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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

totally agree on that Vic, LM's official stance is no tweaking required. Which would be nice but has been proven wrong by some tweaks now and then! the problem is I still see people referring to Nickn's "bible" for their p3d setup which i am sure is causes the LM developers to lose their hair when they see that! plus all the other numerous tweaks out there. If we had a clean cut list and perhaps referred to it as not tweaks but "user configurable config settings" then maybe even LM could jump on board and provide information. That could provide a clear explanation of what it does, the variable ranges to try and then to "retire" the tweaks if they are no longer needed due to patches/upgrades. Just a thought anyway!

Can I suggest some master tweaker put together a sticky with all the tweaks and what they do? I have been using P3D for a couple of years now (love it) and the number of tweaks I have seen come and go is crazy, I think LM are proactive in incorporating fixes into the newer versions making some tweaks become redundant. It would be great to have a list that is update to date based on the current version of p3d and also reduces the number of new threads on the same topic! For example I have found enabling DSR factors has given the best improvement of anything else. Where as affinity mask which used to work wonders on my system is now no longer required in later versions (sim is using all cores correctly out of the box)

thanks that was another question i had, I found an Ardmore airport addon, its just a 30kb bgl file, is that able to be loaded over top of orbx? The orbx airport is actually pretty good but not perfect, was interested to see if this one was any better.

excellent, thanks!

really newb question. I only fly in one country. (NZ) I have the orbx NZSI and NZNI regions installed, do I get any benefit by also getting base and vector installed? or is that only to improve regions that you dont have specific packs for?

Hi Guys, there is probably a simple answer for this but I haven't found it yet. two things I would like to do, every time I sit in the cockpit I need to adjust my seat position to get the right view, although i can do this quite easily, I would like to "save" the position so I don't need to do it every time. The other thing I would like to know is, as a VFR flyer, I like to have a peek out the side window to make evaluations etc. I have this assigned to the hat button on my saitek yoke, which works well, however is there a way to quickly reset the view back to center? I find it a bit difficult to get the view back straight fast enough using the toggle and it throws my attitude off, I would rather if it was possible to allocate a button to go back to the center after looking around. also, I do have FSUIPC if that helps?

Sorry but this gave me a laugh, one of many listings: http://www.aliexpress.com/item/Nvidia-Geforce-GTX780-DDR5-video-card-support-DirectX11-independent-GTX-780-GDDR5-high-frequency-VGA-DVI/32218420206.html $67 US dollars for a "GTX 780" So if you are planning on buying a card you might want to do your research first and make sure its legit!!

I used to have a small business on the side of buying broken xbox 360 consoles, and performing a "solder reflow" on them and selling them as working. I had better luck with a butane torch over top of the chips to melt the solder joints below them. The problem with baking in the oven is, 1) you don't know what sort of poisons you are releasing into your oven and 2) there are plastic parts on the card that you don't want heated up as they will melt and also the caps can pop when heated If the card has any kind of value I would recommend finding someone that does laptop repairs and asking if they have a reflow station, if so take the card and let them do it. Shouldn't be more than $30. But as the poster above said it does depend on what is actually wrong with the card. the xbox's had a cooling problem and the cpu clamp put a slight bend in the motherboard so when it overheated the motherboard would bend and would break some of the solder connections.

I will hiijack this thread instead of starting my own as its similar question.. I am running p3d. running single screen at 1080p and currently have a 3gb gtx 580. I can get a second hand 780 off ebay for about the same price as a new 970. a 980 is out of my budget. Which card would you guys recommend? The benchmarks are difficult to decide as the 970 is more efficient and faster clocked, but 780 still seems to eat it for breakfast.

bump?