Re: Solution to installing scenery for FSX in Win7 64bit

Salam,

Hye,

I Have these file FS2004 Scenery--LCCT Terminal And Kuala Lumpur Airport, FS2004 Scenery--LCCT Terminal And Kuala Lumpur Airport, Malaysia. By Cheong Jia Feng.

Can you teach me steps how to make it available in my FSX? ive tried others scenery and were successfully play. But i have trouble with this one. realy need your help. Thank you.

Izzuddin



On Sunday, 5 September 2010 16:03:31 UTC+8, Ir. Hj. Othman bin Hj. Ahmad wrote:
> The solution is simple. Just edit the scenery.cfg in PROGRAMDATA , not
> in USERS.
>
> Although these scenery.cfg appear in various directories in FSX, only
> the one in PROGRAMDATA is meaningful.
> Once you have edited it, it will appear in the "add scenery" within
> FSX.
>
> I have searched for the solutions in the web without much success
> because of too much misleading information. This is is verified by me.
> I don't have any problem with Vista 64, only Win7 64.
>
> http://www.fsdeveloper.com/forum/showthread.php?t=16027
>
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> It seems that quite a few people are having problems installing
> additional scenery with FSX and 64-bit versions of Vista and/or
> Windows 7
>
> In my case I was trying to add Ants Aussie Airports. The folder was
> correctly named and located under the Addon Scenery folder, and
> contained the correct Scenery and Texture folders and files. But no
> matter what I tried, nothing worked. In the Add Area dialog, pressing
> the OK button just blanked out the directory name and did nothing.
>
> So the only solution was to edit the scenery.cfg file.
>
> Under Windows 7 there are two FSX file locations for "user data"
> 1) C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX
> 2) C:\Users\Robert\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX
> In this case the the scenery.cfg file is in the first location
>
> Save a copy!!!
> And then edit it. The last bit of the file looked like this
>
> [Area.137]
> Title=FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
> Local=ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
> Layer=137
> Active=TRUE
> Required=FALSE
>
> [Area.138]
> Title=OZx_AUS
> Local=OZx\OZx_AUS
> Layer=138
> Active=TRUE
> Required=FALSE
>
> I just added another section like this, making sure that the new
> section had the next available area and layer numbers. The last entry
> will have the highest area number. Use that number+1 for both area and
> layer. Because the layer number for the added area will be the highest
> in the file, it will appear at the top of the list. It is a lot easier
> to simply put the new entry at the top, and then let the Add Scenery
> widget adjust all the layer numbers later.
>
> [Area.137]
> Title=FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
> Local=ORBX\FTX_AU\FTXAA_HOLGERMESH
> Layer=137
> Active=TRUE
> Required=FALSE
>
> [Area.138]
> Title=OZx_AUS
> Local=OZx\OZx_AUS
> Layer=138
> Active=TRUE
> Required=FALSE
>
> [Area.139]
> Title=Ants Aussie Airports
> Local=Addon Scenery\Ants Aussie Airports
> Layer=139
> Active=TRUE
> Required=FALSE
>
> Saved.
> Fired up FSX and into Settings > Scenery library and there it was.
> Sitting at the top of the list. I then moved it down to its correct
> position.
>
> So, a very satisfied flyer.
>
> No idea why the FSX widget wouldn't do its job. It's only a simple
> edit of a text file.
>
> Hope this helps.