I need some help. I recently tried to install this GSX from FSDremaTeam, and it totally screwed up my sim. I managed to remove the GSX but now my 'sun' texture is nothing but a pink square box in the sky. I had a copy of my original sun textures and tried replaceing the textures, but still have nothing but a square pink box instead of the sun. I have made a bunch of mods to the sim and added a lot of addon airplanes, I don't want to have to re-install FSX again. I went through that once already and it's areal pain to have to put everything back in and get it running smoothly again. How can I get the sun back or simply just remove the darn thing altogether ,I can live without it. That stupid square box is annoying, I'd rather have no sun show at all than to have that big,square,pink box up there.

FSX as in the one from discs or FSX-SE Steam Edition?

Disc Acceleration version. I also noticed my water textures look like nothing but a bloch of color with no textures to it at all. Changing the slider to 1x high shows some texture but anything in the 2x setting shows no texture to the water. I think GSX really messed up my sim's system files.

I can understand your frustration and reluctance to reinstalling FSX, but I don't think GSX modifies water textures or indeed the sun, however I may be wrong in this assumption and am open to correction on this by someone with more knowledge of the product!

Could I ask how did you remove GSX?

Bill

I have no water effects at all now. I tried replacing the texture folder with a backup, didn't help any, replaced all the water textures with backups, didn't help, slider is at max, no fix, advanced animations is on, no fix, I cannot get my water effects back now, the water is nothing more than just painted space with no waves, no nothing. I wish now that I had never installed that stupid GSX addon, it has completely screwed up the sim. I hate addons that modify your system files and don't give you a backup of the files it changes so you can't restore everything back to it's original state, so now I'm stuck with ugly water, no reality at all. 

You may want to consider a REPAIR rather than a re-install.

 

I used the GSX uninstaller and removed EVERYTHING pertaining to GSX. I have recently re-installed FSX (had no choice at this point) ,it got my water textures back, but now none of my background exclusions work at all. I now have vegetation in the middle of my roads and runways. I've been working trying to fix that for days now but having no luck. I haven't actually been able to have any enjoyment from my sim since I installed the BIG MISTAKE gsx. It really messed things up. And yes, in my search for answers, GSX DOES modify textures,and some very important system files in FSX, unless you are a programmer, there is NO WAY to return these modified files back to their original state. You will have to do a complete re-install of the sim. However as it has now been established, even that will not return it to 100% functionality.  The only way I know to do that is to install FSX on a completely 'fresh' computer. GSX modifies things and they are permanent unless you are familiar with what files do what and know how to edit those files and remove whatever modifications were made to them. I've been trying to fix the 'background exclusion' thing for days and not having any luck. I don't know where to go from this point now. I'm probably going to purchase a copy of win11 on disc so I can create a Virtual Machine and just install FSX,ADE,MCX,SBX,etc.. onto it and use it only for simming and nothing else. Hopefully the VM will bypass whatever GSX has messed up on the main computer. This is the final solution I can come up with. I'll never install another addon that has to install itself into FSX and start messing with files. The only addons I will put in will be aircraft and other non-evasive addons. This tought me a very important lesson. One i will NEVER forget.