Rob Haynes

I need to go and download this as it looks great! I love your Oceano and KMYF sceneries, thanks for your hard work.

I think the staff is the most important thing for a long-term successful airline. From my experience with other VA's and Premier Virtual Airlines, where I'm the VP of Operations, a staff comprised of mostly older, mature members will last the test of time. I'm not saying a VA led by the younger generation of flight simmers can't be successful, but with an older crew, you tend to have more than just website creation abilities. I'm talking about real-world management experience, proper handling of people, improved skills when diffusing conflicts and so on. There also tends to be less ego in the way, which allows the VA to be the star and not the staff members. This isn't the case for all VA's, but a good amount from my 12+ years of flying with virtual airlines.

Thank for the input and sorry I left out some info in my first post. I will be upgrading my CPU, MOBO, RAM and GPU with this purchase. Just not sure what would be best on the CPU side of things. I have a water cooler on my computer right now, but might upgrade to something stronger if needed. All in all, I'm looking to spend around a $1,000 on the upgrades. I will most likely wait until next month when the new GTX3070's are available for the GPU.

Looking to try and take advantage of some Amazon Prime deals and looking at a new MOBO and CPU. I found this Prime Deal on a AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT packaged with a MSI MAG B550 Tomahawk MOBO. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08K3FDVWS/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&th=1 One of the guys in my iRacing group recommended looking at an i5-10600K since it has faster processing speed and will save me some money. https://www.amazon.com/Intel-i5-10600K-Desktop-Processor-Unlocked/dp/B086MHSH2C/ref=mp_s_a_1_17?dchild=1&keywords=10600k&qid=1602637106&sr=8-17 I'm clueless when it comes to computer hardware. Which would you guys recommend for P3Dv4.5, iRacing and future MSFS2020 action? I'm looking for good FPS in P3D without having to go below medium in the settings. At some point I will begin to run either triple monitors or use VR for sim racing, too. Thanks!

Any CPU recommendations under $500 that should provide good P3D performance?

Hello everyone and thanks in advance for any advice! I have a roughly 4 year old computer that was built by CyberPower PC (specs below) and I'm looking to improve my in-sim FPS with P3Dv4.5. I've been looking at new video cards in the $350-$500 price range with 8gb of memory as I also want to use VR for iRacing. I will be using a monitor via HDMI for my flight sim set up. I'll also put it out there that I'm a doof, when it comes to computer parts and how to get the most out of them. 😆 Currently in the NGX while on the ground at a smaller to medium sized airport in a not so dense area, I pull 12-15 FPS. If flying into FSDT KLAX, or heavy areas like Seattle, New York, Miami/Fort Lauderdale I can range between 8-11 FPS on approach and the ground. Steering on the ground is super choppy and the FPS gets even lower. I pull similar FPS in even less complicated aircraft like the QW757, while it's even worse than the NGX in Captain Sim's 757 for P3Dv4. I would like to see 15-20 at the heavy areas airports listed above, if not better. Any thoughts on a good graphics card or other recommendations to improve my FPS, while keeping it under $500? Here are the specs for the computer I had built by CyberPower PC: CAS: CyberPowerPC X-Titan 100 MID-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Window Panel (Black Color) CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified) CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Color Case Cooling Fans for your selected case (Red Color) FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan) HDD: 256GB SANDISK SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3) MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z97 Extreme4 ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1 x M.2, 8x SATA 6Gb/s (All Venom OC Certified) OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) OVERCLOCK: Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more) POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Power Supply VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) (Single Card) The 256GB SSD has since been replaced by a 500GB SSD after a failure. The SSD is for Windows and some documents. All my my simulators, programs, AI models/repaints, etc are on the 2TB SATAIII HD. For my simulator, I use the following: Prepar3d v4.5 REX Essentials REX Airports HD Active Sky for P3Dv4 Mostly freeware airports that I've updated parking assignments, add dynamic lighting, etc All FSX or P3Dv4 AI models with schedules I manually manage with AIFP. (My AI collection is MASSIVE). I use an AI Limiting program to limit the AI populated in heavier traffic areas. Aivasoft EFB (the original) My VA's ACARS system Orbx Global, Vector, Open LC, North America, PNW, NRM, CRM, PFK, SAK, Aus v1, NZ NI & SI Tomato Shade with the Preset from iniBuilds Here are my P3Dv4.5 settings (recommended from iniBuilds) and corresponding performance shown via Task Manager in the Majestic Dash 8 and PMDG 737 NGX. I run AI at 75% for commercial and GA with all boats and vehicles turned off. In-sim performance in the Majestic Q400 over barren, northern Canada. In-sim performance in the NGX over the middle of North Dakota In all of the images of performance above, I'm in very light traffic and autogen areas. Would a video card similar to some of the GTX 1070, 1080's with 8GB in memory around $350-500 give me what I'm looking for? My sim itself is smooth in regards I don't get pauses due to the processing. I just want smoother performance on screen and to have a more realistic feeling/look when on the ground and approach. Any other recommendations to improve performance, without breaking the bank? Thanks! Rob

