Where can I find the Asobo ATR aircraft.cfg file? Thanks.

 

1 minute ago, Sidney Schwartz said:

Where can I find the Asobo ATR aircraft.cfg file? Thanks.

 

The non-base aircraft have encrypted files which users cannot access..

Oh good....another "improvement". 😡

21 hours ago, Sidney Schwartz said:

Oh good....another "improvement". 😡

Purchase from a source other than the MSFS Marketplace.

I email any dev producing addon aircraft for either sim and ask whether they provide alternatives to the marketplace before buying. One was kind enough to send me the unencrypted cfg files but the vast majority refuse. So my rule is never to buy aircraft via marketplace because all cfg files are by default encrypted which makes it impossible to tweak flight models or other editing. And this is an historic retrograde step after over 30 years of MS co-operating with livery painters, modders, tweakers and improvers.

In addition the instant re-sync/reload feature has been removed and in its place a badly explained and unreliable SDK has to be used.

These once user friendly features were the heart of cooperation between MS and users, and were a significant contributor to many prior versions of FS being kept alive for so long and particularly FSX. Ah Well......

On 2/13/2025 at 10:49 PM, Sidney Schwartz said:

Oh good....another "improvement". 😡

You can buy any color you like as long as its black 😒. 

Early 20th century thinking. 

On 2/14/2025 at 12:04 PM, fppilot said:

Purchase from a source other than the MSFS Marketplace.

 

On 2/15/2025 at 1:38 AM, robert young said:

I email any dev producing addon aircraft for either sim and ask whether they provide alternatives to the marketplace before buying.

Yet something else I was not aware of. Thank you yet again, Microsoft. I've been using personal computers since the mid-1980's. Back then one of the ironclad rules of the software industry seemed to be "Change for the sake of change is paramount, even if it means taking something that works well and making it worse." Microsoft still embraces that philosophy. 

 

On 2/13/2025 at 6:49 PM, Sidney Schwartz said:

Oh good....another "improvement". 😡

It's to prevent piracy

On 2/14/2025 at 4:04 PM, fppilot said:

Purchase from a source other than the MSFS Marketplace.

the ATR isn't available outside of the marketplace since it's a Microsoft published aircraft.

6 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's to prevent piracy

Not really. Config files by themselves are for adjustments of parameters. They do not contain textures, models, sounds, or other core content. You can encrypt content files but leave the config files open for user adjustment. Third party developers who produce addons always leave their config files unencrypted. It's MS/Asobo that encrypt them. Bear in mind FS2020 standard/default aircraft configs were unencrypted and editable by the user, as they have been in every edition of Flight Simulator from around the beginning of the whole franchise decades ago - until now.

Edited February 23, 20251 yr by robert young

5 hours ago, robert young said:

Bear in mind FS2020 standard/default aircraft configs were unencrypted and editable by the user,

IIRC they also later made the aircraft.cfg files for the Deluxe/Premium Deluxe aircraft unencrypted.

There are some standard aircraft with encrypted files, like the ini A320Neo and the Volocopter.

IIRC You can access the aircraft.cfg files for the standard 2024 aircraft if you use the VFS browser in devmode.

Edited February 23, 20251 yr by Tuskin38

15 hours ago, Tuskin38 said:

It's to prevent piracy

the ATR isn't available outside of the marketplace since it's a Microsoft published aircraft.

My comment was a general comment not limited to one aircraft model.