The Prepar3d Forum

Hi chaps, I'm liking V3 but am finding flying at night with CAVOK a bit disappointing. I have Orbx global/vector/europe lc & england, so it might be an orbx problem but i don't get it in FSX, so i'm thinking it isn't. I do get the lovely orbx night lights, but only within a very small radius, after which they cut off into darkness. In V2 and FSX, when I flew over cities at high level at night, they had that ethereal amber glow of lighting as you'd expect, but in P3D V3 when I fly over cities at high level at night, everything is in complete darkness. Has anyone else had this problem? I've tried HDR off and on and this doesn't fix the issue. It just feels so unreal…

If one is uninstalling and reinstalling P3D, what would one do with addons such as ORBX, ASN, REX, PMDG, etc.? Do those get uninstalled as well, and if so, would those get uninstalled before or after P3D? Thanks for the guidance.

Hi all, Firstly merry xmas to you and a happy new year. My wife, rather foolishly has agreed to a new GPU, she does not know what a GPU is, nor does she know what one does, only that her husband needs to upgrade as he has had this one for about 2 years. I have been cranking up the overtime at work for the last three months to appease her, and she has finally given in. I have a budget of around £200 and am looking for a 4 gig card. does anyone have any suggestions for a mid range Nvidia card. I cannot go SLI as my board does not support it and I have an i5 3570k un-clocked at this time running at 3.40ghz with 14gb of ram. the problem I am trying to cure is CTD …

Hi, i think i found out something rather strange in P3Dv3v3.1. Somehow a lot of things seem to change when taking off in daylight and returning after nightfall/dusk. As we already know taking off during daylight and landing at night stops PMDG planes illuminating the ground with taxi and main lights. I think this problem is even larger and also relates to eg mesh problems. I just did a nice flight LOWS to LFLJ (Courchevel) using the payware Courchevel scenery to have a nice sloped runway. The flight started during day and i arrive just before night fall. Unfortunatelly the moment i touched down in LFLJ (quite nicely) my plane jumped all over the place not followin…

ORBX do around 200 or so freeware airports for North America - I like to install some of them to give me a bit more variety on PilotEdge. To save me googling them all one by one to find out where they are (I live in the UK, so most of the location indicators don't mean much to me), could anyone let me know which ones are in the California/Nevada areas. To narrow it down quite a lot, I'm only interested in fields capable of being flown into by a 737-800, so say a minimum runway length of 5000ft/1600M or so, but don't mind if they're IFR or VFR fields. Thanks Eugene

Hello, Did anyone managed to instal LFMN into P3D3.1 ? Cheers

Hello simmers, since V3 I'm having much problems with OOM's on nearly every flight and even on simple flights. Never had that on FSX or 2.5 (afaik). I'd like to describe you my flights so you know what I've done. I have reinstalled V3.1 after removal of 3.0 as I thought there could be a V3.0 problem. So the sim is currently only running with the named addons and nearly clean on that. 1. flight test (on 3.0 with a full sim) Flight from Hannover (German airports) to Mallorca (Aerosoft) with the PMDG 737 and ORBX Vector+Global+OLC;FreeMeshX but no other photoscenery etc. The flight at all was fine but on 12nm final of Mallorca I got an warning of high VAS load via FSUIPC. …

I am typically a GA flyer in good weather. I have a friend coming over to do some simulated IFR approaches. With my typical settings, when I add weather my FPS slows to a crawl. I am wondering which sliders I can adjust that will have the biggest impact to FPS given that most of time we will not even be able to see the ground? Feedback from other IFR flyers appreciated. Thanks Jim

Hi, have not moved yet to P3Dv3.1, but before doing so, would like to hear any comment about the new controls calibration menu included in P3Dv3.1?. Cheers, Edward

I never knew that the setting for ground airport traffic in P3d could be set to zero with GSX installed: http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,13004.0/topicseen.html It pays to read the manual. The GSX ground vehicles only provide services to the user's aircraft, so with the setting at zero, you won't see additional random cars and fuel trucks driving around aimlessly on taxiways. But if one likes that kind of thing ...

Considering buying MT6 - am running P3Dv3 but see there appears to be a beta patch(v4) for it - just wondering if anyone had any success installing and running it on P3Dv3 and is it a straightforward process or is some tweaking still required? Also note many people seem to be running a freeware traffic manager assume this will run ok with P3Dv3?

