The Prepar3d Forum

I am happy with performance in this new platform. My test scenario is KSEA in a Payware plane using generally high settings. Only thing I leave off is cockpit and Autogen shadows. They eat fps. The following shots are locked at 30 most of the time around KSEA in overcast weather with about 15% AI traffic and cars. 4xSSAA (Supersample enabled in the driver and 4xMSAA set in game) Vsync enabled in P3D V2 works Happy about that. Occasional dips to 25 in the extreme overcast weather at Seattle in the Carenado C340II. I truly hope they kill the bugs because my ATI card (7970Ghz 3GB) is eating these clouds for breakfast and the AA is fairly decent and fps are sm…

I'm using the AMD R9 390X. And I can't change the FXAA settings through the RadeonPro or Radeon Software Crimson Edition. The P3D display settings is not suitable for me. I want further changes. I've reinstall the system and P3D finding that is not my hardware wrong. It can change the settings for FSX but once turn to P3D. It fails again. I don't know what's wrong. Or amd is not support the P3D. The only way is buy a Nvdia Cards? And sorry for my poor English.

Hi all- I forgot I had these. I don't see any V3 installers over there but was wondering if anyone has successfully got either/or/both working via migration tool or? Thanks, Mark

Is there a way to get autogen to start appearing from further away? Specifically, I feel that trees should be rendered from further away. buildings are okay to have at the max the in-game settings allow, but trees are almost part of what we would want to see as part of the far-away textures, but auto-gen won't render them further away. I see in the Prepar3d.cfg file in the user folder it has: AUTOGEN_TREE_MAX_DRAW_DISTANCE This defaults to 9500 (is it feet?) and allows you to go as high as 12000 before forcing it back down to 12000. This does seem to make the trees appear sooner than buildings, but not by much. AUTOGEN_TREE_MIN_DISTANCE_TO_LOD=2500.000000…

Hi, I had posted earlier about getting sick of Orbx and figuring out which options I really need. I had considered switching scenery products, but I just don't have have the spare cash to invest in UTX/GEX. So today, after starting with a pretty base FSX installation I ran Orbx Global Vector 100 first. Went fine. I then installed FTX Ireland and it's patch- again no problem. I also own FTX England and Scotland. As I am still very much learning the solid basics, and I like low-level flying, I fly GA aircraft exclusively and Ireland certainly looked amazing with Global base or the Land Classes. It's never stated outright (I don't think), but maybe Global Base i…

Hello, Im calling out to you for some help with the Q400. I was flying a flight between EVRA-EDDM. It was in the early to late sunset and I had MipMap enabled in the graphics section. From no where the lower part of VC went complete dark and many clickspots went dead. I did a little research and found at that you need to disable MipMap (very strange according to me). I did that and the VC came back to life. But the some clickspots where still dead as the rudder trim and the fms. Im using OPUS live camera and DHM. This is the first encounter of this problem. Have performed flights before this without any problems. Anyone have a clue?

Hello I have P3DV3. when I am starting it I have the loading screen abd than it "coses" to desktop but I can it running in the task manager. what can I do?

After installing a tweak of the shader file in P3D, I've got my sim looking perfect in the daytime. However, at night it still looks way, way too bright. Is there any setting I can tweak or HDR/SweetFX thing I can install to make my night very dark while keeping my daytime textures the same? I've been using XPlane a bit, and though the sim has its flaws it looks absolutely perfect at night. Can I recreate the XPlane night look in P3D somehow?

