The Prepar3d Forum

Has anyone had good luck installing this aircraft. I bought it today and it does not want to install. Tries to install In C:Program files x86 under LM folder but offer no chance to redirect to Prepar3D folder. Am I missing something here?

Hi, Getting 15-22 FPS in EGLL/UK2000V3 with ORBX England in the Carenado makes no headroom for GPU with 2.2. so hopefully 2.3 will improve performance further and maybe 2.4 will introduce SLI ? who knows. Is it to soon to invest in another GTX780SC ACX from EVGA or is there a BETA team dedicated to this SLI? Thanks Michael

I have a problem with the Beechcraft Duke B60 v2 in P3D v2.3. I am well aware that this aircraft is not "P3D native", but I think that others use it in P3D? Anyway, the rudder is hard over to the right on start up, and I can't seem to correct it. None of my other planes suffer from this, so it must be an issue specific to the Duke. Can anyone help?

Hi, I have a little problem : could somebody tell me why, when I select some choices in the right column (heading; flight number and route for instance), those informations are not registered and I have to redo this each time I start P3D. Best regards Yves

I have recently purchased three UK2000 Extreme airports and they install and look great in P3D2. I was thinking of buying one of their VFR series of airports - there are three series and each one includes many airports. My question is: I have ORBX England, Wales, Scotland and NI regional sceneries, and have also installed some of the ORBX airports there. Some of these overlap the UK2000 VFR series: e.g., Southampton, Shoreham, Cardiff. If l buy the UK2000 series, is it possible to disable airports for which I have other products that I prefer?

Some of you may have noticed I have been a bit negative about P3D for a while, specially after buying my brand new PC specially for P3D and not getting the kind of performance that I was hoping for. Well, I am happy to report I am back in sim heaven. This has to do with a few things: 1. My PC wasn't setup well by the shop that assembled it. For instance the BIOS hadn't been updated (which was a MUST for my i7 4790K), the SSD's were connected to the wrong ports and the RAM weren't in the right slots... (Yes, that's the last time I ordered a PC from that shop.) 2. Although fixing this myself helped a little (not as much as I expected though) it was 2.3 that seemed t…

I bought Vector (and OpenLC) and will install both this evening (P3D 2.3: I already own Global). I was wondering in the meantime what settings you are all using in the VECTOR Configuration Tool. Maybe by now there is consensus on what most people find enjoyable when it comes to detail vs realism vs performance? Just curious. I know I can try all possible combinations myself but I rather fly right away without having to test everything (done too much testing in the past). I remember a lot of complaints about for instance the underlays when there wasn't yet a tool to remove them and I wonder if everyone removed them or kept them anyway. Things like that.

What was LM's thought process on the TBM config entry of 30? Just curious the logic and if anyone has had a chance to experiment with it? I would assume most remember the discussion concerning TBM with FSX Regards Bob

I dont see much difference. I re installed Prepar 3D full. Just pointed REX to the directory Do I need to re install REX also?

I always and only fly in FTX regions. Love them. However, lately I've been wanting to fly a bit more around my own country, the Netherlands. But that one looks like **** by default (using P3D here). I was wondering if there are some guys from the Netherlands here who fly over there using Global + Vector + OpenLC: is it convincing? I've obviously seen some screenshots but I'd like to know what my fellow countrymen think of it all. Do you really have the idea you are flying above the Netherlands, recognizing everything as you go? Or does it only 'feel' like the Netherlands? A screenshot from Amersfoort (coming from the west) or Hilversum (coming from the south) at somet…

Is this still something we have to wait for driver support from nvidia on? Im so pleased with 2.3 in general, but to get that FSX level of smoothness at 30FPS with 1/2 refresh in inspector is still not quite there yet. This would be the final piece of the jigsaw for me. Any news on this? Thanks, Glenn

New to FMC's, have CS777, where does people go to learn how to programs FMC's?

Hi, Been a while since i tried P3dv2 but today i was going to try it after a reinstall and i must say that it is getting very very good. After the oblicatory FTX Global and OpenLCEU,PNW,NCA i installed all FSDT airports and EFHK,ENGM from Aerosoft. i also installed CDUII by vrinsight for a certain Boeing 737-800 which was not the Ifly version. ASN running on a networked PC. CP flight drivers (3.40) for the MCP EL but the light does not work though Performance: Well using stock textures (not REX4) for clouds etc i am having around 20-25 fps in this B738 as mentioned at EFHK. One tricky part is the CDUII and using undocked windows. Like in FSX there …