Hello, I posted this on the P3D forums, but thought I would try for assistance here, as well. Thanks. I recently joined iRacing and have found that if I try to use P3Dv4.4 after I use iRacing's software, I end up with a black screen after the scenario loads. I do a computer reset in between using iRacing and P3Dv4.4 The first time this happened I went in and deleted my Shaders under my APP DATA folders and P3Dv4.4 loaded from a black screen within 15 seconds when the scenario loaded. The next time I tried to use P3Dv4 after iRacing I deleted my shaders and did a computer reboot before launching P3Dv4. This time I had a black screen again after the scenario loaded. I let the screen sit over night and it was still black the following morning. The scenario is loaded as you can hear all of the sounds and if you move the mouse around you can see the cursor change when over a click-point. I am using Tomato Shade with P3Dv4. I have tried the following and each time end up with an endless black screen. After each of the steps tried below, the computer was rebooted: * Deleted the Shaders and reboot = Endless Black Screen * Reset Shader Cache in Tomato Shade and deleted Shaders = Endless Black Screen * Reset Shaders to Default in Tomato Shade = Endless Black Screen * Reset Shaders and deleted shaders = Endless Black Screen * Deleted Shaders & CFG file = Endless Black Screen * New Client install = Endless Black Screen * Updated Nvidia Drivers, deleted Shaders, deleted CFG = Endless Black Screen I'm kind of at a loss now as what to do. It's beyond frustrating another program can cause P3Dv4 to be unusable. Any help or assistance would greatly be appreciated. I am running P3Dv4.4 with TomatoShade (up to date), REX, Active Sky P3Dv4. Computer: CAS: CyberPowerPC X-Titan 100 MID-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Window Panel (Black Color) CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified) CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Color Case Cooling Fans for your selected case (Red Color) FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan) HDD: 256GB SANDISK SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3) MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z97 Extreme4 ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1 x M.2, 8x SATA 6Gb/s (All Venom OC Certified) OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) <---IS UP TO DATE OVERCLOCK: Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more) POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Power Supply VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) (Single Card)

Out of nowhere, I have a lot of 3rd party AFCADS (mainly those from Ray Smith and Robert Catherall) where all Generic Buildings and default Terminal buildings are no longer appearing within P3Dv4. I haven't made any changes to my sim recently and in fact had a fully functioning KSEA three days ago, and now it's missing all the buildings as seen in the images below. After removing all 3rd party AFCADS even the default P3D airport is missing all buildings/terminals (Default PANC was just the aprons, taxiways, runways and jetbridges). All .MDL files that are part of the compiled AFCAD show (jetway files, barriers, stairs, and buildings that are part of the model library), but anything that's a default terminal or titled a Generic Building within ADE don't appear. This doesn't happen for every airport however. Using Ray Smith's KMKE AFCAD, the entire default terminal shows, yet the default terminal for his and RWC's PANC and KSEA AFCADS are completely missing. If you open the AFCADS in Airport Design Editor all buildings show within that program, yet don't show in the sim, even with a new compile of the .BGL. Image complexity within the P3Dv4 is maxed, and as I mentioned nothing has changed recently. I'm not sure what could cause this? I have tried running a Repair of P3Dv4 and doing an uninstall and reinstall with a reboot in between. I didn't delete any folders or files though on the uninstall/reinstall. I would like to avoid that if possible. PANC showing the few buildings that are part of the Model library. All default buildings and generic buildings are missing: PANC showing .mdl's but no generic buildings Ray Smith's KMIA showing a few default terminals, but no Generic Buildings (which make up most of Terminal D) KSEA missing all default terminals and Generic Buildings. .MDL files showing This doesn't seem to be an AFCAD issue since even the default airports are missing the buildings. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks! My sim consists of: P3Dv4.3 ORBX Global, Vector, SAK, PNW, NRM, CRM, PFJ Freeware Airport AFCADS from AVSIM TomatoShade REX 4 w/ Soft Clouds REX HD Airports Active Sky P3Dv4

