FSUIP 4.60 Installation Problem

[keithhale]

After a break of 4-5 years I have returned to flightsim with FSX. I immediately purchased and registered FSUIP 4.60 only to be greatly disappointed with no listing under 'Add-Ons' after installation. I have looked at other solutions within the forum to no avail.

As a pensioner on a very small income I have to have wasted nearly €30.

Is this a common fault or am I just unlucky. I used previous versions on FS98 and beyond for many years with no problems.

Keith Hale

[Pete Dowson]

After a break of 4-5 years I have returned to flightsim with FSX. I immediately purchased and registered FSUIP 4.60 only to be greatly disappointed with no listing under 'Add-Ons' after installation. I have looked at other solutions within the forum to no avail.

As a pensioner on a very small income I have to have wasted nearly €30.

Why did you just go out and purchase it without running it first? It operates in its main role without any money. Why did you want to buy it anyway? Did you download and read what you were getting first? Are you posting in such a manner just for sympathy? I'm a pensioner too and I've only been able to carry on development and support because some folks do buy my software. Else it would have stopped with FS2002!

Is this a common fault or am I just unlucky. I used previous versions on FS98 and beyond for many years with no problems.

It isn't a problem with FSUIPC. You either have a corrupted DLL.XML file, probably caused by some other add-on messing it up, or your FSX installation has problems (often caused by incorrectly applied updates or attempts at re-installing).

I can't tell without more information. If you want help then say so and I'll try to help, but if you truly believe you've simply wasted your money and that's that, then there's really no more I can say, is there? :-(

Pete

[keithhale]

Sounds as though it is a corrupted DLL.MXL file, as you suggest. What can I do about that? I have no programming experience.

I purchased the program because I enjoyed using it so much in the past when I was using the excellent Austrian Airline virtual. I don't believe in working for nothing and €30 is a small price to pay for such excellent work.

[Pete Dowson]

Sounds as though it is a corrupted DLL.MXL file, as you suggest. What can I do about that? I have no programming experience.

First check the FSX Modules folder. If there's an FSUIPC4.LOG file there then the problem will not be with the DLL.XML file.

If you have Windows set to hide file types from you, you will need to change that option in order to identify files properly. To change that option you need to use Windows Explorer's Folder Options -- View, and uncheck "hide extensions ...". Whilst there also check "Show hidden files ..." since else you may not see the DLL.XML.

If there is an FSUIPC4.LOG file, show its contents to me here -- load it in notepad or any editor and cut and paste it all into a message.

If there isn't one, then it is going to be a DLL.XML problem. To help you find that I'll need to see the FSUIPC Install log, which you will find in the FSX Modules folder.

Regards

Pete

[keithhale]

Herewith the log file as requested:

********* FSUIPC4, Version 4.60a by Pete Dowson *********

Reading options from "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\Modules\FSUIPC4.ini"

Trying to connect to SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07 ...

User Name="KEITH HALE"

User Addr="keithhale679@aol.com"

FSUIPC4 Key is provided

WIDEFS7 not user registered, or expired

Running inside FSX (using SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07)

Module base=61000000

Wind smoothing fix is fully installed

DebugStatus=15

1047 System time = 17/05/2010 13:10:12

1047 FLT UNC path = "C:\Documents and Settings\Keith Hale\My Documents\Flight Simulator X Files\"

1047 FS UNC path = "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X\"

2578 LogOptions=00000000 00000001

2797 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay

111687 Exception 5 "VERSION_MISMATCH", Ref 1, Version 0.60905: Open: SimConnect Version incorrect!

111687 Trying another version of SimConnect ...

111812 NOTE: SimConnect SP1 May07 is supported, but it isn't installed.

111828 Trying to connect to SimConnect Original ...

111828 Now running with SimConnect Original

111828 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay

111828 Exception 5 "VERSION_MISMATCH", Ref 1, Version 0.60905: Open: SimConnect Version incorrect!

111828 Trying another version of SimConnect ...

9025875 System time = 17/05/2010 15:40:36

9025891 *** FSUIPC log file being closed

Memory managed: 2 Allocs, 2 Freed

********* FSUIPC Log file closed ***********

I appreciate your assistance.

[Pete Dowson]

Herewith the log file as requested:

Okay. You have a problem with the part of FSX called SimConnect:

Running inside FSX (using SimConnect Acc/SP2 Oct07)

....

2797 SimConnect_Open succeeded: waiting to check version okay

111687 Exception 5 "VERSION_MISMATCH", Ref 1, Version 0.60905: Open: SimConnect Version incorrect!

111687 Trying another version of SimConnect ...

111812 NOTE: SimConnect SP1 May07 is supported, but it isn't installed.

It's very odd that you seem to have SP2 or Acceleration installed, or at least its SimConnect, but not the earlier update, SP1 or, by the looks of things, even a valid base version of this fundamental part.

Have you installed FSX, then SP1, then SP2 or Acceleration? Or have you done something like installed FSX only, then tried installing a later SDK or SimConnect? I'm really not sure how these messes can arise, so I need to understand exactly what you've done. (This area is a real bag-of-worms Microsoft left us with when they killed further development).

The FSUIPC Install log might help too -- it checks on the version of FSX.EXE, which must match the latest version of SimConnect you have installed.

Another reason for this sort of horrible problem is a copy of SimConnect.dll wrongly placed, possibly in the FSX or FSX Modules folders, or in any of the Windows folders other than where they should be, in WinSxS.

Regards

Pete

[keithhale]

I recently re-installed FSX as for some reason I lost all sound from flights. I did the usual uninstall without deleting the folders. Previous to that I am sure that SP1 was installed.

I will copy over FSUIP log for you.

[Pete Dowson]

I recently re-installed FSX as for some reason I lost all sound from flights. I did the usual uninstall without deleting the folders. Previous to that I am sure that SP1 was installed.

Almost all of the problems I've ever heard about seem to have been caused by attempts to uninstall and reinstall FSX. Its uninstaller does NOT do a very good job -- especially on SimConnect, which it only seems to have a half-hearted attempt at. The result then is when you do the re-install the SimConnect libraries get into a mess. It's all wrapped up with Microsoft's weird and wonderful (!) side-by-side library system which has to be the most complicated computer entanglement I've ever encountered.

I suspect, in the end, the quickest answer might be a Windows reinstall followed by an FSX install, but you might get away with restoring to an earlier point if you have any restore points available. Before that you could try uninstalling FSX once again, then installing it one step at a time, running and checking each time -- i.e. after the base CD install, then after the SP1 install, and finally after the SP2 or Acceleration install.

Pete

[keithhale]

GOOD NEWS, PETE.

I found SP1 on the Microsoft download page. Ran it into FSX and everything now works fine.

Many thanks and I'm relieved that the problem is solved.

[Pete Dowson]

I found SP1 on the Microsoft download page. Ran it into FSX and everything now works fine.

I'm glad it was so easy. These problems are sometimes much more intractable.

Regards

Pete