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Hi I installed the new orbx libs files last night but my scenery has gone like this ? http://imgur.com/NbBzwEW I'm on P3D V3.2 Thanks

Guys and Gal`s just a heads up, Orbx have just released the long awaited unified lc lookup update for FTX products, no more switching areas and regions now, just fly. see thread below for full details. http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/115958-orbxlibs-160528/

So I haven't checked and upgraded for awhile and found that my FTX Central version 1 was updated along with other North America and Australia regions I have. Their forum support site does nothing but throw 500 errors, so no access there. The hard drive on my system failed last fall so I had to reinstall everything and patched and upgraded with everything I could find. Here's the issue I'm having, when loading 1S2 Darrington Municipal, the taxiways and runway elevation is messed up. Like about 20' feet below the surface. So I am running FTX Central v2, I applied the region, did some basic checks, where do I look/go to fix this? Thanks for the help in advance…

I just did a flight with V3.3, San Juan by Latin VFR to St. Maarten Fly Tampa with a Captainsim 737, will try Aerosoft A320 later. VAS was fine, just like 3.2 ASN and REX Texture direct provided thick rainy clouds and I had no FPS loss like before, even though I am still using NVI with 4xSGSSA. I noticed slight texture problems with SJU, they can be easily fixed by the developer and TNCM was perfect. I installed client, then content and then scenery, in steps updating as I went, FTX Global, Vector, the works. I think 3.3 is slightly smoother, the cloud situation better and perhaps other things under the hood I am not aware of, but it all works. i7 4770 oc to 4.4 980ti…

I am using most of the ORBX airports in P3D 3.2 (only the ones with a dedicated installer), and they look great with much better in performance compared to FSX. However, I noticed that the grass/ground textures are very burry at the airports, while the runways and taxiways are crisp. Beside that, I have to issue at all with blurries, everything works just fine. Not a big deal for me...but I wonder if anyone does experience the same?

Looking for a good in depth twin piston aircraft that's p3dv3 ready? Have my eye on Milviz Baron 55.

Since I upgraded to 3.3 if tesselation is on my ground textures are gone. I have autogen but no ground textures. Also, some of my clouds are now black! I tried reinstalling Client and content. No joy. Anyone?

Absolutely adore Plan-G but it's really dependent on having a spare monitor to display itself on and fly in Windowed mode to interact with properly.. Or a second PC to run it on via simconnect/FSUIPC. I own Gmap and fly with it regularly on my Nexus 10 but the interface is clunky at best.. Has anything better come along yet for tablet interface to work along side FSX/P3D? I'd pay good money for something like Plan-G on a tablet..

Hello all, anyone come across a problem such as this? When I load P3D, I can successfully select the hotkeys for GSX and Active Sky but if I reload an aircraft, ANY aircraft (without even changing locations) , the two menus do not appear. I can get ATC and ProATCx to show up but not GSX and ASN. I tried reinstalling simconnect as well as the P3D client but to no avail. I even deleted all my profiles and recreated a new one but the same thing happens. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated (especially now that you can contact ground services in flight with GSX's new update!)

Thinking of jumping ship from FSX to P3d and i have a couple of questions I would like to ask: In FSX some airports have the runway number incorrect, mostly off by one digit. For example, LTBA has runway 23 in real life, has runway 23 in PMDG 737 but is 24 in FSX and is not right messing up my flight which is mostly with PMDG 737. Have airports been revised and fixed in P3D? FSX has a notorious bug where text disappears when asked a question from ATC and you cannot reply unless you do the "way around" which is to change frequency and change it again, has this nonsense been fixed in P3D? Thank you

So doing my first night flight with P3D. Problem is, it seems way too dark overflying cities from high up altitudes typical of commercial flight. I remember FSX it was much more bright. I have been researching and have read that if you have FTX Global installed it will cause the night to not really have any luminescence to the tiles. I have FTX Global and Vector. My HDR is on with the settings of .85/.95/.85. When getting down low the vector lights are good but would like the whole scene of light from cities to be much brighter. I read that the default P3D tiles are brighter but don't really want to give up FTX Global. Any recommendations to get a better luminescence from…

Folks, This isn't a major issue but when I start FTX Central it asks me to select a simulator: P3D V1 or V3. As far as I know, I only have P3D V3 installed (V1 was uninstalled a long time back and I think I've done a full rebuild since then). I suspect that I have inadvertently installed one of my old FTX sceneries in the V1 format (i.e. before the quad installers) but can't figure out how to find out which one it is. If I run FTX Central for V1 of P3D it shows many of my (I believe) V3 sceneries. This isn't stopping me doing anything and doesn't appear to be creating any conflicts. The only real reason for looking into it is that my P3D SSD drive is getting rathe…

Has anyone played around with this setting (from the P3d V3 tuning guide)? [PANELS] PANEL_MAX_UPDATE_PER_FRAME = 1 Non-Default entry. This entry will not exist in your Prepar3D.cfg file by default and must be added to the file. Performance Tuning Tip: If 1, panels update no more than once a frame even if FPS drops below 18. This should not change the end result displayed unless update scripts rely on the 18hz timing to do stepwise simulation in a gauge script. If 0 (default), update will get called more than once per frame if application framerate is lower than 18.

