The Prepar3d Forum

Hello, today while inspecting my Prepar3D.cfg I came across the setting OPTIMIZE_PARTS under the [sIM] section. The default setting is OPTIMIZE_PARTS=0 and out of interest I canged this to OPTIMIZE_PARTS=1 to see what happens. To my surprise it really does optimize something in the sim. I have about 10 FPS more in the PMDG NGX afterwards. I did some testflights with this and couldn't see any other visual differences, but I haven't found any explanations on this option in the net. Does anyone know what it actually does? OPTIMIZE_PARTS=0 http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150314/yck5696m.jpg OPTIMIZE_PARTS=1 http://fs2.directupload.net/images/150314/g3xnlgrg.jpg Best r…

Hi all, I do mainly commerical flights. Short/long for a virtual airline. I went all out and installed FTX Global/Global vector and European Region. Flew LGAV-EHAM got an OOM as EHAM loaded up. I am in the process of removing all ORBX (so confusing trying to do that) and plan to stick with just FTX Global for now. What methods have you adopted? I use PMDG/ASN/REX. Cheers, Dominic Nortney

I'm going to upgrade my processor and I was wondering if P3D would recognize a new processor for a different computer. In other words, do I need to uninstall P3D before making the switch and reinstall after, to avoid a 5013 error?

I think I've finally got to a good working set for all but the PMDG and CS aircraft. Here is a quick test around FlyTampa's Dubai: These are the updated settings I'm going to settle on (maxed out Shadow Cast Distance) ... ended running my monitor at 30Hz rather than 60Hz ... just seems to work better with P3D: http://www.robainscough.com/P3D_Titan_X_4K_Set.html Here is the download link (2GB file) if you're get stutters from YouTube - download and view locally ... I've had excellent success (read very smooth) using CyberLink PowerDVD 14 as an MP4 4K player. https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bw0Q-fAfEZwyVW8xdEVjZnUxRXc/view?usp=sharing For heavy o…

Use Geforce Experience program to update, if it hasn't already notified you. AND it's Hump Daaaayy! Running smooth so far. I don't have 2 cardz so can't report any SLI stats.

Hi guys, Just found this post on the Orbx forums from their CEO John Venema; given the fact that we already know that Orbx have worked quite closely with LM throughout the P3Dv2 development I have no reason to doubt the accuracy or legitimacy of Johns statement...however much I wish it wasn't the case! http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/94698-love-the-new-hd-trees-but/page-2 Quote: "Despite the constant rumours around various forums, LM have absolutely no plans to go to 64-bit because it will effectively kill all third party compatibility not to mention create a huge retooling workload for their own internal scenery and file assets. Their approach is to…

So, I upgraded from P3Dv1.4 to 2.5, and I'm really struggling with one big problem (besides squares around lights which I posted about the other day): I have the worst case of blurries. I have tried every fix I can think of... ALL of them. Usually a little bit of tweaking in combination of setting frame rate limiter to 15 or 20 works well. However, now, it basically looks like the sim just refuses to load textures at all. I tried setting the frame limiter to 10, tried all the tweaks, tried all kinds of settings, and the terrain textures flat-out refuse to load! They just stay blurry. Even if I pause (they will load eventually but only after a long wait). The only way …

Many things in the airports have changed since FSX. Does P3D include new airports runways and such? Thanks.

Hello all, Firstly, my system specs: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.5ghz, GTX 960 2gb, 1TB HDD, Corsair Hydro Series H55 Liquid Cooler. All temps and everything run fine. The FPS I get is great, usually 30-50fps, in heavy weather can drop to 26-30 if I'm in a heavy payware aircraft such as the NGX. The problem I am having, is I can be flying with 40-50 fps, and as soon as I go through cloud, it drops to between 15-25, then once I'm at the cloud straight back up. Using REX soft clouds, but at the lowest RES, with ASN for the weather. I've tried deleting my shaders, but that doesn't seem to help. Have Anti-aliasing set through nvidia at 4xSGSS, FXAA turn…

Is it possible to have a dual installation of the scenery config editor? One for FSX, and one for P3D. Or do we have to change the folder location in the preference each time?

This driver is available now. http://www.guru3d.com/files-details/geforce-347-88-whql-driver-download.html Works well on my side Spirit

I just recently purchased and installed ORBX PNW. All the airports either have elevation problems or trees on the runways. I also just visited Atlanta International and there's no terminals. I had a guy from Avaist take control of my computer BEFORE I installed ORBX PNW. He deleted some things ( don't know exactly what ). Should I re-install ORBX ? VECTOR ? The only thing I could get from My Scenry Library is below. Hope you can make sence of it all , thanks for any ideas.[General] Title=FS9 World Scenery Description=FS9 Scenery Data Clean_on_Exit=TRUE [Area.001] Title=Default Terrain Local=Scenery\World Texture_ID=1 Layer=1 Active=TRUE Required=FALSE [Area.002] Title=D…

Gentlemen, anyone of you experience the same ? When at fullscreen and opening display seetings or atc menu those windows do not appear in p3d but stay in the background. even when minimizing p3d and clicking on them they will not come in front. Same with all win7 windows. they all stay behind the p3d window... Help is very much appreciated. Thank you friends ! Carsten

