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Windows 7 - FS9 AND FSX - scenery data

Fern

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Hi,

If this subject is discussed somewhere, please forgive me, I couldn't find it.

Set up:

Windows 7
FS9 and FSX

Problem:
My added scenery (installed by hand, each area in its own folder) does not appear at all in the scenery.cfg file.

All the scenery installed via Scenery Library appears when I fly, but there is no reference to any of it in either of the scenery.cfg files, for FS9 or FSX.

Now, in my other PC running Windows XP, the scenery.cfg file for FS9 shows all the added scenery, but the scenery.cfg file for FSX doesn't show any of the added areas either, and yet all the scenery appears when I fly, no problem.

Where do FS9 and FSX store this info in Windows 7? Is there another file with it, and can I edit by hand (or replace it) in case of a re-install?

Thanks

Fern

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You are looking at the "template" scenery.cfg file.

The "working" copy of scenery.cfg will be found here on a Win7 system:

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg
 
Not there

Hmmm... Interesting, n4gix...

Please note that I am referring to Windows 7.

There is NO scenery.cfg in

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg

for either FSX or FS9 (changing the last directory to \FS9).

There is an fsx.cfg and a fs9.cfg in the respective folders, but no scenery.cfg.

(In Windows XP I do have a scenery.cfg for FS9 in the corresponding folder - not the same as Windows - but for FSX there isn't one there either.)

And both work fine, with all the scenery I have added...

Any other suggestions?

Thanks

Fern
 
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fsx/acc..w7,32and64

this is a shot of what ive got,,as described by bill leaming....jim
 
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Fern said:
Hmmm... Interesting, n4gix...

Please note that I am referring to Windows 7.

There is NO scenery.cfg in

C:\Users\YourUserName\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg

for either FSX or FS9 (changing the last directory to \FS9).
Click to expand...

I stated in my reply Win7 (which is of course Windows 7)...

Did you install FS9 and FSX for "All Users," or only for yourself? That makes a difference where the scenery.cfg file will be kept.

Check here:

C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg
or
C:\Users\Default\AppData\Local\Microsoft\FSX\scenery.cfg
 
scenery.cfg

Hi, Bill and all

Sorry for the delay.

In the folder "Default" there is nothing, but in my own user folder it is there. However, only for FS9. The FSX folder has other folders and files, but no scenery.cfg.

Don't worry about it. I have looked at some of my friends and they DO have it, so it must be something wrong here. I'll look into it.

Thanks

Fern
 
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This scenery.cfg makes no difference

Hi, Bill and all

I edited this particular scenery.cfg and it made absolutely no difference. I actually removed one area, then a few areas, but FS9 (I left FSX for later on this subject) seems to not care at all. All the areas I edited out are still there, and most of them are pretty congested with objects, meaning that there is no doubt that FS9 is still considering them active.

:confused:

Fern
 
Hi guys,

the scenery.cfg file in the FSX roaming folder is just another template. The active version sits in C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX.

For FS9 the active scenery.cfg file resides in the main FS9 directory. However, the process there works differently in that each time the scenery library menu is accessed the current scenery.cfg gets copied into a NewScenery.cfg and all changes are written into that file. Next time you restart FS9 and it finds a NewScenery.cfg file it'll rename the current scenery.cfg to Oldscenery.cfg and then the Newscenery.cfg to scenery.cfg. That means that if you make manual changes to scenery.cfg file in the presence of a Newscenery.cfg file you'll lose those changes because FS9 will overwrite your changes with the existing Newscenery.cfg file. You either need to make sure there's no Newscenery.cfg or make changes into that file instead of the existing scenery.cfg. Now wrap your head around that one, he he ;-)

Cheers, Holger
 
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