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I set the trim wheel to align the dash line on the wheel to the small arrow on the case assuming this is the intended trim for takeoff. However, the aircraft takes off almost vertically and it is a struggle to get it under control. If I set the trim to just below the letter K then it appears to operate normally where normally=other airplanes. Two People(souls) on board 200 lb each. Weather clear, no wind.

This may sound a bit silly but I thought I'd post after recent problems I've been having with P3D performance/stuttering/CTDs etc. It looks like the cloud.fx fix was not the only reason my P3D performance suddenly recovered so significantly. I took a look at my GPU last week and noticed that the circuit board side was CAKED in dust. I'd been running with the PC case sides removed to help with airflow. Or so I thought. Actually it just allowed a load of dust to gather in the PC over a period of about a year. After cleaning the GPU with a vacuum cleaner and removing all the caked dirt my PC performance shot up - especially in P3D! A silly basic simple mistak…

Hello. I wanted to use fstramp in the new version prepar3d v2.3 as i did with prepar3d v2.2. I have installed it. But, when i m into the flight, and click on the menu bar on the "fstramp" zone, the map is not showing on screen. It seems all is going well, fstramp is there, but the "image" of the map doesnt show. its as if when i click on it, the p3d didnt let show the map. does anyone has the same problem? cananyone help me? i wrote to the support of them but they said: we ve never heard trhis problem before. we cant help you. (so imagine!) trying to solve it, or to find a progrma very similar to it. i love to see a map where i can see my ai traffic moving. …

Apologies if this may be common knowledge to some, but the answer doesn't seem obvious.. Running P3d v2.3 with win 8.1 x64 U1 and nvidia 780ti (shadowplay recording).. I want to do one of two things (or both with this goal).. I realize that simdirector exists to perhaps make flight paths ahead of time, but it seems a little daunting for quick use ( ?).. i'm assuming with simdirector i could script out a flight path then turn on autopilot and record the flight either via shadowplay or dxtory or worst case fraps (after downsizing the resolution from 5760x1080 to 1920x1080).. The basic goal is to acomplish two things here.. 1) be able to "define" a flight path, e…

SInce transitiioning to P3D I have been working to get aircraft for a Virtual Airline I fly for to work, but having problems with CTD's when trying to Load or Save has been my bane for a while. DVA fleet aircraft have had a lot of dedicated people work towards making their planes more than vanilla. Last night I finally found the answer, Headers in the aircraft.cfg file! Say you have someone who added several liveries to the config file but at the end you had a couple of [aircraft.xx] but nothing added. These will cause the Prepar3D program not to allow a load or save! Once I cleaned up the config file, no more problems. I remembered an article I read that said, previ…

Has anyone upgraded from Windows 7 to Windows 8/8.1 (without installing new hardware at the same time), and run the same version of P3Dv2 on both OS versions? If so, did you notice any improvement? I've heard a bit of anecdotal evidence that P3D performs more smoothly under Windows 8. The only hard info I've seen on this is the following comment from Beau at LM about gauges, which sounds significant, but I have no idea how much it affects things in practice: http://www.prepar3d.com/forum-5/?mingleforumaction=viewtopic&t=6777.1 I'm not really interested in other pros and cons of Windows 8 - there are plenty of other places on the net to read all about that - j…

Well folks, Over on the P3D forum under Vsynch issues Beau from LM rendering team has confirmed that the version before 2.3 did support some V synch hence a lot of us saw smoother flight less micro stutters. This has now been removed as the current version did not work as well with it......one step forwards two back! Also looks like LM are inferring that NVidia need to step up to the plate re the issues....so where does it leave us the user......with a great looking sim that will for ever micro stutter..... I do hope some sense prevails either by LM or Nvidia to fix this.....for me it is disappointing and will keep on FSX that much longer......

