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Lost all AI traffic at EDDF Mega


Dirk-NL

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Hi,

I am running FSX on a high end W7 PC. I have myTraffic2010 installed plus several (Mega) Airports (Amsterdam, Innsbrück, Arlanda, Rotterdam, Barajas, Brussels, Heathrow, Oslo, Paris CDG).

Before installing Mega Airport Frankfurt, EDDF was crowded like it should be with lots of AI traffic.

After installation MAF plus the updates, I am the only plane left on EDDF. As soon as I fly away from EDDF there is AI traffic, but when I return to EDDF I still am the only plane on the airport.

I checked the display settings for Anisotropic filtering and antialiasing (checked) and shadows are off. Also, while installing Paris CDG, I've set water effect to low.

When I move to any other (Mega- or other) airport, the AI traffic is there. No Problem. But moving back to EDDF makes me the one and only plane on the airport. All other MAF/EDDF scenery stuff works.

So I uninstalled the Mega Airport Frankfurt and guess what... even on the standard FSX I am NOW the only plane. So apparently the MAF installation did something terribly wrong and uninstalling did not restore the original situation.

By the way.... I had the same problem som time ago on the previous FSX PC and then the only solution was to reinstall everything (including FSX + SP's) at which occasion I did not install MAF afterwards. But I thought: 'Hey, new PC, clean installation, new MyTraffic, it might work now.' But it didn't.

I sincerely hope someone can help me out on this, otherwise I am afraid I will never fly to or from EDDF again.

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Hi Shaun,

That's what I did already. The same goes for setting the display at Anisotropic and a checkmark in Antialiasing.

I learned that on a previous occasion with the same outsome on an older PC>

Dirk

Hello Dirkinvest,

Please try the following, uncheck "Aircraft Casts shadows on the ground" in the Display/Aircraft tab.

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Hi Shaun,

I have active now (in sequence) is:

AES

Aerosoft AFD

MyTraffic2010

All add-on (mega) airports plus Ultimate terrain Europe has been deselected.

Even MAF has not been re-installed yet, so I am on a clean FSX with aboven mentioned sceneries.

When I startup being on EDDF I still am the only airplane on the airport.

When I use World/Goto airport to f.i. Düsseldorf or Köln I've got my AI traffic back. When I move back to EDDF I'm alone.

Dirk

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Hello Dirk,

Have you disabled the MyTraffic 2010 AFCAD file for EDDF.

Hi Shaun,

I am not that level of an expert, but after some googling I understand that file extension .bgl is an afcad file (or could be).

In my directory D:\FSX\MyTraffic\scenery there is a file called BR2_EDDF.BGL dated 20-9-2008 16:38, so my rough guess is that the MyTraffic afcad file is still there where it should be.

Also, when I run AISMOOTH I see that there are aircrafts being monitored. When I change the traffic density, I can see that in AISMOOTH. THis proves that the AI traffic is there, but for some reason not on EDDF. Not parked, no departures, no arrivals.

I searched for eddf*.bgl and also found:

D:\FSX\aerosoft\AES\AIRPORT\AESA_EDDF_GA8.BGL

D:\FSX\aerosoft\AES\AIRPORT\AESA_EDDF_GAP.BGL

D:\FSX\aerosoft\AES\AIRPORT\EDDF_2005\eddf_fs9_gmax_objects_LIB-AES.bgl

But I think they all have something to do with AES , which is a bit strange because EDDF has not yet been activated in AES.

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Hello Dirk,

The file named BR2_EDDF.BGL change the extension from BGL to BGX this will stop it being loaded by FS and then the only AFCAD to load will be the one for the 3rd party scenery itself.

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Hi Shaun,

Well, that didn't work. I renamed the bgl into bgx. So I was back to the default EDDF because MAF was uninstalled at an earlier stage. When I changed my current location into EDDF and hit the Fly Now button, I am still the only plane on the airport. Checking with AISmooth proved that there is AI traffic, but not on EDDF.

It must be that the installation of MAF destroyed the performance of myTraffic2010, which was also the case some time ago when I was on an older PC and older version of MyTraffic, but the with same MAF scenery.

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Hello Dirk,

I have MyTraffic 2010 installed and will check what EDDF looks like here.

Just taken a screenshot of EDDF with MyTraffic 2010 and as you can see its pretty much crowded with AI.

If you can un-install EDDF and remove any files pertaining to it and download the full installer from your account at the shop so you can install it without updates and see what happens.

EDDFmytraffic1.jpg

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Hi Shaun,

Sorry, I do not want to sound unfriendly, but I can show you the same kind of picture taken from my other sim (a scale 100% B737-800NG), the one I share with my son in law. For installation on that sim I used exactly the same boxed version of MAF (version 1.03, no update). That sim has no problems whatsoever and shows all the AI traffic at MAF/EDDF. The problem resides on my home PC.

Being a retired software pro I know that MSFS can play dirty tricks. The only thing that puzzles me is where is it going wrong on my home PC?

Fact 1: with the standard FSX installation plus myTraffic2010 installed I had AI traffic in EDDF.

Fact 2: on all 9 other Aerosoft add-on sceneries AI traffic works perfect.

Fact 3: After installing MAF in the past on this PC under Vista I had exactly the same problem. It made me kick MAF into a dark corner and never use it again.

Fact 4: On this PC with newly installed W7 and newly installed FSX + SP's plus MyTraffic2010 I had AI traffic on EDDF.

Fact 5: As soon as I installed MAF there was no AI traffic anymore at MAF/EDDF. Not even when I switch the scenery off in the library or completely uninstalle it.

The renaming of the mytraffic bgl into bgx did not work; reinstalling MAF (what I did this morning) did not work also.

What I do know is that MSFS is not one of the most stable and structured peaces of software. I guess that FSX is running the show when it comes to AI traffic. There must be a software engine that uses the data provided by add-on sceneries like MAF and MyTraffic. But I also am 100% sure, that somewhere in the installation process of MAF something was corrupted and as a result of that 'the AI engine' acts like it does on this PC. Now...., there must be some specialist at the Aerosoft development team that knows exactly (or can determine exactly) what could have gone wrong during installation and what to do to correct it. I sincerely hope that will happen. Otherwise, I'm afraid I have to kick the box in the dark corner again and forget about flying in or out of MAF/EDDF.

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