Prepar3D version 2.2 released

On the ‘latest news‘ page of the Lockheed-Martin Prepar3D website, Software Manager Wesley Bard informs us that version 2.2 of the sim is now available for download to licensed customers.

Including a number of updates, improvements and fixes, v2.2 can be downloaded from your “Purchased Downloads” page if you are logged into the site and have previously licensed version 2.x. A list of some of the included changes can be found by clicking “Read more”, below.

At a very high level, the Prepar3D v2.2 update has the following updates and addresses the following issues:

Autogen out of memory crashes
The inclusion of the v2.1 panels ‘hotfix’ that reverted changes to the ContentErrorLogging system that caused previously compatible aircraft to not work
New cloud shadows feature as well as several new shadow system optimizations
A new sample for the Prepar3D Development Kit (PDK) API – Oculus Rift integration
Native radar support for Prepar3D developers
A redesign and refactor of the legacy Flight Recorder system
A new FlightInstructor mode for SimDirector, as well as several other SimDirector enhancements
Several other community and developer issues resolved

Other issues resolved:

Resolved an issue where force feedback joysticks would not continue to rumble after an initial vehicle crash
Resolved a backwards compatibility issue where DTX 5 vegetation would flicker in several Orbx addons
Resolved a backwards compatibility issue with the airport lighting in Aerosoft airport addons
Resolved an issue where aircraft labels were not being drawn at the distance that was expected
Resolved an issue where ground visibility was limited to 50 miles
Resolved a crash where constantly spamming the pause and unpause in certain addon aircraft could crash the Prepar3D sound system
Resolved an issue where AI aircraft could swap texture sets
Resolved an issue certain stock airports were not rendering their taxiways
Resolved an issue where the modeling tools would not respond to EventID and CallbackJumpDragging tags
Threaded out several jobs to help prevent stutters in rendering the autogen systems
Resolved an issue where trees would render in and out with the camera rotating
Resolved a legacy issue with setting brake SimVars via SimConnect would not work as documented
Resolved an issue where render to texture views were not scaling correctly in 2D panels
Resolved an issue where IR views showed the sun as large squares
Disabled AA on clouds, particles and faded edges
Added additional sliders to the lighting settings page to independently control terrain and shadow draw distances