Lately, within the last month, the ships have stopped moving and do not have a wake. I think this might have been as a result of the last update 11. After either SU 9 or 10 the ships were moving and did have wakes. Now they don’t. Has anyone else noticed this?
Is this with the default ships or GAIST etc?
Hi, I tried several times to find moving boats in msfs since the start of AAU1 beta, but never saw one. I don’t have any boat mod installed, and my traffic setting for boats is over 50. Boats are displayed, none of them is moving.
I have the default ships as well as GAIST and some others. None of them are moving and none show a wake. Although they did before the last update.
Thats odd, all of mine are moving complete with wakes and smoke. Have you any other traffic files loaded, even if they are for aircraft? (other than the default)
I have AI Aircraft at 50%, Airport Vehicles at 50%, Ground Aircraft at 50%, Workers at 50% Leisure Boats at 90%, Road Vehicles at 90%, Ships and Ferries at 100%, Fauna at 100%. I also have some aircraft carriers. Nothing of this has changed lately. The non moving wakeless boats just started a few weeks ago. It was all good before that. One other guy on this topic said his boats weren’t moving either.
So the way the BGL system works with the ships, the problem might be that you have the ships and ferries set too high. Try 10%
Tonight I was practicing landing on the USS Enterprize with the Milviz Corsair. The carrier was moving and did have a strong wake. Later I flew around just looking for boats. I found 3 that had wakes and two had smoke and I could see that they were moving. But the wakes were very weak, I could barely see them. I found 4 others that I could see that they were moving but did not have wakes. One of those had smoke. I’ll try reducing the % tomorrow night and see what happens.
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Here is an update. I have determined that the boats are moving but very few have wakes and/or smoke. I do usually find at least one boat with a wake. Do the Gaist boats display wakes? All of the aircraft carriers I have found that are not stationary have wakes. Also all their support ships. How about the Seafront Sight Seeing Vessrls, do they show wakes. Some posts above have said that all of their boats have wakes and smoke. Only a few of mine do.
I have Seafront Simulations’ Core Library and Global Shipping add-ons.
I still see a few ships every now and then, but prior to AAU1 and Core Library’s update this past week, the coast opposite KLAX, for example, was brimming with ships.
Now, ships are so infrequent, I thought I accidentally deleted the add-ons. Nope, I still have them, they just broke apparently.
All of the GAIST ones I’ve seen today have wakes and smoke. I dont have any other shipping add-ons. I know GAIST works fully at 10% Ships and ferries traffic. There was some discussion last year that they (Asobo) may do something as bgl based traffic files (the sort used by shipping and non live aircraft) were speculated to be causing some problems, but I’ve had no issues with the 10%, (but very much looking forward to the live shipping coming soon from GAIST)
I have the in sim live aircraft traffic switched off as i use FSLTL for FlightRadar24 based live traffic.
I discovered the problem I was having with the ships with no wakes. Originally I had the Beta version 2 of the GAIST boats and ships. This was when I was seeing wakes with the ships. I was also having problems with CTDs. I was thinking maybe the beta version was contributing to the CTDs so I took that out of my community folder. Later when I went to restore the GAIST ships I put the Version 1 in my community folder. Aparently that version did not have wakes. So I went looking and found that there was a version 3 which I installed and now everything seems to be OK. So far all the boats I have seen were pleasure and fishing boats and they all had wakes. I should have known it would be something simple.
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