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Is the Scenery Trial Mode Disabled for some FSDT scenery ? **solved**
grasshopper:
Encouraged by the help given me in this forum that has allowed me to finally register my serial numbers to re-activate my FSDT copies of Zurich, JFK and O'Hare, I decided to go the whole hog and buy ALL the other FSDT titles that I don't yet own.
I downloaded the installers for Geneva, Honolulu, Hilo, Las Vegas, Fort Lauderdale and Dallas Fort Worth airports, and there was no error message during those processes. The above six titles now all appear in the FS9 Addon Manager, with the menu options for serial number registration appearing as expected, but I discovered that Fort Lauderdale is the ONLY scenery which starts up with a trial version of the FSDT scenery, when I place my R22 helicopter there.
All the other five FSDT sceneries are not yet active as trial versions when I locate my bird to each one in turn, meaning that I only still see the FS9 stock scenery in each case, EXCEPT in the case of Fort Lauderdale as I mentioned above. I am writing to find out if my downloads can still be activated when I make payment later this week, despite there being no working trial version visible in five of the six scenery items listed above.
I would rather not go through a repeat download of the scenery products, unless, of course, their unavailability as trial versions means that the downloads have been corrupted in some way, and will need to be repeated after my payment to FSDT is confirmed. I would appreciate any clarification that can be offered.
Thanks again, from one very satisfied FSDT customer.
virtuali:
You are probably confusing the word "activation". "Active" means the scenery has an activation in your WINDOWS system. This doesn't have anything to do with the fact the scenery is "active" in FS9.
Being active or not in Windows doesn't have any relationship with the visibility of the scenery in FS9. To be visible in FS9, the scenery needs to be:
- Installed
- Added to the Scenery Library (which is done automatically be the installer)
When the scenery is installed and active in the Scenery Library, the ONE and ONLY difference if you have registered and activated your Serial Number, is that it will not disappear after 5-6 minutes of use. No other differences.
So, if you are not seeing the scenery, this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with your activation status in Windows. The one and only thing that can make the scenery not visible, not even for 5 minutes, is that you haven't installed it, or it's not added to the Scenery Library OR there's a problem with the Addon Manager not running (because of the antivirus), but in this case, there will be no Addon Manager menu either.
Of course, everything provided you are using the CURRENT versions of the sceneries. If unsure, download them again.
grasshopper:
Thanks for the reply, Virtuali. I will repeat the download of these items, and see if that solves it.
grasshopper:
Ok Virtuali, so now I have purchased the six FSDT scenery products - Honolulu, Hilo, Geneva, Dallas FW, Ft. Lauderdale, and Las Vegas.
So far, I have only been only able to activate Dallas FW and Ft. Lauderdale, BUT in both cases the FSDT scenery did NOT appear, even though the tabs for both products inside the FS9 Addon Manager show both products as being "active".
To enter the serial number in both of these instances, I first clicked the "reactivate" button of the Addon Manager, and entered the purchase serial number. I stumbled my way to the "offline registration" page, where I copied and pasted the longer code, into the spaces provided. Can you see any mis-steps I may have taken to wind up with the products being shown as "active" and registered, yet not yet visible ?
virtuali:
--- Quote ---So far, I have only been only able to activate Dallas FW and Ft. Lauderdale, BUT in both cases the FSDT scenery did NOT appear, even though the tabs for both products inside the FS9 Addon Manager show both products as being "active".
--- End quote ---
You are STILL confusing the word "activation". "Active" means the scenery has an activation in your WINDOWS system. This doesn't have anything to do with the fact the scenery is visible in FS9.
Being active or not in Windows doesn't have any relationship with the visibility of the scenery in FS9. To be visible in FS9, the scenery needs to be:
- Installed
- Added to the Scenery Library (which is done automatically be the installer)
When the scenery is installed and active in the Scenery Library, the ONE and ONLY difference if you have registered and activated your Serial Number, is that it will not disappear after 5-6 minutes of use. No other differences.
So, if you are not seeing the scenery, this doesn't have ANYTHING to do with your activation status in Windows. The one and only thing that can make the scenery not visible, not even for 5 minutes, is that you haven't installed it, or it's not added to the Scenery Library OR there's a problem with the Addon Manager not running (because of the antivirus), but in this case, there will be no Addon Manager menu either.
So, please, for the 2nd time, STOP worrying about the activation!!! If the Addon Manager says the scenery is Active THEN IT IS ACTIVE!!! This means, you don't have to do ANYTHING to "reactivate", because it's ALREADY active
If you don't see the scenery, it means it's not active in the SCENERY LIBRARY. This it's done automatically by the scenery installer but, if your scenery.cfg had an syntax error or was corrupted, the installer will not be able to add the scenery automatically, but it WILL give you a warning about this.
Is the scenery visible in the scenery library ? Have you seen any warning about problems in the scenery.cfg during the installation ?
If it's not in the Scenery Library, you can try add it manually but, if you HAD warnings in the installation about the scenery.cfg, you will not see the scenery anyway, because the installation was aborted, and no files were copied.
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