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Update: I installed the original FS9 program and transferred all aircraft, scenery add-ons and payware aircraft from the old XP computer to my Win7 computer. The basic FS9 runs, including all AI and payware aircraft, with the exception of the gauges and add-on sceneries. The gauges and sceneries were also trasferred, but I don't understand why they are not working. I can only assume it is due to the fact I am now under windows 7 environment? I'm afraid I may have to re-install all 430 sceneries again, but I am confused about the gauges. I will appreciate your input. My new computer: Dell Precision 490, Intel Xeon 5130 @ 2ghz, 6GB, Win7 64bit:

Issue resolved by scenery designer.

Hi there. I am still using FS2004, and not switching to FSX yet because I have a lot of money invested with add-on payware products. My question is regarding the many scenery folders I found at the bottom of my Flight Simulator folder. There is a NewScenery, oldscenery. Over 20 "Scenery before .....xxx" folders. scenery ifsd110, scenery ifsd111, etc. Is there a program that will be able to manage all of these list of sceneries I added to my Flight Simulator? The extra lists are too many to locate what I am looking for. It all started when I was trying to delete an old scenery for SKBO I purchased many years ago from a group called Virtual Colombia. I cannot delete that scenery because I cannot find it in the list of airports installed in my Flight Simulator. I just purchased a new scenery made by Blue Print Simulations. When I installed it, I was hoping it would override the previous scenery, but it is still there. Perhaps someone can assist me here. I will be very grateful. Thanks

Thank you gentlemen. Now I can have my new computer dedicated solely to Flight Simulator and related items such as creating FS videos (YouTuber:1DLFlyer/RSU214) and repainting textures. :smile:

Hello everyone. I have FS9 and has been running very slowly for the past couple of years as I continue to add sceneries and thousands of AI flightplans. I still run it on Windows XP. I would like to upgrade to windows 7 and use a second drive instead of drive C. Will it run on Windows 7 as well? Thanks for your help.

Edetroit, you are the best! Your suggestion and the time you took to show me the correct steps to resolve my problem is greatly appreciated. That's what I like about the Avsim forums. There are many people who are always available to give a hand to one another. Thanks to all!. Now, if you could only show me how to land...just kidding I love all of your videos. Thanks again Edetroit. Hernan (1DLflyer)

Hi Kevin. Thanks for your response. Basically I did as you suggested, however, after making changes & saving the file, it went to my Flight Simulator 9/Scenery/World/Scenery folder as: "KSTL_ADE9_XXX.ade" Opened FS to verify my changes and they are still the same. Perhaps I am using the wrong steps in saving the ADE file. After I finished making the changes I went to: File/Save Airport. Was that correct? Thanks.

Hi Edetroit. I will follow your suggestion. I'm not very familiar how to use ADE, but, I'll definitely try it. MGH...I was using the AFCAD v2.21. After updating the gate assignments, I saved it to the scenery folder and it created a new Afcad file: "AF2_KSTL.bgl". I just deleted the T2G scenery. Verified that the default scenery was there and re-installed the T2G scenery again. I noticed the "default" buildings are gone and it looks just the way it should be. I also looked in the Scenery folder and saw two afcad folders. One is: "KSTL_AF.BGL" 47KB BGL file and it was the original file modified on 5/7/12. The other is: "KSTL-AF.BGL" 66KB BGL file and modified 8/12/15 which is the date I re-installed the scenery. I have also noticed it has a: KSTL-FLATTEN.bgl file modified 5/4/12. Apparently the two KSTL_AF and KSTL-AF, plus the new Afcad I created are somehow causing this problem but, I was wondering why do they include two AFcads? If I use the ADE, will it complicate matters more? Anyway, I'll attempt to correct it with ADE. If I still have the same problem, I can always uninstall and start all over ...

Hi everyone. I have FS9 and I recently purchased a great scenery by Taxi2Gate for the KSTL airport. When checking my scenery, I realized the AFCAD provided by Taxi2Gate needed to be updated. After spending a few hours to correct gate assignments, based on STL website, I updated the AFCAD that came with the scenery. When I re-opened my scenery hoping to see my new AI Traffic going to its correct gates I was surprised to see that the scenery changed showing what looked like the default scenery buildings re-appeared behind all of the wonderful scenery created by Taxi2Gate. I asked about my problem in their support page almost a month ago, but there is no response from them or even a suggestion from any members reading their forum. I believe I read in this forum about a similar problem, but I cannot remember how it was resolved. Can someone here help me how this can be resolved?. The gate assignments for SWA work fine, only a couple of gates for the American Eagle planes show up. Not a single American Airlines main line showed up. A few Delta and United planes showed up at the wrong gates. I will appreciate any input. Thanks

