kklee6 Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 HI, I have resumed playing FSX and purchased the steam edition. Also want to get some US cities scenery. So, I would like to ask if the Aerosoft US cities X secenery are compatible with the steam edition. Many thanks. KK Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harrry Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 I think if you are using steam you will get better answers from Aerosoft Germany. They have a forum and you could always post in the Steam forum. Heinz is very helpful. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted August 15, 2015 Share Posted August 15, 2015 Not officially, no. But if you only have the Steam Edition on your system, and as they are only sceneries, there is a good chance that they will work. The only trick here is to get them installed correctly, but this should not be that much of a problem. Files can always be moved after all. You could try the freeware Catalina scenery from this line, see how it works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kklee6 Posted August 16, 2015 Author Share Posted August 16, 2015 Thanks for advice. I have posted a query in their support forum but have not yet received any replies. A bundle offer of 3 US Cities X scenery at Euro 8.4 each is very tempting. Unfortunately, those old US cities X scenery cannot be migrated to P3D, which I may consider to buy soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Aerosoft will probably answer the same way - the shop does not say anything about SE compatibility, so officialy they are only compatible with boxed. But "cannot be migrated" is not entirely true. The scenery handling of all three sims (FSX, FSX: SE and P3D) still is identical at this point. The only real problem is to get them installed when the installer was made for FSX boxed. All that those "Migration Tools" do is, to fake the paths and executables of the old FSX boxed into existence temporarily, so that an installer hooks into FSX:SE or P3D correctly. When you only have FSX:SE on your system, you should be fine when installing those Aerosoft sceneries. To be on the safe side, you can always implement a symlink in place of the old FSX folder to point at the new "Steamapps" location. As I said, try the freeware Catalina scenery from the Aerosoft shop, it is from the same series, a small part of one of the packages. See how it works out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 This turns out to be a rather relaxed sunday, so I tried this out. I have a single instance FSX:SE installation on one of my HDDs too. So I swapped it in and installed "Aerosoft US Cities X: Niagara Falls/Buffalo". Installation went without a hiccup, the installer even recognized the path to the Steam installation right away. I am looking at the area right now, seems fine to me. But, as with all these things - YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhantomTweak Posted August 16, 2015 Share Posted August 16, 2015 Most of the time, the problems with installing to FSX-SE, as mentioned above, is the pathing. FSX-SE is buried a lot deeper than most flight sims in the Steam folders, so a lot of installers seem to have problems finding it. I never trust auto-installers anyway. I point them at a temp folder, then install myself. Just my 2 cents worth... Pat☺ [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] Had a thought...then there was the smell of something burning, and sparks, and then a big fire, and then the lights went out! I guess I better not do that again! Sgt, USMC, 10 years proud service, Inactive reserve now :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kklee6 Posted August 17, 2015 Author Share Posted August 17, 2015 Thanks for all your advice and input. Purchased and installed US cities X: Chicago, Niagara and Las Vegas seamlessly. Will try to explore the smoothness and frame rates in the coming few days. BTW, is it possible to make a FSX screen capture without any add-ons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
evm Posted August 17, 2015 Share Posted August 17, 2015 There is a screen shot function built in, I think it is mapped to the "V" key by default. It saves a BMP file of your current view in your "My Pictures" folder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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