Can't get SimDirector to start from P3D and other issues

[whitav8]

If I start with Prepar3Dv4.4 default scenario at Norfolk, finish loading, and then try to select Tools->SimDirector, it begins loading terrain but never gets to the execution of the tool itself. If I start just SimDirector, it comes up fine - except that the Loading Catalog "wait" dot-circle keeps going and never stops. Then if I try to load another scenario, it hangs. I changed the default scenario to another scenario and that loads OK upon startup of SimDirector, except the catalog again never is finished so I really can't use SimDirector at all. The loading catalog has to read through a few of my addon sceneries I suppose but right now, I have very few.

I have a decent PC (9700Kat5.0Ghz with Nvidia 2070, and 16gb ram)

Dave W.

[aeronauta]

Dave the problem with the catalog is that it has to "catalog" all your objects , eventually it will finish , but I found that if you say disable ORBX libraries and some orbx scenery it will load and complete the catalog , once you get the SD running in settings you can tick off the entry that gives readable names to objects , this will catalog the objects by GUID ... hard to read but usable..

Jorge

[whitav8]

@aeronauta (Jorge),
Thanks for the reply. So I tried turning off various sceneries as you suggested and found that the old (10 years or more??) MegaScenery Socal (Southern California) is my problem. When I disable it, I get the catalog to load OK. I wish Simdirector let me exclude the catalog of objects from a given scenery so I could just have it available in P3D for scenery, but for now, I will turn it off when I want to use SimDirector.
Now I will test the other problems and report.

Thanks for your help!

Dave W.

[aeronauta]

Glad to be of help... now the fun begins...

Jorge

[whitav8]

All functions that I was concerned about with SimDirector seem to be OK now that I have eliminated the old Megascenery SoCal from the scenery list - there must be some BGLs that cause trouble.

Carry on

Dave W.