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P3D 3.3.3, W7, 368.22 DSR works as advertised for me. /Russell.

I'm assuming you mean the debris thrown up when moving over grass etc. If so, look in the aircraft.cfg and look for this line under Effects. Change it to look like this ... dirt=// fx_tchdrt (just add two forward slashes after the = Do the same for every aircraft you want to lose the effect on. If it's the spray on wet runways you want to lose, do the same for water=//fx_spray. /Russell.

Well Elaine, if you look on page 6, you'll see one who says he pays $200 instead of $60...just to get rid of the watermark. But maybe he was joking. /Russell.

Yes, unticking Show Notification Text does remove the watermark in P3Dv3 academic. But why anyone would be bothered about the watermark is beyond me. It is so insignificant I can honestly say I never ever notice whether it's there...or not. /Russell.

That's strange. Click Start, then type simobjects.cfg in the "search programs and files" box. That should tell you where it is. As I said, it SHOULD be in C:/ ProgramData/ Lockheed Martin/ Prepar3Dv2 along with a load of .cfg files and other stuff. Note that this is NOT the same Prepar3Dv2 folder where the Prepar3D.cfg resides. /Russell.

The SimObjects path doesn't go in the P3D.cfg now. It goes in C:/ ProgramData / Lockheed Martin / Prepar3D v2 In there you'll find the simobjects.cfg Put your AI_Aircraft entry in there. /Russell.

Thanks for that Rob ...especially about deleting the temp VisualFXTool file. I've never been too happy with the results I get using the tool, and usually finish up manually adjusting the actual file, then firing up P3D to see the results. A bit of a long winded method, I know, but I usually get the result I'm after...eventually. /Russell.

Thanks for your answer Vic, very much appreciated. I should have explained better about the deleting. I didn't delete them as such, I moved them out of P3D so I could put them back if necessary, so as far as P3D was concerned, they were deleted. The reason being that P3D wouldn't save a flight as default no matter what. Also VisualFXTool kept loading the last fx file I'd worked on, instead of the one I WANTED to look at. I found all the flights in the usual place ... Documents/Prepar3D v2 files. So when I found a default.fxml and an effects folder with the last fx file I'd used in VisualFXTool in a different location where normally I'd only ever known the Shaders to reside, I moved them to see if that was the problem. It wasn't, so I asked the question that you kindly answered. Fact is, I wasn't too bothered if it did diss P3D as I don't have much installed yet, so no big deal for me to totally uninstall-reinstall. Thanks again for assuring me that the locations are correct. /Russell.

Who informed me of this ? No one. Trying to out guess LM developers ? Where did that come from ? I've used P3D from day one, and have never seen default flight and wx files in that location. Neither have I ever seen an effects folder in that position, so I asked to find out if this was a new thing in P3D v2.5 as I know they have altered the file structure some what. All I wanted was a civil answer to know if that was correct, or a fault on my end, not some high handed nonsense from you. /Russell.

I understood that in P3D v2.5 only the Shaders folder is kept at C:/ Users/ Myname/ AppData/ Local/ Lockheed Martin/ Prepar3D v2. In mine, as well as the Shaders folder, I have a P3D default.fxml and default.wx files and an effects folder which, if I use the VisualFXTools will contain the last fx file that I opened. Surely this isn't right. If I delete them, they are replaced next time I start P3D. /Russell.

Whenever I use instant replay, when it ends, I get a ball of what looks like smoke appears in the sky, which sometimes spreads across the sky making it very dark, then disappears after around a minute. Other times it spreads all over the sky and scenery and the fps drop from 30 to 8. I have to close the sim to get rid of it. Anyone else seen this ? /Russell.

C:/ ProgramData /Lockheed Martin /Prepar3Dv2 /Russell.

Thanks Maarten ...you're a star. That's worked perfectly. Many thanks, very much appreciated. /Russell.

Hi, trying to install the switch panel on new PC. Used the installation CD that came with it, and have the correct entry in the exe.xml. When that didn't work, I installed the latest software from Saitek. Still nothing. If I try to start the SaiPanels.exe manually, I get the message "the application has failed to start because it's side-by-side configuration is incorrect." Side-by-side with what ?. It worked fine on my previous PC. When you download the software, it asks if operating system is 32 or 64 bit. I choose 64 bit, but notice that, whichever you choose, you get the same Saitek_Pro_Flight_Panels_7_0_34_109 which is 32 bit. Would'nt think that's a problem as my previous PC was 64 bit. Anyone have a clue as to what I'm doing wrong ? /Russell.

In C:/user/myname/Appdata/Roaming/Lockheed Martin I have two folders containing the P3D cfg, Prepar3D and Prepar3D v2 One is for version 1.4 and the other for version 2.3, which is correct as I have both versions installed. /Russell.