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After all the reviews, I took the plunge and ordered v3 yesterday. Managed to get my orbx scenery installed and working using the folder renaming method, and just seen the info for installing the Aerosoft A320 bundle. Tried to install the Q400, and while appeared to install ok, was running in jerk-o-vision and just wasnt right. Anybody else tried to install the Q400?

I was testing the new nVidea "Shadowplay" and the Eaglesoft Liberty XL2 in Prepar3D v2.2 this afternoon. Please do not laugh too hard at my crappy landing on Rwy2 at KGYY. What amazed me is that running Shadowplay did not appear to affect my framerates much at all. Maybe 2fps at worst.

System Specs: 2x GTX 980ti's 6 core Ivybridge CPU running at 4.5ghz (dont remember the model off the top of my head) 16gb of ram 2xCorsair SSD's in Raid 0 Flightbeam KSFOHD with the latest patch using the new F35 Lightning 2. No other addons, default traffic, with clear skies. Used Robs settings from his Heli V3 video Departed 27L about 10 miles from the airport went into a vertical climb to about 18,000 ft. Stalled, flipped back around and approached the airport from the west side. When I was about 5 miles from the airport she crashed all together and the OOM message popped up. Whole flight was about 5 minutes. Not the most scientific report I …

After installing patches for several of my ORBX products, the files for many of my sceneries have completely vanished! Entire folders have been wiped! I first noticed this with the Vector files. Then, on the next start, more of the folders were gone!

So I bought FTX Global today for P3D and i disabled the utx road lighting to see the FTX lights in action but I now see no 3d autogen lights and only see flat ground texture lights. Can someone please help me on how to configure FTX lights with UTX?

For the longest time I've been a FSX FEX user. I never used "the competitor's" product. In P3D v2.5 I copied my FSX FEX files over that worked ok. But in v3 I've just been using default clouds. They are ok but look a bit cartoony. I noticed the Soft Clouds at REX and they look pretty nice. Do I need to buy some other package first? Do these work in P3D v3? What do people think about REX clouds? I would be using the cloud textures with OPUS FSI.

I tried the sweet fx that I had in V2.3 nad move it over to V3 and it seems work without any issues But I the colors were not as vivid as in P3D v2 so I tried modifying the sweet fx settings.txt and then resized the winfow for the change to take effect but nothing changes... I then did some extreme setting to make sure..and yeah no changes But there is a difference from default to sweet fx (when I hit "pause/break" key..so that confirms sweet fx woks)

I wanted to simulate a realistic scneario where I would start off at the gate of KSFO in the PMDG 777. Starting off with a cold and dark start up of the plane, and then do my flight planning with PFPX app, exporting the file, and then loading it into the plane's FMS. Now as far as vectors showing up in my SID or STAR when pulling up the routes page in my FMS... will P3D's built-in ATC system actually vector me to my next waypoint? or do I have to delete the vector entry completely from my flightplan? I notice the PMDG 777's tutorial on the flight to OMDB, that there's no ATC interaction at all, and there's no vector waypoints showing up in the FMS. But so…

Hmm, All this lovely new P3Dv3 and yet i still have some issues around England i just cant seem to overcome. Right now on a trip between EGKK-ENGM using FTX Global with OPLCEU and UTX2.1 roads and on the ground VAS is fine. Around 2.8-2.9GB. Flying on Vatsim as IBK2808 and Tower instructs me to use 26L CLN3X departure . A quit 6000 feet travel up to CLN and before you know it i am at 3.6GB VAS with LOD at 4,5 and Autogen on normal. These numbers makes me feel like i am still at version 2.5. No way i had and OOM already at that point in 2.5. But something just had a lovely dinner eating about 700MB of VAS leaving EGKK by UK2000. I had EGLL disabled offcause…

Hi! Even though it is not stated on FSPilotShop website, does FSDreamteam products such as KLAX v2, JFK v2 and Honolulu work in P3D? For instance, it says that KLAX v2 is only for FS9 and FSX... http://www.fspilotshop.com/fsdreamteam-los-angeles-lax-for-fsx-and-fs9-p-5530.html

Could somebody when they have time fly out of KPHL up to about 7000 feet and see if they see long streaks into the air from the factories around the rivers. It looks like what the bridges were doing in 2.4 before they fixed the issue. Now I'm seeing it with smokestacks. You can fly out of 27R up to 7000 then turn to a heading of 180 and look back toward the airport and see if you see this issue. I use the F22 and only takes about 5 minutes. Not sure what is causing my issue but if nobody else sees this I will restore from my ghost I made at install as something may have corrupted my files. Thanks you in advance.

