The past couple of days had an interesting problem develop with the last beta update. I had used the sim with no issues and then decided to go back to another airport or location, this produced a message about missing def files for the scenery area (They were given to look up) basically the land tiles went missing and I was underwater! Did an update check and usual installer verifer/update. That fixed one area. Went to another area or location, same problem again missing def files but now in a completely different area, tried another location which I had been using for the Mach Loop runs - again same issue missing def files and water everywhere. 

So again checked and did the repair update, I actually deleted the relevant offending areas - the expectation was that the installer/update would pick up these missing areas - the installer did not fix it or repair at all and left the sim in the same condition. Note that no scenery mods had been made or other major changes to the sim by me at all - yet the problem persisted. Bug report and a report and check at the forum for XP12 bugs provided no useful information other than what I knew already!. Something had gone astray but why would those scenery areas now show no data when you checked the files? 

Outcome was the nuke option. Saved the key stuff I use or wanted (Aircraft custom scenery etc) and then to download and install the whole sim again. I cleaned out the installer and downloaded a fresh copy and proceeded to do a new download and installation - curiously despite having been on version 12.07 it reverted back to the based XP12 version and then I had to go through the whole update process again. This with internet issues wasted a whole day! 

Sim is up and running again now - still considering the Custom Scenery addons (bit more selective I guess) but what annoyed me was the fact the so called repair installer process failed repeatedly to pick up the missing or damaged files and thus I had to resort to a full clean reinstallation. Despite having used XP12 since release and basically trouble free this set of problems had me perplexed to say the least and it pointed to the fallability of the so called update/repair function of XP12. 

Curious whether others had ever experienced this type of issue - files damaged or missing with no known cause and the update/repair installation function failing to identify the problem. 

FWIW I guess - I am suspecting though it may have been a hiccup with the SSD on the PC and a there were few very hot days when this happened and no it was not finger problems. 

 

 

Edited October 4, 20232 yr by coastaldriver

I actually had that happen to me when I first bought XP12. I installed all regions, but it seemed that they were under water, including KORD. So I had to wait and eventually the appropriate files just downloaded on their own. I haven't had that happen since. I am on the latest Beta. 

FYI, there is no current beta running, 12.07r1 is final.

Next beta would be the 12.0.8 series starting in 1-2 weeks according to Laminar.

Had this problem too, mostly fixed itself, I just wish Laminar would fix the bad AA and shimmering

On 10/5/2023 at 9:54 PM, jymp said:

Had this problem too, mostly fixed itself, I just wish Laminar would fix the bad AA and shimmering

Someone has put a suggestion forward that may help that, an they are looking into it. They are aiming to get efficiencies in first will help a lot.