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Hi all- Does anyone have Palm Springs working in V3/ I went thru the install routine, it found my P3Dv3 installation but no airport appears. Thanks,

With My AI traffic slider set to only 15% in the sim (P3D v3.2) landing at EDDF after a couple hours hop across from EETN saw me struggling to find a parking bay. GSX reported just about every bay as being full. Sure enough, when on the ground, the airport was loaded with AI. Hardly 15%, more like 100%. With this same setting, many other airports I fly in/out of are sparsely populated as I would expect. Is this an Aerosoft thing? Needless to say that on a flight such as that mentioned above, VAS takes a serious beating right at the end approaching Frankfurt because of this.

​I've seen numerous people say they don't use ORBX Vector, but I am wondering what you use instead to provide that functionality or is it even necessary? I use ORBX Global and UTX USA2.0 scenery, some FSDT airports. Since P3D 3.2 and now with the update to 3.3, the scenery and texture after awhile seems to devolve into this blob of non-defined color blotches. I am going to re-install P3D 3.3 fresh and start over. Thanks for any recommendations. Jeff Callender

Prepar3D V 3.3.317556 Released http://www.prepar3d.com/purchased_downloads/

Re: Scenery Problem with bgl airport add-ons Postby Adam Breed » Mon, 06 Jun 2016, 21:06 All, We are working towards a hotfix to resolve this issue. It should be available in the next couple days. Again, we strongly encourage all third parties to continue to update their older scenery to work under Prepar3D's newer designs. While this change was not exactly intentional - it is a result of adding capabilities to support newer functionality. We publicly disclosed that BGL was not going to be supported moving forward (over two years ago - during v2). While BGL still works and we have no intention of disabling it, it is strongly discouraged and at some point shortly …

Hello. I live in Norway (UTC +2 during DST). Right now the time is 10.09 locally. It is 08.09 UTC. If I set my location to ENGM, and press 1. Reset to system time, and 2. tick GMT Time, the time changes first to 10.09 and then to 15.10. I have tried to find the cause in windows regional settings, but I cant find anything. Why isn't P3D v.3.2.3 changing to the correct GMT time? Further more, I wonder how this GMT Time function is meant to work. Is it supposed to translate local time from my PHYSICAL location (where the pc is), or RELATIVE to the airport where I am going to start up the sim?

Hi Everyone, First, I'm new here to AVSIM and glad to be here! Second, it's been over 4 years since I last simmed. As I'm trying to get my sim together, I'm trying to figure out how to get real world weather as I fly VATSIM. I recently bought REX Essentials+ and it is great for downloading RW Wx, however it seems to only be in effect when I launch P3D from the REX app. Is this the case? Also, when I launch P3D from the REX app it seems to change my resolution (not as clear as normal). Has anyone else had this issue? Thanks for any help you can offer! Cheers, (Admins feel free to move this to the appropriate section if this post doesn't belong here)

Hello I recently installed P3D v3 and am slightly confused as a first time user regarding the procedure for installing addons. I was running the following addons before moving from FSX: - REX Weather Architect - REX Texture Direct - MyTraffic 6.0a - FS Global 2010 - Orbx FTX Global As I understand, the official LM stance is that all addons must be installed outside of the main directory for P3D. This was fine for most of my addons, as the content is in directories outside of the P3D folder. However, FTX Global was installed inside the main FSX folder. When I uninstalled then re-ran the installer for FTX, and selected P3D V3, the program created the…

Pretty much what the title says. I've uninstalled and reinstalled, and it still doesn't show, here what it looked like approaching Dubai:

I would like to do a full install of the new ver of P3d is there any way i can save the aircraft folder add drop it into the new install and not have to reload each one ?

Has anyone tried to experiment with this feature? http://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv3/LearningCenter/add-ons/add-on_instructions_for_developers.html Supposedly if an add-on gets installed to: %USERPROFILE%\Documents\Prepar3d v3 Files\add-ons It will show up in the P3d menu that allows enabling and disabling an add-on while P3d is running. Each add-on installed in this manner requires an XML file add-on.xml which is also located in the above folder. More details here: http://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv3/LearningCenter/add-ons/add-on_packages.html This approach seems neat and clean, but I am not aware of a developer who has followed that approach.

Its been a very long time but I am finally getting back into flight sims. I have spent 15+ years flying MSFS but had a gap for the last few years as I did not have a PC capable of running the newer stuff (laptop only!). So I have got myself an i7 6700k @ 4.6ghz and a GTX970. I intend to get one of the new Pascal cards early next year. Downloaded Rex Texture Direct w/ Soft Clouds and ORBX Global. I presume that's the most common set up people are running? I am getting a fairly solid 60fps so quite happy with that. Now looking to get some aircraft, always enjoyed the 737-800 on FSX so would be interested to know which supplier has the best model? …

