by Steve Waite » Sun Jan 28, 2018 1:15 pm
Guys,
This is really annoying for us Ideal Flighters, because If Joe had a genuine problem it would have been great to find out what it was, perhaps employ a work around or, as I suspect, find out the erroneous program affecting the reading of the FSX flight files and work out a procedure for it. There' may even be a way to get things reliable, for example when a flight starts we can start it paused already, unpaused, or start then pause. These three ways of starting the sim can have an impact on the way some addons work -although rare and due to poor addon design. Anyway Joe unfortunately died or got prematurely annoyed before we got far enough to help him out with that.
Since there's been very little done to that part of IF in quite a few years, there's also the possibility of something having come out in the meantime to cause problems and effect the operation of Ideal Flight - it's a long shot but anything can happen. I'll soon know about it, many thousands of IF10s and IFPros are out there now and next to no reports of problems.
Got an email last night describing IF0 as a reliable program that they "could not do without". I totally agree - I can't run the sim without IF, I probably wouldn't be flight simming without IF10 or IFPro. That's my desert island disk.
Maybe Joe died, or maybe he didn't appreciate the way problems are resolved and the way addons have to
co-exist.
Maybe he felt I could problem solve his system with next to no input from him - I don't even know what version FSX or IF he's using or what or if any addons are involved. This is especially important for IF since it's got a finger in so many pies it's going to find that problem in your system - it's not a problem in IF and that's just the way it is. Look at the number of guys use IF provided ideas and desires fro IF and along the years got exactly what they wanted.
So it's annoying to think a problem may be out there so we have to wait and see.
So guys, if you got a problem, let me know the version of IF, the version of the sim, the addons you are using, maybe something about the system, even browser choice can make a difference with security issues.
Don't give up like Joe at least.
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