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Just and FYI -- FFTF has been updated for 5.3HF2.

It sure seems quiet lately on news and new releases in P3D. I guess the anticipation of the FSlabs sharklets update kept me interested for quite some time. At the risk of getting shot here at avsim what is there to look forward to in P3D? Is development drying up?

Hello all, P3D v4.5 starts up running well and then performance slowly starts to diminish to the point where it is unflyable (60fps down to 0-5 fps). This occurs no matter what settings I use; all sliders to the right or left. This is a new issue that more or less came out of nowhere. I have made no changes to the sim in the last 9 months and that includes add-ons. Below is a graph of my GPU usage. After start-up GPU usage trends downwards and will hit 0 on occasion. Every spike up corresponds to a positive spike in performance (FPS) and every drop corresponds to a negative spike in performance. The GPU temperature remains stable at 54C. I also include…

Hello guys, I had about 35 flights with the MD-82 so far. However, on the flight yesterday from LEMG all was well from until climb (Leonardo MD-80 addon for P3D). About 6000 feet I turned to the left following the SID and the plane slowly started to lose it climbing ability, eventually making me having to pull back on the yoke to recover until the plane eventually entered a dive, oversped, and crashed into the ocean. Unfortunately, due to my surprise I did not have time to document the situation. I then went into the load manager, and did the weekly check to make sure the aircraft is ready to go again. Tonight I flew out of LOWW, climbing through FL15…

Using both Prepar3DV 5.3 and MSFS with TrackIR5 My observation is that MSFS is doing something with the signal from TrackIR5 that Prepar3D V5.3 isn't. The reason I say this is that I have both sim running perfectly smoothly at the same FPS and Display refresh rate with Vsync on but in MSFS panning is perfectly smooth whereas in Prepar3D V5.3 it is not. If I look at the TrackIR5 GUI display with the 3D view and move my head around I can see the exact same stutter as I see in P3D when I move my head around. I know P3D is not the culprit here because if I pause or quite TrackIR and pan with the mouse it is perfectly smooth like MSFS is with TrackIR. …

Hi all. I've installed TropicalSim's Providenciales into P3D5. It installed fine, but there are elevation issues as can be seen here: https://imgur.com/WTa7bcm Is there anyway I can alter the elevation etc to make this work? Thanks

I finished re-installing my P3D V5.2 HF1 after a clean re-installation of Windows 10 not long before V5.3 was released. I installed everything I could in the User Documents Prepar3D v5 Add-ons folder and all my Orbx things into their Library. My AIG traffic files are also outside of the P3D root folder. This left me installing my PMDG 777 and 737, Aerosoft Twin Otter, Majestic Dash8Q400, F1 Cessna Mustang, PILOTS FS Global Ultimate 2020, etc. in the P3D simulator root folder. Since I have had good luck with V5.2 HF1, I decided to wait a bit on V5.3 It looks like the positive reaction and experience with V5.3 HF2 is that I will want to install it. Should I wait a bit…

After upgrading from P3D v5.3 HF1+ to HF2 (client only), waves no longer appear on the coastline. Has anyone observed it?

Hi everyone, Got a Gigabyte G34WQC (3440x1440) monitor recently, has Freesync and 144Hz max refresh rate. I'm trying to figure out best settings for the sim. Vsync: was going to set monitor to 60Hz but there is no more 1/2 refresh rate vsync option in Nvidia anymore. I have FPS locked at 30 in Nvidia but unlimited in sim. Question 1: should I use Vsync? Triple buffering? What's the best Monitor refresh rate? Question 2: I'm running i8700K OC, 64G Ram, RTX 2070, using the Affinity Mask App with the following entry: [JobScheduler] AffinityMask=4095 P3DCoreAffinityMask=4092 MainThreadScheduler=0 RenderThreadScheduler=2 FrameWorkerThreadSche…

I just purchased the Flytampa Amsterdam v2 upgrade and I have numerous misplaced jetways throughout the airport and the default buildings are still there. I used their Universal installer. I've tried to post on their forum but I have lost the password. I clicked on Forgot password but never received an email from them. I have tried numerous times. Has anyone else had a problem getting support from them?

I've noticed this problem for a while but its never really bothered me, and after fixing a missing autogen issue (thanks 29palms skiathos!!) i couldn't help but notice that this peculiar issue was happening near Heathrow. It only happens at EGLL, and i did a test and it only happens when i have UK2000 EGLL enabled. Turning it off and reloading fixes the issue. Perhaps a bugged autogen.xml in P3D? Maybe something happened in UK2K EGLL itself? I can't find any forum posts on their website about this issue (they're pretty dead anyways)

On the web page for it, it only stated for P3D v3 and v4. Does anybody have this plane...that they had running (still running) in v4.x and ported it (copied the folder) over into v5.3...and does it run...with no missing textures, missing cockpit, or any artifacts? I'd like to buy this...but want to only run it in v5.3 HF2. Can anybody advise? Thanks...

