Nick Cooper

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Hello Don, they are all "Northern Sky" airport products. It's just a naming convention, just like orbx-, or auscene-

Hello, an adblocker will dispose of the advertisements. Regrettably, there is not yet an argument blocker.

Hello, as far as I am aware, there isn't a timeline. I would imagine that the first step would be the release of the finished version of X Plane 12.

Hello, some time ago, Orbx made the decision to remove product support from the forums. 1. writing as someone who spends a great deal of time responding to support tickets, investigating customers' problems, communicating with developers and in most cases, providing the customers with a timely solution to their problems, I wonder at your remark. As well as in England, we also have customer support staff in Canada, the USA and Australia. Between us we provide virtually 24 hour and 365 day cover. Looking at the system this morning, there is but one unassigned ticket. This is where the new "radio" is and if you have a question ask it here. Submit a request – Orbx Simulation Systems (orbxdirect.com) 2. Product updates are provided in a timely manner by opening Orbx Central and seeing the update notifications at the top before installing them. Development updates are supplied in these forums. Usually, they are supplied once and then they are there for any enquiring customers to find. 3. Complaints are received and dealt with using the support system as well. I can tell you that there are relatively few "complaints" versus requests for features and requests for help.

Hello, that aerodrome is by "Burning Blue Design" and I would guess that they will have told both Orbx and Microsoft how much to charge for it. It appears to be a different price again at their own site. You would need to ask them what their pricing policy is.

Hello, are you sure that you are comparing like with like? There is a difference between product prices for different simulators.

Hello, Indeed there is a fault, which I have reported. In the meantime, there is always the recommended method of posting screenshots: Upload it to a screenshot hosting site, which the Orbx forums are not and post the direct link to the image, also known as its url:

and this: bandicam 2022-11-18 10-03-36-394.mp4 Stunning.

Hello, here you are, with thanks to @Smudger

Hello, I have a friend who has it installed on two PCs with only one purchase. The only proviso, I gather, is that you cannot run both at the same time. I would imagine that he has both Pcs registered here: Microsoft account | Home

Hello, YMML is a product that is now six years old and clearly the developers did not use SODE for the jetways. It is rather late in the day to be posting such disparaging messages for its developers.

If it wasn't so far away, I would go round to Don's house and try to sort it out.

Hello John, not really wishing to start an argument here but I am also a logical person and my version of logic tells me that there are (tens of) thousands of Windows 11 users, just like me, who do not have the problems that Don is having. There are also (tens of) thousands of users of the Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft Store version, like me, who do not have those problems either. In the light of that, the logical solution does not rest in replacing either Windows 11, which in my experience is the most stable Windows version yet, or Microsoft Flight Simulator, Microsoft Store version with the Steam version. If you are prepared to accept that then the problem must be local to Don's PC. Whether that be software or hardware related, or both, remains to be seen. I do agree that going to, or getting in an adviser, to look at the troublesome installation is most likely a good idea.

Hello John, I don't think it can be relevant here, it supposedly only affects "some games" and even then only their performance. Don has a problem that for him, the "game" does not work at all. I have the aforementioned update and MSFS might be a little more jerky but if it is, it's very little.

That's my understanding as well, but I don't have it, so I can't give a definitive answer. I have read, I think, that what is bought from Steam is the "game", that is the first part that downloads, around one and a bit GB. Then, once that is installed and running, the "game" downloads all of the content, from Microsoft, just like it does when you buy it from the Microsoft Store. Perhaps John can put us right on this, as a Steam user.

Although it is a bit drastic, this webpage tells you how you can "Refresh" MSFS with a few mouse clicks. Microsoft Store version - How to Repair or Uninstall Microsoft Flight Simulator – Microsoft Flight Simulator Support (zendesk.com) That might well be worth a try. Once you have set it off, you could go away and do something else while it sorts itself out.

Hello Don, I have merged your two topics so that advice does not get lost.

Hello, you can do all of those things with the Microsoft Store version as well. All of mine is also installed on the G drive and there is only 2.36 MB on the C drive. I am not sure that the Steam version will solve these problems. Don't forget that thousands of MSFS users have managed to update without these problems and if they are all local, buying and installing a second version of MSFS may well not put things right.

Hello Don, if MSFS has created a new and empty Community folder in the same place as your renamed CommunityX, then that is the only one that it can see. If, with an empty Community folder, MSFS now works, then you will need to find out which of the addons in your Communty folder was causing the problem. Trial and error is the only way though.

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Hello Don, another thing that you can try is to open the Options\General screen from the Welcome screen and set them all to the lowest possible setting and see if your flight will then load.

Hello Don, all "Community" addons are placed in the Community folder. The definition of a Community addon is that it was not bought from the in-game Marketplace. All "Official" addons are placed in the Official folder. The definition of an Official addon is that it was bought from the in-game Marketplace. Under no circumstances must a Community addon be placed inside the Official folder and under no circumstances must the user manually change anything inside the Official folder. Microsoft Flight Simulator can only see a folder named "Community", so in order to hide all of your Community addons from it, you only need to change the name of the folder. Altering or adding one character is enough. The most intuitive way, involving the smallest chance of a mistake, is to just add an X to the name, thus renaming it to "CommunityX". The next time that you start Microsoft Flight Simulator, it will see that there is no Community folder and create a new and empty one. As that point, you have excluded all of your Comminity addons and you are left with just the default simulator and any "Official" addons that you may have added. Most users find that at this point, the simulator will once again start and run. If yours does not, then please come back to this topic for some more advice.

Hello, the updates are mandatory. Every time that MSFS is started, it checks its own integrity on the computer against what should be there. You can't choose not to update, the simulator will not start until it is up to date. I can see that this is a very good idea, all kinds of additional problems in detecting and rectifying problems would be created if each customer was allowed to choose their simulator version.

Hello, if you click on uninstall, Orbx Central removes all traces of the product from the computer. If you had, for example, uninstalled True Earth Florida HD, which you can do with one click, you would need a 43 GB download to reinstall it. Using XOrganiser, which I note is not freeware, or even manually moving the link to an Orbx Scenery Library out of the Custom Scenery folder, the same product can be disabled with one move and re-enabled with another.