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Is anyone else seeing significant elevation issues around UK2000 Leeds Bradford Xtreme airport when used with ORBx TrueEarth Central? The Yeadon Tarn area is floating above the ORBx landscape, the eastern car park has significant issues, and there are multiple cliffs short of the runway 32 threshold. I am not sure why I have not seen these problems before, so can someone else confirm this? I am using P3Dv4.5HF2.

Hi all, I am not sure how I got myself into this mess, most likely while messing with shaders...Whatever the cause, the result is this...Without Ea, everything looks normal. Thanks. Sherm

Does anyone else experience worse FPS if they arrive to an airport versus spawning in directly in a new scenario? E.g.: at LatinVFR's LEMD, I arrived from a 2+ hour flight with FPS going down to 26 at terminal 4. When I restarted P3D at the exact same time, AI, wx, parking spot, etc. it shot back up to 36 where I lock it. Is this a known issue with P3D? Most of what I searched on similar topics was years old. I'm on 5.3HF2.

Hi Folks, In December last year (2021) I raised an issue of missing textures within the Terra Flora v2 package. Well... just on a day ago Nick over at the Orbx forums advised the package has been updated to include the missing textures. Note the package doesn't advertise itself as an update but if you verify the files it'll be updated with the additional textures. All the info covering the raised issue and its subsequent resolution can be found at the below link. Cheers https://forum.orbxdirect.com/topic/211734-terra-flora-v2-package-issues/

Hey y'all, I'm having an issue with true earth socal and norcal when terrain is bleeding out into the ocean. I have read some post with issues like mine but they haven't helped. Here's a picture of what it looks like after I have moved the insertion point, have synced the simulator, and verified the files. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! Picture: https://ibb.co/5kmsGTg

I've been able to find some.... mainly for PMDG. I am really looking for the QW787 for the yoke and throttle. I am surprised that these are not easy to find. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi, I remember in the past if we had VRAM to spare we could change a value in the p3d.cfg (MAX_TEXTURE_REQUEST_DISTANCE=320000.00000 , i suspect) I tested this with the old EGLL by Simwings but to no success. Maybe the scenery itself is to old. Is there an other option ? Thanks Michael Moe

Would anyone be willing to share their TrackIR profile that they use, specifically with the PMDG 747 but I'll take any of them. For whatever reason, none of mine work very well with this aircraft. It's erratic. Specifically when moving towards the screen. It seems to want to move me downwards rather a lot as well as forwards. It's making moving to look out of the left window or positioning myself over the FMC almost impossible. By the time my eyepoint gets to where it needs to be laterally, my eye position has dropped down vertically to a stupid level, as if I have moved my head down as well as forward, which I haven't and when I look in the TrackIR software it confirms m…

Hello, I have many AI flight plans, i found that when "flying" and some AI flight plans become active P3d starts stutters for a couple of seconds. My entire P3d and addons are on a SSD. How to control this behavior? If possible.. Thanks in advance

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Ever since v5.3 I've had VRAM issues that crash the GPU and P3d. My system specs are below but the GPU is a 1080ti. I didn't have an issue before v5.3. The most notorious location is SOCAL north of LAX like from KONT to KSBA. I do have ORBX SOCAL and KBUR and KSBA. I have even lowered some of my settings. Here's a folder with screenshots of my settings and the error msg. Is there something about v5.3 that is increasing dedicated graphics memory demand or is 1080ti just not up to it anymore? Any help greatly appreciated! Bruce

Using this scenery and flatten: https://flyavagroup.org/index.php/website/download_category/61 Now that I have used it, there is barely any autogen - none on the approach. Before, there was tons. Any ideas? Thanks

I installed the QW 757 in v5 via the P3D v4 installer. That means that the QW757 Dispatcher does not work any more. Has anyone succeeded in installing QualityWings liveries (regardless of product) manually? I would greatly appreciate any help.

Dear All, I would kindly appreciate some advice regarding shaders for P3D v4. Currently I am sticking to the platform and skipping v5 as I anticipate a move to MSFS when FENIX is released. In the mean time what is my best option to improve the graphics? Currently I am using Tomatoshade but not happy with the effects at night. Things appear yellow and dynamic lighting at airports like Simwings Heathrow are too bright. (During the day it is acceptable) Would purchasing RD shade make a difference? Or can better results be found with PTA? I have purchased a copy also. Please let me know as flying at night is really disappointing.

