mervynh

Hi Merlinux, Thanks for your thoughts. As it happens I am only using the steam version of FSX, though I did install it before removing as many traces as I could find, including registry entries, of the boxed version. I didn't want to start from scratch installing everything as I have a great number of other scenery and aircraft addons already installed in the new version - it is only the Orbx scenery which is giving a problem. Manual scenery.cfg editing does work. The other non-scenery library changes which FTX Central makes (autogen descriptions etc.) are happening as it recognises where FSX-SE is but it's a great mystery why the mods you have suggested don't allow it to find the library. I'm pretty certain I followed your procedure to the letter. Mervyn

Merlinux I noted what John Venema said about the ObjectFlow.dlls problem but it is interesting that they don't even get put in the relevant scenery folders, in my case at least. I don't suppose you have any thoughts on my first query - why despite the changes to the xml files are being saved correctly, I'm persistently getting the "unable to find the scenery.cfg.." message whenever I change region with FTX Central or run configurator.exe? I have examined the autogen folder and have satisfied myself that FTX Central is changing the files over in there when I change region, so I have resumed flying around Norway after editing scenery.cfg manually (by copying the relevant entries from scenerylib_EU_NOR.cfg and scenerylib_FTXAA_ORBXLIBS.cfg (in FSX\Orbx\scripts), changing the Area and Layer values, then moving the entries to the correct position in the library but it's a pain. I guess putting the other FTX sceneries in the library in the same way would also work. This is assuming the changes in the Autogen folder when changing regions are the only changes FTX Central makes outside scenery.cfg. Mervyn

I've seen various references to problems with ObjectFlow with FSX-SE but can anyone explain why the objectflow.dlls don't even install in this version? I have several Orbx region and airport sceneries installed now and in none of them are there any objectflow.dlls. The various objectflow xml files are present but not the dlls. Mervyn

I tried this as suggested with just Norway installed and it worked fine. The previous message saying "Unable to find the scenery.cfg file. Unable to find the scenery.cfg file". (yes it said it twice every time) disappeared, the data was placed in the Orbx folder and the scenery library was updated so I enjoyed several flights around Norway. I then reset FTX Central to default and installed several of my other Orbx sceneries (NZSI, NZNI and PFJ) and the situation appears to have reverted to what it was before, though all the installed scenery is in the correct folders, so the registry mod is working OK, there are no FTX entries in the scenery library and changing region in FTX Central, or running FTXconfigurator.exe now brings up the dreaded "Unable to find..." message again. I do have a "scenerylib_sceneryname.cfg entry in ...FSX\Orbx\scripts for each of my installed sceneries so could add them to the library manually but I suspect FTX Central makes other changes which are needed when you change region (to the autogen files?). I note that there are other .xml files in Scripts referencing the sceneryCFG location - FtxConfiguratorSettings.xml and OrbxControlPanelSettings.xml - as well as the two changed in this 'fix' but changing them to fsx-se didn't help. Totally baffled! Perhaps we do need to be patient but it's been a month. Mervyn