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The last couple of days flying my Airbus around FL340-370, I noticed when I looked at an external view I had terrible blurries. Some times they would clear up after 10-20 seconds. I had never had this before, so this was a surprise, and I was trying to figure out what had caused this. At first I increased the FFTF from .01 up to 1.5, but this seemed to have no effect. I still don't understand if FFTF does anything with a multicorp processor like I have anyway. Then I remembered that last week I was playing around with the frame rate setting in P3D and when I switched from 30FPS where I had it locked since day 1, to unlimited, I noticed I gained a few FPS at the ramp whe…

I have Windows 7 64 bit and HIGHMEMFIX=1 in the cfg. I installed Anchorage X last night and as soon as I reach 3gb usage I get the warning. I thought I should not get this unless I got near the 4gb usage.

All I wonder if anyone has actually been able to get p3d v2.5 to work with vatsim ... other than with vpilot. I like both fsinn and sb4 as internal programs but cannot get them to work I have tried several times with Migration tool from FS estonia. It worked with 2.1/4 in legacy mode but 2.5 is different I do not like vpilot only because it loses sound on "loss of focus " Any thoughts from anyone Peter

Just a heads-up to any of my fellow simmers using the 'MSI Gaming App' or its sister application 'MSI Afterburner'. These Apps are commonly used as 'on-the-fly' overclocking utilities and both of these Apps are currently causing problems with DirectX in Windows 10 - with the effect that SOME but not All games can 'hang' or 'freeze'. They have now been acknowledged by MSI to be incompatible with W10 until they can address the problem. If, like me, you have recently been experiencing display problems with P3D (i.e. 'hangs' or 'freezes') and have either of these Apps installed then my suggestion would be to uninstall them and wait for the Official MSI fix to be release…

I bought a new joystick a couple of weeks ago and reassigned the joystick assignments in P3D for the aircraft I was flying at the time, the Airbus. I also have the paid version of FSUIPC and if I remember correctly, I may have assigned some buttons using it, but not positive at this point. I just switched to the Q400, and had some problems controlling flaps, trim etc, and when I looked at the assignments, they were incorrect so I changed them in the P3D controller menu to the correct assignments. Everything worked fine, and then this morning I loaded the Airbus for a few minutes to check something, and when I went to fly the Q400 after that, the same assignments that I h…

I'm not a true expert in how to solve this computer problems, so I'd be gratefull some directions of how to end with this problem. When opening Prepar3D V 2.5.12944 Academic it crashes inmediately after completing the initial scenery library database building. When i look at the Events Viewer I find this report: Description: Nom de l'aplicació amb errors: Prepar3D.exe, versió: 2.5.12944.0, marca horària: 0x54ee1a39 Nom del mòdul amb errors: KERNELBASE.dll, versió: 6.1.7601.18939, marca horària: 0x55afd8e7 Codi d'excepció: 0xe06d7363 Desplaçament d'error: 0x0000c42d Identificador del procés amb errors: 0xff8 Hora d'inici de l'aplicació amb errors: 0x01d0eef843b60c3…

Hello everybody! I'm having a problem with trees and buildings on some of my airports... I think it has something to do with Orbx - particularly Vector. If I disable AEC, I get trees and buildings; If I enable it, I get incorrect elevations with cliffs. What I can clearly see happening is that the airport's Flatten boundary is gone, because rough terrain shows through the runways along with the buildings and trees. Tried all kinds of combinations of layers to fix it but nothing is working. Really don't want to re-do my P3D installation!!

I just reinstalled P3D and installed FTX Global, Vector and UTX EU v2 and USA v2. After that I noticed very bright autogen at night. Any idea what could be tho problem? I'm sure this doesn't look right: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/667756/Screenshot%202015-09-12%2018.07.17.png Anybody had similar problem? Is this maybe normal?

In Prepar3d v2.5 I have Radar Contact bound to a keystoke, but after a while FSUIPC forgets and the keystroke no longer works. When I alt to the menu and reassign the key it starts to work again. Any known fix? Has anyone ever had the same issue? It is really annoying.

I have been very fortunate to have an Oculus Rift Dk2 ( https://www1.oculus.com/order/ ) temporarily provided to me for some evaluation. Also, with Dan Church providing FlyInside ( https://flyinside-fsx.com/ )as an interface to FSX or P3Dv2.5 , you can have an experience that really is amazing. The very large field of view (100 deg or better), decent resolution (there is a Samsung Note 3 OLED display in there), stereo vision, and superb head tracking (orientation and distance from camera) will really convince you that you're inside that virtual cockpit, and hilly terrain (including the Grand Canyon) will leave you in awe. I tried high end Virtual Reality equipment when …

Has anyone tried Radar Contact, Prepar3d, and Windows 10 yet? If so, did you experience any problems? Also, I have Multi Crew Experience...anyone with Windows 10 have success with this add on too?

