The Prepar3d Forum

Hi there Has anyone upgraded to W10 64 without any issues to your existing P3D setup? I'm thinking of finally upgrading to W10 based on the positive feedback I have received from various people, but don't particularly want to re-install P3D and all add-ons if things go wrong. P3D is in somewhat of a sweetspot at the moment.

I've been running P3D for a few days with no problems and installed Ultimate Traffic 2 yesterday using information from my computer builder and a video on YouTube. The install worked and I'm no longer alone in the sky. However, in the two flights I've made since the install, I've noticed that neither flight has been recorded in Pilot Records/Logbook. I did delete my first five flights from the logbook after the initial P3D install which recorded fully - unfortunately all ending in crashes because of incorrect controls setup. Now I've got everything running well I would like to record my flight hours etc. but I can't for some reason. Is it possible that whilst inst…

I currently have FTX Global, UTX, and a few airports. I'm just looking for maybe some good regions for North America since that's where I primarily fly or maybe some airports.

I am looking for a plane that is more suited for IFR flights with the GTN 750. I am flying the RealAir Legacy now but it feels a bit odd to fly like that in a plane like this. I also tried the A2A Cherokee but that one feels even more odd. I simply have the feeling these aren't the kind of planes you would use a GTN in and do IFR flights with full procedures. I would like it to be a low wing plane and a fast one too. And, this might be a bit odd, I also would like to have full VC shadow support like in the A2A Cherokee (which is the reason I actually tried that plane with the GTN). And unlike the Legacy in which nothing on the panel gives shadows. Those missing shadows ac…

I just got PMDG 737 and it suggest to install P3D to C: folder. Right now I have it installed in the default x86 folder. Is it worth it to reinstall P3D v3.1 to a C: folder?

Hi. I'm just starting to install several ORBX products for P3D v3. I started with FTX Global 140 and the installation was successful. Then the installer said it was going to install FTX Central. Well, it pops up a warning that says "No simulators found". It mentions having to move things around in the registry which scared me right there. So, anyway, I click on "Okay" and the next screen comes up with: Microsoft FSX (Not Found), P3D v1 (No Found), and P3D v2 (Not Found). Now that is not surprising since I don't have any of those installed on my computer. But, nowhere did it mention anything about P3D v3. The first question is why it can't find P3D v3 and the ne…

Hi I've continued to re-install my Alabeo Cardinal 177 and nothing I do seems to get it to show up inside P3D in the Aircraft list... It appears to be installed correctly...is there perhaps something I need to manually do? Thank you for any tips.

So I have P3Dv3 and would like to install Ezdok camera as it is one of the most important addons I use. I have seen lots of people go through a whole process of installing it by doing some trick with installing it into v2 then moving it over. I do not have v2 installed right now and I don't really feel like installing it just to install one addon. Has anyone come up with a way to get Ezdok working in v3 without having v2 installed?

Hi, I'm definitely getting P3D v3 but I'm wondering if world of AI works with P3D? I've always been satisfied with WoAI and I don't want to pay for My Traffic 6 or something since P3D itself and PMDG 777/NGX are expensive enough...

Hello guys, I bought MegaSceneryEarth Memphis. I want to install it with the manager but I can't because it doesn't detects any simulator... How can I solve it? Thanks! Loïc

With the help of the following post, I was able to set the frame rate limiter in nvidia inspector to 31 fps, results in even more smoothness in my case. As always your expirience could be different. BTW hex code for 31 fps is 1F http://www.overclock.net/t/1368777/how-to-create-custom-fps-limits-in-inspector McDan out

Hey folks. Some time ago I bought Texture Direct and Soft Clouds as seperate downloads. Recently I bought an upgrade and got them merged together. However, I'm not quite sure Soft Clouds is working properly. The clouds doesnt look very realistic to me. They are a bit "pop-corny" if you know what I mean. Cloud layers concist of several popcorns that make up the larger cloud layer, and it is very un-natural looking to me. Using Texture Direct I have only set the clouds to 512 resolution on dtx5. Increasing these variables I havent really seen any difference in cloud realism, however. To be honest I'm not quite sure how Soft Clouds is supposed to work, and how I will notice …

Hello all, I purchased a monitor that can support 30hz about a month ago. It's great, but there is still that "motion blur." The other day, I got a second GTX 980 Ti and have been running SLI. I love it, and the eye candy is totally worth it, plus the performance upgrade in other games. But today, I noticed something odd. This is from Action! The number on the left represents the average FPS, and the number on the right is the FPS at the moment. More on this here https://mirillis.com/en/products/tutorials/action-tutorial-hud-active-desktop-mode.html#top I can't for the life of me get the two numbers to sync up. The odd thing is that my fps are susta…

So textures look fine and clear for me when they are close like less than 2 miles away but as soon as that threshold breaks there is an immediate loss in quality with the textures. Any texture tile that is more than 2 miles away looks very blurry and it's getting very annoying. Is there a way to fix this or do I have to deal with it? Here is a link showing the problem - https://gyazo.com/158762f6591424c5941357d681fd5109 I am currently running P3D V2.5 Also tried tweaks like FiberFrameTimeFraction and Texture Max Load and Affinity mask and none have worked so I have gone back to default cfg. ANY HELP IS GREATLY APPRECIATED!!!!!!!! Also using FTX Global with UTX

