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Couatl starts manually, but not automatically with the simulator
airbadger:
Not for me. Looks like more fun troubleshooting MSFS for me.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: airbadger on November 13, 2022, 01:19:37 pm ---Not for me. Looks like more fun troubleshooting MSFS for me.
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SU11 fixed the problem, but this assumes your EXE.XML is clean and not corrupted. Before SU11, it even failed to load EXE.XMLs that were correct, now they work so, check this thread and see if perhaps your EXE.XML has a problem, because if it does, SU11 wouldn't fix anything in that case:
https://www.fsdreamteam.com/forum/index.php/topic,28389.0.html
airbadger:
I looked at that thread but don't see that particular issue in my attached exe.xml.
virtuali:
--- Quote from: airbadger on November 13, 2022, 03:14:16 pm ---I looked at that thread but don't see that particular issue in my attached exe.xml.
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Surely there are differences compared to how it's supposed to be, since your file starts with these lines, which are like it used to be an FSX-style exe.xml, apparently some installer has created it as if was in FSX.
<SimBase.Document Type="Launch" version="1,0">
<Descr>Launch</Descr>
<Filename>exe.xml</Filename>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
<Launch.ManualLoad>False</Launch.ManualLoad>
While the file I posted starts with the correct MSFS-style commands, I've highlighted all the differences:
<SimBase.Document Type="SimConnect" version="1,0">
<Descr>SimConnect</Descr>
<Filename>SimConnect.xml</Filename>
<Disabled>False</Disabled>
This is how the GSX installer creates the EXE.XML it if no file exists, and it's has been confirmed by Asobo (Boris is an Asobo developer ) it is the correct syntax:
https://devsupport.flightsimulator.com/questions/2191/starting-external-programs-without-using-the-exexm.html?childToView=6873#comment-6873
Note that, f an EXE.XML already exists, the GSX installer will just add its own section to it, without changing anything else.
However, this not being documented anywhere, other than that post on Asobo developers forum, it's not 100% clear what happens if you use the FSX-style syntax, the few tests I made seems to indicate it will be accepted as well, but I have not idea of there are side effects, for example of one of the add-ons in the section use Launch commands only available in MSFS.
Other than that, your file has spaces for indentation, the one I posted has Tabs. Again, not sure if this is a problem or not ( it shouldn't, according to XML standards ), but nobody can be sure of anything.
One thing you haven't said is, are ALL the other programs being started automatically from your EXE.XML, or there are some that don't start as well ? Or it's just Couatl ?
airbadger:
--- Quote from: virtuali on November 13, 2022, 03:50:44 pm ---
One thing you haven't said is, are ALL the other programs being started automatically from your EXE.XML, or there are some that don't start as well ? Or it's just Couatl ?
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Just couatl. I tried changing the instances of Launch to SimConnect as you noted with no change.
Then I removed the exe.xml, ran the FSDT installer and unlinked/relinked GSX and it rebuilt the exe.xml to only have couatl (attached). Unfortunately, even that doesn't get it running.
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