The Prepar3d Forum

Hi guys, I'm hoping someone can help me. I had UTX and Global Base installed for FSX. I got Vector in the recent sales so I uninstalled UTX and installed Vector. However I don;t have any lights along the roads. I have an odd smattering of 3D lights but nothing along the Vector Roads. I've treid going to a few different locations and its always the same. I have even uninstalled Base and Vector and reinstalled but no joy! Can someone please please help?

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Hello, I'm thinking of changing to P3D from FSX. I have a nicely running FSX with a number of well working addons. My question is can you tell me if the following addons work ok with P3D? I know the answer to some but thought I would add my entire list. Thank you and for any comments, thought etc. Cumulus X Winch X Simlogger Aerotow Plan G Rex Essential + Overdrive FS recorder Face Trac NOIR Track IR Wolfgang Pipers Gliders

Hello everyone I can’t reach Scenery Libary it says”area xxx already exists” I think ı’ve solved it using another programs but after ı had installed Taxi2Gate LTBA scenery http://imageshack.com/a/img912/1569/A2gKgM.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img907/8955/49pT7X.png http://imageshack.com/a/img673/6151/vgZxTu.jpg http://imageshack.com/a/img537/4199/sGW6Ln.jpg this happens

Hi guys, have done research and YouTube viewing on this but nothing like insight from those who have this set up.. I use Jeehell A320 software so my display is really just the scenery out the front window (2 monitors for gauges below).. My question is at the moment i have a 3840x1080 resolution due to 2 x 27" monitors used as one... The projectors that are high def are heinously dear in NZ.. would it be a catastrophe to have a lesser resolution for the outside views? It looks like the commercial sims and motion simulators don't run 1080? Ideas before i buy? Thanks guys Doug

I just bought Rex Soft Clouds and have only flown one flight with them. Is it me or are there no cloud shadows when using Soft Clouds?

Hi there, running FTX England, along with Global and vector in P3D v2.4 and in the configurator have it set to global, with hybrid more, orbx trees and vector road lights all ticked, but when flying around England there are no street lights at all, is there something I am doing wrong? Thanks, Daniel

Running 2.4 SweetFX installed, but colors appear to be washed out in general and environment a bit dark. Also running Nv Inspector with similar settings to those for FSX. Are there any recommended settings for Nvidia inspector for a set up like mine? (See under signature) Are these issues related to the Shaders whether Prepar3D or FSX? I've read a number of posts but it's not clear to me what path to follow. Much obliged for some feedback.

After giving it a lot of thought I finally bought DBS Airport GPS. It's quite cheap but for what it offers it could be cheaper. Anyway, it won't run... I keep on getting errors about MSVCR120.dll not being on my PC. I run Windows 8.1. I did install Visual Studio 2013 and copied mfc120u.dll into the DBS folder, so I've done everything I should be, but none of the available exe's work... And of course the sim sees nothing. So I was wondering if anyone here has this addon working with P3D 2.3 on a Windows 8.1 PC...? If so, how the heck did you do it!?

Just about to format new drive and clean install P3D. I have just got ORBX Global 1.3, so do I still need to install v1.1 & v1.2 first or can I just install v1.3 ? Cheers

No really, I broke it, but it does work great now! Caveat: What I did is probably wholly useless for the high-flying commercial pilots - this is strictly a GA environment with Orbx terrain and textures. First, some background. I purchased P3D V2.4 for my Christmas gift and have been fighting it for the last three weeks to improve terrain textures. I fly strictly GA, maybe a bizjet or two, and find that ground textures, clarity, and crisp autogen are paramount to my flying experience. After all, if I were in a real GA airplane I would not be fiddling with the FMS or other distractions. Nope, I would be scanning the sky, but equally importantly, scanning the ground.…

Prepar3D v2.4 was installed and registration completed with no problem. On running the splash screen displays for a while then nothing. It was uninstalled then reinstalled. Still the same. FSX runs fine. System Intel i5 4690k 3.5GHz 4 core Asus z97k motherboard Asus GeForce GTX 760 graphic card Windows 8.1 pro 8gb memory 2tb hard drive

As a previous user of FSX, though not recently I have taken the plunge and bought a P3D academic licence. I must say that compared to FSX out the box that P3D is a revalation. I'm now looking for some decent photreal scenery for the Uk and ireland for VFR flying. What are othrs using? any reccomendations please? Gweebarra

Just 2 months into this hobby and I've been buying a lot of paywares. Just bought Mega Airport London Heathrow Xtended and I noticed the surrounding has photo scenery which is nice, but I wish the scenery designer would use photoshop to remove the photos of cars/trucks on the road. It kills immersion when AI traffic is running over those cars/trucks photos. I noticed that a number of payware has this issue, but I was a bit surprised that Mega Airport London Heathrow Xtended has this issue since it's a fairly new premium payware. jimmy

I have FTX Global currently running with UTX (not bought FTX Vector yet) I am going to purchase Open LC Europe today. Has anybody tried this combination? Global + Open LC + UTX (instead of vector) If somebody is running this mix, what settings need switching off in UTX for it to "blend" into LC? I will eventually purchase Vector, but might as well see what UTX looks like with it first...

