A while back in Fly!'s development a feature was added to allow us to access scenery from other physical drives than what the Fly!II program was installed on.  This was very important for me, as my scenery data is quite large (around 16 GB right now).  Since I switched to Win7 a while back, this no longer appears to function.

 

As I recall the setting in the fly.ini was:

 

searchOtherDrives=1

 

There is also this line, which may be an old parameter:

 

serchOtherDrives=0

 

I've tried every variation of these 2 settings with no success.  Is anyone else experiencing this issue?  Might it be a "compatibility files" problem?

In Win7, did you set Fly! II to run under Administrator rights and turn UAC off? Also, I found in some cases if I were to run Fly! II under WinXP compatibility mode for Service Pack 2, I had less problems.

I run FLy! II on its own HDD with all scenery on same drive, so I've not really needed the feature. 

Might give above a try if you have not yet and see if that helps. Can always try Win98 compat mode, too!   :lol:

 

Cheers!
Ken

Hi Ken,

 

I've had a major life change in the previous 1 1/2 years so I'm catching up on a lot of things.

 

I can tell you that on my system that if I run under Admin, InfoMetar's metar data is no longer recognized by Fly!II.  It's become obvious that I'll need to get all of Fly! out of the Program Files area to shut down the Compatibility Mode issues.

 

I believe that the only way to do this is a clean install with the Fly!II directory in the root.  As everything else is working fine for now, I'll leave it alone.