So yes, there is something wrong, but GSX isn't telling me what?
Yes, GSX IS telling you that, but for some reason you can't see the message. There's no way GSX will do the "bong" sound without a message so, the only possible explanation, considered you already said you have the GSX Verbosity at the max level, and you have the Miscellaneous text options enabled, is that you failed to updated to 4.5 correctly and yes, it's a known issue that, when the update wasn't done correctly, usually without the Content, the top bar info text will not display.
This, assuming you don't have another issue, like a 3rd party add-on that is blocking the top message area for some reason ( yes, we had a few cases in the past, so they exists )
All this started with the 4.5 upgrade and Re installing the latest GSX from your site.
The issue seems to be the 4.5 update, since GSX works perfectly with 4.5 ( that's the only version we ever used in months ), it's not a GSX compatibility issue.
Having read on this forum that some users would like a rollback feature, to rollback live updates. Perhaps there is an, as yet undiscovered bug somewhere?
No, because this issue doesn't have anything to do with the update, we surely cannot make the top text area disappear with a GSX update, that's a core P3D function and yes, it's known to be possibly missing if the update didn't go well.
In my case, I always update P3D this way:
- Uninstall the current version of P3D
- Download the latest full installer
- Install the full installer.
Works everytime and no, it doesn't require to reinstall any add-ons, unless those that replaced core files of the simulator, which is something that proper P3D4 add-ons shouldn't do, since you can replace core files even from a different folder, that's totally allowed ( and encouraged ) in the SDK.
