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Leichim

Leichim

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Hi all, been a while.
Ankor's shaders got me back in the cockpit.
and into trouble.. ofcourse.

Got me a pristine cfs3 stock. Installed Ankors part 1 through 5 following nistruction to the letter. No problems.
Boots up just fine. Added some AC. Worked just fine.
Decided to hook up the joystick and do some real flying. Poof. Start cfs3.exe, see the splash screen. see the windows desktop.
ran cfs3config again. did some editing as per instructed. No way.

I know this is a simple thing, but I can't figure out what. Anyone?
 
That usually happens to me after using new aircraft. They seemingly work the first time, but then just crash to desktop after the first game restart. Usually related to sound file or weapons references that are missing.

Set ShowUIWorld="false" in the game.xml, and see if it starts again.
 
MajorMagee said:
That usually happens to me after using new aircraft. They seemingly work the first time, but then just crash to desktop after the first game restart. Usually related to sound file or weapons references that are missing.

Set ShowUIWorld="false" in the game.xml, and see if it starts again.
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When I edit that, it start's up with the splash screen still showing beneath the menu items. (where normally would see you selected plane and pilot in front of a hangar or somethin) When I click Fly! it again crashes to desktop.
 
mongoose said:
So did you try again after uninstalling the stick? What stick? More details always help.
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Stick was already installed, it just wasn't plugged in. Unplugging it, did not resolve the matter.
The stick is a Saitek x45. Used for years and in other CFS3 installs it works normally.
 
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If it loaded with the "ShowUIWorld" set to false 99% of the time its going to be a problem with your aircraft, you are loading in with.

If you go to your app folder (your drive letter:\Users\your user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\your games app folder) for the install (not the game folder) locate the uisel file and open it in notepad, that file will list the last aircraft used in both "Quick Combat" and the last aircraft used in "Missions", one of those 2 aircraft will be either missing
the sound folder itself
or
the sound cfg file in the sound folder is pointing to a missing sound source
or
missing a gun or weapon loadout as specified in the aircraft xpd file.

You can delete the uisel.xml file (in your app folder, not your game folder) and the game will regenerate a new one with the default aircraft however you need to fix the problem aircraft as it will always come back to bite you at some point through a game spawn during a mission or you choosing it again.
 
Leichim said:
Stick was already installed, it just wasn't plugged in. Unplugging it, did not resolve the matter.
The stick is a Saitek x45. Used for years and in other CFS3 installs it works normally.
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I have a Saitek so as you said, no issue. Delete all new ac that you added, and the uisel. Load 1 new ac at a tine til you find the problem one, and then check the xdp file and that you have the necessary weapon(s) installed,
 
65olschool said:
If it loaded with the "ShowUIWorld" set to false 99% of the time its going to be a problem with your aircraft, you are loading in with.

If you go to your app folder (your drive letter:\Users\your user\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\your games app folder) for the install (not the game folder) locate the uisel file and open it in notepad, that file will list the last aircraft used in both "Quick Combat" and the last aircraft used in "Missions", one of those 2 aircraft will be either missing
the sound folder itself
or
the sound cfg file in the sound folder is pointing to a missing sound source
or
missing a gun or weapon loadout as specified in the aircraft xpd file.

You can delete the uisel.xml file (in your app folder, not your game folder) and the game will regenerate a new one with the default aircraft however you need to fix the problem aircraft as it will always come back to bite you at some point through a game spawn during a mission or you choosing it again.
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And that’s where I think things went south. I started out with a stock cfs3. Somehow the appdata folder didn’t appear by itself.
So I kinda copy/pasted that too. Changed the name to match the program folder.
It surprised me that it the sim started up, but what the h*ll right?

I think I’m gonna start all over.
What is the best-prachtige way to get a vanille/stock cfs3 install?
Apart from actually using the cd (which I have)
 
Do you only have 1 install of CFS3?

If you do only have one install then did you run cfs3config.exe after installation before loading the game?
If you used the stock installation path then it should have created an app folder at C:\Users\your user name\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Combat Flight Simulator 3.0Combat Flight Simulator 3.0

If you have multiple installs of CFS3 then did you use the MultiCFS3.exe to set up a different app folder path?
This needs to be done before running cfs3config.exe and the game executable the first time.

Im still using an old Win 8 machine for CFS3 so its a pretty straight forward install process, see the stickies for information on how to install to later versions of Windows
 
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