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hesicong edited this page Nov 13, 2021 · 24 revisions

Here I listed common problems you may facing and help you troubleshooting. If not help at all, please post an issue. If you not watch any videos below, please watch them first.

App is working but google map not show

Please watch the videos here and make sure MSFS2020 setup properly. You must disable the rolling cache and clear it.

Restore to bing map

If you click "Stop" button, then it will stop and restore the system. DO NOT close the command line window (blank window) directly. If you still have issue, try delete the host file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Host related issue

This may cause by:

Damaged hosts file by other program

Similar issue is https://github.com/derekhe/msfs2020-google-map/issues/54 Please delete the hosts file in C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc

Antivirus

Please disable or antivirus or add exception rule for the file

Read only permission

Set the hosts file as not read only

Slow loading time

You can try start MSFS2020 into main menu and then start this mod. If you still have this issue, please switch another Google server.

443 port is occupied

Please watch video here to kill any software using 443: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMcptMj4jx8

I want to return to default bing map

App should restore to bing map when it close, if not, please delete The following two lines in the C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts file:

127.0.0.1 kh.ssl.ak.tiles.virtualearth.net 127.0.0.1 khstorelive.azureedge.net

Virus report and https certificate error

Some virus app reports errors and when in game it promote for https certificate error. If so, please add the folder to whitelist and accept the certificate error. The software is totally open source and you can check every piece of code here: https://github.com/derekhe/msfs2020-google-map

Can and can't

Can:

Replace bing sattelite image with google's image Somewhere bing sattelite image not cover (which display as autogenerated image) can be replaced with google's image Google's image has better quality and more recent than bing's Remove microsoft's color correction, which bring the nature color back

Can't

Autogenerated building, trees, roads stay same as before Photogrammetry from google not included, will keep use Bing's

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