FO PFD/ND wont' come up

[Serkan]

Hi all,

i have following problem.
I have a network of 4 pc's. On the last pc on which I installed FO PFD/ND is an AMD XP1800+ with an Geforce 2 MX 64Mbyte.
When i start gfd on above pc, the screen stay black and don't show any gauges!
Is this an hardware problem? I mean, maybe the graphic card is too old?
On the other 3 pc ( 2 x Intel E6850 with Geforce 8800Gt, 1 x AMD X2 4200+ with Geforce 7900GT) it works well.

Maybe someone can help me out 

regards

Serkan

[dvincent]

Hi Serkan,

can you post a copy of the gfd.xml of that pc ? Maybe the gauges are out of scope due to an x, y error...

[Serkan]

Hi Dirk,

yes sure, pls. find attached gfd.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <Configuration>
- <GFDWindow>
  <Fullscreen>True</Fullscreen>
  </GFDWindow>
- <Performance>
  <Multithreading>True</Multithreading>
  </Performance>
  <FontsDirectory>C:\WINDOWS\Fonts</FontsDirectory>
  <NavData>C:\Programme\Flight Deck Software\Glass Flight Deck\Navdata\</NavData>
  <APControlFile>C:\Programme\Flight Deck Software\Glass Flight Deck\737AP.xml</APControlFile>
  <AircraftFile>C:\Programme\Flight Deck Software\Glass Flight Deck\737-800.xml</AircraftFile>
  <GFDServer>192.168.1.1</GFDServer>
  <FuelUnits>KG</FuelUnits>
  <GFDServerLocalPort>8996</GFDServerLocalPort>
  <DefaultElectricalStatus>On</DefaultElectricalStatus>
  <TransitionAltitude>4500</TransitionAltitude>
  <AutoAlignIRS>true</AutoAlignIRS>
  <TFCSwitchOn>true</TFCSwitchOn>
- <Gauges>
- <Gauge>
  <Type>Boeing737PFDRight</Type>
  <X>200</X>
  <Y>100</Y>
  <XScale>2</XScale>
  <YScale>2</YScale>
  <Rotate>0</Rotate>
  </Gauge>
- <Gauge>
  <Type>Boeing737NDRight</Type>
  <X>14</X>
  <Y>287</Y>
  <XScale>2.2</XScale>
  <YScale>2.2</YScale>
  <Rotate>0</Rotate>
  </Gauge>
- <Gauge>
  <Type>Boeing737EFISRight</Type>
  <X>250</X>
  <Y>250</Y>
  <XScale>1</XScale>
  <YScale>1</YScale>
  <Rotate>0</Rotate>
  </Gauge>
  </Gauges>
- <KeyAssignments>
  <KeyAssignment key="Boeing737CockpitMode" value="CTRL E" />
  <KeyAssignment key="Boeing737EICASMode" value="CTRL M" />
  </KeyAssignments>
  <StartupModes />
  </Configuration>

[dvincent]

Hello Serkan,

i will test this. Can take a day or 2 before i can check it because I have a regular day job as well 

[Serkan]

Hi Dirk,

thanks for your help.  No prob, then i'll wait for your feedback, before i buy a new graphic card.

have a nice day.

regards
Serkan

[dvincent]

Hi Serkan,

purely by coinsedence, I too had to reinstall the Glass Deck Software on my computer because I reinstalled Windows. I still had the old folder "Program Files" (on your computer "programme") on the second hard disk but after starting from that folder gfd.exe I had black screens just like you.

So I think that you simply copied your existing glassdecksoftware onto your new computer. That doens't work. First you must rename the existing "Glass Flight Deck" folder to something else and then install a fresh copy of glassdecksoftware on your new computer. To do so you need to download gfdsetup.exe from your flight deck software account. After that you can either copy your license into that new "Glass Flight Deck" folder + your existing gfd.xml + your navdata  either rename the new "Glass Deck Folder" into anything and restore the name of your old renamed Glass Flight Deck folder.
I kept the new folder and use the old renamed Glass Flight Deck as backup.
That works and I tested your gfd.xml. The gauges show up but you still have fine tuning to do  . Your graphics card has nothing to do with, don't buy a new one.

[Serkan]

Hello Dirk,

thats it. I did what you explained and the gauges on the FO side are shown now and working well.
Thank you very much. 

regards

Serkan