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I expect that I will need to go to the Orbx support forum for this matter but thought I would try here first as in the past getting help there has taken some time. My sticky problem is sticky scenery ie frequent micro pauses lasting less than 1 second (usually) whenever I fly with FTX global and hybrid mode enabled or when I fly in any of the full Orbx scenery areas within the Europe or North America regions (which of course is without hybrid). If I disable hybrid and just have FTX global then the problem goes away. Also I don't have the issue in Oceania with or without hybrid. I get the pauses with all aircraft even the default ones but notice it most with the co…

Hello everyone, I have started my P3D v2.5 as usual and today, I found that my airplane panels has disappear... Why, I don't know. Maybe I've done a wrong handling or touch the wrong key. Hope you could find a solution. Ludo

Hello, I have installed P3D 2.5 (2.5.12943.0). Now I realized, that the controls sensitivity slider is not working or has a minimal effect: Even if you reduce for example airleron sensitivity on the slider to 1, sensitivity is very high. The same is true, if you adjust sensitivity by FSUIPC. Has someone experienced the same problem? Does anyone know a workaround? Kind regards Arndt

Is there any way to adjust the brightness of the moon in p3d?

Ok...I have v2.5 downloaded from about a week ago. I have not installed. My question is: I have a great running v2.4 with all my 3rd party add-ons running as well. I just came off a flight around raining Hana, Hawaii. The question asked is; Is there truly enough of a difference visually, and/or sim performance-wise, to at this time, to basically wipe out a perfectly running v2.4 installation and all the 3rdP add-on's, and then run v2.5 and the state of affairs with 3rdP programs as it stands this morning? Do any of you, that have installed, have any regrets for doing so at this time, over your stable prior, v2.4? Do you feel any (perceived) improvements bec…

Hi Simmers and Developers Just curios to find some information regarding Upcoming 64bit for Prepar3d, I Want to know when prepar3d 64bit released, how VAS management will be done, likewise normal today prepar3d 32bit when i load PMDG 777 with Addon Scenery the maximum VAS usage u will have 1.3GB to 1.5GB at pre-flight to 600-700 MB VAS Memory left when landing with continues flight, so i am just wondering how about in 64bit what is the maximum it can go with, Best Regards

Does anyone know if there is a utility available for P3D2, that would facilitate a "free roam" style camera, that I could use to perform a walkaround, of my aircraft? I own OpusFSX but cannot see the capability anywhere - just custom camera views / DHM, etc. I saw this product ;- http://secure.simmarket.com/dbs-studio-walk-and-follow-fsx.phtml .... but it's very old, and a review on there states it's not compatible with TrackIR, which I use. Also don't know if it would work with P3D2. I don't need complex camera capabilities a la Ezdok, I'm purely looking for a way to navigate right around the aircraft, if this is possible. I remember being able to do…

here is a guide i posted on the REX forums to get a little bit more beauty out of your prepar3dv2. My setting are very subtle but you guys can play with it. Now that prepar3d v2 is out, I thought it would be a good idea to put a guide for anybody that wants to enhance their prepar3d experience by adding a shader injection. In this case we will use sweet fx and flightfx GUI since regular enb doesnt work in dx11 and FXAA tool seems a bit buggy in prepar3d v2. This guide should also work for fsx dx9 and dx10 but will need setting adjustments. Right, so lets get to it. 1. download flightfx here : http://www.777studio...ightFX_V1.0.zip 2. donwload my se…

just wondering if anyone else has this issue? Not a big deal but at orbx kpsp the windsocks are just rapidly moving in all directions. Thanks.

Hey everyone, I don´t know what I should do. I have tried everything. I have just a normal Master Card and have tired to purchase Prepar3d for 4 days now. The problem is that I´m getting the same error message over and over saying me: We´re sorry, but the credit card gateway is temporarily unavailable. Please try again at a later time. An administrator has been notified. I have already written in the Prepar3d forum but no answer there. I have already written an E-Mail to Prepar3d but the only answer is: Hello, We are sorry for the inconvenience. Please feel free to try again now and make sure you are using a valid form of payment for your purchase. Have a …

Greetings, I am unhappy with the behaviour of some of my scenery. I don't want to reinstall everything. I have an image of my virgin 2.5 install. What if I delete my scenery, effects, and texture folders; my scenery.cfg and terrain.cfg files; then replace with virgin files (will uninstall/delete current scenery first). Maybe I would also have to remove entries from dll.xml and maybe exe.xml. Would I then be able to start over with scenery? I could restore the image, but my OS drive is synchronized as well and I don't want to lose changes to OS and simlator drives. Would there be scenery entries lurking in the registry? Any advice would be most apprec…

