Hi chaps,

TDS GTN750 is pretty cool. 

However, I wonder if there's a way to stop it booting with the sim, for times when you're not flying a GTN-equipped aircraft.

Every time you boot MSFS, a TDS popup appears and it starts running two instances of the Garmin GTN trainer, which i figure can't be helpful for frame rates.

Now, I dosable things all the time by removing them from the community folder. In this case, the tds-gtnxi-gauge folder. Doesn't work, the popup still appears on sim boot and the 2x GTN trainers still run.

There is a TDS folder in \AppData\Roaming\Microsoft Flight Simulator\Packages, but it seems to be empty.

Anyone know how you can disable this program?

Right click on the little app in the system tray and exit.  It will popup a notice and then just click yes/ok.  You'll have to start it manually again if you want to use a tds equipped aircraft in the same sim session.

@ryanbatc not sure but if i understand his message correctly, maybe he wants to disable the auto-launch 'once and for all' and, as you said, then launch it manually only when needed (but not always having to close the program manually).

If that's the case @OzWhitey what you can do is edit this file and set disabled to True as shown below -> %appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\exe.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
    <Descr>Launch</Descr>
    <Filename>EXE.xml</Filename>
    <Disabled>True</Disabled>
    <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
    <Launch.Addon>
        <Disabled>True</Disabled>
        <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
        <Name>TDS Sim Software GTNXi Gauge Integration</Name>
        <Path>C:\ProgramData\TDS\GTNXi\FlightSimEXE\TDSGTNXiFlightSimEXE.exe</Path>
        <CommandLine>-FSIntegration</CommandLine>
        <NewConsole>True</NewConsole>
    </Launch.Addon>
</SimBase.Document>

That's the entry that is added automatically by the TDS installer to auto-launch but if you find that bothering and want to launch manually only when needed, you can certainly disable that with no risk (and re-enable by setting 'False' again if you want one day).

I have done that on my system because the fantastic TDS is not used on many aircraft yet so i prefer to launch it manually only when needed when i use one of those aircraft and not having it starting automatically every single time i launch the sim.

🍻

 (note : the folder given is what i have for my Steam version, not sure if the MS-Store version of the sim stores that file elsewhere)

Edited May 14, 20224 yr by Bad_T

58 minutes ago, Bad_T said:

@ryanbatc not sure but if i understand his message correctly, maybe he wants to disable the auto-launch 'once and for all' and, as you said, then launch it manually only when needed (but not always having to close the program manually).

If that's the case @OzWhitey what you can do is edit this file and set disabled to True as shown below -> %appdata%\Microsoft Flight Simulator\exe.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252" ?>
<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
    <Descr>Launch</Descr>
    <Filename>EXE.xml</Filename>
    <Disabled>True</Disabled>
    <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
    <Launch.Addon>
        <Disabled>True</Disabled>
        <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad>
        <Name>TDS Sim Software GTNXi Gauge Integration</Name>
        <Path>C:\ProgramData\TDS\GTNXi\FlightSimEXE\TDSGTNXiFlightSimEXE.exe</Path>
        <CommandLine>-FSIntegration</CommandLine>
        <NewConsole>True</NewConsole>
    </Launch.Addon>
</SimBase.Document>

That's the entry that is added automatically by the TDS installer to auto-launch but if you find that bothering and want to launch manually only when needed, you can certainly disable that with no risk (and re-enable by setting 'False' again if you want one day).

I have done that on my system because the fantastic TDS is not used on many aircraft yet so i prefer to launch it manually only when needed when i use one of those aircraft and not having it starting automatically every single time i launch the sim.

🍻

 (note : the folder given is what i have for my Steam version, not sure if the MS-Store version of the sim stores that file elsewhere)

Yeah, that's exactly what I wanted to do, and for the same reason as you. TDS is a good GTN, but I'm flying airliners at the moment. No need to have the Garmin trainers launching in the background. They take about 3.5% of my CPU according to task manager, so I don't see the point of running them when I have no plans to use the GTN.

I also have the free PMS GTN, so that's available if I ever decide that I really did want a GTN750 after all!

Thanks for your assistance, appreciated.