May 6, 20206 yr Author Actually, it's fairly easy to make VOXATC work in P3d5. But who knows what the next update to P3d5 will do.
May 9, 20206 yr Author Below is a complete list of sloped airports in P3d5 HF1 that Jon Masterson, the author of ADE made available. What I'm thinking is creating a variant of FastCheetah702's method that replaces the entire P3d5 scenery folder with the one from P3d4. The variant would only replace the known airport APX files that have airports with sloped features. This may still give fatal errors with VOXATC since airport ICAO codes have been updated in P3d5 and there are new airports. But if the approach does work, it retains all the updates that LM made to the stock airports. ICAO Name City State Country Folder File Latitude Longitude 95Z Bradley Sky Ranch Bradley Sky Ranch North Pole Alaska United States 0 00101 APX08080.bgl 64.75917 -147.38767 C53 Lower Loon Creek Lower Loon Creek Challis Idaho United States 0 00202 APX17160.bgl 44.80867 -114.80866 CO95 True Grit South Wilson Ranch Telluride Colorado United States 0 00202 APX19180.bgl 38.05277 -107.97951 EGUO Colerne Colerne Colerne 0 United Kingdom 0 00501 APX47130.bgl 51.44108 -2.27908 KAVX Catalina Catalina Avalon California United States 0 00202 APX16200.bgl 33.40500 -118.41577 KCOD Yellowstone Regl Yellowstone Regl Cody Wyoming United States 0 00202 APX18160.bgl 44.52019 -109.02380 LFFC Cherence Cherence Mantes 0 France 0 00601 APX48140.bgl 49.07797 1.68842 LFHM Megeve Megeve Megeve 0 France 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 45.82444 6.64833 LFHU L'alpe d'Huez L'alpe d'Huez L'alpe d'Huez 0 France 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 45.08750 6.08361 LFKD Sollieres Sardieres Sollieres Sardieres Sollieres Sardieres 0 France 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 45.25389 6.80111 LFKX Robert Merloz Robert Merloz Meribel 0 France 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 45.40750 6.57750 LFLJ Courchevel Courchevel Courchevel 0 France 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 45.39583 6.63250 LFNB Brenoux Brenoux Mende 0 France 0 00602 APX48160.bgl 44.50417 3.52750 LSGK Saanen Saanen Saanen 0 Switzerland 0 00601 APX49150.bgl 46.48639 7.24861 VECO Cooch Behar Cooch Behar Cooch Behar 0 India 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 26.33072 89.46794 VEPU Purnea Purnea Purnea 0 India 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 25.75959 87.41001 VGSD Saidpur Saidpur Saidpur 0 Bangladesh 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 25.76037 88.90847 VNBJ Bhojpur Bhojpur Bhojpur 0 Nepal 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 27.14750 87.05083 VNLK Lukla Lukla Lukla 0 Nepal 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 27.68663 86.72924 VNRT Rumjatar Rumjatar Rumjatar 0 Nepal 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 27.30361 86.55056 VNTR Tumlingtar Tumlingtar Tumlingtar 0 Nepal 0 00802 APX71220.bgl 27.31626 87.19448 VYKL Kalay Kalay Kalay 0 Myanmar 0 00902 APX73230.bgl 23.18880 94.05112
May 10, 20206 yr Author I've thought about it, but I don't want to be responsible for someone following the guide and then breaking their P3d5 setup. This thread has all the details of how to do it. It's best for most users to either stay with P3d4 or wait and see whether VOXATC is ever updated for P3d5.
May 10, 20206 yr Thanks, I had a look at changing the details of the exe, although I managed to get the msi changed to find p3d v5 I couldn’t get the the indexer going yet. I’m aware I’m not supposed to. So I changed it back but the indexer is now getting stuck on the weather folder
May 11, 20206 yr Author When the Indexer gets stuck on the "weather folder" it's almost always some typo/conflict in.scenery.cfg and:or one or more of the add-ons.xml. Download Lorby's Add on Organizer and see if it finds errors. Remember, the default location for P3d add-ons in your Documents folder is different for P3d4 and P3d5.
May 11, 20206 yr Will download it and try again. So is the best / easiest way to rename all v5 folders to v4? And if I have v4 installed, rename them to v5 so I can keep both copies?
May 11, 20206 yr Author Change the names of P3d4 files from Prepar3d V4 to Prepar3d V4x. Use SymLinker to create folder junctions as described in the above post. SymLinker: http://amd989.github.io/Symlinker/
May 12, 20206 yr Hi, I will not embark on an attempt to hack the files but apart from the fact that the designer has always been very difficult to reach on the forum, do you think that an update is predictable, does it require significant IT work on his part?
May 12, 20206 yr 52 minutes ago, gufau said: does it require significant IT work it seems not .... but then i'll let my "nite shift" respond with the detail. i'm awaiting "aircraft" updates so not rushing ... but watching anyway. for now, cheers john martin
May 12, 20206 yr Author 7 hours ago, gufau said: Hi, I will not embark on an attempt to hack the files but apart from the fact that the designer has always been very difficult to reach on the forum, do you think that an update is predictable, does it require significant IT work on his part? No files are hacked. The symbolic links just point VOXATC to the correct folders for P3d5. To answer your question, VOXATC would require changes to support sloped runways, but other than that, the changes are minor.
May 15, 20206 yr I’m ready to move to p3d v5 today now everything else is working, can you give a quick walk through what I need to do? if I rename v4.5 to old(does that include all folders in app data, products data etc) then rename everything from p3d v5 to v4? i saw your above post about symlink, what do I need to do with that? And do I need to edit the ref to change names or is that what the symlink does? Never used symlink a before so I apologise for all the questions
May 26, 20206 yr Author I'm just wondering if anyone is still using VOXATC with P3d5 HF1? There are reports of problems with SimConnect and P3d5 on the official LM forums, so the random lack of AI aircraft with VOXATC could be caused by P3d5 itself. Also, fsaerodata has been updated at no adidtional cost for P3d5, as has ASP3D, although both releases still in beta. Most likely more problems might occur with P3d5 this week as it is due the release for Hotfix 2 (according to LM) and the new nVidia WDDM 2.7 driver ( the developer version is 450.99, so expect a higher main version number) will be officially released for Win 10 version 2004.
May 26, 20206 yr I have been persevering with VoxATC in P3Dv5. I have found that VoxATC doesn't like the 'SLOPED' flag in the AFD XML in some instances. To get around this I have been removing that line from the XML and recompiling the AFD BGL using the P3Dv4 SDK. Interesting to hear about the SimConnect issues, which may explain the randomness of whether VoxATC wants to spawn aircraft or not. The other thing I've noticed a lot from the VoxATC log file is the occurrence of a Thread time overrun, which results in VoxATC using between 12-20% CPU usage continuously, which has a knock-on of the performance of P3Dv5.
May 26, 20206 yr Author I've seen the thread time overrun warning in the VOXATC logfile even with P3d4. This means that a thread is not completed before the next thread is scheduled. Usually this condition results in the thread either being allowed to finish and the next thread delayed or the offending thread is terminated. Thread asynchrony is a problem with multithreaded apps but an app is commonly designed to handle this condition. The warning is displayed for the developer in order to locate where this issue is occuring.
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