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All of a sudden, FLATLAND, or sot of...

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Well,

 

in my usual bi-monthly install of FSX:SE, in the last days, and as I was working through the usual sequence of tunning and installing the most significative add-ons, and also preparing to decide if I would take the plunge and buy the FSLabs Airbus, something happened I had never experienced in all my life as an FSX uninstaller :-)

 

As I was going through the process of installing some drivers that allow me to use ELITE hardware with FSX:SE, a blue screen I had found a few times after upgrading to win10 Anniversary and then stopped occuring after a couple of patches they released a couple of weeks ago, appeared again, with a big :" :-)" and reporting that something unexpected had happened to my system and info was being collected before a reboot was going to be forced...

 

After the reboot, I loaded ELITE first, made a small flight, everything was fine, then started FSX, chose an airport near Lisbon with some hills around and, as my A2A C182 loaded and I was at rw 35, pointing exactly towards the hills, no hills were there at all ?

 

Changed place into a few more places around, where there is mountainous terrain and NADA!  Went to the Alps, and although there was some hint of mesh, it looked rather strange ????

 

I tried everything, including deleteting scenery.cfg but nothing solved the strange phenomenon :-(   I eventually uninstalled FSX ( this turn id didn't last more than  1 day.... ) but I am still puzzled about what might have caused it ?

 

Any suggestions welcome :-)

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

List your terrain addons. If you have Ultimate Terrain run the config tool and it will fix your terrain.cfg. Try the same if you have Orbx products run the FTX Central and first try installing latest library file.

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No scenery / terrain add-ons. Was using plain vanilla fsx:se

 

Only add-ons installed by that time were a2a's c172, c182 and comanche, as16 and asca.

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

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Steam did one update in the middle of this process, but it was a Steam client update, I guess, so, there were no restored scenery or terrain CFGs unfortunately.

 

Also for FSX:SE I saw no option to "REPAIR" the installation. I believe a full install would be required.

 

What is really strange is that the simulator was not running when the win 10 blue screen appeared - only the install process of the driver for ELITE hardwar ewas running at that moment.

 

Apparently no other components of the sim were affected, which is even more strange ?

 

Thx for your comments / suggestions 777200lrf!

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

You've tried verifying the integrity of the game cache via Steam I take it?

Mark Robinson

Part-time Ferroequinologist

Author of FLIGHT: A near-future short story (ebook available on amazon)

I made the baby cry - A2A Simulations L-049 Constellation

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Didn't try that one Mark. Thx for the suggestion.

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

Didn't try that one Mark. Thx for the suggestion.

 

I already asked you to verify the local cache

Ryzen 5 1600x - 16GB DDR4 - RTX 3050 8GB - MSI Gaming Plus

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OOps, had missed your suggestion Zulfi... Too late anyway - I would have to re-install...

Learning to fly gliders since 1980

Stopped using flightsims for good since early August 2026, after 34 yrs using some really great specimens... If I'm asked to name the preferred one, after all these years, MSFS 2024 is my answer without hesitation.

(No desktop :-// after the last one crashed for good, so no simming, but I keep polling AVSIM - my main ludic activities spot since around 2006...)

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