FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby TheFilipinoFGPilot » Fri Sep 30, 2016 5:24 am

Where can I find that pid file? I am having same problems too, FG crashes at startup after loading the sceneries, without crash report or the console, I don't know WTF happened

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby KL-666 » Fri Sep 30, 2016 9:25 am

Flightgear creates a personal settings directory "flightgear.org" somewhere in your home directory. In windows that is in:

/users/<username>/appdata/roaming/flightgear.org

The "appdata" directory is hidden, so to see it you must turn "show hidden files" on.

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby TheFilipinoFGPilot » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:29 am

what is the name of the pid file, I don't see any with ending in a .pid
gonna upload the screenie later tonight

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby KL-666 » Fri Sep 30, 2016 10:32 am

I forgot the name, but it does not matter, it is just the file with extension pid. (If you have "show extensions" on in windows). If it really is not there, then this is not the problem you have.

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby TheFilipinoFGPilot » Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:06 pm

I guess I gotta DL 2016.2.1 tomorrow

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby KL-666 » Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:18 pm

If you do that, you need to fix the url of the metar in the fgfs executable, or if on windows, replace fgfs.exe with the one mentioned here:

http://www.thejabberwocky.net/viewtopic.php?f=16&t=672#p11996

Else you will not have live weather.

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby Catalanoic » Fri Sep 30, 2016 1:25 pm

I haven't tested 2016.3.1 yet but i contributed doing some scenery work near Santos-Dumont airport, 40 objects aprox, mostly high-rise buildings, and placed a lot of shared objs. in the near smaller aerodromes. You can see now a beautiful downtown skyline from the runway. Maybe i'll test the new version this weekend.

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Re: FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

Postby KL-666 » Sat Oct 01, 2016 1:58 pm

I just found out about a cute new functionality of the pid file. If it does not crash you anymore, it at least helps you to prevent terrasync to work.

So if you have any problem, first of all look for the pid file when flightgear is *not* running. If it exists in that case, then remove it.

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