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Title: FSX Sceneries File Structure
Post by: Dimon on May 02, 2012, 01:40:38 am

I'm officially in FSX since 04/29.

Quick question - where does FSX maintain sceneries' entries for the addon products. In FS2004 it was in "scenery.cfg".

Thanks

Title: Re: FSX Sceneries File Structure
Post by: virtuali on May 02, 2012, 11:11:52 am

Quote from: Dimon on May 02, 2012, 01:40:38 am

I'm officially in FSX since 04/29.

I'd say, it was about time...I guess the realization how MS Flight turned out to be, played a role in this decision. Now you understand why we were so sure most FS9 users would go to FSX once MS Flight was released (instead of skipping FSX and jumping directly to Flight as many had hoped), something that we knew for a while, knowing how Flight was going to be since a couple of years by now...

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Quick question - where does FSX maintain sceneries' entries for the addon products. In FS2004 it was in "scenery.cfg".

It's still there, but it's location differs from FS9, and there are 3 copies of the scenery.cfg file in FSX:

%APPDATA%\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg
FSX\scenery.cfg  (FSX is your FSX root folder)

These first two are just "templates" with the default Scenery Library after a clean installation (no addons), in case something goes wrong with the current one.

The currently used one, is here:

%ALLUSERSPROFILE%\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg, which translates to:

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg in Vista or Windows 7

or

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg under Windows XP

Title: Re: FSX Sceneries File Structure
Post by: Dimon on May 02, 2012, 02:29:40 pm

Thanks Umberto,

And yes, MS left us with no choice but to move to FSX. Actually it's nice, on i7-2700k (still stock clocks) JFK even performs and looks better than default JFK. Well, we'll see. :D