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Thanks. What about the old 1.17 prepar3d version does it work? I could never get 1.18 working on any version so I stuck with the 1.17 update plus the prepar3d beta of 1.17 exe file copied over. Maybe that will still work?

Awesome I wish I could get it working in Windows 8 :(

I use WOAI for international and FTX (ORBX) for Australia new Zealand. They work well together. I hear MyTraffic 6 for Prepar3d is being developed but like most addons no one knows how long it will be

I'm having similar problems with 2.5. I can't load the MCE dll anymore it crashes on start. With other addons about 1 in 4 loads will crash. Once it's running is ok. I think they changed the way dll linking works or the compiler libraries, and windows 8.1 doesn't like it. I have to do some more testing to isolate the addons and maybe try one of the P3D hotfixes, but in general 2.5 has been a step backwards for me. I get slightly more VAS but an addon I can't use and instability with other addons at start up :(

Do you have runway centre lights?

Remember it's the B60 - not the Turbine! Performance will be way different, but you can edit it. Right save as then put it in your aircraft types folder. Then create an aircraft registration from it, then you need to adjust the performance. I'm not sure how much performance information there is out there on the net for the Turbine.. you might need trial and error.

Only for the B60. http://forum.aerosoft.com/index.php?/files/file/2428-aircraft-template-beech-b60-duke/

Will repaints from the TDuke v1 work in v2? Thanks

Hi All, Has anyone come across this? Sometimes when I enable, I get the voices saying "test" etc, then it says "6.50 Initializing", and it sits there forever.. Any way to get past that? Many thanks EDIT: Solved - it was a problem with the indexer not completing properly, it was pausing on Flytampa copenhagen. I just needed to give it more time to complete.

Taxi2gate VHHH Hong Kong ORBX YBCS Cairns is amazing and P3D native ORBX AYPY Jackson's is also excellent and P3D native. I have all the FlyTampa and FSDT but haven't flown to from them in P3D yet. How is everyone's performance with Flightbeam San Fran?

Hi Properly setup you may be ok but with only 8gb RAM you will have to be really careful what you have running outside P3D or your system will be paging to disk. Do you have an option to upgrade to 16gb? I'm not sure about razbam but what fps do you get at default with fps set to unlocked?

Hi All P3D said 2.5 would be the last time we need to do a full install. However I look at my downloads page and it only lists the full installer for 12943. Also I notice Rob's post how he installed from scratch again.. Is there a patch installer for 12943? Or will one be released do you think? Took 2 weeks to rebuild everything again for 2.5 and not doing it again :( Or do I have to use the old dll hotfix? I was kind of waiting for the coldfix and a bit disappointed they released a full installer without a patch installer

Hard to understand how you guys with fast desktop processors only getting 25fps. I have a 4700 mobile processor and I get 20-23fps with PMDG 777. 20fps if it's a complex airport. 4700 4 cores runs at 2.4ghz normally but turbo to 3.4 1 core or 3.2 all cores. I thought about getting a desktop but I guess I'm not missing much by being mobile..

It's working well for me now, and aircraft vehicle selection is alot better too. One thing I noticed is a fairly large difference depending where you start the flight and selecting airport from the world menu. Eg starting with default flight, if I select the 777 then moved to YSSY I will have 300mb less VAS at pushback compared to if I had made YSSY my default. So it's bad to load in at one place, then switch locations. Its not a bug I think it's just that it's loaded 2 airports and 2 parts of the world. A shame it can't release the VAS though if it's 1000s miles away.. So to have 300mb extra VAS I'm saving the default flight at all my favourite airports. Then I only load P3D from the Fxml file and not the exe.

Thanks My laptop windows 8 just died though. So will be doing a refresh first. I suppose it's a good thing, clean windows and clean Prepar3d 2.5. A good way to setup for good performance from the start. Got everything I need in Dropbox so it's just a matter of time till I'm back up. Will download soon. Thanks guys

Regarding repaints you need to be backing up your databases and all files from users/user/appdata/flight1/ut2 I think you can add it manually by 1. Adding it to your exe.xml 2. Adding to your simobjects.Cfg 3. Disabling all prepar3d default traffic bgls 4. Copying any other bgls from FSX that ut2 installs. But EMT is better and safer! But be careful any new install will overwrite your data. So backup everything in AppData and ut2 app folder to be sure. I think the power pack can help you backup too

I'm thinking of buying 6 as well. UT2 models look great but it is so much work to keep it manually updated and replace all the bad default Liveries. Also many missing airlines like Qantaslink or even FedEx is missing. I hope MyTraffic 6 is able to give me the all the airlines with correct aircraft and no manual work involved. For the lower quality models compared to UT2 - has anyone measured the VAS and confirmed they do indeed use less memory? Are they actually smaller textures or is it just the design people don't like?

Thanks! I didn't keep the existing installer since I upgraded to 2.5 today and figured I'd wait until the weekend to install MCE, but could help the other guys who can't wait I'll just get the new version when it's out. Cheers

Not far from me, I might go see this.

Does FS Global alter terrain.cfg? Or only scenery.cfg?

I actually have both UT2 and P3D set to 0 now. Since I purchased VoxATC it makes enough traffic from the UT2 Aircraft. I haven't upgraded to 2.5 yet, but I hope voxatc can still find the UT2 AI in the new cfg..

Cmon guys P3D 2.5 hasn't even been out that long yet. Rebuilding your sim on day of release was optional. We NEED the performance improvements in ASN. ASN and weather are one of the major performance and fps hogs of P3D. 2.5 plus ASN SP2 together will be worth waiting for if they both deliver the performance gains..

Awesome. I've just purchased my key after the trial

I use set heading all the time, works well. At the moment he doesn't execute correctly these commands: IAS Autopilot on. Flaps up Flap 5 , 10 etc. Maybe MCE can investigate? This is in q400 1.012

Lots of AI traffic also. As an example load FSDT Klax or T2G VHHH, get in the 777,then turn AI up to 100% VAS slowly depletes as all the different AI livery variations load then OOM comes along quickly. I spent a long time getting rid of the default Liveries in UT2 and also assigning several variations to many of my favourite airlines. But I'm thinking of going and cutting back the number of livery variations to 1 per airline/type. I believe if Liveries are the same model and same textures, eg all Qantas 737 use the same livery, then VAS is less affected. I'm also replacing retiring aircraft. Eg 767 for Qantas is replaced with A330. That's less variations to load. Can also use same model for both types of A330.