For the record......the "scanning files" process (prior to the update being downloaded and installed) took nearly three hours on my PC!!

Edited March 2, 20197 yr by Christopher Low

13 minutes ago, Christopher Low said:

For the record......the "scanning files" process (prior to the update being downloaded and installed) took nearly three hours on my PC!!

Took about 5 mins for me..

14 minutes ago, kevinfirth said:

Took about 5 mins for me..

Same here. It's only the download I left doing its job overnight.

I used these directions to create a symbolic link for my Orbx folder on another SSD and it works flawlessly.

 

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/146877-using-a-symbolic-link-to-move-the-orbx-folder/?tab=comments#comment-1293604

4 hours ago, vc10man said:

Help please!! Why has my C:\ drive which had a 110Gb free space last night before I started the TE Netherlands download, all of a sudden gone to red showing less than 20Gb space remaining when I set that Orbx TE Netherlands to install in a 1TB free space backup drive?

If you guys can shed light on this major headache for me, I'd be grateful, otherwise it's time to shed TE Netherlands in the bib if this is what it does!!!

Although you may be sending the Orbx files to a drive with plenty of space. It will first of all add a lot of material into a temporary download folder which is often set in the C drive by default.

Go to FTX Central, open your settings box in the bottom left hand corner. First of all manually change the Temp Download Location to a folder created somewhere where there is plenty of room.

The other thing to consider is that Orbx will also automatically check the C drive for space, even if the files are going elsewhere, and tell you if there is insufficient space. This is remedied by the unticking the Check for available disc space before downloading box.

PS - don't worry about messing anything up with the symbolic link. I've never had a problem, it just won't work if you don't do it correctly. 

5 hours ago, tymk said:

I don't think you can set it to install on another drive, Orbx scenery always goes into your P3D installation folder. I suspect you only moved the temp location (which is where the installer keeps the downloaded files during installation).

They are working on an FTX Central update to enable installing scenery packages on different drives (which is becoming pretty much necessary due to the size of the TE products), but for the time being, you'll probably need to move TE NL manually from the Orbx folder within the P3D folder to the separate drive and use the symbolic link method.

Tym

I installed one Orbx product the traditional way. I am not sure if it matters, but I used FTX Global. This automatically created the ORBX folder with the P3D root folder, and put in place whatever linkages are needed in the registry etc. Then I created the symbolic link to the external drive. After that, every other download went straight to the external drive.

19 minutes ago, Ian S said:

Although you may be sending the Orbx files to a drive with plenty of space. It will first of all add a lot of material into a temporary download folder which is often set in the C drive by default.

Go to FTX Central, open your settings box in the bottom left hand corner. First of all manually change the Temp Download Location to a folder created somewhere where there is plenty of room.

The other thing to consider is that Orbx will also automatically check the C drive for space, even if the files are going elsewhere, and tell you if there is insufficient space. This is remedied by the unticking the Check for available disc space before downloading box.

PS - don't worry about messing anything up with the symbolic link. I've never had a problem, it just won't work if you don't do it correctly. 

Hi Ian. Thanks.

That was what I did after somebody here tipped me how to that that. So, I created that Temp Download Location in FTX Central to my 1Tb hard drive, thinking that the C:\ drive space of 110Gb would be safe. Left Firefox running the download overnight, woke up this morning to a shock horror to discover my C:\ space had all but disappeared !!

Okay, feeling a tad better with your Symbolic Link tip, if I get the hang of using it.

Does anyone know if the compatibility problems associated with FlyTampa Amsterdam still need addressing as reported in the Orbx forum? I presume so since not everyone would intend to use a payware addon for the airport. 

More than 12 minutes to launch P3Dv4.4 since the last (TE NE) update with a default aircraft at EHAM !
2 minutes for KSEA (PNW). 

My specs : I7 8700k, 32 Go Ram, Ge Force RTX 2080.

 

2 minutes ago, Avance said:

More than 12 minutes to launch P3Dv4.4 since the last (TE NE) update with a default aircraft at EHAM !
2 minutes for KSEA (PNW). 

My specs : I7 8700k, 32 Go Ram, Ge Force RTX 2080.

 

I read somewhere that 4.5 was addressing load times, hopefully.

 

1 hour ago, Avance said:

More than 12 minutes to launch P3Dv4.4 since the last (TE NE) update with a default aircraft at EHAM !
2 minutes for KSEA (PNW). 

My specs : I7 8700k, 32 Go Ram, Ge Force RTX 2080.

 

Four minutes for me with my ancient PC. Must be doing something wrong!

15 minutes ago, LecLightning56 said:

Four minutes for me with my ancient PC. Must be doing something wrong!

Installed on my PC :
ORBX Global Base Pack, Open LC Europe, Open LC North America, Global Vector, EU all regions, North America all regions, textures 4096, sliders mostly on the right,

ActiveSky for P3Dv4,

Loading P3D v4.4 with a default airplane at KSEA : 2 mn,  same plane at EHAM with TE NE updated : more than 12 mn ! Before this last update, 4 minutes.

 

It is loading slowly for me also.. but the scenery is much improved 

Now I know it is time to get a cup of coffee while the loading bar is stuck at 6%. 

3 minutes ago, Bert Pieke said:

It is loading slowly for me also.. but the scenery is much improved 

Now I know it is time to get a cup of coffee while the loading bar is stuck at 6%. 

Here, the loading bar is stuck at 37% for a long time.

Edited March 2, 20197 yr by Avance

3 hours ago, IAhawkeyeDDS said:

I used these directions to create a symbolic link for my Orbx folder on another SSD and it works flawlessly.

 

https://orbxsystems.com/forum/topic/146877-using-a-symbolic-link-to-move-the-orbx-folder/?tab=comments#comment-1293604

Thank you so much for that link. Much appreciated.👍