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Hi, I wanted to know what I can or need to do in order to make my current installation of P3D back to factory defaults. I wanted to do some troubleshooting to see why I'm getting strange frame rate issues. Do I just delete the C:\programdata\user\appdata\roaming\lockheed martin\prepar3d v2\ folder and reload up the sim to let it recreate everything from scratch? Is this safe to do? Because I currently have orbx global, vector, ezdok, asn, rex, and many add-ons installed.

I never imagined how amazingly beautiful and well crafted this plane is when I really started using it with P3D v2.5. I do mostly tubeliners and have slowly started to get back into GA flying, you know, low and slow vfr sight seeing. This aircraft made me want to fly GA even more now. I'm looking into purchasing the GTN 750 for this from Flight1. Does anyone have this setup with this plane and could tell me if it's worth the $65? I'm looking to improve my experience further. Simply hands down the best GA plane for P3D I've flown!

I am going to describe 3 different scenarios that I've noticed while using the sim. Between them I haven't changed or add anything besides mess with the display settings. Particularly the 3 autogen/scenery sliders. Besides that, everything else remains the same. But there's a drastic difference in performance between these scenarios and I'm trying to figure out why. 1) I get about 7-10fps when sitting at the FSDT KDFW airport with ASN, Rex4 Textures, Rex Soft Clouds, PMDG 777, OrbX Global, Vector, OpenLC Europe, FS Global Ultimate meshes, EZDOK, GSX, MyTraffic 6. When taking off into the air it'll slowly go up to 12fps, and once further from the airport to maybe 16-17…

Hi guys I know this as been mentioned millions of times before and before I start I must say I think P3D is better than FSX but with the exception of OOM errors. I have used FSX and now P3D with the following. Ftx global, land class and vector Orbx Scotland and England All uk2k airports Other random European airports Aircraft used are Ngx Majestic dash Aerosoft A319 Utilities ASN Efb Fsuipc Gsx Having flown hundreds of hours on fsx without a single oom I now find myself getting OOM with p3d after about 20 mins of flight. I set myself up a test bed at uk2k Edinburgh in the ngx, take off off line and with no traffic, alt set at 20k feet…

If you have NCA and some spare time, would you mind checking this out for me? I flew above Napa this weekend and noticed the textures not looking quite right. This is not typical Orbx quality, so I figure it my fault. I wanted to make sure though. All throughout the Eastern portion of Napa I get commercial blocks mixed with residential and roads going over residential and commerical sections. Even the water bodies are a bit off. If you can compare from your sim and report back I would greatly appreciate it. I posted up on the Orbx help forums but know they are probably quite busy with recent releases. Thanks all for the help.

Hey Guys! I've been flying a lot on P3D lately, it's awesome! One of the things I got to see though its that the Aircraft shadows (selfshadows and ground ones) look very pixelated. Maybe it's my NI or the P3D settings. Here are some screens. I know that VC shadows look like this (Searched on the forums...) but can I get less pixelated shadows? PC Specs: Operating System: Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit CPU: Intel Core i7 4770K Haswell 22nm Technology RAM: 8,00GB DDR3 @ 2400MHz Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. MAXIMUS VI EXTREME (SOCKET 1150) Graphics: 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 (ASUS GTX 680 DirectCU II - GTX680-DC2O-2GD5) Storage: 1TB Western Digital WDC WD10EZEX…

here is the link to in the aerosoft forums http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/91620-airbus-sp3/ http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/us/iboshop.cgi?show270

I have a problem of either sunken taxiways with green banks everywhere or flat scenery with houses and trees all over the airport at KORD depending wether I disable or enable airport elevation correction with ftx global vector. I have no addons for KORD and no afcad changes and as far i have noticed this problem only applies to KORD.. well.hopefully anyway. Anyone else have KORD problems with ftx global and ftx global vector installed with p3dv2.4 This is driving me nuts. Tony

There is finally new development taking place for SPAD, and it's called SPAD.Next! Here is a link to a survey the developer posted to assist determining priorities. http://fsgs.com/spad-next-survey/ If you use SPAD, please take his short survey! If you're not sure what SPAD is, and you use Saitek panels, here is the original SPAD's home page: http://fstools.weebly.com/ Important note to SPAD "newbies"... If you use SPAD, you *must* uninstall all Saitek driver software, or there will be issues! (Disclaimer: I have no stake in SPAD, other than wanting to see it developed further) -Gavin

So this started after I started to play FSX again. The water used to extend over body's of water in America, including lakes and oceans. It was just America and now its everywhere because I tried to replace the terrian.cfg with someone elses .CFG they posted in a similar topic and then it started to go everywhere in every body of water. I do not have UTX installed. I have ORBX FTX GLOBAL installed but I unticked in the scenery libiary and deleted the folder in FSX main folder Here is a image: http://gyazo.com/e254cb422a6bc0c7545e7e96a0b3f53f This texts comes up everytime I start FSX: http://gyazo.com/238716b1ca0d5a6bdbbdb761760c4329 Please Help?

