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Products Support => Chicago O'Hare for FSX/P3D => Topic started by: p3dx3 on June 07, 2014, 01:07:03 am
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me again, After running the ORD installer again to fix the missing texture bug, I am missing taxiway signs at the south cargo area. Taxiway K, K1, and K2 have no signs
http://i.imgur.com/z2QOZXu.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/z2QOZXu.jpg)
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All my taxi signs are gone south of runway 10
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Doesn't happen here, as you can see from the attached screenshot, taken at exact coordinates of your screenshot.
Do you use the CURRENT installer for KORD ? If you are not sure, download it again.
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I redownloaded and the taxi signs are back, I don't know what happened. I thought I downloaded the installer last week to fix the missing textures. Thanks
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I spoke too soon. It happened again tonight, the taxi signs disappear when in GSX I select "prepare for departure"
I setup gsx at the airport so pushback is disbaled. I pressed "prepare for pushback and departure" and it said "have a nice flight" but all the pallets at the cargo ramp disappeared and so did the taxiway signs south of runway 10. ORD is very messed up now. The taxi lights north of runway 10 are not aligned properly. The taxi signs all disappeared by south cargo as did the taxilights. What happened? All after I ran the installer again, it made everything worse.
Do I have to run the addon manager installer after the ord installer? I will try that once my flight is over.
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Reinstall did not fix it, after using GSX and pushing back my taxi signs around me disappear and all the green center taxi lights are misaligned.
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I spoke too soon. It happened again tonight, the taxi signs disappear when in GSX I select "prepare for departure"
Doesn't happen here, see the attached screenshot. You haven't said which parking you started from in GSX, so I chose Parking 29 of the South Cargo area, which is close to the position you reported earlier.
I setup gsx at the airport so pushback is disbaled.
This will disable just the actual pushback, but not the parking preparation that would caused all GSX vehicles to appear.
I pressed "prepare for pushback and departure" and it said "have a nice flight" but all the pallets at the cargo ramp disappeared and so did the taxiway signs south of runway 10.
Although it's a bit unusual you would want to start a pushback after you disabled it, I tried doing the same, and no, after GSX says "Have a good trip" (without having done any pushback), nothing disappears.
Do I have to run the addon manager installer after the ord installer? I will try that once my flight is over.
You don't have to do anything, if you use the CURRENT version of the installer. As explained many times already on the forum, every scenery installer comes with everything needed for it to run, you only need to install the Stand-Alone Addon Manager if you want to update that one without downloading the scenery again but, if you ARE using the latest version of the scenery installer, you don't need to do anything else.
I still think there's something outdated with your installation.
Some of our sceneries have GSX remove automatically all ground details around a parking when you start GSX, but in order to do this, a scenery must be specifically programmed for it, and KORD is not so, lacking any special programming, preparing a parking for GSX won't touch ANYTHING.
Could be the problem is caused by an outdated FSUIPC instead ? None of our products use it or requires it but, if you have it installed because of another product, and it's outdated, it IS able to remove parts of our sceneries, see here:
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,9866.msg77709.html#msg77709
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It was south parking 17.
I deleted the ORD scenery folders then reinstalled to make sure I had the latest files. I then installed GSX then the addon manager.
All the green taxi lights are misaligned and the taxi signs around me disappeared. It only happens at ORD, JFK was fine.
I have the latest version of fsuipc.
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I deleted the ORD scenery folders then reinstalled to make sure I had the latest files.
Removing the scenery files doesn't do anything, and of course the installer will remove the automatically if you Uninstall it first. But those files are just a small part of the scenery, there are a lof of other files that makes for it.
The only way to remove everything, is to run the Uninstaller, and then reply YES to the question "Do you want to remove the Addon Manager ?" and "Do you want to remove the Couatl scripting engine ?"
Then, reinstall using the CURRENT installer. You will have to reinstall GSX too, after removing the Couatl engine.
All the green taxi lights are misaligned and the taxi signs around me disappeared. It only happens at ORD, JFK was fine.
As I've said ( and tested, see all my screenshots ), doesn't happen, and nobody else reported it.
Misplaced taxi lights are an entirely different issue, that can only be caused by another scenery in conflict.
Disappearing taxiways after pushback, simply doesn't happen, surely not under control of any of our product. They can't, because in this scenery, they are controlled by the Addon Manager, while GSX is controlled only by the Couatl engine. Even if the whole Couatl engine crashed due to a problem with the pushback, you will probably lose the scenery *buildings*, but the taxiway signs would remain.
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No scenery conflicts
http://i.imgur.com/sprwbSi.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/sprwbSi.jpg)
AP_KORD.bgl is the only afcad file active. I have FTX Vector and Global but the latest version and the AEC is disabled for KORD.
