Can get 4.1 Bld 29 working w/ FS9 but not FSX

[jg79]

Weird situation, not sure what to do. Installed 4.1 Bld 29. The driver works as far as I can tell: the gauges etc show it tracking. If I load FS9, it works fine. If I load FSX, though the driver will show the game as FSX and the profile as "flight", once I get to flying, the view is not controlled by TrackIR.....

Any thoughts on how to cure this?

[VincentG]

Is the blue light activating on the TrackIR unit, when FSX is running?

Try this.....

Many new Flight Simulator add-on products connect to Flight Simulator X (FSX) via the new SimConnect Application Programming Interface (API). When you run FSX with an add-on installed, some non-Microsoft firewall and antivirus applications (such as ZoneAlarm) may detect that FSX is attempting to make a network connection and display a dialog asking you to allow or block this connection.

This �network connection� is necessary for the add-on to connect with FSX. It�s a local connection between the add-on and FSX (via a network localhost/127.0.0.1 connection), and does not involve a connection to the Internet. Be assured: FSX is not trying to send personal data about you through the Internet.

Note that Microsoft Windows Firewall will not exhibit this behavior. It will, however, alert you if an add-on is actually trying to access the Internet.

In order for your FSX add-on to work properly with FSX you MUST allow this connection to be made. If you do not allow the connection to be made, the add-on you are trying to run (and all subsequent add-ons that connect to FSX through the SimConnect API) will not work properly.

Some non-Microsoft firewall and antivirus applications will block this "localhost" connection between an add-on and FSX automatically, without any notification. In this case, you must configure the firewall or antivirus application to include both FSX and the add-on (specifically, the fsx.exe file and the addon's .exe file, if it has one) in the list of �trusted exceptions.� If this is not done, the add-on will not work properly with FSX. Please refer to the documentation for your specific firewall or antivirus application for details on how to add programs to the list of trusted exceptions.

[jg79]

Thanks, Vincent. Yes, I get the blue light. I have McAfee suite and I disabled both the virus scan and the firewall....same result.

I did repair install of FSX9 this evening but still...same result.

Apparently the problem is not limited to TIR; I also have some GoFlight hardware and though it's driver loads in FSX this hardware doesn't work either......

[VincentG]

OK, one step to try�.

1 � Delete the following file folder

C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS\x86_Microsoft.FlightSimulator.SimConnect_67c7c14424d61b5b_10.0.60905.0_x-ww_429211e9

2 � Insert the FSX CD, and run the repair utility. Basically we are looking to reinstall the folder.

3 � Hopefully this should remedy the issue.

Please let me know if this helps.

[jg79]

Thanks, Vincent. Did that - even saw the repair install replace the SimConnect.....but no different result....obviously, my problem is w/ FSX only; FS9 works fine. So should I just uninstall FSX and start all over?

PS - for FS9 I have FSUIPC 3.7x (?) - do I need 4.0 (I think that's the ver for FSX) to make it work in FSX?

[VincentG]

"for FS9 I have FSUIPC 3.7x (?) - do I need 4.0 (I think that's the ver for FSX) to make it work in FSX? "

Correct on that as well, but if you are having an issue with simconnect, and the TrackIR, this also might have issues. It also uses the simconnect dll file to "talk" with FSX.

Which version of FSX are you running? The deluxe version?

If so try installing the simconnect SDK off of the cd, this might help as well.