That sounds rather tedious - to use Addon Linker to activate/deactivate all other MSFS content.... but to have to separately use a different (rather protracted) method to activate/disable GSX.

3 minutes ago, JYW said:

Is Couatl running all the time on every MSFS session for people who have GSX - even when it's deactivated using Addon Linker?

See my previous answer: if you disable GSX in the proper way, using the FSDT Installer, it does all the extra steps required to truly disable GSX. 

1 minute ago, virtuali said:

See my previous answer: if you disable GSX in the proper way, using the FSDT Installer, it does all the extra steps required to truly disable GSX. 

I understand that.... but it's not great for users; to use Addon Linker for all other addons, but have to then separately run the GSX installer every time they want to activate or disable GSX.

Just now, JYW said:

That sounds rather tedious - to use Addon Linker to activate/deactivate all other MSFS content.... but to have to separately use a different (rather protracted) method to activate/disable GSX.

If you would rather use the Addon Linker for everything, just suggest a new feature to it, to associate a certain entry in the EXE.XML to a package that will be disabled by it, so it would more or less mimic what the FSDT Installer does.

I fail to see the problem here. I mean in the worst of all cases you hear and/or read (you can disable voice) once after loading in, and that's it, right? Why would anyone disable GSX via AddonLinker for a specific flight just because of that one message?

6 minutes ago, Fiorentoni said:

Why would anyone disable GSX via AddonLinker for a specific flight just because of that one message?

There are use cases where you want to disable GSX at start: maybe you are planning one or many GA flights for a small airplane on bush airports: GSX won't be particularly useful there, so you might want to keep the sim leaner, start faster, then enable GSX again when it's time to use airliners. And that is precisely why we have a proper Unlink procedure in the FSDT installer to begin with, which performs steps that cannot possibly be known to a generic utility like the Addon Linker.

I was just trying to explain WHY this message came out (which is not a "bug"), it was just because GSX was *partially* disabled, because the Addon Linker was used instead of the FSDT Installer.

Edited March 23, 20242 yr by virtuali

46 minutes ago, JYW said:

to use Addon Linker to activate/deactivate all other MSFS content.... but to have to separately use a different (rather protracted) method to activate/disable GSX.

And to completely close this issue, I'll reply to this too, saying there are several other MSFS addons (some of them fairly popular) which can't be disabled with the Addon Linker, either because there have nothing in the Community folders, or they have packages in the Community folder AND support software elsewhere exactly like GSX, so they require separate actions to be completely disabled. They are:

FSUIPC7.exe: starts with the sim as long as it's active in the EXE.XML

FSRealistic.exe:  starts with the sim as long as it's active in the EXE.XML

MSFS2020_AutoFPS.exe: starts with the sim as it's active in EXE.XML.

MDClient.exe from Leonardo MD80s: starts with the sim even if you disable the airplane from the Community folder with the Addon Linker

FenixBootstrapper.exe: starts with the sim even if you disable the airplane from the Community folder with the Addon Linker.

Those are the ones I know of, I'm sure they might be others.

So no, it's not correct saying you can use the Addon Linker to disable "all other MSFS Content", except GSX, as if GSX was unique. There are several others that also can't be fully disabled "just" with the Addon Linker.

Umberto-

I was able to follow your instructions and avoid the voice activating each time.  Many thanks for your stellar support as always.  

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I posted this same question on the GSX forum, but have not had a reply yet.  This has only started happening since GSX version 2.9.4.  I also use Addon Linker to unlink the primary folder and the jetways folder when I fly GA.  Then, there is NO GSX menu in the toolbar, but couatl still runs (sometimes with 20% cpu usage) and I get those aural warnings as mentioned by the OP.  So, I just shut down couatl in the task manager before I start my flight.

10 hours ago, cappy42 said:

I also use Addon Linker to unlink the primary folder and the jetways folder when I fly GA.  Then, there is NO GSX menu in the toolbar, but couatl still runs

If you read my previous replies, it explains exactly that: you caused this by using the Addon Lilnker instead of the GSX installer, which does the extra required steps when Unlinking or Relinking, including disabling/enabling the Couatl engine from autostarting with the sim.