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Scenery Installation Tutorial for starters

yep. again and again. nothing happens, except it changes the "order" arrow. I also clicked in the "look in" dialog, all it did was highlight it. Nothing happens, which is where my frustration lies. Before this installation, it always worked fine.

Just as an aside, I had to call Microsoft and discuss what I had done, as to why my activation code wouldn't work, with four people, explaining that I had recently, (two weeks ago) installed FSX on this same external harddrive, but hooked to my HP XP machine, bofore I had purchased the parts to build this new one. It worked flawlessly then. No problems adding scenery, or editing aircraft cfgs. However, when I built this new machine, and installed WIN7, it wouldn't recognize FSX, and absolutely refused to run it. I had to uninstall from the XP machine, then reinstall with it hooked to WIN7. Just reinstalling OVER the original install absolutely refused to happen. Error after error after error. So, MS saw it as installed on two machines, and refused to activate, until I explained it all, four times, to people who could barely understand English. Took over an hour. Luckily, they were able to reactivate Acceleration on the same call. Since then, nothing has worked right.

I did NOT have to reinstall FS9! Go figure. I DID have to copy my FS9.cfg four different times to get my other three versions, FSGW3, FSSW, and FS80's working, because for some reason, they wouldn't restart/rebuild their cfgs. After copying the original one to each, they worked. Not having any real problem, except that I do have to hit cancel on them, and that's when the scenery is added to the directory list. I'm flabberbusted.
 
modelr said:
BADA BING!!!! :applause: :applause: :applause:

That did it!! :jump::jump: THANK YOU Tom! :guinness:

I knew someone here at the SOH would figure it out.

And thank you very much for your efforts, Falcon.
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Good news. I had been manually editing my scenery cfg for weeks after upgrading to Win7 when I ran across that hint in another forum. Glad it worked for you too.
 
Another good reason for not getting into doing a tutorial like I had planned. . .what I told modelr works for me, not for anyone else. . .Tom your suggestion. . .not for me but works for you guys.:isadizzy:
 
Aha,

That was what I read somewhere. I don't have the pc yet, but being the anally retentive person I am, I am wanting to learn everything I can and this was one of the problems I had read about. I didn't understand the solution but Overshoe has explained it very well, many thanks.

Thanks Falcon and glad it has helped Modelr

I spent £50 or so on my bloody FSX plus god knows how much on addons, how many computers I run it on should be my business not theirs. I am wanting to leave FSX on this pc for the kids and install it on the new rig as well when it arrives. Should I be expecting problems with that ?
 
Apart from the fact that it breaches the license, which is for a single installation on a single computer? No, there shouldn't be a problem. I had it technically installed on two PCs when I had my system dual booting W7 64/XP32 - even though it was the same physical hardware, it had two entirely different IDs. It activated fine on both, however. Microsoft now have no idea whether it was uninstalled from that PC before I took the hard drives out of it and gave it to my wife (I hadn't), but it also activated fine on the single PC it is now installed on. Windows 7, however, was a different issue and I had to go through the telephone farce to get that activated.

The problem with the "I've paid for it, how many computers I run it on should be my business not theirs" line is that although it's a very minor thing here, when a company with several thousand installations of a piece of commercially critical software says "we've got one license, use that on all of them", it's seen a bit differently and a lot of very large organisations have been stung very hard when they have been caught doing it.
 
I do understand that as you are completey right, however my own personal ethics perhaps disagree with the license then which I realise means jack sh** in the corporate world. This computer is 5 years old and won't live forever, especially running FSX !!!! It may die tomorrow, maybe in two years, but having invested alot of money and my own time getting FSX to run as it does on this PC, who in the right mind would uninstall it because they want to put it on a more uptodate computer. I feel myself getting on my soapbox with this...lol.

If you buy a DVD, you are alowed to copy it for your own private use (in fact one of my sons dvd's recommends this !!!), so why should it be any different for a game ? I suspect greed is a greater reason than piracy prevention.
 
There's plenty of developers around here. I'll let them answer greed versus attempting to stop illegal copying - they're normally pretty vocal and unequivocal on the subject, for good reason.

Anyway, that's between you and them. The answer to your question is that MS won't stop you installing to multiple PCs.
 
I appogise if I have upset any developers around here, my comment was referring to MS. I don't have any payware addons that don't let you install on more than one computer as far as I'm aware, although I will find out soon enough !!!

Piracy should be dealt with by tackling the servers that offer the downloads IMO (by some kind of policing method, after all it is theft), not the consumers that try to make honest purchases. I guess this thread could spiral, so back onto the point.... I now understand how to overcome the installation problem if it arises............ Ye Ha !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
For myself, as long as I have purchased the program/addon through legal means, installed it per the instructions and registered it as instructed and the program remains in-house, then If I want to install it on 10 computers I don't see a problem with that really.

You go to the Business applications arena and it's a totally different animal and for good reason (although I had a boss who didn't really see it that way, lol). I spent about 30+ years working as a Graphic Artist and Desktop Publishing guru. I used programs like Adobe Illustrator, Corel Draw, Corel Paint and QuarkXpress. Each of those programs (even at that time in the 80's and 90's) could go for $300, to $400 each per station. So if we had had 4 or 5 artists (it was just me, lol), it would have cost us that much per station. Now many of the companies that offered those programs had stipulations that one purchase could be used for multiple stations up to a certain number and then they wanted you to buy an additional program for anything beyond that preset number. When you're talking about that kind of money, you can see where they're coming from. A large graphics house with a huge staff of artists could save a ton by buying one program and then networking that one program to 20 artists. . .just don't get caught. It could cost you far more than you ever hoped to save, lol.

In this realm of Flight Sim, we're not talking about those kinds of prices and for the most part the program/addon is bought and installed by one individual for personal use. Putting it on 2 or 3 puters in your house shouldn't be a problem.
 
Falcon, I still applaud your efforts at a scenery install how to. If you hadn't started this thread, I would probably still be tearing my hair out. Someone, at least making a list of the things that work, since it seems there are going to be different ways, some for some, some for others. A single place to look is going to be handy. Maybe a dedicated line, as in the three child forums for FSX and hardware tips.

Again, thanks to all who helped. :ernae:
 
Falcon, I agree about the commercial licenses because of the scale. As Modelr said, a great thread with something gained, cheers Falcon.
 
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