more than one fs9.cfg - is it possible?

[norbert bosch]

Pete

I know this is not about FSUIPC, as a registerd FSUIPC user this seems to be the best place to ask.

I used the info in your fs2002ctls.doc a lot and made some own hardware. I have made a special cfg file for that in fs2002.

On the desktp is a special link with

D:\FS2002\fs2002.exe /CFG:FS2002-panel.cfg

exact as according to your doc.

I tried the same with fs9:

"E:\Program Files\Microsoft\FS9\fs9.exe /CFG:fs9-panel.cfg"

whatever I try, I can not get it to work. Could the reason be that the cfg file is in another directory? Is there a solution for that

I made a way around be making 2 batch files that copy and rename the cfg files, but I would like to use the method mentioned above.

Thanks for any help

[Pete Dowson]

"E:\Program Files\Microsoft\FS9\fs9.exe /CFG:fs9-panel.cfg"

whatever I try, I can not get it to work. Could the reason be that the cfg file is in another directory? Is there a solution for that

I don't know. Sorry. I would have tried exactly the way you have. Did you put the alternative CFG file in the same place as the normal FS9.CFG file? If not then do that. Otherwise, I wonder if they haven't changed that bit of code and it still looks in the main FS folder for the CFG: named file? Or maybe a pathname in that parameter would help?

I can really do no more than you, and that is to experiment with the assorted possibilities. Please let us know what you find!

Regards,

Pete

[norbert bosch]

Yes the fs9-panel.cfg file was put in the same place as the original fs9.cfg.

I also tried with the pathname of the cfg file in the parameter.

Besides the soltion with batch files I found a utility on the avsim forum called cfg configurator. It helps you tweaking all the cfg files that exist in fs (device.cfg scenery.cfg,aircraft.cfg, panel.cfg,etc etc).

It also can help you starting up with several different versions of fs9.cfg.

Last thing I will try is to put the second fs9-panel.cfg in the fs root directory.

If this works I will mention it here.

Regards

Norbert Bosch