Hi Everyone Hmmmmm .. this is an interesting one I installed Prepar3D Version 3 a few days ago and then went through the arduous task of installing most of my addons which went very well indeed ... I span the simulator over three 26" screens and a fourth 22" screen to put FS Commander on I was extremely pleased with how fluid P3D was until I installed and loaded FS Commander 9.6 It doesn't matter whether I place FS commander on the 4th screen or position it in a small windows on one of the three spanned screens .... as soon as I load it the stutters are awful ... If I close it with the sim running P3D smooths out beautifully So without a doubt t…

Hi Guys, Having a strange issue with the configuration tool. In the Airport Elevation Corrections tab the simulator drop-down box is grey out and wont select anything. If I try and run the Auto-Configuration I get an error message saying Please select a simulator from the drop-down first! I have also tried running the config tool as admin to no success. Any ideas?

It appears that in P3Dv3, there is no full screen mode (as such). Mine is behaving as is if its only a borderless windowed view. Is this correct, or have I 'broken' something;-) Also, if this is normal, that suggests the setting I use in nVidia Inspecter (1/2 refresh rate, would probably either not work, or even be detrimental to P3D performance?

When I go into the load scenario menu for p3D V3 , when I select a scenario, it gives me the option to delete the file. First of all it says the files are in C:\Users\name\appdata local\lockheedmartin\prepar3Dv3 but there are no saved files in that directory. Then if you select the trash can symbol after highlighting a saved scenario, it gives you the option of deleting it. As you delete the files, the number of remaining files drops by 1 for each delete. After deleting a large number of files, I quit P3D. Upon booting the program up again, and looking in the Load scenario menu, all the files that I just deleted are back there again. Is the menu structure just screwed…

I have just noted that the REX guys are offering 50% discounts on some products in the Black Friday sales. I would be tempted to purchase REX4 Texture Direct at the sale price.....if I knew for certain that it would solve my neverending problem with static water textures in P3D. I was rather hoping that upgrading to P3D v3 would solve this problem, but it has not. I am sure that many REX4 users will say that they have visible movement and wave animations up to several thousand feet, but unfortunately that does not convince me that the same will be true on my PC. I use REX Essential Plus SP3 at the moment, and this was also supposed to have been tweaked to solve this prob…

A huge thank you to Rob Ainscough and others for blazing the trail on this. They helped get me here. I had been considering the move but wasn't sure the system could handle it. Having heard the pros and cons, and having briefly considered a 21:9 1440P setup, I took the 4K plunge: BenQ 32" added to my X99 setup. 5820K running at 4.5GHz on Swiftech AIO. A GTX-980 ti. Windows 10. P3D 3.0, ORBX scenery and Majestic's Q400. .02 FTFF 2048 or 4096 texture. 4X MSAA and 16X anisotropic. An affinity mask leaving the first core and a logical on the second open. Sliders mostly maxed, with the exception of cloud shadows and reflections Cloud draw at 80. Cloud cover med…

Hellow friends This one is pretty much the best i have achieved yet i think Hope you enjoy :wink: http://www.avsim.com/topic/478865-snapshot-dash8-meets-san-francisco-max/ Michael Moe

May everyone and their families have a happy Thanksgiving.

This is new and puzzling. It only happens with A2A aircraft, the C182, C172, and the P-51. If I load those aircraft in North America, I have no problems. However, if I move to outside North America, example, Europe, I get CTD with the fault of ai_player.dll. This happens with no other aircraft. I use Prepar3d V3.0. Have Orbx global, Global openLC Europe. Any suggestions?

Just an video of amazing Redding http://www.avsim.com/topic/478853-snapshot-into-redding/ Michael Moe

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Who is using what in relation to global or regional mesh packages? I've been looking at the Freemesh X downloads. Can anyone recommend anything...payware or freeware? I'm particularly looking for good African mesh. Thanks erich

If using NVI because you can't take the blurries that appear in the sim without NVI, I have experimented with a temporary solution for the FPS drop in clouds. Turn off HDR. Try it, it seems to lessen the FPS drop in clouds when using NVI. Down the road, when I get a 4K monitor, I may drop NVI and just use in sim settings, but for now high end addons like PMDG and Aerosoft Airbus just simply do not look as good inside and out without NVI help. HDR off seems to ease the FPS problems using NVI. I use the Rob Ainscough NVI settings. I also do not pin my sliders to the right, I have found a good balance for my rig which is basically an i7 4770k OC 4.2, 6GB GTX 980ti and16GB ra…

A total sim novice with lots of money and no clue how to fly once posted how he could get a tool to fly the plane for him, so that he can just be pax and enjoy the views. Well ProAtc co-pilot is that so long as you can takeoff and land yourself. purchased years ago, just tried first full flight and defiantly light years belter than RC4, that is as a whole package. Voices better, GUI much much better than rc4, get off your waypoints and Rc4 is better. ProATc works nice, even vectoring better than rc4, but proatc only works if you are in sync with it on way points, for which it provides Direct option for you to fix this when it happens. Provided you don't no…