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Does someone know the right way to put the parts of of an unzipped American Eagle CRJ-700 File together? :-?

Can some e-mail me step by step directions?

Thanks,

TVK
(TimERJ145)

Help us out with a little more info. Which download for example? Can you provide a link?

By "put together" do you me install?

I downloaded to AE CRJ-700 software and use WinZip to open the plane software.

When I unzipped the AE CRJ-700, the software was not all in one folder.

I created a new folder for the AE CRJ-700 program, but had (and still have) a problem knowing the right way install the CRJ parts into to the new folder I created.

I got the AE CRJ-700 on FS2004 with no working instrument panel.

Can you solve my mistakes in installing the AE CRJ-700

Do you know who made the aircraft model? That'll help so we know exactly which one and we can install it ourselves to see if we have a similar problem.

When you unzipped it what folders did you have? If there's a folder that says aircraft you need to put that into the FS9/aircraft folder. Then if there's a folder that says gauges there's a separate folder in the fs9 directory that you need to place those gauges. If there's an effects folder place those files in the fs9/effects folder and you should be good to go. Not all aircraft have all those files so it really depends on exactly which model you got.

...mmm.....no idea which particular download you have but suspect it might be crj7_ame.zip from here on SimV.......if so have you read the Read me First file? this is buried somewhere in there and the gist of it is.........


Extract all files into the FS2004 MAIN Folder using WINZIP

I also assumed we're talking about the file posted here --> http://www.simviation.com/fs2004jets64.htm

I downloaded the file to check it out. Everyone has their own favourite methods for installing aircraft & I would hesitate to give specific advice but here's a few comments.

First of all, if you have WinXP (& presumably Vista) there is no longer any need to use a separate utility like WinZip to extract zipfiles. You can open zipfiles just like conventional folders by double-clicking on them. It's possible to extract the contents by Copy/Paste or using the right-click "Extract All" option & following the Wizard. The default settings will extract the contents to a folder of the same name in the same location as the zipfile. (You can also use this method to quickly extract zipfiles using most popular extraction utilities.)

Whichever method you use, open the zipfile to examine the contents.


In this case no instructions should be necessary as it's configured using the familiar MSFS directory structure with subfolders named Aircraft, Gauges, Modules & Sound. Note there are also 2 x DLL files & 1 x INI file*.

Installation of files configured in this way should be perfectly straightforward. There is no need to mess around creating or renaming folders. Open each subfolder in turn, select the contents & paste them into the directory of the same name in FS. For example, paste the two folders named fsfsconv & PAD_CRJ700_American Eagle from the subfolder named aircraft into the FS9\Aircraft directory.
Do exactly the same with the contents of the other three subfolders into their corresponding folders in FS9. (Note that with gauges it's not a good idea to overwrite existing files/folders if prompted.)
*The separate DLL & INI files should go to the main FS9 folder.

That 's about it. I haven't installed this aircraft to my own FS9 but will do so if you have any problems.