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Hi Pete,

 

I seem to be having installation issues with FSUIPC.

 

I had FSX Acceleration and FSX Steam Edition installed in Side by Side mode, along with Prepar3d v2.  (all for development purposes).

 

I've since uninstalled FSX Acceleration and Prepar3d v2 as I'm re-working my FS drive and installed FSX:SE again to it.

 

However before I re-installed FSX:SE I needed to remove all my FSX, FSX:SE and Prepar3d registry entries.

 

I did a clean install of FSX:SE and then attempted to re-install FSUIPC and it comes up with a window saying:

 

"FSX not found! Please locate and 'open' FSX.EXE:"

 

I do that and then it throws up a warning saying:

 

"WARNING: This installation attempt will proceed, but note that your FSX installation is not correctly Registered in Windows.  This may well cause you problems!"

 

And it appears it has...

 

 

Installer for FSUIPC4.DLL version 4.939n

 
 
Looking in registry for FSX install path:
     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0
     Parameter"SetupPath"
... >>>  OK! FOUND FSX!  <<< ...
     SetupPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX
 
Looking in registry for FSX-SE install path:
     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator - Steam Edition\10.0
     Parameter"SetupPath"
... >>>  OK! FOUND FSX-SE!  <<< ...
     SetupPath=E:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX
 
Looking in registry for Prepar3D v1 install path:
     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D
     Parameter"SetupPath"
Not there, so looking in:
     HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\LockheedMartin\Prepar3D
     Parameter"AppPath"
... NOT found! ...
 
Looking in registry for Prepar3D v2 install path:
     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2
     Parameter"SetupPath"
Not there, so looking in:
     HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3D v2
     Parameter"AppPath"
... NOT found! ...
===========================================================
 
INSTALLATION FOR FSX:
SetupPath="C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX\"
Checking version of the FSX EXE:
Couldn't obtain Version Info! Asking user to find FSX.EXE ...
User identified path:
   "E:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX"
Checking version of the FSX EXE:
... Version 10.0.62613.0  (Need at least 10.0.60905.0)
Checking compatibility with installed SimConnect:
    Found SimConnect build 60905 (Original)
    Found SimConnect build 62613 (Steam)
    Found SimConnect build 61242 (SP1 May07)
    Found SimConnect build 61259 (Acc/SP2 Oct07)
NOTE: This is actually FSX-SE masquerading as FSX-MS
Checking if there's already a version of FSUIPC4 installed in:
       E:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.DLL
... Version 4.939n found.
FSX-SE Modules folder already exists.
Okay -- installed FSUIPC4 into "E:\Games\steamapps\common\FSX\Modules\FSUIPC4.DLL"
Looking for the current user's Application Data path: 
... found as "C:\Users\Dean\AppData\Roaming"
Now finding \Microsoft\FSX-SE\FSX_SE.CFG for all users, including this one
Looking in "C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Dean\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Default\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Default User\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Dovetail Flight Sim\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Melanie\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Public\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX_SE.CFG there
Looking for the current user's Application Data path: 
... found as "C:\Users\Dean\AppData\Roaming"
Now finding \Microsoft\FSX-SE\FSX.CFG for all users, including this one
Looking in "C:\Users\All Users\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Dean\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\Dovetail Flight Sim\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Melanie\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Public\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking for the current user's Application Data path: 
... found as "C:\Users\Dean\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\Dean\AppData\Roaming"
Found FSX.CFG in "C:\Users\Dean\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\FSX\FSX.CFG"
Now checking DLL.XML ...
... There is a previous DLL.XML, checking for FSUIPC4 section.
... FSUIPC4 section already exists but will be replaced.
     (for FSUIPC4, without Loader)
... 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\Default\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Default User\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Dovetail Flight Sim\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Melanie\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
Looking in "C:\Users\Public\AppData\Roaming"
 ... No FSX.CFG there
"Modules\FSUIPC Documents" folder already exists.
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 and P3D controls.pdf" 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 "LuaFileSystem.pdf" okay
   Installed "Example LUA plugins.zip" okay
   Installed "ASN WX Radar facilities in FSUIPC4.pdf" okay
   Installed "Offset Mapping for PMDG 737NGX.pdf" okay
   Installed "FSUIPC4 Offsets Status.pdf" okay
   Installed "Profiles in Separate Files.pdf" okay
===========================================================
 
All installer tasks completed.
Registration for FSUIPC4 was successful! (result code 00)
 
*************** End of Install Log ***************
 

 

I noticed the first registry entry of:

 

     HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0
     Parameter"SetupPath"
... >>>  OK! FOUND FSX!  <<< ...
     SetupPath=C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\FSX
 
Is still pointing to the wrong directory.  When I try to open up HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\ I don't see the Microsoft Games folder or any other subfolders in it.
 
I don't want to have to re-install windows and somehow the registry entries are being picked up by TweakFS and says they are pointing to the correct folders.
 
I'm at a loss here, apart from doing a complete re-install of my operating system and that's a pain as I'm doing high level work on a new simulator at the moment.
 
I don't know how FSUIPC can be picking up the registry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0 when that registry entry doesn't exist?
 
Please any help would be appreciated.
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I don't know how FSUIPC can be picking up the registry entry in HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0 when that registry entry doesn't exist?

It must exist, but because I assume you are using a 64 bit version of Windows, it gets transmuted by the 32 bit interface FS uses into

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Microsoft\Microsoft Games\Flight Simulator\10.0

Best to user search facilities when using Regedit, else you can miss things you needed to delete. I suspect now that FSX-SE has installed as side-by-side even though you did not want it to. This can in fact be seen by the fact that both FSX and FSX-SE are found in the first pass of the Installer.

It was only the fact that you'd deleted FSX which gave the the failure on that first part of the installation proper. You should have aborted the attempt to install for FSX and let it go through to the part for the side-by-side install for FSX-SE instead.

BTW your subject says "Registration Issues", but I don't see those?

Pete

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