Thanks Mark. I needed a second pair of eyes to find the error. I definitely need to have my eyes checked out

Hi there. I have FS9 and I am trying to add a flightplan for a flight I recently took from LAX to IND on Delta Air Lines, This particular flight has not been updated with any AI flightplans yet. With the help of Flightaware.com I was able to complete the flightplan. The flight is operated using a Boeing 737-900ER. I used Ttools, but I am getting an error message: "The altitude format is bad (should be 0 to 1023)" Here is the flightplan: AC#1,N833DN,1%,WEEK,IFR,1/12:25:00,@1/17:40:00,320,F,2221,KSEA,1/20:10;00,@1/23:28:00,350,F,2308,KMSP,2/00:34:00,@2/04:12:00,320,F,2321,KLAX,2/05:30:00,@2/10:20:00,350,F,0877,KIND The altitudes are correct. I don't see any error in the format. Can any flightplan experts help, please? Thanks

Hello everyone, I purchased the CLS A330/340 package a few years ago. Everything was working fine until recently when I was flying my A330-200 and 330-300 models I noticed the panels had basically dissapeared. All I see is what it looks like a Cessna 172 panel without the gauges. I noticed simiilar problems with the A340 series, the panels are "flattened" appearing ion only a third of my screen. Obviously now it is more difficult to obtain support since CLS's website is no longer available. I downloaded their SP4 update patch by it doesn't change anything. With the A330-200 the panel folder is there. ie: panel.pw, panel.rr, etc. Same as the A330-300 model. I have not made any modifications either. I didn't think of installing a different panel since it may not work the same. Can anyone help me here please? thanks

Hi Dave, You answered my prayers Thank you! Now all I need is for someone to help me figure out why my computer takes sooo looong to start up. Obviously there is something wrong with my FS. Once it starts, AI aircraft textures and even with some sceneries start all gray and it takes a while before they get "painted". I know this is a different issue and I will post it as a new subject. Thanks again Dave.

Hi David, I followed your suggestion. Unfortunately it did not work. It did confirm that the key "Y" will activate the slew mode, but didn't see anything with other key assignments to move around. I believe that the ability to move around in whatever direction was a default function and not a keyboard assignment. Just in case, I did reset to the default mode, but it did not make a difference. At the moment the only way for me to do it is by using the default Bell helicopter. I appreciate your suggestion. I will wait for more input before I attempt to re-install. :(

You need the F3 key to increase your altitude and F1 to lower the altitude. With the numeric keyboard, use 5 to stop, 8 to move forward, 2 to go back, 6 to move to the right, 4 to move to the left. 7,9,2,and 3 will slew in "circles". I use this slew mode a lot when checking around a new scenery, or even when flying cross country you can move forward very fast :rolleyes:

I tried that, but, didn't work. I'm tempted to re-install FS9, but, I'm afraid I may lose all my add-ons. Am I correct? :blush:

I didn't see or read anyone mentioning if there is a scenery for Auckland Airport in New Zealand NZAA. I have an old scenery created in 2005. I rate this scenery about a 5 (1-10) because of the scale of its buildings and aprons. In the main terminal area large AI aircraft such as the 747s to A333's, they park very tighly. In the commuter terminal area, all aircraft bump into each other when taxiing around. I have also searched in SimMarket for a payware version and I didn't find anything. Any suggestions?

I am totally shocked. A few minutes ago I was using my FS9 without a problem. I uploaded a flight plan that required a parking spot and downloaded an AFCAD file made for a very small scenery for SLOR (Oruro, Bolivia) and the only one I found was for FSX. I changed it to AF2_SLOR from its original format (FSX_SLOR) hoping it would work for me. All it did was to install parking spaces. I was actually looking for a simple scenery that would replace the default airport which sits inside a huge hole. I moved to another airport and noticed that my SLEW mode was not working properly. I normally press the "Y" in my key board and move around using the numeric keyboard. Unfortunately my aircraft did not slew as I always did in the past. I normally press the F3 key to move up, then, 1-9 in the numeric keyboard to move around the airport. It did move up, but It didn't stop with key #5 or move right or left with the other numeric keys. I deleted the AFCAD that was originally made for FSX. Closed Flight Simulator, re started my computer, hoping this may do the trick, but, when I re started FS, there was no change. Is there any way to recover the SLEW mode or is there a way to correct this error? I would appreciate your help. Thanks :huh:

Thanks Bert. Peter, your suggestion makes a lot of sense. I'll install on another computer the 64 version of Win7. This project will take a long time, but, I'll give it a try and report. Thank you guys.

