The Prepar3d Forum

Hello. I'm relatively new to P3D and am thinking about trying the RA Turbine Duke. I think I saw somewhere that the RA Turbine Duke will just install straight away into P3Dv2.4 without issues and without the migration tool. Is this true? Are there any issues with this a/c in P3D? I believe the no landing gear/flap sound is a thing for v2 piston and not the turbine, correct?

Does anyone know how to fix this? I have FTX England 1.4 FTX Global 1.3 FTX global Vector 1.2 FTX OpenLC Europe. And the latest libraries Cheers Rob

Hey folks, I have spent quite a bit of time browsing the EZ Dok compatibility threads and I just can't seem to get mine to work. I have done the following: 1. Installed EZ Dok and updated it to 1.17 with Migrator tool from flight sim estonia 2. Downloaded EZ Dok Prepare3d.exe and updated/made sure XML is in the Prepar3d EXE and it is set to Disabled - False - Disabled 3. I ran the configurator and it did pick up all my aircraft in Prepar3d 4. I started Prepar3d and EZ Dok comes up but stays greyed out (the interface doesn't have anything green, as if it just isn't connected). I then quit out of EZ Dok and tried loading it manually to the same result. Also wh…

I "fly" in mountainous country out of the Reno, NV area airports. Sometimes, in order to follow ATC directions, I need a good steep rate of climb. The native propeller aircraft of P3D just can't quite get there a lot of the time. I can, of course, use the Lear 45 but, for short hops, like Reno to South Lake Tahoe, it's a bit of a beast and forget sight seeing on the way! So, if anyone knows of a good addon aircraft, or one of the ones from FSX that I can copy over, that is pretty powerful, please chime in!

Last few seconds of my flight to Tahoe...

Good night, I’m having some issues in Prepa3dv2 with the shadowing, they all look really pixelated and trembling. Hope anybody knows a solution Thank you

I was going to post this as a response to a current thread but I thought I'd start it as a completely new thread as it is a pretty fundemental subject for a flight simulator. We have a diverse crowd of people on these boards with varying degrees of programming/coding knowledgel and flying technical knowledge and sometimes a combination of both. Then you have those know little about either and are often the loudest vessels. I often see terms being thrown about which have been latched onto as buzzwords, but I often wonder whether people fully understand what they are talking about when they use these terms. One which often comes up is 'flight dynamics'. I've been…

Accuracy in this case is not appearance but flight characteristics. In my case I use the Maule and Bonanza from Lockheed plus the C152 from Carenado and the Piper Cub from A2A. Each of these all react in flight a bit differently. Those differences are easily seen as the known differences in the aircraft. I also have the A2a C172. It reacts in a manner that is difficult to explain. The most obvious thing is that setting Trim at the usual labeled indicator results in a very exaggerated nose up takeoff. Even getting it under control requires you to immediately adjust the trim. However, taking off with the trim pointer set near the letter K appears, to me, to be a normal take…

I only get very high clouds, no puffy lower level clouds. I tried some things and requested help on p3d forums, but none of the suggestions worked. I have REX4 TD, ASN, various third party aircraft, lots of yoke/pedal configuration, can I just install again over the top or is there another better way to fix this problem?

Hi! Had to install P3D from scratch because my hard drive suddenly died. I used the opportunity to get FTX Global. Had ASN already. The question is: do I still need REX? OK, 'need' is very relative but in your opinion - does it make sense? And if so - which of the products is the right one? There is REX, REX essential plus, REX essential Plus with overdrive, Rex 4 texture direct... :blink: As I understand, the overdrive feature means HD textures - but (how) do they impact performance? Also there'S a weather engine - but I already have ASN. I'm a little confused right now... Can you enlighten me? Thank you!

Morning All, It's unreal how new I am to P3D - I've ran into something that I'm not too keen on, basically when rolling down the runway there seems to be some kind of 'internal' camera shake which in some aircraft seems to be rather extreme where It's just beyond anything.. Is this something that can be disabled or tweaked?

I'm still learning here folks so, I may not be very accurate with what I'm trying to ask. Right now, I have P3D v2, FSUIPC (full version), Pro ATC/X (m0st recent release), and Radar Contact 4. With Pro ATC/X, it can download current weather by accessing the net and seems to utilize that data very well in determining runway selections. Radar Contact doesn't seem to have the same capability and relies on the user having a method outside of it to obtain weather info... I may have missed something in the user manual though. P3D all by itself has no facility to obtain real world weather but only uses what you select in the options for thge 'type' of weather you…

Saul the moderator over at P3D forums has confirmed that LM are currently working on the x64 version of P3D and although they will give no roadmap or schedule it's exciting to know that it is sort of officially in the works. LM have far and above exceeded my expectations with P3D and their whole approach to the flightsim genre and community. The interactive and open minded approach to our community and addon devs is such a pleasant surprise given the past attitude from Microsoft and the propensity for us flightsimmers to whine about every little thing. The unwarranted sense of entitlement that I often see on the boards would be enough for me to wring my hands and rid …

