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by Adam Pestridge »
Okay, I seem to have found out the issue, I found out that in ProgramData and Appdata locations for P3Dv5, there are some files called dll.xml
PMDG, RAAS, Carenado and Captain Sim plus others all use these files and the sim only inserts the one in Programdata if its not there with a acexml document entry by default.
It is my dll.xml (with entries from RAAS, PMDG and Carenado in) that was preventing the gauges from displaying correctly.
Active Sky weather engine at some point must access or write to this file as it also makes a backup of the file in the appdata location. As does RAASPro.
by default the sim has one of these files in the ProgramData location and Captain Sim must be the one to install one into the appdata location as its the first entry in the file.
This file does nothing for the issue with the connie tho, but when I re-introduce the one into Programdata with the additional data added, thats when the Connie instruments go by by...
In that file, I have had PMDG, Active Sky, Carenado and RAASPro all create entries into that file as I use those addons.
It seems that either PMDG, RAASPRo, Carenado or Active Sky (RAASPRO was the most recent one) changed the layout of the document when they wrote to it as taking the original text and layout from the sim default (which has all the same words, just has an extra line (</Simbase.document entry) do the gauges come back to working order. So it seems that this line
(</Simbase.document entry)
is responsible for the missing instruments.
Im not sure why the connie takes issue with the missing text caused by another developer, or why no one else has reported this, this tho could be the result of me using Carenado planes from V4 in V5 or the PMDG DC6 in V5. As others would have had this same issue if it were RAASPro or Active Sky.
Obviously, the way this file is written too in V4 is different in V5 and it tripped only the connie up, although it could also be a simple dev error for which ever dev wrote in that file during an installation and changed the layout, not placing in that one line.... either way, its all sorted now. So it seems it was a mixture of me using V4 addons in V5 or a V5 dev making a single mistake. Im more inclined to believe it was me using older addons in a more recent sim.
There we go.