1 hour ago, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

I never intendet to update to HF3 but then Active Sky came along with their beta which needs HF3 to work and I had no choice than to update.

Oh, my, what a mistake.

Now all the scenery is blurry, even with all the sliders to max and the trees look awful.

Any idea at all what could be the issue and more important, what can I do to solve it? Anybody had the same problem? I'm pretty desperate here because under no circumstances I want to reinstall everything again. It was running beautifully. Oh, man!

https://imgur.com/a/tm7HUoS

(the scenery in the image should be crisp and beautiful)

Doesn't everybody create a system restore point before doing any update or upgrade?

2 minutes ago, mtr75 said:

Doesn't everybody create a system restore point before doing any update or upgrade?

Apparently not 🙂

1 hour ago, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

I never intendet to update to HF3 but then Active Sky came along with their beta which needs HF3 to work and I had no choice than to update.

Oh, my, what a mistake.

Now all the scenery is blurry, even with all the sliders to max and the trees look awful.

Any idea at all what could be the issue and more important, what can I do to solve it? Anybody had the same problem? I'm pretty desperate here because under no circumstances I want to reinstall everything again. It was running beautifully. Oh, man!

https://imgur.com/a/tm7HUoS

(the scenery in the image should be crisp and beautiful)

Two things:

Delete your p3d.cfg. There is no need to clear the shader cache, unless you have also changed your GPU or GPU drivers.

And then after reloading the sim you will have to re-apply your settings. Also when you updated the client it is obvious that the Dynamic 3D Vegetation got switched on again. That is why your trees look like they do.

1 hour ago, Reader said:

To be honest, you don't need to be using ASP3D at all in P3D v4 when Active Sky for P3D v4 is already working as it should.

In my experience, ASP3D works in P3D "hotfix 2" and I have no intention of changing it. There is nothing worthwhile to the non-military in "hotfix 3" in any case.

In fact, so far, there isn't much in P3D v5 over 4.5 either, except for an unwelcome return of OOMs.

Exactly. Start messing with betas, this that and the other, and your beautifully running sim (relative to the limitations of your hardware) has a good likelihood of turning into a buggy mess. 

Yeah, guys, but the original poster wasn't asking about your opinions on what he shouldn't have done in the past, he asked for help to get his problems fixed.

Do you think it helps, if you tell someone not to use ASP3D after the fact?

3 minutes ago, Farlis said:

Two things:

Delete your p3d.cfg. There is no need to clear the shader cache, unless you have also changed your GPU or GPU drivers.

And then after reloading the sim you will have to re-apply your settings. Also when you updated the client it is obvious that the Dynamic 3D Vegetation got switched on again. That is why your trees look like they do.

I did delete Prepa3d.cfg and I already reapplied the settings. Dynamic 3D vegetation is off. I took the screenshot after doing all that.

Just now, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

Dynamic 3D vegetation is off.

Somtimes the Sim does not recognize the setting, after it is applied. Check it again, and restart the sim. Because clearly those are the speedtrees, which means they did not get switched off.

Problem solved!

It had something to do with Envshade. I reinstalled it and now everything is fine again. I thought deleting shader folder should be sufficient to deal with shader issues. I guess that's not the case.

Oh, man, I lost like 10 years today. Just got 5 back though.

Thanks to everybody who tried to help!

22 minutes ago, Tomaz Drnovsek said:

Problem solved!

It had something to do with Envshade. I reinstalled it and now everything is fine again. I thought deleting shader folder should be sufficient to deal with shader issues. I guess that's not the case.

Oh, man, I lost like 10 years today. Just got 5 back though.

Thanks to everybody who tried to help!

With Envshade after a client update I always delete shaders, load up P3D to let it load default shaders, shut down P3D, reinstall Envshade settings via EnvDir.

4 hours ago, Reader said:

I think that it is correct that you have to register for the beta to qualify but I see no obligation to actually test it, except perhaps a moral one.

 

This is according to here :

ASP4 licensees may participate in the OPEN BETA, which is available from our downloads page. Please download, install, run, and use the “New User? Register for an account!” link on the login page to create your ASP3D account using your ASP4 license key. Your ASP4 license key was provided when you purchased (email) and is also available at your reseller site (order history).

so I kinda get the impression that you do actually have to install it to qualify. Or have I misinterpreted ?

 

Even if you create an account, which I imagine is required, or how could they know that you have joined the beta and therefore qualify for a free upgrade? There is still no stated requirement to install it and even if you install it, I see no requirement to use it. Having said that, I see no reason not to try it, it will not damage P3D. The worst it can do is not work properly and if it does not, just use Active Sky for P3D v4. I see no downside.

Edited May 10, 20206 yr by Reader

2 minutes ago, Reader said:

Even if you create an account, which I imagine is required, or how could they know that you have joined the beta and therefore qualify for a free upgrade? There is still no stated requirement to install it and even if you install it, I see no requirement to use it. Having said that, I see no reason not to try it, it will not damage P3D. The worst it can do is not work properly and if it does not, just use Active Sky for P3D v4. I see no downside.

As far as I understand you need to activate it with your old serial number. That's probably all you need to do but as you said, no reason not to actually use it.