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Sorry Ian that I kind of escalated your initial post. I never meant to say that Aerosoft deliberately made a misleading text to their advertisement in a "crooked" way. But it happens now and then with advertisements in general whether it's SimMarket or other sites, that information texts are misleading and worse; in between there certainly are some unserious providors of FS addons out there. Then it's very OK that the potential customers learn about this before any credit cards are "drawn". That's about what I wanted to bring out, but again, like Aerosoft, neither is my mother language English..... Regards, Carl

I find it very friendly and loyal of you to inform about this. I was fortuned though to find out about this (by searching here, there and everywhere) before I drew my credit card. It would be nice also to use FS fora in order to inform each other more about such things in general. I beleive that it would have a positive effect on the vendors in making more descriptive product information and perhaps also reduce the numbers of "crooks" out there. Carl

All textures restored, thanks ! My sim is pretty well organized; All changes that I'm aware of, are not done without making backup of the default files in question. I always (well 99 %) then write a text file with reference to installation file and so on. All freeware scenery installations are devided into continents and then countries......, library files are picked out and put into a common folder to avoid duplicates of .bgl files and .bmp-files.....well and much more... I also have kept all downloaded scenery .zip's in the same way and a copy of every text-file made lies in respectively download folders.... (It's a lot of work all together, made over several years though. It's all a little bit ----> :Nerd:'y you know, but it usually pays off...) (No wonder that I find it troublesome switching to FSX :Whew:) It's difficult of corurse when a problem sneaks unseen into the sim. Good to have this nice forum here then.... By the way, (a little off.topic) one of the most beneficial efforts I've made lately is to change all .bmp's in the AI-folders and scenery folders to DXT3 with alpha channel. A lot of airports that were slow before are now showing a tremendous increase in performance. Well, thanks to you all again. Carl

Hi Andy, just to supply a bit. OPA was quite right about this and so you. I'm usually do according to this advise, except for those addons that come from vendors that already have a "hub"-folder in my sim. (Multiple installations from same vendor). Maybe one should use the same procedure as you describe for them as well..... But, won't that be a problem later on with updates, uninstallation and so on ? (a registry problem I mean). Further more there exists addons that replace textures at users discretion so to say."REX" or "Ground Environment" f.ex.; which gives you the option to change themes. When one of those replacement processes get hung up or don't finnish the replacement for any reason some texture may get lost? There is of course also a problem with those addons that come with .exe-installer that gives no option for adressing the files. Regards, Carl

Hi Ron, yes, sounds logical - I have "a couple" of such apps :wink: and they're all supplied with .exe installer Regards, Carl

Hi Joe, just got aware of that my thanks to you wasn't posted properly. So again, thanks for helping me out of this, much apreciated ! Have not a clue though what caused those textures to vanish from my sim..... Regards, Carl

Hi rainerk, of course, and as you see now - your and Joe's information surely made my day ! Thanks to you too ! Regards, Carl

Hi, thanks for responding on this. You mean the scenery\world\texture-agn.files ? That's what I have done, as described. Carl

Hi all, all of a sudden I have encountered a problem with autogen textures. White squares pop up and disappear continually at GROUND level where ever I move around in the FS world - default or addon sceneries. I have searched a lot of fora for this problem, however, without finding a clear successful solution. Setting the autogen slider to none (all the way to left) will leave the problem out. Hence I assume that this is related to the autogen textures. I have tried following to solve the problem: Adjusting the FS cfg. file by setting other values for ¤ PAN_RATE ¤ TERRAIN_EXTENDED_RADIUS ¤ TERRAIN_EXTENDED_LEVELS Replaced all agn.-files in the sceney\world\texture with the default ones (I assume these are the autogen textures) Updated my graphic card driver with the newest offered by NVIDIA. The problem still persists. Here are my specs.: - Intel Core Quad i7-920 - NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 - Socket-1366, DDR3, ATX, SLI&CrossFireX, 3xPCI-Ex(2 - 10000RPM, SATA, 3 Gb/s, 16MB - Sata 3 Gb/s, 32MB Cache, 7200RPM - SATA 3.0Gb/s, 32MB, 7200RPM - W7 Home premium 64 Bit - Wide FS client PC with ASE-weather engine and more Hope someone knows about this problem and could assist me in order to help me back on track. Carl

Hi again,it seems I finally found the text source and how to solve the problem. The text comes from the air-file (the file refered to in the cfg-file in the line "sim=").The problem occurs for those fltsim.-sections where the line "description=" doesn't have any additional text (is empty). By some occasion, I'm not sure which, the aircraft cfg. will read what's in the air file that correspond to the line "description=" and copy tthis text to the line. This means that for every fltsim.-section that allready have some text for the line "description=" will not get an additional text copied from the air-file.To solve the problem one have to mark the description line with any sign (like; description=/). To open the air-file and remove just the text concerned makes the air file not working anymore (FS crashes when traffic is activated and the any of the AC's corrected are active in the AI-machine for the present area in the sim.For those aircraft folders that have air-files without text meant for the description in the cfg-file, the problem I have brought up will not occure.Voila,Carl

Thanks for your response. I will certainly try that, although I have installed FS directly in a seperate hard drive which also is a single partition. However you'r right about the OS; I have W7, and I never had such spooky experience with the previous XP-installation. Carl

Thanks to you all,the text surely comes back "on its own" and of course I've deleted the text in every section, leaving the "description=" without any additional text. And surely I save the ac.cfg each time I make changes I want to keep. I wonder if anyone experience the same as I do. Otherwise the FS seems to have thrown a spell on me....? Carl

Hi,in the aircraft.cfg files there are a line called "description". Sometimes I delete some text there that takes a lot of lines (making the fltsim.number sections far too spacy). However, the text keeps automatically comming back. Here is an example: description=From the most successful family of jetliners ever built comes the 737-400. This can be your entry into virtual airline flying. Whether you're making short-haul or longer domestic flights, the 737-400 is a versatile and efficient airplane. See the Aircraft Information section of Help for tips on flying this aircraft. How can I get rid of this text for good ? Someone feeling my pain out there ? Regards, Carl

Thanks both of you. Yes I can live with that, my reaction was most based on a principal attitude. We flightsimmers must have some principles too......... Carl

My goodness, does that mean the first edition is (nearly) useless and MS require me to buy a new sim in order to have one that works ????? Thanks for your response anyway, much appreciated! Carl