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Unable to launch FSX

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kiki

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Hello! I am in trouble with FSX. So, help is highly appreciated.

I get error message: "Flight Simulator CANNOT run without a valid SCENERY.CFG. Please uninstall and reinstall Flight Simulator."

As far as I can see scenery.cfg is where it should be. Everything seems to be okay. Well, I did take my back up copy of the file and dropped it to replace the scenery-file. That didn´t change anything. So I am stuck; I can´t run FSX, don´t want to uninstall and reinstall (if I can avoid that).

Any ideas what I can do?

Thanks in advance.
 
There should be a default scenery.cfg file in the FSX root folder.
Even with a missing scenery.cfg file which is to be found in
C:\Program Data\Microsoft\FSX, FSX will use this default version
to create a default file and start.
I attach a copy of the default one if yours is missing from the FSX
folder.
 

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Solved. Thank you!

ncooper said:
There should be a default scenery.cfg file in the FSX root folder.
Even with a missing scenery.cfg file which is to be found in
C:\Program Data\Microsoft\FSX, FSX will use this default version
to create a default file and start.
I attach a copy of the default one if yours is missing from the FSX
folder.
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Thank you very much, ncooper!! I d/l-ded your file and now everything is just fine. I did have that file, but the size of it was 0. I don´t know why that happened, but now the problem is solved!!
 
For this and other kinds of accidents that may happen I always take a full copy of FSX (and other simulators) right after installing it. One can keep it on external HDD, in cloud or anywhere. It is possible also extract missing files from the original disks, but that's far easier to do from a straight copy.

Pekka
 
PHo17 said:
For this and other kinds of accidents that may happen I always take a full copy of FSX (and other simulators) right after installing it. One can keep it on external HDD, in cloud or anywhere. It is possible also extract missing files from the original disks, but that's far easier to do from a straight copy.

Pekka
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+1

That should be a best practice.
 
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