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till213 / SkyDolly

Sky Dolly connects with Flight Simulator 2020 and records the flight path and basic instruments for replay.
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App reacts very slow if no connection to FS2020 #161

Closed jaber70599 closed 2 months ago

jaber70599 commented 2 months ago

Describe the bug App reacts very slow if no connection to FS2020.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Do NOT start FS2020
  2. Start Skydolly
  3. App opens very slow, approx. 30 secs
  4. Click on Menu -> File
  5. App opens "File Drop down" with delay, approx 30 secs
  6. Scroll down to Menu-> File -> Quit. Click Quit
  7. Message form Windows operating systems pops up: "App does not react"

Expected behavior Normal response time to user input

Screenshots N/A

Application version:

Additional context

till213 commented 2 months ago

Hello DocDressler :)

"Version 017.2" - this is not the latest version. The latest version is v0.17.5 which fixes the exact regression that has been introduced with the v0.17.1 (the v0.17.0 is still working correct), namely that a network (IPv4) connection attempt was made instead of a "local" ("pipe") connection (due to an "off by one" application setting).

Network connections have a longer timeout (in the order of seconds, perhaps up to 30 seconds), and since Sky Dolly is not multithreaded (yet) such a connection attempt blocks the main (GUI) thread - hence the sluggish behaviour.

Also note that connection attempts are made every N seconds, where N is increasing as a Fibonacci sequence (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, ... - because why not).

-> Update to the latest v0.17.5 and the connection issue should be solved: a "pipe" connection is made again (which times out much faster, essentially instantly) - unless you change the Sky Dolly application settings to an IPv4 or IPv6 network connection type (this is useful when running Sky Dolly and MSFS on different Windows PCs - but then you actually need to manually edit the provided SimConnect.cfg client configuration and add the proper IP addresses, as documented in that file - found in the Sky Dolly application folder).

Also refer to the announcement on flightsim.to and the CHANGELOG for more details (and no, the v0.18.0 has not yet been released - but you get a glimpse on what's coming ;)):

⚠️⚠️⚠️ IMPORTANT PATCH RELEASE: 0.17.5 ⚠️⚠️⚠️

Sky Dolly v0.17.1 introduced a regression that would attempt to connect via network (IPv4) with Microsoft Flight Simulator, preventing the recording of new flights in certain cases.

This has been fixed with the 0.17.5 patch relase that also corrects existing "off by one" application settings, ensuring that a local ("pipe") connection is made again. Unless explicitly set in the Sky Dolly application settings to one of the two network connection types (either IPv4 or IPv6).

till213 commented 2 months ago

Solved in the latest v0.17.5 release.