I don't know how you guys are doing it but I am having very little luck getting FS9 aircraft to work in FSX. I have tryed about 60 different aircraft and have only gotten 14 to work. Either they don't show up at all or there are no textures. Just a solid white airplane. Sometimes they show up on the list but when you chose them, there is no airplane to view. It is invisible.

If you're installing the textures correctly they should display. I suspect this is a graphics setting or driver issue. Which video card are you using?

Video card is a NVIDIA GeForce4MX 4000. The drivers are updated.

Besides I am just using this one aircraft for an example. As I said, I have gotten 14 out of about 60 to work.

I don't know about the aircraft.cfg files. I only mess with the sound.cfg files. I do know how to edit the aircraft cfg files to get the fltsim.0, fltsim.1 etc. to work as far as textures go. I am not a computer programmer so I don't feel comfortable going but so far with cfg files. If I have to have a PHD in programming to get these things to work, forget it.

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Editing CFG files is not difficult BUT if these are complete aircraft for FS9 they should install to FSX without any editing. If they display on the menu so should the textures.

I just downloaded the MATS Super Connie here to check it out. http://www.simviation.com/fs2004props12.htm
It works fine for me in the FSX Demo which is all I have.

PS. The gauges are incompatible so don't bother installing them.

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It's quite possible the Demo is different to the full version in some ways. I can't possibly know what thoise differences are. The fact that there are two different versions of the Demo doesn't help but I have the latest version. From what I've seen so far the basic features seem to be much the same. I've always been happy to help where I can but I've almost come to the end of the road. I'm not going to rush out & spend £60 on something that won't run properly on my machine simply to troubleshoot other people's problems but if I can carry on for while longer using the Demo I will.

You don't say which Connie you're having problems with but going by the CFG entry you posted it's the same one I tried. As you can see this works fine for me.


I suspect that either your video card can't handle the textures of some 3rd party aircraft or you have the wrong drivers. It's possible they would display if you converted them to a different format.

PS. I have an nVidia GeForce 6200.

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I knew that. My comment was not aimed at anyone in particular. Sorry if I gave the wrong impression.

You didn't mention your system specs or what sort of performance you're getting from FSX. My knowledge of hardware is very basic but I believe people with the GeForce4 MX range of video cards were having similar problems to yours in FS9.

Well, that seems pretty good but I'm not sure your vid card supports the advanced features. I suspect that is the basic cause of your problem.

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OK, so maybe I'm wasting my time with the Demo then.

One thought before I disappear down my hole. Are you using the same video card drivers on both machines?