lawrence aldrich Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 I seem to have lost all my external acft lights in FSX. Panel lights are OK. Tried everything I could think of to get them working again to no avail. Anybody ever have this happen ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Lawrence, Running DX10? Which aircraft? Yes, my FSD Pilatus Porter's landing lights are temperamental, but I don't suppose this is your problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted April 27, 2015 Author Share Posted April 27, 2015 Lawrence, Running DX10? Which aircraft? Yes, my FSD Pilatus Porter's landing lights are temperamental, but I don't suppose this is your problem. No dx10.....all aircraft. Not a hint of a problem beforehand. I thought I'd ask if possibly someone else had seen this weirdo event. I also run p3dv5, and it is fine. I have an inkling that if I did a repair on FSX it would probably fix it.......but that is an engraved invitation to chaos. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 No dx10.....all aircraft. Not a hint of a problem beforehand. I thought I'd ask if possibly someone else had seen this weirdo event. I also run p3dv5, and it is fine. I have an inkling that if I did a repair on FSX it would probably fix it.......but that is an engraved invitation to chaos. I've never heard of that happening while running DX9. Hopefully, someone has heard of this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 Could be that some addon affected your light effects, installed something recently ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabble Posted April 27, 2015 Share Posted April 27, 2015 New to me as well. Sorry, don't know the solution, but I suggest playing the Twilight Zone theme until it's sorted... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Could be that some addon affected your light effects, installed something recently ? The only thing prior to this happening was that I downloaded and installed a freebee aircraft ( a 2004/fsx converted Vickers Vicount). Didn't like it and uninstalled it sucessfully. It had its own install program which worked well, as did the bird. If my lights went with it I did not notice until this morning. So if that could be responsible, how in heck could it wipe out the outside lights on all 27 birds I have on my system ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabble Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 The only thing prior to this happening was that I downloaded and installed a freebee aircraft ( a 2004/fsx converted Vickers Vicount). Didn't like it and uninstalled it sucessfully. It had its own install program which worked well, as did the bird. If my lights went with it I did not notice until this morning. So if that could be responsible, how in heck could it wipe out the outside lights on all 27 birds I have on my system ?? Don't know enough about 2004, but it's possible a messy uninstaller wiped the data/settings for all the lights instead of just its own. In which case a FSX repair should fix it. Of course if it's something else, that may make things worse... Nevertheless, that's what I'd try, for lack of any better ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spud Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 FSX repair caveat! When you do an FSX repair you first need to uninstall Acceleration and when FSX is repaired it WILL re-install the FSX default scenery textures wiping out your Global replacement textures if you have Global installed. So un-install Acceleration, Repair FSX and then re-install Global. So its not as simple as it seems at first. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stewart Hobson Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 FSX repair caveat! When you do an FSX repair you first need to uninstall Acceleration and when FSX is repaired it WILL re-install the FSX default scenery textures wiping out your Global replacement textures if you have Global installed. So un-install Acceleration, Repair FSX and then re-install Global. So its not as simple as it seems at first. It never is! I think FSX repair would be my absolute last resort if everything else fails. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Goff Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 An even bigger FSX repair caveat: The way that the repair works is that it references every file in your directory with the files on the discs, if there is a mismatch then it will overwrite with the original files. This can break many addons if they swap in files that replace the defaults. Global and Trees HD are examples of these along with REX and any other sort of mass texture replacer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabble Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 One thing that's maybe worth trying - create a dummy fsx folder, and try reinstalling that Viscount into it. It might fail or complain about missing folders & files, or it might be smart enough to create what it needs. If so, that might give clues as to what files it has removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolter van der Spoel Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 it most likely deleted the various effects, so before resorting to any drastic un-installing and the likes find attached my effects folder and just copy that in and see if that restores things for you Effects.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolgovind180 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 ensure you have your landing lights illuminate ground box checked in fsx... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KevinJH Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 I had pretty much the same thing happen to me just a couple of weeks ago: installed the AH Globe Swift demo, decided it wasn't for me so uninstalled it. Then realised that my external lights weren't activating. Transpires there was a problem with the supplied uninstaller which wiped 4/5ths of my Effects folder out. Copied over my backed-up Effects folder - problem solved. Just glad I didn't go down the 'Repair' route - heard too many horror stories to risk that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wedge1047 Posted April 28, 2015 Share Posted April 28, 2015 For what its worth Lawrence, I noticed the same problem last night. Unfortunately I have been installing quite a bit of stuff recently with a weeks holiday in between so the aging grey cells are struggling to recall exactly what. The two major programs installed in recent past are FS global Americas Ultimate Mesh and last night an update for ASN. I am running DX10. It was late when I discovered the fault so did not do a lot of checks but interestingly, aerosoft Beaver, A2A 172 and carenado C185 were affected but the Aeroplane Heaven Globe Swift was displaying external lights but very dim. regards Reg Just seen KevinJH`s post above. That sounds interesting in view of my findings, will have to try look at the effects folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 Interesting....thnks for the tip. I also had installed the update for ASN...... I'll remove and reinstall ASN and see what happens. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lawrence aldrich Posted April 28, 2015 Author Share Posted April 28, 2015 It wasn't ASN. Problem solved, though. I just bought shockwave lights for FSX, installed same, and now my lights are better than ever. It also illuminates all the flying AI traffic..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassman Posted April 29, 2015 Share Posted April 29, 2015 I am going to be a "PITA" here, again the topic title gives no indication of the problem. I would have titled "lost all my external acft lights in FSX". That way when someone else has this problem it would be easier to search for an answer rather than create another topic.:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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