Flight Simulator X:Steam edition Tips

I have had problems with 3rd party add on planes. Their gauges have not been displaying. This is due to FSX only loading trusted gauges (which are in effect dll files). To get around this in wine config libraries enter wintrust in the new library to add box and make it native.

Install the add on plane as per its read me instructions. When you load the plane if it has no gauges in the cockpit quit FSX and navigate to (in your FSX bottle) drive C\user\wineskin\Application Data\Microsoft\FSX (or FSX-SE depending on the install) and load the fsx.CFG file into a text editor. Find the [Trusted] section and below it there should be a list of file paths, the filename should end in .gau with a string of characters after it and = something. A bit like the following example.

C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\gauges\elevtrim.gau.wqwiiuiuiraozanniuoeqrhiiczahwtortebwzqh=2

if the number at the end is negative (generally -2) just delete the minus for any that are minus and save the file. The gauges should then display. When using FSX on a Windows system it prompts you if a gauge is not trusted (i.e. digitally signed) and you can choose to trust it. Wine appears not to do this - hence the work around. It should not matter that the gauge is not signed as Wine effectively sandboxes the Windows programs.