My system is a 5600x (6c/12t) with a 3080ti. Recently, I started getting long stutters/pauses in the FSL A32X, about 2 seconds every couple of minutes, especially in scenery-dense areas around airports on departure/arrival. It only seems to happen when I have SMT/hyperthreading turned on and using the following AM: [JobScheduler] AffinityMask=4053 P3DCoreAffinityMask=4053 MainThreadScheduler=0 RenderThreadScheduler=1 FrameWorkerThreadScheduler=2 If I turn SMT off, so just 6 cores total, and let P3D rebuild the AM to default, the stutter goes away: [JobScheduler] AffinityMask=63 P3DCoreAffinityMask=63 MainThreadScheduler=0 Rend…

Hi all, Just had an issue with SBGL 2020. Coming in the PMDG 77W, started crashing on approach. Removed the custom ground poly as in the guide: And it stopped crashing. However, lost a lot of FPS. Any ideas why this is happening? Is there a fix I can do to stop the crashing? Would like to do a few more flights there but the FPS is terrible with the custom ground poly disabled. Cheers!

https://prnt.sc/BJGIFWl8RbwH I have this error showing up whenever I want to spawn the FSLABS A320, any help? I don't have anything in regedit path "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\AppCompatFlags\Layers" and the DLL is located in "FSLabs\Libraries" any help?

Always stuck on 5% regardless. Any ideas on how to fix? Thanks

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I have enabled the recently introduced Scaling functionality in the NVIDIA Control Panel with the latest NVIDIA GPU driver 512.15. I thought I would share my findings. To my surprise the results are very good. Higher FPS and more smooth sim everywhere I fly. I now have much smoother sim over big cities and in big airports. I just enabled scaling and turned off sharpening. I have not made any changes to any setting in P3D. I run 3x4k tvs at 26 Hz. Would be great to know if anyone else is having any luck with the NVIDIA scaling, as I think it actually works.

Dear members, I have purchased FS Real Time in the past from 2017, in my e-mails there's a serial key and my proof that I have paid for, when I want to register the "OK" button stays greyed out so I can't click "OK" to activate it ... I have now P3D v5.2, can someone help me? Thanks in advance ... Cheers!

It appears that one of the recent Win 10 updates (KB5003637 or KB4023057) caused the opening scenario UI dialog to go wonky, with cross-linked textures, missing/disappearing buttons etc. I was on Win 10 20H2 with nVidia driver 466.27, and updating to 21H1 and 471.11 did not change anything. So if you see this, the solution here (in both P3Dv4.5 HF3 and P3Dv5.1 HF1) was to set the following parameter in the USERINTERFACE section of the Prepar3D.cfg file: UIHardwareAcceleration=False The default value is True, which was working fine up until now. Edit: I've seen some reports of UI windows other than the "create a scenario" window also exhibiting this behavio…

P3Dv4.5 finding unable to receive the directional signal for EEN (109.4) in multiple aircraft with and without GPSs. Funny thing, the DME shows the distance but neither the HSI nor the secondary VOR when tuned to the frequency activate the course-to needle. It works fine for other VORs in the vicinity. Have reduced scenery to just the basics that come with P3Dv4.5. If anyone else has experienced this and found a solve please let me know. Thanks in advance.

Here you can see nice fototexture on mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. If you look closer, you can see a boundary close to the snowy cap, showing a lighter texture, which maybe default. I guess the darker texture is from ORBX africa. At this point it is not very disturbing but later, if I get closer. Problem is, the low res texture always comes up again, I have some sort of texture flickering from low res to high res. On this picture you see the low res texture and on top and the side is high res. I only want to show high res. Is it conflicting scenery? As said before, there is default scenery, Aerosoft Kilimanjaro airport and ORBX LC Africa. Can I disable…

I have two aircraft that Carenado says are P3DV5 compatible. When I try to wonder if someone could help me understand what goes where to install. I am given only PvDV2 to PVDV4 to select. I have tried selecting my own(P3Dv5) and v4 pointing to P3DV5 as the location. The aircraft loads in various places within the A drive and the G drive where P3DV5 is situated. The aircraft does not show up in P3D when turned on. I am wondering if someone could help me understand what goes where to use these aircraft. I'm an old fellow 77 who recently suffered a blow to his head after having a stroke so forget everything I do after I've done it. Jim