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ADE 1.79 Long Stock Airport Load Times

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P3D v5 introduced some new objects which are not yet in the detailed footprint database. This means that you will sometimes get a long load time when opening a stock airport. If you do then let it work - it will open eventually. At the same time please post any slow load airport idents here. This will help me build a new database more quickly

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Hello Scruffy!

I have an issue with ADE 1.79. When I want to load some stock airports (not all) I get this:

So far it has happend with LQBK and LQSA.
 

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As reported elsewhere this is not a bug. v5 has a lot of new objects and when loading airports using them the load time is slow as footprints are created. This will slowly reduce. AS to the error please go to the thread for issues and bugs and download the missing files zip. Update ADE with them to fix the error
 
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scruffyduck said:
As reported elsewhere this is not a bug. v5 has a lot of new objects and when loading airports using them the load time is slow as footprints are created. This will slowly reduce. AS to the error please go to the thread for issues and bugs and download the missing files zip. Update ADE with them to fix the error
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Thank you that did it! Keep up the good work!!
 
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Not happy with 179 it has taken over my 177 as well and now hangs on loading default airports in V5, if i uninstall 179 will it leave my 177 intake as i did not have this problem with 177.
https://flic.kr/p/2jmwxTu
PS i applied the update file already no change.
 
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The 'problem' is well documented. Over time your load times should reduce. ADE is processing all the new library objects and models in v5. If you leave the 'hang' it will eventually load. Each time this happens ADE is processing more than one airport.

I do not understand what you mean by 'taken over' 1.77

If you want to use ADE for v5 then you do need 1.79
 
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OK - I think we are going in circles. First do you understand why this is happening? second do you understand that it is not permanent?

It can happen in 1.77 is you do not have the main footprint database installed. So if you want to try this then in the 1.77 installation make sure ADE is not running then go to the Global folder and carefully move the file mfdb.dbs to another folder and be sure to remember where you put it

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Now start ADE 1.77 and try loading a stock airport - I am sure you will find it takes a long time. If you check the Global folder you will find ADE has recreated the mfdb.dbs file but it is much smaller than the one you moved

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Close and re-open ADE and load the same stock airport as before. You should find that it opens much faster. Shut ADE and put the original mfdb.dbs back overwriting the newly created one. If you want to you can open that same stock airport again and it should load faster. It happens that 1.77 has a well populated database.

Now run ADE 1.79 for v5 and load again that stock airport that took 5mins 45.53 sec to open. I am sure it will load much faster. Also I can tell you that the size of the airport you open is not relevant to this process. When you open a stock airport in 1.79 for the first time ADE is processing a whole region of airports and objects. So in fact nearby airports will also open quickly.

Perhaps this will make what is going on more acceptable. It needs a bit of time and you may get slow loads the first time you open a stock airport in a given region.
 
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You might want to download a copy of MFDB.dbs from our downloads page. This may not be complete but will contain more data than you probablt have now. I would have expected this to be already in your 1.79 installation though https://www.scruffyducksoftware.com/shop-and-downloads The size installed is about 737Mb and if the one in your 1.79 installation is already that size or bigger then there is no reason to download it.
 
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