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Hi all, Yesterday I installed the autogen from NL2000 ; trees, houses, buildings. I remarked that I have missing buildings in the center of all major cities. First I thought that they had not done these, but the ere ag files that cover these spots too. I have FTX Global installed and later France VFR products. France VFR makes a copy of some of the Autogen files, like default.xml , materials.spb , autogendesriptions.spb and roofdescriptions.spb. It might be possible that FTX Global has changed thoses files and the backup that FranceVFR made is not the default one. To exclude any issues with the NL2000 autogen I want to reinstall the default Autogen folder. Is there any way to reinstall them without having to reinstall P3D complete ? ( Eg renaming the current P3D folder to P3D.old and installing a new one next to it ..? ) Thanks for all suggestions. Nb : when trying freeware Netherlands autogen buidlings appear in the cities centers. And those ag files have the same name as the files in NL2000.

Hi, I must admit its getting a bit hard and pretty complicated with all those add-ons and since ORBX and Scenery configurator also is not kompatibel makes things even more exciting sometimes. Lately after a Flytampa EHAM install i noticed that i did not have any Amsterdam City with SkyScrabers and football stadions . Also this Autogen folder inside P3D can change over time and after a FTX Central V3 open/close episode. I am wondering if it has something to do with this "Autogen Folder" that i am missing Autogens (Amsterdam Skyscrabers ) ? Any help is appreciated and understanding of what is exactly being changed in that folder over time is more than welcome Thanks Michael Moe

Good evening, I have a problem with black clouds that i hope you guys can help me with. As you can see i have big black clouds. I am using PTA 2.0 with Pedrag's preset, ENVTEX, AS16 and REX Soft Clouds. I have searched around, and i've tried to delete the content in /AppData/LockheedMartin/Local/Prepar3d/Shaders, and i have also replaced the ShadersHLSL with the original folder wthout luck. Any suggestions? Anyone know the solution for this? Greatly appreciated!

Not sure exactly when this happened but whenever I try to create a flight plan using the P3D planner the save option is greyed out if KRNO is involved. No other airports do this. Ideas? Thanks

Hi all- I was wondering what the procedure is to replace just the Daedalus AC in UTII. I'm OK with the rest of the AI for now. Cheers, Mark

Hi everyone. Hope you all has an amazing Xmas...... Just a little time poor in getting information on a good system to run P3D. I have a budget of $1.8K and looking to make the switch from FSX to P3D. If anyone out there can put together some specs I would greatly appreciate it. A few months ago I picked up a GTX 970 4GB so was thinking of using it in the new system to save some $$. I also intend to use my existing 27inch monitor and not looking to go into 4K just yet. I have all the ORBX range (pretty much) and run PMDG, high quality scenery addons etc....... Appreciate your help guys. Jas

In the P3D controls list is one called Turbine Power Management System Toggle. I enabled it but couldn't see that it did anything. Can someone bring me up to speed on what it is and how it works? Noel

Hey, First of all I wish yo a happy new year and all of luck. :smile: Now, my problem is that my sky textures look very weird. There are no smooth transitions between the colours. I don't know why this happens or what it causes. Could anyone help me ? Thanky you very much and have a nice weekend. (in the picture it does not look as bad as it actually is)

Has anyone found a solution to the landing lights not working on the WOAI aircraft.

I've used CP with TIR manual launch and loved this add on, with 1.5 and added native TIR support this is simply awesome!!

Hello Simmers; I need to find out the best config. for Nvidia Inspector for my Prepar3d V2.5 and V3 I can`t find a good config for it and I think because of that I`m getting instability issues. My PC specs and tweaks are: Windows 10 64x pro Intel i7 2600K OC to 4.3Ghz using Corsair Hydro liquid cooler 8GB of RAM 1866 SSDs GPU: 2 x ASUS GTX 660 Ti DirectCu "SLI" Maybe some has the same config. I`ll be so grateful for the assist and if you need my .CFG info, let me know. Thiago ​

Hey guys, I have just re-installed Prepar3D. I have downloaded 737ngx BASE PACK with ADMINISTRATOR, and I have made sure I have all right permissions. I clicked the 737 in the scenario screen, but for some reason the activation menu will not pop up. No buttons/panels will work either. Please respond soon. Oskar Rocko P.S The activation menu popped up before and worked before I re-installed Prepar3D. P.S I have read a forum on this before, and I tried alot of what they said. It may be some registry or some FNPLicensing problem Idk.

Hi! Installed P3D v3 today. When i try to install the PMDG aircrafts (737800900) (777LR) etc, i get a warning: "Unable to locate Prepar3D.eve. Unable to install. I a´have the latest installer and i unpacked it in the same drive where i have my Prepar3D installed. What should i do? /Jacob

Cloud shadows disappear when i zoom in on a view! P3D V4,3 Anyone have similar problem and has fixed i would appreciate a solution! Thanks!

Johan Dees has been a member almost since we opened the doors to AVSIM and a member on this forum since we replaced the original in 2002 with this one. Johan has been a steady contributor to the flight sim community and is a well recognized face in the forums. Congratulations Johan!

It is that time again; Spring Cleaning (okay, a little late, but hey, we get there eventually). We're going to commence pruning (read delete) of unused or underused forums. These will not be archived, but deleted. So, if one day you come into the forums and notice some absences, you will know what happened. While we are at it we may well be combining some forums as well. Jury is still out on that but if we see combinations that make sense, we'll see what we can do.

I would like to update everyone regarding the system issues that appeared to crop up over this last weekend and the steps we have taken to remedy those issues to the extent that we have been able. First, let me put this rubric to bed; the system issues WERE NOT caused by the addition or modification to the forums software. Some people like to harp about us adding functions and having things "break" when we do. That is not the case and in fact, we have not added new functionality in quite some time. If anything, we are guilty of removing TOO many functions. We noticed issues started to crop up on the morning of June 27th; that's last Thursday, and it started just before 10:00 a.m. We noticed a barrage of hits from the Verizon system and they numbered thousands over a very short period. We have reported that activity to Verizon and have requested they let us know the result. We'll see if any of that happens. The next thing we noticed was that there was a hundred plus attempts to crack into our Admin Control System. The crack attempts came from an IP that showed the attempts were originating in the Netherlands. We took a step that we had postponing doing simply because of the effort necessary to accomplish it; we "hid" the control system. We have software that can sit in front of the forum software and repel DDOS attacks when we recognize them. We brought that online over the weekend as we continued to get hit. The downside to this action is that it has an impact on all users logging in from anywhere in the world. The major consequence is system slow down for everyone, but certainly faster than what was existing during the DDOS itself. We started looking at modules as well to determine the impact they have been having and the possibility that something broke. We did a complete removal of all but the most fundamentally important modules, and what you see today in the forums is the result. We may bring some of those back online once the system stabilizes. One of the other things we did is shut off access to all of the forum structure by GUESTS; that is, people who have not registered. We did that to lighten the load on the system as well and to give us an opportunity to measure the positive or negative aspects of that move. As of an hour ago, we have flipped the switch and have let guests back into the forums. However, over the next couple of days, we are going to be removing access by guests to certain forums to maintain a fair balance and sustained performance for our registered members. So, as I write this, where are we? We have re-installed TapaTalk for all of the 30 or so users that access our forums daily using it. If it proves to be problematic again, we will permanently remove it and never re-install it. We have removed various modules as indicated above and we will selectively bring back online some of those depending upon performance impact by them. We have a system now in place that looks for and prevents proxy server access, access from unidentified locations and so on. Performance today is very good. We are not seeing the slow downs that we have seen over the last couple of days, and we are keeping an eye on accesses and locations. Okay, so that is where we stand at the moment.

To all of our members and guests, may your Christmas Holidays be safe and enjoyable. If you do not celebrate Christmas, please accept our best wishes for the holidays and our sincere desire for your safety and prosperity in the new year. To all; thank you for your continuing support of AVSIM and to the many who contribute to our hobby every day. Please have a safe holiday and new year! We want to see everyone back here on January 2nd!

