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Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Hi all,

I'm trying to get back into FSX after a long hiatus - one thing I did was move over to FSX-SE, consciously losing all settings/tweaks attempting to do a clean restart.

Besides the fact that I'm again/still tweaking fsx.cfg to address things like blurries etc :(, there is now one specific issue with A2A planes that I couldn't figure out yet:
The Shift-4 (load/fuel manager) hotkey isn't working any longer.
- all the other Shift-* A2A menus work as usual
- pressing Shift-4 just gives a sound ("dang" alternating with "ding-dang-ding")
- this (sound) only happens when inside FSX

I was suspecting something else is listening on that hotkey combination? But I've not clue what, or where to start. I've closed other programs that might be registering hotkeys, no luck. Also as mentioned above, these sounds only play when I'm in FSX, so that assumption is not likely to hold.
I've gone through all the FSX keybinds, couldn't find anything binding to Shift-4.

Does anyone have any pointers for me on this one? I'm on Windows 10 if thats relevant (but I've run boxed FSX on that before, without this specific issue).

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Steam edition requires very little if any tweaking so i'd revert back to default just in case something in there is causing you issues and concentrate on the out of sim tweaks such as GPU settings in nvid inspector etc.

For the FSX install, did you do a clean install of FSX Steam by first removing all trace of fsx box edition from your system/registry etc?

Have you run the latest Accu-sim updater?

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Hi Lewis - man you're quick :)

Yes I removed all FSX traces, settings, folders, anything that was left including addon-tool installations. As clean as I could make it without wiping windows itself.

Latest Accu-Sim updater has been run.

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Hello,

did you clean the registry etc too or just files and folders, its the registry thats really important as thats was steam edition looks at to decide if the system already has FSX Disc edition installed.

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Hm... I cleaned out stuff that I found, but with the mess that is Windows Registry I probably forgot something important?

Any pointers what/where to check specifically? If not, I might have to aim for a full wipe/reinstall of that computer at some point...

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You'll want to follow one of the guides like this;
https://steamcommunity.com/app/314160/d ... 114234383/

Also for your problem have you remapped anything and are you using FSUIPC etc?

The shift + 2,3,4,5 etc are default keys so these can be remapped and cleared etc.

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Thanks Lewis, I will have a look.

I also just ordered a larger SSD, once that arrives I guess I will do a clean setup of my gaming machine, I've been wanting to do that for some time now...

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If you are going to the reinstall route can you please Install your FSX get that all sorted and then just the Accu-sim C172 and the accu-sim updater to see how it goes. That way if it stoops working we can better know if its an external influence.

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Will do - while I wait for that SSD, I've remapped panel 4 to Ctrl-Shift-4, works perfectly, but haven't found what is grabbing Shift-4 yet (it's still being intercepted and causes stupid sounds to be played).

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Re: Problems with Shift-4 shortcut...

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Update on this: did the fresh installation today, any found the culprit - a little tool called FS-SIMtimizer (which essentially removes the window border when running FSX windowed, which is why I'm using it). That thing grabs the Shift-4 combo, though I've no idea why, yet - or why it didn't do that with my original boxed installation.

Anyways though, thanks for the inputs!

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Good to hear you found the culprit, its strange that it would grab a common key combo used in the sim for the 2D panel system.

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