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Hi Guys, Could someone please give me directions on the correct way to install addon scenery outside of the root folder of P3Dv3? Thanks

I notice sometimes I have a small white square located on the top left of my P3D window when in full screen. Sometime its there and sometime its not. What exactly is it and how do I get rid of it. I tried to click and move it and I can resize it and all, but its just a big white window with nothing. It's very distracting.

Was just curious about what other's HDR settings are and thoughts on it. I have been tinkering like a mad man trying to get it just right....HDR no HDR ( none is too dark always for me), then on the HDR sliders. I noticed the saturation literally goes from black & white to full color so for the most color that is 1. The brightness at default 1.1 is just glaring so that had to come down some, but under 1 it was just too dark. Then I started fiddling with bloom. Someone said 0.45 was good and liked that but eh that seemed too drab after awhile with the brightness turned down to 1. Then I said you know just try what the 'nominal' settings are likely....1,1,1. And …

Hi guys was wanting your input on what would be the closest real world density settings in ut2 for p3d v3? using the pmdg 777 addon airports ASN FTX GLOBAL thanks

Being new to this group I was wondering what site would i go to to get southern calif scenery, such as airports and surrounding areas ? thx

I've witnessed this way back when I use to use FSX and now its still here in P3d v3. Why do runway lights appear to be floating in mid-air as oppose to being on the ground? Can this be fixed?

I have P3D v3 Academic, and I installed FTX Global, FTX Vector, FS Global 2010 FTX Edition. This is a screenshot of FSDT KDFW airport. I'm not sure why it looks like this, the elevation is off. I also notice a few other airports I flew past also had elevation issues like this. Either they were sunk under or uneven. Ii didn't mess with any settings in FTX Global Configuration Tool/Airport Elevation Corrections nor did I mess with FS Global's Pilot Terrain Configuration Tool. Because I'm afraid that I might screw up something more. What do I need to do in order to fix certain airports with elevation problems? Do I use FS Global Terrain Config tool or FTC Global Airp…

These 3 are suppose to be well integrated with one another for weather. But I am getting mixed results. I get an invalid message on the fmc about uploading the des weather, but most of the time uploading the regular weather works, and sometimes its invalid. I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong: I am using the latest PFPX 1.23 and ASN for P3D and PMDG 777... My understanding is that I do my entire flight planning with PFPX and export 2 files, the route file and the wx file into the PMDG 777... When I load up the PMDG 777 and enter my info into the fmc, i upload the wind data and the des data, and i get an invalid error... I'm not sure what's wrong. I have read…

Whenever I hit CTRL+SHIFT+E to enter Avatar mode, the default zoom level is at 0.40. I would like to change this permanently. What file do I need to edit in order to do this?

I fly primarily with an xbox 360 controller. I'm a very casual flyer, so please don't laugh. But this has been bugging me ever since the FSX days and I still can't figure out as to what's causing this. I am using P3D v3, EZDOK 1.18.7 (the latest version)... Whenever I am flying in the virtual cockpit view and use my right thumbstick on the xbox 360 controller to pan my view around and hold it there for a few seconds, it will reset my view back and the screen starts to flicker between 2 conflicting views... how can I fix this? I'm not sure if there's some conflict between EZDOK or not. But I would like for the view to hold as long as I have that right thum…

Hi all, I'm looking for a ficticious Canadian Forces (RCAF) SAR livery that I can apply to the default P3D3 Blackhawk...I've looked hight and low without success...can anyone out the help? Thanks

Hi all, I've been using P3D 2.5 for some time now with all the regular addons (GSX, REX TD, ORBX, ASN, OPUS FSI). However I've noticed that my jetways have been slowly disappearing over the months and now they're almost extinct. It didn't bug me at first but now its a little disturbing since they're almost all gone. Upon doing a google search I found that only a few seem to have this problem and its mostly related to AES. I do not have AES installed (using GSX) and I've checked my scenery library just in case. I do have a few addon airports installed but the funny thing is that this only occurs at default airports. The only thing I have changed recently is th…

Hello, I'd love to be able to purchase a couple of FTX packages but I'm concerned my computer specs are not good enough. Could somebody please advise me on the minimum requirements for an average airport pack - or specifically, Melbourne YMML. Additionally, I'm looking at the Australia SP4 pack. I read somewhere that the Australian SP4 pack requires a processor of 2.6ghz. So I think I'm at a loss, here are my specs: Intel Core i7-2670EM 2.20 GHz Win7 64-bit HDD 950(ish) GB 2GB GeForce GT 540M 8GB RAM Thanks for advice.

