July 15, 201213 yr OK...get your reading glasses on for this one... Recently I noticed that some of the cockpit icons on a B737-700 / 800 installed in FS2004 had disappeared. That is to say the buttons for GPS etc are no longer part of the panel. See the image below; It should look like this Now on studying the panel.cfg for the aircraft these particular icons / gauges are part of a .cab file called "simicons.cab" which is stored in the gauges folder of FS. My first attempt at a solution was to uninstall both aircraft and reinstall them in the belief that this file was part of the installation package. This was unsuccessful. Therefore my conclusion is that they either come as part of the default FS2004 installation or some other third party package. If they are part of the default FS2004 installation then they are located on any one of four DVD's...not a task I relish trying to find them in there to be honest... So if any pilot has knowledge of the above and can offer some help then please do!
July 15, 201213 yr SimIcons.cab is part of the default gauge installation. I suggest you load and look at any default airplane panel ie. C172, and determine if those icons appear where they should. If they do then you having a gauge numbering issue in configuration file for the panel you have shown above. If your stock icons don't show in the MS aircraft then it is a problem with the SimIcons.Cab, either missing or modified. Check your gauge folder for it if you have not already, should be 14kb in size. Mine reads: Thursday, June 12, 2003, 11:22:53 PM in the properties section. I also have SimIcons1024, 20kb in size, Thursday, June 12, 2003, 11:22:55 PM. They can both be found on Disk 2, in MSGAME3.cab. Hope this helps, Regards, Mel
July 15, 201213 yr Author Mel Thanks for your help. The problem is now partiality fixed with just the two far right icons of the lower five missing. I will examine the panel.cfg closely to understand more. Again - many thanks.
July 16, 201213 yr Is this Paul Scarratt's 737 NG panel? I don't remember ever having seen a second line of icons below the RTOKI. Where did you get this panel? Best regards from Colombia, Luis Miguel Best regards,Luis Hernández Main rig: self built, AMD Ryzen 7 5700X3D (with SMT off and CO -50 mV), 2x16 GB DDR4-3200 RAM, Nvidia RTX 5060Ti 16GB, 256 GB M.2 SSD (OS+apps) + 2x1 TB SATA III SSD (sims) + 1 TB 7200 rpm HDD (storage), ID-Cooling SE-224-XTS air cooler, Viewsonic VX2458-MHD 1920x1080@120-144 Hz (G-sync compatible), Windows 11. Running P3D v5.4 (with v4.5 scenery objects as an additional library, just in case), FSX-SE, MSFS2020, MSFS2024 and even FS9! Lossless Scaling for all my sims. What a godsend...Mobile rig: ASUS Zenbook UM425QA (AMD Ryzen 7 5800H APU @3.2 GHz and boost disabled, 1 TB M.2 SSD, 16 GB RAM, Windows 11 Pro). Running FS9 there .VKB Gladiator NXT Premium Left + GNX THQ as primary controllers. Xbox Series X|S wireless controller as standby/mobile.
July 16, 201213 yr Author The panel is part of a package downloaded from a virtual airline I fly with.
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