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Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 11:25am

Paz Offline
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I have suddenly discovered that I no longer have GPS display in any of my planes, not even the default aircraft.
All I get when I click the GPS button is a black display where the GPS should be.

I downloaded some planes over the weekend that replaced some of the guage files, now I get the incompatible third party software error on start up that specifies the Guages/GPS.gua as the messed up file, obviously this was one of the files that the recently added planes replaced.

How can I fix this problem? Can someone send me the working GPS.gua file?
I tried restoring my computer to before I downloaded the planes in the first place, but that didn't help.
I also searched the FS2002 disc's for the guage files and couldn't find them.

I only download planes from the FS2002 download area, so this really sucks, it's the first real problem I've had with third party software.

Thanks for any help you can give.

I am ready to make my trip from Tehran to Baghdad, but will be grounded until this problem is resolved.

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Reply #1 - Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 12:15pm

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Okay, sent GPS.gau

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Reply #2 - Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 12:51pm

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Yep, that fixed it, I appreciate your help Baron.

Wow, that was a little scary, but I figured there would be a simple fix.
Normally I just say 'yes to all' when adding new guages, and after adding 300+ planes to my program, this is the first time I have had a problem like that.
Needless to say, I will be keeping a closer eye on what is being overwritten in the future.

If I knew for sure which plane caused this problem I would let everyone know, but I took on several new downloads over the weekend, so it's kind of hard to say.

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Reply #3 - Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 1:05pm

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You can also copy the gauges off you're FS2002 disk 1 Wink

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Reply #4 - Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 1:10pm

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Paz. If this does happen again you can extract GPS.gau from one of the CAB files on the CD with WinZip.

It's a good idea when installing gauges to paste the individual GAU files into the FS2002\GAUGES folder. Open the gauge folder included with the download , click Edit/Select All & paste them in. If you're not sure, always click No if prompted to overwrite Files/Folders.

This is the problem I have with auto-install programs/utilities & any advice to extract zipfiles direct to the sims.

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Reply #5 - Aug 3^rd, 2003 at 1:41pm

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You can also copy the gauges off you're FS2002 disk 1 Wink

I looked for them on the disc, but I guess I wasn't didn't know what to look for. I was looking for a file like the one in your FS2002 guage folder.

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you can extract GPS.gau from one of the CAB files on the CD with WinZip.

Thanks Hagar, hopefully this won't happen again, but now maybe I'll have a better idea of what to look for on the original FS2002 disc.

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