fltsimguy

Saw my email offer for an upgrade for the MU-2 v2. Today went to the offer, $20 bucks off $55, so $35 US X 1.35 exchange $47. I will just say that I was a tad disappointed at this price point. I read its "all new". And I know a lot of work goes into making a first class plane. When I first saw the email as I skimmed through the 100s I had to catch up, I thought it was $20 total for those already purchased this plane, which I would have made the leap. My loss, as I just can't keep up with updates that cost this much. I hope that things go well for the developer. Bryan

Perhaps a bit off topic but a great Segway to this.... While true that some of us have "ancient" OS's. Remember Cameron, there may be, might be, could be, perhaps other reasons that "some of us" are still running Win7....remember in life, never assume anything. That sometimes things are not what they seem. You know the old saying, when one assumes something, it makes an ASS out of U and ME. Just to add to this discussion. Never assume for instance that I for one haven't tried to update to Win10. Which I did try twice!. On my system if failed, miserably. I could not get a successful install due to a wide variety of errors such as greyed out menu's, boot to black screen and others. I spend several days, for hours working though the supposed solutions. I used my Win10 laptop to do the solution searches and access my email and other necessary connections. I used a local computer expert friend for advice and finally I used a local computer shop specialist. All were unsuccessful; nobody could find a solution to a successful Win10 install. So it wasn't from a lack of trying. It is believed that I have so much software installed for my purposes that there are conflicts with windows OS. When I say, so much, I mean, three flight sims as well, 10 to 15 photo manipulation programs (I do photo restoration and enhancements for hobby money), I have half a dozen video making software packages (I make movie videos, I capture and convert old 8mm and super 8 movies into digital in every format possible and I do enhancements and add sound etc), I write books and have several programs to deal with proper writing, I am now doing book publishing and require several programs to assist with publishing work, and I do many other unique things and have two scanners, two printers, one photo printer....my PC is nothing but a massive work horse...and perhaps Windows didn't really account for guys like me that know how to really get the most out of a PC. My only solution will be the totally replacement of my PC, given the cost of this one $2,700 CAN, not including my newly purchased video card upgrade and the $1,000s in software I own licenses, it will mean huge cost in money and time to move to a new PC. It's just not going to happen anytime soon, I do have a wife looking over my shoulder who would rather me buy a new car for instance. Some of life's philosophy. So, just to be clear, yes a Win10 Pro upgrade would be great, but never assume people's situations, their health, their age and their daily struggles. Thanks for the solution to this issue and combining my posts into one. Cheers.

I have this same issue. I got my update for the Saab340, did the uninstall of the old version and then reinstall. Loaded up the plane and it craps out. Everything and every plane were working just fine prior to this update....and for me this was a monster issue just a short while ago until I found a conflict with another piece of software. I have not checked other planes but I sure hope this has not affected all the others. I can only express how disappointed I am. I will go back into this thread and try the stuff mentioned. Update 1: AH MAN! All my planes are affected, none will load, I am being asked for reactivation's and they all crap out just like the newly updated SAAB. You folks need to do better than this. I was just finding the love again and now its gone. FIXED I tried the renaming solution provided above X-Plane/resources/plugins/Gizmo64.plugin/firmware/assets/ca_store/cacert.pem In my case this WORKED! At least for the SAAB Thank goodness, I don't think I could take much more of this.

Gees, I do own products. OK I will do the update.

Sorry for my ignorance. Can someone please tell me, what is gizmo, what does it do and why do I need it? Bryan

I would not think Win7 would be the issue, but then again I'm not an expert on the inticacies of operating systems. It is excessive, so much so that its useless for me. I could handle 5 minutes. I actually did a scan of my log.txt and see a plug in "rendering option V2" was a problem. So I'm removing it, I'm doing the most recent XP11 update and will see how that works. I will provide a log text once I give the update a try. I can see the rendering options plug it was not working and not loading and this could have easily been the issue. Bryan

I bought this yesterday. I loaded up a flight, I set to fall textures, the load time was very very long as has been reported...mine about 10 minutes. I did a short flight. I liked the results without getting too picky. I then loaded in a new flight out of Orbx Manchester...the sim textures loading thing came on..and it took forever to do nothing it just stalled....after some 20 minutes or more I just shut down the sim. And rebooted. And then tried to load in Manchester from a cold reboot...the sim loaded normally but the texture were back to summer. So I clicked the change to fall...and the sim just sat there spinning and spinning doing nothing...my PC locked up. I rebooted my machine. I'm frightened to even try this addon again...it seems dysfunctional not at all like I anticipated. I tried again this morning (a day after struggling with it), tried to load in winter in Manchester area, after 20 minutes I shut it down. Now, I uninstalled and reinstalled using the less than 5 gig video card option and am now again trying to get this to work. I fired up XP11...it took a hugely long time to load, something over 15 minutes, which is unusual. Then after a short flight, I loaded mild winter...that was over 30 minutes ago...it would load, it appears fully stalled, then suddenly its done. So, why on earth does it take so bloody long to load, so long as to be dysfunctional? Am I doing something wrong or is there some way to "fix" this? My system specs are: I7-6700K 4.2GHZ overclocked GTX 970 4GB 7GHZ GDDR5 RAM 16G DDR4 2133MHZ ASUS Z170-A ATX LGA1151 Z170 Skylake DDR4 3PCI-E16 3PCI-E1 1PCI CrossFireX/SLI USB3.1 Motherboard I7-6700K 4.2GHZ overclocked, GTX 970 4GB 7GHZ GDDR5, RAM 16G DDR4 2133MHZ, Win7 Professional, FSX, P3DV4+, XP-11