Just an observation, at dawn/dusk, shadows seem to have an extreme effect on FPS for me in P3D v2.4 - I can rationalize that longer shadows impact more objects at those transition times, hence require a ton more computing power. Minimizing which objects cast and receive shadows minimizes the issue. Has anyone else observed this? Thanks, sg

Good morning AVSIM! I recently uninstalled v2.2 and all addons (everything worked great) and installed v2.4 along with a few addon aircraft and none of my addon aircraft are working correctly. All of the models work perfectly, look great, but I have many system issues, different on all aircraft (all default P3D aircraft work). Here are the ones I have installed and their issues: Feelthere E135/45 - Nothing is clickable Feelthere E170/90 - Displays show enlarged pictures of the autopilot knobs and MCP is not present Aerosoft a320/1 - NAV display will not turn on (all other displays work) A2A C172 - Nothing turns on, mait hangar wont let me fix anything, control…

Is default mesh good enough to use with P3D v2.4 with Orbx ftx global?

Ok so here's my issue for some reason even though I have almost every slider to the right and tessellation set at Ultra my GPU is only running at max 35% load most of the times its in the 20-25% range while my CPU will run from 60-90% load. Overall I've noticed a drop in FPS recently (since 2.4) and I think this maybe the reason. Any ideas on how to get my GPU to do more work? I thought LM had moved load off the CPU and on to the GPU from this it appears they didn't.

Hi I am trying to use a POSKY 777 which is apparently configured for P3D. However the lighting in the VC is so bright that the dials cannot be seen, and the external lighting is that bright you can see through the fuselage, and detail on the tail is totally illegible. Does anyone know how to tone down the brightness at all in this aircraft? cheers Ian

I am currently using REX Essential Plus water textures in P3D v2.3, but I have noticed that the water on one side of my plane looks like a sheet of smooth glass, whilst the water on the other side is textured. I really don't understand why this is the case, but I need to solve it because it is doing my head in! Does anyone else have this problem?

Hi guys, did you find a solution to reduce shimmering in P3D when using TrackIR in VC? I note there is a little shimmering in VC when TrackIR is active, but when I shut down it shimmering goes away completely. I didn't note the same effect in FSX. I use TrackIR 5 and Prepard3D 2.4 with 344.60 driver. Many thanks in advance, Ric

Hi All, So I am a newbie to prepar—I have V2.3... I have been working on installing the sim and as many third party add-on programs as I can without forum help. I must say that the times I have posted for help on the forums I have received great information and help. So here is the deal. I need to get a better overall understanding from the knowledgeable base users about a few important aspects of Prepar. 1. Is there a memory fix in prepar like the one in FSX? 2. Can Prepar better utilize hardware than FSX---if so how much to buy to get better frame rates---what I am trying to get at with this question is this----The old FSX seemed to work better with mo…

Hi freinds Today I decide to installing the FSGRW into my P3D v2.4, Before doing that I've delete my FSX, finally P3D takes its place. After that I've checked my FSUIPC and its still the latest one, starting the FSGRW SETUP, normally and everything normally. I dont think there is any mistake, but when downloading the weather and select P3D 2,4 then click START TRANSFERING button I got massege telling me thats an error occurred while communicating with the simuulator..................blablabla. So whats the accidental point here, is that the FSGRW still not work well with P3D 2.4, I say that because I do the same procedures which got it worked with my FS…

Hi All any good recommends for a good ATC program for prepar 3d . Not in to Vatsim at the moment. Looking at voxatc and piolot2atc any others to consider.

I recently purchased and installed Prepare3d, very happy with myself and looking forward to all the great Ad On's. I bought myself my first Plane Carenado B1900D, i was very excited about my new venture, bit of a disaster though, to make a long story short, im having loads of problems with it that i understand now are well documented, i should of done my homework, i opened up a ticket with Carenado support on friday so im sure they will get back to me in good time. Here is my question, i like to fly smallish and nippy planes, my favorite planes are the Carenado B200 and the C90, these work flawlessly in X-Plane. What smallish and nippy planes work straig…

An issue I've noticed with P3D this grey mass of fog that abruptly ends and leaves a lot of blue sky still visible on the horizon it really kills the immersion. I use FSGRW, is this a problem with FSGRW or a general issue? I tried changing cloud draw distance in the sim but made no difference as to the effect. A broader question as part of this - does FSGRW stack up in comparison to ASN?(rob I know you are a user of both FSGRW and ASN) P.S.- Also I installed cloud textures from REX-E+OD yesterday and started seeing the white shafts, any answer for those? If not I might just revert to the stock, never saw the white shafts before