at the sim I need to start flying, and this might be the way to go for me. I only want to fly, while I physically can manage my pain, and having a virtual co-pilot to fulfill a few basic commands such as set flaps, gear, etc would be nice. Please let me know what you think.

Apologies if this one might be obvious to most.. but i'd like to create a flight path (at altitude already) for a bit of benchmarking and comparisons between addons.. aside from using strictly the fsxmark07 saved flight which goes on a predetermined route.. What would be the easiest way to create such a route at any given region for any plane.. I have several planes including the legacy, a2a 172 etc, not sure if that might be a deciding factor based on their built in GPS/Autopilot abilities.. So i guess i'm wondering if there is a tool that would do this (3rd party) or just the base p3d install would have the ability? (drag and click and save, set altitude and spe…

I have UTX 2.x USA installed and placed higher in the scenery than FTX Vector.. this on p3d v3.4.9.. (GEX for textures) I've read before i should be able to do this, have UTX above FTX vector and blend together.. but i'm finding in practice it doesnt look right in areas.. for instance.. in one case where a road normally doesnt exist.. having UTX roads on, causes a road to appear.. uncheck UTX in the scenery library in general.. leaving just vector on, that road is gone and looks closer to the satellite photo.. Is there maybe something else wrong here, or just how it sometimes ends up.. if so.. i think i'd just disable the "vector"/road portion of UTX so that only vec…

Hello guys, I had Flightbeam Scenery Addon Purchased but when i try to click the download links for scenery my IDM internet Download manager prompt me to Provide username and password of media-fire , its all products of FSDREAMTEM AND FLIGHTBEAM same issue, i really dont understand what will be the password of that which they havent provide, please help me Best Regards

I recently purchased ORBX LDDU (I own most of their products). After installing 1.00 and updating to 1.10 I started FSX and selected LDDU as start-up airport, but the sim 'hangs' at 74%; only at this airport, it doesn't have this behaviour when I deactivate LDDU in scenery.cfg (then I get the default scenery of course). I was using FTX Central 2 (after migration), FTX Global, OpenLC Europe, Vector; all updated, including the ORBX libraries. Re-running the migration tool didn't help. After a lot of trial-and-error, I found out that FSX will start at LDDU when I deactivate FSX/ORBX/FTX_OLC/OLC_EU7; the airport looks great, but I lose the nice textures... Just to be …

Good day, I´d like to install my P3D-Addons now. The following addons I´ve bought: Now my question: What do you think - AS16 + ASCA only or AS16 + ASCA + REX4? And... might it beeing a good idea buying Ground Environment X? Is it possible to run GEX + ORBX FTX Global + Europe or is it better to run only one of them and if, which one do you think is the better choise? In which order am I have to install the listed above addons? Thank you very much first and always happy landings.

Hi Guys, I've recently bought a few new addon scenery's Frankfurt, Dubrovnik and a few others, I only then noticed that the airport lighting at night doesn't interact with your aircraft in any way. Even though your at the gate with 3 fully light flood lights surrounding you, your aircraft remains permanently in the dark. Of-course this is because the addon airport is pretty much a collection of static meshes which don't create any light to actually hit your aircraft. Would it be possible to bridge the gap and link the gate flood lights and your aircraft, someone must have noticed this?

I recently came back to P3D and for the heck of it "upgraded" to V 3.4 from V 2.5, which I hadn't touched for almost a year. Noticed two issues: "shimmering" of the some of the cockpit objects and well as a general blurriness to the VC panel. I fixed the shimmering with using 4 X SGSS from the Nvidia Inspector app, but everything still looks blurry, or out of focus. Cannot read any of the text on the panels or GPS. Trying to search for a work around but it was confusing, since many people refer to the shimmering or tearing artifact as "blurring". I found a post about changing the textures to mipmaps, but the application (DXTBmp)was not straight forward and I aband…

Good evening together, I have become a new computer last week (i7 6700k overcl. 4,4 GHz, GTX 1070 Palit Gamerock, 16 GB DDR4 RAM (PC-2666 overcl.). On Friday I´ve bought P3D and some addons (ASCA, AS16, REX4 Texture Direct / Soft Clouds, ORBX Global Base, ORBX openLC Europe, ORBX Trees HD, PMDG 737NGX, Aerosoft & ORBX Airports, Night Environment Germany, Ground Services). I´ve tried everything to become the best settings but nothing works like I wish. When I start a flight, the textures loading about the half of the display and the rest is blurry. I dont know where I can fix that. I found this video: His textures are very nice and there is nothing like …

Hello, what do you think is the better way: Installing P3D with all my addons I like to use and after that configure and setup everything or is it better to single install P3D without any addons, configure and setup the P3D that its smooth and than installing the addons? Sorry for my posts but I feel very helpless at the moment. Greetings

Hi guys. I am writing because in recent time I've noticed that texutre loading got lot worse than it was before. About a month ago I uptated to version 3.4 (everything but scenery). Not sure if that is the reason, but I've just spotted this horrible loading of autogen and it is really painful over big cities... My specs are i7 4790k @4.7 and nvidia gtx980... Drivers are updated.. What could be the trick? Down is link to video... check it out, watch till the end (settings can be seen). Thanks for assistance... Link: https://youtu.be/oHpL7su6-N8

Wondering about migrating to prepar3d....... I currently use FSX and am wondering if I would run into performance issues if I installed them both on the same machine - or should it be one or the other?

Hi everyone, hope you're all well! I've been using FSX for a long time now but I want to transition to P3D with it being more up-to-date and advanced etc... Compared to FSX, how well does P3D really run with addon aircraft such as the PMDG 737-800 NGX? I also have scenery installed on FSX that I'd love to be able to run in P3D. Ideally I would want the program to run as smoothly as possible, but to also look as good as possible to give the realistic feel when I fly. My current specs are as follows: Intel Core i7 4790K 4.0 Ghz CPU 16GB Corsair Vengeance RAM NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 GPU How well would you say P3D would run on my system? Would it be b…

After a too-long break from civilian sims, my Oculus Rift got me to install P3D V3.4 and FSX PNW 1.80 with the service pack. Overall, looks great. But I was just curious: Despite all the detail, downtown Bellevue (which has many tall buildings) is flat-out missing. And I have two overlapping copies of Husky Stadium. So something seems amiss. 1) SHOULD there be tall buildings in Bellevue instead of just small building autogen? 2) Anyone else seen the duplicated stadium issue? Wondering if something's amiss with my install, or if I need to adjust settings somehow. Thanks in advance! And I'm an idiot... For some reason P3D v3.4 (fresh install) isn't saving…

Hi Just try to install FTX global base and get stuck on unwrapping installer, been waited for 30 min already still stuck with bar remaining to around 80% approx any idea to overcome this issue . its Prepar3d 2.5 without hotfix. i have got around 1tb hd space left and regarding antiviirus i have only malware bytes enabled. Thank you