The Prepar3d Forum

Greetings I believe this has been discussed. Please forgive the repetition. I just wonder if there is new information. I use MyTraffic X 5.4b. I noticed that there are no landing, taxi or strobe lights. As a result, it is not possible to see airborne aircraft. I also noticed these lights were not functional when the AI were taxiing. I won't go to UT2, as it is not supported by Super Traffic Board (apparently there are no plans to make UT2 compliant with P3D). I would purchase MyTraffic 2013 or Traffic 360 if it means I get lights. However, I would prefer to stay with MyTraffic X. Is there a workaround or trick to get these lights working? I think I read where the …

Greetings I have just moved over from FSX to P3D. I don't quite know that to say. It is a very different world. I saw all this stuff moving and then realized that there were moving shadows! Oh my! The learning curve will be a bit steep. I have a couple of questions and a statement. OH...OH... OK...first the statement. I'll never go back to FSX. P3D is a living world. Thank you Lockheed Martin. I want to thank Microsoft for creating the world. We have a tendency to beat up on MS for everything that doesn't work. Human nature. But without MS, there would be no P3D. A lot of developers owe their living to MS. We wouldn't be discussing flight simulatio…

I believe it was Rod (Spirit) that offered the following setup that MIGHT help: Set FPS to 20 Async ON Triple Buffer ON As they say - It worked for me. If, in the past,I tried Cloud Shadows my FPS would drop to the point that I was watching an old Laurel & Hardy movie. Now I fly through clouds and my FPS stays steady at 20 fps and NO stutters. Is this balancing resources? Or something else. While those that may use this, and have success, we should really discover WHY. I have not varied the settings as I try old FSX areas and Orbx Regions (aka fat). No issues with scattered could cover and the cloud cover slider set at MAX. I have not messed with the Cloud …

This is driving me crazy I have the distance set at max and all of my cores and threads running P3Dv2 but the ground textures around a few miles ahead aren't fully loaded until I'm almost over them. In FSX I would run an Lod of 8.5 to fix this but LOD settings in P3DV2 don't seem to change anything. Anyone found a work around?

Hello all! Just bought FSDT GSX and well, it doesn't work... I cant seem to install it at all. After checking the P3D master compatibility list, it should install with no issues. Here is a sequence of events when I click to install. Double click installer Window (Prepar3d 2.X found in: D:\) "Do you want to install here?" CLICK Yes New window pops up I click "Yes" click Install Install progress makes it to 5.60MB New window pops up "Error" "You must enter full path with drive letter; for example C:\APP or UNC path in the form: \\server\share" So I tried the manual method of selecting my P3D drive and click "Ok" and I get a message displaying "FSX not …

Hello, Could anyone please help me, I've got a nice framerate of 20-30FPS while on the ground and flying but when I'm flying every 3-5 seconds my framerate drops to 3-7 FPS which causes a huge stutter and unflyable situations.. Anybody an idea as to how I could eliminate these stutters? Jens

Hi My problem is that i have a double layer on the Runway and the plane crashes. It's shows 2 runway layers! I deinstalled Pajn and installed it new but it dident work! Any help? Thank you

I have P3D v2.2 is there some light here on this thing being a great experience for simmers? Thinking of ordering kit 2 from Oculus....It has head tracking as well and should work great with EZCA cam... https://www.oculusvr.com/order/

Hi all, A quick heads up the follow, inside the product does not work. 1. A/P IAS 2. Power fails after 5mins with GPU attached Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Anyone see this? I'm flying along (typically in an orbx area), switching between VC and external, and the sound stops working. A min or so after that I get a "P3D has stopped working" CTD

Hi guys, As showed at the pictures im having some textures missing and shadow issues, this happens at some ORBX airports as KMRY, PAJN and AYPY. Any advice? subir fotos a internet sube imagenes

I have two hard drive disk in my PC. First HD is SSD C:\ contains OS , P3D and FSX and all major add-ons Second HD K:\ have free space 914GB. Almost empty I want to keep OS and P3D in SSD 1st drive and move FSX to K:\ drive I never done it before. Here are my two questions: 1- Can I move FSX Folder Copy/Pase to K\ ? ( This will be easy way) 2- Do I have unistall FSX and all FSX addons and reinstall them to K;\? (This will be hard way) Thanks

The only setting I use with NI is forcing SGSS 4x. But I notice now that every time I look towards heavy clouds, FPS drops massively (cloud shadows are disabled at the moment). Didn't this issue get fixed in v2.2, disabling AA for clouds? Or is this an ongoing problem, or just a problem for me.

