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I have been flying around, through, and about Toronto, Canada with all the eye-candy maxed, at about a 100 mile radius. P3D v2.3 ASN (latest BETA release) REX 4 Direct SP3 Sid/Star router for A.I. control ORBX GLobal 1.20 Vector 1.15 MyTraffic 5.4c Accu-Feel GSX Ground Services 24-33 FPS This is the simple statement: "Lockhead Martin's flight simulator P3D v2.3 , with the above supporting software,...is everything I have ever wanted in a flight simulator, and its environment. It simulates the real world as there is no other, and with great FPS performance on a five-year old system. Two hours plus, and no VAS issues...no O.O.M. I can only see th…

OK, after much mucking around, I finally got my DK2 working in P3D. I used the DCOC plugin as it seems, "like clockwork", Lockheed Martin is behind the curve on releasing a hotfix. Right now, there is a sizable FPS loss due to the way the plugin needs to be coded. From what I understand, the performance loss will be negligible when LM implements it. Resolution Let me first state, this is a development kit. The consumer version, from what I understand will be much better but none of the instruments are readable and it is very difficult to make out ground features. Scale It does seem the scale of the aircraft interiors are a bit small. This is not a deal b…

I cannot accelerate any of my turbo props planes in prepar 3d 2.3 I do see the lever moving to accelerate but doesnt change anything. Any ideas?

Some of us with perhaps more modest rigs are plagued by stutters.My situation with v2.3 has been helped incredibly by doing two things.I installed a game booster Game Booster v3.4 from Iorbit..The program has a defrag game option so before firing up prepar I defrag it,Then I launch Game Booster.Try it its free!

Greetings I migrated the default Cessna 172SP from FSX to P3D. So far so good. All controls OK, etc. Had to mess with lighting to get aircraft illuminated. That's done too. I finally turned on HDR lighting. I haven't had a chance to evaluate how good it is, but I can say that it totally washes out the VC in the 172SP when the cockpit lights are turned on at night. Turn on HDR, VC awash with light. Turn off HDR, VC is back to normal (well as normal as one can expect when one cannot turn off the dome light :rolleyes: ). Now I can turn on HDR in the daytime and turn it off at night; at least while I'm flying the C172. That kinda defeats the purpose though, doesn'…

Hi all! I'm reffering to this nice video by Rob. I was also very excited over v2.3, but I soon went back to FSX when my PC ran out of available memory on a trip between Oslo Gardemoen (ENGM) and Bergen Flesland (ENBR) - a trip that only takes like 1 h. Yes they are both Aerosoft airports, and I had lowered my settings, so I don't get it. I really thought the problems concerning OOMs was partly resolved, but when I discovered this video I realized that I might had been doing something wrong. Thoughts?

Ive noticed a problem while flying P3dV2.3 and was wondering if anyone else has noticed it. Whenever I look down to the center pedestal on the ERJ or the trim wheel on the Maule (using mouse view) and return to the pilot's view, the screen gets this unearlthly glow about it. Whites are fluorescent and everything is kinda blurred. If I go to the outside spot view and return, all is normal. It's kinda annoying. Ive updated the driver for my Nvidia 760 (the latest, 33.44 or something; skipping the one causing the black triangles), but began to have it before that. And Im using Active Sky Next. Any ideas? John

So looks like Aerosoft needs AES for moving Jetways and AES is not in sight (not possible?) for P3D. I think this is quite a big deal for me. If you think the same then please express your opinion on the Aerosoft forums here, maybe they will listen: http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/topic/85349-p3d-and-moving-jetways-support/ "As I see it Aerosoft London Heathrow requires AES for Jetways to work and there is no AES for P3D. I assume same situation for other Aerosoft Airports (?). Please add moving Jetway support without AES being required. Otherwise P3D users will never get it at Aerosoft Airports. I would probably not consider buying another Aerosoft A…

I have tried to search the forums for this problem, but didn't get any returns. I have also posted this on the LM forum, but many times help from the AVSIM forum is faster. Here is my problem. I had removed my v2.2 patched to v2.3 program and am trying to install a complete newly downloaded v2.3 program. I thought I had removed all the former files, but the installer says there is another version on the computer and tells me to remove it before it can install the new one. However when I look on my C drive, there is no P3D program showing. If I go to the control Panel Add/Remove feature, there is a Prepar3D v2 Academic showing and a Prepar3D v2 SDK 2.2.10437 showing. When…

I have been trying to decide if mesh is worth buying for the type of flying I do and I have decided I could justify it if my local mountainous terrain looks as good as I hope it does, because the default terrain doesn't look accurate at all. If anyone happens to have FTX global and vector like I do, but also has mesh too and can post a screenshot or two or three I would greatly appreciate it! It wouldn't be all for nothing as you would enjoy the scenery in the area. The area of request is departing from KTRI Tri-cities regional airport in northeast Tennessee. It's about 30 miles from the tallest point on the east coast Mt. Mitchell. I'm most curious about the airport …

It took me a while to get the setup right, but in the Free-track monitor window I got a nice and smooth movement from the LEDs. Only thing I cant seem to get working is to transport this movement to P3D. I cant find a proper explanation how to set it up for P3D, through Simconnect. I copied the Simconnect.cfg to the Free-track program folder and I ran both the Simconnect.msi files from the redist folder again and got the P3D v2.3 SDK installed. Is there someone who works with Free-track who can tell me how to setup Free-track to work with P3D?

