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    It could start a whole new trend .... ahem

    in Community Screenshots

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    19 hours ago, Sniper31 said:

    Nice shots of the hotdog plane Pete. Nice to see you around again too :) 

     

    Landon

    Thanks Landon

    and thanks for the kind words! Much appreciated:)

    Cheers!

    Pete

     

    14 hours ago, Cygnific said:

    Colourful shots, I even get a bit of a happy feeling coming up. :o

    Thank you.  That made my day sir:)

    I'm really pleased to hear you enjoyed it

    All the best

    Pete

     

    13 hours ago, flyingleaf said:

    Great shots Pete. But I didn't see the lady in red:o:unsure:.:)

    Thanks !

     

    If you look closely at the last screenshot you will see her niece :)

     

    The "Lady in Red" unfortunately because of Covid got stuck in Bromme

    But she is still around, and on duty to welcome all who journey to that wonderful spot in Oz

    Cheers

    Pete

     

    XPlane 11.5

    10-2-X-Plane-2021-10-12-11-11-07-2021-09

     

     

    9 hours ago, Stillwater said:

    An interesting trend this would be.

    Nice planes on the ground.

     

    It could be the start of something big , or maybe not :)

    Cheers I thanks Gerold:)

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    It could start a whole new trend .... ahem

    in Community Screenshots

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    Adam @adambar  maybe it has possibilities   !!!

    You're inspirational :D

     

    Cheers

    R

     

    What can I say , aside from it was a default choice of all things :rolleyes:

     

    1-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-09-24.j

     

     

    But even through the bushes I'm, not sure 
    2-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-08-35.j

     

    But lets see if the "locals" are impressed ....

    Don't seem to be ....

    7-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-07-55.p

     

    Ditto ...
    4-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-07-26.j

     

     

    Little does he know what lurks on the other side of the wall B)
    5-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-11-06.j

     

    Busy with other things I guess
    6-Flight-Simulator-2022-05-03-10-06-10.j

     

    My conclusion ... 
    Nope ... locals couldn't care less :lol::lol:

     

     

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    Ahem

    in Community Screenshots

    Posted

    Nice shots Adam :):), but the paint job ..... Not a fan!

    But I will give you what Landon has said @Sniper31 .

    It does have a certain "spunky cache" to it :lol::lol:

     

    I have seen Lambo's with the same color and for me it's just hideous to ruin such a fine piece of precision engineering that way.

     

    But this is what makes the world such a wonderful place.

     

    As my wife says " if the world ran the way you want it too, no one would want to live in it with you dear! "

    I'm never sure exactly what she means :rolleyes:

     

    Cheers

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    A useful study of hardware requirements for MS2020

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

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    Hi

    I hope that other members might find this video useful

     

    I especially like that the author actually tested and reports results for a wide range of hardware options using a 

    reasonable testing methodology. It's not perfect of course, but all I can say is that his results pretty much mirror my own

    experiences. Of course individual mileages will vary, but I feel it is one of the better guides I have recently seen

     

    It was released April 7, 2022 so it is current with SU7-SU8.

     

    Cheers

    Pete

     

     

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    SAM, confused

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by renault

    Hi Wayne

    The nomenclature stands for Scenery Animation Manager. 

     

    It is a plug in that includes various animation features used by scenery developers in XPlane

    For example, it allows things like Jetways to be animated, hanger doors to open, etc. 

     

    It comes with pre animated objects that a scenery designer can include with their scenery package

    or  if they wish they can completely customize their package objects with SAM.

     

     It allows Orbx designers to use the package to make their sceneries come alive for us and be animated.

    By including it with Orbx , all the scenery designer needs to do is to refer to one of the library files in the package

    to create their magic for us.

     

    As far as I know, what is included  in the SAM Orbx version only works with Orbx products. As you mentioned there are other packages in the market

    that also use SAM , but I believe that they would require the more general  and complete SAM package. 

     

    In other words , what is included by Orbx is customized for their products.

     

    And that's the extent of what I know about it.:)

    Cheers

    Pete

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    Anyone know how to keep Central from randomly logging out all the time?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by renault

    3 hours ago, Sniper31 said:

    Well Pete, this may not have helped Ron, but it sure helped me...with a different issue..lol. Allow me to explain...I recently upgraded my motherboard and cpu, and the day after I was done upgrading, I would turn off my PC and then, within about 10 minutes, it would start back up all on it's own. I have never had this happen before, but, I have some PC knowledge, so I began to check Windows Power Management settings, BIOS settings, anything I could think of. I have never had my PC setup to turn on by itself before, and I did not reinstall Windows when I did the motherboard upgrade, so none of my Windows settings have changed (to my knowledge). I then scrubbed the Internet looking for answers, and tried lots of suggestions that I found. Nothing worked. What DID work was what YOU posted for Ron to try. The network adapter in my new motherboard was set to automatically turn on my PC.