The adjustment to AffinityMask solved the problem. Thanks! :smile:

Good morning everyone. I recently did a clean install of P3Dv3.4 after removing P3Dv3.2 from my computer. So far I have reinstalled all of my Orbx products (Global, Vector, North America LC, numerous scenery packages etc.) using FTX Central, Active Sky Next, Rex Essentials and HD Airports. I reinstalled all of my existing AI aircraft and traffic AFCADS from my previous install and new installs of PMDG 737NGX and Aerosoft A318, A319, A320, A321. My settings in the sim are all the same as my previous install. The issue I am having is ground textures are blurry (you will see in one image below a narrow strip behind my plane is ok, the rest is a blur), AI textures are taking FOREVER to show up (upwards of a minute), there are texture issues with the Aerosoft A319 and the lighting effects don't display for upwards of 30 seconds. Texture issue on the ground at Aerosoft AnchorageX AI aircraft textures take a ridiculously long time to load (15-40 seconds) and never was a problem on my old install Ground textures are weird and you can see large effects from the plane windows, strobe etc VC lighting takes a long time to reappear (button illumination and dash lighting) Notice the terrain is blurry other than the strip of properly loaded textures behind my aircraft (plane is heading south) Lighting effects (strobes, beacon and logo light) not working. Missing AI textures. Here are my P3D settings: Here are my computer specs: CAS: CyberPowerPC X-Titan 100 MID-Tower Gaming Case w/ Side-Window Panel (Black Color) CPU: Intel® Core™ i7-4790K 4.0 GHz 8MB Intel Smart Cache LGA1150 (All Venom OC Certified) CS_FAN: Maximum 120MM Color Case Cooling Fans for your selected case (Red Color) FAN: Asetek 550LC 120mm Liquid Cooling CPU Cooler - Extreme Cooling Performance (Single Standard 120MM Fan) HDD: 256GB SANDISK SSD + 2TB SATA III Hard Drive Combo (Combo Drive) MEMORY: 16GB (8GBx2) DDR3/2133MHz Dual Channel Memory (ADATA XPG V3) MOTHERBOARD: ASRock Z97 Extreme4 ATX w/ Intel GbLAN, 3 PCIe x16, 3 PCIe x1, 1 x M.2, 8x SATA 6Gb/s (All Venom OC Certified) OS: Windows 10 Home (64-bit Edition) OVERCLOCK: Pro OC (Performance Overclock 10% or more) POWERSUPPLY: 1,000 Watts - Standard 80 Plus Gold Power Supply VIDEO: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 4GB GDDR5 PCIe 3.0 x16 (Maxwell) (Single Card) Any help or advice would be great! I had no issues like this with P3Dv2 with the same hardware and software installed.

Did you check your settings in the Aerosoft Airbus Configurator? I think default settings is for single throttle usage. If you program Throttle 1 & Throttle 2 in FSUIPC you need to select 2-throttles in the Airbus settings. Program should be found in the Aerosoft/Airbus folder with the Livery installer etc.

Good Afternoon, Does P3Dv3 limit the amount of entries in an aircraft.cfg file? I have almost 400 entries in my FAIB B737-800WL folder, and half don't seem to come up in UT2. I checked my numbering order and everything looks in order and in the correct format (no missing brackets or . before the number] If so, I should be able to make a new folder and copy the model folders, .air file and create a new .cfg file correct?

Thanks Brandon. I don't have FSX installed since this is a brand new computer and I was hoping to just run P3D. Did you copy the P3D.cfg and rename it FSX.cfg? That's what I did. Every time I try to launch UT2 it asks for the FSX.cfg file (even though I directed to the one in the P3D Roaming folder) and the FSX.EXE file ( in my main P3D folder thanks to EMT). Did I do something wrong for that to happen?

Looks great! Just downloaded it yesterday.

Yes. Migration tool stays enabled unless I am installing something with a P3Dv3 installer.

