OK..I am new to Win 7 and I am having some frustrating time with FSX.

 

I clean installed FSX and acceleration..I went into FSX and out many times during the installation of SDK Etc

 

So I started looking at adding sceneries

 

I started running into troubles.

 

When I try adding stuff to my scenery.cfg directly, it doesn't load the scenery. ( I do this all the time under FSX).so I had to delete then entires I added

 

So now I go into FSX to add the nomral way and that was frustrating since it wouldn't take the scenery I was trying to add.. when googling for this I found a solution where I am supposed to place my cursor inso empty space ...

 

http://aussiex.org/f...with-windows-7/

 

But then when I went to see if it has added in my scenery.cfg... it doesn't like it has added.

 

Now when I try to start FSX..I get a fatal error at 99% of scenery index. The scenery.cfg file looks like the original one

 

 

Any ideas?

 

MAnny

 

At one time..when I went into FSX and I did not see any scenery listed...somewhere there, it would not even let me start FSX..I had to run FSX as an admin.

Manny,

 

What path did you install FSX into on WIN7? Did you let FSX be installed in to the default path \Program Files (x86) or did you choose your own path outside of the Program Files (x86) folder? It appears you may be having some permissions issues.

 

Regards,

 

Bob

I Installed in a separate drive F:\FSX

 

I don't have enough space in C:\ drive I want to use the C drive only for the OS

 

Manny

Manny, are you checking the correct scenery config ? The one in C:\Programdata\Microsoft\fsx ?

Yes....thats the one.

 

I recovered from the fatal error by overwriting the scenery.cfg from the one in the fsx folder.

 

But now, everytime I dbl click on FSX.exe I have to right click and do "run as administrator". Is this my new world? just cause I installed in an other drive?

 

Is there a way to permanently say run this darned fsx as an admin?

 

 

 

 

Manny, are you checking the correct scenery config ? The one in C:\Programdata\Microsoft\fsx ?

Is there a way to permanently say run this darned fsx as an admin?

 

Right click on the FSX.exe shortcut, and under the security tab, change the "permissions" to allow full control for the current user.

Right click on the FSX.exe shortcut, and under the security tab, change the "permissions" to allow full control for the current user.

 

Hmm... I tried that now... but that doesn't seem to work

 

When clicked on security tab, I saw a list of users "Administrator", myPCnameuser, Authorized user and system

 

I clicked on myPCnameuser and changed it to allowall.

 

When I double click on FSX.exe it loads and when I go to scenery settings, I see nothing.

 

Manny

 

thought when MS went from Vista to Win 7, they fixed this nightmare.

Have you tried with UAC off?

UAC? Whats that?

 

Ah!

 

http://www.mydigitallife.info/how-to-disable-and-turn-off-uac-in-windows-7/

Just turn it off,reboot,try adding scfg again.

Did this make a difference?

 

You could also try this,if you see any errors relating to your scenery cfg file:

 

http://sourceforge.n...ts/fs-sceditor/

Yeah... that did it. I brought the slider down to the bottom... and I am able to change the scenery.cfg file as well as run FSX without the run as admin.

 

Not sure if this makes me vulnerable worse than win xp. Hmmm

 

Manny

 

So how are others here setting this up?

Thats good to hear.Glad to have helped!

You can leave the UAC off as long as you are certain the programs you run are safe.

You should also run a good antivirus program.

Thanks Venustus

You're welcome! :hi: