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Put this Plane from FS9 into airplane folder in FSX, Plane works fine, but has no gauges, how do I get the gauges into FXS ?

Hi John. You need to paste a copy of Cessna208.gau from FS9\Gauges into FSX\Gauges. I'm surprised these older default gauges aren't included with FSX.

Did That, Thanks

I'm surprised these older default gauges aren't included with FSX.

I'm guessing it's because the gauges are read differently by FSX. I have noticed that the majority of the gauges in the "gauge" folder are in *.cab and *.dll formats.

Cabinet files [*.cab] are basically a compiled group of xml files. If you open a cabinet file, you'll see a series of *.xml and *.bmp files. Each xml file makes up one gauge which is linked to the series of bmp images you see in the cabinet. Thus, a cabinet file has many gauges inside.

As for the module files [*.dll], I have no idea how those work.

I'm surprised these older default gauges aren't included with FSX.

I'm guessing it's because the gauges are read differently by FSX. I have noticed that the majority of the gauges in the "gauge" folder are in *.cab and *.dll formats.

Cabinet files [*.cab] are basically a compiled group of xml files. If you open a cabinet file, you'll see a series of *.xml and *.bmp files. Each xml file makes up one gauge which is linked to the series of bmp images you see in the cabinet. Thus, a cabinet file has many gauges inside.

I'm familiar with the different gauge formats Kat. All the FS9 default gauges I've tried are compatible with FSX. Some of these are actually from CFS1 (like spitfire_mki.gau & p51d.gau) & FS2000 (CONCORDE.GAU) & were included with all previous versions of FS.

I'm surprised these older default gauges aren't included with FSX.

I'm guessing it's because the gauges are read differently by FSX. I have noticed that the majority of the gauges in the "gauge" folder are in *.cab and *.dll formats.

As for the module files [*.dll], I have no idea how those work.

The "new" .dll gauge files are simply C/C++ compiled gauges!

Or, more correctly, they are .gau files that now have the proper extension... ALL compiled C/C++ gauge files are Dynamic Link Libraries (aka: .dll) files...  ;D