Gentlemen, thanks you for your replies. I found ou tmy BACKUP folder was missing. I was able to load FS9 on another computer, copy the folder back into my original FS9. I installed the FS9.1 update but got the message "FS9.1 update already installed". I run the defragment of the hard drive. I increased the memory for my computer a few years ago. Next, I will apply the patch. I am still a bit confused about the LAA. The search of LAA thru Google has me a bit confused. I'll work on it when I spend more time learning about it. I will work on these once I know where to find them: ScanAFD ProcessExplorer dxtfixerx_v2.1 FSTextureChecker.exe for AI Aircraft Your instructions sound like they are the best for me. Thanks so much for taking the time to look into them for me. After doing some of the initial suggestions, I run my flightsim to see if there was a difference, but I didn't notice anything different yet. In the mean time a couple of projects got on my way. I got a request to do a repaint texture for the new Boliviana de Aviacion Boeing 737-700W TDS model. I hope I can now install my QW757. I'll keep you updated. Once again thank you all for your helpful responses.

Hello. I am a FS9 user and have been a flight simmer since the first Microsoft Flight Simulator came out. I have enjoyed using FS9, even though I have a copy of FSX which I only used one time when it first came out. Over the years I have loaded my flight sim with everything available including the original Ultimate Traffic software. Much later I noticed that the textures of my AI traffic planes would be gray and would take a while to "paint". The scenery textures would behave the same way. At the time my only solution was to do a "refresh" by updating the local time at my airport, then I could see all textures taking their correct color. When the Quality Wings 757 came out I bought a copy but I could not install it because it detected I had the original FS9 and not the FS9upd. I downloaded the update, but for some reason it wouldn't run it. Therefore I wasn't able to use my QW757. I remember I bought the payware MMMX by Taxi2Gate. A wonderful scenery, but the moment I was on the Terminal 2 side of the airport, the computer would shut down. I reinstalled the scenery and even with their support help it wouldn't work. Simultaneously I bought a great MMUN scenery from SimMarket. Any time I would open it, it would shut down. I would make an approach to that airport, as soon as I was on final to land the sim would shut down. Occasionally this would happen at major airports whenever I was using payware airplanes such as Level-D or CLS. Recently, all objects within a scenery are gray, all AI aircraft are gray and the simulator just freezes. I am not a computer wiz. My computer specs are: Dell XPS, Intel Pentium 4 CPU 3.60GHz, 3.00 GB of RAM, RADEON X800 XT video card. I have been making Flight Simulator videos over the years, and my latest ones are no longer smooth, they skip a lot, even when I edit them. Is there anything I should do to resolve my problem?. I would appreciate your help. Thanks. :(

Hi Mel, After I uploaded my video to YouTube as shown above, I got a great response that resolved my scenery problem completely.I tried to copy the link, but for some reason it won't allow me to copy, so you'll have to watch the video and read the comment by Mazhar Yuksel. :rolleyes:

Hi Mel, It worked! My only problem is that the default scenery showed up. I made this video to show you what I found. At the beginning of the video you can see a screenshot of the duplicate scenery, and the rest is the AI traffic moving within and behind the default scenery. Initially I used AFCADv2 to adjust the AI traffic moving on the taxiways as they seem to be moving within the default scenery. However, the default scenery never showed up until now. Perhaps you may be be able to give me an idea how to "exclude" the default scenery. (looks like I may need an exclude line) which I don't know how to do. http://youtu.be/XLWnhZccMaY :blink:

Hi Mel, I appreciate very looking into the scenery in question. Finding out that it could possibly be a scenery made for FS2002 is a great start. What I will do, as you suggest, is to take a look at the dates the files were created. I will separate them on another file and check them every time I display the scenery. If the "unwanted" ones go away, I think I may be able to have found the solution. Thanks again

Recently I downloaded a scenery for the Prague Vaclav airport (LKPR) in the Czeck Republic from the FS2004 Freeware Scenery website. The file was under: "Prague, Vaclav Havel LKPR 2012" and it can be downloaded from www.avsimrus.com After installing the scenery I noticed that two sceneries show up. For example: two jetways instead of one, each with different designs. Two control towers, two terminals,etc. There was only one AFCAD, but, I saw several parking spots under some buildings that do not appear in the AFCAD. I would like to know if there is a way to delete the second scenery. I am not familiar with ADE 9 tool. When I looked into the texture folder of the LKPR scenery, I noticed two types of files I did not recognize. They were "R8 file and PAT files". I have always seen the "bitmap Image" files. I saw a nice video for the LKPR airport on YouTube with a lot of traffic serving that airport. After checking with Wikipedia I was able to duplicate all AI Traffic flying into Vaclav, including its correct parking spots, including the support items such as ramps, trucks, etc with the aid of EZ Scenery. Although everything looks as real as the actual airport traffic is, I am not happy looking at the duplicated jetways. Unless someone here knows of a better freeware scenery, I would appreciate your input. Thanks. :rolleyes: