resolved Object flow/scenery display issues??

[wbellis]

So, probably against a sense of better judgment, I went ahead and installed the latest iteration: P3Dv5.2. Ended up doing a complete removal (since the “update” routine failed miserably) and completely fresh and clean reinstall as per LM’s P3D uninstall/reinstall instructions. Once done, I began reinstalling my multitude of Orbx products (all LC areas, global, vector, buildings enhancement, all region areas, all three True Earth Great Britain, TE Washington and Netherlands, plus many, many cities and cityscapes).

 

No other third party sceneries are added at this point. Thus far I have all the LC, Vector, Global, and regions reinstalled along with TE Great Britain South, and several cities (Tapini, Broome, AYPY, Emo Mission, EGLC, 2WA1, Sequim Valley, Jefferson Cty, and Sekiu, KTEX, S45). What I am finding is pretty disturbing.

 

To start with, none of the Washington state sceneries are displaying as they should: no grasses, no animated animals, no animated people at Sequim Valley, no buildings or animated people/animals at Sekiu nor buildings either. Jefferson County has buildings but nothing else. 2WA1 has people, sounds and buildings, but no grasses or animated birds. KTEX is terrible, elevations are all over the place with objects floating in mid-air, terrain around the airport is skewed and/or out of sync with surrounding terrain. Meanwhile, AYPY, Broome, EGLC, Tapini seem to be okay.

 

As noted in a previous posting, I have an i9 processor running at 3.6ghz, 32 gb of ram, a GEforc e GTX1080ti with 11 gb of ram.

I know in the past in this forum that such problems as those encountered here were chalked up to Object Flow in some manner and I have reviewed the threads relating to this. I have checked and there is only one instance of it and it is located in users\c773te\Orbx Library\p3dv5 and is shown in the add-ons.cfg with that path. Furthermore, I have uninstalled and reinstalled the problem sceneries and Object Flow repeatedly along with running Sync Simulator each time. So far, to no avail. I should also note that I run "verify files" after each product has been installed.

 

Any help or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Or if I missed something in the Forum threads please feel free to enlighten me.

Thanks in advance.

 

Sincerely,

Bruce Ellis

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

please create a new folder at C:\Orbx Central Library.

Go to the Libraries page of Orbx Central and add a library at C:\Orbx Central Library.

Uninstall Objectflow from the library in the Users folder and install it into

C:\Orbx Central Library instead.

[wbellis]

Well, I gave that a try Nick and there was no change. In fact, KTEX is even worse in appearance now. So I am back to scratching my head.

 

When I started reinstalling products I began with Global, then Vector, then the LC areas, but I wouldn't think sequence would matter?

[Nick Cooper]

Hello,

it does not.

Is the Insertion Point in the correct place?

[wbellis]

So I was mistaken, there are actually three small third party sceneries that I'd forgotten I had in. None was a problem in the previous installation of the sim and Orbx products. I have the insertion point below these three and above the basic sim files. The Global openLC is below airports and regions.

 

This actually is starting to become quite fascinating. In between or messages I have been experimenting with other areas and have been getting some very strange responses. For example, I will change to a new airport, Hobby field in Oregon in this case. I go to the airport and it will briefly show correctly, then change to black with some elements disappearing or manifesting themselves with bizarre blue and pink halos. Very odd

[wbellis]

The more I dug into this the more it seemed a much broader problem rather than the Orbx products I have: no boat/ship wakes and other effects, etc doing strange things.  After resigning myself to starting over once again, I decided to try uninstalling and reinstalling just the P3Dv5.2 client and voila! That particular problem(s) is resolved and it had nothing to do with the Orbx products. Apparently the client part of the initial reinstall was corrupted.