No Aircraft reflection or shine

[jrwentz]

I'm using Win7 and FSX Acceleration. I get no aircraft shine or reflection on initial load of any aircraft: until I go to Options-Settings-Display-OK, then I get the shine back on the aircraft. I have tried all variations of graphics options with no permanent results. I changed desktop themes, no help there. It is a strange problem indeed, because I only need to open the "display" menu and "ok" back to FSX and the shine/reflection returns. I have also changed different display settings with no benefit. I have deleted and rebuilt the fsx.cfg file, still not getting a handle on this little devil of a problem.
I even upgraded my NVidia driver to 372.54, still nothing.

Anybody have any ideas?

[hairyspin]

I moved this thread from the design forum, hopefully the regulars will have an answer to this problem.

[Willy]

Just one aircraft or all of them?

Re-reading it though, I'm leaning towards a FSX.cfg issue in that it's not saving the changes.

[Mach3DS]

I'm thinking the same thing....do you have UAC turned off? Basically are you running FSX as the Administrator? If not you might not have the "permissions" to edit a configuration file permanently. Although I've never heard of this before. Honestly, I would do a compete uninstall then I would ensure that you have all possible administration rights for your account. Then I would reinstall FSX. What you are describing is a failure of the display options to persist between FSX sessions. That is most definitely an FSX.cfg problem. At leadt from my perspective.