Repair of FSXA

[speedy70]

Lewis.
Please could you tell me what I need to backup before I run repair of FSX?I have FSX and acceleration

Cheers Chris

[speedy70]

Lewis.
Bump.

Cheers Chris

[Lewis - A2A]

Hey,

what would you like to save?

Do you mean hours on aircraft?

If so its the .dat files for each aircraft you want to save. For example;
\Documents\A2A\FSX\Cessna172

thanks,
Lewis

[speedy70]

I meant the sim in general.Do I need to save the scenery.cfg, the exe.xml, the dll.xml and the FSX.cfg.

Anything else that needs saving?

[nojwod]

You run into a minefield trying to save settings etc when you reinstall FSX.

Better to bite the bullet and completely delete the sim using the uninstall function, then delete the residual FSX folder, and just reinstall a new copy, and then add you add-ons as per the installers in each one.

Speaking from many years' experience... and it tends to run better for a while at least.

[speedy70]

Nojwod. Thanks for your advice but if you saw the size and modifications of my FSX you would not delete it.

Cheers Chris

[Lewis - A2A]

Sorry but I gotta agree with nojwod, the potential frustration of a 0 being a 1 when it should be a 0 in a new install is a nightmare in support frustration. Like looking for a piece of hay in a giant stack of needles. Its very much worth biting the bullet with the core FS install.

External things like FSUIPC, our Accu-sim .dat files and what not have there own settings and I would approach that as a software by software, bit by bit approach. At least that way you can add them in one at a time and if you encounter hiccups easily ID the issue.

thanks,
Lewis

[Skycat]

I've been watching this thread and I agree it is best to start fresh. You didn't say what problem you are trying to fix, but whatever it is you're either going to invalidate addon files by overwriting with OEM; or unfix OEM by overwriting with corrupted backup files.

[speedy70]

It is only a small glitch.I had a crash the other day and seemed to recover ok.

However I bought the just flight Stinson and cannot get the lights to work.

The lights work ok on all my other aircraft.

I just thought that a repair might be easy but obviously it is not.

Hence I shall not be doing it.

Cheers Chris

[nojwod]

Nojwod. Thanks for your advice but if you saw the size and modifications of my FSX you would not delete it.

Cheers Chris

I've probably rebuilt my FSX a dozen times. Each time it takes from a week to three weeks to get it fully restored. On the way I find aircraft and scenery that I diodn't need or use, and I managed to enjoy the process by installing a few things then spending time actually flying in the sim, which is what I bought FSX for in the first place.

I haven't had to rebuild for over a year now, partly because a lot of flying takes place in P3DV4, and partly because I've learnt that the programmers know best, I never fiddle with scenery order, fsx.cfg, etc unless it's one of the few well known necessities such as OZx over FTX etc.

The other thing to remember is, if you're reasonably confident on file structures, you can save a lot of your FSX folders and files to another drive, reinstall FSX, and then merge the old folders into the new ones. However, as Scott has alluded to, one little mistake can cause endless frustration in the long run.

[Lewis - A2A]

Its a shame you are not on steam edition as thats pretty straight forward with the steam verify file command that's part of steam