FlightGear 2016.3.1 [Rio]

[KL-666]

I'll write down my experience with installing on windows. Maybe useful for someone else.

1) At first fgfs kept crashing on the splash screen. No log written anywhere.
2) Started fgfs from the console. Now i got messages complaining about fg already running
3) After a while i found out that fg left a pid file in my home/.../flightgear.org directory.
4) When the pid was removed fgfs ran.

Is that pid file newly introduced to make things difficult for users, giving them a meaningless crash on the splash?

Anyway, it is up and running now. Some remarks:
- Fgrun works fine except that it is not showing the aircraft splashes. I do not mind that.
- Initializing subsystems at startup takes some 5 times more time with the same aircraft than in the prev version.
- Memory consumption and frame rates seem somewhat the same as in the previous version
- Terrasync seems to work better

The actual reason for the upgrade was that a certain tile would not load in the prev version. Now it does load, so the experiment can be called a success.

Kind regards, Vincent

[IAHM-COL]

No splash screen?
Certainly not my experience in Linux!

[KL-666]

Did you see no splash was about fgRUN, not fgfs?

Kind regards, Vincent

[IAHM-COL]

oh?
I dont use FGRUN, I go console. So that's maybe that.

[SHM]

No splash for me either on fgrun.

[IAHM-COL]

This?



I compiled myself and it shows the aircraft pic just fine
Linux, with FG 2016.4, up2date simgear/fgrun

[Octal450]

Works great for me...


I love my Windows. It looks amazing!



Never had a crash, slowdown, problem, freeze, or anything.

Runs like a dream.

Josh

[KL-666]

Hi IAHM-COL,

Yes that is the screen. But you view the 3d-models (checkbox right top of window). I do not, because i find them slowing down my scrolling. If unchecked you ought to get to see the splash image of the aircraft. But i do not see them anymore in this version. Which as i said before, i have no problem with, because many splash images are meaningless anyway.

Kind regards, Vincent

[SHM]

Hi IAHM-COL,

Yes that is the screen. But you view the 3d-models (checkbox right top of window). I do not, because i find them slowing down my scrolling. If unchecked you ought to get to see the splash image of the aircraft. But i do not see them anymore in this version. Which as i said before, i have no problem with, because many splash images are meaningless anyway.

Kind regards, Vincent

Same case.
I get some console errors too.
Will post later.

[Lydiot]

2016.3.1 installed fine here on w7x64. Runs fine as well so far. Nice to see live weather is back.