Hey guys, I've just replaced my Gigabyte HD7850 by Gigabyte R9 380X 4GB Gaming. I dont know why but i get a few fps more only by new gpu. I've installed new drivers (100% sure) and i dont know how i could have 15 - 20 fps in P3D - 737 on KDEN scenery. It's weird cause sometimes my fps is jumping around 10-35!! I want to have it stable and smooth. My Settings are not just like ''everything on ultra''. I have FX8350 processor 4.2gHz. And please dont tell me that Prepar3D is better with nvidia cause i hear it everywhere... I have AMD, cause AMD is cheeper and better in the other games. Please help me to optimize my P3Dv2 correctly to have stable FPS and smooth interface…

Hi guys, I always ran AirTrafficManager without problems. But since the last update of P3d I get this: http://imgur.com/cDQ7ZCf I figured out that I need Simconnect in a certain version?! But how can I achieve this? Help would be greatly appreciated!!! Best regards, Stefan

I have a nice stutter-free setup. Works absolutely fine. Today found a possible - but interesting - small cause for some 1 sec stutters. It seems to be connected to the moving clouds + wind speed can cause small stutters and interestingly related to the speed by the clouds are moving. The stutters are constant, happening every 10-15 seconds or so. Easy to test: fire the "Cold Fronts" weather theme at about 25-30000 ft and press slew. Go to Advanced Weather and increase the wind-speed to 199 kts (the max allowed). Clouds will start moving fast and the stutters appear. If you increase the sim-speed to 4x just temporarily, the appearance of stutters become more obvious. Les…

V3.1 - What is the current USA default mesh accuracy? Is it 19 meters between elevation points? And, what is the vertical definition of those points? Is it +/- 1 meter? Are 3rd party mesh products an improvement?

Hi there, So a while back when I had my P3D V2, i had the sim looking the best ever, the ground textures were crisp, no blurries i even had th Fiber tweak set to .01 and there was no blurries. After going on holidays to overseas for 4 months, i returned home only a few weeks ago. Downloaded P3D V3.1. Now when i fly, i just get blurries. It seems the textures dont look crisp anymore and in the distance the autogen is there, but underneath it just looks blurry. I tried the same settings i had in V2, dosent seem to work. i have read many forums and pages to say that the best way to get P3D to work is to not tweak at all, ive tried that. I have tried setting the…

Greetings, regarding affinity mask I noticed divergences of opinion on the forum (most use 84 or no AF, someone particular values like 243 ie). I'm so wondering what AF should i set for my I7 4790K with ati R9 270x (don't know if GPU matters on this), HT ON I noticed that using AF=84 ruins the perfomance: insufficient CPU load (20-30%) and blurries (with FFTF 0.01-0.05). Also i can't understand why i sholud leave many cores unused... With no AF instead it goes pretty well using all phisical and logical cores. Tryed also AF=243 with similar results to AF=84 Finally i tryed to set an AF that leaves just Core 0 (phisical) unused (for OS): AF=254 (111…

I'm looking for the lightest, easiest way to get real weather into P3D v3.1. I've been eyeing Active Sky Next but I really am less interested in something robust with fabulous visuals and all that, I just want a very basic way to get real-world weather set in the sim (other than doing it by hand, of course). Ease of operation and the minimum FPS penalty are my two main criteria. I had been setting the weather manually to whatever suited my fancy, but I've just discovered PilotEdge and am very enthusiastic about it so having an easy way to bring real-world weather into the sim to match what I'm hearing on the ATIS would be awesome.

Hmm, I remember having around 3-400mb free "space" even at approach to EGLL with OPENLC EU and normal settings with UTX2.1 roads . (REX 512kb clouds) Lately i am back with OOM on the route EKCH-EGLL in the NGX and cannot figure out what has change . ASN has been updated a couple of times but no scenery around London has been installed and not in Europe as well. Some ORBX scenerys is installed afterwards (PNW,NCA) and i know some of them have photoscenery textures . Should these also be disabled as i recall something about photoscenery taking VAS as well Anyone else having these symptoms ? Thanks Michael Moe

Just wondering if anyone has gotten the BB 330s working in p3d V3.1. I tried it with Estonia Migration but ended up with blank PFD MFDs and missing fonts. Development goes at a sloth pace so who knows when it will be officially supported.

Hi All, I have this situation where my default airport and new airport scenery is showing up in my departure airport. How can I delete the default p3d scenary and have the paid addon airport? Would appreciate your suggestions and feedback please. Regards

Hello RealAir, Robert I bought a couple of P3D v3 ready bush planes, but although they are fine planes, they are not up to your standards. (Sorry, but you spoiled us with your fine aircraft. The Legacy V2 is just superb.) I believe most of us bush flyers are missing / lacking a serious a Bush plane for Prepar3D. So My question is: Do you plan to sometime update the Scout,Citabria & Decathlon Package to P3D? If so, will you consider a bit more HP and GTN650/750 support? PD: I have seen some RL Scout pics with the Lycoming IO-390 200 HP and equipped with up to the Aspen EFD100 & Garmin GTN750! Thank You

Hello, I would really be grateful if someone could kindly point me in some direction as to how to get beyond the loading screen in prepar3d. It just sticks there trying to load the opening screen of prepar3d. This has only happened since I updated the very latest Windows 10 preview build. I have tried deleting the Prepar3d.cfg but no joy. Paul

I'm getting pretty close to jumping on board with P3D. The $200 price tag has been limiting me before (I know about the Academic, but really don't want the watermark), but fortunately I'm starting to get settled in my career and can get past that. I'm was wondering if I could get some comments though to confirm/fully educate me on what to expect over my FSX setup that works fairly admirably. I am running a [email protected]/GTX770, so a good system, but a bit limited on the graphics card. 1. VAS/OOM's are my biggest issue with FSX. I haven't had too many troubles with them, but that's because I stay out of problem situations. I do like to fly over Orbx regions, with…

I have installed p3d v3 and pmdg 737/777. When I start 737 or 777 It is black displays and no buttons are clickable. I can hear the engine sounds but nothing work. I never had this problem in FSX. I have tried to reinstall Pmdg and it doesn't work. Pls help. Picture https://ibwilq.dm2303.livefilestore.com/y3mf2uH9qP5pbyqPxuzdsDaOoJimfLiawqACg1ZagWxjIlRdYF628-iKPvy9k8jj2EWVo15feB8U00R1syF1MRwtg4csY6MVlACW6J6KKl1JCI-Wlx7uoGJiu113EOj6jDNH_M-aosoyxkbBGk5YUNvHuWyX27pIa6sQiCVbvj8vwE/2016-01-04.png?psid=1

Hi all, This is one of my first posts here so im very new to it all. Was just wondering if i could get a few opinions on how to get the best performance, but also no blurries and nice crisp ground textures. My system specs are - I5 4670k 4.4GHz, GTX 770, 16GB ram, 1920X1080 monitor ( Should i select single monitor in NI ? ) I was just wondering if you guys could give me some good tweaks within the p3d cfg, and also in maybe nvidea inspector the control panel on getting nice crisp textures and also abit better performance. Any suggestions im willing to try Cheers In advance, Harry

I just a couple days ago fully and completely (well mostly) moved from FSX to a brand new P3D v3.1. Nearly all of my add-ons have moved over easily with a couple having to be moved to the "new purchase list". The major thing I have still to sort out is some AI traffic. In FSX I had been using UT2. I was satisfied, but had been starting to look for other solutions. In particular, it's old schedule (from 2010 on my verison) and liveries, as well as near complete lack of cargo traffic were it's weaknesses for me. I had been looking at WOAI in FSX, with some of the work to convert flightplans, etc. I've shared my thoughts below on the options I'm aware of, but they are…

Hi there I have installed FSX and Prepar3dv3 on separate drives on my main computer. I have installed wideclient on my other computer (client). When I run FSX on the main computer and exe wideclient on the client computer it connects straight away...No problems.... But the opposite happens when I run Prepar3dv3...Waiting for connection... This is what I did with prepar3dv3.... I installed the prepar3dv3 SDK on both computers. I placed the SimConnect.xml and cfg files into the appropriate prepar3dv3 files... Both files have the IP address of the main computer, IPv4 protocol, IP address and port 9700. Now this is where I get confused, on the client computer there i…