Thanks for the tip MigBuster. I already had two folders with separate installs of SFG so I tried just lifting the weapons folder from the one I installed it into to the other, but that caused the problem to appear in the other install too. No weapons for any aircraft. Not even stock weapons for stock aircraft.
I had already updated the game to the latest patch, and the weapons pack I installed was this
http://forum.combatace.com/index.php?autoc...p;showfile=2672
I tried this onto a clean install too but then SFG would not start up at all, instant crash back to desktop.
I installed SFG again on top of the old directory with already existing files and that seems to run now, and stock weapons are available again, but still not the weapons pack weapons, though the directories and files are still there at least. Also I did notice a lot of mentions to weapondata.ini but this file does not exist. Tried using Weapon Data Editor v02.20.08 as suggested in the knowlege base and well I ran into problems when the files I was supposed to fiddle with did not exist. I tried creating a weapondata.ini by copying and pasting lines from the weapondata files included with some other downloaded craft I have not managed to get their weapons to work with, but really I have no idea what I am doing.
I guess what I need is someone to treat me like an idiot because I probably am one