Last night, I climbed into my default Beech Baron for a short flight before bedtime. When I brought up the GPS display, the text items not on the map itself were all blank - things like ground speed, heading, etc. This was working a day or so ago. I tried shutting down and restarting, and I tried a different aircraft with the same GPS. Same problem. The map portion seems fine, and flight plans are plotted, but those text items are missing. Since it was last working, I added a few AI planes (all Scandanavian) and the Swedflight scenery package with 3 major airports. But, I haven't touched the other aircraft folders. Looking back, I remember that this is not the "default" GPS. That changed at one point when I added some flyable planes. It wasn't intentional, but it came in with some other package. Has anyone else seen something like this? I'm thinking that it's a missing font, or something weird like that. Is there a way to reset the GPS back to the original one? Thanks.

Hopefully, the other packages only added another guage, and edited the panel.cfg - rather than delete the original GPS. If that is the case and you have the original GPS guage in your guage folder, then adding this : [Window02]size_mm=456,378window_size=0.5position=8BACKGROUND_COLOR=0,0,0VISIBLE=0ident=GPS_PANEL gauge00=fs9gps!gps_500, 0,0 To your panel.cfg of your chosen aircraft should replace the original GPS guage. Note that the [windows02] relates to shift +3 - so if for instance in your baron the gps is shift +6 for example then you would want to edit the window to [window05] Look through your panel.cfg and it should be self explanitory (look for the gps entry and change it to the one above) Hope that helps. This applys to FSX.Not sure whitch sim you refer to.

Edited August 11, 201114 yr by Spook

Thanks. Since this is the FS9 forum, I didn't mention that I am using FS9. Can you recover a single gauge from the original disks? I suppose I could install the whole thing on another computer, copy over the gauges and then delete the second install, but that seems like a lot of work for something that should be rather simple.

Thanks. Since this is the FS9 forum, I didn't mention that I am using FS9. Can you recover a single gauge from the original disks? I suppose I could install the whole thing on another computer, copy over the gauges and then delete the second install, but that seems like a lot of work for something that should be rather simple.

Yes, you can - you probably don't need the gauge. The thing that usually gets stepped on is called gps_export.dll and lives in the modules subdirectory - you might check its properties to be sure that it's the fs9.1 (assuming you have loaded the 9.1 patch) file. DJ

Thanks. Since this is the FS9 forum, I didn't mention that I am using FS9.

Duhhhh....lol, sorry mate.

Duhhhh....lol, sorry mate.

No problem. It's early for me, and late for you. I'll try these suggestions later. Thanks.

Yes, you can - you probably don't need the gauge. The thing that usually gets stepped on is called gps_export.dll and lives in the modules subdirectory - you might check its properties to be sure that it's the fs9.1 (assuming you have loaded the 9.1 patch) file. DJ

Just curious - why would this get stepped on? Having added AI aircraft and scenery, I wouldn't think anything to do with GPS panels would be touched. Not that things like that don't just happen, of course.

No problem. It's early for me, and late for you. I'll try these suggestions later. Thanks. Just curious - why would this get stepped on? Having added AI aircraft and scenery, I wouldn't think anything to do with GPS panels would be touched. Not that things like that don't just happen, of course.

Some older add-ons, for whatever reason, felt compelled to put the FS2002 version in... DJ

I checked all the suggested files, and found nothing amiss. I brought up FS9, opened the GPS window and it was fine. I had shut the machine down last night, and just powered up again, so it went through one of those "Microsoft Update" cycles and then got rebooted. This may have been completely external to FS9. But, I bet I'll never know....