I shouldn't say perfect because it will vary from individual to individual and is very much monitor(s) dependent on how HDR information is presented to the end user. But for 4K monitor users or anyone interested in increased brightness levels in P3D v2.4 without getting too much clipping of brightness here are some settings that work very well for my setup: \ShadersHLSL\PostProcess\HDR.HLSL Line 10-13: static const float BloomThreshold = 03.25f; static const float BloomMagnitude = 03.75f; static const float BloomBlurSigma = 1.3; static const float TimeDelta = 4.0f; Line 166: avgLuminance *= 0.60f; NOTE: Descrease value (i.e. 0.60 to 0.50) to incre…

Since I began using V2 I had turned the Hyper-threading feature of my i7 3820 off and used an affinity mask of 14, 1110. Through 2.4 this worked quite well and I was pleased with performance and the look of the sim environment. When I made the change to 2.5, I also at the same time, upgraded to REX Texture Direct 4 from Essential Plus (I also have Soft Clouds). V2.5 is fantastic, I was however a little underwhelmed with the clouds. I felt that REX Essential in 2.4 looked better, most of the time. Okay, the topic is about hyper-threading right? Yeah, so yesterday while reading some threads I thought about turning HT on to see if any change was visible. I changed the affini…

Two quick questions: Does anyone know whether the Ireland title includes mesh data? And if 'yes', does this mesh extend into the NIR region? (My reason for asking is, the NIR title didn't include any mesh data on release.) Who are the developers of FTX EU Ireland? My guess is it's still Sim720, but ORBX only mention "a group of developers" ... which basically seconds my conjecture!!! :lol: Thanks for your replies!! EDIT: Found a post confirming that it's actually SIM720 here: http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/69002-eu-irl-my-first-shots/?p=634938 Now only the mesh question remains ... B)

I found an article this morning on P3D tweaks and was curious about some of the settings ( actually do not like tweaking things in P3D if it is running OK) http://arwenevecom.ipage.com/Flight/P3D_Tweaks.html One item caught my attention and that was the Graphics setting in P3D for FXAA. He recommends turning it for a a sharper image saying that when on it rounds of edges. I decided to turn it off to see what the effect was. It was like getting a brand new set of eyeglasses, and seemed to sharpen the focus on the scenery. Where I could really see this is on the gauges in the cockpit of my Aerosoft Airbus. I was always a bit disappointed in the clarity of the gauges …

Does anyone have this installed? Are there any issues with third party mesh or Orbx?

What a great plane!

Not sure if this is the right forum to address this topic.- I finally decided to install v2.5 a few days ago; I delayed a good deal of time because I was happy with 2.4. I uninstalled P3D and all the associated files, then did a complete install of 2.5. Everything went smooth and without apparent problems. I reset and calibrated my Saltek yoke, throttle quadrant and rudder panels. Before I started installing my scenery and aircraft addons, I did a flew flights with the the default Baron, and noticed that the elevator control was hyper sensitive. The slightest pressure back or forward on the yoke pulls the plane violently up or down. Then I tried the default A36 Bonanza: s…

Hi, I'm thinking of switching over to P3D since I've always had a hard time getting FSX to run properly and I also like the prospect of an up to date sim that is updated on a regular basis. I'm just not sure what license I should purchase as a regular sim enthusiast? Also, I'm not certain about whether it really concentrates on hardcore flight simming as I read about this underwater operation thingy? I suppose it does as otherwise it probably wouldn't be so popular within flight simmers. If someone using P3D could provide me a quick heads up I'd be very grateful.

Hey all, I'm having a problem with FTX Orbx Scotland where the scenery gets really blurry, to the point where even if I pause the sim it still stays blurry. Everywhere else is fine, FTX England, Wales, Ireland etc, just Scotland. Any idea how I can fix this? Many thanks, Daniel

Does P3D use hyperthreading, in other words would an i7 run P3D better than an i% because of the hyperthreading capability?

Bert I saw a video on you tube of a Garmin 750 installed into a Hawker 850xp panel. Can you tell us how this is done. thanks Constable

I'm interested in learning more about AI traffic options. Right now I'm using Prepard 3D with a few addon airports CYVR, KSNA, KSAN, etc. What I would like to see is some realistic aircraft parked and moving on the ground. What I mean by realistic is model and airline type consistent with real world schedules to that particular airport. Right now my airports are rather barren and dead. I've only been at this for a couple hence the noob question.

Are there airports of good quality? Looking at ft Meyers and key west.

There were other maps out there but none up to date. All Global freeware airports plus Global Freeware airport packs NA 1-20 and EU 1-7 included. https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?mid=zg4CDEo7W1E4.kowonyERyZ-8