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PierreFSX:
Hi, I am new to this forum but something strange happend to my FSDT scenery and addon manager....they are no longer working. Everything was find until I installed REX2 and PMDG MD-11. Now the addon manager doesn't show in my addon menu in FSX. So I tried to reinstalled my two airport (JFK and OHara) but I cannot get them to work. I also reinstalled the addonmanagerX  and still nothing. All the installed program run with no error, but when I restart FSX the addon menu for FSDT is missing from the addon menu in FSX. This is bizarre because everything was working find before.

Does anyone add that problem before, if yes what should I do?

Pierre

virtuali:

--- Quote from: PierreFSX on February 16, 2011, 03:39:05 am ---Now the addon manager doesn't show in my addon menu in FSX.
--- End quote ---

This is usually caused by antivirus, try this:

- Uninstall any scenery. Reply YES when asked if you want to remove the Addon Manager and the Couatl Engine. Reply YES to both questions.

- TURN OFF your antivirus. Don't just exit from its interface, but turn off the real time protection. Actual wording changes between products, however, it's the option to scan every file that gets open in real time, without user intervention.

- Reinstall the scenery with the Antivirus TURNED OFF. Don't launch FSX yet.

- Configure the antivirus to exclude the following files from scanning:

YourFSXFolder\bglmanx.dll
YourFSXFolder\fsdreamteam\couatl.exe

YourFSXFolder it's usually C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Microsoft Flight Simulator X, if you installed it in the default folder.

- Now you can turn the antivirus back on, and launch FSX.

- Check you are seeing BOTH the "Addon Manager" menu AND the "Couatl powered products" menu under the "Addons" menu.

Also, it's best you use the current version of all the installers or, at least, AFTER all the sceneries are installed, try to install the Stand-Alone Addon Manager for FSX, download links for it are on every product "Info" page.

PierreFSX:
Hi I have been tried everything you indicated:

-I have downloaded the must resent installer from the web site for both airport (O’Hara & JFK)
- I have uninstalled both scenery and have removed both Addon Manager and the Couatl Engine. Using the program feature in control panel)
- I also removed my antivirus software (i am using Microsoft Security Essential) I uninstalled it so it would not play any role and I did restart window
- I re installed the O’Hara scenery and I did get the message in from window 7 if I wanted to trust "Coualt" and said yes.
- Because I didn't had a antivirus I started FSX and but didn't get any message o trust any module
- In FSX I hit fly now and then check to see if the option was appearing in the add-ons menu, it was not.

I repeated this process with JFK with the same result, same result no addon menu option in FSX (i did uninstalled o'Hara)

I also downloaded the must resent addmanagerX from the web site and still no addon menu. (JFK was still installed)

One thing is when I installed REX2 I did had some issue with Simconnect, but with the help of the REX team I have able to fix it. But I wonder where the Simconnect software is installed in FSX, I do not see any files with that name in the FSX directory, is this normal? I read that FSdream is also using this utility.

Pierre

virtuali:

--- Quote from: PierreFSX on February 16, 2011, 06:54:18 pm ---One thing is when I installed REX2 I did had some issue with Simconnect, but with the help of the REX team I have able to fix it. But I wonder where the Simconnect software is installed in FSX, I do not see any files with that name in the FSX directory, is this normal
--- End quote ---

Yes, if your Simconnect installation is broken, our software will not run. It's not located in FSX, it's a set of system files that sometimes needs an FSX reinstall to be fixed.


It's best to activate the Simconnect diagnostic mode to understand what's going on, this way:

Open Notepad, and copy the following text:


--- Code: ---[SimConnect]
level=verbose
console=1
RedirectStdOutToConsole=1
OutputDebugString=1
; file=c:\simconnect%03u.log
; file_next_index=0
; file_max_index=9

--- End code ---

Save the file as SIMCONNECT.INI in this folder:

Documents And Settings\YOUR LOGIN NAME\Documents\Microsoft Flight Simulator X Files

At the next FSX launch, you should see a text window with diagnostic messages: the FIRST 5-6 lines are important: you should try to note what they are saying. If the screen scroll too fase, you can use the Pause key on your keyboard, to be able to read the first lines.

PierreFSX:
Wow that what I call a quick responds

I will try this now and post the result

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