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P3D 4.2.21 Hung on Splash Screen

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Hello!

As the title says, I am having some startup hangs on P3Dv4. I have reinstalled my P3D client and Content, delete the Scenery.cfg, Prepar3D.cfg. This problem occurred after I Alt-F4'd P3D while in fullscreen (I guess? The AVSIM Crash To -Desktop PDF stated this.) I also moved the dll.xml to my desktop and still did not resolve my issue. I tried everything under the Startup Hang Section in the AVSIM CTD PDF. I will list my Specs and Add-Ons Below.

Thanks for the help!

GooseAvation

Specs:

Ryzen 7 1700

Asus Crosshair 6 Hero

G.Skill Trident Z RGB 2133 Ram

EVGA Geforce GTX 1080ti FTW3

 Samsung 850 Evo 500GB SSD

Add-Ons

ORBX FTX Global, Vector, OpenLC Europe and NA, and the Lights Configurator

PMDG 737, 747, and 777

FSDreamTeam KLAX, KBOS, KORD, GSX, etc.

Flightbeam Airports

QualityWings 787

Tomatoshade

SimWings Anchorage

FlyTampa Dubai, Boston, and and Vienna

Chaseplane

Active Sky for P3Dv4

Rex Texture Direct and Sky Force

 

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Nevermind. It just took a while to boot, 😂my bad

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UPDATE/ANSWER: Turns Out FSLabs Spotlights program was causing the startup hangs. Does anyone know the answer to this?

 

How did you determine it was the FSLabs Spotlights program causing the startup hangs?  There are many modules that load at startup.  It could be any of them.

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Important other links: Basic FSX Configuration Guide | AVSIM CTD Guide | AVSIM Prepar3D Guide | Help with AVSIM Site | Signature Rules | Screen Shot Rule | AVSIM Terms of Service (ToS)

I7 8086K  5.0GHz | GTX 1080 TI OC Edition | Dell 34" and 24" Monitors | ASUS Maximus X Hero MB Z370 | Samsung M.2 NVMe 500GB and 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x2 | Toshiba HDD 1TB | WDC HDD 1TB | Corsair H115i Pro | 16GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10 

 

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5 minutes ago, Jim Young said:

How did you determine it was the FSLabs Spotlights program causing the startup hangs?  There are many modules that load at startup.  It could be any of them.

When I uninstall Spotlights, my game starts up normally.

4 minutes ago, GooseAvation said:

When I uninstall Spotlights, my game starts up normally.

Absolutely means nothing.  If the product was not installed properly, that could cause the issue too.  P3DV4 has addon.xml's now and that xml may not be encoded properly or installed properly.  So many possibilities.  I checked the FSLabs site and no one else is having this issue.

Jim Young | AVSIM Online! - Simming's Premier Resource!

Member, AVSIM Board of Directors - Serving AVSIM since 2001

Submit News to AVSIM
Important other links: Basic FSX Configuration Guide | AVSIM CTD Guide | AVSIM Prepar3D Guide | Help with AVSIM Site | Signature Rules | Screen Shot Rule | AVSIM Terms of Service (ToS)

I7 8086K  5.0GHz | GTX 1080 TI OC Edition | Dell 34" and 24" Monitors | ASUS Maximus X Hero MB Z370 | Samsung M.2 NVMe 500GB and 1TB | Samsung SSD 500GB x2 | Toshiba HDD 1TB | WDC HDD 1TB | Corsair H115i Pro | 16GB DDR4 3600C17 | Windows 10 

 

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