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AIFP starting and then spins its wheels

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Jorgen

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This weekend I started having an issue with AIFP that has left me scratching my head.

Last I used AIFP was Wednesday last week, and then it worked just fine. When I started it today, it did as it normally does, scanning P3D v. 5 for files and showing the screen that Don's site is offline. I click OK to that screen, and the scanning files screen completes.

But - the title bar in AIFP remains greyed out, the computer's fans go into high gear and nothing else happens. When I look in Task Manager, AIFP is using 8.7 % CPU, and it is adding RAM to itself in about 30 MB chunks every second. This goes on and on and on....

I terminated AIFP from Task Manager, deleted it and installed a fresh copy. Same result. A cold reboot, same result. Went through system image restore with DISM and sfc /scannow. Same result.

Everything else I have tried so far on this system has worked OK, as far as I can see. P3D runs fine, and AI traffic is present on the airfields I have checked.

I searched the web for possible solutions, and Google guided me to a possible solution here, where I would change "No Automatic Update" to True and "Development Updates" to False in AIFP.ini - didn't work.

So I'm thinking maybe I have a corrupt traffic file or something like that, but before I go down that route I thought I would throw the scenario out here and see if anyone has experienced something similar and maybe has a cure.

Thanks in advance for any hints -

Jorgen
 
Sounds like you may be having a dialogue box pop-up behind the main screen and be the active window?
 
My "suspicion" at this point is maybe a corrupted AI aircraft file, so ATM I am checking those. That will take a little while, because I have a lot of them...

Jorgen
 
Apparently not a corrupted AI aircraft file. Even with all aircraft moved out of the reach of AIFP, it exhibits the same behavior.

Now I am starting to pull my (remaining) hair out...

Jorgen

Edit: and I can't spell....
 
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Problem found and eliminated.

An installer assumed that I would have my scenery entries in their default location, and put corresponding entries in my scenery.cfg.

But in my installation they go somewhere else...

Lorby's P3D Addon Organizer was an invaluable help in solving this issue.

Jorgen
 
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