Downloaded 25H2 and it didn't do a thing for my TDS models.  Still half wings, and I can't seem to experience success with the technique written about on the TDS facebook site. I really miss my 737-800 TDS models.  

I wish I could eliminate all the TDS reference in my Registry, but finding them is a challenge.

Running P3Dv5.3 runs without any hassles. Platform W11 Pro 25H2.

Cheers,
Herman

I've been looking at something since I've been frustrated at not being able to use the Aerosoft Airbusses in P3D v5.4 since 24H2 got installed.  I noticed that *every* stock aircraft.cfg file, and my TFDi 717 aircraft.cfg file is formatted like:

[FLTSIM.0]

title=Aircraft title

sim=Sim xxx

Whereas the Aerosoft ones are formatted like:

[FLTSIM.0]

title          = Aerosoft A320 xxx

sim          = A320

The gap between the text in the aircraft.cfg files for all of the Aerosoft airbusses is all tabs.  It *couldn't* be as simple as going in an eliminating all of those tabs in each of the aerosoft Airbus aircraft.cfg files to make things work in P3Dv5.4 with Win11 24H2, could it?  Has anyone tried this?

20 hours ago, 3catcircus said:

I've been looking at something since I've been frustrated at not being able to use the Aerosoft Airbusses in P3D v5.4 since 24H2 got installed.  I noticed that *every* stock aircraft.cfg file, and my TFDi 717 aircraft.cfg file is formatted like:

[FLTSIM.0]

title=Aircraft title

sim=Sim xxx

Whereas the Aerosoft ones are formatted like:

[FLTSIM.0]

title          = Aerosoft A320 xxx

sim          = A320 

The gap between the text in the aircraft.cfg files for all of the Aerosoft airbusses is all tabs.  It *couldn't* be as simple as going in an eliminating all of those tabs in each of the aerosoft Airbus aircraft.cfg files to make things work in P3Dv5.4 with Win11 24H2, could it?  Has anyone tried this?

Unfortunately it will not be that simple (aka the spaces make no differences ultimately) 

Well, some nice guy named Blasb told me to downgrade to version 5.3, which helped me fix the issue.

Perhaps this video will help people.

 

This thread is another example of why flight simmers should embrace disk imaging software and make regular images of their installation. It means that if an update stuffs something up on your machine and you can't roll back or prefer to go back to before the update was even installed, you can simply restore an image in a matter of minutes.

The other advantage is that if you want to try new software or make significant changes to the setup, you know you have a "fallback" if you are not happy with the result or something breaks.

I just have seen so many threads over the years of simmers being frustrated and spending entire weekends and longer trying to solve something that broke which worked before but if they made images they could just roll back in half an hour or less. And that is a real roll back - not trying uninstall something which might bring its own issues and at best is never as perfectly "clean" as going to back to an image where those updates never occurred in the first place.

Agreed, take a system image when it's all working but be aware that to restore from a system image you need to deregister PMDG aircraft and P3D (don't need to uninstall). Also never install a GSX update without waiting for the errors to be fixed as the P3D updates invariably have problems.

20 hours ago, simfan1983 said:

Agreed, take a system image when it's all working but be aware that to restore from a system image you need to deregister PMDG aircraft and P3D (don't need to uninstall). Also never install a GSX update without waiting for the errors to be fixed as the P3D updates invariably have problems.

Is that P3D de-register requirement since the non-professional version has to have an online connection (so only from Version 6 I believe?). I only ask because I am on version 4.5 and have restored my image a few times over the last 12 months (simply because I like to try out lots of new stuff and experiment and sometimes stuff things up by mucking around) and I have never had a P3D registration problem. If there was I would get a screen come up when trying to run it telling me that it is de-activated (if I happened to have my internet connection active at the same time even though an internet connection is not required for my version in order to start it up and run it).

The only software I have where an image restore requires re-activation is Topaz AI however that requires me to regularly "phone home" every couple of months at least in any case since it has a "timer" which only ever allows so much run time before a licence re-check. Obviously an image restore resets the timer and I have to then re-activate instantly.

I'm not absolutely sure whether the deregister issue is related to the P3D version - I assume it's from v5 onwards? If you don't deregister, when you restore your PC, P3D thinks you have installed on a new computer and if you have run out of allowed installations you will obviously need to email LM to get the counter reset. They can take a few days to get back to you, as I learned through experience! I think you actually do end up uninstalling the client when you deregister P3D, so when you restore you will have a clean p3d.cfg so take a backup if you make tweaks. It's also worth taking a backup of your keyboard / controller settings and graphics settings in P3D and then you can get back up and running quickly. If you use FSUIPC, when you restore you may need to tell FSUIPC which aircraft type you are using the first time you fly each livery, which is a bit of a nuisance but better than having to start from the beginning.

I use Windows backup and restore to make the system image on an external drive - it's not the most user friendly way to do it but it works, is free, and provides a lot of peace of mind.

Having the system image meant I was able to avoid Windows 24H2 which is a horrendous mess, I have then turned off major Windows updates to new versions using a registry tweak so can continue to use P3D without issues.