I installed P3D 2.2 on my new PC (i7 4790K and GTX780 6 GB) and I have been testing for quite some time to see what system settings (CPU OC, GPU OC, AM yes or no) would work best. I set up a test flight with the default Bonanze on AP above San Fransisco (FTX NCA). I let the plane fly for a minute and then I check the average (!) fps. I don't use TrackIR or anything else. Fps is set to unlimited in P3D. Conclusion: it's IMPOSSIBLE to benchmark P3D and to find what works best!!! No matter what I do, I always get random results between 22 and 29 fps...! :blink: :unsure: For instance with the CPU @ 4.5 (HT off) and the GPU running at default I get an average fps 22.7.…

Flight Simulator X\Scenery\Global\Texture\BridgeRoads.dds ...and you also have P3D installed...just do a system search for this file...and the search will turn up this file in P3D. Take a copy of this file and put it into the above path...and all will be well. It is the same file for both P3D and FSX. ORBX Central will then not bring up the fact that it is not found. Again, you will be a happy camper. For some reason the UTX uninstaller also deletes this ONE file....and it is a core file.

...so am in the process of downloading Pilot's FTX Global 2010 Edition Custom Mesh. I read the blurb on the sales page..and it sounded like the final slice of meat to make my ORBX sub...all that more tasty, lol. I had such an enjoyable flight last evening, in FSX...from England to Germany...that I decided to have it all....the full ORBX Global 'deal'. I had custom mesh files for FS9, and what a difference it made to my simming..and still does with that great sim. The fact that this edition is FSX-certified by ORBX to run seamlessly, and that the developers used this layer to beta..and publish their teaser screen grabs made up my mind for me. I love this hobby.…

...just installed ...just defragged ...saw the file count at around 8,404 new files.... (and I believe this brings (shhhhh...shhhhh....) ORBX-G to the latest version of Global X.(x) :ph34r: They don't say that any OpenLC product will upgrade ORBX-G...but those files...those names of the files.... yeah...c'mon.... ORBX...you are sooooooooooooooooooooooooo sneaky cool..... About to fire up an airport in Berlin....and explore the new...and cool....Germany... Lockheed Martin and ORBX....two partners....may the dance never end! See ya....Germany awaits.... Post Edit... just took off from Berlin....and all I gotta say..is: "ORBX....…

Gentlemen, anybody of you experience huge frame rate drops and stutters even if 5% ai traffic is activated ? tried defalut ai, mytraffic and world of ai...... Carsten

Anyone found a fix for this? I get this at Diamond point as well as Vashion and Wax Orchards. Simply moving the camera angle will make the buildings appear and disappear. I know this isn't supported but I'm trying to see if any users have found a fix. Buildings appear fine at this angle. But at this angle they all disappear.

Been simming for a long while now. Worked through the FSX limitations but stuck with it. Then I bought into P3D at v1.2 and have moved forward with each release since. Sure there have been some hiccups but there has never been anything like it. I read the forums daily and all the complaints about frame rates not being high enough even though there is a limit of what the human eye can detect! My computer easily keeps me between 17-28fps and the program works just fine. My question is this. Are we hung up on frame rates from FSX days? Are we hanging on to the supposed need to have blazing fps? Prepar3d runs fine in the teens. Maybe, just maybe, it does not n…

Been simming for a long while now. Worked through the FSX limitations but stuck with it. Then I bought into P3D at v1.2 and have moved forward with each release since. Sure there have been some hiccups but there has never been anything like it. I read the forums daily and all the complaints about frame rates not being high enough even though there is a limit of what the human eye can detect! My computer easily keeps me between 17-28fps and the program works just fine. My question is this. Are we hung up on frame rates from FSX days? Are we hanging on to the supposed need to have blazing fps? Prepar3d runs fine in the teens. Maybe, just maybe, it does not n…

This is driving me crazy, I can run 20 FPS no issues while on the group in a default plane. If I switch to a payware airport ( Flightbeam PHX or IAD ) im down to 13-14 FPS on the ground in a default plane. Dare I try a payware plane 9FPS seems to be where it's at. if I turn all the sliders down and run on minimum I can get 10-11FPS. Dunno what i'm doing wrong, Tried a fresh install tonight of P3D and am still having issues. My Rig: AMD FX-8350 ATI 6950 2GB 16GB 1300MHz DDR3 ram anyone have any ideas or suggestions? Thanks in advance.

I have been interested in Prepar3D Version 2.2 but I wanted to ask if my PC is alright for it because I am planning to get new PC parts. These are my PC Specs and some of my replacements: Motherboard: ASUS M4A785TD-V-EVO Replacement: ASUS Z97 PRO WiFi AC CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 B45 @ 3.1GHz Replacement: Intel Core i5 4690k (or i7 4790K depending on the budget) RAM: 4x2GB DDR3 @ 1333MHz Possible Replacement: 2x4GB DDR3 @ 2400MHz (depending on the budget) HDD: Toshiba 2TB @ 7200 RPM SSD: None New part: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB PSU: Unsure but possibly around 750W Manufactured by PowerX2 (Possible Replacement depending on budget) GPU: AMD Radeon HD 7850 2GB Sapphir…

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Every time I start P3D the Scenery Indexes are rebuilt. This causes GSX to regenerate its airport cache every time. It's a pain having to sit and wait sometimes up to 5mins before you can change location or aircraft. Is there anything in P3D I can do to stop the rebuild every time?