Hi All, This is a question for Rob Ainscough or anyone who is finding reduced performance in 2.5. Rob I have installed P3D 2.5 on a fresh install of W8.1 on an ageing computer. (2700K OC 4.8 & Titan Black) I had 2.4 running at unlocked frame rates with only a few stutters and long distant blurries but tolerable. After reading some of your experiences with a 4K HDTV I launched out and replaced my three 30in screens with a 4K 55in. To my surprise I was delighted to see the blurries gone and only a slight stutter with higher frame rates but the experience was wonderful. I assumed 2.5 would be an even better improvement? Now if I run P3D with a stock aircraft the …

After long hours flying from EGLL to SBGR guess what... Flying to the final approach, P3D crashed OOM! Using a Asus GTX680 DirectCU II Top 2GB + 16gb Corsair Platinum 2600mhz.... My settings are exactly as Rob posted on his blog: http://www.robainscough.com/Prepar3D_Settings_2.html My scenery instead of 2048 is 4096, but I use only one monitor of 1080p. It's very frustrating to get this stuff happening this days... Got this message: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0xC000014B): Exce…

Hello All ! FSX Global, Vector, AP Pack Just installed MK-Studios KSNA. FSX crashes and reloading the scenery upon TD. I was trying to start the flight from KSNA but the same symptoms Any idea Thanks in advance Yair

For some reason I only discovered this tonight. A few comparison pics of the visual difference and fps difference between terrain shadows off and on (30km) I literally have my fps cut in half for the most part. Is this the same on everyone's rigs? ON ~ 56 FPS OFF ~ 115 FPS

In P3D 2.5, opening up the scenery library in the sim, whether you modify the library or not, causes a fatal error and a CTD. I have the usual ORBX, UTX and some FSDT airports installed, all of which seem to be OK. Other than this, P3D works fine in all respects. If anyone has any thoughts I would appreciate it.

Hi guys, I registered at Orbx Support Forum on monday evening. Still no approvement from the moderator. Does this usually take that long?

Good afternoon, I have been trying to download prepar3d v2.5 for two days now but I keep getting download failure. It starts out saying to would take 2-6 days then jumps to 36 days and fails to download. I was able to download my traffic v. 6 in 15 minutes. Has anyone else experience issues with downloading from Prepar3d? Thank you, MC

Anyone know of what is going with nvidia and a sli profile? I am wanting to merge from fsx to p3d v2.5 And have 2 titan sc ready to rock. But will not merge until sli works Thanks

I've tried to access the GTN forums at simforums.com, but I can't even recover a password there. My issue I'm having is I have the latest hotfix taking p3d to .45 version, but the GTN 750 won't turn on. I purchased and used the new installer (which is supposedly compatible with the latest hotfix), but I keep getting an error stating "it's either installed also for fsx (not true) or you are using too new of a version of p3d. Anyone else having this problem?

Hello, Having just downloaded the latest Orbx libraries, with the new FTX Central 2 incorporated, I discover there is an updated version of YBCS available , so I have to uninstall from FSX in order to download and install the new, am I right in thinking the procedure for doing this is:- 1. Delete YBCS from the FSX scenery library...no matter its position in scenery order 2. Manually delete YBCS folder from ORBX,FTX AU folder 3. Manually delete cpl_ybcs & scenerylib ybcs from the ORBX scripts folder 4. Manually delete ybcs from the ORBX user guide folder Advise appreciated Regards Mike Michael King

Anybody tried this tweak posted over at LM: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/topic/z-fighting-on-textures-shimmering-p3dv-2-5/ gb.

In a article at Prepar3d 'Fueling and Loading Aircraft' it discusses the importance of understanding the centre of gravity. http://www.prepar3d.com/SDKv2/LearningCenter/getting_started/aircraft/fueling_and_loading_aircraft.html having said that I'm having a problem in achieving the correct c.o.g when adjusting fuel or payload, just can't get it to be inside the limits, its always appears forward of the limits shown . Have zero'ed fuel and payload but it doesn't seem to have much affect. Just wondering if any one else is having the same issue. bob

Having referred Steve's comments on this post, I have tried everything I can do for anti-aliasing, but it doesnt do the trick... http://forum.avsim.net/topic/462722-really-bad-antialising-in-p3d-25v/ Firstly, I have selected P3D profile in NVIDIA Control Panel, restored and applied it. Secondly, I made a change there in order to create a new profile, aniso mode to 16x in my case. Thirdly, I got into Nvidia Inspector, loaded p3d profile, chose from the "Antialiasing - Transparency Supersampling" settings according to my p3d perferred setting (in-game 4xMSAA; NI 4xSGSS) AND HERE IS THE RESULTS. CASE 1 : in-game 4xMSAA + NI 4xSS + CP Aniso 16X CASE 2 :…

Hi, I know this sounds like an "interesting" idea - has someone tried to combine,i.e. install the Just Flight expansion packs for their Constellation into P3Dv2? Thank you and Best Regards Frank

So I've noticed with REX4 there sees to be some overlap where grass is laid as part/all of the taxiway texture. Doesn't seem to happen at all airports just some. KATL & KRDU are an example. Only other scenery addon is FTX Global.