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Jul 25^th, 2005 at 2:59am

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Hello dear frieds of virtual sky! May any of you help ? My troble is that after add a lot of planes suddenly the gps vanished even if the dark window opens in any plane.
Data: when I open fs2002 appear a message that tells me that there is a third party soft that may be incompatible"gps.GAU" and the problem persist if I say ok or not in the options!I could´not find that file in the gauges folder but there is a file named gps.gau .... ???

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Reply #1 - Jul 25^th, 2005 at 6:34am

Webb Ex Member
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Delete gauges\gps.gau and replace it with the original from CD1\FS2002.cab.

In the future when you see a message that says "Gps.gau already exists. Do you want to replace it?" say no.

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Reply #2 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 10:43am

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i have made the same boo boo.
as im not to comp friendly where do i find these gauge thingys and how do i find it on disc 1 to replace .help its doing my head in here

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Reply #3 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 2:09pm

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Put CD1 in your CD tray and navigate to it with explorer Tiy will see a file called FS2002.CAB. It's 49,428 KB.

If you have WindowsXP you can then just open the file. If you have Windows98 you will need WinZip or WinRar or similar file compression/uncompression utility to get into it.

Once you have opened it extract gps.gau. There are 1,585 files inside of if but the only one you need is gps.gau. You can extract it to anywhere you like - I usually use C:\TEMP.

Now that you have extracted the file navigate to the folder where you extracted it. If you extracted it to C:\Temp you may need to dig down a bit to something like C:\TEMP\Game\gauges\gps.gau.

Now that you have found it Cut and Paste it to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\FS2002\Gauges (assuming you are using the standard installation path). If you get a message that says "Gps.gau already exists. Do you want to replace it?", say Yes, because we are assuming whatever is in there now is bad.

Exit explorer and any other applications and start up FS. Your GPS should be restored.

The next time you download a panel and the instructions tell you to "extract all gauges into your gauges folder" it's ok to add gauges but JUST SAY NO to replacing unless you want to risk losing your original gauge.

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Reply #4 - Aug 8^th, 2005 at 5:23pm