The Prepar3d Forum

Hi All, I have been working on a certain project for many months now, and, well, I am closing in on finishing it. After some testing i'll have it available to purchase at a small cost as it compliments another product Antony Davison's New Zealand Photoreal Scenery for the entire Country (and seamless too). His base photoreal scenery can be found here: https://gumroad.com/antdavison My goal has been to improve NZ scenery as a whole and so I have now found a way to do this by not only removing 99% of hand annotation but also using real world data for a more accurate display of vegetation, commercial, industrial, and residential areas. This is truly som…

I have searched this topic, but did not find a conclusive answer... Does anyone know which texture(s) controls the airport grass color? In my setup, the airport grass is usually much lighter and yellower than the surrounding vegetation. (Not realistic.) But to make matters worse, the runway color gets lost until you are very close to the airport. (Frustrating.) I'd like to alter the color if I could figure out which texture to play with. Thanks! Ron

Ok so this is not a problem just with P3D. It has plagued flight sims for a while. Clouds are too bright at night. If I set my brightness right down to make the clouds more realistic then the rest of the sim objects are way too dark. Has anyone found a fix for this?

Hello everyone I am new here and although not new to flight sims never joined any community . I am looking to build a kit from scratch . Using Prepar3d as the software with a skylake processor, ssd 250 gb, 16gb of ram not sure about which version of windows yet . Would there be any frame rate benefit in using 2 video cards. My brother has 2 spare sapphire 7950 3gb gddr5 he said I can have them. Looking forward to many years of flying .

Hi. i am still interested in getting a plane spotter camera without compromising EZCA and thought maybe Avatar modemode could do it for a start but i cant control anything in this mode. Anyone having succes with this? . Pushback etc Thanks Michael Moe

Canyone provide any support as to why my multiplayer game for VATSIM use ultimately leads to multiple errors such as: 1) ASN cannot track/update/follow live weather based on aircraft location 2) occasionally, a CTD prompt will occur due to some glitch. however, I'll ignore it (click continue) in the spirit of not restarting the mission. Any suggestions on how to best connect to VATSIM and the utility to use for it? Windows 7, P3d v2.5 Thank you to all!!!!

Ok guys, now that P3D is becoming the more popular choice what is the best ai program to use?. I have the choice of Mytraffic 6, traffic 360, ### AI traffic, ultimate traffic, world of ai and maybe some other ones that I am missing. What program do you guys use. I have random thoughts on each one but would like the expert opinion from you all. Mytraffic 6- seems good but those models just do not look good to me traffic 360-also good but does it work with P3D v2.5 and planes are older companies ### AI traffic-probably the best but it's illegal so maybe it has viruses or other stuff ultimate traffic-looks good but I heard most planes are not painted and are …

I using rex soft clouds, asn on pretty maxed settings and when I have clear weather I get up 30 fps but when loading or looking on clouds I get around 15 fps. Pc specs are, CPU i5 4460 3.2 ghz. GPU gtx 750 2gb ddr, 8gb ram. CPU using around 70%.

I thought I had successfully made the upgrade prepared v3 to V3.1 Now I am confused when in the Help- About- Lockheed Martin Prepare D I see following Prepar3D v3 Academic (where I expected v3.1 ) Prepar3D Version 3.0.10.14945 SimConnect Version 3.0.0.0 Can someone tell me which version I have now

Hey guys, I just did my very first Vatsim Flight (I am only P1 Rated on VATSIM) and it sure was fun. Flying over LAX, I was just overwhelmed on how to read the callbacks so fast. When I fly I solo I never paid attention to airspace zones and clearances. VATSIM first and then Pilotedge - this can get very addicting (It is so much fun). Even my A2A C182 became a handful as I have reading out the callbacks on the mic and looking at the GTN 750 to see where really I am going etc. Lots to learn and practice. Got a question for you guys on VATSIM 1) What time is the best to log on to VATSIM. 2) What are the best airports to practice flying with ATC i…

Updated AFCADs. i.e. like many people including the great Ray Smith did for FSX/FS9. I know someone has done a number of the large airports but those have payware anyway. Updating basic AFCADs would be great to correct parking, taxiways, etc for many of the midsize/regional/small airports. I'm sure we'll slowly get there eventually but really haven't seen them popping up regularly in the library. And yes I know I can do them myself via ADE program but unfortunately don't have that program nor the time. Would help the many AI programs people run and flying online trying to park/taxi correctly.

Hello all, I'm not a regular poster at AVSIM, tough I'm a usual follower of the main topics around flightsim here, I have finished a method and software, to update on a regular basis the worldwide navigation data from Prepar3D (and also FSX), which overcomes the issue reported by many users that the flighsim is pretty much outdated nowadays. It took some time to develop and now is in the latest steps of testing and product development. So far, the method is feasible and running pretty well and I think now is possible to commercialize it. Nevertheless, I would like to discuss from the technical point of view, comments from other users about ideas / compatibi…

hello, just installed p3dv3 today on my new rig. launched it once. tried to install FSUIPC, but it's not showing (no addon menu). then I remembered to use right click -> admin rights, and relaunch FSUIPC install executable this way, still no addon menu. What did I missed ? Do i need to install Simconnect from P3D\redist\Interface\ESPv1 ?? Do i need to install the SDK that is available to download when purchaising P3D ?? Can't find a dam** beginners guide on the web, if someone know one, i really would like to read it (haven't been simming since years, and it was on FS9) thanks. Kenz

just a heads up sorry if it's already posted. steve

Planning to use 30-day trial, but the webpage does not say whether the product is v3.1 compatible. Is anyone use it successfully with 3.1? Thanks