Looking for some new European destinations that will take a B738. What airport sceneries wouldn't you want to be without? To mention some of the airports I already own and consider really good to give you an idea what kind of airport sceneries I like they would be... Aerosoft Oslo Aerosoft Helsinki Fly Tampa Copenhagen ...only to mention some of them. Should also mention that I'm only interested in sceneries that are fully P3Dv2.5 compatible meaning they will install into P3Dv2.5 without any fuss and without me having to manually point out my P3Dv2.5 folder etc. Looking forward to hear about your favourite sceneries!

P3Dv3 I usually use 0.6 or 0.7 zoom when in outside spot view. If I switch between outside and VC views more than two or three time, the spot zoom level resorts to default 1.00, which is waaaay to much for my monitor. This the first time I've experienced this. Any ideas?

I am currently working my way through my UK airfield list (in P3D v3) conducting test flights in the A2A Simulations Piper Cherokee 180, and I have noted that a handful of AFD grass runways disappear when I land. These (to date) are as follows.... EG29 Breighton (UK2000 VFR Airfields Volume 2 version 2) - western end of AFD grass runway (and the adjacent AFD taxiway) disappears as I roll out after landing. EGPS Peterhead Longside (Scotflight Photo) - I have added an AFD runway here, and this is visible from the cockpit. However, it disappears in Top Down view. EG0E North Coates (UK2000 VFR Airfields Volume 3) - entire runway disappears after touchdown. I also note t…

I've been away from Prepard3d for several months. In that time v3 has been released and looks like its been confirmed to be a step up from v2.5. I wish to move to v3 but the thought of installing all my addons again makes my head spin. I did notice that Flight Estonia has a migration tool but they say v3 support is still in development. Is there any other options other than wiping and doing a complete re-install of the sim and scenery, aircraft, airports, etc??

Please can somebody give me a little advice. I seem to be experiencing a very poor frame count this is my system. AMD FX-9590 Eight Core CPU (4.7GHz-5.0GHz/16MB CACHE/AM3+) Motherboard ASUS® SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 32GB KINGSTON HYPER-X BEAST DUAL-DDR3 2133MHz X.M.P NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 980 Ti - DVI, HDMI, 3 DP C drive=500GB 3.5" SATA-III 6GB/s HDD 7200RPM 16MB CACHE F drive=1TB VELOCIRAPTOR WD1000DHTZ, SATA 6-Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (10,000rpm) [this is my flight sim drive] 3 x IIYAMA E2273HDS 22" LED WIDESCREEN, 2 HDMI/DVI-D 1920x1080 [set to 5760 x 1080] resolution in game. I am currently running Windows 10 with prepar 3D v3 installed with active sky rex4 …

Hi now the orbx sale is on I'm looking to get Europe England airport I have mid range system, also thinking about Norway,Ireland and n.ireland any advice appreciated.

Hi, I want to get a prop animation in my 2D outside view (I use a hardware cockpit with 3 screens). I want to accomplish something similar like in these Redibird sims I see on the net. They have several screens, but also a bit of engine cowling and the prop animation on the center screen. I mainly use the A2A model, and an modified FSX model. Can anybody tell how to, help or assist me in this. Tnx!

Does anyone have a smooth working profile for Track IR 5 that they might be willing to share? It would really be appreciated!

I really enjoy using this product when flying, however one thing I miss from RealityXP's GNS was the ability to cross fill, including flight plans... F1 really needs to add this feature. I don't like operating the 2 units independently of one another. I usually create my flight plans on one unit and would like to see that being cross filled/synced to the other unit, so the plan will show up on the map. Hope that this will be added in the next update. This would make it so much better. Another thing is when you open the 2D pop-up on the GTN 750. The proportion of the actual LCD screen where the image is being displayed is a bit too tall. You can tell by looking…

I remember using UT2 ai addon for FSX and I could easily see the lights of AI planes in the air. They were so bright. But with MT6 and P3D v3, I can barely notice the lights at all. I don't recall how it looked in P3D v2.5 because it's been awhile. I'm not sure if its because of the AI model that's included with MT6 or something else. Where do the AI plane's get its light source from? The halo.bmp file? If so, does Rex Texture Direct have any effect on why I can't see them?

Has anyone had this happen? Occasionally I go to my plane browser and all my starred selections are gone. I then have to re-star my favorites.

Does anyone know how exactly the crash detection in P3Dv2.5 works? Reading the description of the available options (Ignore crashes and damage & Detect crashes and damage) it says it will either detect or ignore a collision between your aircraft and other objects. What I would like to know is if the ground (in most normal cases a runway) is considered as 'other objects'? Reason for my question is I'm considering to choose the Ignore crashes and damage to avoid "false" crashes caused by bad designed scenery but at the same time I don't want to take away the possibility of a "true" crash caused by myself making a too hard landing for example. I do all my flying …