Unable to get SimConnect work (step 5 of install)

[Kappie 0]

Hi Bill,Thanks for the reply. According to the ASA manual AITraffic should run from the client and not from the server. The only hope I get is that someone else with the same config in system software has ASA running on a client. :( By the way, I cleaned the client from a mix of versions of .NET Framework software and (re-)installed the latest one. Not that it helped, but it was worth a try.Dirk

[TheDanger 182]

Can you ping your main server from your client?

[Guest machammer]

Thanks to all.I found the problem. My IP address was wrong in the simmconnect file on the server. Everything is working fine now.Bill

[Kappie 0]

Well... after another day of trying to get ASA@work, it still won't communicate with FSX, and... something changed.By searching for a solution I ran into a page on simconnect issues on hifi's xpax webpage. So I thought let's do it again. Uninstalling FSX SP2 and SP1. I tried the manual delete of the mentioned folder in C:\Windows\winsxs, the x86_.....c20 one, but Vista won

[JSkorna 137]

Hi Dirk,I suggest leaving FSX alone.Work on the client end and make sure that the SDK1, 1A and 2 are installed. Then revisit the config files that need to be setup correctly. Last, firewalls at both computers.Just knowing that the AI Traffic program wasn't working points to a config/firewall issue.Thanks,

[TheDanger 182]

This is not directly related to what you now have but this is what I would doa) uninstall simconnect from the client:( go into the registry on your client and manually browse for all keys/entries related to simconnect and delete them. c) rebootd) reinstall simconnect , sp1, sp2e) reboot and reconfigureIf simconnect works one day then doesnt the next then this is what I found (Been looking at this a few weeks ago myself as causing me some confusion)After reinstalling ASA after formatting my laptop I reconfigured everything and it worked fine when connected to my PC. The next day it wouldnt update the weather. I checked all the config files etc and everything appeared to be ok.I traced this problem eventually to the IP address changing on my main PC so it wouldnt match what I had wrote in the simconnect cfg files. I have now assigned a static IP address to my main PC and everything is now ok after every boot.May be worth you checking for that before you go to the extremes of reinstalling everything.Graham

[Kappie 0]

Well folks, I've come to the only option left. I just un-installed everything concerning or connected with FSX. After that I cleaned the registry to be absolutely sure nothing is left behind, and now I am going to install FSX + FSX SDK + all SP's from scratch. I'll keep you posted, stay tuned....Dirk

[Kappie 0]

Even after a complete new installation of everything there was no SimConnect whatsoever. Must be something deep inside the Vista/XP combination. I've seen others in several forums that had the combination working, but apparently that is not what I have to deal with. So I installed ASA on the FSX-Server. It might cost me some performance, but better that then no ASA performance. It works! (no wonder)I haven't made a flight yet, but if performance happens to be below my personal standard,, I wil kick Vista in the garbage can and set up the server under good old XP. :( ByeDirk