Another No "Add-Ons" Observation

[Jim Allen]

Hi Pete,

As to the problem of the Add-Ons not appearing, I have noticed that whenever it happens to me it is when I load FSX after having been on-line.

I can load FSX from a cold boot and as long as I haven't been on-line, the Add-Ons appear everytime, no matter how many times I load and shutdown FSX. If I have been on-line, then log off, the next time I load FSX, the problem will occur most of the time. Not always, however. When it does occur, the next time I try to go on-line, I connect to the internet ok but no web pages will load. Says server can't be found.

The only cure then is to shut down and reboot the puter.

Don't know if this info is new to anyone or if it will help in trying to figure this thing out.

Jim

[Pete Dowson]

As to the problem of the Add-Ons not appearing, I have noticed that whenever it happens to me it is when I load FSX after having been on-line.

I can load FSX from a cold boot and as long as I haven't been on-line, the Add-Ons appear everytime, no matter how many times I load and shutdown FSX. If I have been on-line, then log off, the next time I load FSX, the problem will occur most of the time. Not always, however. When it does occur, the next time I try to go on-line, I connect to the internet ok but no web pages will load. Says server can't be found.

The only cure then is to shut down and reboot the puter.

Don't know if this info is new to anyone or if it will help in trying to figure this thing out.

It won't help anyone here, you need to tell_fs@microsoft.com. I think they are working on all this stuff now. At least, i darn well hope so!

Pete

[RichardL]

So do I Pete. However from the post I read in the Avsim FSX forum, don't expect anything till next year. In that I, or ACES means, their plan is to have a fix plan in place by sometime in Jan 2007. Not an update, just a plan for what needs fixing. Read for yourself:

Subject: "FSX:Listening to community feedback" topic #376475

Regards,

Richard

Hi all,

I am back, as promised. The snow in Seattle slowed me down a few days, but its still the week after Thanksgiving .

I have updated my blog, at

http://blogs.msdn.com/ptaylor/default.aspx with:

1) A post to recount my history, so you can get to know me professionally.

2) A repost of my original "FSX:Today and Tomorrow" AVSim post.

3) A post affirming we are creating a release to address some of the issues that have been discussed on this forum with FSX RTM, with a brief discussion.

I want to direct discussion to my blog, by and large, because I know we won't lose a thread there. I dont want another unfortunate incident like the loss of the previous thread to inhibit my communication with the community. I will try to respond to all reasonable posts on the blog.

I apologize in advance for not providing more details on what is in the release, but until we get a bit further in solving what our investigations have uncovered I want to be careful in not overpromising.

Thanks for your patience, I look forward to continuing the discussions.

Phil

Senior PM, Graphics and Terrain

Aces Studio

PS. I will, from time to time, reply here at AVSim. I will, however, be using the blog for "official" communications like this in the future. So expect to see more blog postings.

[Pete Dowson]

So do I Pete. However from the post I read in the Avsim FSX forum, don't expect anything till next year. In that I, or ACES means, their plan is to have a fix plan in place by sometime in Jan 2007. Not an update, just a plan for what needs fixing.

Yes, I did see it. Disappointing. I was hoping for somethnig before Christmas I must admit.

Regards

Pete