Hi, Sorry I'm a bit new using P3D. I know P3D extracts the Airline Callsigns from the aircraft.cfg's. Because there was a shift in how things got names between FSX and P3D, I have a lot of duplicate callsigns. For example: AMERICAN and American, DELTA and Delta. I am using v2.5 and wondering where are these callsigns being stored so I can fix them. I have fixed the offending .cfg but the duplicate callsign still shows up. Thanks, Jhan Jensen

Hi. I'm looking for a good download manger. So I can download updates from orbx support. for pnw. chet two wolves

Hi, Just found out about this program and installed along with the required VLC player, but I'm not able to get it to work. Supposedly, once you select a frequency on com1 that you have a liveatc.net pls file for, it should open VLC and start playing. VLC won't open for me. I contacted the developer but haven't heard back, so I figured I would try here. Thanks I do have a registered version of FSUIPC Also running Win 7 64bit. Not sure if that is an issue or not.

Just switched to P3D, I had this working with FSX in network configuration. For some reason I just cant figure this out to get P3D to work. ASN is on my client computer and P3D on my server. When I load P3D I see simconnect dialog box in the back ground working, WideFs connects just cant get ASN, says waiting for simulator and all the top options are grayed out where I cant press them. I followed directions on ASN manual. I have P3D saved right in my C drive, C:\Prepare 3D V2--------would that make a difference? On my server computer when I look at the simconnects under control panel/programs I see 3 Microsoft SimConnects and 1 ESP SimConnect, on my clie…

How does AI traffic work? Does it just pull planes from your /SimObjects/Airplane directory and randomly place them around based on your traffic/airport slider setting? I came across World of AI today and would like to get some more variety of airplanes at my airports.

I'm not really sure how to export flight plans to P3D, if you figured it out, please advise.

Henrik released a fix today for the wake issues in 2.5: http://forum.avsim.net/topic/459116-global-ai-ship-traffic-fsx-and-p3d-news-and-support/page-11

Hello, I've installed P3D 2.5 and am repopulating it with addon airports as I go. I had FSDT DFW in v 2.4 with no problem but in 2.5 I'm missing ramp, runway and taxiway textures just on the east side of the airport. Has any had any experience with this happening? I have FTX Global, FTX Global Mesh and FTX Vector installed also. Any help would be appreciated.

I'm trying to figure out whether there's an issue with the Nvidia drivers, Prepar3D 2.5 or my OrbX/libraries installation. If you enable the options "Volumetric grass" and "Seasonal crops" at OrbX WA79, does your grass look like this too? It looks kind of pixellated and blurry and not volumetric at all. All the other grasses and vegetation works fine. I don't know if any other airport than WA79 uses volumetric grass yet. http://imgur.com/8mREk0w http://imgur.com/FJxNnWv http://imgur.com/m9zMb9H

The 9.6m looks tempting coast to coast. Thanks in advance

I understood that in P3D v2.5 only the Shaders folder is kept at C:/ Users/ Myname/ AppData/ Local/ Lockheed Martin/ Prepar3D v2. In mine, as well as the Shaders folder, I have a P3D default.fxml and default.wx files and an effects folder which, if I use the VisualFXTools will contain the last fx file that I opened. Surely this isn't right. If I delete them, they are replaced next time I start P3D. /Russell.

Can anyone help? I’m wondering if it is possible to turn off/cancel or reduce the effect whereby when turning or on certain headings the aircraft panel falls into shadow depending on the position of the sun relative to the aircraft. This is at times making the instruments difficult to read and I would rather the panel was nice and bright all the time despite the suns position.I have aircraft casts shadows on itself turned off. This does stop things like canopy frame causing a shadow but not the overall shadow that is cast on the panel or aircraft interior. Thanks in anticipation!

I would like to have a dry and not so green looking land class/ texture for Phoenix and Las Vegas. Was wondering if anyone has any ideas other than waiting for Orbx US land class on how to get a more brown and dry look? Have not tried any of the other commercial land class products such as Scenery Tech or XClass if anyone has please comment. Thanks

Hi, Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere or repeatedly, and I appreciate your patience if that's the case; but can the ATC and Kneeboard pop up windows in P3D2, be made transparent? I really dislike the solidity of these windows in P3D, and cannot see any advantage to not having partially transparent pop up dialogue boxes, as per FSX. Any pointers? Thanks in advance.