Hey guys I was wondering if any you could please post a tutorial on how to use dsr in sli? Please As I have use 4xsgss and now have ditched it because I like flying through really dense thunderstorm clouds and it was a no go even with my sli sc Titans Want to use dsr for now until I get a 4 k Wouk have been nice if sgss was incorporated in sim to switch on and off via menu whilst on dense clouds Or if it could possibly do it automatically whilst in dense clouds revert back to default then whilst back to clear sky's it would revert to 4xsgss Lol I dunno throwing my 2 cents in Cheers Mike

Hello every one. Maybe someone can help me. I have P3D ver3.3, Pro/ATC X, Flight1 B200 NightHawk, SunSkyJet KPHL, ASN and ORBIX stuff installed in my sim. I have a Navigraph folder in the main P3D folder. I just installed the latest Navigraph data for May 2016. When I build my database fot Pro/ATC X, The Sid data is not there for the Philadelphia Int. airport. I tried the PROATC forum with no joy. In the Prepared folder :\Program Files (x86)\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v3\Navigraph\NavData\PROC is a list of txt files with airport SID and STAR data in each file. The KPHL.txt file in my install is missing the SID data for the airport. Can someone post a copy of their file here…

Guy's can someone tell me what's going on, the other day the Lclookup downloaded and also the V160528 library's which took a while to sort the sim out along with some wierd blurries and what, I've just fired up the computer and opened FTXC and straight away it started to download an update for FTXC2 as advised by the green bar and there is also an update advising that there's an update for the library's V160321 which is the previous version before the lclookup update, my installed products say's V160528 is installed and now it seems to want to revert backwards, what's going on, have I missed something as I've just tried to logon to the Orbx forums and there down again inc…

Hi guys, I am currently running 3.1 and want to update the client only to 3.3. Here comes the dumb question part...does the 3.3 update include the 3.2 update (in other words, can I go to 3.3 right from 3.1). Thanks, Paul

I seem to be bouncing out of one issue and into another at the moment. This one is more difficult to explain. If my water slider is set On Ultra, my screen will freeze ONLY IF hitting Alt+Enter to change from Full Screen to Windowed view mode. The only option then is to hit escape and exit the sim. The sim is not crashing and I can hear the engines spooling up and down. No error in the Windows crash reports either. In summry: If I set water onto Ultra and do not Alt+Enter, no problem If I set water onto High or lower and I Alt+Enter, no problem If I set water onto Ultra no problem until I hit Alt+Enter - screen gets stuck as if frozen while the sim seems to go …

Hi, Have installed 154B2 and everything is working well, only problem is that KLN90 is not working. I have installed KLN90 ver.0.76B, but P3D cannot connect with that module. Re-installing simconnect did not help. Is there any way to have KLN working in P3D ? If not, any good alternative for KLN ?

It's performance was of major discussion, I know...both VAS and frames, but it was released before P3D3. How's it do in v3? Any improvements?

In the Simulator the night exposure is way to bright, which allows you to perform a VFR flight at night without the needs of the artificial horizon gauge even when you fly over the water (sea) or at dark places such as forests or a desert.... In reality, when flying over the city at night in VFR, all you only see is the street lights and maybe car's headlights on the road or anything that emits light. It is impossible (in the best case scenario) to see the external horizon line and in worse case scenario, mistaking the street lights line as the external horizon line (very dangerous),you for sure do not see the ground/terrain, hence there is a the need to use the artific…

Hello, I have P3DV3.2 and I have JeppFD on my ipad 2, and I want to connect my P3D to JeppFD so I could see my flight from the sim in the jeppFD just like a real flight would be seen on JeppFD. how can I do that? (I have full FSUIPC). THANKS.

I have been waiting...so long...for someone to do a good Santa Barbara... http://www.airdailyx.net/fsnewsbreaker/2016/6/11/orbx-santa-barbara-announced

Well i was fortunate enough to get a GTX 1080 last week but i am not sure its all the bang for the buck. my card is running at 1607 MHz most of the time even with Overclock i played with a few settings just to see how i fair. I took my monitor off 30hz and set it to 60 Hz and locked in vsync to see if the sim would run at 30 FPS with most sliders at max. It did run better then My GTX 1080 with no overclock. but OOM creeped in fast!!! I have gone back to the 30HZ setting on the monitor and adjusted my settings back a bit (removed Vector) and its back to smooth and no OOM. OK rant over questions now Why did i replace the GTX 980 for the 1080 what benefit …

------------------------------------------------------------------- ...as I was exploring more of the sq miles around Bar Harbor, using P3D v3.2.3, it really brought home that this version of P3D, in hindsight, is the last version of P3D, that will run every piece of 3rP scenery, airports, aircraft, etc...that a user has purchased to date. The only version that does not require a hot-fix hack, to hopefully, return the user's library of 3rP to full compatibility. So...we all knew this was going to happen sooner than later, ....that LM would move on from a version that totally was back-compatible with a user's catalog. We all knew it would happen...and with V3.…

After installing - full install - ver 3.35 Everything loads up ok and looks just like it used to in terms of existing addons, etc. However, there is no Autogen. I have the 17625 client installed.