Just thought I would share with y'all, hacking the texture of the default RAS Pilot Head and really owning my Lansair legacy! Namely, putting me in the cockpit. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1465316453743848&substory_index=0&id=100007965211176 Leaning how to uv-unwrap curvo-linear mesh.... Lancair Legacy Chas

If you own the fx_shockwave lights (from A2A) this addition to the aircraft.cfg helps a lot on the A2A Cherokee in P3Dv2.2. This is the entire [lights] section but the LAST line is mine. [LIGHTS] //Types: 1=beacon, 2=strobe, 3=navigation, 4=cockpit //light.0 = 3, 0.21, -15.00, 0.55, fx_a2a_cherokee180_navred //Moved to the MDL //light.1 = 3, 0.21, 15.00, 0.55, fx_a2a_cherokee180_navgre //Moved to the MDL //light.2 = 3, -14.95, 0.00, 4.89, fx_a2a_cherokee180_navwhi //Moved to the MDL //light.3 = 2, 0.00, -15.00, 0.55, fx_a2a_cherokee180_strobe //Moved to the MDL //light.4 = 2, 0.00, 15.00, 0.55, fx_a2a_cherokee180_strobe //Moved to the MDL //light…

I am hoping someone here might have an answer to this question. I have posted this at the ORBX forums but there has been no help as of yet. I have been loading all my Orbx scenery from 3 different orders and I am stuck on the last 2 files out of 22 files that will not load. I did have them loaded at one time but because I have reloaded P3dv2.3 as a full install I needed to install them all once again. Both files have the same error, cannot create Orbx\Scripts folder. This folder is there because of the other installed files so I am not sure what is going on. The two files in question are YHBA YMAV Anny help will be appreciated.

I notice quite a few people do not use vegetation shadows, even if their PC can handle it. I absolutely LOVE vegetation shadows and wonder why some people don't use it. Maybe they just haven't checked it out...? For those who never gave it a try, here is a animated gif I made with two screenshots: one with vegetation shadows off and the other with vegetation shadows on. Which picture looks more real to you? Which one gives you the feeling the sun is shining? Which one brings life and depth to the sim and makes you think 'This isn't FSX, this is P3D v2!'? ^_^

Hello. I wanted to use fstramp in the new version prepar3d v2.3 as i did with prepar3d v2.2. I have installed it. But, when i m into the flight, and click on the menu bar on the "fstramp" zone, the map is not showing on screen. It seems all is going well, fstramp is there, but the "image" of the map doesnt show. its as if when i click on it, the p3d didnt let show the map. does anyone has the same problem? cananyone help me? i wrote to the support of them but they said: we ve never heard trhis problem before. we cant help you. (so imagine!) trying to solve it, or to find a progrma very similar to it. i love to see a map where i can see my ai traffic moving. sorry fo…

Running SPAD with prepar3D v2.3 without much issue.. I have several SPAD profiles.. but i'd like to be able to launch a certain one when SPAD is launched.. I cant seem to find a way to do this.. Also.. the trim wheel.. i'd like to make more sensitive.. seems to take 50 spins to get the craft to respond.. i played around with the SPAD settings but nothing seems to have changed.. Anyone have any tips on these? Much appreciated..

Dated 09/01/2014... http://www.orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/84439-orbxlibs-140901/

Just wiped my v2.0 and did a new install of v2.3 and have to say P3D now looks gorgeous in every way. The cloud shadows make me almost speechless... My graphic settings are overall probably just one notch below all maxed out (many slides are all the way to the right) and I still get 30-40fps around a dense area like KPIT. Without any tweaks on Vsync etc just unlimited fps P3D runs pretty much silk smooth and stuttering free. Very impressive. I always complained that v2.0 was too dark and gloomy but now the brightness and contrast in P3D are almost perfect without HDR. With HDR on though everything is still too dark, so now I'm wondering what is the advantage of ha…

Hi all- I upgraded to a Titan from my 780 shortly after getting my custom build, so, I have an extra 780 hanging out doing nothing. Is there a way to use this in conjunction with my Titan to accomplish something? Thanks, Mark

After 4 days of V2.3, I'm rather satisfied, flying the Cherokee or P51 all over my OrbX lands . So let the nitpicking begins ! Can the bloom be toned down without giving up HDR ? I find it overdone and sometimes a nuisance (reflection on a gauge). Might be my 780TI, I dunno. Anyway is there a tutorial somewhere. I read that great post about reducing the transition time but it doesn't explain whether you can tune the HDR and how ? Is there a tutorial somewhere explaning the parameters and their values ? Thanks !

