How programmatically identify FSX Steam

[Ralph Freshour]

I'm uisng the following C# code to identify FSX but am wondering how I can detect if Steam Edition is runnning?

IntPtr nWinHandle = FindWindow(null, "Microsoft Flight Simulator X");

SE has the same window name.

Thanks...

 

[ronh]

See if you get a different version/build for the application on simconnect open.

SIMCONNECT_RECV_OPEN
The SIMCONNECT_RECV_OPEN structure is used to return information to the client, after a successful call to SimConnect_Open.

Syntax
struct SIMCONNECT_RECV_OPEN : public SIMCONNECT_RECV {
char szApplicationName[256];
DWORD dwApplicationVersionMajor;
DWORD dwApplicationVersionMinor;
DWORD dwApplicationBuildMajor;
DWORD dwApplicationBuildMinor;
DWORD dwSimConnectVersionMajor;
DWORD dwSimConnectVersionMinor;
DWORD dwSimConnectBuildMajor;
DWORD dwSimConnectBuildMinor;
DWORD dwReserved1;
DWORD dwReserved2;
};

edit:

FSX-SE is 10.0.62613
FSX is 10.0.61637

 

[Ralph Freshour]

Hmmm...so I put all those var into a dialog to see them all...I see dwApplicationBuildMajor == 62613 for SE and 61637 for FSX...so I guess I go with those values...thanks Ron.

 

[Ralph Freshour]

I had a user report he was getting an SE identification on FSX...so I'm guessing this method isn't fool proof... :-(

 

[ronh]

What values are you looking at. I did a test here and I get:

fsx 61259 build simconnect
fsx 61637 build fsx

steam 62615 build simconnect
steam 62615 build fsx-se

Looks like a recent update to steam, but Dovetail is not playing nice. Same value for both. You may need to modify your logicl.

 

[ddawson]

The FSX-MS values are not going to change, so check for them specifically. If you don't find them, you are dealing with FSX-SE.

 

[Ralph Freshour]

I also need to work with P3D...so I'm going back to using a radio button and have the user tell me what FS they are using. They only need to do this once. My code will then act accordingly and correctly based on what they have set.

 

[ddawson]

The MajorVersion information should tell you that. It will be 1 or 2 for P3D and 10 for FSX.

 

[Ralph Freshour]

That doesn't seem to be reliable for SE so I will stay with the user clicking on a radio button to tell my app what platform they are using.

Thanks very much...

 

[Dutch]

I think having the user verify or select is the only really safe way.

 

[pfabian]

Hello,

Not sure if this is still relevant.

I run a DLL inside FS process, and determine version by several ways, but not via SimConnect.

I get a fully qualified path via WinAPI, specifically GetModuleFileName call with null as reference handle. Returns a path to active FS executable. Practical.

Now, if it the name of the executable goes by fsx, it's fsx, for p3d I check major version from the exe path.

Back to FSX, first order of business, if the build version is more than 62000 it's Steam.

There is a registry item to see if the installation is Side-by-side.

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