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Reconnecting FS9 to ADE

Tim Collins

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I mentioned in another post that I'd lost my C drive. A new C drive is in place, and the computer is up and running again. ADE (after a little faff) is working fine for P3D and FSX:SE. However, it can't see FS9. My FS9 is installed in drive G with the 'noCD' patch, which I assume disconnects the program from the registry. Certainly, the sim itself is working just fine, which suggests there was nothing on the C drive which it needed to work. However, there must have been something in the registry that ADE needed to connect with the FS9 SDK. Is there a way of reconnecting ADE and FS9 without reinstalling FS9?
 
Indeed it looks for the registry entry. If it does not find it then it won't offer it as an option. It suggests that FS9 was either not installed correctly or something happened to the registry entry. The correct way to fix things is to set the registry entry correctly. I am away from my desk right now so don't have the details to hand, Someone else may though
 
Hi Jon. As all my FS stuff is on another drive, I've only reinstalled the stuff I use regularly. I don't have much use for FS9, but I have a task that needs me to use ADE in FS9 mode. My copy of FS9 has been modified with the NoCD patch which I presume disconnects it from the registry, hence it works perfectly under Windows 10 even without a registry entry. I have tried the Flight1 Registry Repair tool, which declares it's created a registry entry for FS9 - but it hasn't! I have a Microsoft Games entry under WOW6432NODE, but only FSX:SE is referenced there.
 
OK find the file called global.ini in the ADE main folder. Make a copy of it in a safe place in case things go wrong. Make sure ADE is not running

Open it in Notepad or another text editor and you will see something like this

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In the TARGET section add the line
ShowAll=True

Save it and start ADE. The selector should now show all versions of the sim even if you don't have them. Select FS9 and you should be able to set options needed to run it.

If you want to lose all the entries and go back to what ADE can find in the registry then remove that line from global.ini This is considered a nuclear option and it is always better to find the registry entry
 
Jon, that's brilliant. Thank you. I may invade the loft and dig out the FS9 DVDs if you don't really recommend the 'nuclear option'!
 
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