Woxof

Pete, Thanks very much for the quick reply. Here's how it went: I downloaded SP2 from Microsoft. When I ran it, I saw that it only showed two options, to repair FSX or to uninstall SP2. Hmm. No install. But the repair option was grayed out. My only choice was uninstall, so I ran it. When it was done, I ran it again, thinking I could now reinstall. Nope. Instead I got a message that SP2 required the English language version of FSX, and the install terminated. What!?! What does this bleep bleeping machine think I'm running here? Then I tried to start FSX. My FSX.exe file "could not be found". Uh oh. So I walked away and thought about it for a while. I decided that since FSX had been rolled back a ways -- a long ways, maybe even back further than SP1 -- I should install SP1. Which I did. And it installed successfully. And then I tried SP2, which ran just fine and installed successfully. Then I started FSX, with the Modules folder and FSUIPC4 in place. And it worked. Whew. Here's my FSUIPC4 log file: ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.727 by Pete Dowson ********* Reading options from "D:\Simulations\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini" Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... User Name="" User Addr="" FSUIPC4 not user registered WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired Running inside FSX on Windows 7 (using SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07) Module base=61000000 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed DebugStatus=0 202 System time = 12/09/2011 12:23:48 202 FLT path = "C:\Users\jhart\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\" 202 FS path = "D:\Simulations\FSX\" 468 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 468 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1840 Running in "Microsoft Flight Simulator X", Version: 10.0.61472.0 (SimConnect: 10.0.61259.0) 1840 Initialising SimConnect data requests now 1840 FSUIPC Menu entry added 1872 C:\Users\jhart\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\Princess Juliana International Airport.FLT 1872 D:\Simulations\FSX\SimObjects\Airplanes\Mooney_Bravo\Mooney_Bravo.AIR 72602 System time = 12/09/2011 12:25:00, Simulator time = 12:23:50 (16:23Z) 76534 Starting everything now ... 77610 Advanced Weather Interface Enabled Is that how it should look? FSX seems to be running fine. No complaints at this time. Which is good, because my next option was to uninstall FSX and all the add-ons I'd loaded over the last three days and start over. Thanks very much for helping me solve this vexing puzzle. Woxof

Pete, I recently did a new install of FSX Deluxe on a new computer, running Windows 7, 64-bit. I installed 30 or so after-market aircraft and several add-ons, including vasFMC 1.10, FSBuild 2.4.0.18, ASE build 647, and Squawkbox 4.0.0 (8669). I tested FSX after each installation except the Squawkbox (I was holding off until I had FSUIPC4 installed) and everything seemed to be fine. Then I installed FSUIPC4 4.703 and got the successful install message. But FSX now will not start; it throws a fatal error during loading. If I remove the Modules folder (I saved it) and start it, FSX runs fine. I found what sounded like a similar problem in a post on your forums, and tried the solution you suggested, grabbing the 4.727 version of the .dll from the Downloads dir and running with it. No difference. Here are 4 files: the FSUIPC4 4.703 install log, the load logs for 4.703 and 4.727, and the dll.xml file. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.703 Looking in registry for FSX install path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0 Parameter"AppPath" ... >>> OK! FOUND FSX! <<< ... Looking in registry for ESP install path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft ESP\1.0 Parameter"AppPath" Not there, so looking in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft ESP\1.0 Parameter"SetupPath" ... NOT found! ... Looking in registry for Prepar3D install path: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D Parameter"AppPath" Not there, so looking in: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D Parameter"SetupPath" ... NOT found! ... =========================================================== INSTALLATION FOR FSX: AppPath="D:\Simulations\FSX\" Checking version of FSX.EXE: ... Version 10.0.61355.0 (Need at least 10.0.60905.0) Checking compatibility with installed SimConnect: Found SimConnect build 60905 (Original) Found SimConnect build 61242 (SP1 May07) Found SimConnect build 61259 (Acc/SP2 Oct07) Checking if there's already a version of FSUIPC4 installed in: D:\Simulations\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.DLL ... No previous valid version found. FSX Modules folder created okay! Okay -- installed FSUIPC4 into "D:\Simulations\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.DLL" Looking for the current user's Application Data path: ... found as "C:\Users\jhart\AppData\Roaming" Now finding \Microsoft\FSX\FSX.CFG for all users, including this one Looking in "C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Roaming" ... No FSX.CFG there Looking in "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming" ... No FSX.CFG there Looking in "C:\Users\Default User\AppData\Roaming" ... No FSX.CFG there Looking in "C:\Users\jhart\AppData\Roaming" Found FSX.CFG in "C:\Users\jhart\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\FSX.CFG" Now