January 25, 20197 yr Evening, To put it shortly, I have no landing lights visible on the ground in front of my plane at night. This occurs with all default aircraft, and some payware planes (as far as I know, it's just the Aerosoft Twin Otter and the CaptainSim Boeing 757). On the CaptainSim 757, you can see the actual lights on the model, but not on the ground. I have gone though my settings in FSX. "Pilot controls landing lights" under realism is ON, and "aircraft landing lights reflect on the ground" is also ON. Any help would be much appreciated. CaptainSim have refused to help, by the way. That forum thread for that can be found here: https://www.captainsim.org/forum/csf.pl?num=1546440405 - Tom
January 25, 20197 yr Administrators If you jump to an outside view, looking at the nose of your aircraft, are your landing lights on? Can you show a screenshot of what you see? Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
January 25, 20197 yr As I recall, there were lots of issues in FSX with various add-ons replacing the default spotlight.bmp file that defines the landing light lightmap with something that didn't work properly. If it was replaced, it might also not be DX10-compatible if you're using DX10 Preview in FSX. FWIW, CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas...a far shot from refusing to help. Since you're also having problems with default acft, this sure looks like a problem with your system, as they suggested. Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
January 25, 20197 yr Administrators Possibly something corrupted the spotlight.bmp or removed it. Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
January 25, 20197 yr 4 minutes ago, w6kd said: FWIW, CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas...a far shot from refusing to help. Since you're also having problems with default acft, this sure looks like a problem with your system, as they suggested. Spot-on, Bob. I have lost count of the number of posts in the CS Forum, where 'every' fault even if user-created is ................a bug! I have been flying the CD757v3 now for a couple of weeks and at night mainly and never had an issue with just the taxi-light,--------never mind the runway t/o lights or landing lights -----giving me enough illumination on the taxiway. In P3Dv4.4 of course. Don't know about FSX as I ditched that platform ages ago Rick Almeida
January 26, 20197 yr 14 hours ago, dotmicron said: I have no landing lights visible on the ground in front of my plane at night. This occurs with all default aircraft, and some payware planes In your FSX settings do you have "Landing lights illuminate ground" checked? If you do and the landing lights still do not illuminate the ground, then I would suspect your spotlight.bmp texture file is at fault. My computer: ABS Gladiator Gaming PC featuring an Intel 10700F CPU, EVGA CLC-240 AIO cooler (dead fans replaced with Noctua fans), Asus Tuf Gaming B460M Plus motherboard, 16GB DDR4-3000 RAM, 1 TB NVMe SSD, EVGA RTX3070 FTW3 video card, dead EVGA 750 watt power supply replaced with Antec 900 watt PSU.
January 26, 20197 yr Author 14 hours ago, w6kd said: CaptainSim did not "refuse to help"...they responded to your inquiry several times, and finally ran out of ideas Yeah, I should have clarified my wording further. That's not what I meant to convey, sorry! (I'm also not using DirectX 10 preview) 14 hours ago, charliearon said: If you jump to an outside view, looking at the nose of your aircraft, are your landing lights on? Can you show a screenshot of what you see? Affirmative. 24 minutes ago, stans said: In your FSX settings do you have "Landing lights illuminate ground" checked? I do, yes. 14 hours ago, charliearon said: Possibly something corrupted the spotlight.bmp or removed it. Where is this located? In the effects directory? Cheers all for the input, it's much appreciated! 🙂
January 26, 20197 yr Administrators Spotlight.bmp is in FSX/Textures folder. Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
January 26, 20197 yr From that image, as it looks like a 757-200, the landing lights are clearly visible. Nose and wing mounted. So, no lack of landing lights. I have the same in my CS757-200 but, the taxiway is well-illuminated. So, fault elsewhere? Rick Almeida
January 26, 20197 yr Administrators Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings? Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
January 26, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, charliearon said: Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings? Is that for the OP, Charlie? Rick Almeida
January 26, 20197 yr Administrators 1 hour ago, vc10man said: Is that for the OP, Charlie? That's who I'm dealing with. Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
January 26, 20197 yr Author 3 hours ago, charliearon said: Do you have a checkmark in "Advanced Animations" in your settings? Yep. 4 hours ago, charliearon said: Spotlight.bmp is in FSX/Textures folder. Can confirm, it's present, and looks fine. https://www.dotmicron.com/media/spotlight.bmp 3 hours ago, vc10man said: I have the same in my CS757-200 but, the taxiway is well-illuminated. So, fault elsewhere? That's what I was getting at.
January 26, 20197 yr 1 hour ago, charliearon said: That's who I'm dealing with. Thanks for clarifying that. I thought it was in response to my observation of the lights being on. Rick Almeida
January 26, 20197 yr Administrators There is a setting in FSX/Realism that says "pilot controls landing light". Is that also checked? Charlie AronAVSIM Board of Directors-ADMIN/Moderator-RegistrarJust going to run a Chromebook and not upgrade to a Windows computer. Too many problems with the new Sims! 😱Trying to keep peace and harmony and the will of Landru on the site seems to be a full time job!
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