How did you install UT2? Did you use the EMT? Every time I launch UT2 after being installed it asks for the FSX.CFG and FSX.EXE file.

Yes, I'm only seeing the UT2 aircraft. In FSX, I would see all of the aircraft that was in the SimObjects folder. I did add a new line to the simobjects.cfg for the AI Folder, didn't know I needed to as well for the P3D.cfg, I will check it out when I get home today. Thanks!

After a clean re-install I can now edit my aircrafts in UT2, except it is not seeing ANY other folders in the SimObjects folder, including my AI Aircraft folder that was added to the simobjects.cfg file. After my re-install the exe.xml and simobjects.cfg files are not in the appdata/roaming/p3d folder. I was able to make a new simobjects.cfg, but am missing the exe.xml file. Any ideas and could that be the reason why the other simobjects aren't appearing in UT2? AI is showing in P3Dv3 now with no issues. EDIT: After adding a new FP using Power Pack, UT2 now CTD when I launch it. I seriously don't know what to do here. No one else using it with P3Dv3 seems to be having these problems.

Installed UT2 into P3Dv3 using the EMT and following instructions online. I get my AI traffic in P3Dv3 with no issues, but when I launch UT2 I get the following errors: When I try to edit the repaints i get the following error code: See the end of this message for details on invoking just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box. ************** Exception Text ************** System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: InvalidArgument=Value of '0' is not valid for 'SelectedIndex'. Parameter name: SelectedIndex at System.Windows.Forms.ComboBox.set_SelectedIndex(Int32 value) at (Object , Int32 ) at ..() at ..(String ) at ..(Object , MouseEventArgs ) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnMouseClick(MouseEventArgs e) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.ScrollableControl.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.OnMessage(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.WndProc(Message& m) at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam) ************** Loaded Assemblies ************** mscorlib Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8669 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- UltimateTraffic2 Assembly Version: 2.9.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.9.0.0 ---------------------------------------- System.Windows.Forms Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Drawing Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8663 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- Microsoft.VisualBasic Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Xml Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Runtime.Remoting Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Configuration Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Data.SQLite Assembly Version: 1.0.65.0 Win32 Version: 1.0.65.0 ---------------------------------------- System.Data Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Transactions Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- {92b4f56c-8992-46b6-9774-f0799fa6ca8c} Assembly Version: 0.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.9.0.0 ---------------------------------------- System.ServiceModel Assembly Version: 3.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 3.0.4506.8674 (QFE.030729-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.EnterpriseServices Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0 Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.8662 (QFE.050727-8600) ---------------------------------------- System.Core Assembly Version: 3.5.0.0 Win32 Version: 3.5.30729.8674 built by: QFE ---------------------------------------- ************** JIT Debugging ************** To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this application or computer (machine.config) must have the jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section. The application must also be compiled with debugging enabled. For example: <configuration> <system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" /> </configuration> When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer rather than be handled by this dialog box. I have seen that error can be caused by a .cfg file with a missing "ui_variation" line. I have removed all of the defult aircraft, AI Aircraft and UT2 aircraft folders one by one, removing them from the SimObjects .cfg files and it doesn't fix the issue. At this point I don't know what to do. Should I just attempt a clean P3Dv3 install and immediately install UT2 after that? Any help would be appreciated.

Used the migration tool, installed it to my P3D location (E:\Prepar3d_v3). When I try to launch UT2 (just did ANOTHER install) it asks for my FSX.cfg file and then for FSX itself. Not sure what to do there, I thought the Migration tool would handle that stuff. I don't understand why I cant get this to work.

When I launch P3Dv3 it plays the UT2 song, then about 10 seconds later I get this pop up and the UT2 Initiated song tries to play another 5 times or so.

Posted below. UT2 does work in P3Dv3, I get my AI aircraft, I just can't update any of the repaints.

Followed those directions yet I continue to get the following error when launching UT2: When I try to select the ability to manage the repaints I am forced to quit UT2. I did have a folder of 3rd party AI, which I have removed from all SimObjects.cfg files, reinstalled UT2 using the method above, yet still can't get UT2 to work. Any ideas guys? Since my computer is a day old, should I do a new clean P3Dv3 install and the first install after that be UT2? Thanks!

Everything did install into the P3D\Sim Objects Folder and corresponding P3Dv3 folders