Hornit

I'd really like to see: DC-8, DC-9, Convair 580,737-200/300,727

Thanks Bert, Im all over it, have seen refs to that all over the place recently in my efforts to understand this stuff better!

So based on all that Im assuming any installer I download for whatever scenery/aircraft etc, I point to the folder with my main install, which is the one on my Specific SSD for FS?

Havent been around here in a while. Finally got a nice enough computer to run this sim in most if not all its glory. My big question here is understanding the file structure and why they seem to be in differing places and on different drives when I installed the Steam version into my D drive which is a new WD Black 4TB SSD. I have a separate directory I created on the SSD for this install . I just recently installed this drive specifically for FS so it has no other folders. These folders are labeled Flight Sim, which is what I named it for the FS install, and Steam Library which appeared after the install from steam which took FOREVER, but thats another story 😉 The Flight sim folder has two folders inside it, Official and Community. Since I have no add ons ...yet....the Community folder is empty. The Official folder is all the resident stuff on my computer and is about 158GB with the fresh install. I then find out after roaming (%appdata%) that I have a Microsoft Flight Simulator folder on my C drive. In it is a bunch of stuff totaling about 8GB, but in this folder there is a Packages folder and inside it are another Community folder and Steam one. Can someone enlighten me as to why this is set up like this? Also when I want to install some aftermarket things, like scenery, aircraft,tools, where do I point installers to do that? Im assuming its going to the main folder on the Big SSD in my "Flight Sim" folder, but after doing a lot of tweaking and reading in this last week after installing, Im kinda confused. Any light you gurus can shine on this mystery I am sure will help. TIA...and oh, I just found out you cannot open and close doors on any of the default aircraft!!! 😉 I suspect it has something to do with "apps" and how they are handled/run by windows and Im not the youngest chicken in the roost. Lotta old school knowledge here and only recently went to newer versions of windows in the last few years. Win 7 ran everything EXTREMELY well here. Dont get me wrong, Im loving the graphics in this sim, but finding things and getting used to all the camera oddities etc. is quite daunting!

You could install a fresh drive, SSD or a HD and do a fresh install of Win 10 on it. Keep your old HD (Win 7) installed and just change the boot order in the BIOS screen when you want to go back and use the old drive/software. When you are done, you just reboot and use the BIOS to use the new drive again. Ive done this successfully many times over the years. Just takes a few moments to switch.

I really believe its something else on the airport...a bgl..causing the removal of autogen. I tried many combos of off/on and the only one which was consistently showing this bug was with the scenery active. if you remove it from the list, or just deactivate it, the autogen retuns. Others are reporting this with their DEN airport in a few spots as well. I think they did a good job..but are missing the mark just a bit with the tree blending and this issue.

I did Blue. Mir said there would be no fix and they know about it. I have seen others with like problems with some of their other sceneries and the general conclusion from folks who know how to do scenery is that one or another of their bgls causes it. It is definitely the scenery causing it, repeatable and verified by removing and reinstalling scenery. I also noted the mismatch of tree colors using FTX for fall and to some extent other seasons and was told they develop their sceneries for default fsx. I find that kind of humorous since there probably are not many of us who run stock fsx textures and buy add ons such as this. My post was then “politely” locked. 😏

Haha..that IS with the fall setting with the manager!

Nope. here is a screenshot of what Im seeing.....you will also notice that their tree colors do not get close to matching Orbx fall ones. Other seasons are fine.

I recently picked up Flightbeams KIAD for FSX and Im seeing some issues with autogen around the perimeter of the airport. I was wondering if anyone else is having this problem. basically outside of the scenery perimeter which is a roadway, the autogen is blanked or suppressed. Dont have this issue without the scenery installed. Flighbeam says its a known issue but I was just wondering if anyone else is seeing that with the scenery. Im using FTX Global and open LC NA. Particularly I see a hole in the NE quadrant which is about a mile wide and long and one up near the NW corner which is a bit smaller.

Ok..this is weird.....I DID have advanced animations selected.....I turned them off and turned them on again and viola...working like its supposed to!!! Apparently this is a problem with this model for some. Saw a lot of older posts about this. Some folks never got it sorted.

Hmmm...no matter what I do my visual model is porked. No other default or add on aircraft have this issue. Seems to fly just fine....but I like looking at external views and its definitely messed up. Even if i do the tutorial and mission with the glider. Further investigation ongoing!

Its got flaperons, spoilers, ballast. Looks to me like my wings do not flex and something is wrong with the flaperons...they look like that no mater what i do with the controls.

HAHA...nope....just want to figure out how to make this thing look right in my sim!

FSX Accel, Win7, Orbx stuff.