marangog

I can't speak for MSFS, but I had 200Gb of addons in FSX on my F drive and it didn't have any unwelcome effects. I think you're right that the important thing is the location of the program. When FSX started up, it created a database of scenery in the scenery.cfg file, then loaded it when the plane was in that part of the world.

Big fuss over nothing, in my opinion. As unimportant as the skin colour of your aircraft.

It turned out to be a Steam Controller problem, nicely solved here: https://flightsimulator.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016005980-Peripheral-Troubleshooting-on-Steam --- although it was unavailable on the three times I tried to open it last week!

My CONTROLS panel now shows only Keyboard and Mouse sections. Windows sees my joystick and all its buttons. Plugging in a different joystick makes no difference. I have a DEBUG file saying - [1031/143519.503:ERROR:settings.cc(325)] Settings version is not 1 I think this is about my faulty CONTROLS panel, but I cannot find any settings to do with enabling/disabling joystick (as in FSX). Please can someone give me guidance?

Maybe this, in a file called DEBUG, dated about the time my problem surfaced, could help?? [1031/143519.503:ERROR:settings.cc(325)] Settings version is not 1

I hope there's a simple solution to this. My Airbus joystick no longer appears in the CONTROLS section. I have used an online tester which sees the joystick, and it works on FSX when I install it in my old machine. The Logitech joystick from the FSX machine is again seen by the online tester when installed in this new machine, but not by MSFS, even after restarting, reloading etc. The Zendesk forum says that sometimes Steam MSFS doesn't pick up some peripherals, but the link it provides is broken. In Steam, I have tried unsetting and resetting "enable Steam overlay while in game" but that makes no difference. I've used MSFS for several hundred hours without a hitch. Please help restore my sanity!