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Thanks guys for the nice feedback 🍻 You're right, AL can't diagnose slow loading times, the loading is a completely internal process to the sim so it's hard to know exactly what might be causing that and there's not really a scientific way that i know of that could improve the loading times. @Michael Moe, that being said and i might be wrong (i don't have many addons), in my experience slow loading times are mainly due to the number of files included in the addon. For example, my biggest addons is 'AIG traffic' and it has over 60'000 files on my installation, the loading time for me is increased by 4-5 minutes if i enable it (i have a 9 years old PC so my loading times might be slower than the average 2024 simmers). So i think that if you have 100 addons activated that have 10 files each the sim will load a lot faster than if you you have 5 addons activated with 50'000 files each. I think that's why some people say correctly that they have 100's of addons activated and they don't see much difference when all are activated, i think it really depends on 'what kind of addons' you have instead of 'how many' you have. Photogrametry addons are probably the most impactuf as they contain a huge number of files. The speed of the disk where that addons are located is obviously also importand, if you use an old HDD drive it will obviously be a lot slower than a modern SSD. Now all this blabla 😱 for a little Addons Linker hint if you want to check the addons with most files which might be the ones slowing up your loading : In the options screen first tab, enable the 'enable file stats' checkbox. (this will make AL load slower if you have lots of addons managed by AL so remove the option when you have finished with it) restart AL use the menu 'Tools -> Addons Grid View' A new screen open, click twice on the column 'Files count' so that the column gets sorted with the most files being shown at the top. This might give you an idea of the addons having the most impact on your loading times remove the option if needed as explained on the first step (you can also export the list to an XLS file for further reference) Like i said, this is only based on my personal experience and might not be accurate info, just an info in case you want to check, but results may vary 🙈 Take care 🍻

Ouch 🙊 ... thanks for letting me know, i need to check that again (in the code of the last version i can see that i added the parameters -silent -nochatui -nofriendsui) so not sure whats happening there. On my machine, i tested again and the sim launches with no extra Steam screen showing up. Just to be 100% sure, can you please confirm : you have set 'Steam' or 'Steam (fast launch)' in the options screen 'Choose your FS version' field ? You have the very latest version 0.21.xx ? (probably yes) There was no Steam update during the launch (if there was, maybe Steam restarts itself and the parameters are lost, not sure about that, just an idea). I would be grateful 💗 if maybe someone else could also test to see if it's a particular issue on your marchine or if it's a particular condition on my machine that makes it work only for me 😱 Thank you. 🍻

@Space Monkey and @bob755 .. have you updated to the very latest version of AL released last week ? That version should launch Steam in silent mode with no need to tweak anything else, it was one of the changes .. (oh well maybe it doesn't work properly for everyone) 🙈😁🍻

Hello, just for info i have exactly the same specs as you. (also going to change probably soon after MSFS 2024 is released). I have no particular problems with the Fenix, a 6700K will work just fine at 30 fps locked (also via NVCP 'max frame rate' with no vsync, i have g-sync monitor) unless you have very heavy custom scenery and lots of AI planes. I don't have a 4K monitor though (only 2560*1440) and 4K might be quite a bit more resource heavy but, for the plane itself, a good oldish overclocked i7-6700k is ok (an overclocked i7-6700k is probably even a bit more powerful than a stock i5-7500 stated in the min req) 🍻

It's in Austria, near Zeltweg (LOXZ, the airport is still partly bad because it's a different layer from the ground textures but there's an addon for it i think), i remember having a flight near there a few months ago and I was shocked by the bad quality of the terrain so it's one of the first place i tried with the 'enhancement tool'. I also tried a few places in China where the improvement was big. We could have hoped MS/Asobo would have set that map provider as default since it's still their Bing provider, not sure why they keep stuff hidden .. maybe they keep it for v2024 😱 Maybe you have the safest PC on the planet so it's a positive discovery 😜 ... joke aside yeah it's a bit annoying when your PC blocks stuff and you can't figure it out, if some options are greyed out, maybe you need to log in the PC as a real admin if you have that info and if your user account does not have full admin privilege, well it's obviously very difficult to help with that as every PC has so many different settings possibilities 🥺

