dc10boy Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Good morning ORBX team. I have a couple of questions about the land class migration. Can someone from the team tell me what exactly was changed during the migration process? Are the changes confined to the FSX directory, or do they extend into the system registry? There are so many issues here that I fear this will not be a quick fix. My issues extend way past land class anomalies. My performance has degraded to the point that the sim is unusable. While we are waiting for a fix to be identified I need to take steps to restore some functionality to the program. If I'm able to restore back to Un migrated territory I know it will be unsupported. I'm ok with that. I was quite diligent with my backup process. I just need to know what to restore. Will a complete reinstall erase the process? Also, how will the LC migration affect LC products by other developers such as Fsgenesis or Scenery solutions? Will they be usable? Thank you Stan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Venema Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Stan, you're spending too much time on forum posts and flipping from being apologetic for your aggressive posts to once again dominating forum discussions. The unified structure only makes changes to lclookup.bgl, autogendescriptions.bgl, default.xml, Extrusions.spb, Materials.spb, RoofDescriptions.spb and specific new textures for FTX Global, openLC and our FTX regions. There are no changes to the Windows Registry. Our changes to lclookup.bgl should not affect other developers' products since we leave the default entries intact and only extend the lookup table with our custom entries. Please refrain from your continual insistence about the issues reported by a minority of customers not being fixable, it's generating unnecessary fear and doubt in people's mind and beginning to get quite annoying to the team. Try to use the common 'process of elimination' technique to isolate which non-Orbx addons are conflicting with Orbx unified. For example, disable UTX completely and do a test flight, or disable any other landclass product and do the same. If you want to do a clean re-install of the sim that's likely the best way to revert to a pre-migration state. Be sure to only install Orbx products when you first re-install, then take a system image between each new major product install after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc10boy Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 John, I'm not trying to be dominent or agressive at all.I was planning to use that process of elimination as well hunting conflicts as well. Deactivating UTX hasn't resolved the issue and I was just trying to figure out where to start in the meantime. I'm involved in a couple of FSX projects so time is a constraint. If I can get things up and running quickly I'll be back in business and ready to go when a fix is located. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 Stan - Having been through two completely failed migrations myself, I have to agree with JV...given where you are now I'd forget about trying to save the existing installation. Just bite the bullet, wipe it all clean, and start over. I've just reinstalled both FSX and P3D and have added Global as well as all the Regions and LC for both NA and EU. I loaded the new Libraries and am now using the latest FTXCentral2.1. I haven't had a chance to check everything but I can move seamlessly between Regions, I don't see any "funny-looking" textures, and there are absolutely no blurries. I think I'm finally home-free. Here's what many of us consider "the bible" on uninstalling and reinstalling FSX http://support.precisionmanuals.com/kb/a87/how-to-uninstall-and-reinstall-fsx.aspx . Follow those instructions to-the-letter and you'll be guaranteed a completely clean FSX to which you can start adding your ORBX files. And, as JV suggested, don't install anything as far as add-ons until all you ORBX products are installed and working. And then take a drive image and save it forever...... Luck........... Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dc10boy Posted June 18, 2016 Author Share Posted June 18, 2016 Hopefully it won't come to that.I'm in full troubleshooting mode right now.JV told me what was changed. I hope to restore from backup, reinstall ORBX global Un migrated,test, then update libraries and test. I hope to see where my conflicts begin. Who knows maybe it wasn't the migration, could be a library issue.Or another thought , as I wasn't expecting a big update I didn't take my usual precautions. My anti virus was still running during the process. I wonder if it blocked something necessary. The DOS window moved fast but I did see file not found several times. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Triplane Posted June 18, 2016 Share Posted June 18, 2016 That's probably more work than just doing a complete reinstall. But....I wish you luck....Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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