Hello All,

This is not a new issue but I cant seem to find a definitive answer and am hoping that someone can point me in the right direction.

I am running FSX with Acceleration.

Apart from a few airplanes, landing lights no longer illuminate runways. The runway lights themselves are all OK.

The only scenery addition i have is ORBX Europe scenery.

I have had two recent airplane additions - Aerosoft Twin Otter Extended, and Majestic DHC8-Q400 - nothing else. The same problem exists with these two airplanes.

FSX settings are set to illuminate runway.

Can anyone offer any suggestions other than a complete FSX reinstall.

Thanks,

Mike

 

Hi Mike,

 

not sure what's causing your problem but I do have FSX with Acceleration along with ORBx and other 3rd party scenery/airpports and I have no issues with landing lights, so I know it should all be OK. I don;t have the Otter but I do have the Dash plus some of thr PMDG range and Aerosofts 318/9/20 range and again it's fine with them.

 

Do you have dx10 preview switched on? maybe a dx10 issue?

Thanks Brian but no dx10 switched on.

I will continue searching for some sort of clue.

Mike

Perhaps something has corrupted or replaced the "spotlight.bmp" texture in the main textures folder?

Thanks Stans - will have a look at that .bmp and post again.

spotlight.bmp seemed to be the original but I managed to find a copy and temporarily replaced it - no effect !

This is quite interesting in that looking deeper into the issue I find that not only do I have no illumination of the runway but the landing lights do not show up as lit from outside of the airplanes.

This seems to apply to all default airplanes but not a Maam Sim DC3 add on.

Similarly the PMDG NGX has lights but the Twin Otter and the DHC8-400 have none.

Strange ?

From what I could gather for you, I found this:

 

• Make sure "advanced animations" is checked in your fsx settings.
• The light you are looking for is halo.bmp...make sure it is present.

Maybe these will help?

 

-Jim

Hello again Jim.

Am still chasing a solution.

Advanced animations checked, and I have managed to get copies of halo.bmp [and spotlight.bmp].

But neither fixed my issue.

It is quite interesting in that PMDG NGX works fine, Aerosoft Twin Otter shows the lights but they dont illuminate runways, all default aircraft dont show lights or illuminate, but AI aircraft seem to be working OK !

Someone somewhere suggested that ORBX does strange things to lights and I can see a number of ORBX Halo files [Halo.1 thru to Halo.6] but I have no idea what these are.

Good fun isnt it ?

Also ensure that 'Landing Lights illuminate ground' in your Aircraft settings is checked.

Thanks Chris, but that was first thing I checked.

Progress !

I was surfing various forums with the hope of finding someone else with the same issues.

And I found that someone on an ORBX forum.

Whilst it wasnt an ORBX problem the concensus was that an install/uninstall of 'something' had deleted or corrupted some files in the Effects/Texture folder.

A 'wise man' on that forum kindly posted a copy of his Effects folder and suggested as a test that I substitute it for my [corrupted] one.

After re-naming my folder and copying in the replacement I now have lights !

To be honest I still dont know which of the many many files had been deleted or corrupted and it is rather difficult to draw any conclusions from comparing the two Effects folders - 'wise man's' is much much bigger than my original folder - but that is an issue for another day - at least I can fly at night again.

Thanks again to all who posted on here.

Mike

...the concensus was that an install/uninstall of 'something' had deleted or corrupted some files in the Effects/Texture folder.

There is simply no excuse for any add-on to delete default files, ever! Whoever's "uninstaller" should quietly remove any custom files and replace them with backup copies of the default files.

There is simply no excuse for any add-on to delete default files, ever! Whoever's "uninstaller" should quietly remove any custom files and replace them with backup copies of the default files.

That's the way it should be, but sadly, it isn't always that way.  This is why I fear automatic installers and automatic uninstallers.