well hmm .. i feel like a fool, heard about this popular mod for a long time but never tried it, not sure what i was afraid of (well yeah i know 🙈, i assumed it would do dirty things at system level to change the maps but looks like it doesn't except from adding a few entries in your host file which is no prob for me). Obviously i took an extreme example of improvement and results may vary but most place i visited since installing it seemed better or at least equal with the mod enabled. the difference in some regions is just huge (and when i say huge i mean huuuuuuuuuuge 😜), thank you guys for bringing this up to the attention of everyone. 👍🍻🍻 Not sure what error you get but the mod changes your host file (C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts) which is a Windows core file that can be exploited by virus and malicious software, so if you have some security software on your machine set up with a high level of protection, it might well be that the file is protected against any changes and that would would prevent the tool from working.

In Addons linker you need to set two folders : - the real community folder (the one you get in developper mode by clicking on the button as specified above) - a custom folder that you create yourself on your disk to store your addons, This folder should not be inside your real community folder, nor inside the real official folder. Just create a completely different folder somewhere on your disk only for that. Then, AL will show in the left panel the content of the custom folder, and in the right panel the content of REAL community folder. (it does not show the content of the 'official folder') Maybe post a screenshot of your AL options screen (1st tab) and maybe also a screenshot of your main AL screen showing both panel, it will maybe give me a better understanding of what is happening there for you, it looks like some incorrect setting somewhere but it's hard to identify just by reading your message. Thank you 🍻

In case of doubts, you can also check inside the sim which folder is used as community folder. Just do this : go into settings -> general -> developers enable 'developer mode' a menu appears on the top, select 'Tools -> Virtual File system' You'll see a 'Package folder' entry, click on it to expand it You'll then see an 'open community folder' button, it will open the folder used by the sim as 'the community folder', all eventual doubts will be gone 🙈😁 🍻

Hello, there are a lot of water anomalies around the Quebec region, but fortunately some kind soul has fixed a lot of them. Check the file below, i tried it at CYGP and the issue seems fixed. https://flightsim.to/file/45564/quebec-province-water-corrections-wip 🍻

@tup61 i had done the little Excel list available in this thread that showed what to download for specific countries / airports -> https://www.alpha-india.net/forums/index.php?topic=37228.0 It's not been updated since end of january of 2023 so some data might be slightly inacurate but for most airlines it should be fairly ok. I might even update the list with the latest data if people are interested (that would require me to download the latest FP which is maybe something not really recommended atm with some downloads being unavailable (see other thread about ukrainian/russian AI site). Oh well probably not much help because it's not exactly what you were looking for and it's a bit older 🙈, but i mention it just in case you want to have a look 🍻

hello, the zip contains all the files you need just unzip them anywhere on your disk and you'll be ready to go, there is no 'installer' it's just drag/drop/use 😱. Maybe you don't see the file extensions because, by default, Windows hides them (not a good idea imho), the main exe is the one called 'MSFS_AddonsLinker.exe'. There is another file called 'MSFS_AddonsLinker.exe.config' which is just a configuration text file, so yeah, if you click on that one, it will not work (if you don't see the extension you will probably not see the '.config' at the end and you might think it's the EXE but it's not). At the first launch, it's normal to be presented with the 'options' screen because the program requires some settings to be set in order to work. In the this video [YT/watch?v=O68u05JZXL8] at 2min45 you can see exactly that, then he proceeds by adding the required folders. The video is a bit old and based on an older version but for the initial installation process it's still 100% valid. Not sure what you see different than in the video on your system when you say the 'folder is not added', if you still can't figure it out maybe send me a little video if possible. Feel free to PM me if you need more help (I'm the author). I will not be online for the next 16-17 hours so maybe someone else will be able to help in the meantime if this reply is not enough. 🙈 very important : you said you have the store version of the sim, so if you start moving folders outside of your community folder make sure you test that they work fine when linked via AL before moving too many files, for some users with the ms-store version the files are kind of encrypted and they don't work anymore when moved (not something AL can do anything about). So my advice, if you're not that much into 'computers technical stuff', is to start slowly and make sure sure you understand how everything works before moving too many files. It should all be easy, but yeah, 'computer stuff' is 'computer stuff' 🙃 Take care 🍻