checking DLL.XML ... ... There is a previous DLL.XML, checking for FSUIPC4 section. No previous FSUIPC4 entry found, so adding it now ... ... FSUIPC4 section of DLL.XML written okay Now checking for a SimConnect.XML file ... ... No SimConnect.XML file found. This is okay. Looking in "C:\Users\Public\AppData\Roaming" ... No FSX.CFG there "Modules\FSUIPC Documents" folder created okay! Now installing additional files into the "Modules\FSUIPC Documents" folder: Installed "FSUIPC4 User Guide.pdf" okay Installed "FSUIPC4 for Advanced Users.pdf" okay Installed "FSUIPC4 History.pdf" okay Installed "List of FSX controls.pdf" okay Installed "GlobalSign Root.exe" okay Installed "FSUIPC Lua Library.pdf" okay Installed "FSUIPC Lua Plug-Ins.pdf" okay Installed "Lua License.pdf" okay Installed "Lua Plugins for VRInsight Devices.pdf" okay Installed "Example LUA plugins.zip" okay FSUIPC4.DLL installed and signature checked out okay! Deleted GlobalSign Root fix program ... no longer relevant =========================================================== All installer tasks completed okay! *************** End of Install Log *************** XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.703 by Pete Dowson ********* Reading options from "D:\Simulations\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini" Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... User Name="" User Addr="" FSUIPC4 not user registered WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired Running inside FSX on Windows 7 (using SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07) Module base=61000000 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed DebugStatus=0 47 System time = 11/09/2011 22:00:56 47 FLT path = "C:\Users\jhart\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\" 47 FS path = "D:\Simulations\FSX\" 265 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 359 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1326 Exception 5 "VERSION_MISMATCH", Ref 1, Version 0.61242: Open: SimConnect Version incorrect! 1326 Trying another version of SimConnect ... 1451 Trying to connect to SimConnect SP1 May07 ... 1451 Now running with SimConnect SP1 May07 1451 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX ********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.727 by Pete Dowson ********* Reading options from "D:\Simulations\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini" Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ... User Name="" User Addr="" FSUIPC4 not user registered WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired Running inside FSX on Windows 7 (using SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07) Module base=61000000 Wind smoothing fix is fully installed DebugStatus=0 62 System time = 11/09/2011 23:01:55 62 FLT path = "C:\Users\jhart\Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\" 62 FS path = "D:\Simulations\FSX\" 265 LogOptions=00000000 00000001 358 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay 1357 Exception 5 "VERSION_MISMATCH", Ref 1, Version 0.61242: Open: SimConnect Version incorrect! 1357 Trying another version of SimConnect ... 1482 Trying to connect to SimConnect SP1 May07 ... 1482 Now running with SimConnect SP1 May07 1482 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX <?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1252"?> <SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0"> <Descr>Launch</Descr> <Filename>dll.xml</Filename> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad> <Launch.Addon> <Name>Object Placement Tool</Name> <Disabled>True</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Mission Creation Kit\object_placement.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>Traffic Toolbox</Name> <Disabled>True</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Traffic Toolbox SDK\traffictoolbox.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>Visual Effects Tool</Name> <Disabled>True</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>..\Microsoft Flight Simulator X SDK\SDK\Environment Kit\Special Effects SDK\visualfxtool.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>SquawkBox Transponder</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\SquawkBox\sbtrans10.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>SquawkBox AI Control</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\SquawkBox\sbaicontrol10.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>SquawkBox Internal Version</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <ManualLoad>False</ManualLoad> <Path>C:\Program Files (x86)\SquawkBox\sbmod10.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> <Launch.Addon> <Name>FSUIPC 4</Name> <Disabled>False</Disabled> <Path>Modules\FSUIPC4.dll</Path> </Launch.Addon> </SimBase.Document> XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX I am by no means qualified to try to sort this stuff out (so forgive me in advance), but I noticed two things: Clearly the run logs did not complete properly (duh!). And, I wondered if the FSUIPC4 path was properly written -- I don't know what it should be, but it didn't look right to my novice's eyes. I also noticed a post someplace in your forum about Active Sky being the culprit in a similar situation, but I don't even see a listing for it in the dll.xml. Hmm. Please let me know if there's any other information I can provide that might help solve this one. And thanks in advance for your help. Woxof