Hello all, I posted this on the p3d forum but I think I might get some help here as well. Hope copying the same content doesn't offense anyone. I just bought the v3.1 and I liked most aspect of it. However the joystick problem alone is making the simulator very uncomfortable to fly with. Here is what I encountered: The sim is reading "noises" from my yoke and even if I have my hands off the yoke, I can see the "virtual" yoke occasionally shake around its natural position. I tried to calibrate it with both the built in function and FSUIPC, and I can observe the slide jumps like -118, 0, -118, 0, 0, -118 and there's no way I can eliminate this. I tried the "eliminate c…

I am not currently using a 3D monitor, however my next monitor purchase will likely be of a high refresh rate, 3D-capable monitor and I would like to hear from those of you utilizing 3D monitors how P3D looks. I have a couple questions: 1) has P3D solved the infamous 3D lighting bug FSX suffers? IOW: are all objects rendered at the correct depth or "level" within the scene? 2) what is the performance like? 2a) compared to 2D? 2b) compared to FSX? 3) are there any new 3D bugs w/P3D? Thanks in advance!

Is there a tweak or setting that allows one to change how far out the autogen draws? I'm finding the default draw distance is a little too short, especially when viewing something like UTX street lights that pop into view. I've seen screenshots of people with autogen drawing for miles so I'd love to know how to do that. It doesn't seem to change with the LOD radius setting.

Hello, Just got my i7-6700k build ready, installed P3Dv3.1 and stuff (100% fresh install with clean registry) and found out one very unpleasant thing - even with high FPS, the sim starts to stutter after 15-20 minutes of ASN usage. It happens all the time regardless of clouds' coverage meaning that it happens even with CAVOK clouds. Exiting and restarting ASN in-flight solves the problem with stuttering fully for another 15-20 min and that is implying that ASN is the one and only culprit of the stuttering. 1. My system is i7-6700k (stock freq for now)/980Ti-6GB/16GB DDD4/2TB Samsung EVO SSD/Win7-64. 2. Norton Anitvirus is present, but was turned-off during ASN i…

Hello, My name is Brandon, aka "Pinncom2016" and I am a flight simmer. I am apart a small community of enthusiast who all enjoy flying. Mostly online with others and in the real world. A few years back, I was homeless. I did not know where my next meal was going to come from, living out of my car and moving from shelter to shelter just to keep warm for the winter. I have since moved on from that dark past and have my own place and a great job as a web developer and I wanted to give back to those that have helped me along the way. I will be filming a series of flights covering over 58,000 nm (nautical miles) to raise awareness for the homeless and homeless famili…

Hello all-I run v3.0. Snow and rain are orange color. I first noticed this flying above the arctic circle, but it also occurs anywhere else when I changed location. Any ideas? I use both FSGRW and OPUS with the same results. Thanks.

Hi All. Still having issues with the throttles on my "Thrustmaster T-Flight stick X" joystick. When you advance the thottles on the PMDG 737-800NGX they will only go back to about 40% thrust and not to zero thrust. Have installed FSUIPC4 from Peter Dowsons website and also downloaded Simconnect directly from Lockheed Martin. ... I have allso recalibrated Joystick and downloaed the latest driver directly from Thrustmaster website. I have uninstalled and reinstalled the stick and tried to update the driver but for some reason it will not update. Also moved the sliders in P3D settings for the Joystick to min and max but the problem still exists. Any help or advice would…

Hello, I did something foolish the other day, and purchased a Gsync Monitor. It's 2560x1440. Before this, I was running a 4K monitor (which I've got, but was going to sell). To be honest, I actually quite like 2560x1440. For P3D as well as my other games, the visuals aren't THAT much different, but the gain in overall performance in all of my PC games is quite noticeable. I've been following the discussions about maintaining 30Hz (which is why I decided to try the Gsync monitor). Personally, I don't really want to buy another TV. Sure, it would probably look good gaming, but they take up a ton of space. Plus, my wife would throw a fit LOL . I've been looking all…

I finally got so fed up with the reflections in water problems AND the unrealistic huge waves that I decided to turn it all off. And wow, in my eyes it looks more real than ever (at 4500 at least). While I was at it I turned off the special effects (have no clue what they do anyway: I sure as hell never see fireworks anywhere so why keep it on?) and while I was at it again I set autogen for trees and buildings from my beloved extremely dense to very dense. I love extremely dense forests but once you are used to very dense you don't notice a real difference all the time. And now the announced (and to be expected) JOY part of this post: while fps was hovering in the mi…

This isn't a perfect solution for me but it might be for some folks. I have a Samsung 42" HDTV that I use as my sim monitor. I read on a forum that you need to edit the source name on your TV and change it to "PC" if you want one-to-one pixel mapping. I tried it and my jaggies vanished. *However*....on my PC I lost a vast amount of color and brightness...the return of the eternal cloudy day. But it might work for you so I thought I'd post it. Happy flying, Gregg