maybe it's only the - that you added before configfolder, it should not be there. wrong : "X:\MSFS\MSFS Tools\Addon Linker v12\MSFS_AddonsLinker.exe" -configfolder="X:\MSFS\MSFS Tools\Addon Linker v12\ConfigFiles" correct : "X:\MSFS\MSFS Tools\Addon Linker v12\MSFS_AddonsLinker.exe" configfolder="X:\MSFS\MSFS Tools\Addon Linker v12\ConfigFiles" Please try that first 🍻 Then it's also important to understand that the folder that you put in the parameter is the 'base' folder, another 'MSFS Addons Linker' folder will be created below automatically and the files will go in that subfolder (and not in the base config folder), so if you want to copy your old files make sure they are in the correct folder. Try first without adding any files to see how it works, then you can add the files when all is clear. Hopefully it's not too complicated 🥂

Hello 🍻 Yes, by default it's saved in the ProgramdData folder because that's kind of the recommended way to do it, i guess that's why it was called by Microsoft ProgramData 😜 (usually it's not very good practice to save configuration files in the same folder as the EXE for different reasons). With AL you can specify the configuration folder via an argument that you can pass to the EXE. You can do this by editing the shortcut you use to launch the EXE So if you keep the same letter (let's say D:\ for the sake of the example) for your external SSD you could put the configuration folder on that disk by following the procedure below : Create a NEW empty folder on the SSD -> for example D:\tools\AL_ConfigFiles Create a NEW shortcut in the folder where you have the AL installed Edit the shortcut to add the 'configfolder' argument in the 'Target' field as seen on the screenshot below When you launch the tool, AL will not use programdata anymore but the folder you specified in the argument, so if it's on the external disk you will be able to keep it there forever without moving files. Your new folder where you will find all the files (ini and othe others) will be : D:\tools\AL_ConfigFiles\MSFS Addons Linker For the dependencies for example, you can copy the Addons_dependencies.bin files in the new folder (in a subfolder called Data) to avoid having to redo them. This is a quick guide assuming you have good knowledge of computers operations 🙃, if you need more details because it's not clear enough 😱, let me know. 🍻

Hello, I might be wrong because i don't have Bijan product and i don't have the MS-Store version of the game, so ignore this post if it's not useful 🙃 What has been reported in the past, is that sometimes, for users with the MS-Store version of the sim, the files that are put in the real community folder get 'kind of locked'. It's like if they were encrypted and so if you move them they don't work anymore. If the file is not readable, AL will show 'can not read the manifest.json file' and it will not work in the sim either. You can maybe also try to open the manifest.json file with notepad to see if it looks normal. Maybe you are confronted to that issue and it's not something specific due the Bijan's product. One thing that seemed to work for some people is to zip the flies directly into another folder (don't create the zip in the community folder), you can do that with 7zip for example. You have little discussion about how to do it here : So : reinstall the product in the community folder (if you have moved it already, don't move it back because sometimes moving it back doesn't work either, not sure, reinstall to be sure unless there are issues with the number of times you can install it). In any, case make sure it works in the sim before proceeding with the next step create the zip of your bijan folder that is located in your real community folder, create the zip in another folder like explained above extract the zip in your custom AL folder check if you still get the 'can not read manifest' if yes then well .. running short of ideas 😱 (maybe i have another idea to try to trick the installer but really not sure 🙈) if no, delete the folder in the real community folder and you should be able to link the addon Like i said, not sure if that can help or not, but maybe you can try. Worst case scenario, you just reinstall the product in the community folder. Take care ! 🍻

oh by the time i set up a quick/dirty flight and try it, replies have been added so my input not needed, but since i prepared the screenshot i will post it anyway 😁, and yup, same as Ryan here, the pmdg flies the RNP12 approach perfectly, was at 4100ft at NO421 and 1860ft 2.5nm before NO420 (with default scenery and navigraph database, haven't tried default MSFS navdata).