I encountered a new problem last night. I was trying to load up the ATR 42 at EGNX (East Midlands UK) but the aircraft would not load. Initially I thought that it was the aircraft itself that was the problem however having tried other airports it loads up.
To try and diagnose the issue I tried loading the ATR up at other airports and it loads ok, I also tried different stands with the same outcome, lastly I tried loading another aircraft at EGNX with the same result; the loading screen just gets to the end of the bar (taking ages) but it never loads (I left it over an hour last night).
I do not have any modifications for the airport and although I normally have other things talking to the sim, when I tried this morning the sim was the only thing running.
Any ideas would be appreciated.
PS I should add that I have loaded the ATR at this airport previously with no issues so this is clearly a new issue.
Hmm yes TBH I didn’t think that it would be a global issue, still it would nice to get some idea why I am having a problem with it given no mods applied to it (including replacement maps from another well known company!)
Just tested EGNX myself, and it loads up okay for me. Could you try it without any Community addons at all? Even if you know they aren’t EGNX related, there is no harm in trying.
Rename the folder to “Community1”. When you re-launch the sim it will create a new empty folder, which you can delete when you are done testing, then rename the original back.
So I just tried renaming the community folder as suggested and mistakenly loaded up a non default livery… needless to say it didn’t work. Tried again with a default livery on the Bonanza as well as the Pitts Special (after deleting the new community folder) and same result, never ending loading screen.
Also tried loading from safe mode (before following the above advice) and that didn’t work either.
Are you using rolling cache? If so you can try either clearing this down, or deleting it entirely. It should be under Options/General/Data if memory serves.
I turned that off nearly two years ago. I think it has been proven, certainly in your case, to be a source of CTD’s. I think it’s where the cached terrain you have is somehow different from what is being streamed from Azure. The online data should overwrite whatever is local, something goes wrong, and the sim panics, which highlights two issues, at least:
For some reason the local data can’t be overridden
There should be better error checking to stop the sim from falling over completely. Like just display whatever is in the local cache if its sensible OR the streamed data. Anything but crash!
It probably happens after a sim update most often, I expect.
Glad that’s working for you. I would consider leaving it turned off going forward. Unless you spend a lot of time flying in the same place over, and over I think its next to pointless.
Thank you, I tend to roam so as you say, would probably be worth turning it off. I assume this means that the sim will download the data for wherever it is rather than relying on pre-downloaded data?
If that is the case, since I am fortunate in having quite a fast broadband connection, hopefully it will prevent further issues like this
Likewise, I used to consider rolling cache a waste of effort. However, think of all the write cycles on an expensive M.2 drive when streaming new Bing map data.
