The Prepar3d Forum

I have just built a brand new computer from scratch and now I am trying to use FSX Steam Edition with ORBX because my boxed version of FSX won't install for some reason. And I have already attempted to install my FSX Boxed edition, and realizing it didn't work, I just uninstalled it from my computer. And I tried running the FTX Global installer but it asked me to insert disk #1, and I thought it meant to insert disk #1 of the FSX Boxed edition, so I inserted disk #1 and sure enough, nothing happened that would work, So then what I did was I tried to do a thorough uninstall of every FSX file I had, FSX Boxed and FSX Steam Edition, then I ran 3 different registry cleaners (…

Hi, so I was flying around in the NG and was approaching Tampa. While I was probably 5 miles out I realized the textures of my scenery were dark and I could not see anything right away till about 4 seconds later till they loaded up. Anyone know how to fix? Was getting 60 frames Dillon Lifrieri

Hello all. I have the LatinVFR KSAN, really great scenery. But at night the airport really falls dead. I dont have the blue side taxilights glowing or the green centerline lights at all the intersections of the runway. I do have the default runway lights and some default p3d blue lights that are out of position on the north side of the airfield. What ive noticed is if i go to ground level in slew mode where the runway begins, i can barely see the correct lights for the airport. But if i gain altitude they slowly sink in to the ground and disappear. Can it possibly be a elevation issue? Anyone else that suffers from the same issue? Cheers

Does anyone know if there's a modern up to date application that I can record my flights with? I'd like to be able to watch my landings back from different angles, but the P3D recorder doesn't include any of my 737NGX flap and spoiler settings etc... Thanks...

I'm so eager to send FSX to retirement, and I want SO BADLY to switch to P3D v3.1, I can't help myself! Not because FSX is bad or not behaving as it should or similiar, it's just OLD and simply is screaming for retirement, aaaand I purchased P3D v3 like the first day it is released, couldn't hold my horses. Now I want to see my money properly invested! I installed v3 two months ago just to test it, and was amazed how good it is, how smooth, and performance was superb with my GTX 960 2gb, didn't expected that! Then I uninstalled it after few days of testing due to low hard disk space and went back to good old FSX. Now, I have so many questions about v3, addons comp…

Hi, in my p3d v3.1, the lights look like a candle threw up on the roads. The lights look very smudged. Using Orbx vector global. HDR is on in game Dillon Lifrieri

Hi all, I've just bought P3D to try it out and wanted to ask a few questions. I've been using FSX:SE of late and it's been great. Love the fact that SE doesn't really need any CFG tweaks. I heard somewhere that P3D does still need tweaks (affinity mask for instance) - Is this correct for version 3.1? I'd prefer not to need to add anything into the CFG files if I can help it, but would appreciate some help either way. Many thanks,

It looks like I may have to reinstall P3D... Is there an optimal way to do this, without losing addons? Should I first backup, for example, the SimObjects folder and scenery.cfg? Thanks for any suggestions, Mark

Hi Guys: Quick question been a long time since running 2 monitors - I want one for P3D and the other for atc program with moving map (pilot2atc demo V1) - got most of it working well but my question is anyway of getting rid of the small P3D menu bar above not to show - when I hit alt +enter P3D minimizes to desktop instead of going full screen - thank you

Good day to all. I'm rather new to flight simulators, but have really been enjoying my Prepar3d v.3.1 running on Win 10. I thought it would be be really cool if I could fly over actual Google Maps images and terrain, truly mimicking the real-world, or at least as close as possible. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Giorgio

As above. Will they ever sort out the view shifting within P3D? I love flying into Flytampa Hong Kong Kai tak and flytampa Dubai. But its so frustrating that whenever you turn your aircraft your viewpoint shifts to the left or right and you have to keep moving the ezdok camera around. Does anyone know of a fix?! this drives me mad.

Hi All, Been working through setting up P3D v2.4 on my system and one thing I'm noticing pretty frequently is the cloud formations in P3D when using ActiveSky NEXT for P3d and REX4 themes are presented very differently than what I've seen in FSX. Here are a couple of shots to show what I mean. Take note of the clouds in the upper right hand side of the screen shot. This is one of the more frequent views I see when flying. It looks like it's the same cloud texture repeated over and over with no other variation presented. Here are my system specs: Intel i7-4930K 3.40ghZ OC'd to 4.5Ghz 16GB Corsair Dominator GT DDR3 2133MHz CL9 Quad Channel Ki…

