Only One Extracted MFD Works
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I’ve had a trawl through the forum and can’t find an answer to this one.
I have recently come across a situation where the left MFD won’t display anything, but the right one is fine. It worked really well until fairly recently and I cannot tell why this has started happening. I have the displays on a seperate screen and the appropriate 380x380 white then black patch appears as BMS starts up. When I get into the pit the left MFD stays black (the 3d cockpit mfd displays properly).
I have Thrustmaster MFDs over them, and when I press OSBs on the left MFD the required display flashes briefly then returns to a black patch.
Has anyone come across this and, more urgently, does anyone have an answer to my dilema?
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Are you running BMS through steam? I have had issues with Steam Overlay disabling my extracted displays.
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I didn’t know you could run it through Steam. I don’t think so, but I’ll check.
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I didn’t know you could run it through Steam. I don’t think so, but I’ll check.
You can manually add games to Steam, which will sometimes let them work with the Steam overlay. (Obviously this works with BMS).
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No, Steam’s not doing anything with BMS on my machine.
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It sounds like it is not getting the information from shared memory properly. Try uninstalling MFD Extractor. Make sure you clean anything related from your registry, and reinstall it. If this doesn’t work, It could be something with your BMS install. If one works, they both should work. You may also want to try an older version. Some people have had experiences when updating to new versions. Like me. Two updates ago I lost my Fuel Quantity Indicator and have not been able to get it back. Tried everything I can think of, and it just does not want to show up. The only thing I haven’t done is revert back because I am too lazy to do it
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Griffin, assuming you are using MFD Extractor, any chance you have enabled a third MFD, and this is parked over the top of the original left position?
PS - FWIW, I think the BMS extraction is better for the MFDs. Just a personal preference mind. Perhaps consider using them instead if problems persist?
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Griffin, assuming you are using MFD Extractor, any chance you have enabled a third MFD, and this is parked over the top of the original left position?
PS - FWIW, I think the BMS extraction is better for the MFD’s. Just a personal preference mind. Perhaps consider using them instead if problems persist?
Griffin, the third MFD is a good possibility, and he is correct that the BMS Extraction works great. I actually use the BMS MFD’s myself, and extract everything else using MFDE. Good catch Malc
On My Own
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Thanks to all for your advice. I’m not using MFD extractor for the MFDs, only for the gauges. I use the BMS MFDs that came with the sim.
I have uninstalled the sim and started the dance again, but to no avail.
I’ve noticed there is an “mfd_def.ini” in my config folder. Could this be the route of the problem?
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I’ve noticed there is an “mfd_def.ini” in my config folder. Could this be the route of the problem?
That file is the config for the in-cockpit MFDs, including the 3rd and 4th in the top corners, so not likely to be your issue here.
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OK it’s sorted, but I’m not sure of the technical details. I was looking through the Nvidia control panel and found that I still had a profile for BMS as well as for “launcher.exe”. I deleted the former and I now have my left MFD back.
I’ll leave the technical discussions on this to those who know what they’re talking about.
Many thanks for everyone’s input on this. :bowd:
