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Thanks mrzippy, I haven't got the nuance. I did the work mentionned in the link unfortunately without success.

And if Steam, why not P3D? For compatibility with some add-ons ? Tx

Yes il88pp, in this way it is not an old install but traces of a old one or just folder with files. Thanks UPHILL3, I'll check for Steam. Maybe after trying to reinstall my first two discs.

Since my recent reinstall did not include Acceleration but just de two first discs, and did not provided a registration window (even with the PartMgr trick), should I understand from your comment that my old first installation (Deluxe+Acceleration) may interfere with the access to a registration window? This would mean a complete desinstall, even of my old first FSX folder on my D drive, and not just the recent reinstall? Thanks

After W10 reinstall I did just one reinstallation : FSX Deluxe but not Acceleration. Since I could keep my main FSX folder on my hard drive over W10 reinstall which has been tweaked over the last 8 years, I wanted to rerun it. So the reinstallation mentioned above was made in paralel of the old installation. As you can guess, the idea was reinstalling the files lost on the C drive (FSX.cfg, scenery.cfg, etc). My old good copy ran good for a month now. I had the error message on startup for a few weeks saying that my copy was not registered but never saw any registration window opening. I no longer have the error message but I'm still limited to 30 minutes and no add-on (FSUIPC makes FSX crash when installed). I also had a backup of FSX.cfg, scenery.cfg etc which I could put back on the C drive after FSX reintall. FSX was tested at each step. Searching on the web, I found that there is a way to makes reappear the registration windows but as mentionned, it doesn't works for me.

I agree. A new pc will sure be needed. Meanwhile, because FS2020 won't probably come before late fall, FSX and all the add-ons accumulated since 2012 is still a solution.

Hi All, I had to reinstall Windows (now 10) on my laptop so I had to it too for my FSX Gold Edition. Now, after several attempts, I'm desesperate and can't activate the product with my product key. So I play in demo mode that closes after 30 minutes and doesn't allow add-ons. Main issue: when I load the game, I never had the registration window. This is what I did without success. Would you have any other solution? - Unchecked Run in compatibility mode in the FSX.exe property as recommanded in this forum Sticky post. - Used the Registry editor to allow the game registration window to open on startup as here : - Called Microsoft Activation Center but they could not activate the product by phone since no registration window is opening. - Checked in the Help / About menu to ensure the product is not registered. Thanks very much in advance! With FS2020 coming, me and my son are more eager than ever to go back to flightsim. G

Right. I'm on V3.13. It's been hard to install on my Win8 so I didn't want to retry that. So v14 is my next move... Thanks Jim!

OK, thanks for the tips. I'm gonna try this. Also, any idea why we get the error Can't make an image when we select a too hight LOD resulting in too much tiles? It seems that around 800-1000 tiles is the max I can get accepted by the background image tool.

After a few more testing, I realized it is the photo scenery around the airplane that desapears, so if I go away from the airport, the scenery around it shows off.

Hi all, First, many thanks to the author of this tutorial!! I got a lot of fun realize a few sceneries and make things real. I'm working on PKWA Kwajalein, Marshal Islands, and missed a step probably but can't find it: the few first photo steps are ok. I could also remove the FSX default island shore and put the cell in water with XBuilder. However, there is something that prevent my photo scenery to appear only where the default shore were drawn, around the airport. I checked also in ADE to remove any Exclude there could be. Any idea folks ? Thanks !!