Hi,
I am away from my computer so I can comment specifically any point, but I have
few questions :
1. did these problem occurs in the release candidates or are specific to the
final version ?
2. We know that you didn't install in Program Files but we don't know where
exactly. Could there be a special german character in the path, or any non
purely ascii character ?
3. what happen if you install in Program Files as suggested by the installer ?
4. Did you install the 64bit binaries or have forced the 32bit install ?
5. Can you find the flightgear.org directory in \Users and check that
fgrun.prefs has write privileges ? The save button is only there to save
another set of options and it's normal that a file name is requested. For the
current set of options, it goes to flightgear.org\fgrun.prefs but this file
should be writable. It is created at install and contains the default path that
you shouldn't have to set by hand.
Regards,
-Fred
kreuzritter2000 kreuzritter2...@gmx.de a écrit :
Yesterday i tried to run the new FlightGear version on Windows 7 64 Bit
Prof and it run awful.
There are several fatal major bugs in this release i never had before,
though i used WinXP 32 Bit in the time of the older releases before and
not Win7 64 Bit, so i am not sure if this is win7 related.
I installed FlightGear in another folder than C:\Programs files as
admin and run FlightGear with normal user privileges.
This might be an important information to reproduce some of the bugs.
I am here on a linux system now, so i can't test it again, but here is a
small listing of some of the bugs and usability issues i can remember
from yesterday:
1. FGRun can't find the progamm, scenery and data folders, i have to set
them manually at the first start. That shouldn't be the case, FGRun
should know where to search for the files after FlightGear has been
installed. An inexperienced computer user would give up here and
uninstall FlightGear.
2. It is impossible to set the Terrasync folder in FGRun, the button to
set the terrasync folder has no function. The terrasync mode can't be
used when there is no directory set.
BTW, terrasync should use the user directory by default, it's evil to
use the progamm folder for that when a user has limited privileges on
that directory. Usability hint: When there is a default directory set
there is no need to annoy the user with asking the user for a directory
location. I suggest to use %APPDATA%/Roaming/flightgear.org/terrasync as
default location. If users don't like that, they should be able to
change it after installation. But setting a default location is a must
in my opinion to improve usability.
3. FGRun doesn't use the user folder to save the settings, instead it
asks me where to place it. That's bad usability.
3. Several 3d Models (777-200, F-14b and others) aren't displayed.
They're missing in the sim and in FGRun.
4. In flightGear the 3d cockpit controls do not work. For example in the
b1900d clicking on them has no effect. In the past on earlier releases
that worked.
5. Worst Bug. The sim has strange flickering effects, the result is that
the clouds are not displayed. They flicker sometimes up, but only in 1-4
of 60 frames. (My system: Geforce GTX 550 Ti + driver version 280.26)
The console shows some error message about OpenGL and a function, but
the text is cut, so there's no real info about it.
6. BTW this is only a minor usability issue, but i'll mention it here
for for the sake of completeness. FGRun has long loading times to
display the 3d aircraft models. In my opinion that is too long for a
selection list like that.
In my opinion bugs 3, 4 and 5 are the worst in that list and 1 and 2 are
serious usability issues all of them harm the reputation of FlightGear
more than a new release version with new features do good to it.
I can't recommend to offer FlightGear in that condition for download for
windows users.
Why where there no release candidates or beta releases? Bad release
candidates or beta releases do not harm a project so badly like a real
release with fatal bugs does.
Best Regards,
Oliver C.
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