Refuelling action clears payload fields

[virtuali]

The problem will surely be fixed in the next update, which we are testing right now.

[Ray Proudfoot]

Good man, thanks! 

[Ray Proudfoot]

Hi Umberto,

This problem is still present. Have there been any updates in the last couple of months? I’m not being prompted to run the update.

[virtuali]

Have there been any updates in the last couple of months? I’m not being prompted to run the update.

That's because there hasn't been any updates, which explains why you haven't been notified.

[Ray Proudfoot]

That's because there hasn't been any updates, which explains why you haven't been notified.

That's somewhat unusual isn't it? When will this bug fix be released?

[virtuali]

That's somewhat unusual isn't it? When will this bug fix be released?

Yes, I agree that, being accustomed to the usually continuous flow of updates from GSX, you might find unusual of several months with no updates but, if you followed the forum, we are working on a fairly large update, mostly related to P3D4 PBR but, while we were at it, we took the chance to change some core aspect of how the whole product works, mostly in relationship to the way all the objects are installed, how custom liveries are handled, how easy will be to make user repaints (very difficult now), and we are also redoing most of the objects as well.

So, it's taking longer than expected, but it's important to do it right, for the long term future expansions of the product.

We also already explained in other threads that, because the too many things that have been changed, we cannot just release a minor update to fix minor things right now, so it will all came together in the next large update.

[Ray Proudfoot]

Thanks for the info Umberto. I tend only to visit when I have a problem so wasn't aware of the major update being worked on.

[Ray Proudfoot]

Hi Umberto,

I'm sorry to have to raise this long-standing 'bug' but as it is still there it's annoying when I use the refuel option in GSX.

I entered the payload values myself but after fuel was loaded they've been reset to the default in the aircraft.cfg.

PLEASE, PLEASE fix this. It makes a mockery of setting payload only for GSX to mess them up. P3D V4.5. Xtreme Prototypes Lear 25 using default fuel & payload options.

[Ray Proudfoot]

Umberto? Have you had a chance to look at this please?

[Ray Proudfoot]

Plenty of other posts being answered. Why not this one? A long-standing bug is irritating.

[virtuali]

We fixed this in an upcoming version which is still under testing.

[Ray Proudfoot]

We fixed this in an upcoming version which is still under testing.

Do you have a proposed release date?

[virtuali]

Do you have a proposed release date?

No, we don't, because we are doing a major rewrite ( the whole program from 32 to 64 bit ), and we cannot release a quick fix right now, because there's a lot of stuff that changed and lots of possible crashes to prevent.

Note that, it not really a GSX bug, it's really caused by a bug in the sim that doesn't update the fuel quantity unless you also change the weight on any of the payload stations so, we were forced to do that, otherwise fuel loading wouldn't work. Since we didn't want to play with actual payload stations ( those are numbered from 1 to N ), we just sent a dummy weight to a non-existent station ( station 0 ), and this seemed to work.

However, it seem ( because of your report ), we found another (different) bug, or more like unexpected side effect, that when changing station 0, all payload stations resets to default, so our fix would be just changing the weight ( not really changing it, but re-writing the same value it had before refueling ) of a station that actually exists, which seems to work better.

[Ray Proudfoot]

Hi Umberto. I agree it’s not a bug in GSX. It’s one in P3D / SimConnect or even the SDK! It’s ridiculous you have to go to such lengths to work around it.

I was going to suggest you read the user-supplied values and reinstate them but you’re on it. No problem. I can wait and continue to enter fuel load manually. I only reminded you as I thought it must have been overlooked given how long it was since my first post.