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David,

I wonder if you just overdid the C: drive. Remember to dump the trashcan before running the installer.

Remember, the installer 'did' have the option to install into another drive, and it 'did' work the first time (the sim), so please give it a chance in all fairness. If it were installed the first time into the right location, you might not have been having this issue. Is it possible to uninstall and then go through and find all the sub folders in the User folder system, delete those, then do a nice, clean reinstall?

And remember to dump the trash so that your hard drive is clean... not filled up. And maybe reboot the computer 'before' running the installer so that the cache is also clean.
 
I've deleted all the other P3D files and ran a register cleaner before reinstalling on the Drive K. It still did not install correctly - I'll give it a few more tires. It may be because My computer is an AMD? I'll take a picture of the list next time.

Thanks

David
 
I was just over to P3D forum, and there are a lot of folks having the same problem that P3d will not install, the sad thing is that the Lockheed Martin people are not responding what so ever. Even if they don't know how to fix it at this point a least they should say they are working on it - if they even care. I guess when they got P3D from MS they also took on their roll as non support to customers.

David
 
David, one point should be kept in mind. There is no dedicated "customer support staff" there. We are interacting with the actual programmers/developers themselves.

It is simply not possible for them to respond as "quickly" as we might like to every issue raised.

One other point though that is more critical. Even though you choose to install somewhere other than the C drive, about 11 GBs are required on the C drive for installation regardless. If you do not have enough room on the C drive, then there will be errors during the install process.
 
Im fairly certain I read somewhere that the computer will need 11+ gigs of room to unpack things (in C: drive) to begin building the sim on what ever drive you are loading it to. So you need at least 11+ Gigs of room on C:.
 
After uninstalling P3D from Drive "C" I now have 38gb available on C drive and over 200Gb on K drive. I've not been able to try reinstall it again, because I have other tasks going on, like helping the misses out!!!! Next time I do reinstall I'll let you see the report. The third time I did try to reinstalled P3D it was on "K" with 200Gb+ and with 38gb available on "C".. So right now I don't think that would have been the problem.

Okay on the support of P3D, I understand, I guess.

Thanks

David
 
Windows... I hate that.

I googled up how to get rid of the entire administrator thing in Windows 7 and fixed mine of that. Every now and then I get a little whimper, but basically it CANNOT tell ME what to do anymore... .

:D
 
In my case since I live entirely alone with zero chance of anyone else accessing my systems, I simply enabled my single logon account to always be "Super Administrator."
 
Ya, I have given up with P3d. I'll keep checking back to their forum and here to see if they do anything but for now, by by.

David
 
Hey David,

Are you running FSX on the C drive and trying to install P3D on the same drive?

And yeah...I hate the admin lockouts. Since when does a pile of silicon have the right to tell me what I can or cannot do?

I've put FSX on my spinning drive (E) and P3D2 on the SSD (C). I've done quite a few installs of P3D, not because of problems, but I'm doing comparison installs for future reference.

Be sure to go into your hidden files like Program Data and delete the temp files prior to a fresh install. Also AppData/Local/Temp and double check there are no residual Lockheed Martin files.

It's a real bugger when a stray bit of code refuses to leave the building. I'd hate to see you give up on a good sim.
When I did my original download I had a glitch that sent me to the wrong version of P3D. Wess Bard followed up within a few minutes...good service.
Maybe the guys are under a bit of stress from the top over there. Give 'em a bit of slack and see how things work out for you.

Cheers
 
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gman5250 said:
Hey David,

Are you running FSX on the C drive and trying to install P3D on the same drive?

And yeah...I hate the admin lockouts. Since when does a pile of silicon have the right to tell me what I can or cannot do?

I've put FSX on my spinning drive (E) and P3D2 on the SSD (C). I've done quite a few installs of P3D, not because of problems, but I'm doing comparison installs for future reference.

Be sure to go into your hidden files like Program Data and delete the temp files prior to a fresh install. Also AppData/Local/Temp and double check there are no residual Lockheed Martin files.

It's a real bugger when a stray bit of code refuses to leave the building. I'd hate to see you give up on a good sim.
When I did my original download I had a glitch that sent me to the wrong version of P3D. Wess Bard followed up within a few minutes...good service.
Maybe the guys are under a bit of stress from the top over there. Give 'em a bit of slack and see how things work out for you.

Cheers
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I think I'm cleaning every thing up. I no longer let it do a full install so the installer takes files off the computer. I stop installation after I'm given the bad news. I use a register cleaner and review all areas. I'm trying to install P3D on my "k" drive, FSX is on my "C" drive. Both drives are SSD 250GB each. The OS is on drive "C".

I've change each drive to give me full "Power" over the drives, yet I still get the message that I don't have permission. I think there are still some hidden files that are making it repeat the same problem because when I do let it go all the way I don't have to put the authorization code in before It says I'm not running Dx11. I have a NVIDIA 660 graphics card...??

I sure fell let down that I can't install it...... At the same time I don't want a program that is even more fussy then FSX has been.

Thanks!

David
 
Hey David,

Sorry to hear your woe's... :(

Dang windows sometimes makes me so upset. Updates for this, updates for that. You know that you need the most latest version drivers for any NVidia cards? They had to work with P3D directly and created new drivers just for P3D, so you need that updated (for your NVidia 660). I have the same card. Runs great.


You need to try running that manual installation process that others did. Francois for instance. His wouldn't install and installing the 10 segments manually did the trick for him and many others.


For me, its worked nearly flawlessly. Installed fine the first time, runs great, has hardly crashed, (perhaps 2 times ever), but it has had blacked out windows about 4 or 5 times. But that's it. Running excellent. So, for you, it is possible. You just need to find that obstacle and get through it and you will be up in the blue skies of V2 with HDR, super intense interior shadows, and all the other cool features.
 
Thanks for all your help. I tried the 10 installs, and most everything else. Deleted the download of P3D (only had a months use of it anyway) and maybe will try it some other time in the far future......... I think I have everything up to date... Maybe I need a complete reinstallation of my os system and fsx. So it will be a while before I try again.

thanks again.


David
 
Aircraft Shadow

Hi everybody:wavey:
I'm going to pose a question to the experts on this forum: why I dont have anymore shadows projected by the airplane on the floor when parked and also when running on the taxiway and the runway ??
I'm running Prepar3D v2 on Windows 8.1 Pro

Italo
 
Start P3D V2 and click on Options\Settings\Display\Lighting\Shadows and tick both boxes for SimObjects. One box is for casting shadows and the other is to receive shadows.
 
AussieMan said:
Start P3D V2 and click on Options\Settings\Display\Lighting\Shadows and tick both boxes for SimObjects. One box is for casting shadows and the other is to receive shadows.
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this the result:

Sans titre.jpg

a big square shadow which follows the airplane while it moves and partially obscures the airplane projected shadow :dizzy:
I've tried almost all combination of cast and received shadows in te display, setting .....
Italo
 
Untick sim objects cast shadow unless you want buildings etc to cast shadows. You'll notice there are two shadows columns. One for projecting a shadow and one for receiving a shadow. Check the box Terrain receive shadows and and leave the other unchecked. Also increase the resolution on your terrain mesh. I'm having the same issue and this has reduced it by quite a bit. The shadows which control whether your aircraft casts a shadow and receives a shadow are controlled by the first two options in the shadows settings make sure all four boxes are checked. I have those and terrain receive shadow checked and that's it. It's a little buggy still. Also you might want to turn off cloud shadows in your p3d.cfg file.

OR -- you can simply wait and upgrade to version 2.2 which should be released soon which addresses shadow issues among other things.
 
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