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legend thanks for that, renaming both those files allows me to startup. when I can be bothered this weekend ill have to play trial and error to figure out what is causing the issue!

Hi all, p3d 3.3.5, everything was working fine, now the problem is, when I run prepar3d the splash screen disappears at about 5% into building scenery, and that's it, it wont complete the load, problem is, the process is still running, so because it hasn't actually crashed, there are no logs in event viewer or anything to indicate what the problem is. Is there anywhere else I can look for logs that would indicate what the issue is? I have removed all my new addons, and rebooted, and cleared shaders folder etc but still same issue.

thanks for raising this good point, so if I use a touchscreen to press my 2-d panels (via 3rd party software), then my flight simulator would actually pause because I have clicked outside the application is that correct?

Yep airmanager is what I'm using. The bit I am struggling with is finding a suitable monitor its a dam shame they don't have an android app as I really need touchscreen since I will remove my hardware panels.

Hi all, Currently I have a very basic setup. 40inch monitor with Cessna pro yoke, trim wheel, multi panel, throttle, switch panel and radio panels sitting in front. I have spent a long while try to get 2d gauges in my setup and have finally got some software to do it well. I am thinking of removing everything except the yoke, trim and throttles and putting a monitor in place to display the rest of the cockpit. Does anyone know of a cheap method to get a screen to do this, I need it to be widescreen, touchscreen and 1920x1080 ideally I would say around 12-16 inch in size. obviously a tablet would seem a great/cheap solution, but I have tried some software to use an android as a monitor but it did not work well. Also it seems smaller monitors are twice the price of bigger monitors! Any advice? thanks!

Can anyone confirm if its possible to get correct values on all gauges when using p3d and panel builder? Seems I have tried everything but lua scripts don't seem to have any effect at all. P3dv3.3 Fsuipc registered Anyone got a working example?

very keen if you can provide this.. you can use something like pastebin.com and post the link here for us.

I see you have your operating system installed on an economy 5400rpm drive. That is very slow, to be honest I think you have shot yourself in the foot a little bit with that awesome set-up and then slowing it all down like that. If I were you I would grab a cheap SSD off ebay, only needs to be small and migrate your windows onto that and use the mechanical purely for file storage and applications that don't need speed.

Check out Rob's post, he gives a good list at the bottom of the post on what settings will work best for you in regards to refresh rate vs frame rate http://www.avsim.com/topic/475413-try-30hz-he-saiditll-be-smooth-he-said/?p=3301853 Also note I have been having great success using half refresh rate in NI on a 60hz monitor.

Unfortunately I am located in New Zealand, the cheapest local supplier of 4690k equates to $260 US. and the other issue is this will then bottleneck my GPU.. its a vicious cycle dammit

That's a good question, the numbers I am working off on ebay: 2500K: $120 USD 4770k: $295 USD So about half the price.. for what I understand to be perhaps a 10%-20% performance jump.

Hi all, I currently have a AMD 6300 overclocked to 4.5ghz and a gtx 580 3gig gpu, 8gig ram. I have been using p3d for 2 years now, and finally with version 3 and some mucking around with settings I have it running what I would call 95% smooth with decent graphics. If I throw some weather into the mix though things get jittery again. I have no interest in spending big bucks as I hardly get time to sim. But I see I can get a 2500k or 2600k chip fairly cheaply on ebay now. The next generation up is quite pricey from there and perhaps not much improvement in raw power. I have a hyper evo cooler so I will be pushing the overclock as fair as it will stretch. Is it worthwhile buying this chip, do you think I will see much improvement with current system? Also which one would be better? From what I know, the 2600k has a better built in gpu and hyperthreading both of these features will be disabled so do I save a few extra bucks and get the 2500k? cheers

Run prime95 to test it. That will run run your cpu to the max. Just an FYI, I have seen an issue in win10 where the task manager does not show the correct frequencies of the CPU due to downclocking, so forget using that for testing. use CPU-Z to confirm what frequency the cpu cores are running at during the prime95 torture test. if they are running lower than expected it could be a bad power supply, or a non certified power supply (I can help work around that with you if needed) If during prime95 the cpu is running at the correct frequency and at 99% usage then you should start lookign at affinity mask and process priority of the flight sim.

Just my 2 cents. I also have a dinosaur of a video card (gtx 580) and the same CPU as you. It was running at 99% usage constantly, I disabled "enable terrain to receive shadows", nothing else changed and it went down to 50%. not sure if bug or the shadows are that resource intensive but worth a try for you.

Is there a way to copy over all the key mappings/axis from 2.5 to 3? I use FSUIPC and SPAD and have lots of customisations I don't want to have to redo