Doc_Z Posted June 28, 2016 Share Posted June 28, 2016 I have had to reinstall FSX-SE from scratch. I installed Steam on my F: drive, but for some reason there is also a Steam folder in my C:/Program Files (*^) directory. When I tried to install the Libs and Global, the installer put them in the C:/Program Files (86) directory. I couldn't change the installation target. Can I just move them to the F:Steam?SteamApps/Common/FSX directory? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 29, 2016 Share Posted June 29, 2016 The FTX installers follow the registry entry for the simulator. If you visit this page and download the FSX Registry Utility, you can use it to change the registry entry from the C drive location to the F drive location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted June 29, 2016 Author Share Posted June 29, 2016 Thanks, that seemed to fix it. I thought I had done it with regedit, but I guess not. Will the items I moved from the C drive to the F drive be OK or should I reinstall them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted June 29, 2016 Author Share Posted June 29, 2016 I am also now getting a Validation report that ...FSX/Texture\ORBX_OLCEU1_BLD2LM.dds and ...FSX\Texture\ORBX_OLCEU1_BLD2.dds are missing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Try re-installing the latest libraries to the new location. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 I'm about to do that. Actually, I think I should reinstall everything. Will simply deleting the ORBX folder in FSX do that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 Deleting the ORBX folder will get rid of all the files and you can then replace them with the installers. Check carefully that the installers now point to the location on your F drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 Actually it's the E drive -- long story. When I put in the latest libraries I got a message saying it couldn't find the scenery.cfg file, which is in the FSX directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted June 30, 2016 Share Posted June 30, 2016 The scenery.cfg file is in ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX or FSX-SE. Here is a topic to help you enable FTX Central to read the right one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted June 30, 2016 Author Share Posted June 30, 2016 Thanks. Reinstalling Global, Vector and LCNA, Alasla, Canada didn't bring up the scenery,cfg error, but SAK did. I ran the offline update before installing the SAK patch and didn't get the error. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted July 1, 2016 Author Share Posted July 1, 2016 I am now trying to reinstall airports. Every time I get the message that scenery.cfg can't be found. I ran the regedit mentioned in the topic you linked me to, but the co-existence was set to 0 and I didn't have any FSX-SE folders, only FSX. FTX Central 2 asks which simulator I want, FSC or FSX Steam. Opening either shows that I have the airports installed. Not sure what is going on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted July 2, 2016 Share Posted July 2, 2016 You should install everything to FSX and nothing to FSX Steam Edition. The FSX Steam Edition option should only be there if both FSX versions are installed. You should select the FSX option when running FTX Central. If you are choosing the FSX Steam Edition option in FTX Central, it will look for the scenery.cfg file in ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX-SE and of course, it's not there. Using your registry editor, look for the entry highlighted in red. HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\Microsoft\DovetailGames If you find it, delete it, but only the DovetailGames entry. This should remove the option to run FTX Central for FSX SteamEdition and the scope for confusion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doc_Z Posted July 2, 2016 Author Share Posted July 2, 2016 FSX isn't running correctly anyway -- starts with the aircraft flying and several other problems. I am uninstalling everything and starting over. After uninstalling FSX, there are still registry entries in SOFTWARE/Microosft/Microsoft games pointing to FSX and FSX-SE. Should I delete those two folders before reinstalling? I will install the simulator, my RTMM scenery, GNB mesh and aircraft. I will hold off on all ORBX until the migration issues are fixed and it is safe to install ORBX products. Thanks for your help to this point. IK know this is all my fault for allowing a computer shop to install a new hard drive for me instead of doing it myself!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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