RF Evolution window shows up and disappears after a second or two...
- Thread starter arb6591
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Hate to be Mr. Obvious - but as always, the first thing to do in these instances of computer weirdness - fully shut down your PC, wait a minute or so, and start it up again. See if the problem continues....
Steam will automatically update RF, sometimes without any outward signs, although there haven't been any in the very recent past. So perhaps something got "stuck", especially if you had a brief, flakey internet connection.
Steam will automatically update RF, sometimes without any outward signs, although there haven't been any in the very recent past. So perhaps something got "stuck", especially if you had a brief, flakey internet connection.
arb6591
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Well, this was the first thing I tried, rebooted the PC and restarted Steam few times..... no luck.
arb6591
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Yes, I did because for me default RF planes are crap.
So what do I do now?
I do not want to delete the planes I have.
I used them many times and except some errors they worked.
Bill Stuntz
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If I'm not mistaken, you can delete (or better yet, rename) the RealFlight64.ini file in your My Documents directory to reset RF to its defaults. You won't lose any aircraft.
arb6591
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What part do I rename? the name of ini file or something inside it?
Thanks
Bill Stuntz
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The file itself. If there is no file with that name, RF will create one when it loads, just like it does when you first install it. If it were me, I'd rename it to RealFlight64.bak. That way you can see what's different - assuming it works. And you might be able to figure out what broke it.
arb6591
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It worked. Thank you!
technoid
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Good deal. So the last plane you loaded and shut down realflight with it loaded has a problem. If you don't remember the last vehicle you loaded look for CurrentVehicle in the BAK file you created.
arb6591
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There is something else than maybe I simply missed...... connection with Interlink Controller. I realized that the little light was off and I pushed the usb cable end more in and light came back on.
But I already renamed the file.
So maybe all I had to do was to make sure that controller was plugged in properly..... I will never know but it is very likely.
technoid
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Yeah... maybe. Like you said you'll never know. Someone else may have some information about that one.
When the controller is not plugged in properly you will see an error message (See attached pic). and if you push the connector fully in and hit the "Retry" tab then RF Evolution will start up normally.
As Technoid suggests, it was probably the last aircraft you had loaded that caused the issue.
As Technoid suggests, it was probably the last aircraft you had loaded that caused the issue.
Hello, I just started having the same issue a few days after the new realflight update, realflight opens for a second and then closes. I did not import any new models but I did try what was suggested above and went to documents and added bak to the end of realflight64 with same result, I'm wondering if windows 11 updated had something to do with it any help would be greatly appreciated.
Controller was plugged in.
arb6591
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I believe you, mine seemed to be not pushed all the way in, that is why I suggested that.