Hi, Wondering whether anyone else has noticed this: I've been aware of this for a few days now and just assumed it would correct itself, but it hasn't. Any thoughts or solutions? Mike

So i've been toying with the idea of biting the bullet and forgetting all about FSX in favour of P3D. However I have 1 concern. I wouldn't necessarily call it a deal breaker, but I noticed that a lot of my Aerosoft airports are not compatible with version 3, and some aren't compatible with P3D at all. However, the ones that aren't compatible with version 3 will work with version 2. Now, I'm fully aware that this is probably a stupid question, but is there any merit in purchasing version 2 purely for this reason? Or would that just be crazy stupid? I'm fairly sure my other addons (aerosoft airbus A32x, FSUIPC, Active Sky Next, GSX, Orbx Global Base, Orbx Global Vector,…

is there a fix for this. In the middle of a complete reinstall of 3.3 i mistakenly installed Reshader.to then find out it's not compatible. is the a way to fix the clouds.i've tried reinstalling them from REX 4 . also have tried reinstalling my backups,thats not working either.could have made a mistake and only saved them from 3.2(grrr) too be honest reinstalling P3d has become a major headache ,i always do a full reinstall as it doesn't seem to work properly otherwise. any help appreciated steve

Eddok for P3d has been working well, however in the PMDG NGX cockpit the main camera is too low, so that the control is in the way of the of the artifical horison. Also when flairing on landing, I can not see too well out of the window. Why won't NUM2 to work? Is there another way to edit the camera? Or is there another camera for the PIC of this AC, a taller pilot, who can see out the front? Many thanks Jools

IF we are landing on high altitude airports, does the sim aircraft behave differently than landing at sea level? Does out landing require a longer runway for takeoff and landing like in real life? IS this an attribute of the sim or is it an attribute that needs to be coded in the add on aircraft? if so which addon aircraft take this into account? Real air? PMDG? Which airport and which aircraft demonstrates this categorically? Any ideas? Thanks

Hello, After many many months of research, I finally decided to change from FSX to P3d. I bought it yesterday the Academic license of P3D V3.2. I just finished downloading and installing. It seems that this isn't as user friendly as FSX to me. First of all, I couldn't find where the Settings are. When I load the game, it always shows Scenario Setup. I cannot find the settings. To go to settings, I always have to start the game and then go to Settings. Secondly, I installed FlyTampa Dubai. It completed the installing but then got a message saying Unable to add it to scenery and to add it through the game or something which I have no idea how. Third, I tried in…

I am having problem with SCA sceneries. I wish I didn't installed. How can I uninstall SCA. No help from ORBX forum. Thanks

I recently installed ORBX Ireland. While the ORBX airports are far superior to the FSX defaults I now find on an autoland with the GS and LOC intercepted and both highlighted in pink, I land on the grass about 20 feet to left of runaway. I have run makreunways

Hello everyone, I have been looking for a way to get a tower view in P3D while controlling on Vatsim, could anyone talk me through how to do it? I have googled it but didn't find anything updated and useful. Thanks!

Hi all, As you're no doubt aware, there's two new 64 bit sims out - Dovetail's Flight School and version 2 of Aerofly's flight simulator. Because I like new stuff, I bought them both today so I could see what was better and what was lacking when compared to my beloved Prepar3D v3.2 I also re-installed X-plane and bought the v2 of DCS World with the NTTR map. Obviously, for many of us these programs aren't going to replace P3D any time soon. I'm normally flying with Prosim/cockpit, and I don't think my hardware is going to be supported by Flight School any time soon. But I do think it's worthwhile thinking about the difference in the engines, as it gives …

Hi I currently have a I5 4670k running at 3.4gh and a GTX 760 GPU . I'm looking at buying either a GTX 1070 or I7 6700K at 4.3gh. What would be more beneficial to buy for P3D the GTX 1070 or the i7 processor. Obviously I know the I5 can be overclocked as it's the K version that I have but to my demise it has seemed to Blue Screen my pc whenever I overclock but ah well, Thanks Happy Simming !