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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: Lennart757 on June 27, 2017, 09:14:01 pm

Title: GSX not in Addon-Tab **SOLVED**
Post by: Lennart757 on June 27, 2017, 09:14:01 pm: Hello together,

My P3D V3 is on a partition, so it has it own space. I wanted to install GSX, and yes I have the newest Installer + Antivirus off (windows Defender, Norton is not installed yet). I've gone through the FsDreamteam forum and looked through some topics, but they didn't help me. The Addon Manager and coutl and GSX itself don't appear in the Addo-Tab. l Also I have all the Microsoft Runtimes and .net frameworks reinstalled. I have reinstalled GSX itself a couple times and have restartet my PC too + reinstalled P3D.

Nothing gave me a solution yet...
Do you guys know anything I can still do?

Greetings, Lennart
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: virtuali on June 28, 2017, 10:47:03 am: You don't say which specific version of P3D you are using.
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: Lennart757 on June 28, 2017, 12:30:46 pm: Hello together,

My P3D V3

That was the first sentence.
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: Ray Proudfoot on June 28, 2017, 02:48:17 pm: 3.1, 3.2, 3.3 or 3.4 is what Umberto probably needs to know. ;)
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: Lennart757 on June 28, 2017, 03:32:41 pm: Ah alright I have P3D v3.4 so the newest, sorry for that ;)
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: virtuali on June 29, 2017, 10:43:33 am: Quote from: Lennart757 on June 28, 2017, 03:32:41 pm
Ah alright I have P3D v3.4 so the newest, sorry for that ;)

That's what I needed to know, because another possible reason of modules not starting (assuming you are sure the antivirus is not a problem and you configured it to exclude the Addon Manager folder from scanning), could be a problem in one of your XML files (exe.xml and dll.xml), which (if corrupted) would prevent all executables from starting, even if they DO NOT use the dll/exe.xml files, like we now do in P3D 3.4 and above.

This was a bug of the sim itself, which was still present in the P3D V4 initial release, and was only fixed in the Hotfix (after our report, I must add...), so it's possible it might still there in 3.4.

The easiest way to check if your XML files are all ok, is to open them with Internet Explorer. If they are ok, they will open in IE, showing their structure properly. Otherwise, if they are corrupted, some text message will appear instead of the whole file.

The files are located here:

%APPDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3d v3\DLL.XML
%APPDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3d v3\EXE.XML

%PROGRAMDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3d v3\DLL.XML
%PROGRAMDATA%\Lockheed Martin\Prepar3d v3\EXE.XML
Title: Re: GSX not in Addon-Tab
Post by: Lennart757 on July 01, 2017, 11:23:57 am: I don't know how, I don't know why, but after reinstalling P3D for the 15th time or so, I finally got to work it...
Thanks for the help
Greetings, Lennart