ahahlberg Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 I recently decided to update from my trusty FSX to the Steam Edition because of the opportunity for improvements and support that getting onto the Steam platform would mean and that a lot of people were enthusiastically endorsing. I expected, because of my Triple Monitor situation, that I would have to redo from original FSX edition a number of previous customizations to 2D panels, mostly consisting of inserting window size and position attributes into each panel to get them to scale properly. I did about half my aircraft inventory using free flight mode to test the changes which all came out pretty well in Free Flight. But then I tried to run some missions, Resort Supply using the Baron and Africa Relief using the DC-3 specifically What happens is this: 1. Start FSX:SE or FSX 2. Select Free Flight and choose any of the aircraft whose panels had been corrected - perfect - no wait mouse cursor, solid 25 FPS at 6000x1080! 3. Select a Mission - only tested with Africa Relief and Resort Supply so far. 4. 2D Main Panel doesn't display - but all other 2D panels can be selected via SHIFT-N commands (2,3,4,5.....) and display correctly - but SHIFT-1 only toggles between a 1/2 screen vertically and a full screen vertically with no instrument panel showing. 5. End Mission and select Free Flight with same or different aircraft - 2D Main Panel no longer appears but all the rest do - just as with the Mission. 6. Exit FSX:SE or FSX 7. Start FSX:SE or FSX 8. Select Free Flight and choose aircraft - 2d Main Panel appears as normal In summary then: If I do Free Flight everything works correctly but if I run a mission then all 2D Main Panels disappear and cannot be restored without shutting down FSX and restarting FSX. I suspect it has something to do with the mission mode using that cueing window - whose scaling parameters I haven't been able to find yet - or some change made by the mission to the overall screen coordinate system. But so far, I'm getting nowhere. Does anyone have any hints or areas I should focus on either in the .FLT files of the FSX.cfg file? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrzippy Posted March 22, 2016 Share Posted March 22, 2016 Welcome aboard! I don't run multiple monitors or have experience with them but looking into the Missions.FLT files I did run into this: [Window.1] Order=0 Active=True Undocked=False Maximized=True ScreenUniCoords=0, 0, 8192, 2800 UndocCoords=0, 0, 0, 0 CurrentCamera={C95EAB58-9E4A-4E2A-A34C-D8D9D948F078} Maybe these settings in the [window] or [panel] areas are keeping the 2D panels from showing as you want them to. Still thinking about a new flightsim only computer! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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