panel help

[quilster]

i was hoping someone could help me get the gauge panel to work. when i start a flight i'm on the run way the screen is half black andthegauges are not visable but you can move the curser in the black area and it will
give a discription of the gauge but you can't  anything. anyone have any idea as to how i can fix this. i tryed to uninstall and reinstall butiget the same thing.. thanks for any help quilly

[ozzy72]

Hey Quilster have you copied the contents of the aircrafts gauges folder into the FS9\Gauges folder?

Ozzy

[dave3cu]

Welcome quilster,

....Could be a display driver bug-a-boo. Check that you have DirectX 9.x compatible drivers for your graphics adaptor.


If you need help with that, check back here. Giving your system specs will be helpful.

Cheers,
Dave

[garymbuska]

 A couple of things might cause this.
1. check your panel cfg file out and make sure it is using the correct bitmaps for each window.
2. look closely at the main panel window and either print out the entire panel cfg file out or write down the gauges that it is using than make sure that they are in the gauge folder.
If this plane was unzipped straight into your fsfolder it may have created a gauge folder wihin the aircraft folder.
NEVER NEVER unzip a plane to the FSfolder . Make a seperate folder for this that way you can see what is in the folder and move every thing manually .
3. I have a seperate folder that I download into I then use that same folder to unzip it in.
A lot of down loaded aircaft wiill look like the folllowing;
 B737-200Airfrance will be one floder
than inside that folder will be A Model folder; a Panel folde;a Sound folder;a Texture folder;a Gauge folder; and somtetimes a Modules folder you will also find the aircraft cfg file and the air file hers as well