It's been a long time I notice that my preset settings of P3D v4 keeps changing out of nothing. I have a created preset to which I gave a name and applied. Moments later I come back to the screen just to find it has changed to "Custom", instead of the name/settings I applied before. OK, then I go there and change it again, but next time it's changed again!

Seems like some addon or something is changing anything on the fly which reverts my settings, do you know what might this be?

I have observed this behavior too. As far as I could realize, it happens not with every preset I have created but only with some of them. I suspect the "couatl engine", but have no proof for it.It could also be sth else.

Afaik it's a bug which causes the name of the loaded preset to now show properly. You will read Custom even though your settings are still being used. Did you check if some settings were actually changed? This bug has been around (on and off it seems) since v4. Maybe even v3.

16 hours ago, Nemo said:

I have observed this behavior too. As far as I could realize, it happens not with every preset I have created but only with some of them. I suspect the "couatl engine", but have no proof for it.It could also be sth else.

I would suspect of Couatl or other FSDT program as well, because it happened so much during the FSX times. So bad technique... I even "cheated the cheater" by creating a program that would take a copy of my "pure" .CFG file and apply it automatically everytime I ran FSX, so that I would make sure the settings I have NOT chosen wouldn't be in fact saved.

4 hours ago, J van E said:

Afaik it's a bug which causes the name of the loaded preset to now show properly. You will read Custom even though your settings are still being used. Did you check if some settings were actually changed? This bug has been around (on and off it seems) since v4. Maybe even v3.

As a matter of fact I haven't noticed any, but I didn't inspected thoroughly. I'll observe it next time.

But... I suspect it might be a change that's not depicted in the P3D GUI, I mean, who knows it couldn't be a change in some entry of the .CFG that doesn't appear in the config screens...

12 hours ago, Wanthuyr Filho said:

I would suspect of Couatl or other FSDT program as well

I don't have anything of that installed and still have this bug every now and then. Not always, it seems...

12 hours ago, Wanthuyr Filho said:

But... I suspect it might be a change that's not depicted in the P3D GUI, I mean, who knows it couldn't be a change in some entry of the .CFG that doesn't appear in the config screens...

Agreed. Because of this I always select a profile whenever I want to do something in the options menu and see Custom as the 'selected' profile!

BTW I now do remember this problem can also occur when you save a flight as default with a A2A or PMDG addon plane: that happened to me a year or so ago. In that case a setting (texture resolution) was actually changed every time I opened the menu and so Custom was rightly shown! After saving a default flight with a default plane the problem was gone again. However, the problem is back on my PC while I have a default plane in my default flight. You might want to check if your default flight has a payware plane in it or not.

Edited September 13, 20187 yr by Guest

Rule number one is to always start the sim with a default aircraft and then when the selection window comes up chose your plane and destination.

On 9/12/2018 at 6:14 AM, Wanthuyr Filho said:

Moments later I come back to the screen just to find it has changed to "Custom",

Hi Wanthuyr,

Can’t say I have noticed this behaviour, at least not in the ‘spontaneous’ sense without any user intervention. However, what I do find a little annoying is when you change any parameter (could be as simple as the frame rate setting) in the GUI the name of my selected and preconfigured Display Profile changes immediately to ‘Custom’. If the change is then reversed then so will the name of the Display Profile. On its own this, of course, does make sense. Unfortunately the story does not end there...

Assuming I want to save the new preferred setting as part of the original Profile I have to remember the name of said Profile to overwrite it! I suppose this implementation was designed to ensure the original Profile is not overwritten accidentally when the sim is exited. However, it would be helpful to have a means of displaying the list of all created Display Profiles during the ‘Save’ process to allow ease of selection.

I don’t consider this to be a bug. Instead, to become more user friendly, I feel it is an implementation that is in need of some further improvement.

Regards,

Mike

 

 

10 hours ago, Cruachan said:

Hi Wanthuyr,

Can’t say I have noticed this behaviour, at least not in the ‘spontaneous’ sense without any user intervention. However, what I do find a little annoying is when you change any parameter (could be as simple as the frame rate setting) in the GUI the name of my selected and preconfigured Display Profile changes immediately to ‘Custom’. If the change is then reversed then so will the name of the Display Profile. On its own this, of course, does make sense. Unfortunately the story does not end there...

Assuming I want to save the new preferred setting as part of the original Profile I have to remember the name of said Profile to overwrite it! I suppose this implementation was designed to ensure the original Profile is not overwritten accidentally when the sim is exited. However, it would be helpful to have a means of displaying the list of all created Display Profiles during the ‘Save’ process to allow ease of selection.

I don’t consider this to be a bug. Instead, to become more user friendly, I feel it is an implementation that is in need of some further improvement.

Regards,

Mike

 

 

I agree, it would be helpful indeed to have a list of previously created profiles! But I like the safety the way it is too.

13 hours ago, J van E said:

I don't have anything of that installed and still have this bug every now and then. Not always, it seems...

Agreed. Because of this I always select a profile whenever I want to do something in the options menu and see Custom as the 'selected' profile!

BTW I now do remember this problem can also occur when you save a flight as default with a A2A or PMDG addon plane: that happened to me a year or so ago. In that case a setting (texture resolution) was actually changed every time I opened the menu and so Custom was rightly shown! After saving a default flight with a default plane the problem was gone again. However, the problem is back on my PC while I have a default plane in my default flight. You might want to check if your default flight has a payware plane in it or not.

I think I might have found out the culprit in my case, ActiveSky. Because I in fact saw a change in the GUI, which was the cloud draw distance or something similar. Now I have set the cloud distance settings within ActiveSky to be the very same (minimum and maximum) and now I will observe if the behaviour is going to continue.

As to default aircraft, flights, etc, I simply don't use them. I don't use default aircraft and I don't set P3D to load a flight by default either. Instead I set it to load the selection screen from which I select my previously saved flight (I have one for each aircraft) a go from there. I only create a new flight very rarely, mostly for testing reasons, a new scenery for example.