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A most bizarre problem - SimStarterNG users help
Ray Proudfoot replied to Ray Proudfoot's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
How can it be responsible when I have the same problems running P3D direct? I appreciate the suggestion but I don’t think it will help. I uninstalled and reinstalled the Content today and performed the test which eventually breaks something in P3D. Using the default F-22 I switched to multiple airports around the world. Everything fine. Then I switched to a 3rd party aircraft- Carenado PC12 - and very soon after the link to Ai Companion was broken. But this is not something I do as a matter of course. I’m content that if I select my aircraft at the Scenario screen all is well. Maybe it’s a bug in P3D. Who knows. All is okay for now running via SSNG and not changing aircraft inside the sim. I suspect uninstalling and reinstalling SSNG and restoring my preferences would not be easy. -
That's okay. You can eliminate AIG as a possible cause. Good luck in trying to nail down the cause. These things can be very frustrating.
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@Seregor, do you have AIG Ai installed? If so and if you’re tuning v5.4 it’s almost certainly caused by some AIG BGLs causing issues with v5.4. The solution is to revert to v5.3HF2. Or stop using AIG Ai.
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Ray Proudfoot started following New ActiveSky P3Dv5 Problem, A most bizarre problem - SimStarterNG users help, How are you limiting your frame rate? and and 1 other
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A most bizarre problem - SimStarterNG users help
Ray Proudfoot replied to Ray Proudfoot's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
Today I started P3D via SSNG and fancied a bit of plane spotting. Switching from the PMDG737 to the male avatar these problems with SODE and Addon Manager started again. Ai Companion on another computer couldn’t read the Ai even though they were present. So this swapping of vehicles inside P3D seems to be the problem. A reinstall of Client, Content or both seems sensible. Which one controls the vehicles? -
How are you limiting your frame rate?
Ray Proudfoot replied to Mischung's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
Let us know how you feel about it. The build quality is superb as is the image quality. A good monitor is a sound investment and will last years. I’ve had mine for over five years and the SpyderPro calibration software still reports 100% sRGB. 👍 -
Glad it’s sorted. 👍 I’m flying Brunei to Hong Kong. Shorter and the very cold upper air suits Concorde perfectly. 😁
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I'm about to takeoff for a Concorde flight so I can't check now. But I think I had the same thing. Don't worry about it. Just compare pressure in your aircraft to that for your location. If it's the same then you're fine. If it isn't then we can investigate further.
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How are you limiting your frame rate?
Ray Proudfoot replied to Mischung's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
@DuduGuimaraes, yes, that's it. 👍 -
It shouldn't. The weather for the whole world for that time has been downloaded. What should happen is when you move airports the weather changes. Same here. It takes less than 2 seconds for me so you have to watch it carefully. I don't understand that sequence. Try World - Weather. At the top is a Weather Conditions drop-down. I have ActiveSky Weather theme. So ASP3D is injecting weather into P3D. Don't worry that no cloud settings appear. They are there in the sim. What do you have?
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@roadrabbit149, the green “connected” indicator is good. I wouldn’t worry about the idle state. The weather may have already been downloaded. It only takes a few seconds. Move your aircraft to another airport and watch the ASP3D status. You should see “downloading” appear.Check moving to different airports updates the weather. As an additional check try historical weather. You should see “downloading” appear. During a flight update winds on the CDU and see if it works. Remember to minimise ASP3D to the taskbar, not the system tray. Finally, when closing down ASP3D check ActiveSkyUtils.exe has stopped running.
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How are you limiting your frame rate?
Ray Proudfoot replied to Mischung's topic in The Prepar3d Forum
@DuduGuimaraes, I have the BenQ PD3200U which supports 30Hz natively. Highly recommended. https://www.benq.eu/en-uk/monitor/professional/pd3200u/buy.html -
When Chris arrived he decided to replace both button switches on the right side. They have a slightly different feel but are fine. The components from the US arrived four days after ordering them and are of a high quality.
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@roadrabbit149, you need to check the Details tab. ActiveSkyUtils.exe is probably running. Maybe it was held over from an earlier session. Make sure that's not running when you launch ASP3D.
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Blame Benjamin Franklyn for Daylight Savings Time?
Ray Proudfoot replied to Fielder's topic in Hangar Chat
Here in Britain sticking to BST over winter was tried many years ago. It wasn’t popular the further north you went. The further from the equator the bigger the difference between winter and summer daylight hours. Here in Cheshire we get just under 8 hours in December but over 17 hours in June. The long summer evenings are great for barbecues but in winter it not setting light until after 9am In Scotland meant switching back to GMT was essential. With the US much further south I don’t see the need for DST. -
MSFS 2020 Auto FPS App
Ray Proudfoot replied to Reset XPDR's topic in Microsoft Flight Simulator (2020)
Are you aware this is how FSUIPC was created many years ago? It takes a very clever person to disassemble a executable and analyse the contents. The original UIPC was created by Adam Zofran and then Pete Dowson developed his version from the work Adam had done. He asked Microsoft for help but none was forthcoming. He battled on because with every new version variables were broken so work had to start again. Eventually after many years the Aces team decided to cooperate and Pete's life became a lot easier. Without that effort flight sim 25+ years ago wouldn't have become what it is today. The development work passed to Pete's son John. These are very clever people whom we should all be very grateful to whatever sim you fly.- 988 replies
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