No external lights on any aircraft, period.

Navy Chief

Navy Chief

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I am still troubleshooting, trying to find the reason for it, but none of my aircraft (stock OR add-on) have working lights. All of the panel lights seem to work OK, and although the external light switches are selected, no dice. Pressing the "L" key turns on/off the panel lights, but nothing else. NC
 
I'm not fully sure, but I believe in MSFS the external lights are not shown in the same way they were in FSX/P3D.
Think about the Milviz Phantoms for example. These have a precise on/off appearance that doesn't use that exaggerated light halo from the default planes.
Have you checked by night ? No visible differences between on and off ?
 
Checking my "cheat sheet" that I printed a few months ago:

Toggle Landing Lights.......Ctrl+L
Toggle Strobes.................O
Toggle Beacon Lights........Alt+H
Toggle NAV Lights............Alt+J
Toggle Taxi Lights............Alt+N

There were other keystrokes for moving the landing light in different directions. Hope this helps in your troubleshooting, Pete! :encouragement:
 
Ok, I finally got around to checking things again this morning. Nope. No go. The keyboard commands do NOT turn on the exterior lights, period. I have no idea what is wrong. :banghead:
 
The only things I can think of might seem too obvious. Are you looking real close? Exterior lights in MSFS are a LOT dimmer than in prior sims. You can't hardly see them in daylight, but you can if you look close.

Battery/electrics on?

I'm trying to think of anything in the Settings that could affect this, but nothing comes to mind.

August
 
K5083 said:
The only things I can think of might seem too obvious. Are you looking real close? Exterior lights in MSFS are a LOT dimmer than in prior sims. You can't hardly see them in daylight, but you can if you look close.

Battery/electrics on?

I'm trying to think of anything in the Settings that could affect this, but nothing comes to mind.

August
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All electric are on. Panel lighting, as mentioned, is ok, but nothing external. What's even more frustrating is I can't find posts about this same problem anywhere. A couple about panel lighting, but not exterior. NC
 
I just loaded up the A320. Went into cockpit view, and watched the overhead console switches as I pressed the various individual keyboard commands for all the lights, i.e. Strobe, Navigation, etc.... All the switches move as advertised, but with zero effect, lighting-wise. If I select "L" on the keyboard, the only thing that toggles on/off is Panel lighting, as is the case with all other aircraft. NC
 
Have you tried removing everything out of your Community folder, and then seeing if the lights on the remaining
default aircraft work (just in case some third party add-on is somehow running interference)?

If you have Addon Linker, this is easy to do. If not, I think you can just rename your Community folder.
 
Ok, I just renamed the Community Folder (I do have Addon-Linker, but have some add-ons that were not installed using that app). Anyway, nothing changed. Same problem. I just submitted Help request to MSFS. Probably a waste of time, but am running out of ideas here.
 
Have you posted over at the official forum? There are users there that know this thing inside and out, so they might have an answer.
 
Tom Clayton said:
Have you posted over at the official forum? There are users there that know this thing inside and out, so they might have an answer.
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I don't think I have posted there yet, but will. I posted on Reddit, where I rarely post, and not surprisingly have had zero response. I may not hear anything from Microsoft either, but..... NC
 
There is a repair and reset options under Advanced Options if you look up the Sim in the Apps & Features tab of windows settings. No idea if that affects the cache but may help fix some things when all else has failed.
 
jetstreamsky said:
There is a repair and reset options under Advanced Options if you look up the Sim in the Apps & Features tab of windows settings. No idea if that affects the cache but may help fix some things when all else has failed.
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I think that's available only for MS store purchased MSFS; I don't think the reset/repair option is available for Steam purchased MSFS - or
at least I've never been able to find it. All that's available in the Apps and Features for my Steam purchased MSFS is "Uninstall".
 
RobM said:
I think that's available only for MS store purchased MSFS; I don't think the reset/repair option is available for Steam purchased MSFS - or
at least I've never been able to find it. All that's available in the Apps and Features for my Steam purchased MSFS is "Uninstall".
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Correct. I did try the "Verify Files" option. Did no good. Did a initial uninstall, but forgot to delete all the packages from previous install. On e I figured that out and uninstalled and reinstalled, all was well. I'd made a copy of my Community folder beforehand.
 
RobM said:
I think that's available only for MS store purchased MSFS; I don't think the reset/repair option is available for Steam purchased MSFS - or
at least I've never been able to find it. All that's available in the Apps and Features for my Steam purchased MSFS is "Uninstall".
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I'd love to have that repair and reset option and I'm a Steam user. I've been having controller problems for quite some time now.

Priller
 
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