Hi all I recently flew through Europe, and noticed I forgot to install a region of open Lc. Because I'm very carfull with what I install, I was wondering. Where does the "south" region start? And "north?. Is there a map or such? I couldn't find it. Vkr Victor

http://www.microsoft.com/microsoft-hololens/en-us https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qym11JnFQBM This should also get around the problem of keeping visibilty of controls (which is an issue with closed units like the Oculus)...

Hi, I'm just in the process of changing over from an ATI card (HD 7850 2GB) to a nVidia card (GTX 670 2GB). I last tried P3D2 in Autumn last year (purchased a 1 month dev license), and it didn't run well at all with my system and the ATI card. I'm looking for advice on whether people think this system would have a chance at running P3D2 now, with half decent AA/AF ;- i7 2600k 3.4Ghz (can't be OC'd), GTX 670 2GB, 8GB RAM DDR3, Win 7 64bit I'm only looking for medium settings overall but perhaps with some basic cockpit shadowing. Not bothered about terrain shadowing at all. Do I stand a chance with the above system? Thanks in advance for your vi…

Hi folks, I am a little confused here is I need to get FTX Global Mesh. I have Global and Vector and from what I understand Vector has some mesh (to be honest I'm kinda confused as to the difference between what global does (replace autogen graphics), what Vector does (seems like landclass), Regions (again seems like landclass + better data for region) . The things in parentheses are my guess. But the main issue is should I pull the trigger and add the FTX global mesh product to round it all out. Thanks.

Generally speaking I'm a bit of a low 'n' slow GA kind of pilot. I just love the A2A C172 & C182 flying above detailed ORBX scenery, but recently I've moved on to the Aerosoft Airbus A318/319. I'd never really enjoyed the tube liners before but these just won't let go. They keep me coming back for more. My question is: Is it worth forking out for the A320/321 as well as it's essentially the same aircraft only larger. Or am I wrong? Are there any/many differences in flying the bigger brothers? Thanks

I made this example video... ...some highres textures are only loaded directly below the aircraft and this drives me crazy. Distant Mountains or rocks are looking plain ugly. According to response in the LM Forum this is normal behavior. My hardware is GTX970 / i5-4690k 8GB Ram, i have all the common Orbx Addons. Video is made with maxed out settings, but it dont matters, with lower settings the texture loading is very annoying as well. Please tell me there is something that can be done against this immersion breaking problem.

I noticed that if I set my "scenery complexity" slider to the center (which I believe is the "normal" setting), all of the airport jetways are gone (at least in Chicago airports: KORD and KMDW). Is this normal or do I have an issue here? Running P3D 2.4. I have to set the slider all the way up to get all the jetways back (in-between settings produce increasing amounts of jetways). Thanks-

Here are the differences in the HDR.HLSL from v2.2 (left side) to v2.4 (right side). If you feel adventurous go ahead and edit the file (located in ...\ShadersHLSL\PostProcess) to match v2.2. WARNING: I have NOT done this, so proceed at YOUR OWN RISK. I did however get permission to post this. Be sure to delete your Shaders folder (i.e. C:\Users\[youraccountname]\AppData\Local\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2\Shaders) before starting P3D v2.4. warning large images (2088 x 2069) - you'll need to view images full screen in order to read text. I don't want to make this a sticky as it's untested with v2.4 code. As always, suggest you backup the original H…

Hello, Whenever I click on the Vpilot window when using the asairbus, the left fmc gets stuck on the ident page. Can anyone shed light on this situation?

I have a number of programs running concurrently with P3D. I would like to determine which cores (4770k with hyperthreading on) P3D uses, so that I can set the affinity for the other programs running at the same time. I could set the affinity for P3D and then move other programs elsewhere. However, I understand 2.4 prefers not to have affinity set. I have Process Lasso to set the affinities. However, it does not monitor CPU usage by process over time. -is there a utility to log usage -easier question...are the cores used by P3D already identified. If so, pls ignore first question. -am I wasting time trying to move other programs to cores not used by…