Fly to Ivato airport (FMMI) in Madagascar. Land via the ILS on rwy 11 at night. Good luck to you. I flew here on my round the world flight in a DC9. I reckon the real world airport is not like this but it's a shocking approach when you are not expecting it. Fortunately the weather was okay or it would have been curtains. Won't give any more details, try it out for yourself.

Hi All, I was having problems with getting GSX and UT2 to work AFTER finally removing FSX and just having a standalone P3D v2. You all have probably discovered this already, but I wanted to share as I was about to beat my head against the desk trying to get addons running. Thank you to Umberto (Virtuali) at FSDREAMTEAM for this fix. "Note that, this seems to be a problem happened when you installed P3D, look in the LM forum here: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=5504 P3D DOES come with the FSX Simconnect libraries, for the precise reason to allow backward compatibility with FSX Simconnect clients, and they are suppose…

Hi all. My Prepar3D works well about 20 25 fps which is enough for me. But when I open all the traffic sliders my frames drops to about 12 fps. Is there any solution of this problem? Thanks

Hello everyone. I updated my FTX Northern Ireland installation today with the new 002 patch, as well as the new patches for Ireland, England, Scotland and Wales. I have to say, the new Global style lights look fantastic! I also installed the latest Orbx Libraries (140901). From what I understand, the patch includes some new POI's such as Scrabo Tower, Carrickfergus Castle, Knockagh Monument and Dunluce Castle. However I can't see them in the simulator at all. I'm pretty sure I have my scenery library set up correctly, and the older POIs such as Stormont, City Hall and the H&W Cranes show up fine. Does anyone have any idea how I can fix this? Any help would be …

I posted this on the Prepar3D forums MOnday and haveb't gotten a repsonse. Can someone here help me please? This is the third time I have tried the install. The first time I downloaded the zip file from the site and had an error with the data1.cab file. I then proceeded to take the time to download each individual file and got an error with the data3.cab file. I then installed a download manager and tried downloading each file again. I am getting the error above for all these installations. Here is the contents of the log file (I cannot attach the file): [0A1C:0994][2014-05-05T08:21:18]i001: Burn v3.7.1224.0, Windows v6.1 (Build 7601: Service Pack 1), path: E:\F…

Hi Everyone, I am trying to find compatible freeware AFCADS for P3D V2.3. The ones I've found in the Avsim library have missing textures and taxiways so was wondering if anyone had any ideas? All help appreciated!

I have been using GEX for a couple of years now but I want to switch over to FTX Global. My question is how easy is the transition? What all needs to be done with GEX before I can successfully install FTX? Any help will be greatly appreciated! Thanks!

Has anyone gotten Tom Ruth's A300 to work in P3d v2.3? The issue is gauges are not visible. if someone knows a technique to fix this it would be appreciated.

Hello, I have REX essential for FSX that was purchased 4 years ago and it says that it's compatible with P3D1.4 and higher, but I also noticed REX4 HD Direct in Flightsim store. So, I'm just wondering whether I can stay with REX essentials or buy REX HD Direct. Thanks

I recently installed FTX Global and installed also UTX Canada on P3d V2.3 and I had mitigated results; - All the urban texture now look like subsaharian bush (Toronto area looks like five hundred years of climate change later....). I found that by activating or desactivating UTVeg in scenery manager, this bring back a normal town texture. - Activating UTLcCity scenery alone (among all the UT scenery available) make the city look like suburban area (lots of green and residential housing mainly) - UTCanRoad brings some interesting additional like 3D highway but I find the road textures much less apealing than FTXG. It seems that UTX Canada is not desirable with FT…

For the guys with the new GPUs GTX 970/980 is a Beta driver available. I guess a hotfix. http://www.geforce.com/drivers/results/78216# Spirit

I know they may not be revered as a premium scenery provider but I have purchased a number of their airports over the years because it was their version or default. I also understand that their support has been lacking for many a simmer but thought I would share this bit of information I got from Fran at IS. I simply sent them the basic question if they plan on supporting P3dv2.3 or better since many of what they had for FSX are missing buildings etc in P3d here is the reply I received which BTW was quite timely (fast to respond )... Hi, Thanks for your email. At this time we do not officially endorse P3D for our products, though the day is getting closer. The p…

Any early adopters able to give an idea how these cards perform in P3D2 please? K Comparable stats for 980 and 780Ti here: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-980-vs-GeForce-GTX-780-Ti It appears texture fillrate is down but pixel fillrate is massively up. Anyone explain which is more necessary for P3D2? http://www.anandtech.com/show/8526/nvidia-geforce-gtx-980-review/19 One conclusion here calls it for the 980? http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/NVIDIA/GeForce_GTX_980/31.html

Ever since 2.3 was released I've been plagued by intermittent stutter attacks. During testing I've been cruising along at 60+ fps but every few minutes they'd drop to single figures with severe stuttering. These attacks lasted between 1 and 10 seconds before things returned to normal. I'm not a pc expert and staring at the different screens in Task Manager gave me no clue as to what was causing this. Anyway, today I thought I'd try playing with the affinity settings and in TM unchecked CPU 0 and also set Priority to High. I locked frames to 33 in p3d and set off flying. 4 hours later not a single stutter and I am now confident that I've fixed an issue that was driving…