Hi, I'm having some problems in the startup screen in Prepar3D 2.3, some menus and check boxes are hidden. For instance, i can´t choose an aircraft in startup screen, because the box "change" is hidden by the image of the aircraft. I also can´t access the "Advanced Weather" menu and change time and date. In order to solve the problem i tried to change Windows DPI settings but the problem continues. Could you please help to fix this?

I had my EZdok working with P3Dv2.2 just a few days back, then I updated my motherboard and bought a new SSD so I thought it would be a good time to reformat my system...After installing my addons back I am having a hard time getting EZdok to work again (it was working great before) I am getting the access violation error below So far, I have tried several things to do with User Access, Permissions, with and without the migration tool. I have also followed exact guides on Avsim and the Flight1 support page. I did a backup of my old system and I manually also dragged and dropped my old EZCA files and I get the same error. I have Windows 7 ultimate 64bit in…

I have had P3D for a few days and flew about 10 flights. It seems that I cannot get the nice cloudscapes I have in FSX with OPUS and the default clouds (I am in the minority liking the FSX default clouds B) ). The clouds look not very nice (flatish) and don't assemble in credible layers. Now is it OPUS not able to take advantage of P3D clouds or, rather, that the P3D clouds are not as good as FSX default ? Should/could I import FSX default textures (but is it a problem of textures or of shaping up clouds ?) or a substitute if any (not REX I don't like very much what I see on others simmers screenshots). Thanks for any clues.

Hi guys, just reinstalled FSX and since FTX Global Vector is supposed to come out shortly I was wondering whether it is even worth it to install UTX (Europe) at this point anymore or just wait the week or two until FTX Global Vector is available. Or are there any other benefits to UTX that FTX Global Vector does not have? Will FTX Global Vector make UTX obsolete? What would you do? Thanks, Daniel

I don't see any topics either here or on P3D forums about AntiAliasing. Is the issue resolved for most folks? I have an nVideo 770 and when I run P3D everything from 1-2 miles looks like a jumbled, shimmering blob. Can hardly make out structures. Not trying to create a firestorm...just want to know what folks are experiencing. Gregg

Hello all. I have Prepar3D V2.3. I've got no problems on default planes. My frames are about 30 and it's enough for me. But on complex planes like Airbus Extended or PMDG's aircrafts, my frame rates drops to 16. I'm using some tweaks that I found on net. And also set texture quality to low but it doesn't make any dfference. My target fps is unlimited. What's the problem? What I have to do to use complex planes smoothly just like def. planes? Thanks and regards.

I don't know where to post this but when I try to download REX4 Texture Direct, the file got corrupted when download finished (and I am using a Download Manager). What is even worse is that I ran out of redownloads (which shouldn't be possible because I only redownloaded 3 times and it shouldn't hit 0 as I got a limit of 20 redownloads). I brought the product from FSPilotShop. EDIT: I cannot post this at REX Forums as I am not a Verified Customer yet (I registered today). EDIT2: For some reason, my downloads left reached -11.

Does anyone "on this forum" know how many versions of V2 we will likely see? Is a 2.4 being worked on? I have a very small issue with an FTX airport that I mistakenly ran without a triple installer, don't do that! The triple is available now but I can't seem to fix it, however, not the topic of this post . I will live without a single airport until another full install version is ready. 1.4 was the end for V1 so perhaps the next release, if it's imminent, will be the last before V3.