With the continuing advancement of P3D by Lockheed Martin, more flight simulation enthusiasts are experimenting with, if not adopting entirely, this flight simulator. However, there is considerable confusion over which third party products currently available can be used, without violating your EULA or other restrictions, within P3D. Questions such as: Does my existing End User License Agreement (EULA) allow me to use my add-on in P3D? If not, do I need to purchase another license to install it in P3D? Assuming my EULA allows me to, will my current product work in P3D? And there are many more. We recently have had some incidents within the forums that arose from lack of knowledge concerning products, EULA's and use within the P3D simulator. As a result, we have undertaken a survey of commercial providers about their EULA's and products for P3D. You can find the beginnnings of this here: http://forum.avsim.net/page/AVSIM%20Pages/p3d_.html

We have added new notification functions that you may be interested in. To access these, go to your user control panel / settings / notification options. There, at the bottom, you find these:

Please welcome Jeroen as your new MS FLIGHT forum moderator. Jeroen has graciously volunteered to take on this "job" and we are confident that he will do a good job and steer the forum with a calm hand. Thanks Jeroen for volunteering and welcome to the volunteer staff of AVSIM. I would like to thank Arwen for her contributions to the forum as moderator and all that she was able to share with us. Arwen, thank you for your service here. Everyone, please join me in welcome Jeroen aboard and Arwen for her contributions here.

For quite some time now, the AVSIM forums have been managed somewhat on an ad hoc basis. That is, moderators voluntarily taking on responsibility for specific forums of interest, and without much of a guiding hand from me or other AVSIM Senior Staff. As with all other areas of AVSIM, we have teams in place with a leadership "structure" to provide continuity and a common direction; the library management team, review team and editorial team are just three examples. With the massive amount of work being done to bring the new, fully integrated AVSIM to life, it is very apparent that we need to have that same kind of volunteer team in place for the forums. We invited Stephen Wilcox, aka SpiritFlyer, to consider the position of Forum Manager, and he has graciously agreed. Stephen has consistently shown his ability to bring a level and fair approach to all his interactions with members of our community and has provided a mature and balanced view of all aspects of our hobby. We are confident that his steady hand will continue to benefit members and our hobby in general. Please join me in congratulating Stephen on his new position within AVSIM!

If you are an existing advertiser with ad currently running, please join the Ad Center today, and we will match up your running campaign so that you can start taking advantage of the features open to you as an account holder. If you are a past advertiser, please sign up today (its free and you do not need to create an ad to be an account owner). We are pleased to announce that the new AVSIM Advertising Center is now Online and fully functional. There are some significant differences and features for advertisers and those that would like to advertise their sites, products, services or other offerings to the AVSIM global community. The new system allows you to create your own ads, banners, and select their placement on AVSIM. Here is a short list of features now offered by AVSIM for our advertisers and those that would like to advertise: IMAGE BASED ADS: Conventional image advertising continues with the addition of FLASH and HTML advertisement. As always, AVSIM offers placement in nearly every location on the web site, now including the library! Take advantage of one of the most powerful advertising systems in our hobby today, and get your product in front of hundreds of thousands of readers every day. AD FORMATS THAT ARE COMING: We will shortly be introducing full page advertising with that is controlled by the advertiser. We are also looking at bringing video advertising Online as well. More features and formats for advertisers will be announced in the near future. GOOGLE LIKE TEXT ADS: For pennies a click through, you can set up and run your own text ad campaign. Buy a $10.00 package and place your text ad in prominent locations on the AVSIM site, including the File Library. You control how many clicks you will allow, and you control how much money you spend. Unlike Goggle however, you are not bidding for placement. Your text ad is in equal rotation with everyone else's' text ad. We are going to be adding many more text ad locations throughout AVSIM, so if text advertising is attractive to you, get in on the ground floor today. Text ads bring you the additional feature of targeted advertising. That is, you can pick countries where users are located and only show your ad to those members. That way, you target specific audiences and do not waste valuable click through. You can also control the times at which these ads appear. Join the center today, post a text ad (or one of the Zone based image ads), and start using the power of AVSIM Advertising! You can create your FREE account at the ads manager system here: http://ads.avsim.net/admanager

We are pleased to announce that the AVSIM 2014 Demographic Survey is now online and available for you to participate in. You can access the survey here. The demographic survey is an annual event for the AVSIM community and we encourage you to participate. This annual survey is important because it helps us tailor services to the community and provides our freeware and commercial members data to plan future additions to our flight simulators. This year, we have added questions for real world pilots among us and numerous other questions regarding your hardware preferences and configurations. Join your fellow community members and take the survey today! This post has been promoted to an article

In the new Member Reviews System, products that are provided for members to review are entered into the system by staff. Once in the system, members can write reviews for those products, provide comments on the products and the reviews, and much more. This thread is established to provide you a place to request that we put a particular product in the review system so you and others can provide reviews for that product.