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How do I add sceneries in Win7?

R

Rezabrya

On Another Planet
I have Win7 64 Bit and FSX+Acceleration. I am trying to install some sceneries into my FSX byt copying them to my Addon Scenery folder and then going into FSX scenery library and clicking add area and navigating to the scenery folder and clicking open. In any other OS this works fine but for some reason on Win7 it wont let you just choose that folder. When you click open it then goes into the folder and gives you a scenery and texture folder. No matter what I do it won't let me choose a folder. I am very confused. Does anyone know a way around this?
 
Vista (sometimes) and Win 7 (sometimes) needs an old DOS file convention name to do what it's supposed to do. Try changing the folder file name (the folder that holds the scenery and texture folders) to a name with a max of eight characters (no spaces, etc.) and then try again. I got a call last night when someone was trying to install Oak Harbor, and that was the solution.

Jim
 
I will get you the answer tonight. I had the same problem and figured out a way around it.

It is hockey but it works.

I have to test again to see what I did.
 
I had this problem, to get round it I manually edited the scenery.cfg. Annoyingly there'll be more than one copy of it on your machine, I think it's the one in the actual program files/microsoft games/flight simulator x directory that you want to change.
Just copy the last entry in the file and amend the details as necessary, not forgetting to increase the area number by 1.

As for Win7, I haven't used XP since I installed the Release Candidate, it's that good.
 
So far, I love it. It is everything Vista should have been. It really is a great OS. I have only run into a few problems and 99% of them have been user error and not the OS. I like to think of it as the performance of XP with the layout and user friendlyness of Vista. It is essentially Vista SP3. I would wait to install it till after the RTM comes out though as that is the main thing I regret.
 
Thanks Skippy Bing for answering his question on this I am at work and can only peek in on break.

Mud to answer your question, I will never have to go back to XP PRO, which I still love-at least since SP2, but Windows7 is sweet! I also tested it against Apple's latest OS this last weekend. They no longer have anything to crow about with the advent of Windows7. Win7 is fast and very smart. Hats off to Microsoft for allowing a larger testing platform-the people that have to use it!:ernae:
Ted
 
Well I did the Scenery cfg thing and it still didnt work. Do I have to do anything else besides just put the entries in because I did that and they still wont show up in the scenery library.
 
Hmmm, I may have pointed you towards the wrong scenery.cfg! If you use the search function you'll find about 4 copies of it, try changing each one in turn until you get the message about rebuilding the scenery database when FSX starts. I thought it was the one in the FSX directory because it was the most recently changed one on my system but that appears to mean nothing!
 
MS made one more Boo Boo, that´s not new......:icon29: I´ll wait until Windows 77 to change and with my feet fingers crossed maybe FSX will like it......ummmm, ummmmm....
 
Raptor11 said:
I have Win7 64 Bit and FSX+Acceleration. I am trying to install some sceneries into my FSX byt copying them to my Addon Scenery folder and then going into FSX scenery library and clicking add area and navigating to the scenery folder and clicking open. In any other OS this works fine but for some reason on Win7 it wont let you just choose that folder. When you click open it then goes into the folder and gives you a scenery and texture folder. No matter what I do it won't let me choose a folder. I am very confused. Does anyone know a way around this?
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When this happens, just right-click anywhere within that folder that just opened...your scenery folder should then be added to the library. Borked, I know, but it works for me and many other users, according to the forums. No need to manually fool with .cfg files.
 
RudiJG1 said:
When this happens, just right-click anywhere within that folder that just opened...your scenery folder should then be added to the library. Borked, I know, but it works for me and many other users, according to the forums. No need to manually fool with .cfg files.
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yep this worked for me. The manual edit in the scenery cfg didn't work but the right click thing worked like a charm.
 
txnetcop said:
Thanks Skippy Bing for answering his question on this I am at work and can only peek in on break.

Mud to answer your question, I will never have to go back to XP PRO, which I still love-at least since SP2, but Windows7 is sweet! I also tested it against Apple's latest OS this last weekend. They no longer have anything to crow about with the advent of Windows7. Win7 is fast and very smart. Hats off to Microsoft for allowing a larger testing platform-the people that have to use it!:ernae:
Ted
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Now the big question......when does the rest of the world get it?
 
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