ss944 Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 Hello I have several FTX products and i've been using with P3D. Recently i bought steam during the summer sale and installed it recently. I have installed Global , Vector and Open LC along with PNW etc. The last thing i did was to install the recent Orbx Libraries (160708). Now i understand after this FTX Central will no longer show the Apply Group etc. after the migration. But for some reason i do see it in my FTX Central for FSX. Wondering if there is something i am doing wrong. Any help is appreaciated. The ftx central version its running is 2.1.6031.32439 meanwhile -- ive p3d working fine; i would go back to it. thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss944 Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 After looking around a bit on the forums - i have nailed this down as an issue with respect to having installed FSX earlier on my machine. I followed Nick Coopers sticky on the FTX Central 2 for the registry fix. I also uninstalled and reinstalled Steam FSX. i was able to get it go through migration when i reinstalled the latest orbx libraries. However, after several tries.. I am stuck where FTX Central Opens and says 'Unable to locate scenery.cfg' my ftxsettings.xml shows something like this under steam\fsx\orbx\scripts\ftxcentral <FTX_Settings> <FSXRegistryKey>HKLM\Software\Microsoft\DovetailGames\FSX</FSXRegistryKey> <FSXRegistryValue>Install_Path</FSXRegistryValue> <SceneryCFGLocation>Microsoft\FSX-SE</SceneryCFGLocation> </FTX_Settings> I tried copying my C:\Program Data\FSX and made a new C:\Program Data\FSX-SE and it still doesnt help ; when i open up central i still get the same error. BTW - I just also noticed the FSX Registry Value specified by Central for the location -- I don't find anything in my registry. I do see entries in HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\ Any help here is appreciated. thank you Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Try this instead <FTX_Settings> <FSXRegistryKey>SOFTWARE\Microsoft\microsoft games\flight simulator\10.0</FSXRegistryKey> <FSXRegistryValue>SetupPath</FSXRegistryValue> <SceneryCFGLocation>Microsoft\FSX</SceneryCFGLocation> </FTX_Settings> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss944 Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 Nick - thank you for you reply. Just tried that - upon opening central.. received the same error(unable to find the scenery.cfg file) and central changed the setting files back to what it was before.. thx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 FTX Central is probably detecting an installation of FSX Steam Edition with FSX and looking for the scenery.cfg file in Programdata\Microsoft\FSX-SE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss944 Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 Thanks Nick; I had copied the same files program data \fsx to a fsx-se but there was a space in between.. Now i am not receiving this error :).. Central Opens up now. Currently i just have global installed it says it needs an update but when i click it says 'No Compatible products found the simulator' -- now this is new I assume by copying the scenery.cfg file to a new fsx-se folder; central is able to write the new scenery insertion points on to this folder but i would assume i have to copy this back to other FSX folder for steam to pick up? Also any thoughts on the 'No Compatible Products Found' error Sorry; i decided give steam a chance after seeing a bunch of reviews on youtube; now rethinking my decision here LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 What you have done and the result confirms that FTX Central is treating your installation of FSX SE as if it was installed with FSX. If you revisit the pinned topic at the Steam Edition forum you should be able to correct this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss944 Posted August 2, 2016 Author Share Posted August 2, 2016 NIck -- I agree with the observation but i did go through the pinned topic and was not able to get it to work. When i followed the steps i saw my registry entry for Steam did not have the co-existence set to 1 and also there were no fsx-se folders in c:\program data etc. In the past hour, as you mentioned that Central seems to think i am running Steam along with FSX and i thought i would try this I set coexistence to 1 I reran the registry fix tool to set my steam location. and reinstalled global and right away it pointed on the drop down (FSX:Steam along with boxed fsx and P3D v2).. it is right to hink i dont fsx ( i have uninstalled it -- i dont).. then i ran the libraries again and ran through the migration.. Now Central opens fine and no complains of the scenery.cfg.i am redownloading vector from FSS -- will give it a go along with openLC NA.. Not sure if this would cause issues but seems to work so far (CoExist) but will give it a go .. Let me know your thoughts. thx again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Cooper Posted August 2, 2016 Share Posted August 2, 2016 Given that FTX Central does think that you have FSX disk edition, I suppose this is a work around. You would then need to install all your products to FSX Steam Edition (with FSX installed) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ss944 Posted August 3, 2016 Author Share Posted August 3, 2016 NIck Thanks for all your help .. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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