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Hi guys, I am relatively new to P3D (2 months) but I guess I have all neccessary addons right now. The only thing which stilll is not up to my expectations is the terrain. I read about some addons, mainly FTX Global + Global Vector + OpenLC. As the price of these 3 Addons is pretty high, I wanted to ask if there are any other recommendations from the pro users in the forum :smile: Any help is greatly appreciated! And please excuse the bad english... Cheers from EDDM

Hi Captains, I've noticed a strange behaviour of the FTX Global Night Lighting in P3D v3 and I wonder if you have this issue, too. While buildings and trees slowly fade in when reaching the LOD_Radius this autogen fading doesn't seem to apply to the night lighting. The 3D lights are just popping in as big blocks within close vicinity to the aircraft. This is very noticable at road lights. When I look around the aircraft, the 3D lights disappear randomly within the LOD_Radius. Did you also notice this behaviour or were you able to get this right? Thanks a lot!! Daniel PS: I forgot to mention that I have Vector and OpenLC Europe installed, too.

Hello guys, like the topic suggests: I am looking for a 787 for P3D. The dream would be a "PMDG-like" quality... I found the Qulitywings 787, but the last "status update" was from end of 2014. That's now a year and google does not provide more information about this project. Does anyone know more about it, or any other possible 787 solutions? Otherwise I have to look forward to the PMDG 747, but I would really love to see a Boeing 787 or an Airbus A350. Best regards, Stefan

i got all surrounding lights. The terminal is all lit up. I got papi lights but that's it. There are just a few dim taxi lights but that's it. Very tough to land and taxi at night. I don't have a screenshot just yet. Just wondering if there is a quick fix I can do? Or just reinstall the airport. I have my ftx central set to global. And orbx liberies is above kpsp in the scenery libary. Thanks Greg.

Am I correct that the initial release will be for FSX only, with P3D future option that is subject to resolution of legal issues (meaning that P3D release will be in limbo for some time)? Thanks

What is the best way to do this? I'm pretty much committing to v3 as of now (keeping fsx and 2.5 for a little while longer while I beta test a plane) I've got tons of addons too

Can someone please explain to me how to get Ray Smith's great scenery packages to work in P3D v3 ? I have created a separate folder for all my addon airports and have pointed to them via the scenery library to pick up and add various airports, only problem is none of the buildings show up.? I know Ray often included an OBJ file with his sceneries which had to go in the texture folder of the global scenery file, I think ! Is it a case of just doing the same in P3D V3 or is it a different process ? It would be a great shame to lose these terrific files...

I've noticed while at my departure airport ground textures load fine and quickly. But after an hour flight to LAX the ground textures took forever to load on the approach 30 sec or more. This has happened at other locations after descending to approach. Didn't really have this issue in FSX but seems to be a reoccurring problem in P3D. I do have Tessellation on and graphics settings are either high or ultra. Running Orbx Global, Vector, FreeMeshX. These are installed on a SSD. Fiber Time Fraction is 0.02 LOD Radius is at the default 4.5 I did hit pause to see if the textures would load in, and they do slowly but obviously can't be doing this on VATSIM…

I have been running with the Windows 10 preview for quite some time on my gaming PC. To be honest, I have found over the past few months Windows 10 to be super stable and more user friendly than Windows 8.1. Tonight I started a game I am replaying, Oblivion (heavily modded), after installing the latest preview build 10049, with the NVidia 349.90 driver specifically for Windows 10. To say my jaw dropped is understating it. I simply could not believe the HDR effects, colours and performance increase after the new build was installed. I immediately decided to go "wild", and am now upgrading my Prepar3d machine from Windows 8.1 to Windows 10 preview. I just have to se…

I just bought FT YSSY and while it's totally wonderful product, it's only suitable for long-haul flights to SE Asia or NA as I don't have Australian products in my P3D. Therefore, I'd like to add some stuff to my sim, but I need to ask a few questions. 1. Can I use FTX Australia SP4 without FTX Global and FTX Vector? 2. I see that Cairns and Brisbane airports are still v1.4 compatible, but no words about V2.5 or V3.0. Will they work in P3D 3. The same with Melbourne, which is officlially 2.5 compatible, but not 3.0. Your help would be much appreciated. Thanks

Anyone noticed this there is no button to do controller calibration anymore at least in windows 10 and also getting some weird zooming issues when I pan spot view when I stop panning it jerks and zooms out farther not sure why its doing this - any ideas ? I did shut down some unneeded views in camera cfg. file but I have done that in the past with no problems

Does anyone have the above combo working? I tried moving to W10 over the weekend, and ended up with a totally clean install on my HDD. However, I used DSR in W7 (x4.0) and wanted to use it in W10 as well but it doesn't seem to work - the mouse cursor enlarges but that's about it. I have tried restarting P3D and going between full screen and windowed but to no avail. Any suggestions before I pull the plug on the great W10 experiment and go back to W7?

