I think I already given all the data I have which is:
- GSX works perfectly fine with P3D 5.3, and we have been using it for months during the whole beta period, and not a single time we ever needed to change anything.
- GSX still works perfectly fine with the released 5.3, which is where I took that screenshot from, a few minutes ago.
- USUALLY, issues with menu crashes are caused by an incomplete installation.
- As explained so many times, whenever you have issues with the menu, like crashes, freezes, graphic problems, etc., it's completely useless and a waste of time reinstalling GSX or acting on it.
The menu used by GSX, which is the standard Simconnect menu used by all applications with a menu, it's NOT handled by 3rd party developers, we don't have any control how it works, how it looks, which method it uses to draw itself and how interacts with the graphic system. We JUST make a single Simconnect call (which hasn't been changed in years and doesn't require any changes ) to ask the sim to display a menu with a list of entries, and wait for the sim to get back to us with what choice the user made. We don't have any control how it works, how it handles keys or mouse, or it looks like or where it's placed or its size. It's a complete black box to us.
Each time a new P3D version comes out, it invariably has some issues with the menu, most likely due to two different ways it's being made, either in Html or Scaleform and, each time something happens with it, since GSX is a very popular program that uses that menu, users come here assuming there's something wrong with GSX, or that we can do something about it. And each time I have to explain how that menu works and how, if it doesn't work, there's nothing we can do about it and, after a while, either LM comes with a fix, or somebody finds a solution, like with 5.1, when to fix crashes with the Html menu, it was suggested to revert it back to Scaleform.
With 5.2, LM reverted to Scaleform, because it was found Html was unreliable but, with 5.3 they reverted it back to Html by default but, of course, since each system is different, depending on your configuration, your hardware, your video drivers, Scaleform might work best for you.
But please, be sure if you are having crashes of freezes in the SIMCONNECT MENU ( there's no such thing as a "GSX menu", that's the Simconnect menu ), it's nothing that can possibly have anything to do with GSX and, not even a single time, in the long history of P3D updates, we ever required to do any changes to GSX to "fix" problems with the Simconnect menu. Each time issues were found, they were always fixed by Hotfixes in the sim, because that's the only place where the menu can be fixed.
However, I must say that, in other cases, I could reproduce issues with the menu. This time, it works without any issues here so, it's clearly system-dependent but, it's sure nothing caused by GSX. The only thing I see, it's a small pause from the moment I press the GSX hotkey and the menu appears. But other than that, it never crashes.
