April 9, 201214 yr Background: I have been flying combat jet sims (Janes F/A-18, Falcon 4 flavors, Lockon, DCS A-10) for over 10 years and consider myself a journeyman PC pilot and PC troubleshooter. I recently saw a uTube video of FSX carrier ops and thought "gee, that looks like fun. Think I will try it." I had no idea what a daunting task I was undertaking. I am an engineer, BTW, who reads technical documents all the time. So, I have lots of Noobie questions and can find no comprehensive guides for how to do simple things. I have checked out the Wiki and numerous web sites, but perhaps I have missed the obvious. The "docs" included with the third party objects all appear written for one with extensive foreknowledge of FSX. I have Intel i5 system with ATI 4870 vid and 4 GB RAM, Win 7-64 and Cougar HOTAS. Installed FSX gold with Acceleration. All good so far. Installed Javiers Nimitz and Ike, aicarriers2, Sludge F/A-18s and lots of other stuff. I can just about get this thing working, but have a couple of issues (so far): Adding airplanes. What does one do with the sound files included in the airplane zip files? Add them to the main FSX sound directory? What to do with the sound.cfg file that is included with each third-party airplane? Can the Javier Nimitz and Ike TACAN's be set into the Sludge F/A-18 NAV system? If so, what are the freqs? Is there an easy way to replace the default CVN in some missions with Javier's very nice models? Can anyone point me to some good basic reading for Noobies on all this stuff? Thanks in advance.
April 9, 201214 yr Have a look at the folder structure in your FSX folder particularly in FSX\Simobjects\Airplanes and you will find a folder for each type of aircraft. E.G Airbus_A321. In that folder you will find a Sound folder where all the sound files and the sound.cfg reside. There are aldo folders for the Panel, Model and Texture files. Hope this helps Asus Maximus Hero XI , i7-8086, 16 Gb RAM, nVidia GTX 1080 ti
April 9, 201214 yr Think this will help: http://www.flyingscool.com/FSX_Directories.htm Benjamin van Soldt Windows 10 64bit - i5-8600k @ 4.7GHz - ASRock Fatality K6 Z370 - EVGA GTX1070 SC 8GB VRAM - 16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX @ 3200MHz - Samsung 960 Evo SSD M.2 NVMe 500GB - 2x Samsung 860 Evo SSD 1TB (P3Dv4/5 drive) - Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM - Seasonic FocusPlus Gold 750W - Noctua DH-15S - Fractal Design Focus G (White) Case
April 9, 201214 yr Author Thanks, I was under the (apparently mistaken) idea that the contents of the effects, textures and sound folders in the individual airplane object folders has to be copied to the corresponding main FSX folders.
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