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Sitting at South Parking 17, just loaded fsx, everything normal
http://i.imgur.com/3nWhJJb.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/3nWhJJb.jpg)
Now I activate gsx to "unload"
taxi signs have now disappeared
http://i.imgur.com/ZWvCRHE.jpg (http://i.imgur.com/ZWvCRHE.jpg)
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No scenery conflicts
But there's nothing wrong in your screenshot either. That's how the scenery is made, and it has been like that for years. The taxi lights are not an issue.
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Sitting at South Parking 17, just loaded fsx, everything normal
Now I activate gsx to "unload"
taxi signs have now disappeared
Did the same and, of course, nothing happens and nothing disappears, see the attached screenshots, taken at South Parking 17, before and after having selected "Deboarding" with GSX.
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Look at the green glow, it is not aligned with the ground where the actual light is. All of them are mis-aligned.
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What about with the pmdg 777? Is there anything I can change to test? This only happens to me at KORD.
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Look at the green glow, it is not aligned with the ground where the actual light is. All of them are mis-aligned.
And as I've said, that's how the scenery is made, and it has been like that for years.
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What about with the pmdg 777?
Doesn't make any difference. Screenshot attached, before and after, same parking.
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So you have no idea why this might be happening? Nothing I can do?
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So you have no idea why this might be happening? Nothing I can do?
I already told you everything you can try to reinstall, and I'm unable to replicate your problem, which nobody else has reported either. What can I do under these circumstances ?
Does it happen with another airplane ? Perhaps your are close to memory exhaustion, or your Simconnect data channel is clobbered by other add-ons sending too many commands, so the Addon Manager can't talk with FSX anymore. This is very rare, but it might happen.
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It happens with any airplane I try, I am not running any other addons now, no weather.. I have FTX Vector installed but KORD is disabled in their program. I reinstalled GSX, KORD, the Addon Manager. It does not happen at any other airport. Only KORD. Tried other airports like LAX JFK, does not happen. I have all your other airports. I don't have performance problems. My sim is stable. There is some conflict here and there must be a way to find what is causing the bug. It is a recent occurrence, since one of the last gsx updates. The second I activate GSX at the airport everything in a small radius disappears.
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The second I activate GSX at the airport everything in a small radius disappears.
As I've said, several times already (and posted many screenshots about it), it doesn't happen here, using the same airplane you use and the same parking.
But not only that, it simply shouldn't happen because, even if there was a problem with GSX in your system that would cause GSX crashing after having selected it, you should have seen KORD *buildings* to disappear, not the taxiway signs, which in this scenery are handled by the Addon Manager instead.
More recent sceneries, like KDFW, have a feature that ALLOWS GSX to remove smaller objects around a parking when you select a parking in GSX, but KORD doesn't use it, so GSX cannot remove them.
Do you have the "View Optimization" option enabled in the Addon Manager ? That option is turned OFF by default, and it's best to keep it that way, it was just used to help fps with low-end systems. But again, that option would affect objects regardless if you use GSX or not.
You might also try to remove your FSX.CFG file located under %APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX, perhaps there's a tweak you added which shouldn't be used.
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I removed the fsdt section from my fsx.cfg, did not fix. Tried new fsx.cfg file, still not fixed.
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I removed the fsdt section from my fsx.cfg, did not fix. Tried new fsx.cfg file, still not fixed.
I don't have anything to add. Still can't be replicated in any way, and nobody else reported it so far. The only possible explanation left, you have a conflicting program running, which we didn't know about it.
Try to disable ALL your 3rd party modules in you DLL.XML and EXE.XML files (leaving enabled just bglmanx.dll in the DLL.XML file and couatl.exe in the EXE.XML file), and see if it makes any difference. If it does, re-enable all your add-on modules, one by one, until you find the problem.
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Nothing fixes it, I have tried everything. Is there a bug where turning on view optimization may not be able to turn off even after I have disabled it? That is my only guess... I guess I will just have to live with no gsx at kord.
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Can you give me the steps for uninstalling and removing gsx completely? I would like to try that if you have no other suggestions for what might be causing it.
Thanks
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Can you give me the steps for uninstalling and removing gsx completely?
Uninstall it, reply YES to the "Do you want to remove the Couatl engine ?" and then remove the following folders:
%APPDATA%\Virtuali
C:\ProgramData\Virtuali\Couatl
Then reinstall it.
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I will try that uninstall then reinstall. Should I remove the customized airport files, and the custom file for my airplane? What is weird is I just landed at ORD, taxied to south parking 17, and called for deboarding... and nothing disappeared! It only happens when I load fsx at KORD and call for deboarding.
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Think I found the cause. The shader3 mod. I removed it to try and fix another problem and nothing disappears now when calling for loading or unloading. Sorry for this long thread, it was my fault all along.