When an updater suddenly vanishes when it is only on Stage 1 of 35 Stages, and only after a few seconds into a major update, it certainly looks like it has crashed.
We keep trying thinking about new ways to make things easier and faster.
That useless wait for you to press an Exit button in the old version, when the application didn't had any other thing left other than...existing, was a way to save you for that useless click each time you run the update.
The updated doesnt state the 35 relates to all your products, I expected that was 35 stages owas for the GSX update only but thanks for clarifying.
Of course it does, check better. Just over the "1 to 35" steps, there's an heading stating exactly that:
Please wait while updating all your FSDreamTeam products in your system.Note that, this isn't any different than the previous version, just that more steps were indicated ( more than 500 ) before but again, we tried to make it more streamlined and easier to use so, instead of dividing each add-on into sub-steps and list do them separately, we are now listing 1 Step = 1 Product.
Is indicating the GSX Marshaller as a separate step of the GSX Traffic Cone giving you any more value ? This makes updating GSX faster, since it's combining several steps which were previously listed separately into one.
But no, even before, you never seen all 500 steps being completed, except in case you had ALL FSDT products installed so, it's nothing new, just with less steps listed.
The updater closing happens along with Event Viewer showing errors at the time relating to the updater does show some form of a problem. I and many others do not believe its a useless click to close the updater, we require confirmation the update has completed successfully.
You are mixing up two different cases and not everybody encountered the same issue:
- SOME users had the error in the Event Viewer and yes, in THIS case, it is a problem, and I think a further update that has been released today *should* have been fixed. And, it seems that everybody that had the error before, fixed it by running the new FSDT Universal Installer.
- OTHER users only had the program closing, with no errors reported and in THIS case, they were just confused by the new automatic Exit. Yes, I think we'll likely need to remove the Exit button altogether when running as an Updater, possibly replaced by a sign saying the updater will close automatically when it's done.
Since I uninstalled GSX I attempted to redownload the installer files 4x, this was due to warnings about corrupt source files. You replied to others about errors and the need to check the hash value. File 6 in all cases had a different value - hence the corrupt warning and inability to install. I even tried to download it onto my laptop, which has never had P3D nor GSX installed, it also does not have any anti virus installed and it too gave a corrupt error when trying to install GSX though for a different file.
Now you are adding ANOTHER completely unrelated issue, which has been thoroughly explained to be caused by delays in all network getting the latest files, and will likely sort out by itself.
I installed using an older installer backup from about 2 months ago and ran the updater again but like before Event Viewer shows errors.
That's precisely why, IF you are affected by the event viewer error, you should use the new Universal Installer.
Also ran the universal installer and pressed the update on both GSX entries. It now appears to work
Yes, that's what everybody else with the error confirmed.
but only when starting with the older installer.
Well, of course you can't use the new installer unless you finally get all the correct files.
I have no idea what you mean about Local Cloudflare nodes, do the files not come off your own server?
OF COURSE NOT!! The originate from our server but, nobody downloads them directly from it. When we release them, they are replicated over the Cloudflare network of 250+ nodes all around the world, and each users will download from the one closest to him.
https://www.cloudflare.com/network/The whole process is entirely automatic, not unlike DNS update, which might take minutes for some users, or up to a day or more for other users so, a website moves, but you are still looking at the old web site, because your ISP hasn't update the DNS yet.
THis is the same, but for downloads.
If we didn't use Cloudflare, and tried to serve everybody from our server, it will crash minutes after a new release ( happened many times to many popular add-on developers, *never* happened to us ) so, instead of "just" getting an outdated file, you would get no file at all, because the server crashed under load.
I have just tested another again at a different airport, set up a path for passengers, selected to not show barriers and pressed Y to return to the sim. GSX vanished from the sim and all entries disappeared too from the Add-ons menu at the top of the sim like others are reporting.
Nobody reported all entries disappearing from the menu after editing a parking, you are the first. It MIGHT be related to the crash when stairs start to move, which still happens to some users, but I can't say for sure if they are.
