Aerofly Will Not Start, Desk Top Icons doing wacky things while Aerofly hangs

Aerofly has been working fine until now. I used the Aircraft Converter to generate a repaint that I was working on. I noticed on the preview that the prop came up as transparent, which I thought to be a bit odd (See attached preview).

To see how the aircraft looked in the actual Sim, I tried to start the program. The program hung for about 15 minutes on the 'Loading Scenery' screen graphic. I noticed that the entire time that the program was hung up, the desktop icons kept changing from a green checkmark, to a grey X, to a shortcut icon, then cycled back again over and over again, with a rotating time frequency of about once every second and a half (See attached images). Looking at the Log file it seems like an awful lot of joystick entries. Any idea what could be going on here?

Note transparent prop - Related to the other issue???

Icons with Checkmarks

Icons with icons

Icons with X's.

The desktop rolls through the three icon formats, changing every icon about every second and a half.

I'm sorry, I neglected to include the Log file. It seems to me that there are a whole lot of entries for joystick controllers, but perhaps that is normal? I had to add the log file to a zip because it is over the 1 meg attachment size on it's own.

Jeff,

Thank you for your help. I unplugged all USB controllers, deleted the last repaint that I had compiled, and deleted the main.mcf file, then tried again. I couldn't see what the icons were doing this time because Aerofly tried to open in full screen mode obscuring the desktop, presumably because the main.mcf was not present telling it not to. Regardless, the end result was exactly the same.. After about 10 minutes staring at the 'Loading Scenery' splash screen I finally force quit the program. I am attaching the now current tm.log which has been renamed as tmlog copy.txt.

aerofly.com/community/index.php?attachment/8324/

> The only thing that I can think of would be to run the Steam file integrity check on your Aerofly FS 2 install.

Ha! That's actually why I just logged in, to say that I had run the Steam Integrity Check. It says that I have 4 files that failed to validate and that they will be re-acquired. Now, my question is, how to I go about re-acquiring those 4 files? I tried a reboot, followed by reopening Steam, but that doesn't seem to have done it. What is my next step to get the 4 files?

Jeff,

So, I went ahead and let the program sit in it's 'hung in startup' mode while I ran an errand with my wife. When I returned, I was faced with an 11 MB tm.log file (!) with 4452 lines of repeat attempts to configure a joystick that is not even present. I am suspecting this is the cause of my problem, for what ever reason it is getting itself stuck in a never ending loop looking for joysticks. This is after removing the gc-map.mcf file and updating the display driver as you suggested.

Have you any idea what could cause this behavior? the last two attempts (With MANY more just like it above) in the tm.log file are...

4451.98-tmimage: trackir dll not found (DLL Location key not present)

4451.99-tmmodule: searching for input devices...

4452.00-tmmodule: searching joysticks...

4452.02-tmmodule: no joysticks found

4452.03-tmmodule: no input devices found

4452.04-tmimage: trackir dll not found (DLL Location key not present)

4452.05-tmmodule: searching for input devices...

4452.06-tmmodule: searching joysticks...

Jeff,

I deleted the gc-map.mcf file and ran the complete integrity check again. I then ran the integrity check one more time and finally got a clean bill of health with no files found with errors. I then tried loading Aerofly again and it still failed. So I did the unthinkable and totally deleted the Aerofly install from Steam, and then re-Installed which took about 15 hours. The result is that now....

Nothing has changed. I try to start Aerofly and it hags o the screen that says "Loading Scenery". Just as last time there are lines after lines after lines in the tm.log where Aerofly is trying to configure a joystick that is not plugged in (See below). So now I am wondering if Aerofly is trying to access a WIndows file, or some other file that is outside of the Aerofly installation that is causing the problem.

Can you think of any files outside of the Aerofly installation that could be getting called up when Aerofly loads that could have become damaged that could be causing this issue?

End of the tm.log (with many many many lines just the same above this point):

969.92-tmmodule: no joysticks found

969.92-tmmodule: no input devices found

969.93-tmimage: trackir dll not found (DLL Location key not present)

969.95-tmmodule: searching for input devices...

969.96-tmmodule: searching joysticks...

970.02-tmmodule: no joysticks found

970.03-tmmodule: no input devices found

970.03-tmimage: trackir dll not found (DLL Location key not present)

970.05-tmmodule: searching for input devices...

970.05-tmmodule: searching joysticks...

970.23-tmmodule: no joysticks found

970.23-tmmodule: no input devices found

970.24-tmimage: trackir dll not found (DLL Location key not present)

970.25-tmmodule: searching for input devices...

970.26-tmmodule: searching joysticks...

Thank you Jeff. I filled out the form and submitted it. I agree it is most likely something outside of the Aerofly software, but have no clue what. Possibly something updated as part of a windows push, or some other dll fill that has become corrupt. I appreciate all of your help, and hope that someone here can help to track down whatever it is that is not cooperating with Aerofly.

Ed, I am sorry, but the Ipacs team have not released any paint kit for the Baron, so repaints of it are not yet possible.

Kerry

>Could this be the issue?

Unfortunately, no. The check marks are not in the file view, they are cycling through the desktop icons for every thing on the computer. Thank you for the input though!