TrackIR & FSX Not Connecting (Revisited)

[V1VrV2]

Greetings all, I'm quite frustrated and hoping that someone out there can help me with this problem -- After spending the past 6 hours troubleshooting my setup and reading the forums, I'm throwing in the towel! I've got a fresh install of Windows XP Pro and FSX and TrackIR just plain does not work in FSX. Outside of FSX, in the TrackIR program itself, the connection is fine and I get the solid green light, head moves, etc. However, when I boot into FSX the blue connection light never comes on and the programs never connect.

As I mentioned, I've tried numerous suggestions from here in the board to no avail so your help is much appreciated (I've detailed what I've tried below). TrackIR worked perfectly in FSX on my machine before it was upgraded so there is obviously some incompatibility with the new setup.

Here's what I've done so far:
1) Installed FSX with no SPs, rebooted, ran TrackIR setup = green light, no blue light, no connection.

(uninstalled TrackIR and deleted Natural Point directory structure between each successive step)

2) Installed FSX with SP1, rebooted, ran TrackIR setup = green light, no blue light, no connection.

3) Installed FSX with SP2, rebooted, ran TrackIR setup = green light, no blue light, no connection.

4) [same as 3] Deleted FSX folders from C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS and repaired via disk, reinstalled SP1 and SP2 = green light, no blue light, no connection.

5) [same as 3] Installed registered version of FSUIPC = green light, no blue light, no connection.

6) [same as 3] Installed SDK simconnect.msi installer = green light, no blue light, no connection.

7) Tried various combinations of booting FSX first then TrakIR and vice versa = green light, no blue light, no connection.

8) Repeatedly bashed head against keyboard = green light, no blue light, no connection, slight headache.


I'm suspecting that there's something with the system itself that is causing the problem, perhaps the drivers. The Motherboard, Video card and hard drive and RAM are all new since the last, working config prior to the system being upgraded.

System Specs:
Windows XP Pro, SP3 (Fresh install: 12/12/08)
EVGA 8800 GTX 512mb Video Card - Driver ver. 180.48 dated 11/08
EVGA 750i FTW MotherBoard - Driver ver 15.23 dated 10/08
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz Processor
WD 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s hard drive
2 GB Corsair DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) RAM

Software
FSX Deluxe + SP1 + SP2 (no Acceleration; Fresh install)
TrackIR 4:Pro - Driver Version 4.1.036 d/l'ed from website 12/14/08
No antivirus software installed
No Firewall (other than Windows Firewall which has FSX and TrackIR executables "allowed"; have tried with firewall completely off as well, same result)
No other programs running

Does anyone else who is having problems with TrackIR connecting to FSX have any of these components/drivers in common?

Thanks for your help!
Trevor

[VincentG]

1 - So you currently have 3 different FSx folders, in the WinSXS folder?

2 - FSX is listed in the games list?

3 - TrackIR is detecting otherwise, have you tried runnig a sample application -

https://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/04 ... ities.html

[V1VrV2]

[quote=NaturalPoint - Vincent]1 - So you currently have 3 different FSx folders, in the WinSXS folder?[/quote]
Correct: Here is a screenshot of my directory structure. This is after a fresh install of FSX + SP1 + SP2 last night.
[img:center]http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/7959 ... pleyy8.jpg[/img]

[quote=NaturalPoint - Vincent]2 - FSX is listed in the games list?[/quote]
Yes, and it also is selected in the favorites list.

[quote=NaturalPoint - Vincent]3 - TrackIR is detecting otherwise, have you tried runnig a sample application - [/quote]
Correct, it works fine in the calibration/setup section (displaying the head/graph/lights) section within the TrackIR program itself. I will try a sample application tonight and see if that picks it up.

Thanks for your help,
Trevor

[VincentG]

Should be working at this point.

[V1VrV2]

[quote=NaturalPoint - Vincent]Should be working at this point. [/quote]

I couldn't agree more...


I tried the netKar demo and TrackIR connected and worked fine. I then tried Boat Simulator 2008 and it did not connect.

Just to see what would happen, I went from a working TrackIR instance in the netKar demo, closed the demo and immediately went into FSX. Upon loading FSX, TrackIR stopped working and I was back where I started.

Any other ideas?

[VincentG]

Recap -

XP SP3

FSX SP2

TrackIR 4.1.036

no firewall/antivirus software installed

Any other add-ons installed, that use simconnect?

[AliGod78]

V1VrV2 - did you get yours working in the end?

[AliGod78]

I had the same problem is why I asked. I then downloaded the Version5 software for TrackIR, and that cured it! I too have FSX:Deluxe & Acceleration.

[groundloop]

Also the same problem, except my software was trackir5 beta 5 which didn't work. Seeing that the various iterations of uninstalling, and reinstalling fsx didn't seem to help, and seeing that APG fixed it by upgrading, I downgraded to 4.1.037, which then connected with fsx right away.

I see there is a newer 5 version out now, so I might give that a try as well...

Thanks for posting this information here, led me to a solution, I was getting frustrated.

[AliGod78]

Good luck, and let us know how it goes?