Hi All I have been playing around with settings in P3Dv2.3 and trying to get NI to work but no matter what I do it does not seem to do anything to improve the quality so I always go back to the internal P3D settings as they always seem to look the best and give the best performance, I did try the Prepar3D driver profile, just curious as I have seen some claims that it can look better with NI configured, cheers Wayne

I have! I was trying to run graphics on everything high, and loaded F35, but it gave me an error saying "Runtime Error! Program: P:\xxx\Prepar3D.exe R6025 - pure virtual function call". The second time, program just stopped functioning when I tried to load the full graphics (to see how my system handles it). Anyone seen these or any CTDs in general? If you could also provide the steps you took to solve the problem,, that'd be really helpful too! Cheers,

Installed my ezdok on p3d 2.3 and ofc manually input all the entries for exe.xml.. the add-on loads up with p3d, but seems to get "stuck".. this is probably some kind of permission error, no prompt though. What it looks like: Something is stopping it from loading. Another evidence of this is because in-game, it doesn't even show up in the menu. I found a thread someone started on Microsoft's support site, but the reply he got was robotic and not helpful in any way: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows8_1-files/odd-permissions-behaviour/c0b3c201-3444-4eaa-bac7-5f0dc046bd40 I have 8.1 PRO, which is slightly more network oriented etc'…

Recently I purchased ORBX Melbourne airport. Is there any way to switch those horrible ground textures ( taxiways, runways, apron ... ) for default ones ? REX4 is giving way better textures than those given by ORBX for YMML ...

Apparently this is a hard airport to make, as I can't find anything recent on KPDX. I see all these other great airports but no KPDX. I know there is one for FS9. Has anyone got that to work with P3D? Or better yet, is there a dev out there that is making KPDX that I don't know about yet?

I have the Turbine Duke from Realair with Mindstar's gauge functioning well in 2.3 having used the latest migration tool, however, it will not start up from the "cold and dark" state. The starter turns on and off repeatedly. Beginning with "ready to taxi," everything is functioning as it should. I sure hope a triple installer shows up in Version 2 of the turbine Duke.

Has anyone yet tried the Mad-Dog in P3D v2.3 with the new EMT? I read here that there were issues with prior versions of both EMT and/or P3D..... Thanks, Bruce.

I have a question and the answer is probably waiting to smack me in the face. There is a button to save settings on the Graphics page. What settings does it save? Also, there doesn't seem to be a load settings button. Just Reset Defaults. What am I missing? Thanks Graham

Hi Everyone, I'm getting more concerned by the day of where NVidia is going with their driver development in relation to P3D v2. I have tested nearly every driver (both official and beta) the past few months, and their new 340 series drivers totally corrupt mesh and ground textures within the sim. The 340 series drivers I tested are 340.43, 340.46, 340.51, 340.52. The whole series renders funny triangular shaped distortions across the land. This tells me the new driver series is rendering something differently AS A STANDARD, meaning this is the way future releases may also render. And this is my concern. Where will it leave us in terms of future driver updates? …

I just downloaded ASN and looked up somewhere in Spain with stormy conditions (an airbase on the eastern coast of Spain although I can't remember the name). The take off from Madrid was uneventful but the landing in the storm was awesome. By the time I reached my destination the storm had moved to the south. As i made my approach from the South I found myself leaving the bright fluffy clouds and sunny conditions and saw an ugly dark cloud ahead. This is where the cloud shadows really come into play because they make the area under the cloud seem more threatening. Visibility also looked poor under that stormy cloud. As I passed underneath it I was bumped around in my 757 a…

Hi everyone .... I did a night flight yesterday and the real time weather was pretty bad on my approach to the airport .. Something I really struggled with was this 'Star Trek Warp Tunnel ' effect I was getting in Prepar3D V2.3 when it was raining ...... It was a round black hole immediately in front of me with what looked like shooting lines all around it pushing towards me ( I guess that was the rain) Anyone else experiencing this ..... it's pretty off putting especially when executing a turn For information .. I am using Rex 4 ... Opus weather engine .... spanning the sim over 3 screens Looking forward to your thoughts Cheers Paul

Hello, I installed P3Dv2.3 this week. I have the problem that my controls (Saitek) have a bad connection with P3D. They disappeared from the Settings-Controls screen, only the Mouse Yoke survives. I have FSUIPC 4936 installed. All works fine in FSX, on the same PC. In P3D the functioning of various axes and buttons is unreliable. It seems that several functions defined by FSUIPC should be deleted in the settings screen but there the specific controls are missing. I read several forum items on the loss of controls in Windows 8.1. Disabling the energy management of the USB's has been done. For me the strangest thing is that the controls in combination with FSUIPC in F…