Video Tutorial: Adding Scenery to FSX in Windows 7
This video tutorial isn’t going to set the world on fire, but a few troubled souls might find it helpful. I just got some new sound recording equipment for a project, and I thought I’d try it out by making a brief tutorial. What better topic than one of the most infamous bugs in Win7/FSX: the dialog box that won’t go away.
Anyway, enjoy.
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Thanks for the great tutorial! Your voice sounds AWESOME by the way lol
Thanks! This is a fancy microphone, for sure.
thank you for this. I was going nuts trying to find out what was wrong
Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fantastic. I am not losing my mind. I have a folder outside of my FSX folder that is “My Scenery” and it is full of airport and area folders with the scenery and texture folders within. In Windows XP, I would simply click the folder and hit ok and it worked. Last night for the first time in my Windows 7 install, I tried to add Virgin Islands and I got stuck staring at the contents of the scenery folder and could not get that window to go away! By fluke it closed as I was madly clicking everywhere. No I understand why.
Thanks Bill!
Charles.
I’m new here; have a question: how does one go about setting up the “folder outside … FSX folder” for “‘My Scenery’” as you mentioned? I’m in Windows 7 with FSX.
thanks for whatever,
jack
That has been driving me nuts for a couple months. Bella Coolie here I come!!
Thanks.
So simple now you’ve shown me how?
Many many thanks
Bruce
Thanks Bill. Been having this problem too. Now you’ve shined some light on it.
Thanks mate, was starting to eat my hat already!
Thank you so much Bill. This has helped me take my FSX to a better level. We need more good people like you in this world.
Regards.
PS: Have a wonderful Festive season and all the best for 2011.
Thk God for this video! Thx.
Hi Bill:
Where did your GMAX tutorials go? Can’t find them anywhere, and they were magnificent…
Best,
Vlad
You are my new hero – and my hair will probably grow again now where I pulled it out! …
Oh man, you helped me out from this problem, thanks a lot
Bill!!!
man, thank u sir….i’ve been goin’ crazy tryin’ to add some great scenery, but, it’s been hit and miss. i’ve been stuck tryin’ to install OZ’s grand canyon v2. not any more, cuz of u!
thanks again for all u do for our community Bill….
ron…
Thank You very very much !
Bill … I got turned on to your blog by Robert Ferraro as I’ve been trying to solve this problem for 2 weeks since I upgraded from XP to Windows 7 … so I ran the video and tried it. I followed the instructions in the video and it appeared to work … the scenery tile got added to the Scenery Library. Then I immediately went to Free Flight and checked for that tile in the Views–View Mode–Outside–Top Down from the cockpit and the tile wasn’t there. So I then checked the Scenery Library again and the tile was no longer there-it had disappeared and when I tried to manually edit it it wouldn’t work this time.
I quit FSX and tried it again from scratch and the same thing happened. The scenery tile got added to the Scenery Library, but this time when I went to Free Flight I right away checked the Scenery Library and the tile had disappeared again.
Am I doing something wrong? Do I need to add a step I might be missing? How do I keep that scenery from disappearing in the Scenery Library?
Any help would be greatly appreciated..
Many thanks for any help you can give me.
Gordon (Kije)
Hi Gordon,
I have to tell you, I have no idea what’s going on in your setup. I’ve never had a scenery library entry go away after being successfully added. My hunch is that this is some sort of permissions issue – that the item is added to the scenery library temporarily, but when the sim tries to save the scenery.cfg file, it runs into some sort of problem doing so. Sorry, I don’t have any real insight for you beyond that.
Bill
Hi Bill,
Thanks very much for the help … this is a problem that seems to have just about everyone stumped. I’ve tried a few other twists, even to the point of directly adding the necessary information into the scenery.cfg file … and that doesn’t work either … so I’m fresh out of ideas but I know there’s a solution out there somewhere.
Nonetheless, I appreciate you taking the time to help me and when it finally gets figured out I’ll post the solution here.
Thanks so much again
Gordon
Try this.
Remove the Scenery.cfg file and boot up FSX to let it rebuild the cfg.
!!WARNING!!!
[Backup any scenery.cfg files before attempting the following]
Make absolutely sure that you delete the correct one. There are multiple Scenery.cfg’s in separate locations. The one in the MSFSX root folder is the root scenery file with the standard fsx sceneries. Do NOT remove, or add to that cfg.
Remove the scenery.cfg in this location:
WinVista: C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg
Win7: C:\Users\All Users\Microsoft\FSX\Scenery.cfg
Once you’ve removed that cfg, start FSX and let it rebuild. Then check your “Scenery Library” in the FSX UI for the current installed scenery. If any of the manual scenery’s are missing, then follow the video to add and check.
I hope that helps.
Shane … Thanks so much for taking the time to help. I tried to do as you suggested, but the path you gave me ends with “Users” — there is no “All Users” nor anything related to FS in my Users path. So I’m kinda stuck now, not wanting to delete the main Scenery.cfg file which, by the way, contains ALL the working scenery files in the Scenery Library.. and so I’m confused at to what that means.
I very much appreciate your help … and when I find the solution to this problem, I’ll sure be posting it here for anyone else with this problem.
And Bill, thanks again to you for your time and help.
Best ever,
Gordon (Kije)
Hmm, well make a copy of your main scenery.cfg in your FSX root folder. Then delete the scenery.cfg. Start FSX and let it rebuild the cfg. Once completed, test your results.
Otherwise open a file browser and search your C drive for “scenery.cfg” and it should show all the locations of that file, but try and rebuild the main one first and check your results, good luck!
Thanks for the info on installing add on scenery in fsx using windows 7, great video and blog.
Brian
It doesnt work win7 64bit any other ideas
The video was taken using Win7-64. If it’s not working for you, it’s not because of it being 64-bit.
Ahh you helped me so much, this was driving me crazy, can now experience the very singapore and orbx scenery …
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WAHOO! Thanks ! I thought I was going mad.
A big THK YOU from Sydney,Down Under.Australia.Like everybody else,I was going crazy with not being able to add scenery..Much appreciated for your efforts…
I read about adding the scenery manually in Windows 7, that is, clicking in the file folder window. It did not work. It did not work many times! Then I decided to try clicking on the right under text, and that worked. It appears that there is not one white folder window, but there are 3 divisions of that window, and I found that I had to click in the right window. It’s the sort of thing that can make you crazy, as has been suggested by several others.
Thanks! I wonder how could you figure that out?!
It was driving me nuts, I had to pile up all files in one common scenery folder in order for FSX to see them.
Now I can sort them by folders as they should be. Great, it works!
Thank so much!! I was getting pretty frustrated!!
Hi,
I have been trying to get the Australian maps to work, I have even tried using your way and still wont work. What can I do to get around this?
Thanks for the video – it saved my life!