     

    Thanks Pete!

    Landon

    Hi Landon

    That is great:).  As I mentioned, it was a bit of a long shot for the original member , but I'm really pleased that it was useful and helped

    with your issue.  It definitely is an odd one :rolleyes:

     

    It's easy to question why all these settings for power management are set the way they are, but from what I was able to find

    they are all designed to maximize  laptop battery life.  It would be nice if there was a setting to tell windows update that this is not 

    a laptop, so don't mess with my settings, but sadly that seems to be missing :)

    Cheers

    Pete

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    Anyone know how to keep Central from randomly logging out all the time?

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by renault

    22 hours ago, flyinion said:

    Anyone know how to keep Orbx Central from randomly deciding to log out all the time?  It's super annoying.  I open it once a week or so to check for updates and it gets annoying having to keep jumping over to LastPass to grab my password.  I had posted something in the old Central support forum almost 3 months ago trying to see if it was a problem on my end and it was ignored completely so I take that as a "it's functioning correctly" and I'm not going to bother with a support ticket again.  This is a very annoying UI design issue for sure though.

     

    This is a "long shot", but I have seen this type of issue from time to time.   It seems that win10 has a little random habit of resetting power management

    for various devices  when it updates.

     

    To check:

    1) Right click on the start icon and open Device Manager

    2) Go to Network Adapters and expand it

    3) Depending on whether you use a direct connection to your router or wifi, right click

    on the appropriate adapter and select Properties

    4) Check  that "Allow the computer to turn off this device to save power is NOT checked" 

     

    Win10 updates (at least for me) seems to enjoy resetting these options from time to time

     

    BTW this also happens for USB ports.  Although there is a setting in Power Management to control this, I've found that the

    settings in Device manager tend to take priority . This is often the cause for various USB devices suddenly disconnecting from MS2020 

    i.e. if this setting is on for the XBox controller and you haven't used it for a while during your flight, you might find it doesn't work .

     

    As I mentioned at the beginning it is a bit of a stab in the dark, but since i have had it happen to me, I thought I would mention it.

    If your wifi adapter or ethernet adapter does shut down, the server side will automatically assume you have left i.e. you are logged off.

     

    Hope this may be of some help

    Cheers

    Pete

    Reducing MS2020 loading times .....

    in Hardware and Tech Talk

    Posted


    I hope the following little tip will be of interest to my fellow forum members.
    Please note , that this is not a hack, but was  mentioned by the Microsoft Zen Desk about a year ago as a method to 
    reduce the MS2020 loading time.

     

    I have the Steam version of MS2020 and I find that this reduces the loading time by a bit over a minute, which is significant.

     

    Cheers

    Pete

     

    For those of you  who like watching videos, this is a good reference.

     

     

     

    As I no longer use the MS2020 store version, I did a little bit of research for the instructions for using this tip
    with the store version.  As a result , my instructions differ slightly from those in the video. 

     

    I have an added line, ( @echo off) which simply blanks out the second line of text from appearing
    on screen when you launch MS2020

     

    For the windows Store version

     

    Open notepad and add the following lines:

     

    @echo off
    start “” C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App “-FastLaunch”

     

    Now save the file as a .bat file following the screenshot as shown below. Use Save as type: All Files (*.*)
    Don't save this as a .txt file as it will not work

     

    Give it any name you wish such as Launch MS2020.bat

     

    Please note there have been some comments on various forums that sometimes this approach doesn't work for the store version. 

    I suspect that the primary reason, why some have difficulty is that they save the file as a .txt file not as a All Files (*.*).

     

    Therefore, before I would do the following modification to the instructions I would double check
    that the file has been saved correctly.

     

    If it has been and still doesn't work then try removing the quotation marks from the "-FastLaunch" text at the end.

    i.e. it will look like the following, which you would paste into the .bat file

     

    @echo off
    start “” C:\Windows\System32\cmd.exe /C start shell:AppsFolder\Microsoft.FlightSimulator_8wekyb3d8bbwe!App -FastLaunch

     

    Now after you have saved the file simply double click it to run MS2020 in quick launch mode. 
    MS2020 will start at the checking for updates screen, having bypassed a significant part of the startup graphics,
    which are informational/advertisement only.