So, I just realized that 1/2 refresh doesn't work in P3Dv2 due to the fact the sim does not run in fullscreen but there's a thing called Adaptive vsync. My question is does this only work with frames set to unlimited? Can I lock the frames? Most of the time my frames are pretty high but in some areas or with some airplanes they fluctuate a lot which produces stutters. Maybe locking the frames would help (like in FSX) but would Adaptive Sync still work? As you can see I have no idea what Adaptive Sync actually does.. is it something similar to 1/2 refresh rate which I used in FSX and made a huge difference in smoothness? What's the word on P3Dv2 fullscreen.. are they work…

Since a couple of days I have noticed that my OPTIMIZE_DENSE_CLOUDS setting in prepar3d.cfg is being reset to "1" after I shut down P3D v2.5. When I set it to "0" again before firing up P3D it will be reset to "1" on shutdown. This happens no matter if ASN has been/is running or not. Any idea how I can prevent this setting to be automatically reset time after time? Thanks, Hans

Installed it yesterday into P3D using native Aerosoft installer for v2.5. Everything looks terrific, FPS are fantastic, however....no taxiway/runway lights. I already saw the topics regarding this issue, but still have no idea how to fix it. Would appreciate any suggestions including ADE magic tricks. Thank you Dmitriy

I took part in a Vatsim event last Saturday and pressed the button on P3D to sync to system time. However now when I try to start a new flight set to day time it quickly reverts to night time. I've tried everything I can think of to get a flight in daytime but to no avail (It was night time in real world). Is there anyway I can reset P3D to get rid of this issue? Thanks

At 380FL remaining VAS 398MB. PMDG777 stop flying. Why did it happen? Description A problem caused this program to stop interacting with Windows. Faulting Application Path: F:\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D.exe Problem signature Problem Event Name: AppHangB1 Application Name: Prepar3D.exe Application Version: 2.5.12943.0 Application Timestamp: 54e39da6 Hang Signature: 1dd0 Hang Type: 0 OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.48 Locale ID: 1033 Additional Hang Signature 1: 1dd066473f18c2571d1fdfe45eda9979 Additional Hang Signature 2: 3512 Additional Hang Signature 3: 35128986d957517525a6c525d9acf283 Additional Hang Signature 4: 1dd0 Add…

This is starting to get like a yoke. Its beyond me. Tried everything this sunday, even tried HDE v.2 with a teeny tiny improvement but its mostly like this. A truly amazing simulator this is Or should I say what P3D2.5+REX4+Soft Clouds+ASN can produce together..................

Hi everyone, I've an issue with p3d 2.5 ASN & EZDOK well installed & set, both connect to p3d at launch (asn say" connected to p3d" & ezdok app start and TIR blue light is on) so ingame, no weather change & the views don't move a inch... with this, the build in map of ASN is unable to show my aircraft location... please help me thanks a lot

Hi guys, I've been in a constant battle whether I should upgrade to P3D. Some of you know me around and about but I have been simming for over a decade and I do have FSX running ok, I don't suffer from many OOM's at all (can't remember the last one). Specs: I5 2500K @4.7GHZ GTX970 16GB 1600 RAM and the usuals ETC. I am desperately dissappointed that PMDG charge so much to get the p3d version and i think that;s the reason I have held off. I am really seeking more FPS, I am happy with the visuals on FSX and the sim as a whole. I would just like to utilise the gtx970 as my processor pretty much runs at 100% when on vatsim events (CTP anyone?) Sh…

Hi Guys, I´ve just installed a little enhanchement for Coupleville NALF to be usable as FCLP-station with vLSO. The base scenery is Orbx PNW. I belive I have deleted everything which interferes with KNRA (the AFCAD´s which came with Whidbey NAS from MAIW) but the ground level is not correct. MY plane will sink through the ground till it reaches the runway a few feet further down. I´ve got some pictures to illustrate the problem: Has anyone an idea how to fix this?

As a mathematics researcher in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, I'm usually prone to stick to factual evidence when I deal with hardware and software. Unfortunately, I have come to the conclusion that flight sim (P3D 2.5 in this case) is not strictly deterministic, in the sense that, given the SAME initial conditions, it gives you different results in terms of stutters and rubberbanding (that bad visual feeling you have that your speed relative to the ground is going up and down). "SAME Initial conditions" means same scenery, aircraft, date, time of day, weather, running services, no antivirus, and of course same PC. The observed variance…

HI guys I have an odd circumstance with my Aeosoft Heathow Xtended AFCAD. I can see the taxilines of another AFCAD file in the my Aerosoft Heathrow scenery. They are slighly greyed out, but the taxilines are there, alongside the Aerosoft scenery taxiline - which means that another AFX or AFCAD file is present. What's more, my AI are following the rogue AFX arrangement and not the Aerosoft AFX file, so they are misaligned when partking at gates, and when I select a gate in the setup menu, my parking position is also misaligned (or totally incorrect) I have searched for an EGLLafx.bgl (or similar) file but I can't locate one in the P3D/scenery/world/scenery folde…

Hello all, Firstly, my system specs: Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.5ghz, GTX 960 2gb, 1TB HDD, Corsair Hydro Series H55 Liquid Cooler. All temps and everything run fine. The FPS I get is great, usually 30-50fps, in heavy weather can drop to 26-30 if I'm in a heavy payware aircraft such as the NGX. The problem I am having, is I can be flying with 40-50 fps, and as soon as I go through cloud, it drops to between 20-30, then once I'm at the cloud straight back up. Using REX soft clouds, but at the lowest RES, with ASN for the weather. I've tried deleting my shaders, but that doesn't seem to help. Have Anti-aliasing set through nvidia at 4xSGSS, FXAA turn…