FSX and FSUIPC4.152 Disconnected

[DeanS]

Pete,

FSUIPC4.152 disconnect problem.

I would attach the log file but when I do I get error "The extension Log is not allowed"

I have read all the Announcements and tried all your tips.

FSUIPC will apear in addon and then disappear.

Using FSX with SP1, no AntiV installed. Windows XP SP2 2G Ram 2Ghz CPU

Dean

[Pete Dowson]

I would attach the log file but when I do I get error "The extension Log is not allowed"

Either paste the test from the Log into a message, or, for a larger file, ZIP it up. Always use ZIP in any case when sending files.

I have read all the Announcements and tried all your tips.

Including obtaining a SimConnect log file (in the FSX Help Announcement)? Since it sounds like SimConnect is going wrong, that sounds to be the most useful. Also, since you've read all the Announcements, did you not find Version 4.156 of FSUIPC and try that?

FSUIPC will apear in addon and then disappear.

I've never heard of that before. What is left in the Add-Ons menu after it "disappears"? Sounds like some other add-on is interfering? As well as a log please tell me what else you have installed or running with FSX.

Regards

Pete

[DeanS]

Hi again,

I zipped my logs and attached.

Ok, weird thing this morning. Fired up FSX and FSUIPC is there. I took a flight and it stayed. I have no other Addons installed.

So, I went to load FSFlyschool, installed it. Ran FSX, no FSUIPC. Log shows FSUIPC disconnected. Replaced 4.152 DLL with 4.156 DLL. Same thing....I attached the latested log file after i did that.

Thanks for the help but I am at a loss. It has to be my OS so I'm gonna load FSX on another computer and see what happens.

Dean

MyLogs.zip

SimConnect0.zip

[Pete Dowson]

I zipped my logs and attached.

Ok, weird thing this morning. Fired up FSX and FSUIPC is there. I took a flight and it stayed. I have no other Addons installed.

Whether it "stays" or not is irrelevant. The SimConnect logs shows that FSUIPC is not operational. It cannot do anything, no matter whether the menu gets shown or not. Something is stopping SimConnect sending most messages to FSUIPC.

You've either got a messed up installation of SimConnect, or one or other of your other installed programs is interfering -- a firewall or antivirus or other security related program.

The logs are very strange -- I've never seen results quite like that. It is usually more obvious when there is a block. But here, the messages from SimConnect to FSUIPC either never arrive, or start but then dry up almost immediately.

Thanks for the help but I am at a loss. It has to be my OS so I'm gonna load FSX on another computer and see what happens.

There are other steps you could take:

1. First of all check any and all security programs you have installed. If possible, just as a test and provided you can re-install them afterwards, try uninstalling them one at a time.

2. In case it is a messed up install of SimConnect, try to re-install that. This is more difficult. In the "FSX Help" announcement it talks about deleting a particular folder then running FSX repair. This is worth a try, but it may not help with your installation because you've installed SP1 and FSUIPC is using the SP1 version of SimConnect.

What you would have to do is un-install SP1 (via the Windows Control Panel add-remove programs facility -- you'll need the option to show updates checked). THEN find and delete this folder in Windows:

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.FlightSimulator.SimConnect_67c7c14424d61b5b_10.0.61242.0_x-ww_35e8ee9a

Then re-install SP1.

3. Whether or not these steps help, please gather the information you sent me and whatever comes of these steps, and send with your error reports to tell_fs@microsoft.com . They need to see this stuff so it can be fixed in future updates.

That said, I am hoping a lot of these TCP/IP protocol-related problems will disappear once the next update (SP2) is available. The local data exchange mechanism will not be the same.

Regards

Pete