Hi, No answer to this over at the official ORBX support forum so if someone here could assist I would greatly appreciate it. I have a fresh install of FSX:SE on a new machine and I started installing all of my ORBX products into it. Global and all regions installed perfectly. I then started installing my airports. Please note that after each product install I do an install of the latest ORBXLibs and then go into FTX Central 2 to ensure everything is OK. After installing KBZN and then running FSX I get the following error message: "Flight Simulator has detected a problem with a 3rd party program..." Name: Dynamig Object Placement, Version: 1,0,10,3, Comp…

Hi guys, Looking for some help to install/copy Ultimate traffic 2 to P3D v3. Can anyone please give me step by step instructions to install/copy UT2 to P3D v3? I read various posts for this purpose most requires FSX installed or dummy FSX or Use of EMT tool. Is there any way I can install UT2 without virtual FSX or EMT as I read somewhere that EMT can ruin the sim configure files. Looking forward seeing ur help. Regards,

I'm getting stuttering and have worked on several configurations to no avail. My frame counter is all over the place while at high altitude in the PMDG 737 with very few clouds over water. Frames vary between 7 and 58 within literally a second or so. Right now I've got frames locked at 60, I've tried VSync on and off, with and without buffering. I'm using Adaptive in NVidia control panel. My settings are pretty modest, HDR is off, clouds set to medium, etc.. I realize this is like looking for a needle in the haystack, but any thoughts would be appreciated!

Hello everyone. What is the proper way to close P3D? I play full screen, and when it is time for me to exit the program, I hit left alt to bring up the menu bar, I click scenario, and then EXIT. When I return to my windows screen, the resolution and colors do not revert to what it was before launching P3D, so I suppose I am doing something wrong. Can anyone advise? I am using version 3 of the product. Thank you

We have a superb 737 and 777 on our HD's, and a super duper 747 in the pipeline. We also have a 787 coming. Is anyone, anywhere doing a high quality 767/757 for P3DV3?

I have been installing some AI aircraft and converting FS9 flight plans. They do work fine, however I am experiencing a problem with some of them. Some you can see their liveries from really far away. Some others look completely white until you are right next to them. Does anybody know if this is a graphics configuration issue and how to solve it? Thanks Juan

Has anyone installed the Sibwings An-2 in v3 using the Migration tool? If so, do you still have to add the following entry to the DLL.xml? <Launch.Addon> <Name>SibWings service module</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>SibWings\Service\swservice.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon>

Hi Folks. All of a sudden I am unable to get the panel lights to go on, in the cockpit and overhead, of my iFly B738 in P3D. Shift+L doesn't do it, nor does switching the relevant Dome switch on the Aft OHD. Does anybody know why I have lost my lights please. thanks John

Thought you guys would like this. I've become a bit of a perfectionist it seems, and I can see the flaws, but on the other hand, the devs have done an excellent job of ameliorating them and creating an impressive scenery. Depending on the frame rates, this could be a really nice buy.

Hi I have just switched over from FS9 to FSX. Taking advantage of the ORBX sale I bought ORBX Global followed by European open LC. I have installed both programs with Global above EULC. In FTX Central 2 I see the word "Active" opposite Global but nothing at all opposite EULC. Is this correct? If not how do I make the LC active. The LC is below Global in the FSX Scenery Library so I assume that it is active in FSX but as a newcomer to ORBX I am not yet familiar with the routines. Guidance would be appreciated.

I've been practicing CATII and CATIII ILS approaches in the NGX over the last few days. I've noticed that at both default and 3rd party airports, the runway lights tend to be high intensity visible from about 10nm out until just about 2 or 3nm, where they disappear, behaving like they should where VV is 100ft in 1/4sm visibility and fog. I'm using ActiveSky Next if it makes a difference to anyone who has run into this before. I'm wondering if it's a level of detail bug. For now I've just kept my head on the instruments, but it can be a little distracting the way the lights behave. That said, flying a CATII approach down to minimums using the NGX HUD and by hand a…

So I have not purchased any ORBX products yet as I read various things about performance. So I decided to download and install the demos. I downloaded the Global/Vector/LC demo, the Tasmania demo, and the PNW demo. When I tried running each of them I found various issues with land class (water bogged homes and trees) and disappearing runways on final approach to rollout. I got a but disappointed by this and deleted it all using provided uninstall software from Orbx. I noticed some files were not removed by the uninstallers so I manually deleted them. I found out recently that the purchased regions have been patched to fix these land class and other issues. So I attemp…

With P3D v3, even though I have a good approach speed on landing and the plane configured properly, I am bouncing my landings. Does this have anything to do with the scenery layers? Are my settings too high? I thought I had seen some posts about P3D v 2.5 on this. Input appreciated.