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Arnie

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I wonder if someone would give me some help.
I have FSX (Acceleration). Something has happened to some of my program files. My Smoke and Contrails are now streams of black squares. After some research, I found the files involved are:

fx_1.bmp
fx_smoke.bmp

Apparently, an addon plane replaced and/removed them with older versions. I copied the ones I have on another computer with FS9 and got some improvement so I know it's these files.

I looked at the CAB files on the FSX disks. When I tried to expand them, they appeared long strings of numbers and letters instead of files names.
Do you know how to find and extract these files from the CD?

If not, could I impose on someone to send a copy of them to me? I believe they should have file dates of 7/26/2006.

Thanks for any help you can give
 
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Sending copies wouldn't be kosher.

Reinstall, and use the "Repair" option. This will replace any files that have been modified by add-ons.
 
Corrupted files

I am reluctant to use reinstall/repair because I didn't want to revert to an "out of the box" state. Some modifications such as texture and changes to aircraft.cfg files I want to keep.

Additionally I didn't want to restall the Microsoft Service packs or Acceleration because the original files write over them. Sometimes reinstalls cause as many problems as they solve.

Will of the above happen with the "repair" option?
 
Hi Arnie
I had the same happen to me after installing a new mission. In the end nothing helped but to use the repair function.:cool:
 
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