     

    5-For-the-Store-Version.png

     

    Steam Version


    For those who have the steam version, this is easier to do and can be done within the steam application
    A pictorial guide follows :

     

    1-Go-to-Library-and-find-MS2020.png

     

    2-Select-Properties-Screenshot-918.png

     

    3-Add-Fast-Launch.png

     

    What you will want to add in LAUNCH OPTIONS is  -FastLaunch 

     

    Exit from the steam application and start MS2020 in the normal way.

     

    In my case, I have a desktop icon which starts the steam version.  As soon as MS2020 starts it will go to the checking for updates screen, having bypassed 
    the initial startup graphics.

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    New support Forum

    in General Discussion

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    Hi John

     

    I agree with you that this is a great idea.

     

    I would only like to add a comment, or more like a plea to my fellow members.

     

    It is "Please try to keep your comments focused to the actual topic "

     

    On so many other forums I other read comments of the like "Well I don't have that problem on my machine", or the standard, almost

    classic, " If it ain't broke , don't try to fix it " .  Perhaps worse yet is someone who "derails" the topic to force a discussion to their particular agenda.   

     

    The person who posted the original question asking for assistance is not helped by comments like these.  They took the time and trouble to ask for help.

    and at the very least I feel they deserve advice from fellow members on thoughts , suggestions that are focused on actually addressing their problem.

     

    My worry is that this idea, as great as it is, could quickly go down the "rabbit hole" that plague so many other forums who try to do this.

     

    Fellow members, the choice is ours as to which we wish to be ....

     

    Pete

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    What to do next??

    in General Discussion

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    Hi Don

     

    It looks like you may have had some "corruption" , so having repaired those files,  MS2020 is also

    requesting Content manager updates for those files as well as the SU8 bug fix.

     

    Before you press "fly" if you  click on your "aviator" symbol in the top right hand corner, you will then see the actual version of your current MS2020 listed.

     

    It should be the SU8 bug fix, version 1.23.12.0 .

     

    From what I remember the SU8 bug fix had two updates which were about 1.5 GB in size (I have the  version with the extras rather than the base one) and

    a few others which were very  minor and appeared to be related to specific areas (i.e . UK, Germany etc.)

     

    If your version checks then your base system is now correct. I would update the 1.5 GB ones if you have them. Again just checking from memory, they 

    seemed to be related to the base aircraft that now have the new propeller modeling effects etc

     

    All the other files seemed to  related basically to scenery fixes etc.  So if you have the base version updated and correct, you could just continue to update them

    over  the next couple of times you have MS2020 up and running and you are using it. Or you could just click update all, and have a cup of coffee or tea

    while it completes everything.

     

    Hopefully this could be easier for you under the current circumstances.

     

    Cheers

    Pete

    A new way to flight sim ??

    in Microsoft Flight Simulator on XBox

    Posted

    I sometimes wonder with all these new applications,  and for the record I think that this one is almighty cool!!! ,

    if we can ever get back to the following.

     

    Just sit quietly from time to time and marvel at the world and nature around you and your place in it , all the while just enjoying the fact

    that sometimes it is a good thing to remember who you are and where you came from.

     

    Cheers

    Pete

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    What to do next??

    in General Discussion

    Posted · Edited by renault

    1 hour ago, Aussieflyer38 said:

    Hi Guys,

     

    Yesterday, logging on, found MSFS update VIII ready to go, so I got it  happening. It was going fine until part way through we got a storm and the internet crashed. Got a message to reconnect and restart, which I had to put on hold until the storm cleared. Later I tried again but MSFS just started up as normal, but not the update and no catalogue. Checked the "Zendesk", topics but couldn't find anything relating to my problem. My question is, do I have to uninstall MSFS and reinstall, or does MS have a "repair" program to run that restores things to how they should be, and yes I'm looking for an easy way out, ;)   I haven't encountered this sort of problem before, so I'm a bit lost and not sure as how to proceed, as I couldn't find anything related in the MSFS forum notes.  On screen it says I have ver 1.23.12.0 which I thought was  update VIII and if that's the case, then I have a bit of both.

    Any help appreciated.

     

    regards

    Don 

    Hi Don

    Literally as I was typing my response and hit submit , Landon @Sniper31 just posted his.

    I was going to pass on the same link that he provided in it, so I have edited my

    original post.

     

    Fingers crossed for you mate:)

    Cheers

    Pete

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