
Chicago City X
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Re: Chicago City X
https://ibb.co/s1w5RjG. Yes its on top Martin. No other sceneries in that area that may conflict.
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Re: Chicago City X
hey Martin I pulled this shot from a different section of the forum same exact issue however.Martin_Starski wrote: ↑Friday 15 Oct 2021, 17:57 Do you have standard or steam version?
Can you show the issues via screenshots, please?
If everything was ok, some other sim or scenery changes should have impact to our scenery - have you updated any addons or changed something in FSX recently?Have you checked if our scenery has the highest priority?
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Re: Chicago City X
if it's the same issue, you should have also noticed the next comments from the same user:
I have totally removed Chicago X city and airports. Reinstalled JUST Chicago City and it is fixed.
I'm not able to replicate the problem. To be very honest we even do not test anything in FSX anymore, because this sim is very old. Maybe remove the scenery from your hard drive and reinstall it with the admin rights without lite texture pack (even if lite pack shouldn't have any clue). Secondly, please makre sure that you don't use DX10. If all these options don't help, maybe try to rebuild fsx.cfg file.Very odd but its fixed now. I did not install with the Lite texture pack this time maybe that was the issue.
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Re: Chicago City X

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Re: Chicago City X
Good that it's working now.
Re: Chicago City X
I think I'm the only person who is having this problem. First I love the Chicago City X and all it includes...The problem I'm having is I cannot get the Jetways to appear at Ohare...no matter what I do with adjusting sceneries inFSX...display settings...etc....I'm hoping there is a simple fix for this...I do see unmovable jetways on some gates but the rest where the airplanes sit there are no visible jetways...thanks for any help or suggestions...
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Re: Chicago City X
Firstly you wrote your post in the thread referring to Chicago City X but describes the problem with Chicago Airports X package. If it relates to the Airports package and you have this package / addon installed, please write in the respective thread.
This is only my presumption, because you didn't post the screenshot or more details about the sim engine or scenery version, but it might be relating to the missing SODE addon (https://sode.12bpilot.ch/?page_id=9) or you simply need to reinstall it and then reinstall our scenery with the admin rights.
Re: Chicago City X
I have black buildings with Chicago X installed in FSX. Missing textures? How to fix it?
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Re: Chicago City X
Recently I purchased ORBX KCGX Meigs airport scenery which it had mesh problems with DD Chicago City X. After checking, I found the DD Chicago City X Installer has an option to install with ORBX Meigs. I did it but still missing boats and double buildings? Do I need to rename some files?
Posted pictures, when I deactivate DD I can see boats and all fine. If I activate DD the boats disappears and it shows double buildings.
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Posted pictures, when I deactivate DD I can see boats and all fine. If I activate DD the boats disappears and it shows double buildings.
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Re: Chicago City X
Which product has a higher priority in the scenery library?
Our installer searches for Meigs files in order to do the correct install so Meigs has to be already installed. If Meigs is not installed prior to installing the City, the compatibility files might be skipped and the airport area might simply have an exclude on it preventing from any other content to be displayed there. In some cases, our users did the installations once again and it helped. Some have found some conflicting addons too.
Which sim do we talk about? As far as I remember, many users have them both coexisting to perfection.
Our installer searches for Meigs files in order to do the correct install so Meigs has to be already installed. If Meigs is not installed prior to installing the City, the compatibility files might be skipped and the airport area might simply have an exclude on it preventing from any other content to be displayed there. In some cases, our users did the installations once again and it helped. Some have found some conflicting addons too.
Which sim do we talk about? As far as I remember, many users have them both coexisting to perfection.
Re: Chicago City X
The problem was with both P4D and P5D. Installed KCGX Meigs from ORBX in P4D and also P5D. I had installed earlier the Chicago X and the Chicago City X in both P3D sims. So, after KCGX I reinstalled Chicago City X and I selected the option KCGX and at the end resulted the issue mentioned above. I resolved KCGX by renaming 2 files from Chicago X folder.
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Re: Chicago City X
Making anything compatible with the airport that has not existed for 20 years is quite a challenge... 

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Re: Chicago City X
I recently had to uninstall some duplicate scenery files from my Flight Simulator X, and in the process accidentally deleted some files from the Chicago City X addon scenery package that I mistook for unwanted scenery files and had to reinstall this addon. Upon reinstallation, this addon will not show up in the FSX Addon Scenery library when I start FSX, despite installing the program correctly. and when I try to add it manually, FSX tells me the directory already exists, even though it's not visible in the Addon Scenery library. any suggestions on how to fix this and get it to show up would be appreciated. here's a copy of my FSX scenery cfg file if you need that:
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Re: Chicago City X
It's pretty hard to understand what you deleted and where the problem is. Have you maybe tried to remove our scenery by deleting the addon folder, then starting the Sim and shutting it down. Afterward, install the scenery again (with admin rights) and start the Sim again to load the scenery again - maybe it will solve your problem. Otherwise, please check your scenery.cfg file if there is the respective entry.