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Products Support => GSX Support FSX/P3D => Topic started by: bill1970 on November 23, 2012, 10:22:25 pm
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I've been using GSX for a while and happy with it. Today I purchased and installed some FDST seneries and installed them. The sceneries work fine, but I've lost GSX (at any aiport, stock FSX or my new FDST airports). Whenever I request ground services (CTRL+F12) I get a mesage: "Could not find valid AFCAD data at this postion, services are not available."
I've tried it at KSEA - Gate A10 and KLAS - Gate A14. The aircraft I'm using is the PMDG 737 NGX
At KSEA, the message disappears after a few seconds and no menu appears. At KLAS, I get the same message, but the menu appears with the KLAS actions to open the various hangar doors, but no options for ground services.
I tried reinstalling the C++ redistributables as mentioned in other threads, but this did not fix the problem.
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Bill Rowe
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I have exactly the same problem! I downloaded some of the FSDT Trial Sceneries to buy them during sale (Zürich and Geneva), but since I installed them GSX does not seem to work anywhere.
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Could you please activate the GSX Logging feature (in the Troubleshooting section of the GSX Settings) and post here your logs ?
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Got it! I did a quick sweep through the log which said that there was a permission error while re-generating the scenery cache. I figured that for some reason I may not be running FSX as an administrator anymore (which I usually do) and explicitly started it with administrator rights - Tadah, the cache was rebuilt successfully and GSX works fine again. Thanks for the pointer to the log!
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I had the same permission issue in my log file. Turns out somehow the folder got marked as Read-Only. Once I unchecked that, GSC worked fine.
Bill
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Turns out somehow the folder got marked as Read-Only. Once I unchecked that, GSC worked fine.
Which folder ? The C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\FSX\SceneryIndexes ? Or some other folder ?
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Need help with this, getting the same error after installing LATINVFR San Diego. Which folder might be locked if thats the issue. If I hit F12, the hangers are optional, but not the gates, not in KSAN or KLAS. Tried restarting and reinstalling latest update. Thanks.
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Need help with this, getting the same error after installing LATINVFR San Diego.
Please clarify if you are getting this message only at San Diego, or in other places too.
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Sorry, every airport. Thanks.
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Enable logging in the Troubleshooting page of the Settings, then send me a Couatl.log file.
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Hello, I'm getting this error message too.
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Please let me know the email where to send the log file.
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The email to send support requests to, is on the "Contact" page of the site.
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I've unchecked every non-standard addon, disabled antivirus, reinstalled C++ packages, reintalled GSX and I'm still getting this frustrating message. Is there any other way to solve this??
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OK - I think it's solved!
What I did was to follow this steps (taken from another post):
- DOWNLOAD AND INSTALL with the antivirus entirely OFF
- Uninstall non standard sceneries. 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\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.
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I'm not sure if it was Latin VFR or if it was Scenery Config Editor (Program you can turn on and off scenery). However, some program is causing FSX's folder to become "Read Only". I uncheck the "Read Only" box and restarted FSX then GSX and no problems. FSX in not in default drive and I'm running Win 7 64.
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However, some program is causing FSX's folder to become "Read Only". I uncheck the "Read Only" box and restarted FSX then GSX and no problems.
It's either caused by a bug of that scenery installer, which doesn't set permissions correctly, or because you copied those folders from a DVD backup. However, since GSX doesn't need write access to that folder, it's probably not just the read-only permission wrong, but also some other permission missing.
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Hello guys,
I have a problem with Aerosoft USSS scenery, when i press ctrl+F12 there is a mistake "Could not find valid AFCAD" coming up. I activated the GSX Logging feature, restarted sim, tryed once again "ctrl+F12" - this mistake still existed BUT i have no .log file in my AppData\Roaming\Virtuali folder, so i cannot send it to you
What should i do?
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BUT i have no .log file in my AppData\Roaming\Virtuali folder, so i cannot send it to you
That file is not created, unless you enable Logging in the Troubleshooting section of the GSX Settings page.
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BUT i have no .log file in my AppData\Roaming\Virtuali folder, so i cannot send it to you
That file is not created, unless you enable Logging in the Troubleshooting section of the GSX Settings page.
This function is enabled but there's no .log file , as i said before.
Updated: i just opened Couatl.ini file and saw this: http://i021.radikal.ru/1308/30/6d1e2a57a7f6.jpg (http://i021.radikal.ru/1308/30/6d1e2a57a7f6.jpg) Maybe that's the reason why .log file still isn't created?
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Maybe that's the reason why .log file still isn't created?
That's likely: it's strange because your entire user name is missing. Perhaps the problem is your Windows language. Try to add your user name manually.
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Maybe that's the reason why .log file still isn't created?
That's likely: it's strange because your entire user name is missing. Perhaps the problem is your Windows language. Try to add your user name manually.
That is what i did, and GSX refused to start and even dissapeared from addon menu. Couatl.err has been created with this inside:
couatl v2.0 (build 2348)
panic log started on Sat Aug 10 14:34:28 2013
error in config file C:/Users/Администратор/AppData/Roaming/Virtuali/Couatl.ini: character conversion failed
couatl v2.0 (build 2348)
panic log started on Sat Aug 10 20:21:12 2013
error in config file C:/Users/Администратор/AppData/Roaming/Virtuali/Couatl.ini: character conversion failed
I changed .log path to C:\ and finally .log file was created. Here it is down there.
P.s. There is a string " IGNORING Addon Scenery/Koltsovo 2012/Scenery (layer 168): type is 1 (should be 3)" . This is it ...where i cannot load gsx services.
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Solved with this
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Solved with this
Yes, it was also discussed here:
http://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php?topic=8191.msg67151#msg67151
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I'm not sure if it was Latin VFR or if it was Scenery Config Editor (Program you can turn on and off scenery). However, some program is causing FSX's folder to become "Read Only". I uncheck the "Read Only" box and restarted FSX then GSX and no problems. FSX in not in default drive and I'm running Win 7 64.
This seems to be an issue after last FSX:SE update (Sept., 8th 2015) as well - switch from "read only" to "writable" helps.
Many thanks!