Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler - Navigation Lights not functioning

Delta Virtual Airlines Water Cooler | PC Support | Navigation Lights not functioning

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Posted onPost created on October 01 2015 04:35 ET by Aaron Dagan

Hi,
Recently, when flying one of my night sessions, have noticed that those navigation lights (red, green, white & strobe) are not visible when in SPOT view.
I am usually flying FS9.1 and/or FSX and that issue was detected on PMDG aircraft, PSS & FEELTHERE Airbus , iFLY 737. LVLD 767 and PSS 757 are OK.
Funny part is when I am in TOWER view all seems to work right.
Am using MSI Nvidia GTX750 TI with latest driver (355.98 of 13/9/15), and just for good order uninstalled that driver and reinstalled fresh using original CD.
Even created a new FS9.CFG.
Has anyone faced such an issue? looked into SETUP and nothing found irregular.
Your suggestions are highly appreciated
Thanks.

Aaron Dagan

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Posted onPost created on October 06 2015 22:28 ET by Dirk Depelsemaeker

The only thing I can think of is the "number of lights showing" setting. You may need to set it to max, which is 8 I think.

In FS9.cfg:
NUM_LIGHTS=8

By default FS9 has it set lower.

Dirk Depelsemaeker

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Posted onPost created on October 07 2015 01:34 ET by Aaron Dagan

Dirk Depelsemaeker wrote:

The only thing I can think of is the "number of lights showing" setting. You may need to set it to max, which is 8 I think.

In FS9.cfg:
NUM_LIGHTS=8

By default FS9 has it set lower.

Dirk,
Thanks for responding. I'll look into it ASAP.
Just for sake of good order on that case:
I don't know if you recall a mega-size program called Morten's AI Traffic 2.2 which installs thousands of AI aircraft of hundreds types
and sizes into your FS9 Aircraft directory. For some reason, I uninstalled it few weeks ago and since than I faced that Navigation
Lights issue I never faced before.
As a test case, I re-installed it last weekend and guess what: all NAV lights reverted to normal function....Now, knowing my FS9, I
Looked at the EFFECTS folder and (not) surprisingly found there dozens of FX_LIGHTS of almost any aircraft installed...
So this is the solution for my case and in view my PC is on the upper performance level, the AI does not effect it....as long as I
Have those NAV lights blinking for me........

Aaron Dagan

Captain, A330-300

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