As mentioned earlier, I went for a clean re-install of 2024. Part of the motivation was that right after the new update I couldn't get any flights to start. After hitting "Start Flight", it would go to the aerial view but would never zoom down to the "Ready To Fly" stage.
With me being extra careful with this fresh re-install I may have discovered something interesting that wasn't there before the update. All went well with installing the MSMP Compatible listed aircraft and scenery. Then I loaded all my 2020 payware aircraft and sceneries. With all of that in I was able to make several uneventful full flights. The problem appeared when I went to start installing some of the 2020 repaints I had been using prior to the latest update. After loading in a few, I went to go make an actual flight and things were right back to hanging at the aerial view and never getting to an aircraft. Since it started with the first flight after loading in the repaints, I pulled all of them out, and things were back to normal and not hanging at the aerial.
After seeing that, I started putting in the repaints one by one and testing. I ended up with a few usable non-hanging 2020 repaints and almost my entire library of other 2020 repaints causing the hang.
The most interesting discovery was that a single hang causing repaint will also cause the sim to hang at the aerial view even if the aircraft you are trying to use is an entirely different aircraft than the one with the bad repaint. I tested this many times taking repaints in and out to make sure I was reasonably sure of this, with 100% predictable results every time.
So, it appears that something changed with the new 2024 update in how it looks at non-2024 repaints.
Forest
With me being extra careful with this fresh re-install I may have discovered something interesting that wasn't there before the update. All went well with installing the MSMP Compatible listed aircraft and scenery. Then I loaded all my 2020 payware aircraft and sceneries. With all of that in I was able to make several uneventful full flights. The problem appeared when I went to start installing some of the 2020 repaints I had been using prior to the latest update. After loading in a few, I went to go make an actual flight and things were right back to hanging at the aerial view and never getting to an aircraft. Since it started with the first flight after loading in the repaints, I pulled all of them out, and things were back to normal and not hanging at the aerial.
After seeing that, I started putting in the repaints one by one and testing. I ended up with a few usable non-hanging 2020 repaints and almost my entire library of other 2020 repaints causing the hang.
The most interesting discovery was that a single hang causing repaint will also cause the sim to hang at the aerial view even if the aircraft you are trying to use is an entirely different aircraft than the one with the bad repaint. I tested this many times taking repaints in and out to make sure I was reasonably sure of this, with 100% predictable results every time.
So, it appears that something changed with the new 2024 update in how it looks at non-2024 repaints.
Forest