About two weeks ago, with no changes that I'm aware of, I started getting stuttering like I've never had before. The stutters are characterized by brief pauses occurring every second or so, whenever scenery is being panned across my view. I can pan the scenery by moving my view itself (VC or exterior), of fixing my view and turning the aircraft to the left or right, up or down or rolling side to side and those all induce stutters.Occurs with even the simple aircraft. My system: Sim: W7 Pro 64; FSX 'Gold'; P3D 3.1; TP; FSUIPC (free); Saitek X-55 'Rhino' HOTAS; Saitek Pro Flight pedals; Track IR 5 System: I5-3570K 4.3 GHz 8GB 1866HMz RAM; MB: Gigabyte Z77X-D3H; GTX 980…

Hello I have v3 running pretty well on my system( i7 4770k @4ghz and GTX 970) and so far have not upgraded to 3.1, are there any performance benefits to upgrading or should i just stay with v3 for now?, the whole install process for FSX boxed was more than enough for me and hope the upgrade process is easier for p3d many thanks Daz

Hi all: I have searched google and on avsim and everyplace I can think of, until I am blind from reading, and so far no solution to my problem. I am seeing a massive lockup/stutter while flying which I cannot seem to find a cause for. I will show 50-75 FPS on unlimited (depending on terrain) and then I will get a jerk(screen stop) and show a minimum frame of 5FPS. This happens around every 30-45 seconds. Sometimes it will drop to 11 fps or 15fps or usually into single digits. Straight and level flying it happens, and view panning, or turns or loading of scenery seems to make no difference. I recently built a new system, about 3 weeks ago. I swear I did not have this …

I already have FSDT's KLAX, but would love to complete the entire Souther California region. I know there's also 29palm's KTNP and FSDT's KLAS, what other high quality payware airports can you guys recommend that will work in this region that's supported in P3D 3.1?

Today, P3D fails to open with (occasionally) an error message referring to a .pnl file. Yesterday it opened normally. I have tried deleting these files, as recommended on this forum, but to no avail. I have also looked for any logs of errors but couldn't find any. Any ideas? Apart from a re-installation? Mark

Just wondering if any P3d pilots have had any success with the F35 that comes with P3d? I can not get any of the auto pilot functions to work. Some may say, why bother with AP that comes with a built in aircraft? Well, the India foxtrot echo is now available as payware at £20. This version purports to have fully implemented systems. I wonder if the auto pilot works? Finally, the payware sim needs the Tacpack in order to provide "full functionality". Unfortunately the Tacpack is not supported by P3dv3! So I am left wondering if the aircraft is worth purchasing? Certainly the terrain radar, HMS and Thermal imaging displays look intriguing, at first sight. …

I have the MD-11 for FSX. Has anyone installed it in P3D v3.1? I have the migration tool but have not tried it yet.

Hi All, I know that you must, or I assume you must have Global installed, but will these airports display properly with their appropriate ORBX regions ? Thanks Bob

Trying to help out a friend. He installed Friday Harbor and now Squamish is missing buildings, grasses, runway textures. Does anyone else have Friday Harbor and Squamish without losing the buildings?

Because Meigs isn't a real world airport (although beautifully done by the ORBX team), it's pretty much useless for those of us who use any flight planning tools or ATC vectoring. Navigraph doesn't have any departure/arrival information for it and tools such as FSBuild or Simbrief can't flight plan because the airport is no longer around. For those of you who have this airport, what are you doing to overcome these obstacles?

In the moment of my weakness i jumped to P3D 3.1 But from the beginning. I set brand new Win7/64 installation first. I installed P3D 3.1.2.15831 and then ORBX Global / Vector / REX Texture / ASN / REX Soft Clouds / FlyTampa Vienna and the rest of those. My GTX760 is supported by latest NVIDIA driver 361.75 WHQL. Apart of PFPX, Adobe and Auslogic Defrag my Win7 is free from other software. I start up P3D on default airport with default Mooney. During first circles around airport i already have noticed stutters. Initially i was thinking that my settings were too high. I started to change graphic settings, from very low to very high. Regardless of settings st…

I am using Taburet Night 3D products for different countries like GCC, Greece, Oceania etc. in my home cockpit. This cockpit is based on three computers driving three monitors for independent outside scenery views with P3Dv3.1 through wideview program. I have installed Night 3D after upgradation to P3D v3.1 in December 2015 and Night 3D lights were working excellent in P3D v3.1 on all the three computers / monitors uptill two days ago.Recently, I have started to face an issue in which colour of Taburet lights on my Centre monitor screen is OK. However, the colour on right and left side monitor is yellowish which is different from original Taburet colour configuration. Al…

The update has been released, but the ReadMe is very vague. I was able to successfully register the module itself and I see it in P3D in-flight menue but I don't understand where I'n supposed to put the content of the update itself. One of the folders called "Simconnect. Does it mean that I have to add the elements into simobjects.cfg manually as well. Anyway, good straight-forward clarification would be much welcomed as well as direction to the proper support community, Thanks