[Temporary workaround for installing Orbx scenery with FSX:SE]

EDIT: As stated by Mr Venema, it is best to wait until an official fix. Do not try the following unless you agree that is unsupported and that you may loose both your FSX installs and even maybe you windows install, if you do a mistake somewhere.

 

This is for people who have both FSX box edition and FSX SE, and to an extent for people that have deleted their legacy FSX but who are still having issues pointing the installers towards FSX:SE

 

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NOW follow those steps.

1) Start regedit (start menu>type regedit in the search)

2) Backup your whole registry. Right click on computer and export

3) Navigate to HKLM\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\microsoft games\flight simulator\10.0 and change the value of setupPath (after writing the old path for reference) to point to your Steam FSX (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\FSX). From now on wether you are using or installing into your steam FSX you must have this reg entry. If you decide to use your legacy FSX you only have to revert to your old setting.

 

There is a safer way to make this registry change using the "FS registry Repair utility" available for free over at www.flight1.com. You just run it,  select the FSX option and select the Steam folder where FSXSE is installed. Install your FTX scenery, then run the utility again, pointing back to the original FSX location.