Hey guys, Just wondering what the best nvidea driver everyone has been using on P3D V3 ? Cheers

(I intended to post this on LM’s forum but seem to be having issues logging in there). Can anyone else confirm that when Ultra water detail level is selected the nvidia driver P-State drops down to P2 level - GPU-Z or Nvidia Inspector can be used to check for this. On my hardware (see below) this issue exists on both my Windows 8.1u1 and Windows 10 dual boot. These were both fresh installs with no other software except Prepar3d. Zero tweaks and addons. The issue is repeatable and happens either if changed when running or before starting the App after editing the config file. Dropping the setting from Ultra to any other level sees P0 restored. It seems to be in…

Hi, In V3 there was a "tools" entry in the menu. In this entry, there was a sub menu in which I could select what I wanted the AI aircrafts of UT2 to be seen : I wallways selected Company, Altitude, Aircraft name and AI flight plan. I had to modify these options at each begining of flight, because, and I don't now why, these informations where not conserved in prepar3d.cfg from one flight to the next. In V3.1 this menu entry does not exist any more. I looked in the help : its seems to be a possibility of modify the P3D menus, but it is not well explained. My question : I would like to see what I want on the label of my UT2 AI aircrafts; is there a possibility t…

Is it possible to move orbix scenery to a seperate drive. I just noticed today that my fsx is installed on a 5400rpm HDD. Since I don't have any more space on my MB for another drive I would like to move ORBX scenery to my SSD using the symbolic link? Will this work with ORBX scenery properly?

Anyone tried out FTX Global Vector in P3Dv2 yet? I'm really conerned about performance in combination with FTX Global and high resolution mesh. Are roads customizable? From the promo video I see that certain downtown areas look terrible because roads have killed the autogen.

Came close to damaging my Saitek X65 cause I always set Max controls realism by default. But I have come to conclusion on my setup that when you go above around 25% on this setting, the controls are no longer realistic. There have been reports of folks fighting rudder in 737 during taxi with not much wind blowing. If you take the time to investigate the realism setting and compare with windy/clear weather, on my system setting max is totally unrealistic controls response to wind effects. Any tips welcome, but getting similar results at 25% to what I used to see in FSX @100 Realism. Basically I think p3d has issues regards the way controls react to win…

Has anyone be able to make the Cpt Sim F-104 work in FSX or P3D? I know it is an SF9 model so this is a long shot.

Is it possible to move the frame count text from the upper left corner of the screen to another part of the screen? Same question for the zoom factor text which is in upper right? Thanks Terry

I was just curious what zoom factor people feel is realistic, comfortable, etc? Also, for anyone that uses UTX2 (USA) what road widths are you using; and do you have the "grass" buffers on the sides? I read an older post (which I can no longer find) which gave a list of width changes. It is better than default, but I'm never quite satisfied. :-) Ron

...as soon as you are out of view of A.I. traffic at the airport, outbound, or just before you enter your final to the destination airport... I suggest that you take a moment to pause the sim...and turn off ALL A.I. aircraft. It's not truly important that you see a flight zig across the sky...and all the others that you don't still be managed by the sim and in memory... At about 20 miles inbound to the numbers...pause and turn back on your Commercial and/or GA to around 35 percent..and carry on down to the numbers... ...so if you turn off the traffic...both GA and Commercial, you should garner an immediate boost to your flight and vicinity of your flight by a…

Gentlemen, I see a lot of smiling faces and happy hearts- great! Though I have not moved to P3D (I'm with FSX-DX10), and just "standing on the fence," I'm becoming more and more eager about P3D. And, perhaps might jump in even before 64bit gets here. Not having the 64bit version, (and haven't seen any video out there to convince me to leave such an excellent FSX-DX10 as configured), is the only major thing holding me back. I am very (and I mean very) happy with FSX-DX10, especially with all the OBRX products installed on it. The only draw-back is VAS. So, I'm wondering... if I were to purchase P3D, will it come with a version 3.1 installer, or will it require a sep…

Hello Everyone, Happy New Year! I just got a 4790K for Christmas with a Z97 Pro 4 Motherboard, My Question is for P3D V3, Do you recommend Hyperthreading to be ON or OFF? Thanks Wayne George

Only a few hours left on the Orbx sale... Want to buy a few Orbx airports without the regions, I use photo scenery like Mega Scenery and Blue-Sky. Considering the following... 1. KEGE Eagle County (looks to be OK) 2. KSTS Sonoma County Regional 3. EGHI Southampton Any help would be greatly appreciated, Darryl Would also consider Orbx FTX Global if I saw consistent screen-shots, does not look much improved over normal FSX scenery with slightly improved textures.

Hi, Since P3D v3.1 planes are bumping on the water and it's impossible to land with an amphibian aircraft. Does anyone knows if threre's a fix for that? Thanks :--)