I have just noticed an unusual activity when I load a plane into the sim now. I have P3Dv5.1 HF1. Example,  I loaded the Feelthere E-195 and the PF & FO Displays are all showing together, all rolled up into one little neat package. This does not look right. I also note that when I look at the Aircraft folder under simobjects\Airplanes there was an Aircraft.cfg.bak file created below the aircraft.cfg file. IT WAS NOT THERE BEFORE. This is an auto generated file that I believe is causing this. I tried another aircraft, PMDG NGXu, and the same thing happened. It looks like it does not matter what aircraft I load this aircraft.cfg.bak file  appears. It disappears a quick as it came as soon as the sim is closed.  I have never noticed this before. All the screen displays for the Feelthere plane were all rolled into one display on the Left seat side which prompted me to look at the aircraft file and that is where I noticed the .bak file. The PMDG aircraft displays looked normal though I have not seen any mention of this anywhere. Is this maybe a normal P3Dv5.1 thing that I have never noticed before,  I don't kmow?

Regards

 

Can someone do a quick test for me and load a payware, or any plane and check to see if a temporary "aircraft.cfg.bak" file is generated inside the aircraft folder. I this is the case then I am not worried about this issue, since it is most likely a normal course of action for P3D to do this, it's just that we have never knew about this before.

Thanks

Pretty sure it is created by an external program tweaking the normal cfg and than saving the .bak file as a backup.

My guess would be Parallel 42// PrecipitFX which adds custom precipitation effects to all add-on aircraft

Do you use that program?

PS. Any Immersion package by P42 will do the same!

Thanks for the reply.  No I do not use Parallel 42// or  PrecipitFX. Do you see the  temporary "aircraft.cfg.bak" file being generated when you load a plane?

2 hours ago, Antonov22 said:

Pretty sure it is created by an external program tweaking the normal cfg and than saving the .bak file as a backup.

My guess would be Parallel 42// PrecipitFX which adds custom precipitation effects to all add-on aircraft

Do you use that program?

PS. Any Immersion package by P42 will do the same!

Also, as  soon as I unload an aircraft or close P3D the backup file disappears, does not remain. It only appears when I load an aircraft, any aircraft.

Edited December 8, 20205 yr by TomCYYZ