How to install FS9 aircraft into FSX

[SuperKungFu]

I’ve had FSX since it came out but didn’t play with it after I was a bit disappointed by the fps and the fact my old addons didn’t work anymore. But I followed several fps guides and got it at a decent fps, now my main problem is getting my fs9 addons to work with fsx. I know a few files have been changed around such as the aircraft folder is now in the SimObjects folder, so I have to direct it there. But each time when I install one of my old planes I get some sort of error such as this:
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y39/SuperKungFu/warning.jpg
Before FSX came out, Microsoft said it was going to be backwards compatible, that certainly does not look like its compatible. If it won’t work with fs9 addons, I guess I can understand it, but recently I installed an aircraft made for FSX: Captain Sim - Space Shuttle, and a sound warning (something .gau file similar to the picture above showed up). Why do these errors keep showing up?

[3rdELTy]

When I had FSX demo I installed some of my FS9 aircraft but I can't exactly remember how I did it. Try to follow the folder names - I remember that they are separated in FSX, not like in FS9 that everything went to "Aircraft" folder.


:confused: Does my post make any sense? Sorry it's New Year's Day... thank god Firefox has built in spell check :bigsmile:

I would hit "Run", nothing bad should happen, but it's your call :tongue:

[SuperKungFu]

yea i direct it to the SimObjects folder and the rest goes into their effect and gauges folders, i can see the plane in game, but when i select it, it sometimes have those errors poping up. Some don't, most do.

[Tomcattwo]

There are some gauge files (written in C => .gau or in .xml) that are not compatible with FSX. I can't give you a list of which aircraft from FS9 are or are not compatible with FSX, but there are issues of compatibility with gauges. The screenshot you showed shows an issue with a gauge file.
R/
TC2

See this website for more info:

http://www.avsim.com/

Check the forums.

[SuperKungFu]

this was mentioned on the av forum

Once again, this time a bit louder!

Folks, it is NOT FSX!!!

This is a FEATURE OF WINDOW'S PROTECTION SCHEME!!!

There's not one bloody, blessed thing ACES can do about it...

FS9 did not have this simply because it was originaly designed pre-WinXP, and had no need to comply with the WinXP Protection Scheme...

So i guess there's no way to get rid of it, :nono: