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Have disabled both EA and HDR looks better but hoping for improvement in P3D v1.1 Thanks for the feedback

After having moved to V5 HF2 I have been trying to get the sim to display a crisp and clear sunny day that would be close to real life. I've tried the default textures with no shaders, with Envshade and with the Nvidia panel, but always get a sort of a washout look and it never looks sharp as it would be in a clear sunny day. Didn't have issues in 4.5 and was wondering if anyone has any settings they would recommend to at least get close to reality. Otherwise performance is good and looking forward to the next version release. regards

Want to buy and download the Premiun Deluxe Edition english version for PC to try and avoid a problem friend of mine had, when he downloaded the Xbox version and couldn't install it because he didn't have any Microsoft devices. Link much appreciated thanks.

Very sad at Jim's passing, He was an energetic and very helpful administrator and contributed a great deal helping others with problems, myself included. May he rest in peace and my sincerest condolences to his family and friends.

Well I didn't know a simple question like mine was going to create such flurry, specially the sarcastic posts. Thanks to those who confirmed that it won't be subject to additional charges. Thanks

In addition to the initial cost of the Simulator, will there be additional costs by way of subscription in order to get the full streamed world? Feedback appreciated.

Your post answers my question, thank you Soren.

Just wondering how accurate are the airports included in FS2020 compared to the payware like FSDreamTeam, Flightbeam etc. that we currently use in P3D. Comments by beta testers much appreciated.

On the Windows Insider fast ring build 19645 release 200605-1502 (beyond 2040), and rest assured that v4.5+hotfix works perfectly.

Many thanks for the info.

1) Disable HT and No Affinity Mask - I tried them all. Let P3Dv5 do its thing. 2) MAX_TEXTURE_REQUEST_DISTANCE=300000 (Default is 1000) 3) Enable HIGH_RESOLUTION_TERRAIN_TEXTURES=1 in Settings 3) TEXTURE_SIZE_EXP=10 - this goes in [TERRAIN] 4) LOD_RADIUS=3.500000 Could someone let me know where to place 3, 3 and 4? In terrain.cfg couldn't find that entry does it need to be added to the bottom of the file? Advice appreciated. Thanks

By the looks of it FS2020 is going to be the only one that will provide worldwide photo real scenery with autogen, so we may have to wait for that to become available.

Anyone who was with P3D when version 4 came out will remember that it took a while to iron out the many crashes and other issues that affected it. Well think v5 as a new born baby that needs to develop to reach maturity. When I bought it I knew that there would be some problems and lI had no had no crashes with some payware ga aircraft, even managed to do a flight with a pmd747,which lasted all of one hour before it crashed. I can see people complaining about the money they paid, but that cost will stay put during the many versons of v5. If you have the latest v4.5 enjoy that as it's working splendidly and you can continue to enjoy your addons until v5 gets updated and performs better. Loads of developers are very likely updating those addons that can be fully compatible with v5, that will take some time. Take a deep breath and have a Martini on the rocks.

Still using v4.5HF3 and very happy with it. Also have V5+hotfix which I used with Carenado single props and PMDG 744 & 748 and with scenery from a couple of developers that came out with their compliant V5 scenery. When using PMDG and a V5 scenery it went like this: After start up, taxi and take off all OK but shortly after CTD with Kernelbase.dll, Terrain.dll, DX warning window, etc. Never managed to do a full long haul without crashes. When flying GA no CTDs, mind you I'm using default airports.Tried again with the heavies after Active Sky released the hotfix, still CTD. There is no doubt in my mind that it performs beautifully, but clouds could be improved and my personal opinion is that it is not ready for the sort of flying heavies I do. V4.5 is actually looking and behaving extremely well with the AS P3D (v4) and only having a smaill issues with some artifacts appearing at some airports when looking at the aircraft from outside while climbing, which I believe may be an Nvidia driver issue perhaps because I'm only using a DCH driver. V5 still WIP.

I have been getting this since the beginning, whenever I try to fly the PMDG747 it crashes after a short time. Similar message. V5 works great with my GA aircraft and with Henrik's AI ships, and the so far relased updated scenery. Could this be due to a memory leak? All my heavy iron flying has to be in v4.5 for the moment.

Very good explanation Rob, thanks for making things for me.

My favourite airports are based on difficult approaches. LXGB, LPMA(05), LEBB(12), LOWI (LOC DME West), Kai-Tak(13), MHTG, SKPS, VQPR, SPZO(RNAV28), and more. Likewise there are also so many beautiful airports excelling in accuracy that the list would be too long. The latest version of EKCH is right there among the top for me. regards

Hi Rob , I'm running v4.5+latest hotfix and v5 on the same PC. I didn't realise that v5 doesn't require simconnect based on your comment, does this apply to all aircraft, etc on v5? regards

Have been using the multipanel with Spad.Next for a few years. Not being knowledgeable in programing profiles was only interested to use the panel in its default state, by that I mean it will work as indicated on the knobs and lever, so looked in the online profiles inside the software for 737 and 747 profiles. Out of all the published profiles for these aircraft found only 2, one is the 737 by c0nnex and the other the one by Ulrich51 for the PMDG 747 QOTS II . Recently and since updating P3Dv4.5 to the latest hotfix the 747 profile stopped working correctly, you can twiddle the buttons and it will alter the items on the MCP but the display doesn't work and gives strange readings. I have posted this on the Spad.Next forum but responses tend to take some time or not at all. There are many profiles for this aircraft as far as I know bar the above, they have all been tweaked to achieve different results and won't work in default state. Ulrich 51 is the owner and developer of Spad.Next. Hope you find what you seek for your panels.

Thanks I was baffled why this was happening but of course wasn't selecting the V4 option. Many thanks

PC12 - SC337 Skymaster - 500S Aero commander and the H850XP. They all work fine in v4. For v5 installed the patch and the aircraft but unfortunately all the VCs suffered the same fate. See screenshot link. https://www.dropbox.com/s/8kdsbz0vookkvar/CARENADOPC12.bmp?dl=0

Well there is a lot of scenery out there that doesn't require an xml file. eXtensible Markup Language (xml) is not something that everyone understands, also many developers create their installers that don't place the scenery where you want it and needing to move them and amend the xml file, Always thought this was the wrong way to go and much prefer scenery configuration software that can be linked quickly to the scenery.cfg . This issue may well prevent me to continue following the V5 progress but in the future. if some developer creates software with an easy interface, similar to the current scenery config editor, that will allow me to select a folder and quickly generate an add-on.xml for all its contents, then I'll consider it. Lorby's works but found it too confusing and dificult to understand. My personal opinion and totally respect other's choice.

Wondering if anyone knows if there is any scenery config type editor to add scenery to V5? I've tried the current one by repathing to V5 but unfortunately it screws up the scenery config. Seems the file now appears to be type UCS-2 LEBOM. Not interested in xml. Thanks

Thank you Michael and Gerard, always wanted a photoreal germany, tried the one in the 2m european photoreal but it has too many colour changes. regards

Hi Gerard Could you let me know where to get Germany Phoptoreal2? Did a search in the FSXForum.de but only found one post mentioning Germany Photoreal2. Thanks and regards