OK, here's a new one (on me, anyway)... I seem to have lost my seasons. No matter what date I choose on the calendar, FSX gives me summer textures. The only exception is that I get winter if I chose "winter" as a menu option. But if I choose a winter date on the calendar, I get summer textures instead. And all other choices - whether of dates or seasons - result in summer textures.I'm not sure when this happened, but it was recent - I noticed it a couple of flights ago. The only installations I've done recently have been of the new (SP3) versions of the FTX payware and freeware airports.So far I've tried the following workarounds: turned off FTX in the FTX Central application; disabled and re-enabled UTX; re-installed the GEX USA/Canada textures. No joy so far.I've searched the forums and have found a couple of references to lost seasons but no solution as yet.Anyone have any suggestions?Thanks in advance for your help.Alan

What is your location when you choose the date in FSX? And do you have FTX disabled if your location is outside Australia and enabled if in Australia?Did you have FTX disabled when you ran the UTX and GEX configuration utilities?Could you post two pictures from a location where you have the problem? One showing textures on a winters day and the other on a summer day. Make sure to change the dates after youv'e loaded the flight in FSX.Sorry if you consider this question stupid, but anyway: You do realize that when there is winter in the nothern hemisphere (USA/Europe) there is full summer in the southern hemisphere (Australia/South America)?

Hi St Ex,Did you install the demo Tasmanian FTX blue? It has only one season. To get all four seasons you need to buy FTX Blue. Since you enabled and re-enabled so many packages in pursuit of a fix, your FSX might be throughly confused by now. :). Did you read what ULFB said in regard to the northern and southern hemisphere seasons? Did you post your problem on the FTX forum? If it is FTX related, seeking help there would be your best bet.Stephen

Thanks for all the suggestions. And Ulf - no problem at all. There's no such thing as a too-basic question when it comes to wrestling with FSX.To answer the questions so far:- My test locations are Gaithersburg, Maryland (KGAI) and Montauk, Long Island (KMTP). Both ordinarily show seasonal variations, but don't anymore.- FTX was disabled via FTX Central when running the UTX and GEX utilities.- I'll try to get a couple of screenshots posted later. For what it's worth, what I'm seeing are perfectly normal summer textures. That is, there's nothing wrong with the textures themselves, except that they're appearing on the wrong dates.- Re: different seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres, yes, got that. As a further check, I loaded FTX (Lilydale, near Melbourne) and found the same problem - no seasonal variation in spite of different dates and menu choices.- FTX install is complete and fully updated, so it should offer seasons (and used to).- Have indeed posted in the FTX forum (I'm Alan_A over there) and Holger just checked in with a couple of questions, so I'll get back to him momentarily.- Per a suggestion on the FTX forums, I tried deleting and rebuilding the fsx.cfg, but that didn't help.For what it's worth, I ran a Google search and came across this thread from 2007, which reports a similar problem. But the thread doesn't come to any resolution.So I'm still open to suggestions.I really hope I'm not looking at a full FSX reinstall... though I suppose I could take advantage and switch over to Windows 7. Still, that seems like traveling around the world to get from your front door to your back door. So I'll see what other buttons I can push in the meantime.Thanks again for all your help so far.Alan

Ha ha. You did not READ the read me, right? Right. It says, if you are going to fly anywhere else but Tasmania, you run the FTX Central and choose to revert (ie: go back, or replace) to the FSX default textures. Simple as that.Chuck BNapamule

OK, I think I'm most of the way toward a solution. It seems to be a problem with the Cloud 9 US landclass, which got corrupted and became unable to read season information. I've now got it working but had to disable the Cloud 9 custom seasons bgl. More details here in my thread on the FTX forum.Napamule - thanks, but it has nothing to do with how FTX Central is set. As you'll see from the other thread, I had the same problem at Lilydale with FTX Central set to Australia, and at KGAI with FTX Central set to default. So whatever was wrong with the Cloud 9 files was preventing FSX from reading season information no matter what the location. Not so simple, as it turns out.The solution was thanks to a tip from Holger Sandmann.Thanks to everybody here who tried to help.Best,Alan

OK, I think I'm most of the way toward a solution. It seems to be a problem with the Cloud 9 US landclass, which got corrupted and became unable to read season information. I've now got it working but had to disable the Cloud 9 custom seasons bgl. More details here in my thread on the FTX forum.Napamule - thanks, but it has nothing to do with how FTX Central is set. As you'll see from the other thread, I had the same problem at Lilydale with FTX Central set to Australia, and at KGAI with FTX Central set to default. So whatever was wrong with the Cloud 9 files was preventing FSX from reading season information no matter what the location. Not so simple, as it turns out.The solution was thanks to a tip from Holger Sandmann.Thanks to everybody here who tried to help.Best,Alan

Yep, was going to ask if you had Cloud9. I disabled that .bgl soon after I installed it. Actually put it in a separate folder, so I can activate it if I feel like it via the scenery library.Glad you found the solution.

IIRC at one time after FSX first came out, everyone complained about "desert" textures in winter. So the "fix" was to either get rid of fall/winter/hard winter seasons in seasons.bgl, or copy the summer (su) textures into the other seasonal variants (fa, wi, hw). Since that fix, GEX and FTX among others have corrected the default seasonal textures with the "desert" appearance, so the "fix" is no longer required. You have to remember to remove any mod textures or seasons.bgl. Of course, GEX, FTX, and the like provide "backup" config utilities, and if you did a backup AFTER installing one of the "fixes", then doing a restore will restore the "fix" as well, which may not be what you wanted. BTW, I think there are still some desert appearing seasonal textures in Asia that would be nice to get fixed. scott s.