Gents, I have a problem. I am unable to install A2A redux Shockwave lights. I point it to the correct drive and FSX folder, yet it keeps saying: "Either FSX was not found or there is file corruption is found in your FSX directory. This would likely be corrected by re-installing FSX"

 

Doing some research on the developer's forum, they have mentioned:

 

"OK, that is one of the original installers. It is looking for the following files to verify it has found FSX:

[FSX]\fsx.exe
[FSX]\SimObjects\Airplanes\Lear45\aircraft.cfg
[FSX]\eula.rtf

If you don't have all of these, just make dummy files and it should be OK.

 

So, my question is, how and where do I create these "dummy files" ? Someone with knowlegge on this please advise me; will appreciate you.

How to make the dummy files is easy: Create a new text document, save it and rename it to "fsx.exe", "aircraft.cfg" and "eula.rtf". In order to achieve this, you will need to have the option to show all file extensions checked. You will get a warning message saying that by changing the file extension it may become unusable, simply click "yes" on that message.

Where to make them is even easier. It's the following location:

 

 

[FSX]\fsx.exe
[FSX]\SimObjects\Airplanes\Lear45\aircraft.cfg
[FSX]\eula.rtf

where [FSX] stands for your FSX install directory.

If you are prompted to overwrite the existing files click NO, because otherwise you will remove the Lear's config file or the FSX.exe, so you wouldn't be able to use FSX anymore at all (without reinstalling, that is) - besides, the fsx.exe file should be there anyway, otherwise you wouldn't be able to start the sim.

Yeah, I checked the FSX folder and all these three things, yet the installer keeps telling he does not sees it. I asked the developer and I was told to look for all 3. Oh well, I might just have to uninstall it or get it else where in an extracted form.