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Mar 26th, 2004 at 2:57pm

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After almost 2 hours downloading I managed to get the new(ish) F-14 but the guages don't show up in the VC or on the 2D panel even though I've put them in the right folders and checked 3 times, anyone got any ideas or had similar problems?
 
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Reply #1 - Apr 1st, 2004 at 7:10am

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anybody ???
 
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Reply #2 - Apr 1st, 2004 at 2:56pm

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What files are you referring to?
 
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Reply #3 - Apr 2nd, 2004 at 7:50am

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F-14bfs9a, sorry  Roll Eyes
It flys ok, the and the panel shows but there are no guages evn though I have installed them  ??? ???
 
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Reply #4 - Apr 2nd, 2004 at 9:41pm

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My guess is you copied a 'gauges' (containing the F-14 gauges) folder into the 'FS2002\gauges' folder. A no-no.

The *.gau files must be immediatly below the FS2002\gauges folder and NOT a sub folder.

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Reply #5 - Apr 3rd, 2004 at 9:23am

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nope, same as every other plane I've got and they still don't work
 
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Reply #6 - Apr 3rd, 2004 at 12:32pm

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Do you have a gauge checking progran like fsGauges http://www.fsgauges.com/ so you can confirm that they are there or cfgEdit so you can see what they are supposed to look like?  CfgEdit will give you a lot of error messages if the gauges are missing.

One big caveat, fsGauges doesn't do .xml gauges.  It will tell you they are all missing.
 
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Reply #7 - Apr 4th, 2004 at 2:47pm

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thanks I'll check it out tonight  8)
 
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Reply #8 - Apr 4th, 2004 at 3:05pm

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Craig. I would check this out but don't want to get involved with large downloads I have no use for. Are you using the panel included with the F-14 or the recommended one at the bottom of this page?
http://www.simviation.com/fs2004panels5.htm
 
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Reply #9 - Apr 4th, 2004 at 4:26pm

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I've been using the default panel, or trying to anyway. I'd rather fly this one from the VC so adding a new panel isn't really an option  Smiley
 
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Reply #10 - Apr 4th, 2004 at 4:36pm

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OK. Downloading a 30 Mb file is out of the question right now or I would check it out. Many panels feature 3 different types of gauges these days. The old familiar GAU files + 2 types of XML gauges. These are any number of XML & BMP files either in compressed CAB format or configured in an ordinary folder. It's important to be able to recognise them as gauges & install them properly. Each of the 3 types is pasted directly into FS2002\Gauges. CAB files look just like zipfiles. Don't extract them or they won't work.

Make sure you follow the install instructions carefully.
 
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Reply #11 - Apr 5th, 2004 at 4:46pm

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got 'em sorted now  8)
managed to get it on deck without colapsing the landing gear as well  8) 8) 8) 8)

thanks guys  Grin
 
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Reply #12 - Apr 5th, 2004 at 5:30pm

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Great. Well done. Smiley

So what turned out to be the problem? You're not allowed to say you fixed it without telling us how. Unwrtitten forum rule. Tongue Wink
 
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Reply #13 - Apr 5th, 2004 at 6:17pm

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there are three sets of guages within the d/l two are gau. files the other wasn't but I'd copied them directly to the guages folder  Tongue Roll Eyes Tongue
 
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Reply #14 - Apr 6th, 2004 at 4:52am

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At least you finally fixed it.

There are so many ways of configuring downloads these days. All designers have their own methods & preferences which makes it very difficult to give reliable advice. There might be a good reason for including 3 sets of gauges with this particular aircraft but I never saw any sense in that - or why so many include zipfiles within the main zipfile. This just makes a simple job over-complicated. If everything was configured properly & carefully checked before uploading the files, installing any addon would be a piece of cake. A simple matter of cut & paste. There would be no need for auto-install, install manager utilities or anything else. Roll Eyes

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