If you have pink textures and missing models, this might help...

[toby23]

I installed GSX Pro into MSFS 2024 SU2 for the first time today.

After the initial install and manual update to v3.6.0, I started the sim and ran GSX for the first time and the sim 'froze' while loading into the flight from the world map.
I had to 'right click and exit' the Couatl64_boot.exe utility in the task bar, exit the flight and was then able to load my flight normally.

I restarted the sim a second time and was able to load the flight without disabling the Couatl64_boot.exe utility.
After loading in to the flight and starting up the aircraft and turning the aircraft beacon on to activate GSX, I saw the missing 'pink' textures and missing vehicles.
Not a great first impression for a new customer.

I followed the steps below to 'persuade' GSX to update ALL of it's files and now GSX is working fine and looks amazing in MSFS 2024.

Q. If anyone knows how to disable the GSX Menu pop-up windows while the automated systems run, I would be grateful for your help.

HOW I GOT GSX TO WORK

1. Initial installation of GSX with Universal Installer
2. Update GSX to v.3.6.0 with Universal Installer
3. Test Sim: See missing 'pink textures' and missing vehicles, close Sim.
4. Run FSDT Live Update from desktop shortcut.
5. D/L and Run FSDT Addon Manager Offline Installer
6. Run Live Update again (this time it found missing files and downloaded a lot of other files, see image below)
7. Run Live Update again (this time it only downloaded the standard files mentioned here)

IMPORTANT NOTE: The Airport Services and Jetways sceneries ZIP files are supposed to be always downloaded, this is normal. Those kind of files are thousands of very small files that compress very well, so we found it was faster to always redownload them as single ZIP files, then check thousands of individual files if they are in need of an update.

8. The Universal Installer shows '2020 Steam' as my selected version, which is a bug. I didn't select this version initially and manually selected '2024 MS Store' again.
9. Sim works ok now and all models and textures load as expected.

Hopefully this will help someone struggling with the missing textures and models.

Screenshots for reference - Excuse the large images, there is no auto-resize on this forum I believe.

1. After Initial installation of GSX with Universal Installer


2. Missing 'pink' textures and missing vehicles


3. While running FSDT Live Update for the first time


4. While running FSDT Live Update for the second time


5. While running FSDT Live Update for a third time


6. Running Universal Installer after the updates


7. This is how it should look!


8. This is how it should look!

[capitano]

Many thanks mate that worked for me finally

[virtuali]

The way cloudflare works, is that is an "on demand" refresh, which means, when we update files and send a list of outdated files to cloudflare, they won't immediately start a replication of all new files on all their 270+ local nodes at the same time.

Instead, it's done on demand: when an user ask for a file that has been updated, and he's the first one in his area (his local node) to do that, cloudflare will actually download the file from our server directly and THEN other users (or you, trying another time) will download it from the local node.

That's why if you try several times, you'll see newer files being downloaded: cloudflare was still completing the replication of your node, which will complete only after all of them have been requested by the installer and updated on your node.

That's why using a VPN would help: it would connect you to a node that has been completely updated, so everything will work normally at the first try.