I came across this eyetracker which works with MSFS2020. Does anyone know if it is compatible with P2D? I have trackIR, but wearing the IR emitters really bugs me. Thanks, Jeff Callender

I have reinstalled both ORBX products into V5.3 HF2. The reasons are simple - the general improvement for LC around the world is still superior with Global Base installed. ORBX Vector was not so easy but it appears that a lot of coastline errors that had been carried over from FSX days and were supposedly fixed in P3D V5 have not been. Now for the majority of users you would not notice these minor problems unless you get off the beaten track and the Pacific area is particularly noticeable. No conflicts with P3D at all but but Vector still gives me the most accurate coastline and hence LC fit for those areas. So I put it back in. Neither ORBX or LM have fixed the iss…

I have P3D 5.1 Everything was fine, until I had a corrupt scenery.cfg. I have repaired it. After that when I start at any airport everything loads fine, but then in 1 to 5 seconds all the textures get black. Maybe someone had a similar problem? If I remove AIG package from add-ons.xml it works fine. I guess there is some kind of error somewhere, but I have no idea how to troubleshoot it, cause my P3D is 800GB. Another thing, but I don't think it matters. When I was trying to find the problem with scenery.cfg I accidentally completely deleted the P3D effects folder. AIG package is separately with it's effects on a separate SSD. I tried to download some effects but…

Hi guys. I have been off of p3d for a little while. I wanted to install the latest 5.3 hotfix. As far as I understand for this update we can’t just install the client version, just wanted to make sure that the process for updating p3d was the following; (I don’t want to do a full reinstall since I have thousands off addons installed) download 5.3. Delete the client Install the client.msi Delete the content Install the content.msi Delete the scenery Install the scenery.msi Have you guys lost some addons or encountered some issues with the installation? Is there some stuff I should know Thanks

So I have a lot of friends on X-plane that just go onto Ortho4xp and generate a photoreal file for themselves and it actually works. I used FSEarthTiles for P3DV4.5 and it didn't work and I wondered if there is any alternative that you can pick what area of photoreal you want to generate like in Ortho4xp. Cheers, Alex.

I have a yoke / pedals / and throttle setup. Does this mean when I am saving controls in the p3d controls menu I have to save separately for each of these or is it all contained in one file? Seems it often isn't fully saving the changes I make. Thanks!

Guys, would anyone know if there is a P3Dv5 version of Paro (VQPR). I have the FSDG v4 version and it’s good. Have moved onto v5 since and it doesn’t transfer unfortunately. Many thanks.

I noticed there is a new advance weather tool for use with ActiveSky available in simmarket today called ClimaDrive. I am unsure what this can possibly add to ActiveSky so I guess my question is does anyone out there have it for P3D and provide info for what this really does? They certainly have a well produced video up but is there any substance to this software?

Hi First i don't know is good place to post but anyway. I have strange issues (glitches, artifacts) on aircraft which they use PBR on Virtual Cockpit (i have maddog and AS A330). I don't know if this problem happened with p3d v5.2 but on v5.3 is anoying. I tested on default shaders, envshade and with EA on and off. This is videos: Maddog https://streamable.com/8qztl4 AS A330 https://streamable.com/70dp1x Is this problem w P3D rendering, GPU drivers or something else? PC Spec: Ryzen 5 3600, 16 gb ram, rtx 2060, gpu drivers 497.29 Edit: When i turn off Dynamic reflections this effects gone

Hi, Did anybody try to install those sceneries for V4.5 in V5, any if yes, do they work? Thank's Yves

Newbie to Orbx TE here. Just installed TE SC via Orbx DIrect. Unfortunately, there is land showing where the Pacific Ocean is (flight was from KLAX to KMRY). How do I fix this? Here is a link to a screenshot: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ab6v98kpvnhqw0x/tesc.png?dl=0 Many thanks! PS I have posted this on the ORBX forum last Thursday with no response 😞

Tom's Hardware has some very interesting information about the newest Nvidia drivers. In essence they now can offload work from CPU to GPU..I have been using the 511 with great success. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-gpu-system-processor-introduction Sherm

Hi, Yesterday I had a crash with terrain.dll for the first time. Unfortunately, I couldn't find anything with a google search. As far as I could read, it may be due to Scenery. I had a flight from LTFM to OTHH yesterday. Shortly after Baghdad in Cruise Level I had the crash with terrain.dll Normally I don't have any scenery far and wide.. The next Scenery would have been LTAI or OTHH and OMDB. otherwise I have from ORBX Global Base package. Do you have any tips for me what to do... thx