In FSX, I could hit a buttons on lets say the NGX CDU quickly and the display would catch up. Now with Prepared, I have to hit a button, wait for the charactor to display and then I am able to hit the next button. For example, I might put in a cost index of 55 clicking 5 and then 5 very quickly. Prepar3D will not pick up the second 5 entry. I havo wait, let it display the first 5 before I can enter the second. Is there a CFG entry for this or is this the way Prepar3d is? Thanks, Brad

Hi guys, First of all thank you for taking your time reading this. Ok so i just purchased the Saitek X52 Pro but i am unable to make it work properly on P3D V3. I have look around everywhere and the little information i had found is only for p3d v2.X. I went into saitek website to download the MFD plugin but it says it is for p3d v2. There is nothing in their forum that mentions P3D v3 at all. Im just wondering if you guys have any work around to install it manually using the P3D v2 installation. Let me mention that i try installing it using the v2 one and the gauge does not show on the Sim to control the MFD. Also it would be nice just to have some directions…

Hi guys, First of all thank you for taking your time reading this. Ok so i just purchased the Saitek X52 Pro but i am unable to make it work properly on P3D V3. I have look around everywhere and the little information i had found is only for p3d v2.X. I went into saitek website to download the MFD plugin but it says it is for p3d v2. There is nothing in their forum that mentions P3D v3 at all. Im just wondering if you guys have any work around to install it manually using the P3D v2 installation. Let me mention that i try installing it using the v2 one and the gauge does not show on the Sim to control the MFD. Also it would be nice just to have some directions…

Hi all, I have just released my New Zealand Autogen package for the entire country. www.nzscenery.co.nz Cheers, NZScenery

I am trying to get the Vpilot Vatsim client running on a client machine. I was able to do this in FSX. What I am not sure about in Prepare3d are the Simconnect installations. I beleive there were three in FSX. I am currently running version 10.0.61259.0 of Simconnect. The weird thing is that the MSI installed an 12Gb FSX application I can see in my uninstall programs list. That is strange? I installed the .msi program from the FSX-SP2-XPACK folder found in the "resist" folder. The FSX program I am seeing might be acceleration. Should I remove it. In the end, I am looking for instructions in how to make simconnect so I can use third party programs running on th…

After downloading FS Global and using winRAR to unzip i get an error report after installation saying one error occured during installation *** 000: CONFIRMTEXT*** === 000: CONFIRMTEXT=== *** 001: FINDDIRECTORY: TargetVariableName=SourceDirectory RootDirectory=%TempDirectory%*** === 001: FINDDIRECTORY: TargetVariableName=SourceDirectory RootDirectory=%TempDirectory%=== *** 002: BEGINCONDITION: VariableName=SourceDirectory, Value=*** === 002: BEGINCONDITION: VariableName=SourceDirectory, Value==== *** 003: DISPLAYMESSAGE: Text=Not all installation files could be found! Please make sure, you have at least 30GB free hard drive space on your drive C:\!*** === 00…

Since I installed P3D (A few weeks ago), I noticed I had 2 CFG files under my Roaming\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D, folder. Today I noticed the one ending in "p3d" is gone, and I'm getting lots of lag and stutters. So I accessed the file that reads CFG (remember the other one with the p3d suffix is no longer there), I set Affinitymask 14, went flying, came back and check the Affinitymask entry and it's- not there. I'm confused. ( and maybe so are you). But, perhaps someone can explain what happened here and how to get back the "Prepar3D.p3d" FYI: I already tried removing the current cfg file, restarted P3D, but again I only see the same old cfg. (I'm describing…

Hi Guys Are there any how to guides for getting simconnect running with P3d V3? I have looked at the froogle video on you tube but this relates to FSX. Additionally i cannot find any MSI files in the SDK folder that i have installed from the P3d site.. any help or directing to the right place for answers would be greatfully received Daz

I'd like to pick up ARMI's Cairo, but it only says it is compatible with FSX. Does it work in P3D as well?

Hi Guys Are there any how to guides for getting simconnect running with P3d V3? I have looked at the froogle video on you tube but this relates to FSX. Additionally i cannot find any MSI files in the SDK folder that i have installed from the P3d site.. any help or directing to the right place for answers would be greatfully received Daz

Just testing MFAA in P3D with the new 361.91 drivers and it now works extremely well (no more artifacts, when viewing clouds through rotors / props for example). Performance is very good as well, even in dense clouds. I'm using 2X DSR (no highfalutin 4K panel yet...) and MFAA on in the NV control panel, with 4X MSAA in P3D (FXAA off). No Nvidia Inspector or SGSS. Hope this helps; post back if you notice an improvement (or not). Cheers. p.s. this AA technique is available on Maxwell cards only unfortunately...