Simviation Forum - Addon Scenery Help

Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:23am

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Hi all,
I currently use Vista and, when I add scenery to the 'Addon Scenery' folder and restart FS9 it works. However, after this initial time it disappears. I think this could be because I am not an admin on this computer, however turning User Account Controls off is not an option. Is there another way to install scenery?
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Reply #1 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:26am

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If you can't turn off UAC, you're SOL. Roll Eyes

Absolutely the worst thing about Vista.

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Reply #2 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:29am

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That's annoying.... Angry

Thanks anyway.

P.S. Would it work if I turned off 'read only' from all my FS folders?

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Reply #3 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 11:55am

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being that i do not have VISTA, and probably wont as long as my XP machine will run........

to those that do have VISTA..... could you put your addon scenery's SCENERY and texture folder content directly into the ADDON SCENERY / SCENERY and /Texture folders, and have FS read it from there with the UAC turned ON??

I know that xp does things A LOT differently... but i am just wondering if that might help. If not, just forget I said anything.

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Reply #4 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 12:32pm

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Capt.Propwash wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 11:55am:

being that i do not have VISTA, and probably wont as long as my XP machine will run........

to those that do have VISTA..... could you put your addon scenery's SCENERY and texture folder content directly into the ADDON SCENERY / SCENERY and /Texture folders, and have FS read it from there with the UAC turned ON??

I know that xp does things A LOT differently... but i am just wondering if that might help. If not, just forget I said anything.

I've added a lot of add-on scenery, and once the folder is in the add-on folder, and you add it from the User Interface, it should alway work, regardless of you UAC setting.

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Reply #5 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:14pm

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I think I've found the problem: Vista doesn't let you change the scenery.cfg file, showing it what scenery you want to use.

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Reply #6 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:33pm

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Speedbird wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:14pm:

I think I've found the problem: Vista doesn't let you change the scenery.cfg file, showing it what scenery you want to use.

I've never seen an add-on scenery that requires that. What scenery is that?

But as far as Vista and .cfg's, you should be able to copy the .cfg to the desk top, edit, close and save, then copy paste it back in. You must have been able to turn off the AUC at one time, since IINM, you have to do that in order to install FS9 to begin with. Shocked

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Reply #7 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:24pm

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Boikat wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:33pm:

Speedbird wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:14pm:

I think I've found the problem: Vista doesn't let you change the scenery.cfg file, showing it what scenery you want to use.

I've never seen an add-on scenery that requires that. What scenery is that?

But as far as Vista and .cfg's, you should be able to copy the .cfg to the desk top, edit, close and save, then copy paste it back in. You must have been able to turn off the AUC at one time, since IINM, you have to do that in order to install FS9 to begin with. Shocked

That's all very well if you know how to add scenery by manually editing Scenery.cfg. A lot of people won't & could end up making things worse. I have very little knowledge of Vista but the best way of avoiding this sort of problem seems to be to install FS9 to a location outside the Program Files directory.

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Reply #8 - Jul 19^th, 2009 at 8:01pm

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Hagar wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:24pm:

Boikat wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:33pm:

Speedbird wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:14pm:

I think I've found the problem: Vista doesn't let you change the scenery.cfg file, showing it what scenery you want to use.

I've never seen an add-on scenery that requires that. What scenery is that?

But as far as Vista and .cfg's, you should be able to copy the .cfg to the desk top, edit, close and save, then copy paste it back in. You must have been able to turn off the AUC at one time, since IINM, you have to do that in order to install FS9 to begin with. Shocked

That's all very well if you know how to add scenery by manually editing Scenery.cfg. A lot of people won't & could end up making things worse. I have very little knowledge of Vista but the best way of avoiding this sort of problem seems to be to install FS9 to a location outside the Program Files directory.

All true. But I'm still curious as to what add-on scenery need you to edit the scenery.cfg to begin with.

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Reply #9 - Jul 20^th, 2009 at 2:34am

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Boikat wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 8:01pm:

Hagar wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 4:24pm:

Boikat wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:33pm:

Speedbird wrote on Jul 19^th, 2009 at 2:14pm:

I think I've found the problem: Vista doesn't let you change the scenery.cfg file, showing it what scenery you want to use.

I've never seen an add-on scenery that requires that. What scenery is that?

But as far as Vista and .cfg's, you should be able to copy the .cfg to the desk top, edit, close and save, then copy paste it back in. You must have been able to turn off the AUC at one time, since IINM, you have to do that in order to install FS9 to begin with. Shocked

That's all very well if you know how to add scenery by manually editing Scenery.cfg. A lot of people won't & could end up making things worse. I have very little knowledge of Vista but the best way of avoiding this sort of problem seems to be to install FS9 to a location outside the Program Files directory.

All true. But I'm still curious as to what add-on scenery need you to edit the scenery.cfg to begin with.

All new scenery is added to Scenery.cfg when you activate it via the FS9 Scenery Library. If Vista won't allow it to be modified in the default location this is the cause of the problem.

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Reply #10 - Jul 20^th, 2009 at 2:41pm

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I've tried doing what it says here: http://forums.flightsim.com/vbfs/showthread.php?t=193385
But to no avail.... Any ideas?

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Reply #11 - Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 11:33am

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I've found another 'scenery.cfg' in the same directory as FS9.cfg. I've tried changing it to match the one in my Flight Simulator Program Folder, but still no progress. Any ideas?

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Reply #12 - Jul 23^rd, 2009 at 7:00pm

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I'll add my 2d worth....I have Vista64 HE. FS9 is in the Programme 86 folder. My UAC is off & I have an FS9 cfg shortcut in a folder with others on my desktop. I add to Addon Scenery & restart FS9 & it appears.
HOWEVER, sometimes (& this happened recently) scenery (Swiss Sion) just vanishes & I have to reinstall it. This never happened in XP & put it down to Vista being just another flakey Windoze programme...... Huh

Why can't you turn off UAC ?

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