Orbx =

 

Design and artistry = sublime

 

Product configuration and management = horrendous

 

Look at the support questions on the FTX forums; few are about the core elements of the products; the visuals, the vast majority are about uninstallation woes, problems with FTX Central, poor version control, etc, etc.

 

They've had so long to get their products properly configured and delivered in a more professional manner but JV just has no appetite for spending time on this......  in the meantime, the guy above is right;  they are very amateur where product delivery and configuration is concerned.

 

Effective uninstallers should be a bare minimum expectation for any software that you put on your PC.

I'm nearly pulling my hair out over this stupid FTX Global *(^("£ up see below:

 

Checked my scenery entries using that freeware prog and it shows loads of paths not existing although when I click on edit the path is there correctly! Why is it saying the path doesn't exist? How do I fix? Anyone know before I wipe the drive and go back to doing something less irritating for a hobby...?

 

http://www.fsfiles.org/flightsimshotsv2/images/2014/10/03/bHEWz.jpg

 

Thanks

 

Adam

 

I am just going to have a guess here, since I've never used that program... But it seems like it doesn't know how to deal with relative paths. As it can find the absolute path like "E:\Prepared V2\XXXXXXX" but not "Orbx\Scenery\XXXXXXX". The sim knows that it needs to look in E:\Prepared V2\Orbx\Scenery.... this freeware program might not.

 

I wonder what you need uninstallers for in this case....? If you want to reinstall everything, simply delete everything and you're done. That's how I do it and it never failed me.

 

Not buying something GREAT only because you might want to uninstall it to only reinstall it (how often does that happen) seems a bit odd to me. But of course, you're the boss on your PC! ^_^

 

You need uninstallers because just removing a single addon airport or region requires you to dive into 5 or 6 different folders to look for a handful of files in between hundreds if not thousands of other files. It's a pain in the *** and not providing an uninstaller is a bit of a sin for anyone publishing software, in my opinion.

Knowledge is power.

 

Maybe what is needed is a pinned FTX guide on this sub forum.

 

Will AVSIM allow it?

+1000 ^. Knowledge is power, and a few minutes reading the manuals for your add on products goes a very long way. Crying about it doesn't solve anything.

 

  Jazz

Orbx =

 

Design and artistry = sublime

 

Product configuration and management = horrendous

 

Look at the support questions on the FTX forums; few are about the core elements of the products; the visuals, the vast majority are about uninstallation woes, problems with FTX Central, poor version control, etc, etc.

 

They've had so long to get their products properly configured and delivered in a more professional manner but JV just has no appetite for spending time on this......  in the meantime, the guy above is right;  they are very amateur where product delivery and configuration is concerned.

 

Effective uninstallers should be a bare minimum expectation for any software that you put on your PC.

 

I feel your pain bro, I had a mishap with ORBX just the other day.  Long story short, I installed P3D v2.4 because it now has Oculus support.  Already had about 50GB worth of ORBX in FSX, tried to find their migrator tool, but they removed it.  So I made a hard link from   x:\p3d\orbx   to   y:\fsx\orbx, and surprising enough, it pretty much all worked except for some elevation issues, and that was basically because I needed to install Vector and the latest libraries.  Well after installing Vector, I don't know what the heck happened, but it decided to wipe out all my installs AND remove my hard logical link!!  I seriously pondered the thought about suing because that is stepping over the line when you start modifying my file systems.  I'm pretty sure this was some sort of piracy check, as these files were originally installed into FSX.  I didn't see any problem from their website about switching over to P3D..No licensing issues, nothing.  Needless to say, I'm walking on egg shells every time I reinstall ORBX stuff, and I'll probably avoid them in the future because of the unpredictable nature of their installers, as well as their lack of uninstallers.  Besides I'm not impressed with the way Global looks on P3D, and there is some truth to what Sesquashtoo was saying.  My textures look like they were just thrown together, the streets have these abrupt dead ends and it looks cluttered and mangled.  I was flying over thinking that GEX looked waaaayyy better than what I'm seeing now.  Rural areas are ok, but city areas really look bad on my system.  Like missing textures for highways, so it looks like a blurred line with detailed little cars driving on it.  One very nice thing about Global is their 3D light system.  Probably the best out there, so it's all a trade off it would seem.

 

Vector...Vector...Vector, followed closely by OpenLC North America (I Hope!!). Patience is sooo hard!!