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I am currently running FSX with VLC installed on my Computer but have just re-installed FS9 for a change. I am having trouble trying to install my copy of Combo Scenery Of NZ . I am working with Windows 7 x 64 bit and the installation disc will not recognise the path C:\Program Files(x86)Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator9\Add On Scenery. when I try to change the path. If I click OK the path stays on the default C:\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9 and says " Path not recognised" . I tried installing the two files required for this program ( ie:Red Baron NZ Topo and Red Baron NZ Mesh) from a backed up copy of the original disc installation, and whilst the land features are correct the coastlines are out of place, and it seems that some of the default coastlines are coming through. I understand that this is probably because when installing from the disc certain default files are deleted automatically. Has anyone else out there experienced this same problem of installing from the disc on Windows 7 X 64bit. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the solution might be? If not I will just have to put up with the messy coastlines or just uninstall FS9 again. Incidently I still prefer FSX with VLC . Much more realistic and interesting as far as I am concerned, and with so many wonderful add on sceneries. We are certainly spoilt for choice in New Zealand.

bobby48w wrote:

QUOTE (bobby48w @ Oct 26 2013,4:35 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I am currently running FSX with VLC installed on my Computer but have just re-installed FS9 for a change. I am having trouble trying to install my copy of Combo Scenery Of NZ . I am working with Windows 7 x 64 bit and the installation disc will not recognise the path C:\Program Files(x86)Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator9\Add On Scenery. when I try to change the path. If I click OK the path stays on the default C:\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator 9 and says " Path not recognised" . I tried installing the two files required for this program ( ie:Red Baron NZ Topo and Red Baron NZ Mesh) from a backed up copy of the original disc installation, and whilst the land features are correct the coastlines are out of place, and it seems that some of the default coastlines are coming through. I understand that this is probably because when installing from the disc certain default files are deleted automatically. Has anyone else out there experienced this same problem of installing from the disc on Windows 7 X 64bit. Can anyone enlighten me as to what the solution might be? If not I will just have to put up with the messy coastlines or just uninstall FS9 again. Incidently I still prefer FSX with VLC . Much more realistic and interesting as far as I am concerned, and with so many wonderful add on sceneries. We are certainly spoilt for choice in New Zealand.

If you have both FSX and FS9 installed on the same hard drive you are likely to get a conflict the best way if you are installing both FSX and FS9 is to install the FSX and FS9 on to different hard drives.

dbcunnz wrote:

QUOTE (dbcunnz @ Oct 26 2013,5:07 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

If you have both FSX and FS9 installed on the same hard drive you are likely to get a conflict the best way if you are installing both FSX and FS9 is to install the FSX and FS9 on to different hard drives.

Thank you for that Doug , but I don`t think that is the problem as I previously had both installed on the same drive and they worked fine.
Again thanks anyway for taking an interest.

Hello Bobby - What Doug says is spot on.
On my old BigBeast, an XP3 machine, I had two installs of FS9 with no problems. On this new SuperBeast, (Win7x64) I tried to to add in my old FS9s on the same drive as my new FSX - lots of probs.
I had taken care not to install to the default location - FSX was in C:\FS10 and the FS9s were in C:\Classic FS and C:\Flight Simulator 9 - because the security stuff in Win7 blocks files the sims need to write to.
I tried all the standard methods of lying to the 'poota to make it do what I want, but at the end of the day, the solution was to add a separate HDD, and install FS9 on that. By great good luck, I happened to have a spare 1TB drive, which I had bought in the hope that the BigBeast crash was not a mobo failure.
Flight1 has a free tool, to change the registry entry an FSX or FS9 installer is looking for, to see where your FS9 is.
You can also install a different ' language.dll' .That is the file that writes info to [user]\App Data\Roaming\Microsoft\ FSX (or FS9). There is a Cal Classic one, a GW3 one, and a SilverWings one, too.
If you had three installs, you could put a different language.dll in each main FS folder, and all the saved flights, weather, cfg, and so on would be saved to the appropriate FS9 folder.
BUT - as I said - it is so much easier to do this if your original installs are on separate drives. Avoid C:\Program Files like the plague.
Hope this helps
MikeW

emfrat wrote:

QUOTE (emfrat @ Oct 26 2013,5:52 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hello Bobby - What Doug says is spot on.

Thank you Mike,
I have a lap top as well as a desktop computer so I think I will uninstall FS9 from the Desktop and run it on the Laptop.
And Doug sorry to question your answer to my query. I remember now that originally both FS9 & FSX were installed on Windows Vista not Windows 7 x 64 which I switched to when my hard drive crashed a few months ago.

Thanks again guys for taking an interest. I guess that is what the forum is all about. Helping one another out.

Okay; you have several options for installing. First is to simply move your entire FS9 folder to C:\ and rename it something like FS9 (do not include the word Microsoft anywhere in the title). As Mike pointed out Flight1 do a Registry repair tool, so download that and run it according to the included instructions. This will register your FS9 in its new location.

Now, run the Combo Scenery install. It should install to your FS9 Add On Folder and Scenery/Ocen/Scenery. If this fails, you can do the following:

Allow the Combo Scenery to install itself where it wants to (it will simply create a new FS9 Root folder and install the various .bgls in the appropriate folders). Navigate to this and manually move the contents of the Add On Scenery folder to your new FS9. That takes care of the Mesh.

The Scenery/Ocen/Scenery is a bit trickier. Open the new install and you will find the new .bgl files to change coastlines/roads/ et cetera. Make a backup copy of your FS9 Scenery/Ocen/Scenery folder, zip it up and keep it safe and secure somewhere. Now copy the .bgl files in the Combo Scenery install to your FS9 Scenery/Ocen/Scenery folder and and allow them to overwrite the originals.

Alternatively, you could backup each of the appropriate .bgls in your FS9 installation (use the extension .bglx) so that when running the Combo Uninstaller, they will automatically be returned to the defaults.

The following is a list of the .bgl files to be turned off:

HL992470.BGL RD992470.BGL BR9OCEN0.BGL
HL992480.BGL RD992480.BGL BR9OCEN1.BGL
HL993440.BGL RD993460.BGL
HL993460.BGL RD993470.BGL ST992470.BGL
HL993470.BGL RD993480.BGL ST992480.BGL
HL993480.BGL RD994440.BGL ST993460.BGL
HL994440.BGL RD994450.BGL ST993470.BGL
HL994450.BGL RD994460.BGL ST993480.BGL
HL994460.BGL RD994470.BGL ST994440.BGL
HL994470.BGL RD995450.BGL ST994450.BGL
HL995450.BGL RD995460.BGL ST994460.BGL
HL995460.BGL ST994470.BGL
ST995450.BGL
HP992470.BGL RR992480.BGL ST995460.BGL
HP992480.BGL RR993460.BGL
HP993440.BGL RR993470.BGL UT992480.BGL
HP993460.BGL RR993480.BGL UT993460.BGL
HP993470.BGL RR994440.BGL UT993470.BGL
HP993480.BGL RR994450.BGL UT993480.BGL
HP994440.BGL RR994460.BGL UT994440.BGL
HP994450.BGL RR994470.BGL UT994460.BGL
HP994460.BGL RR995450.BGL UT994470.BGL
HP994470.BGL RR995460.BGL UT995450.BGL
HP995450.BGL UT995460.BGL
HP995460.BGL

(Sorry 'bout the formatting). Once everything has been installed where they should go in your newly moved FS9 folder, simply delete the entire FS folder created by the Combo install and go fly the NZ skies.

Hope that makes sense. If not please don't hesitate to let me know.

Thank you Dorian. Sounds feasible . I will give it a go.