I've recently lost all touchdown smoke upon landing. I'm sure its not because of always greasin' em in either. I wish. Could someone please suggest other areas to check besides the obvious special effects settings in the display section. I've noticed when watching the landing that it seems to want to generate the smoke (the fuselage is blocked out as if smoke were being generated, but its by an invisible effect). I have the fx.touchdown file in the effects folder too. What the......! Thanks, Tom

Ehhhhh, anyone?

On just one aircraft or ALL of them? Did you try out the heavies?Does this have anything to do with that small addon? the touchdown effect?'cause if it's just one, then open the aircraft's .cfg and scan down to make sure the "effect" is listed for that a/c and look for the effects line:touchdown=fx_tchdwn, 1or look like this:touchdown=fx_tchdwn_s, 1The difference is that there is very little smoke on touchdown now which is appropriate for Lear45s and other smaller planes, while the first one is for large planes.

Its on all the aircraft. And it was going on before I downloaded the touchdown effect addon recently. I've opened up various aircraft cfg. files and all looks well. I'm stumped.

It sounds to me that if it affects ALL of your a/c, perhaps your touchdown smoke file (fx_tchdwn.fx) has become corrupted. I have had several files go bad on me in various versions of MSFS over the years (usually for no apparent reason), and I generally reinstal the specific file if I can identify it.Better yet, go to the AVSIM library and download the new touchdown smoke file (which is stunning!) and instal that. Does it work?JS

Tom, I have had the same problem. I have no idea what's going on either.Still looking.

hi...I have had the same problem. but soluted this problem today.checking your folder...x:Microsoft GamesFlight Simulator 9Effectstexturedo you have texture folder in effects folder and xxx.bmp file in texture folder???Best Regards.