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jvile
18 Oct 2006, 15:36
I ask this in another thread but it was missed.

It appears that when I read these post some are saying they are using SBuilder with FSX. Is this TRUE or FALSE.

When I load SBuilder ver 06 it says cannot communicate with FSUIPC when I try and place the aircraft on the grid.

I have installed in their correct folders the FSX program plus SBuilder plus a registered version of FSUIPC 4.0

Am I missing something on how to get Sbuilder to communicate with FSX? I am trying to slew around the Airport border so I can change the LC texture and make a VTP2 bgl.

As a work around I did make the VTP2 poly with FS9 and then copied the bgl into FSX but I want to work directly in FSX so the airport texture is more precise in placement.

Thanks for any help on this
scruffyduck
18 Oct 2006, 15:56
Well I can't answer the question Jim but I may be on the trail. I had several installations of FS9 and removed one of them when I installed FSX. My version of Sbuilder will no longer start - tells me that there is no FS2004 on my machine. I can't find anything in the ini file or registry at the moment which tells SBuilder where that FS9 install was. However I wonder if it can only see FS2004 and not FSX as I had FSX running - it must do more checks than just look for a running copy of FSUIPC. My
programs work fine with version 4.01 so it looks just the same as version 3.xx.

I will ask Luis.....
jvile
18 Oct 2006, 16:32
Thanks

I also see others saying that excludev2 works with FSX. Yes, exclude bgl's do work in FSX if you enter the lat/lon by hand in excludev2 but excludev2 also needs FSConnect.dll if you want to just click in the lat/lon box.

I copied FSconnect.dll to various folders in FSX including the root but this also is not working. When I see post that says these utility's are working I keep thinking I am missing something. The utilities would work but it is the interface dll (FSUIPC, FSConnect) that does not understand where FSX is located based on what utility is in use.

So far the only 2 programs that do find FSX by way of FSUIPC is the FSTflatten and AFCAD programs using FSUIPC 4.01.

I have both FS9 and FSX installed in their default folders which is not a problem based on Registry entries.

What is unique is that you can load a AFCAD airport in the AFCAD program and then start FSX and FSUIPC will interface the 2 together which is simular to how the FSTflatten program is working. I do understand the issues with flattens in FSX

Maybe I am missing something in my FSUIPC settings to get a connection but like you say there is no path in Sbuilder to locate FSX and it seems to look for a ver 3.xx FSUIPC dll.

I am going to try a FS9 FSUIPC 3.xx dll in FSX to see if Sbuilder can connect and if that works when I have my poly finished will revert back to the correct FSUIPC dll.
jcboliveira
18 Oct 2006, 17:47
Maybe sbuilder is checking FS version in FSUIPC Open. I will point this post to Luis.

José
scruffyduck
19 Oct 2006, 02:16
Maybe sbuilder is checking FS version in FSUIPC Open. I will point this post to Luis.

José


Not sure that is the case Jose since my SBuilder will not load even if there is no FSX Running, neither if there is FS9 running
jvile
19 Oct 2006, 21:36
My Sbuilder ver 2.5.0.6 loads fine with or without FS9/FSX running. I can start SBuilder and load saved files with no problem.

As said earlier it is when I try to place the airplane crosshair on the grid that Sbuilder (when FSX is running) does not know how to find FSUIPC for the connection between the two.
scruffyduck
20 Oct 2006, 02:55
Hi Jim

Yes there are two problems. Mine has nothing to do with FSX. For some reason my SBuilder can no longer find FS2004. If it is not present on your PC at the location specified in the Registry then SBuilder will not start. Guess that means do not delete your FS9 installation until Luis comes up with a fix.

Second is the connection to FSUIPC and FSX. This may be related but may not. Luis has said that he will look at this over the weekend so maybe we will have something next week.
BrBlazer
20 Oct 2006, 19:21
Hi Jim

Yes there are two problems. Mine has nothing to do with FSX. For some reason my SBuilder can no longer find FS2004. If it is not present on your PC at the location specified in the Registry then SBuilder will not start. Guess that means do not delete your FS9 installation until Luis comes up with a fix.

Second is the connection to FSUIPC and FSX. This may be related but may not. Luis has said that he will look at this over the weekend so maybe we will have something next week.

Hi,

I'm not sure if it happens to everybody, but in my case when I installed FSX, it removed for some reason I don't know, FS9 from the windows registry. Once I fixed that everything was ok. Hope it works for you.

Kindly,

Blazer
scruffyduck
21 Oct 2006, 01:28
Hi,

I'm not sure if it happens to everybody, but in my case when I installed FSX, it removed for some reason I don't know, FS9 from the windows registry. Once I fixed that everything was ok. Hope it works for you.

Kindly,

Blazer

Hmm maybe that's what happened but I am seeing an entry in the registry for FS9 - I have multiple copies installed but that did not cause problems for SBuilder before. How did you fix the registry? - maybe I am looking for the wrong thing :o
spotlope
22 Oct 2006, 17:04
I'll cut in here to post my fix to the problem. The FS9 registry entry can be restored using any of a handful of utilities designed to do just that. The one I downloaded was from the TweakFS people. The site is in Flash, so I can't provide a direct link to the tool. To download, visit http://www.tweakfs.com/ and click the "Products" icon at the top, then the "Freeware Utitlities" link at the bottom left, then you can download the FS9 Reg Path utitlity. This will quickly and painlessly restore the registry entry for the FS9 path. This was all it took for me to get back up and running with SBuilder.
scruffyduck
22 Oct 2006, 17:35
Bill

Pure Genius thankyou - seems that my registry entry was up the shoot but the utility fixed it and Sbuilder is back :) I had forgotten what a great set of tools Fermin has created.
Luis_Sá
28 Oct 2006, 19:33
Hello,

This problem seems to be resolved. Please see my forum:

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=886

Regards, Luis
scruffyduck
29 Oct 2006, 06:55
Hello,

This problem seems to be resolved. Please see my forum:

http://www.ptsim.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=886

Regards, Luis


Hi Luis and thanks !